As Skrag neared the city of Bayton, he spotted several armed horseback riders coming to meet him. Knowing the smaller races, they were likely here to tell him to move on since they don't want his kind near cities, he was quite used to it. Even on horseback the riders ended up being several foot shorter than he, forcing him to look downwards at the Humans.<br/><br/>He was asked, presumably by the leader of the group, what his intentions in the city were. Skrag was about to answer the Human, but he stopped when he heard a loud guttural voice speak in his native language of Giant. The creature itself resembled a small reptilian thing, a Kobold, and he seemed to want to trick the guardsmen.<br/><br/>With a low and rumbling, yet fairly loud and commandingly loud (it wasn't intentional, his kind tended to be known for being loud) voice he answered the Kobold in Giant. "Go forth, the Humans probably wont listen to me anyway."<br/><br/>The Ogre listened to the Kobold's ruse carefully, indeed the Kobold chose a grand lie to tell, for mercenary work was a common method of pay for Skrag. "Aye, I was chasing off some of those odd-looking bipedal reptiles, I even have the skins and the teeth from them." Further reinforcing the ruse, was that Skrag was covered in cuts and blood, some his own some from the reptiles that he had fought. When offered the gold as a bribe, Skrag accepted it like he would normally accept the pay from a job like this, he reckoned that he had a fair amount of gold gathered together, and the skins would fetch a handsome price.<br/><br/>He didn't know the Kobold in the slightest, he had done jobs for Kobolds before, but he had never heard nor seen of this particular one before. But names were not important as of now, instead, getting into the city itself was the main priority.