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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hafrogman" data-source="post: 2054307" data-attributes="member: 8858">Liam finally gets up once more, as the bickering takes a nasty turn.  He glowers at everyone involved, and his eyes' strange red glow seems to grow even stronger as if burning with his anger.  He bellows in an attempt to be heard over the arguements."ENOUGH!"His gaze sweeps over the verbal combatants."This is getting out of control and you all need to calm down!  Those of you who do not like the kobold, may I present a little thing called tact.  Try some.  We all know how you feel by now.  Constantly picking at the subject will not help anything.  IF Skatha can indeed become a beneficial member of society, it will never be seen if he has to endure thinly veiled threats every waking moment.  Distrust him, fine.  Watch him, fine.  Hate him if you must, but keep it to yourselves.  He hardly presents a threat with half the people here watching him like hawks.  If he means us harm we can prevent it."Then he turns to face the cleric and her charge."Ala, it is wonderful that you have such convictions in your beliefs, but again. . . you have stated them, and they are not convinced and they are unlikely to be any time soon.  So constantly claiming them as unassailable truth to this group is not beneficial to the situation either.  Neither is refering to everyone other than yourself as a 'skullcleaver'."He calms down a little now, and looks over everyone."We were all enjoined to answer the king's summons and to bring the village's grievances before him.  Ala, I still consider you a part of that mission and suggest that bringing your thoughts on the kobolds before the king may be your best hope of affecting meaningful change.  The rest of you I point out that completing that mission should take precedence over arguing the fate of one kobold."Finally he looks to Skatha himself."If you truly mean no harm then I will offer you my friendship in time, but I might point out that inciting Ala to smite us is not a good first step in that direction."Having spent himself in his impassioned speech, Liam lapses into silence for a moment. . . until he realizes that he has sort of left the conversation hanging.  He clears his throat with a small embarresed noise."So, are we all going to put down our weapons and behave like civilized people so that I can get some sleep?"</blockquote>

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