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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 5437071" data-attributes="member: 48762">Inthe/Glisten en route to Edenelt/Trin's Veil -- in the "High Passage" BarThe Travellers gather at the "High Passage" bar again, Zoe, Kaira, Spider, and Gruffle join Jimmy at his table, where there is also a rather portly Imperial fellow."Hello, um, all, call me 'Slim,'" he says, inspecting the racial variety of the crew of the Zax with some slight amusement.  "I understand that you're looking for cargo, and, since I feel like I owe Jimmy here a debt of gratitude for his generosity with this exquisite potion he has, I wanted to let you in on a little secret.  You may have heard that Inthe has been blessed with a great degree of mineral wealth, in particular, gemstones.  Now you can get cargoes of gemstones from virtually any reputable broker, such as myself *ahem*, but if you're willing to look a little harder you can find deals that are much, much sweeter.  Have you been down to our southern continent, to the other Starport?  I thought not.  Down at Szeewochen DownPort South there are um, shall we say, other opportunities.  You see, the southernmost continent is where the vast majority of Inthe's Croubeks are to be found.  What's a Croubek, you ask?  I'm glad you asked me that!  Croubeks are, well, they're pretty nasty creatures, really.  They look like big (6 feet across) crabs made of coal studded with bright gems, and they have a maw filled with crystal daggers of teeth.  The Croubeks secrete a substance that helps them to burrow through the planet's rock at a phenomenally fast pace,  and as they're burrowing along, they sweep up the best gems from the deepest parts of Inthe that conventional mining just can't reach.  Why do they do this?  Don't know, really, I'm happy to say, but they do, and they accumulate large quantities of these gemstones and hoard them in their nests.  It's faily easy to spot a Croubek nest - they're just shallow caves in the ice, pretty easy to spot, actually.  Now, if you were to go down near Szeewochen Downport and hunt up a good Croubek nest, you could scoop up a hold full of good quality gemstones with just a bit of elbow grease to get them loaded.  No charge, if you keep it on the downlow and don't hang around unreasonably long after you get them loaded.  So, unless you have any questions, I'll impose upon Jimmy here for another glass of his elixir!"  Slim thereupon produces a 1.75 liter "glass" and holds it out to Jimmy expectantly. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  "Oh, and I'd also appreciate a small finder's fee for this, nothing too extravagant since I'm dropping this on you cold and all -- shall we say CR500, and the 'potion,' and we'll call it even?"</blockquote>

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