It's been over a week since I performed the test using Zaka's blood. With its success, I've started the stru of two steam ons in the vilge. The first steam on will work just like the first one on the mountain. The sed on is being desigo use a mix of water and Zaka's blood to power the on. Both of these are being built on aed ptform behind one of the vilge walls. The reason being that I want them to have a retively unobstructed view of the sky. Sittiween them is the beginnings of a watchtower like on the mountain.

  Overall, the stru is going well, and a lot of the spare stone in the vilge is getting used up ochtower, and I took two days bringing a bunch of lightstone down the mountain for the steam ons. One gobliurn from helpihe new vilge started, I'd like to have some use the path t a bunch of the other spare stone from the mountain down to use for various strus.

  Zaka's recovery is ing along well, so I sat down with him ao get some more info so that we make some loerm goals. Long story short, Zaka's a little more than half-way to his prestige, and he's really hopeful that when it es, he'll regain the lower part of his leg that he lost.

  I'm hopeful for that oute as well, but I'm not certain it'll all e back at onbsp; However, with getting him recovered as soon as possible in mind, I've decided on two things that should help speed him along.

  First, the area outside the walls of the vilge could be expanded out further in pces. Right now, there is about fifty feet of distance from the vilge walls to the tree line. Given he that eagle was, and with the addition of the two steam ons, I think that getting some extra open field will be beneficial tactically.

  Sed, of the goblins that are remaining in this vilge, quite a few seem to enjoy eating the pnt that Zeb found. I've decided to call it s beets, although the stems and root are much rger than a beet would normally have. With the increased demand for this food, the o make more fields for it to grow in has arisen, so I figured we could clear even more spaear the vilge in the dire of the salt ponds.

  Both of those projects together enpass hundreds, if not thousands of trees, which should give Zaka an ample supply of levels to hopefully boost him up to the prestige. The downside will be all the excess wood. Thankfully, the charcoal kilns I made before are still funal, although we'll probably o make a e area just to store all the charcoal. Rather than just adding a fourth yer to the existing pavilion ste, I think I'd prefer to build a sed ste area where the charcoal could be kept, although that es with its own problems.

  I've spent the st two weeks finishing the steam ons, and as of today, they are done. The watchtower still has a bit of work before it is finished, and that's what I'll be w o. I've also decided on a location to build the ste facility for the vilge, so there will be a pce for all the iable charcoal to be stored.

  Because of the sheer amount of charcoal that will be avaible, I'm thinking about building a furnace down here for meltial. If I do so, then I io build a waterwheel that operate a fan t the temperature of the fire up, so that Zeb and I won't have to operate it manually, which would be a huge improvement over our furna the mountain. If I plete that, then I could actually utilize the reservoir and dam to provide extra power on days when I , rather than it simply being useful for preventing flooding.

  It's been nine more days, and I've pleted the stru of the watchtower, and excavated the majority of the basement for what will bee the ste warehouse. The pavilion was nice, but it's sort of outgrown its initial design. It was meant to be both a general basic ste aing pce foblin vilge that had a little over twenty goblins. Sihat time, the popution has more than doubled, and as a seque's begun to store way more than it ever was inteo, it's even gone down three basement levels, which is a little excessive.

  The new warehouse is closer to the shops in the vilge, and I intend for it to be used for bulk long term ste, rather than daily usage. Ultimately, I'd like to move most of the charcoal out of the pavilion basement and into this warehouse, along with various other bulk items, like rope, that have found their way into the pavilion basement.

  The new warehouse is going to be 30 feet by 40 feet, and I'm going to design it with the i of building a sed story on it. Hopefully, with that much ste space, the ste outside the vilge will only o be used as an intermediary for wood or stone. Sedarily, being built near all the shops should give the goblins who work there easy access to it, although I'm starting to worry about theft being an issue.

  That said, it seems that they're pretty generous among themselves, all things sidered. They don't seem to care about byproducts, and are willing to just give them away. Iure, I'll keep in mind that I should trade either a small ste area or a basement for things I want made by the goblins. I'm sure they'd like to have their own private area for st things, and now that we have the bathhouse in town, mana is much less of a limiting factor as pared to before.

  Speaking of the goblins, a rge portion of them returoday from helping the other vilge get set up. Although the whole pce isn't nearly as plete as here, they've got temporary housing, and a yout established, and now it's all up to Gakus to actually stone shape everything. With an area cleared, and most of the physical bor for stru pleted, they decided it was time to return here.

  Many of the goblins were quite surprised by the twe ons and t watchtower, and asked about it. When they found out that it was what we'd used to help kill the eagle, they started looking closer at it, and seemed to be impressed, although most of them probably had no idea how it worked.

  It's been eleven more days, and I've finished building the first floor of the warehouse, alongside getting its baseme up. It houses multiple aisles of bins on each floor that be filled with whatever. Right now, they're being filled with charcoal, as we've started to have many dozens of trees being felled each day.

  Alongside cutting trees down, Zaka has also started to increase the number of goblins again. It's a bit of a slow trickle, but he averages about one new goblin every other day. Although it has been a while sihere has been any dangerous activities around the vilge, these new goblins are still quite weak, and as such are kept in the vilge, w on muasks until they gain some levels. Which means for these new goblins, they've been helping process all the wood from the trees that Zaka has been cutting.

  It's not a matter of just cutting the trees down after all, it's also cutting those trees into smaller pieces to make charcoal, and removing the bark. It's quite bor intensive, so it's o have some extra hands helping with the ordeal. Sihe new goblins are w on the wood that I'm then using in the charcoal kilns, they get to see me quite frequently, whether it's at the kilns, or in the warehouse. Hopefully, that gives them a more favorable attitude toward me as well, sihey're seeing me hard at work as some of their first memories.

  That being the case, I'm w harder than I normally would, just to try to leave a good impression on them. In the m, I start up the charcoal kilns, then start w on the sed floor of the warehouse, going bad forth betweewo frequently enough to make sure that the kilns are running properly. Given just how much wood we're going to be processing, I'm probably going to dig out a sed yer in the basement of the warehouse, to further increase its ste.