Belgarath takes a resting view.....

After the excitement at Candlekeep recently I think the "Party of the Purple Eclipse" felt they could do with a break and return to Baldur's Gate, oh how wrong we were, trouble follows us everywhere!!!

With the Golden Dragon defeated, Gregg decides to start slicing & dicing the dragon ala "Gordon Ramsay style", meanwhile Delamor examines the book we have been seeking and learns that DRAVEN the Dragon whom we seek can be found at Thunderpeaks, North of Cormyr. Belgarath and Delamor agreed that visiting the Moonshae Islands home of the Giants should be our next port of call but after returning to Baldur's Gate.

Before leaving Candlekeep the party felt they should be rewarded somewhat for our heroics, whereby Gregg decides to intimidate the monks into paying us does surprisingly well, meanwhile through research Athon discovers the Ritual to Enchant Magic Item which excites Delamor somewhat. So after agreement on returning to Baldur's Keep our intrepid party make there way back the Silver Star within the city for rest and make plans for their next moves. Once in the city Gregg and Belgarath go off to visit the Dwarven smith to trade dragon scales which does not go overly well and they asked to return in several weeks.
Meanwhile Athon and Delamor are working through the ritual, and stocking up with needed magical items to benefit the party, Garrad makes his usual disappearance into the Baldur's Gate underworld.
While the partying are rejoining each other and discussing their day's pursuits, Belgarath suggests setting our own Ebay in the city called D&D Bay, to trade the many things we keep killing.
In the late afternoon Garrad returns and relays a message he received about a possible robbery at the warehouse of Baron Coverant, Garrad and Belgarath agree this could be important and worth checking out so with this news Delamor suggests that the party reports to the one Sergeant of the Flaming Fist who we trust.

The party then proceed to seek the Sergeant whereby Delamor explains our news and that we are happy to help, we then hatch a plan whereby Garrad will wait in the sewers and the rest of us will break-in and hide within the warehouse. Great plan or what!!!!
As we head of down the dank, slimey sewers underneath Baldur's Gate, Garrad follows us and covers our tracks, at this moment with great surprise Gregg cracks the puzzle which has given us so many problems, our joy is shortlived...........

We round a corner of the sewers to be confronted by 5 robed figures in the dark of the sewers, as we knew they would not surrender the battle commences with Athon and Garrad striking out first against our enemies with Garrad decimating one enemy with a flurry. Belgarath decides to stay back and cast Sun's Illumination which lights up the combat zone and strikes at several enemies. Gregg seems to be the target of their anger as he hit with several scimitar attacks. Delamor finds himself tangled in a whip attack which surprises everyone, not a very sporting move!!!! As the battle progresses Garrad continues to wade into fighting with his flurries of speed, Gregg critical hits another enemy as Belgarath gets comfortable at the back as his Sun's Illumination moves from enemy to enemy dealing damage.
The strikes on Gregg take their toll as he becomes bloodied and angry i might say, Garrad continues his flurries and critical hits and kills an enemy, while the zone of illumination from Belgarath continues to move through the enemies as he gets comfortable in the background. Delamor critically hits another enemy and bloodies the target as the enemies seem to be going down, in return Delamor is also critically hit hard but he can handle the pressure being the paladin. Athon's sword bursts into flames and strikes out fast and hard at multiple targets, unfortunately suffering many effects he keeps failing to help himself, at this point the leader smashes several boxes and these mechanical figures come out and start fighting for the enemy, damn warforged who brought the meccano!!!!

The leader of the enemy throws out pyschic energy which hits hard against Gregg, Garrad and Athon causing them many restrictions within their fighting, again Gregg and Garrad are hit hard and forced backwards away from combat, are the enemies rejuvenating their attacks?

Delamor is kept very busy healing the bloodied members of the party as the battle progresses the leader sends out shooting flames which hits everyone except Belgarath who is busy admiring the walls and the sewage, causing much disruption to our party and their attacks.
The warforged now move into battle our party, Athon strikes out in a flurry scoring one critical hit and killing one of these cursed enemies, Belgarath again has much fun moving his zone of illumination around and scoring a critical hit too. Gregg strikes out with his Bloodhunt Rage scoring a critical and slicing one warforged to nothing but bolts and metal, then Gregg and Garrad chase down the last leader with Gregg knocking him prone and Garrad finishing him off. Their are now pieces of metal and bolts around the dead bodies of the enemy a tough battle with Gregg and Delamor using the most healing on themselves as it seems they were the brunt of the enemy frustration.

Finally with the battle over, Belgarath moves and joins his companions as the party loot the bodies and take some of these strange, mysterious metal parts and bolts. The party finds a list of instructions for these mechanical destructors, a list of metal components needed, and a small insignia on one of them which links with a disappearing gnome we have come across in the past.
Delamor suggests we take the bodies to the Sergeant of the Flaming Fist, the Sergeant states that one of the dead was a wanted criminal and seems pleased with our work, the party is rewarded with 100gps for our efforts. We decided to return to the Silver Star for rest and to plan our next moves, but I feel somewhere in the distance Diker Thain and his cohorts are watching our progress with interest.......

That's Belgarath's view, although i must say next time a chair and a mug of ale would not go a miss for myself whenwe are fighting, just a thought!!