Session Log – 17 August 2026

📍 Locations Visited:
Dawnport (quest pickup) → forest's-edge campsite → interior of the suspicious cave, specifically: the north entrance, a natural stone bridge spanning an underground river, the east underside of the bridge (boat storage), the south back chamber, and a raised perch overlooking the main cavern floor. (Session ended inside the cave after the encounter was resolved.)

👥 Party & Key NPCs:

• The Party: Dorn (Artificer / Dawnport Inspector), Clothilde De Lionheart, Zelodek, Loseff Asteam, Lumiere, and Izaya Hei.
• Bram Hallow – Dawnport citizen and cart driver who transported the party to the site.
• Lieutenant Kosher – referenced by name; commanded the checkpoint guards whose bodies were found in the cave.
• Enemies encountered: One undead ogre (on the bridge), several minions beneath the bridge, an undead mage, a tiefling (captured alive), and two cowled humans burning evidence.
• (The tiefling and undead mage were initially arguing when the party entered; further details on their argument TBD – noted to check with HaiQ.)

📜 Summary of Events:

The party entered the cave from the north. The cavern featured a natural stone bridge at its centre with a river flowing beneath. On the east underside of the bridge, roughly three boats were moored; the first two held one and two dead bodies respectively. An undead ogre stood breathing on the bridge itself. Deeper in the south end, two figures (a tiefling and an undead mage) were arguing. Two cowled humans were burning books and hurling corpses into a pit.

Dorn coordinated the assault: Izaya dropped down to engage the minions under the bridge; Dobot (Dorn's Steel Defender) and Clothilde held the frontline against the undead ogre; Loseff and Lumiere provided magical support from the rear. The party eliminated all hostiles except the tiefling, who was shot through the hand and taken alive for questioning.

Post-combat investigation:
Dorn examined the bodies in the pit and identified them as checkpoint guards from Lieutenant Kosher's unit (Kosher was noted in prior reports as the first to fall) and several Dawnport villagers. Izaya searched four of the villager bodies, confirming they were commoners of little means; one carried a natural die. Total dead in the pit: 7 – four villagers, one guard, one cultist, one traveller.

Documents recovered (the books the cowled figures were destroying):

Consignment IX – Ghani Holdings

Status: Collection denied. Bodies already altered under locally issued necromantic permits. No seizure without Office authorisation. Courier R-3 observed by civilians (red eyes); removed from public routes.

Consignment XII – Near the Human Settlement (Dawnport)

Source: Coastal wreckage. Recovered 14; accepted 9; rejected 5 (saltwater damage). The "chained-bell recipient" requests drowned bodies be retained regardless of condition.

Consignment XV – Wardstone Quarry

Pages already torn out. No legible content.

Consignment XVII – Saint Orra's Trench

Recovered 12. Collection incomplete: chapel bell sounded during removal despite the rope being cut. Two collectors failed to return. Suspended until

"the Third Bell."

Consignment XVIII – North Road

Status: OVERDUE. Horse, sled, escort, and collected bodies unaccounted for. Road collection suspended; recovery party dispatched. Guild involvement suspected but unconfirmed.

"One loss may be error."

Consignment XIX – Lower River Station

Received 6; three for transfer, three held. Status: PURGE UPON WARNING. Final order beneath:

"If Nineteen is compromised, classify the Dawnport Adventurer's Guild as active interference. Prepare to burn all evidence. One loss may be error. The second counts."

Consignment VI — North-Western Checkpoint

Source: After passage of the Armored One
Condition: Mostly intact
Contents: Guards, travelers, and unidentified villagers
Status: Received and divided between three recipients

A note has been added beneath the entry:

Collection crews are reminded to wait until the Armored One has departed. Do not approach. Do not answer his questions.

Key connection: Dorn recalled that the number XVIII had been provided by Bram Hallow before the party entered the cave, linking the cart driver to the North Road consignment.

Loot: Dorn climbed a suspicious perch, found traces of blood, and discovered a treasure chest. Contents were divided equally: 200 gp per party member.

Where did you go?
A basecamp within the Forest.

Who did you meet?

• Party: Clothilde De Lionheart, Dorn, Lumiere, Loseff Asteam, Zelodek
• Others:
  - Enemies: Zombies, Ghouls, Ghast?, Presumably Cultists, Undead Ogre, etc.

What actually happened?
The party had accepted a quest that seeks for Adventurers to go help and rid of some problems that had camped within the forest. The goals was to:

• Kill all of the enemies, make sure no one escapes.
• Don't let them get rid of any proofs.
• Clear the area and bring back proofs.

Upon arrival, the party was split into 2 groups. Izaya and Dorn were to disarm the Alarm as the rest deals with the main camp. Once things has been settled, the party moved on through the gate that leads into a cave.

In there the party sees even more enemies that seems to be readying to transport dead bodies as well as burning books, seemingly is what the party's goal is.

Once again the party was split into two. Izaya went alone to deal with two individual that was transporting the dead bodies while the rest had to fight the Undead Ogre as well as the other possible cult members. Loseff had managed to gain the attention of one of the seeming leader as well as disrupting the Enemies from smoothly destroying the Evidence.

The party had ended up successfully stopping them from A.Destroying the Written Evidence, B. Destroying/Taking away the Body Evidence, C. Offing themselves to avoid being caught alive to be questioned or become captive. (Captured 1 Tiefling ? alive).

The party had read the books, Izaya [Black Hat] had then shared with Dorn and Loseff what his understanding in regards to the book logs / evidence.

Points:

• They are preparing bodies to be turned undead and preparing for War
• An individual is important enough for them to pay close attention to.
• They avoid an individual that is mentioned as 'Armored One'.
• They will soon destroy all of the Evidence if anything were to happen to station 19 and will assume that the Adventurer's Guild of Dawnsport has hands in this whether they truly does or not.

Where did you go?

An abandoned basecamp hidden along an old forest road, with an entrance to a cave.

Who did you meet?

The party consists of:

• Clothilde De Lionheart
• Dorn
• Lumiere
• Loseff Asteam
• Zelodek
• Izaya

The party was driven there to the site on a carriage by another adventurer, Bram Hallow

Enemies the party encountered:

• Variety of Undead: Zombies, Skeletons, Ogre Zombie
• Small group of Cultists

What actually happened?

The party was sent by the Adventurers' Guild to the site with 2 objectives:

• Primary Objective: Secure the site and recover its contents.
• Secondary Objective: Prevent the destruction of evidence and the escape of enemy couriers.

As they arrived near the campsite, Izaya scouted the area to get more information. He sighted some Undeads walking around within the campsite wall, and a Bell alarm that seemed problematic. Izaya reconvened with the rest of the party and relayed what he had found.

They decided that Dorn and Izaya would first disarm the Bell alarm, before the rest of the party raid the campsite.

Izaya successfully disarmed the alarm. The party then started to raid the campsite through the front gate.

They managed to kill all enemies and secure the site, and found an entrance to a cave.

Upon entering the cave, the party sighted even more enemies (consists of Undeads and Cultists).

The enemies seems to be readying to transport dead bodies as well as burning some books, which seemingly to be the evidence that they need to secure.

After an intense combat, the party managed to:

• Stop the cultists from destroying the books, and secured the evidence.
• Stop the cultists from escaping with the dead bodies
• Killed every other enemies with no one escaping, with the exception of 1 cultist member who got knocked unconscious and taken into custody.

Loseff and Izaya read the content of the books, before submitting them to Dorn for evidence.

And with that, the party successfully completed their objectives, and returned to Dawnport.