Karland's Sawmill — Contract – The Price of Prophecy (Production)

Danum Karland has contracted the party to travel to Reiver's Right and determine why the logging camp has gone silent. No messages, workers, timber shipments, couriers, or production tallies have arrived from the camp for four straight days.

The disappearance comes while an increasing number of logs reaching Old Macridi are showing an unusual blight marked by thick, oily black sap. There is currently no proof that Reiver's Right is the source of the affected timber. Karland wants to know what happened at the camp and whether the two problems are connected.

Contract Terms

Advance 30 gp upon accepting the contract

Completion Bounty 200 gp upon successful completion

Destination Reiver's Right, downriver from Old Macridi

Issued By Danum Karland, Karland's Sawmill

Collect the 30 gp advance before departing.

Reach & Assess Reiver's Right

Reach Reiver's Right and make an initial assessment of whether the camp was abandoned, attacked, evacuated, or otherwise incapacitated.

Account for the Workforce

Determine what happened to Foreman Hendrick and the roughly fifty workers stationed at the camp. Locate and question any survivors or witnesses who can explain what happened before communications stopped.

Investigate the Camp

Search the bunkhouses, sawyard, storehouses, logging facilities, and surrounding grounds for evidence explaining the camp's disappearance. Identify signs of unusual assignments, recent operational changes, hidden work, or activity outside normal logging operations.

Recover Records

Locate and secure Foreman Hendrick's camp ledger. Recover useful work orders, correspondence, timber tallies, supply records, or documents identifying outside contractors and interests.

Investigate the Blight

Look for oily black sap, diseased vegetation, altered creatures, contaminated water, or other symptoms resembling the blight found at Karland's Sawmill. Safely recover useful samples or physical evidence of the corruption. Determine whether the evidence suggests a connection between the camp's disappearance and the wider Palakar blight.

Optional Discoveries

These findings are not required to complete Karland's contract, but may reveal more about what was happening at Reiver's Right.

Determine what the camp's workers were doing immediately before communications stopped. Determine whether the corruption follows a recognizable pattern rather than appearing randomly around the camp. Recover meaningful personal effects or belongings that can be returned to missing workers' families.

Return to Old Macridi

Return to Karland's Sawmill with the party's findings, recovered records, and physical evidence. Report what happened at Reiver's Right and collect the 200 gp completion bounty.

Karland is not asking the party to solve the wider Palakar blight. The immediate objective is to determine what happened at Reiver's Right, recover useful evidence, and establish whether the camp's disappearance is part of the same growing problem.