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title: 00004 - pockets picked
created: Tue, 24 Jul 2022 20:32:23 -0600
updated: Tue, 24 Jul 2022 20:32:23 -0600
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### 00004

> "And jolly good polish too, it looks like," Inky replies, squinting a bit at the ichor being smeared onto the boots in Earrings' large calloused hands. "I hear there be some gnomes hereabouts? A camp? With your remarkable service, I bet they'd be coming to you all the time to get their boots cleaned."

"GNOMES!?" Earrings interrobangs loudly and questioningly. It brings its hands to the sides of its face, covering its ear holes, and wags its oversized head in dismay, squeezing its tiny eyes shut. In the process, it smears polish around its face.

"Gnomes there!" shouts Waistcoat. Its hands busy polishing, it tosses its head, gesturing with its prodigious proboscis in the direction you were heading. You continue to hear bangs and booms in the distance every once a while.

> Glarg gurgles something to the effect of "gluggurguuuurglaaaachhhh?" Its stance is one of surprise as its disposition changes to that of inquisition as its head cranes down to look at the blahoblin carrying the smelly rock on its back.

Teeth looks questioningly up at Glarg and experimentally gargles back up at it. "GURGLE BURBLE GLUG GLUG?" It smiles apologetically (a fearsome sight, its protruding jaws full of tiny pointy teeth) and shrugs and asks, "Shoe shine?"

> It attempts to pick that whole blahoblin up and bring the smelly rock to its face for a closer inspection.

"WAAAAAAH!" Teeth kicks its feet ineffectively and is quite helplessly tied to the big smelly rock when Glarg picks it up. The smelly rock smells pungent, sharp, earthy, moldy. Definitely could be food.

By this time the blahoblins have polished the shoes of everybody who has consented to it, and are packing up. Except for Teeth who is being detained by the earth elemental.

Red Shoes reappears from wherever they have been this whole time with a sly smile and rejoins its comrades.

Your pockets have successfully been picked while you were distracted with the shoe shine, but not of anything of particular value.

What small item(s) will you notice is missing in the hours and days to come? How will its absence be a minor inconvenience?

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