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 Created:  1994-12-29
-Modified: 2008-10-28 Rick Tanner
+Modified: 2012-01-19 Rick Tanner
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 name old diary
 msg
-... At last I find that I am dying, and
-I hope that the gods will finally give
-me peace. Since the destruction of our
-fair city by the lake I have come here --
-to do the best that I can with what is
-left. Humans, goblins and gnolls - we
-have put aside old hatred to build this
-last outpost community. Many of us
-humans are favored as food by the cyclops,
-too many of us have lost our lives to
-the cooking pot. I am the last human, and
-if I leave no children from my loins, then I
-consider the goblins and gnolls whom I
-have taught human skills my legacy. Let
-those foolish immortals judge lesser men!
-I am a man now without religion. Shame on
-those who worship such fickle beings! And
-a pardon on the three who have dared defy
-them!
+... At last I find that I am dying, and I hope that the gods will finally give me peace.  Since the destruction of our fair city by the lake I have come here -- to do the best that I can with what is left.  Humans, goblins and gnolls - we have put aside old hatred to build this last outpost community.  Many of us humans are favored as food by the cyclops, too many of us have lost our lives to the cooking pot.  I am the last human, and if I leave no children from my loins, then I consider the goblins and gnolls whom I have taught human skills my legacy.  Let those foolish immortals judge lesser men! I am a man now without religion.  Shame on those who worship such fickle beings! And a pardon on the three who have dared defy them!
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