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

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 Reiver's Right

Travel to Reiver's Right by river or along the North Road. Make an initial survey and determine whether the camp appears abandoned, attacked, evacuated, or otherwise incapacitated.

Locate the Workforce

Determine what happened to Foreman Hendrick. Locate surviving workers or determine what happened to the roughly fifty people stationed at the camp. Speak with any survivors or witnesses who can describe what occurred before the camp went silent.

Investigate the Camp

Search the bunkhouses and living areas for signs of what happened to the workforce. Inspect the sawyard, storehouses, logging facilities, and other work areas. Search the surrounding grounds for tracks, disturbances, damaged vegetation, or other unusual evidence.

Recover Camp Records

Locate and secure Foreman Hendrick's camp ledger. Recover recent work orders, timber tallies, correspondence, and supply records. Look for records of unusual assignments, recent operational changes, or work outside normal logging activities.

Look for Signs of Blight

Look for diseased timber or oily black sap resembling the material found at Karland's Sawmill. Examine unusual vegetation, sick animals, contaminated water, or altered living creatures around the camp. Determine whether the symptoms resemble accounts of the historical blight that once affected Reiver's Right.

Recover Evidence

Collect useful samples of diseased wood, sap, vegetation, soil, or other unusual material where it can be done safely. Preserve documents or physical evidence that may explain the camp's final days. Determine whether the evidence suggests a connection between the camp's disappearance and the spreading blight.

Stretch Goals

These discoveries go beyond the minimum requirements of the contract but may provide useful information about what happened at Reiver's Right.

Identify the last cutting area, work crew, or assignment active before the camp went silent. Mark dangerous, contaminated, or suspicious areas for later investigation. Recover records identifying suppliers, contractors, visitors, or outside interests recently active at the camp. Determine whether the blight follows a recognizable pattern through the camp or surrounding forest rather than appearing randomly. Recover letters, personal effects, or belongings that may help account for missing workers or be returned to their families.

Return to Old Macridi

Return to Karland's Sawmill with the party's findings and recovered evidence. Report what happened to the camp, what was discovered there, and whether Reiver's Right appears connected to the wider problem. 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.