The imp summoni fine as well. Twoblins for Zaka to return to the vilge with. Zeb and I thehe day butchering imps and ing up corpses. As for our pns moving forward, we want to finish Zeb's house up here that we were w on before the storm hit, plus I want to start refining more lightstone. That way I hopefully send some lightstone back with Zaka and the oblins when they e visit, so I won't have to make multiple trips when I want to make those valves iure.
It took nine days to finish Zeb's house. In that time, it's started lightly raining almost every day, which will make w outside a bit of a pain. Oask that was still left from when we left st time was to up the rubble from making the terrace farms. I'm thinking of just leaving it until the weather bees nicer. Instead, I think I'll finally start w on looking into the points of i from my cave survey from all that time ago, beginning with the ohat seemed like native metals.
Thankfully excavation down to the first of the points only took about half a day. I wish I could say it was something rare or exg, but it seemed to just be copper. I say that, but finding a native metal at all is great. Although there are some sizeable ks, it's generally in small bits intermixed with the rock, so getting the metal itself is actually still going to take some work.
As for uses for the metal itself, well, I holy don't have anything right now. The be of maals over stone is that they're easier to work with, but my magic has gotten rid of that downside. The be of metals I suppose would be ductile strength and psticity, so I'll o keep in mind situations where that would be more useful than stone. Although I suppose a final application is that I teach the goblins how to use and recycle the copper, so they wouldn't o rely oo make all their tools for them. That said, elemental copper is actually quite soft, so it'd be a rge step down from stone shaped stoools.
Either way, I want to check each of the deposits in case there are any other metals. I suppose if in a distant time I decided to do anything with electricity, then the copper would be useful at that point as well.
I checked all four of the points of ihat seemed like they were metal over the st four days, and each was copper. Unfortunate, but not that surprising. I only excavated a portion of the metal bearing ro each spot, and then closed them back off so that any future imps don't go messing around in the holes. Ially, I've also reached level 100 today while I was w, so tonight I should expect to gh the prestige or evolution process again, with that in mind, I think I'll take the rest of the day easy, and go to bed early.
Avaible Traits:Improved Dexterity: Increases dexterity and manipution beyond what your form would normally allow.
I'm a little disappoihat I only have oion avaible this time, but sidering I've put off pig Improved Dexterity for quite a long time, I guess I should be gd that I at least still pick it. I make my sele, and quickly lose sciousness.
When I wake up, I check my status.
, I decide to try to figure out exactly what Improved Dexterity actually does for me. Some basic stretches reveal that I'm more limber than before, able to stretd bend further at my joints than I used to be able to. This extends to my hands as well, where I feel like I'm capable of finer motion with them. In fact, as I test out all my muscles, it's like my motor trols have bee sharper than they were before. While it isn't as impressive as being able to shape stoh magic, I think that the daily utility is going to pay dividends over time.
Zeb's English is near perfeow, so I think now is as good a time as any to discuss traits and magic with him, and see if he give me extra insight into the status window.
"So, Zeb, I've been meaning to talk to you about this for a while, but what does your status window look like?" I ask.
"My what?" Zeb says fused.
"Status, like your HP, MP, Traits and Magibsp; All the things you get when you prestige or evolve, that thing." I reply.
"I mean, I don't quite get your question. A window? Like on the house?" He says.
I almost immediately say no, but actually, in a way that is kind ht, "Uh kind of, but like the numbers and things that represent how much magic you have avaible and how close you are to dying." I say.
"I'm not sure I get what you mean by window, but I have a general sense of both of those things, although I don't have any magic to use, so it's not like I use that one ever." He says.
"Okay, but what about your traits, like things you got when you prestiged. What are those?" I ask.
"Well, I remember what I took the oime I got offered one, Mimicry." He says.
I have an idea of what it does, but I ask to be sure, grabbing a tablet, and marking things down as he responds, "Mimicry lets me quickly copy the behaviors of others, which let me learn English so fast, I presume. Although most goblins learn nguage pretty fast anyway." He responds.
I mark down what he says, then decide to etch him an image of what my status window looks like, and expin each part, going through some of my records of eay previous forms stats with him. He nods along the whole time, seemingly uanding. When I'm done, I ask him to try to visualize a status window like mine.
To my surprise, he says he see it, and it's not just his imagination. If I had to put money on it, his Mimicry trait is probably assisting him in this. Either way, I take the opportunity to write Zeb's status window down as well in a new record.
This brings up another question for him though. "When did you get mimicry?" I ask.
"When I became a rare goblin." He says.
"Okay, but what did you get when you became an unon goblin?" I ask.
"I didn't get anything, I just became an unon goblin." He says.
"Is that a normal occurrence?" I ask.
"I mean, it kind of used to be until you started having all the goblins start doing particur jobs. I think a few goblins got Improved Dexterity, some received Heightened Perception, and Kaga got Improved Strength." He says.
"I have a bit of a hypothesis, but do you remember which goblins got what?" I ask.
"ly, but I think the ones making rope got Dexterity, and the hunters got Perception." He says.
I jot all these notes down. Looking bay own traits, and thinking back to when I got them, they seemed to show up after I was doing a lot of tasks reted to each of them. That does leave a few holes though, such as why the goblins don't get offered ivory.
"Most of the goblins have only beei all the time, right?" I ask.
"Yeah, I mean, I don't know for certain, but almost all our meals have bee." Zeb responds.
Well, I've got a new question as to why they haven't been offered ivory as a trait. I scribble the question down in my notes, and put them away for now. As much as I'd like to immediately start researg all of this, even if I were to run down the mountain, I don't think I'd be able to get all that mufo from the goblins, even with Zeb's help. So for the time being, I think we'll focus on w on more of the tasks up here. I'm ied in what Zeb might get offered . Since he's got mimicry and been w with me on all these stone projects, I'm very intrigued if he'll get offered stone shaping or not.