We are on the cart on our way to Neverwinter. BROTHER BEAR Cedric: When he was sin the army there was one soldier younger than him, weak but had courage. Would be smiling doing anything. One day we got bombed and he jumped on it. Clive Whiskers. Ellette: Mother would be most disappointed in who I have become Steve: IS not afraid of failing, states she fails all the time. She is not afraid to fail. THinks being a villain would be pretty bad. She's not gonna do that. Cedric: is most afraid of loosing his lute. Kyo: ha to stay a nobles house one time, they didn't like magic so he had to pretend to be a normal cat and the lady of the house gave her what her cats eat and it literally tasted like ass. Cedric: Rumour about himself that was most ridiculous; When he was in prison he was bored; so he would enter eating contests; fat Pauly; ate 20 bowls Cedric ate 22 bowls but people said this was a farce and said Cedric poured it down his shirt but that was wrong he hid the slop in his pockets. Slop master 5000. Ellette; believes Kyo would be the only one to survive prison Steve: My and Graxen's tavern would be called the BARovia "Strahd-isfaction Guaranteed" Steve: I will be running BARovia once this is over and will live with Modang and Big Guy and chickens with their human sized gnome/giant children Kyo; Just wants to be known for doing something good by the end of all this. Cedric; Wants to keep his achievement of being the Slopmaster; wants to achieve being like those guys in Kiss the Goblins who play their lutes with their tongues Kissmyanthia. They opened of Chapel Gnome last year. Ellette; Doesn't know who she wants to remember her, doesn't really care as long as the good she leaves behind stays. BROTHER BEAR ENDS We're coming down the road, Neverwinter ahead, a lot of damage leading to the city. We hear a little voice saying "HElp me" low squeaky and roughly. Kyo looks at the direction the sound comes form. Cedric prepares his lute as a crossbow and Steve goes over to check the noise. Steve jumps off the moving cart. Ellette stops the cart and they watch Steve go over. Theres a tree after falling and trapping a goblin beneath it. Surrounded by rats. Their local and his. Steve barely moves the tree, then she casts mold earth for the goblin to climb from below the tree. He is free and the rats crawl all over him. Ellette refuses to let him on the cart. Steve talks to the rats to try get them to stay on the goblin. The goblin offers a rat to Kyo. His name is Gunchum. The deer ran by and trapped him under the tree when it knocked the tree over. Steve starts talking to the rats and gets nowhere, Ellette and Kyo decide to start going, Cedric doesn't fall out of the cart. Steve walks after the cart with the goblin, the rats form a "magic cart" below him carrying him instead of walking. The rats consent to this. Gunchum just wants the permit for the black market he plans on opening in Neverwinter. He also eats his rats. The gate is locked, Ellette flies over the wall, the place is destroyed she opens the gate for the others. Bodies in pieces everywhere. Ellette suggests going to see Berethor to check out his house. Walking further in, we hit a barrier. Ellette tries to speak to Elminster through the rock, static on the other side. Theres an illusion to make Neverwinter looks undamaged on the other side. Kyo tries to dispell the barrier. IT doesn't work but it shows a flicker of the darkness inside. Steve and Gunchum are still waiting out Kyos spell. Ellette, Cedric and Kyo are trying to figure out how to get past the barrier. Kyo dispells the illusion and we can see somewhat past the barrier. There are undead wandering the area with a green shimmer to it. It is the same as the shimmer they came across on the undead in Luskan, Old Alexandria and the refugees of Myrabar. Chumgun found a hole in the barrier and is now the other side with a zombie approaching he's asked Steve to join him on that side. Theres a sewer grate just outside the city gate. Kyo finds it. We all go into the sewers. There is a lot of fresh bodies down there, we find a grate further down the sewer, we climb up and notice we're the other side of the barrier Gunchum is prone on the ground, some rats seem to be affected by the green shimmer. a Zombie near it. The party attack the zombie from a distance. Its skin cracks and the shimmer seems to be coming out of the cracks. Gunchum is dead, along with the rats. We climb back into the sewer and run towards the centre of the city. After 10-15 minutes of walking the next sewer grate we find is fastened in place. Steve pushes the grate up, we hear someone call out "Who goes there!" We identify ourselves "Who's there?" Elminster comes through the crowd and joins us. Only 50 people lost from the attack. We explain the dead body issue in the sewers. Elminster burns the sewers. We devise a plan with Eminster for him to drop the barrier, We will deal with the leftover undead near the area. Kyo uses devine sense the undead seem to be in the sewer. We dispose of them quickly before heading back to Elminster. He stops casting the spell, "It's too quick" it's gone far north. Towards the elven moon, towards silverymoon. Minimum a weeks travel. Elimster will help with magic cancer. Needs to prepare, advises we head to deal with dragon at Baldurs Gate. Ellette asks Elminster to send Grubble home. Steve and Ellette get into an arguement over management style. Steve, skinny legend, Cedric too weak to carry her. They prepare to leave for Baldurs Gate, Ellette stops by Berethors and leaves him a note asking him to contact her in Alexandria. We head off to Baldurs gate. After 5 days we see the city in the distance. We can hear the dragon in the distance and see it's attacks hitting the city, it flies off in a south east direction. There are guards a the gate. They are from the flaming fist faction. They as what we're doing there, we advise were from New Alexandria and here at the request of Elminster. We get past the guards. The guard tells us the dragon is mainly attacking the lower city near the temples.