Bandits have been plaguing the High Road between Port Llast and Neverwinter as news spreads the city's outpost has reduced its patrols.  Rumours are spreading the patrols have not only been reduced, but farmers say they haven't even seen a patrol in the last tenday.

This comes atop recent news of several Neverwinter guards being found dead outside their outpost at Westing Lokk.

The streets of Neverwinter are alive with talk of a miracle. Armon Cove stands now as a ghost down of Shacks, falling down with the wind. This is because the people that were there have returned to Neverwinter, cleansed of their curse. An ear on the streets hears stories of purple fire, cauldrons of blood, and two sorceresses. A white haired and black haired one. The Rumors have so many different tellings, of personal experiences and holy underlines, but these are the facts that remain constant.

Priests and priestesses of Chauntea from across the region are making a pilgrimage to the healing fountain in the Neverwinter Wood encampment after newfound evidence the goddess herself created the healing waters known as Jannath's Tears.

Word is also spreading that the curse in the forest has been lifted, the animals are regaining their senses and new growths of flowers and plants finding their way into sunlight.  The adventurers that frequent the encampment are claiming ignorance of whatever happened to lift the curse but with the wreckage of many fallen treants littering the wood and the strange tree within the Bloodied Grove torn open writers of the Llast Word will no doubt discover the true story.

In a night of chaos and confusion, the gates of the beggar's nest of Neverwinter city were pulled closed and locked. The guards have tried to stop everyone being alarmed, but the newspapers got wind of the event, and have released an issue that brought fear and unrest to the rest of the city...

Shortly after, Lord Orrick sent in a team to investigate the situation. They discovered the head of a vampire in a well used water supply. The disease coursing through the beggars nest is a form of lesser Vampirism. Heated debates are flaring over whether or not to consider the people to be human anymore.

Luskan, in response to a food shortage caused by unusual weather patterns, has pardoned hundreds of hardened criminals from their jails.  According to the city, they simply could not afford to feed the prisoners, and decided to pardon them all with the understanding that if any of them return to the city they will be executed.

Lord Bradley in response to outraged Neverwinter Citizens concerned for their safety has, with the approval of the council, appropriated funds to an extensive new initiative to catch the criminals, relying mostly on private outside help on a bounty basis rather then through the official guard which is not up to the task.