Gorion's Ward: Uh, Baldur's Gate is really horrible! The Flaming Fist is corrupted and the Iron Throne is a source of plague of bandits! This city is a hive of villainy!
Baldur's Gate: *Has a lot of bandits and problems but mostly outside of the city, one particular, but widespread conspiracy among authorities and a lil' temple of god of murder with a huge trap-ridden maze underground*
Gorion's Ward: I'm preety sure it doesn't get worse than that, does it?
Athkatla: here's a slave market, here's a murderous wizard with his laboratory, here's a Thieves Guild in the docks, a bunch of fanatics trying to burn someone on a stake, underground pit fights, SOME KIND OF GIANT MAGICAL ORB THAT JUST KIND OF TELEPORTED INTO THE SLUMS AND NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IT IS, a dragon in a tavern, pay for a permit to cast spells in the open!, giant carrion eating worms in the sewers, An Oothiag in the sewers, an entire cemetery of wampires, secret evil cult in the sewers, psychopatic murderer who skins his victims AND tries to make an armor out of their skin - damn, he escaped into the sewers!, RAKSHASA IN THE SEWERS, Surprise! Bandits On Every District Passage - why didn't you bought a licence, they did, the magic police now has problem with you and not them, nobody is corrupted, what are you talking about- MIND FLAYERS IN THE SEWERS, AT LEAST TWO LICH IN SOME BASEMENTS AND ANOTHER ONE IN A MAGIC BALL FROM THE SLUMS, HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT A LEGO DEMI-LICH WITH DOUBLE X IN HIS NAME BECAUSE THAT'S A MOMENT YOU ASSEMBLE YOUR OWN ENEMY'S CORPSE-
Gorion's Ward: Okay, maybe I was wrong-
Athkatla: I haven't finished.