In session 3, you all met with the king of Raesha Vicai, Calcerio and his advisors. They seemed hesitant to speak with your group until King Andreus of Elysia (actually Charlie in disguise) joined your discussion. When you asked for a meeting with the court mage to learn more about the black pearl, they asked for you to complete an errand for them first. The Radiant Games trophy, as well as the prize money, was stolen by mechanical intruders. The guards of the city had not had success in recovering the items, so the team set off.
The Accountant made his way to the library to check out a book of maps, and had a discussion with another Shadowtouched: The Librarian. He found that there is mention of Tungsten dating back nearly 50 thousand years in his accounting book.
The group found that the guards had believed that the thieves made their way towards the downtrodden area of the city, so that’s where they set off. In that area, they found a lost kobold who was desperately trying to get back underground to Augroar’s lair. The Accountant recognized Augroar as an ancient draconic king of Vicai over a thousand years ago, but noted that the dragon had been long dead. The kobold guided them to The Seat of Gold, the old throne room, and eventually they found their way into the tunnels. Making their way past arcane teleportation and explosion traps, they find a large cavern that would have formerly belonged to the old dragon king.
However, you are not alone. Two strange warforged units are attempting a ritual, and the one is delighted to see mortals with blood so she can finish it. She examines all of you and introduces herself as Kaleido and her partner as Scope. She is excited to see that Dreamer is “touched by chaos” like she is, but is unnerved to learn that he serves A’Lux instead of Silva Felinox. She turns to Scope and mutters that his railgun maybe wasn’t as efficient at wiping out the eon dragons as they hoped, having only killed one of the two they were hunting.
You engage them in battle after Kaleido becomes even angrier to find that an Accountant is with the group, but they prove no match for you all. Kaleido shifts herself and Scope into another dimension before you’re able to finish the duo off. They leave behind their loot, and a huge crystal that overlooks the Everfrost.
Xaveria touches it, and the scene changes to look into a bedroom with a woman standing in the middle. The woman Xaveria saw in her initial vision turns around when you gasp. She eyes The Accountant and growls “you” before looking around the lair. A’Lux tells Dreamer to destroy the crystal if he wants The Accountant to live, so he quickly obliges.
After the fight, you drop the Radiant Games prizes back off, and the king apologizes that the court wizard is actually in Jruska to fortify it against the advancing Everheir Empire, having not expected the group to be so efficient. The king gives Charlie a letter to inform the guards at Jruska that you’re welcome to an audience with the court mage. You’re invited to take part in the Radiant Games since another pair of contestants was killed off, so they’re down two teams.
You then head back to the airship and conduct a powerful Speak With Dead spell, elevated by the strength of the lich skull retrieved from Kaleido’s stash. You call forth the tiefling that was imprisoned in Wisteria, and get answers to who the woman is. Her name is Abzu, Queen of Everheir. A creature named Pavror demanded that the tiefling follow true on his virtue name and cause “discord” in Wisteria to try to make the Elysian Empire strike at Ilvaluna. He mentions that Pavror is the God of Change, worshiped by a group called The Elite Eight.
After calling upon the tiefling, you shift their attention to summoning Cayden Calloway‘s ghost. Charlie tries to talk you out of it, stating that you should let the dead sleep. Xaveria is insistent that she wants to know what happened for Calloway to have saved her from Ren, so Charlie budges on the stance and hands her a letter from Cayden that should help channel her spirit. She not-so-stealthily casts an illusion of Calloway, and fakes the worst accent anyone has ever heard. Meanwhile, Xaveria hears a voice behind her, and turns around to see a helmeted Calloway standing there as if she’s one of her visions.
The Accountant calls Charlie out, and the mage snaps and aims her staff at him. He casts darkness, but it doesn’t seem to phase Charlie. She admits that Cayden’s “death” was the only way the crown guard could escape from the oath she was bound by to serve the throne. Because no one in Elysia knows Calloway is alive, it meant no one was giving her orders that she would have been bound to. She warns the group that she’ll fight to protect Calloway’s freedom, and tries to make them also take a crown guard oath so she can ensure they can’t tell anyone. Row viciously interrupts it after they agree, so eventually Charlie apologizes and asks them to leave her be.