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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 2870203" data-attributes="member: 7006">As a trained investigator, Khalia kneels down to examine the two bodies one final time, in hopes of finding something that might have been missed by Ari's cursory search.  [Search TN 15 / 10+7=17 *success* / Investigate feat] [sblock=Khalia: ] In addition to the information that Ari and the others determined... that both of these lizardfolk were from the Twilight Walkers tribe, that they were not dressed for combat, and the knives they wielded were meant for skinning game and not to fight with... you also notice that Jina got both of them pretty good with her thinblade.  She appears to be a fairly competant swordswoman, despite her age.The thing that strikes you most however, is that both sets of boots they wear do not have the mud and dirt on them that you would suspect they should, had the two of them come directly from their camp to the north (as it is located in the center of the marshlands between here and the ruins).  Knowing the geography of the area the way you do, you suspect that despite their tracks arriving in this clearing from the north, they must have arrived here more from the west as that is the only area from which they could have arrived and not had muddy boots.  Did they cut across from the west and down to this clearing, perhaps in hopes of cutting Jina off in her mad rush to get back home?  And if they were trying to cut her off or catch up to her, is it because they wanted to kill her?  Or perhaps instead (based on their lack of combat-readiness) only to get her attention?  But in her confused state did Jina take their arrival as an attack and thus things got out of hand too quickly?[/sblock]The choice comes down to whether the group follows the tracks of Jina to the west, or the tracks of the two lizardfolk heading north?  Most of the consensus seems to be to continue heading west.</blockquote>

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