Counterfeit Inspection Report

Document on Fire

The financial collapse of Jason Garamund's family business, the Seasway Resort Hotel Resort Hotel Resort and their underground bank, occurred during the Six Year War. Lenny Garamund's friend arrived to assist in saving the hotel and resort from financial trouble. Frank Day was a known grifter who worked from the backrooms of bars in South Soffit and Spouter’s T’s Tavern. He excelled at creating counterfeit money and documents. He was prepared to handle the hotel's finances for a fair fee and any future favors he may require from the owners.

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Policy Whereabouts

In this situation, the Garamund family had already sought the bankruptcy option offered by Primacy to its well-known residents and merchants. They would permit the hotel to keep running in exchange for a bond loan with an exorbitant interest rate. The hotel regularly hosted the premier officers of the Primacy, Periphery, and Ascendancy, providing private accommodations for their desired sights and experiences.
Jason Garamund, Lenny's respectable brother and Crooked Mile Circle founder did have a repute to care about. He felt guilty about the insurance fraud he committed to save the Hotel from bandruptcy. He invested every bit of his proceeds into the Hotel and Resort, only to see it fail before the Six Year War was over. He never confessed to his late wife Cathaleen about where he came up with money to rescue the family business.
He hid the bogus document in his Crooked Mile Manor House. The Cabinet could be unlocked with an ancient key and locking mechanism Cathaleen dug up on Cirsea Isle. She did not include it's use information in her book. Jason wasn't sure if there were any unique properties used to forge the mechanism, but he found it worked properly to safekeep his important papers and grimoires.

Seasway Hotel & Resort Fire Damage Inspection

Fire Damage Inspection Document by Ruby O'Degee w/Midjourney

Lies in the Fire by Ruby O'Degee

Purpose

Frank Day and the Garamund Brothers created an insurance policy that needed signatures for legitimacy. Frank Day was successful in making money back then. Lenny Garamund spent his earnings recklessly while Jason Garamund saved the Hotel from financial collapse, only to lose it in three weeks of bombings. The act of setting fire to the ruins didn't appear excessively criminal. Just like other Fairelands residents, he would have gotten bond money at a low interest rate, but his immediate need for funds made things complicated after committing to a scheme.

Document Structure

Clauses

South Soffit Sure Payout Insurance Company

Insurance Inspection Report

Inspection Date: July 19, 1901

Inspector: Francine Night, Esq.

Policyholder: Jason and Lenny Garamund

Property: Seasway Hotel and Resort

Inspection Findings:

• The exterior paint is completely peel off. The Mineral Springs Guest House is no longer the beautiful pearl colored and stately decorated building it once was.
• Visible cracks are apalling. The mortar filigree and gargoyles are melted.
• The roof of the Hotel bridge to the spa is burned to a crisp. The stable roof is hanging by one rusted nail. The mineral springs is black and sooty. Even the water bugs suffocated. Nothing can live in the oxygen depleted water.
• An outdoor chimney and fireplace is blasted and left in a pile of miscellaneous debris.
• Doors and windows were blown out.
• Surrounding area is clear of ignition fluids and gasoline cans, but there is evidence that lightening stuck in the exact required to start a mammoth fire.
• Electricity has not yet been installed in recreational buildings. The grand ballroom lighting shorted out while the fire blazed in in the guard shack.
• The plumbing, an outhouse facility was not marred. The outhouse provided the fire dousing water.
• Fire extinguishers were used by staff employees. They passed a bucket of water from one person to the other and dumped it on the flames.
• While the Hotel took on some damage to the rooms on the top floor, in the kitchen and the roof blew off. The Mineral Springs guest lodge is completely destroyed. It will require a major restoration to bring it back up to code.



Please note: This report is for informational purposes . On a scale of 1 - 10, it is obvious that the burn is a 9.

— Francine Night



Signature: Inspector: Francine Night, Esq. South Soffit Sure Payout Insurance Company
Witnesses:
Bart Clay, Bank Manager
Clayton Diselman
Mary Againfirelee

Combination Lock and Key Oddity Cabinet

Combination Lock and Key Cabinet by ROD w/Midjourney

Dig#173C.Garamund Lock and Key

Dig#173C.Garamund by ROD w/Midjourney

Caveats

Jason was not informed by Cathaleen Garamund about the possibility of disrupting the rotating wheel lock and key by inserting false documents into the cabinet. She performed just three experiments.

Test 1. She secured the lock and key to a chest containing 1093 BCE pirate doubloons and a pearl necklace. The doubloons remained unaffected despite being locked in the chest, but the fake pearl necklace disintegrated.

Test 2. For the second test, Cathaleen cobbled into her boot a love letter from her groom, Jason. By using the lock and key mechanism, she adorned the zipper and exposed the boot to the worst rain. While the boot absorbed the moisture, the letter stayed dry. She was satisfied to find that the ink didn't run either.

Test 3. The last test outcome did not produce the expected results. Adapting the lock and key for the narrow boat armoire appeared effective, but a poisonous ash-gray blister beetle ruined it and bit her after three weeks. She saved her own life with an immediate response. She treated the bite with mineral oil, IV fluid therapy, activated charcoal, and an anesthetic. The document she found and used for the experiment was Lenny Garamund’s Fire Insurance policy. To avoid upsetting her husband, she destroyed the letter and killed the beetle.

Legal status

The insurance policy contract is deemed illegal. The intention was to submit it, after a fire destroyed the resort building with the indoor mineral springs. But the fire never came about. It was not easy to locate an arsonist during the war. They were occupied with battling for the Ascendancy or carrying out counter militia fires for the spies and Otherwhere anarchists who infiltrated Fairelands through illegal ports.
Frank Day's idea to forge signatures for an inspector's addendum initially relieved Jason Garamund. The family is not obligated to involve any more criminals in their plan. Zero risk of secret conversation breaches and no extra expenses. Frank can be easily persuaded with money. Despite submitting the document to the bank and obtaining his share, Frank persisted in blackmailing the Garamunds. Two years later, he began his plan to take Jason’s land in Crooked Mile or scourge or Jason’s reputation.
Frank disappeared two days before Jason moved into his new home, thinking his troubles were finally done. The original policy was kept securely in his locked cabinet. Except it was not. Instead, a note that led Jason to believe a friend had done him a favor and left the proof in Muriel’s garden. Frank, according to the note, was dead. The consequences of his misdemeanor crime had transformed into a murder conspiracy that haunted him. Did Lenny play a role in this?