The Drunken Lizard Pub

You're taking advantage of Eschalon being really old skool. ;) The area transitions are good. In a few places you can use it to get different enemies chasing you, and when you hit the area transition, they decide to take it out on each other instead of you...
Noticed that nice little perk ...

...Oh, and as a side note: Don't fall victim, the same way that I did...

Always use the "Save Game Before Camping" method when camping near a quest-giving NPC.

Unfortunately, I camped and was "rudely awakened" by thugs or toxic salamanders in the North Parish map, and ran away from them... Well ...

I may be called-out for promoting this strategy, but I found that the "Save Game" methodology works really well when starting out... That, and use the area transitions to your advantage:

1. Save + Camp - In trouble? Just had your arse handed to you by those three thugs in the Salted Coast? Well ...

Ah, it could possibly be something to do with the Steam version...

Unfortunately, that's kinda what I assumed. However, I didn't know about the quest flag. Regardless, thanks a lot for the quick response, and once I get home tonight, I will grab the map file, and get it to you to look at.

Again ...

Love the game... Having a great time playing it, but unfortunately I found out too late about "saving my game before resting". Monsters spawned, I ran... right by Mary at her camp. The damn Toxic Salamanders killed her, and now her quest is whacked. So, I took to Google to try to find out a way to ...