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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4299202" data-attributes="member: 46559">She scowls.  "Well, that depends on who you ask.  The root of the problem, if problem there be, is that lizardfolk live in the swamp.  You ever meet one of them?  They're a sight to look on, it's true; all scales and cold eyes and slime.  But in my experience, they've always been decent folk, true to their word.  We used to be close to them, we of Cragger's Rest, until that fool Cardith Burwood took it into his head to go trading with them, taking nothing more than cheap glass beads and a string of empty promises.  He came back empty-handed and swearing that if they wouldn't give him his due, he'd take it by force.  He took a rusty sword, a tin-pot helmet, and a couple of rowdies lingering at the inn on their way through town, and went back into the swamp."She scowls again, clearly reliving unpleasant memories.  "I found his body a week later, not two hundred paces from here, just lying on his back like he was laid out for burying, at least what was left of him was.  His...  There were stab wounds, like from a knife or a spear, but there were pieces missing, too, and it looked like he had been chewed on.  By a lizard."  She pauses for a long moment before continuing.  "If you're staying at the inn tonight, you'll hear plenty of stories about who all went in after the lizardfolk, how many they killed and what treasures they took, but you're a fool if you believe one of 'em.  Still, it's not my place to talk about what happened then.  Nowadays, we don't talk to the lizardfolk and they don't talk to us.[sblock=sense motive DC 18]That last sentence isn't completely true.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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