[quote=@Digizel]
My first question is, these are supposed to be physical tokens in the actual game, right? Does that mean there's a hard cap on how many can be given out to other players? In a physical version of the game, there would only be so many physical items to pass around, so it may not have been mentioned in the rules specifically. I forget if we mentioned a limit on them or not earlier. I can't seem to find it if we did, though. For some reason, I had it in my head that there were only three, but I don't see a limit actually mentioned anywhere.
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In the physical version of the game, it's mentioned each player must have ten tokens to give out to other players. Three is the cap for how many gems given to you by a single player.

[quote=@Digizel]
The second question is that it says that they represent earned trust. I know these are obviously just player mechanics and not something characters are actually giving around. But I was under the impression that the characters had to know that the other actually did something of note to earn that trust from them before a gem would get passed. 
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The book is kinda vague to whether you have to actually [i]see[/i] something to give the gem out. There is a line in the book that it is "regardless of physical distance between players" but I dunno... it does seem weird that you would a friendship gem for a event your character is not aware of. So I'm going to say, no, you have to witness the event to give friendship gem.

So if Shieldwing didn't think Skobeloff going by himself is brave and wasn't there to witness the events with Fogdance and the others, Skobeloff isn't going to get a friendship gem around. This is just personal interpretation of the rules, and I might change this at a later point depending how this game goes.