The imp summoni fine, although we only recruited two goblins this time. Wheurned, I tried to recruit the goblins to help with stone hauling for these projects, but they didn't really want to participate even if I, or rather Zeb, expihe usefulness of the project to them. Which means I'll o figure out a different way to get them to help.

  I've spent the st four days w with Zeb hauling stohat I've cut, and I'm now certain that I'll need help to get this done. The reason being that I easily cut way more stone free than Zeb and I haul in a day. Which means I'm actually limited by bor rather than mana now, due to the distances we're hauling. As a result, I've decided on a solution to vihe goblins to help.

  I will offer to help the goblins build stone houses simir to mine, if they haul the stone for their house, the road to their house, and a set amount of extra stone. It'll slow my cutting down somewhat, since I'll o cut specific shapes out, like when I was cutting the stone for my house, but sidering this will likely entice quite a few goblins, I think the speed gained in the hauling will be worth it. I'll pitch the idea with Zeb ter at the group meal.

  Most of the goblins seemed excited to get to live in houses like the one I built for myself. I informed them as well that they wouldn't have basements like mine does however, but that didn't seem to bother them too mubsp; Plus it means ter I trade building basements for them for something if I o. The houses are going to be a standard size and shape, which I feel a little bad about, but it's the only way for me to be able to cut the stone easily up at the quarry location.

  Three days in with the goblins helping me haul stone, and I've already hit another snag. The goblins use the creek for both drinking and ing, and I've gotten pints about how much more difficult it is to go down to the stream now that I've put the levee through the vilge. It still has dirt slopes going down, with stone reinf it on the inside, but the slope is steeper than it used to be. Thus I've had to halt road stru, house stru, and stoting to put stairwells down the levee. It should only take a day or so to put stairs at regur intervals down the slopes. Hopefully that will solve the problem for the goblins. They seemed to be uanding of the need of the levee at least.

  Zaka came to me yesterday and said that sihere isn't any snow up the mountain right now, he's thinking about going back up tomorrow to summon imps si's that time of the month again. Of course, st night, it rained, and today as I look up the mountain, it's covered in snow. Zaka seems a bit disappointed, so I decided to offer to build him a house different thaher goblins. He is their de facto leader, so I think it'll be fine if his house is rger. As long as it's only one house, it shouldn't be too much of an issue to cut special stone for him. Of course, he'll still have to haul it to its final location. This definitely isn't also a way of getting him to help with the stone hauling, since he's beeant to join in.

  Thankfully, he ersuaded by the idea of having the house in the vilge. Which is great, because given his status as a hobgoblin, he'll be able to haul rger stone blocks. The only oblin which could be of more use is Kaga, since he's much strohaher goblins after his prestige. For now he seems ued in helping with the stone hauling, but I suspect as moblins start to live in houses, the others will want to follow suit. Then I always bribe them with furniture to tinue hauling stoil I'm doh the entire quarry projebsp;

  Of course, I'm alsing out house stru along side this to keep the goblins haulira stone. I've only fihree houses so far, and the road to them. I've also put a small storm drain in their crawlspace that runs into the storm sewers uhe road. Hopefully that will keep their houses from flooding when it rains. Obviously it also means if they fail to close the drains during a flood then they're houses will flood, so it should doubly iivize them keeping those used properly.

  The vilge itself currently has twenty-five goblins, and an anticipated nine more year. I think to keep things somewhat future proof, I'll pn on forty houses, plus Zaka's house. I haven't seen the goblins ever living in each other's houses, so I'm starting to suspect that they only reproduce through imp summoning. It's very odd to me, being a previous human, that they never have more than one living in a house, but for the sake of stru, it's lightening my load, since each house be smaller.

  A sed issue is that I'll actually need quite a bit of space for forty houses. I'm ly keen on just building them in a long row either, so I'll have to make multiple roads. Plus, to facilitate traffic, I've decided to put in two more bridges. The be to me of extra bridges is the use of extra stone as well, which is good, because I've actually started to collect quite the pile in the er of the vilge with the goblin's help.

  It's been a whole month, or just about, and it has gotten noticeably cooler. Not particurly cold, but definitely noticeable. Houses are slowly ing together. I've fien now, along with a sed bridge. I'm less than a quarter of the total quarry I want to dig though. More of the goblins have joined in w after a few started living in the new houses. I think soon I'll o start trading their bor for furniture for their houses, as I've already housed almost half of the goblins here so far. The area is really starting to shape up to looking like a civilized vilge.

  The progress on the palisades have slowed down, due to the goblins helpih the quarry projebsp; Which holy is probably a good thing. I'm going to have so much extra stohat I'm thinking about building vilge gates for them, and then maybe get the palisade crew to instead build walls, and I'll fuse them together. The palisades are nice, and it's great that the goblins build them themselves, but they decay after a few years. Stone walls are both stronger and st much longer. I'll try to have a discussion with them tonight about the idea.

  The stone wall idea didn't go over that well initially. Kaga and the woodcutters didn't like the idea of their work not being needed anymore, and the rope makers felt simirly. They seemed to have really e around to the work they were doing. I did mao vince quite a few of them though that it would be better. I expihere would still be a need for some rope, and some tree cutting. Rope needs repced every so often, and there is always a need for wood. Kaga wasn't vinced after all that however. So, simir to the situation with giving Zaka a bigger house, I figured I'd o vince Kaga to assist in another way.

  What I decided to offer, was building him his own workshop for wo and making him some stoools that he use for making things from wood. I expihat if he gets really good at it, then he even make furniture and spare parts for various things like the spears. I basically vinced him to take up carpentry. He initially wahe workshop o his house, but I told him it would bother his neighbors too mubsp; I've decided on utilizing an area on the opposite side of the pavilion from the housing area to build his workshop at.

  Eventually, all the goblins might have their own jobs and specializations here in the vilge. Although that is a long ways away. For now, I'll just focus on w on digging the quarry and stru that I already have ahead of me. Now that the wood cutters and weavers are verting over to building stone walls, I'll have to cut blocks for them to use for that. I initially had this grand idea for hollow walls with passages in them, but I decided that just a solid wall that was wide enough for a hobgoblin to stand on up top would be plenty. So I'll basically just cut long blocks for them to y down in parallel, and I'll fuse them back together. With all this, I'm back to operating at mana capacity, so I guess that's good.