Leaving from where the three adventurers split, Sapphira wanted to get to why she came here: to go see her brother. Heading down southspur street, she notices the buildings appear more run down in this area and the streets aren’t as clean. Finally, in the heart of Southspur it’s easy to tell this is where the less fortunate of Brindonford live. Making her way down the side streets off southspur street, she walks up the creaking steps to Helix’s second floor, one room appartment. She knocks on the door and after a short wait there is no answer. The door is unlocked so she walks in calling for her brother. “Helix? Are you home?” She finds the place in a disgusting mess. Small amounts of food have molded and decayed in a couple places of the room, and a thin layer of dust covers everything. It’s obvious no one has been here for some time, and while closely inspecting the room, Sapphira finds a group of rat droppings. A little larger than normal, this is probably not the evidence of a common pest, but more likely of a dire rat. It seems this group of attackers at the carnival has become a more personal issue.

On her way back toward the Eastgate area, small evidence of the carnival begins to show up along Southspur street. It seems a small band of amature entertainers has set up their wagon in this less favorable part of town, and only a few passers have stopped to watch their silly play. As one of the entertainers galavants on the stage in a rediculous costume, a ruckus is heard behind the curtain and a horrid grey creature with empty eye sockets bursts out with a large axe held high above his head. The large creature roars a horrifying scream as the entertainer cowers below it. Sapphira casts aid on the innocent victem to give him more strength to survive, and the axe comes down gashing him deeply… but he’s still alive. Sapphira jumps onto the stage and as she battles the Grimlock more spill out into the streets, attacking the first commoners they come to. Being the only defender Sapphira could not save them all, and by the time she managed to kill all the evil creatures more than one bystander lost their life.

With the attack on Eastgate way in the heart of the carnival by wererats, her missing brother, and now the vicious grimlocks, it was obvious something was going terribly wrong in Brindonford. Sapphira could only hope that she arrived in time… before it was too late.