17 January 1990

A fantasy adventure, in which I and a band of brave adventurers (containing, among others, my friends James and Ed) crossed thousands of miles of hostile terrain to reach the fortress of a Really Evil Big Guy, contained in a crescent-shaped half-ring of mountains out in a tundra.

We snuck in and located the treasure room, which was full of electronic studio recording gear-- state of the art multitrack recorders, mixing gear, effects rack-mount units-- a fortune for the taking! We looted as much as we could carry and hid it in the trash cans outside the garage of my old home in Merced.

After that, we waited until it was safe-- but somehow, they must have found us, and it all went to pieces. James was gutted by something horrific; we found his mutilated body. Ed was casting spells to protect us, but I fear that it was no use. And, towards the end, there was something in a pit....