As we finish eating, I notice that there are dark looking clouds f, and while the basement is mostly closed off, the stairwell down is exposed if it starts to rain. It seems like the leader goblin wants to talk with me, but I really o work to get some temporary cover over my stairs. He follows me over to my pit but waits outside as I go dowairs. Fht now, I just want to get cover up, so I cut this of sto to build a simple roof over the stairs, just enough to keep the water out.

  When I e back up, the leader goblin is still waiting there patiently, so I set the sheets over the stairs to keep rain out and turn to the goblin. He looks at me before uncurling both of his hands. In one hand he has the pebbles that I gave to that oblin. Iher hand he has a sed set of pebbles that haven't been marked. He holds his hand out with the unbeled pebbles aures for me to take them.

  I do so, and look back at him. He pokes one of the belled pebbles on an unbeled pebble. I guess he wants me to duplicate it, so I do so. Then I make a duplicate of each of the pebbles. He then seemingly wants the pebbles back, so I give them to him. He looks them over, befiving me a nod, and going back to his hut. Whatever that was, I guess I'll find out. I do hope he gives back the inal pebbles to the oblin though.

  Not long after, it starts raining again. All the goblins go into their huts, and I climb down into my basement and close it off. I'm missing my cave even more now, because it is pitch b here. Without crystals lighting the walls, I'm almost as good as blind. At least that isn't the worst thing in the world, I do have teise to figure out where I am in the dark, and I'm out of the rain. I'm not quite ready to sleep yet, so I may as well use my mana up. I use teise to find where I was cutting from the floor before, and start using stone shaping to cut out blocks for stru tomorrow.

  The m I'm gd to see that both my hp has refilled, and I'm not sleeping in water. I use teise to figure out where exactly in the room I am before slowly making my the stairs. I'm disappoio see that it is still lightly raining as I leave the basement, so I pce the cover back over the stairs as I leave. It's still early m, and there are only a few goblins over at the stream drinking water. The stream is also quite full again today.

  It doesn't seem like the goblins want to go and do much yet, so I head bay basement, and haul the blocks I cut st night up and out from the basement. When I'm done, all the goblio be taking shelter from the rain in their huts, so I go back down into my basement to use my mana cutting blocks out. Holy, in a few days I should have the upstairs finished if I keep up at this pabsp; That said, a stone door is going to be quite heavy, but making a wood door is more of a hassle than it would be worth.

  As I'm carrying the new set of blocks up, the leader goblin approaches me again. I finish hauling the blocks up, as he patiently waits in the rain. He waves me over towards his hut, so I follow him. Again, I 't really get in to the hut, but I at least stick my head in to see what he wants to show me. When I do stick my head in, he seems to be fiddling around with some rocks he's piled up. He brings over a few ft rocks, and shows them to me. On them, it seems like he's scratched something on the surface.

  One looks like a crude drawing of a man. He points to it, then himself, then says, "Ruddaka."

  I'm irely sure if he means he's called Ruddaka, or if goblins are called ruddaka, but he looks at me expetly, so I'm going to just guess he means the general form, and I say, "Goblin."

  He looks somewhat delighted, and pulls the o, which looks like a long stibsp; He gestures for me to move back, so make room, and he goes over to my pit, and points down to the basement, so we go down, and he points at my spear, "Akkah-rah."

  "Spear," I reply.

  He seems delighted that he's able to unicate to some degree, but I'm still not particurly ied in learning anuage. He hurries me back to his hut where he shows me a third stoh a crude circle. "Mukuku," he says.

  I stare for a while, and I 't figure out what it is. I shake my head, and don't say anything.

  He looks at it and me, and seems a little disappointed as he puts that stone down. Then he picks up the spear stone again, and points to me. "Akkah-rah, derin zoru."

  Something with the spear. Ok. He shoos me outside, and then leads me over to the forest edge. We start walking along until he finds what he is looking for. He finds a long stick that is fairly straight. Then drags me back over to my basement, "Akkah-rah, derin zoru." He repeats and hands me the stick.

  Is he tellio make a spear? I mean, I don't have everything I used to make one before, but I should have enough mana to make a ko start w on it. I make a stone khat I use to work oick, and start w oi the light rain. The leader goblin just sits there and watches me as I work on ing up the stick, carving a handle, and making a hole he top of the stick to attach the spearhead on. When my mana is nearly full, I've pleted enough of the spear to attach the spearhead using stone shape, so I go ahead an make the spearhead, and start whittling the wood some more.

  The gobliures to hand him the spear, so I hand it to him. He holds it and moves it around in his hands, then he gestures for the knife I've been using, and tries his own hand at whittling... Which immily results in him holding the spear and shaving wood towards his hand, and cutting himself. Well, I suppose he'll probably learn how to ha better soon. I go over and try to show him how to properly hold the spear to work on it, while he nurses his wound on his hand. After a little while, I think I've shown him all I , so I give him the spear and knife again. He takes both and goes back to his hut.

  I'm holy starting to feel quite hungry at this point, but it seems like no one wants to go hunt in the rain, and I don't really want to go hunting myself, sidering I don't have ao cook. Instead I'll just work on my house as best I . I start ying the blocks around the edges to bee iable walls, and then stohem to the floor. Food measure, I also extend the tral pilr from the basement up further into the new room. Eventually, I'll o support a roof, whivariably will be made of stone, so the support pilr should help with that.

  When I'm out of mana, I look about in the light rain, and there doesn't seem like there is much to do, so I decide to go che the leader goblin. When I peek in, it seems like he's mostly finished with the spear, and also looks like he's cut himself at least one additional time. I'm sure he'll get used to it eventually. He was fag away from the entrao his hut, but turns to face me as he puts the spear down. He seems to be thinking about something, and then says in a slightly different tohan normal, "Akkah-rah, derin zoru baan."

  Well, it seems like the first bit means I should make a spear. What he means with the extra bit could be anything, but I have a feeling I'll find out soon enough, because he's standing up right now.

  Sure enough he leads me back to the forest, and begins looking for sticks again. We look together for a while, and we find three sticks that are good enough to make a spear out of, and we head back to the camp. I have a feeling that he's askio make more spears, and although it will probably help the goblins with hunting, it takes quite a bit of time, and uses a bit of my limited supply of mana to do as well.

  Whe back, he takes the sticks back to his hut, so I hope that means he only wants me to make the spearheads, but I guess time will tell. For now, a det k of my mana has refreshed, so I start work on my house again.