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"Maybe Pawdigger, he got himself a nosebleed."
>"I hope you're kiddin', Chief."
>"Duh. Cept I'm not kidding when I say a baby gnoll's better than a dead gnoll."
>"Least dead gnolls don't eat our food."
"But you can't get a dead gnoll to grow up. How's the leather supply?"
>"Decent, just decent. Lot of our clothes are looking worn, but that just means we've got more for straps, backpacks, that good stuff.
"Know where that healing potion is?"
>"Nope.
"Shabin, how about you?"
>"Why would I?!"
"Dunno. See, this is the shit that gems might be useful for, and apparently potions just gets lost! I want to know of its location and keep it around, so we don't lose any skilled gnolls. They're hard enough to train and rare enough to meet."
Gempusher starts to smile, but I must give him a bad look cause as soon as I look over he knocks it right off.
"Gem, what can you do besides gem pushin'? Stone carving? Cut some structures in the mountainsides here? Do a little metalworking?"
>"Oh, uh, I can shape metal a little bit, but I'm not that great at swords and stuff. I can carve, cut, and engrave stone though! Oh, wood too."
"Mining?"
>"Uh... I know a little about mining, but..."
"Forget it. Show me your gemwork and maybe it'll be worth keeping around, specially if we find out who buys cut gems for more useful things. Run through the raw stock we had, then get to some stonework."
>"Oh okay!" He says, and starts patting around his clothes. "Here, I - uh - I have a polished emerald, take a look and tell me what you think! Wind said that I was getting pretty good, but it's tough for me to tell how good is good. I - sorry. I like gemstones. About that healing potion, though, I would guess the Matron would know about the healing potion. I mean, no one's gonna seriously think you're a baby for using it on yourself, Chief, considering you, er... it was a bad wound, wasn't it?"
The emerald gets passed to me, and I have a squint at it.
Yep.
That looks like an emerald.
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