Neb

Neb is a gnomish male serial killer who plays minor roles in both Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.
==Baldur's Gate==
In Baldur's Gate, Neb is a storyline-important NPC who the party encounters when they are thrown into the Flaming Fist cells in Chapter Seven.
If repeatedly talked to, Neb boasts about how he was incarcerated for murdering street children, and reveals he has a hidden way to escape the cells. To proceed, the player must answer his riddle; his default riddle is a number's puzzle, asking how many children he has killed (correct answer is 33). If the player fails, he offers two other, easier ones.
Once the party is free, Neb escapes back into Baldur's Gate. As the second game reveals, he subsequently makes his bloody way to Athkatla.
Neb cannot be killed; if attacked he automatically will give you the "key" and disappear.
==Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn==
In Shadows of Amn, Neb is a minor NPC who appears if the player agrees to undertake the Sarles the Sculptor quest.
If the player chooses to investigate the merchant Unger Hilldark after speaking to Jerlia, he will, if approached nicely, explain that he was robbed by Neb, and directs the party to retrieve the Illithium Ore from the malevolent gnome if they want it so badly.
Neb dwells within his locked lair in a Derelict House that's located at the western end of the Bridge District.
When approached, Evil characters can agree to trade Neb's life for the Illithium, but if Minsc or Jaheira are present in the party, then they recognize Neb as a child murderer from Baldur's Gate and force a confrontation.
In battle, Neb is aided by a number of Child Spirits, entities spawned from his victims. If the party kills Neb, each Child Spirit left alive is released to the Outer Planes, rewarding the party with and a Pearl per surviving Child Spirit.
Neb's corpse has his head, Neb's Nasty Cutter (a unique Dagger of Poison), and the Illithium Ore as loot. His head can be given to Chief Inspector Brega in the Council of Six Building, Government District, for 2500 and a +1 increase to your Reputation.
==Mod content==
===People involved===
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NEB.jpg|thumb|Neb, Hiding from the law, and on the run from the Flaming Fist in Baldur's Gate. What evil is he up to now?
Installation of the Unfinished Business for BG2 mod can add some extended and possibly restored content regarding Unger Hilldark and the Gain the services of Sir Sarles for the temple Illithium questline.
== Trivia==
The games are oddly inconsistent about of what race Neb actually is. The first game implies he is a gnome, but in the second game, he is alternately referred to as a gnome or as a dwarf. Unger Hilldark describes him as "looking like a hill dwarf", and his severed head is described as coming from "Neb the dwarf", but he uses a gnome sprite and voice clips, is considered a gnome by the game engine and is referred to as a gnome in the Journal and by the government officials to whom his head is delivered.
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