Supplementary Notes: Supplemental potion/enchantment/scroll/imbued item, recommendations:

Ironguts. They're cheap, and not having to drink antidote in battle saves time, focus, and energy.
Clarity: Vampire casters of all kinds. be prepared for mental domination attempts
Freedom of movement/remove paralysis: Paralysis by vampires observed.

Manual of Monsters and Foes:

Ghouls with poison breath: Infect you initially, when the poison sets you die. Priority one healing in combat. Focus these spitting ghouls down with all your might as soon as possible. Antidote or competent healer's medicine most likely counters once poisoned.

Darkness if frequent by these undead forces - know your way out in the need for an egress. Be prepared to be blinded. Be prepared for bandits turned cursed spawn of vampires to be attacking your vitals sneakily from this darkness.

Logistics:

The Shadowfell is not an easy place to get to or get back from. This will need to be researched - if someone with an arcane disposition has an interest and ability to determine how one might get there and back again. Suggested review of the library for research. Sorcerous Mummy might have indicated that the spindle, while not in the Haunted Halls, would be elsewhere - but I suspect the door or portal to the Shadowfell might be located within the Haunted Halls and just be difficult to find / access. Scouting and investigating this at the moment is, naturally, quite dangerous and caution and extreme preparation are suggested.

Possible connection to realm experienced by some guild members prior: Boatman and his coin. Additional information via this report
(// can read but do not comment, 2nd posting by me is also fine to read): https://forums.cityofarabel.com/topic/67757/letter-selwyn-seal-signifying-kalen-smith-sender

Possible dangerous individual that fits the bill for those wanting to obtain undeath: The Bowyer - seeking the spectral coins.

-Kalen.

Strange blue lights were seen pulsing through the clouds above the Storm Horns last night—silent, unnatural, and far too steady to be lightning. Some say the Mountain Orcs were trying to open a gate, though to where, no one agrees—“a place where the sky burns cold,” “the hollow beneath the mountain’s heart,” or “somewhere the stars refuse to shine.”

A few brave souls set out to stop it—adventurers, later joined by a strange, masked group that came and went without a word. The storm quieted, and the lights faded... but those who returned did so bloodied, limping, and grim-faced. Whatever happened up there, they looked more shaken than victorious.

Tension in the city is growing by the hour. The Mountain Orcs have pushed farther than anyone expected, and whispers of defeat are slipping into everyday conversation. The Queen is returning, with an army they say, but will she be here in time?

Ogre quest got an update; mostly minor adjustments to NPCs (let me know if anything is suddenly way off; guys should hit a little armor but also not be running around with 9 natural AC anymore and crazy high HP; so it should be a wash on balance, I wasn't trying to make it harder).

Testing a new feature for the quest that will replace the random disease triggers ( but still testing, players will automatically delete the feature when they go to take the quest - so I just want to grab someone after a reset to test it out first).

Updated Goldfeather (Haunted Ruin) quest NPCs; quest story should be more clear now, along with why these particular NPCs are attacking you despite their nature. This did alter an NPC on Tessaril's Tower quest (which will get an update later so this is all fine for now). Lots of new loot on this quest. Quest should be a bit more strategic, it'd been edited quite a bit from super dangerous immobile NPCs you were suppose to kill from a distance originally, to slow moving NPCs you were still suppose to kill from a distance) to now being a variety of NPCs that do different things for you to figure out in game how to battle. Hopefully, making this more intersting.

Giving this a bump, keen to from anyone interested especially if you have experience in scripting (large or small)

Please reach out to whichever DM you feel most comfortable chatting to.

Thanks!

99% sure this has been resolved