Ah, a trip to the Shadow Marches to make contact with house Tharashk. Having learned that they are wary of outsiders, Xander did his best to make them more comfortable and become one of them he painted himself green and stuck some slightly moveable tusks in his mouth. If you squint hard enough, Xander is passable for a halfling sized orc, eh it fooled some of them at least! We did our best to represent the accord keepers but needed to build some trust by performing a task for them. We visited a gatekeeper named Unc, fought off some aberrations and help close the gate with some well chosen seals. Seems to hold for now, but apparently there are many others, more than there are gatekeepers. At least we completed this mission without smearing our makeup! And are set up to dig deeper and find these cult members and convince them of the error of their ways. They may be responsible for opening said gate…