A rge group of goblins was gathered to retrieve the dead lizard as food. I've yet to see how the goblins deal with their dead, but sidering they haven't brought them back, I wonder if they've just been leaving them where they died. I'm almost finished with the smokehouse now, and given the sed round of trees have been felled, I suppose now is probably going to be the best time to tell Zaka I want to move back up to the cave. I feel like I've provided the goblins plenty in terms of survival means. Plus, I myself will be prestiging soon, so I'd holy prefer to be ba my home for that.
As I probably should have expected, Zaka was relut to let me just move away back to the cave. Acc to Zeb, I'm seen as something of a protector to most of the goblins, so Zaka is worried about morale if I leave, as well as what will happen to the ons and tools I've made for them. I've tered with an offer to him. I'll make plenty of spare tools, and when the snow would settle on the mountain, I'll e join them again during that time. They're also wele to e get me if they need me for something.
Zaka relutly agreed to this arra, until we suddenly o gh even more iations because Zeb wao join me up on the mountain. Zeb's English has been ing along quite well, to the point where I'm not sure if goblins are just naturally good with nguage, or Zeb is a natural genius. Zaka eventually agreed to let Zeb also stay on the mountain, but he's ting it as a loss of anoblin, so they're down five, and will probably o re-visit the mountain twice to repce their numbers.
I asked him why they don't just summon a few imps down here, and raise them until they turn into goblins, but apparently, Zaka's mana pool isn't quite rge enough to summon one indepely, so he he crystals to have a rge enough pool. How he got the ability to summon imps when he doesn't have the mana, I don't know, but I suppose it means I should keep my eyes out fic or traits that sound too good to be true. Also, apparently, imps are naturally quite wild and hard to tain in an area, so it works out to summon them in the cave, and then just prevent them from leaving. Then, to prevent any random demons from basically being feral petition, he kills the remaining imps before they return down the mountain just before the eclipse.
With iations reag pletion, I get to work finishing the smokehouse and building plenty of spare spears and axes for the goblins. Word seems to have spread a little through the day, and it seems a lot of the goblins are disappoihat I won't be making them any new decorations and furniture. I hadn't been paying that close attention, but the goblio have widened most of their huts to keep their new furnishings.
The weather has actually cooled off slightly from where it was a few weeks ago, but the near stant rain has subsided, which is nibsp; I've also noticed that the eclipses really are very regur, every thirty days, give or take a few hours. They've been ing closer and closer into the evening, so I presume we probably won't see many eclipses soon, sihey'll take pce at night on our part of the p. I asked Zaka about this, and he said it gets warmer through the year ohe eclipses happen at night. You apparently tell they are happening still because you get signifitly less mana when they're happening. During night, mana is already slower to recover, but during an eclipse, it slows to a crawl at day ht.
Having discussed all the matters at hand, we split up to go work on tasks that needed done before traveling up the mountain. For me, that means finishing the smokehouse and making plenty of tools for the goblins. Plus, I want to carry my tablets of information I've been writing in my house down here back up the mountain, so I'll probably make some crude crate that I stuff pnt matter betweeablets so they don't break.
The day of travel arrived pretty quickly. The smokehouse was finished a few days before, and I showed the goblins how to use it. It doesn't take a lot of effort, but one of them will o know what meat inside is done, and what meat is still in the process of being preserved. It'll take a few weeks in the smoke house before any of the meat is done, so they're skeptical at first, but when I expin that it'll keep for a long time, they seem receptive to it. Plus they have plenty of excess wood from their palisade project.
Speaking of the palisade project, most of the goblins that were w on it have prestiged onow. A few became strong like Kaga, so I think that they're probably going to pick up the pace of logging soon. I've informed Zaka about the need for oblins to assist iree cutting, so that a power imbance doesn't occur. To which he seems excited that the goblins are being stronger faster than before. I suppose I could have told him that cutting the trees down was giving them levels sooner, but they're not that far into the project yet, so it shouldn't be too bad. It might even end up being a way to get some of the new goblins stronger fast.
I ended up making dozens, if not hundreds of spare spears and axes for the goblins as well. Surely it'll be enough to st them a few months. They gh a few a week currently, due to either chipping or breaking of the stone implements. I don't know how many months it is until winter, but I've been in the goblin vilge for almost six months now, so I holy think it might be soohan ter, in which case, Zaka might be getting the better half of our arra. Although there isn't any reason I 't go back up the mountain after the snow melts year.
With all our preparations made, Zeb, Zaka, myself, and a pair of obli off back up towards the cave up on the mountain.
I holy didn't recall this journey being this difficult before, but I suppose we were going downhill, and it has been months sinyone followed this trail up the mountain. Holy, I should have been trying to figure out just how long this trail is. I imagihe time it would take to get up here would be much shorter if I could actually map it out and build a path. Although actually, as I think about it, the idea of building a path like this by myself is kind of eous. I'm quite a fast digger, and stone shaping would really help the process, but a good path through the jungle like this would require more than just me w, or at the very least, a near infinite sourana at all times.
By the time we reach the cave, everyone is exhausted, so a small fire is made he entryway to the cave, which I had renovated all those months ago. It seems sgers came and ate what was left of the goblins that were killed st time, and there are just scattered bones in the area now. Even though I'm tired, I go to the bones out. This is my house after all, or at least, my first house that isn't just a hole in the wall of a cave.
Actually, despite the fact I'm exhausted, I want to go take care of some things before tomorrow when Zaka pns to summon imps. Namely, I want to go put the ablets with my old ones, and close the sub-cave off, so imps don't go in and break things tomorrow.
After I've assured the goblins I'll be right back, I make my way back down the cave. It feels quite nostalgic if I'm ho. I mean, I lived here for a long time already, so I guess it's more like ing home than anything else. Looking about the familiar cave, I'm reminded of all my various projects I was w on before the whole goblin vilge situation. If I'm ho, I'm probably not going to get through many of them before the snow returns, but at the very least, I'll be able to get started on some of them, and who knows, with Zeb's help, I might be able to get through more of it than I think.