Before we start the adventure let me tell you a story about what happened before I arrived at the game. Already during Friday I knew the weekend would be not as good, since I sprained my ankle... walking in to a small roadside trench. So I limbed around, then I had a sour on my heel and then strained my leg... all around bad things. Then Saturday came and I waited for the buss, which seemed to be a bit late. So I pick out my iPod and what do you know? The battery out. FUN! Bad sign I tell you. The buss comes and without my music blurring out everyone around me I have to listen to teenage girls and their clashing personalities with other girls. FUN! Arrives at the town square and see the buss I'm supposed to connect with take of. No damage, I just take another which goes a couple of minutes later, but then I have to walk a bit. No problem, until I realize that I usually enjoys walk with music in my ear. I can hold. Onto the buss and on my way. After some small girls delay the buss for some reason. Anyway we are on our way. After some time we reach a stop, then moves forward and suddenly the door besides me goes up... while driving. This can't be good. And sure enough, next stop an old man with a wound on his forehead and blood running down. Buss moves a couple of meters and blocks the road when the driver and another passenger talks the wounded man out and waits for the ambulance. No problem. A couple of stops later I leave and begins walking... and took a early turn that made me go round a bit. After that it's straightforward and I'm just 5 minutes late. Some part of my brain wishes though that this tale wouldn't have been complete if when I arrive another buss goes by that skipped since I wouldn't wait that long and that I would have sprained my ankle at the same place... again. Just for giggles and retelling this story.
Anyway back to the story. Our bard is with a harper agent meeting his friend, more or less a stoner. They meet, and of course he owes the harper agent some money. The bard quickly disarm the situation by hiring his friend and take over the debt. Agent leaves, but wants his money on the morrow... 5 gold pieces. The bard stays and get himself spaced out on the floor. Back with us we plan out... a plan of action. Me and the pixie Nancy head out to stalk the night and stand guard on the house roof. The wizard and battle minder sets up a magic protection from the prying eyes of the witch and the dragonborn stays put. I stand on the roof and catches sight of two groups, one being an assembly of harper agents and another being Neverwinter soldiers. I leave the pixie with the Harpers while I jump across the roof smooth as a cat and listen in on the conversation. Evil is a foot as the soldiers is there on Lord Neverember's order so I stalk them in the night, a shadow on the wall. I laugh when I'm creeping, but they don't hear me at all. They arrive outside a nobles house, put markings on their Neverwinter symbols with those of Baldur's Gate and kick the door open. Acting on instinct I fire a fire arrow on to the roof and call for the fire guard. The soldiers run out and get arrested, but with blood on their swords, but a lot of other people runs out so I saved most of them. Standing tall in the moonlight (which I envisioned) I took my farewell and headed for the Harpers. Before the shoot the Battle Minder player (who is good aligned) asked me about my morality. Neutral, but he seemed to think me as borderline evil since I would endanger the whole town by putting it on fire, which I think is utter nonsense. If I hadn't took the shoot they would have killed the whole family, including women and children, which they said was there orders. Secondly, they were conducting a false flag-operation with orders from our leader. That is an unacceptable act and tarnish Neverwinter's reputation which we have sworn to uphold as Neverwinter Nine... and since I'm neutral I have more leniency to go against a lord which have questionable motives even though he restarted our order. And lastly, since I didn't know what was going on I stalled them for time with this act giving us the opportunity to prepare. About possible civilian casualties? I called the fire guard and there were no other alternative than I personally went in to stop them that would have caused more trouble for us in the long-run. God I need to be an evil politician next time with huge charisma and bluff. Slimy noble type if you get my drift.
I head back for the pixie and she report that the Harpers are up to no good and want to take over the city as well as kicking us out of town. Oh boy, more friends. While leaving my luck disappears and I make a sound, followed up with the meow of cat to throw away suspicion, sadly my bluff failed as well, but apparently didn't care. Back at the inn we tell our reports and head for bed. Not telling us the battle minder apparently had some vision of a mind flyer or dark god. It might have been after we totally ignored him for a moment so it hurt his self esteem. Anyway, morning comes and me and the pixie heads out with the dragonborn to get him some robe to hide from the witches watchful henchmen. That we forced him to get... and pay as well. Back at the inn the dragonborn, wizard and battle minder headed out for the jail to dig up some info on the Neverwinter soldiers. They arrive and get hold of the letter with the order since they believe we are sent out by Lord Neverember. This causes a dilemma. Since the battle minder is our leader and morally good he would like to tell the world about this, potentially start a war get us in the middle of it. Our break his idea of good. Tie this together with that we are under the order of lord Neverember himself, so should he be lawful stupid and follow the orders? Since he came to me I stepped up and pretty much gave him my idea that we need to bid our time until we can strike. Clearly we work for a potential tyrant, but we can't stand up to him since we have no influence. So better lay low and advance in the rank to gather information and when the people might riot against the steel boots of tyranny we can, after some interpretation of the rules guiding us (especially the one about following the lord of Neverwinter), lead the uprising. Garien interpreted it as Lord Neverember since the king is long gone. I hinted on that if he is unlawful we could interpret it as if that the lords of Neverember is its people, meaning that if he oppress them we can fulfill our duty by dethroning him and take over ourselves temporarily... or find a bastard descendant of the king to usurp the throne. Which we have a lead on with a knight who is supposed to be dead in another cell telling us that if we let him out he would help us. So suddenly we have a plan with the pixie transporting bottles of acid to him so he could break out and aid us by the side. With all this my fellow players begins to wonder if it's safe to have me in the municipality politics.
In the other gang the bard and his friend had returned and together with me and the pixie headed for the noble to dig up way Lord Neverember did this. Thank God the bard came with me since he is much more charismatic and bluff a lot more. Apparently they are called the Jorks. Sounds familiar. They were partners, but they didn't like each others. That doesn't matter since they swallowed the ruse with hook, line and sinker. They really don't like the people from Baldur's Gate. We cleared that of (and I patted myself on the back for doing a great job saving them all, even though it probably started us on the road to open war with our lord and current mecenate. After all this we gathered up all people except the dragon born (since his mind could be dominated by the witch) and led away by the bard's friend toward the witch. Next time it will be the showdown and all waiting for the opportunity to strike and kill the witch. I must be ready, I must lay the killing blow. I must... maybe I'm getting corrupted by being mentally linked to the evil dragonborn. Earlier that day I fought about the scenario if the bard and my cousin would somehow die which would leave me as the next in line as leader of the Neverwinter Nine since I'm related by blood to the current leader as well as the final and oldest "original" member of our party as well. Who would oppose me? The dragonborn? He's under my control. The pixie? No, she isn't a member yet of the Neverwinter Nine which leaves the wizard and since I have the dragonborn on my side as well as contacts with Elminister and in extension better contacts with Lord Neverember who probably would back my claim. Yes, nice Lord Neverember, maybe HE could help *GOLLUM* *Cough* Excuse me, I got something in my throat.
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