Rumors have been swirling about the city of strange goings on in the sewers. Some claim to have seen odd creatures coming and going, others say that they've heard terrible cries and shrieks echoing up from below. Still more people swear that they've lost friends and companions who have entered the sewers to investigate and never returned...
Complaints to the ruling council of the city have been pointedly ignored. Most common folk are in agreement that the gnomes and dragonborn who rule the city are far to arrogant and comfortable in their power to admit that something could be happening right under their noses (or to be more precise, right below their very feet).
Taking matters into their own hands, for fear that their city may be in some kind of danger, some of the inhabitants of the Foreign Quarter have put together bands of armed folk to flush out whatever it is that may (or may not) dwell far beneath the city...