Chronicles of the Realm Walkers: Session 3

The Realm Walkers talked about Mercy and how he might want to assist with the Eberonian Instigator, as he was so actively against the torture of the Warforged. The party headed out and soon arrived at Kynta's keep. They made their way into the keep, the twins explaining some of what they had encountered. They reached the gateway and found tracks, indicative of those who would of come to collect the treasure (gold and artifacts inside the vault), but Lee also noticed a much fresher set of prints. The party headed in and were teleported into the entrance hall of the Moonfolk temple. They made their way through, Rhy checked the secret spots to see if anyone might be hiding. Lee began sneaking and moving quietly with the party as they entered the sanctum. Inside the party saw a Drow who introduced himself as Desmond.
  The party was suspicious as he dodged their questions, answering most often with a question of his own, but over time they learnt a few things. He told them his full name, Desmond Umberhall, which Rhy remembered to be the name of the half drow, Asha, that she had never really found common ground with in the guild. He also expressed his support for Queen Telanna, and "Mavrin agreed she was queen" and that was good enough for him. Desmond, having a goal of reaching Yua's plane, explained the celestial planes were protected by Spearadear. He made a promise to make Yua understand a curse she had placed on someone important to him. He also explained Yua was the cause of the Gods abandoning Ithica. His interest was in the dragon gate. He theorized it might be able to reach the celestial planes, as it was made to break the rules of Spearadears planeshifting. He also informed them the temple was most likely deep in the Underdark under the Dragon Spine Mountain Ridge by his summation. Saransina was of little help in seeing who Desmond was (assuming he was not just Desmond) and Sasnia was unable to detect his presence unless possessing Rhy's body and using her eyes. Theren discovered, amidst the chaos, they had found another card, Spring. Rhy called Desmond Kynta only to have Desmond looked confused. A voice came to Rhy and Lee. 'He's not me but I'm very intrigued as to who he is as well." Desmond started to put the moves on Theren who reciprocated and the two shot off and faded to black. In the mean time the remaining Realm Walkers tried to plan and learn about the gate.
  They attuned the construct to the gate and the planes there in. In addition the party was able to see into other planes, most of the features were plain an unnoteworthy but two openings were of interest a desert with a massive tower that Ranrus felt a strange feeling in his gut upon seeing. The other was a dark stone room with a statue of a woman in saintly robes holding a crossbow.
  Eventually the two returned as Desmond prodded Theren about their scales. On his return it didn't take long for him to try to make a move on Lee who, having listened to Desmond prattle on, had no desire. In addition Desmond made clear that at some point, he had become aware of Lee, despite Lee's impeccable hiding. The party continued to prod. Desmond showed a great deal of interest in the silver artifacts, in particular, whichever one let Theren planeshift. Desmond killed a beholder by altering the gate as it attempted to come through. Soon after Daryl, the Weretiger, arrived asking about the the construct.
  Rhy charmed him and got a lot of good info from him. The party learnt he was to meet Visser at The Reaper Hall home of The Reapers in Dark Mound on the 30th of Disiga, the end of the month. He didn't know what Visser had hired the Reapers for. He also showed them on a map in the Dragon Spine mountain ridge where Visser had (unknown to to Daryl) 50 arcanaforged (the soulless constructs made by the Matriarch using dead Warforged) as well as large constructs that "jumped around". Rhy dropped the charm so Ranrus could honestly convince him of Visser's true nature. Eventually he saw the truth and turned back into his humanoid form revealing himself to be a Moonfolk. He discarded his arcane armor and fake symbol of Onatar. Desmond calmed his emotions and offered to take him home. Daryl thought the deck could help and revealed he had three new cards, one with green bubbles, one of a crowd in the rain, and one of a strange sword. The cards were not instantly summoned to the box. Desmond left with Daryl, mentioning he would return to his research after the party left. He left telling the party to "say hi to big goldy for me".
  With party alone again, the twins called out to Kynta. his voice rang in their heads, he was not in their presence, he was with his master, and he would likely see them when "...they saw their friend, Elanor." The twins concluded Kynta was with the lich, Oddi.
  Date: 12th of Disiga, 1437 DC