When we reach the vilge, I'm a little surprised. I had done so much setup and work on the vilge, that I sort of just expected the goblins to stagnantly just live their lives as before. Instead, I'm greeted by multiple ges that have taken pbsp; When I left the goblins nine months ago, they had a fledgling carpenter in Kaga, and some goblins who were making rope by hand, and some hunters.

  Now, Kaga seems to have really gotten into his work, as there are various wooden strus throughout the town. Among those are signs in front of some goblin's houses. It seems like some goblins have started businesses of their own. All of them are pictures, so it seems like literacy is a problem, but not one I care to fix. Plus, it means I easily uand what shops are what. It looks like one is a basketweaver, another has what looks like a helmet of some kind, and a third one has something that looks a little like a shell. As much as I'd like to look into everything right now, I'll save it for ter. First, I should actually check the quality of my various engineering projects, and make sure the roads, buildings, levee and wall are all holding up well.

  After doing a once over of the vilge, most things seemed to be in good maintenanbsp; The walls need a bit more work to finish them, and all the houses are currently full, so building out the extra houses I had pnned from before seems like a good idea. Also, if it would help them, I'd like to build workshops for the goblins that seem to be running their own businesses. Of course, this is all sed to building the dam to help prevent fsh flooding from being a problem iure.

  Once I've checked over everything in the vilge, I decide to go check out the buildings with signs, starting with the helmet looking one. I kno the door, aer, where I see a goblin lounging in a pretty basic wooden chair. That said, it's a wooden chair, which means it robably built by Kaga! I make a mental o see what other works he's been building after looking around here. I brought Zeb along to transte for me as always. Along one wall, there are some hats that seem to have been fashioned using sinew and lizard hide, although the hide seems to only have been ed aed, so it's not leather yet.

  The goblin seems a little nervous, having me looking around his stuff without saying anything. I give him a nod, and have Zeb tell him to keep up the good work before we leave. I was thinking before about trying to teach a goblin how to make leather, and holy, if this one is already this far along in their abilities to craft with sinew and hide, then teag them the leathermaking process will probably be pretty useful.

  I decide to make my stop at Kaga's carpentry workshop, given I've seen his handiwork around town. When I arrive, Kaga isn't anywhere nearby. Behind his workshop, there are a few rge wood logs piled up, and then inside, he's got a bunch of pnks in a er, and what looks like a bunch of wooden pegs he's carved. I left him with a bunch of simple hand tools, and it seems like he's figured out some good ways to put them to use. There are chairs and a few signs to one side of the workshop, then on another side it looks like he's made a bunch of straight poles, likely for spears.

  We'll have to check ba with Kaga when we see him . I'm getting the feeling that I'm going to be making a lot of tools and other things in the near future for the goblins. With those two stops out of the way, the pce I'd like to check out is the basketweaving shop. Wheer, in a simir mao before, it's clear they've traded with Kaga, sihey have a chair, along with a few basic tables. On those tables are some baskets that they've woven from what looks like vine and wood. They look like they probably get some young saplings, and form that into the basi, then weave the vines we were using to make rope through it to make the baskets. Upon pig them up, they're definitely lighter thaone buckets I've been using. They obviously aren't watertight, but for a lot of things, I'm sure they'd be more useful. I myself am less familiar with basketweaving, so I'll have to ask them what they might want for a workshop if I do that for them.

  The st shop has what looks like a shell picture on it. Ihey also have some basic tables, and on those tables they've id out a bunch of different shaped shells and rocks. Everything here seems decorative, and there are some basieckces as well. I'd feel bad leaving them out if I'm making workshops foblins, but that doesn't mean they'll get it first. Of the pces I've looked at, while I find curiosities like this iing, it's the ohat is least pressing to have its own work area set up. That said, depending on the shells themselves, I might end up having use for them as a flux material. I'd have to have a lot of them, but if I crush them, it might be helpful for processing the mystery metal. Shells oh are ri calcium carbonate, so if these are simir, it would be quite the find. Obviously, I'm also ied in the rocks I haven't seen before, but those would require a lot of research, and I'm already booked out on that for a long time.

  For the st nine days, Zeb and I have spent the time plotting the rest of the path up the mountain. We decided that finishing that would be a good idea for any future path building that might occur. Of course, that wasn't the only thing we did. In the m and evening, we'd use our mana on stone shaping in the quarry area of the future reservoir. It didn't add much to the area, but it felt like a waste to not use some of our mana each day.

  I'm also going to start up workshops to the goblins that have shops already now. For each of them, I of course want to also trade them for something. For the hide armoblin, I'll offer to teach it a form of leatherw and give it a workshop to work in, but in exge I'll want a set of armor for myself and Zeb, and if I need some basic crafts iure, I'd ask they help me out. For the basketweaver, I want a basket backpabsp; That would help immensely with harvesting pnts, and ohey make those, I'm sure it'll be oblins. As for the shell and rock gatherer, I'll o assess if the shells provide what I want or not before I decide to trade with them. Which means I'll have to trade for their shells to begin with.

  For now then, I'll focus oher two's workshops while I have the time. I still o finish the handful of houses I'd pnned out, and the city wall here as well. I'm thinking about asking Kaga to actually make the gates for the city wall. Wood is much lighter than stone, so it'd probably be a better idea for that. As always though, there is lots of work to do...

  Finishing the city wall and gates with Kaga took a full 11 days to plete. In that time, it rained a few times, and snowed up on the mountain. The wall itself has regurly pced stairs so that it is easy to stand on top of them. The walls themself stand at about 12 feet tall, with arched gates in the four main dires from the town. The gates are just rge double doors made from wood, with stone-shaped reinforts and hinges. They also have a crossbar so that they be locked from the inside. I don't know that they'd actually stop a lizard from breaking through if it tried hard, but it hopefully would disce it from b to try.

  Kaga didn't want to make the gates for free, even though Zaka told him he should do it anyway for everyone's prote, I caved and told him I'd build him a covered area behind his workshop where he stores his logs and tree trunks that he's cut so they won't get wet when it rains. I'm worried I might be spoiling the goblins a little too much by giving them free stuff all the time like this, but I'm sure it'll improve the quality of his work as well, so it's probably fine. That said, it'll probably take me awo days to finish that stru, in addition to the houses I already have to work on.