My mantra is what I follow. I took no prisoners, and ended the night with not-enemies. The Orcs seemed pleased that we solved the mystery of the sickness, and the fae was pleased that I healed her from the edge of death. Healed enough to gift me a lantern... It's far too bright. I can't see near it. I'll exchange it for something else.

All and all, this was the first real victory I felt I had, at least since coming to the surface. The Orcs proved formidable abbil, it is a shame they are leaving the territory, they would've been good to recruit for the journey back home.

From the journal of Dahlia Belvane

Now, I will be first to confess that I am often working these little… side quests… as a means to enrich myself. A lady does have a standard to uphold, after all. For the most part, I don’t mind. This Syndicate is full of capable people that seem all too happy to put themselves in harm’s way.

Frankly, I’m happy with them staying between me and that harm as often as possible.

A sad little village of orcs was full of plague. It was dreadful. We were asked to track down the source and did so to a barn some of their urchins had visited. There we found a group of pixies that mentioned a sound that was stirring them up something awful.

The trail led back to that damn village. The whole thing was the fault of a sea hag that couldn’t keep her vile frog-child in line and was creating chaos and illness. Utter trash, as far as I’m concerned. They were dispatched, thankfully. I’ve earned myself a new pair of shoes, I think.

We went out to help an orc tribe with a sickness. I was denied entry to the tent but was able to talk to one of the Orcs who were sick. I was capable of coming to the conclusion that it was the hag, although I had no clue where she may be, so I followed the trail, found some pixies, questioned them, passed two deer fighting because of a noise that was bothering the dear, and then everything came back to the tent at the end of the day. Apparently, not the best idea I had. There was a Banderhobb, and it did get some good bites in on me, but we took it down rather fast with Wu's quick thinking to get the surrounding orcs. I also got the hags body now, going to examine and practice magic on it soon.

Overall, it was a successful mission.