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Originally Published:
2010-08-19
Last Updated:
2010-08-19
Original Concept:
Gerry Harris
Final Design:
Gerry Harris |
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House Rules |
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Though the term "Scaleyville" is applied to just
about any concentration of Lizard-men on Earth or Mars, the original
Scaleyville is a small village in the Louisiana swamps north of New
Orleans.
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Lizard-men began immigrating to Earth in the
1890s, drawn by the promise of good employment and a better life for
their offspring. Their actual reception was, at best, mixed.
Many were relegated to ghettos in the major cities. A few
travelled to the Southern United States where the climate was better
suited for them, but where attitudes toward them were openly
hostile. Eventually, a number took up residence in New Orleans
— a town noted for its progressive racial attitudes — where they
eked out a living hunting and fishing.
However, even New Orleans wasn't nearly as
welcoming as the newcomers had hoped. A number of lizard-man
families moved north of the city into the swamps founding the
settlement that eventually became Scaleyville.
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About 40 lizard-man families (about 200
individuals) inhabit the ramshackle shacks that make up Scaleyville.
A few humans also live in the area and serve as go-betweens for the
village with the outside world. There is a small schoolhouse,
a general store and a bait-and-tackle shop in town. In
addition, there is a small boatyard and a sawmill on the outskirts
of town. As the lizard-men are cold-blooded and grow lethargic
in the winter, one feature of each building is either an over-sized
stove or a large fireplace.
One of the hovels on the edge of town houses the
local medicine-woman — a powerful Mystic. Recently she has
been adopted into
The Daughters of Isis as their first non-human member. As
a result, "incidents" against the lizard-man community have
decreased dramatically.
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Plot Hooks
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A
giant crocodile has escaped from a game plantation and has
begun to prey upon fishermen and river boats. The locals
blame the lizard-men for introducing the animal and have stepped
up attacks against individual lizard-men found outside
Scaleyville. An unknown patron hires the PCs to kill or
capture the crocodile and to determine its origin.
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Cultists have begun kidnapping women and
children (both human and lizard-man) to sacrifice in their
depraved rites. The local sheriff refuses to do anything
about it. The PCs are hired to track down the cultists,
kill them, and free any captives. The patron is insistent
the cultists must be completely eliminated.
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