As I spriowards the watchtower, I ted myself quite lucky that I was heard by Zeb. Moving forward, I think I should probably actually dedicate myself to at least learning some of the demon nguage, even if it's only the basibsp; From behind, I could hear fireballs bursting against the eagle.

  Entering the watchtower, I grabbed the prepared charge of Zaka's blood, and made my to the steam ons. By the time I'd made it to the ons, it seems that some of the oblins are throwing their lives down to distract the eagle. In all likelihood, since Zaka shot fireballs at it, they've o further distract it to protect him as well.

  I open the back chamber of the on, and start emptying the blood charge into it as I withe goblins attempt to do anything to distract the eagle. Every sed is precious as the eagle tears through one goblin after another in short succession.

  Finally, after tens of seds, the blood charge has been loaded into the steam on. I seal up the back chamber, and begin hurriedly loading the front of the on with a packed charge rapeshot and padding.

  Each sed things beore dangerous, with the eagle slowly advang on Zaka's position, taking out various oblins who are attempting to throw spears up towards its body.

  I rotate the steam on, and take aim. Despite everything, I t myself lucky that the eagle hasn't taken to the skies again, seemingly hell bent on causing as much grouru as possible which, for the sake of aiming the akes things easier.

  I take aim at its head and upper torso, and infuse all the remainder of my mana in order to fire the on. For the sed time in about ten mihis steam on fires, and for the sed time in ten minutes, an eagle dies. The shot hit true, shattering parts of the rear of the eagle's skull, and shredded parts of its ned spine.

  The eagle's body colpsed forward into the vilge, breaking some houses, and colpsing parts of the road in the vilge. The destru is widespread, far beyond just that however. About a quarter of the vilge wall has beeroyed, the pavilion roof has been sheered, major damage was dohroughout various parts of the vilge, and restru is likely going to take months. Beyond that, over a dozen goblins died to the sed eagle's rampage.

  As I went out into the vilge to more directly assess damage, I noticed a trend which may be useful for rebuilding. Goblins which were underground in one basement or another were all safe. They also, however, failed to hear or notice when any of their fellow goblins needed help. The goblins who rushed out to form a distra were all goblins who were hiding within their houses when the eagle was making its way to Zaka.

  I'll have to discuss the issue with Zaka once vilge restru begins, but right now, the vilge is still in emergency mode. There are goblins who were injured by the wing bsts who aren't dead, and some who are trapped in debris. For as long as we today, we'll be attempting to save as many goblins as we within the vilge.

  Yesterday, after we'd ated for all the goblins, many of the goblins were quite tired, and fell asleep early. Today, I've found out why. The goblin who was nearby when the first eagle died prestiged, alongside 8 oblins who were nearby the area where the sed eagle died.

  I had though previously that killing a creature is what levelled us up, but now I think it might just be the act of being in the immediate proximity of a dying creature that provides levels. Zaka was also nearby the final eagle's death, and he's now more than halfway to his prestige. Meanwhile, I didn't gain any levels.

  After having Zeb discuss with the goblins who prestiged, a few of them gained a rait that I'm calling "Last Stand". The gist of what it does is it allows the possessor to overexert themselves beyond their normal limit. It apparently has some nasty downsides, like losing levels alongside extreme pain, so it isn't just a straight boost on its own. That said, it could obviously save their lives in a pinch, so it's not like it's a total loss.

  Sadly, among the losses in the vilge were two of the craftsgoblins. The potter, and the main ropemaker were killed during the sed eagle's rampage. There are a few goblins who easily repce the ropemaker, but the potter, I fear, will probably not be repced for the foreseeable future. This is partially my fault, given that I easily make items that they spend a long time w on. It's still an unfortunate loss to the vilge though.

  Today, repairs will kick off in ear, and I'll be starting my repairs at the bathhouse, as it's arguably the most important damaged structure. I'm also thankful that we still have quite a bit of spare wood piled about, because so many wooden items were destroyed in town. I don't mind using stone doors myself, but I think the goblins much prefer the lighter wood for their daily activities.

  After I repair the bathhouse, I pn on fixing the pavilion, then I'll discuss with Zaka what should be done about basements or safehouses within the vilge. We also o discuss the idea of expanding out the vilge wall, given the eagle has already knocked down a siderable portion of it. We'll likely leave the wall for st, after fixing all the other existing buildings in the vilge, but knowing what we're pnning on doing might influence our decisions on other struatters moving forward.

  It's now been two days since we killed the eagles and pns for restru were discussed with Zaka today. We've decided that expanding the walls to the vilge is a good idea. As part of that initiative, it was also decided that the lower prestige goblins should be the oo cut down the additional trees that are in the way of where we want the vilge to expand. Zaka had already cut quite a bit of the area down, but once we build into that area, we'll want clear visibility from the walls again. As for exactly how much more space will be in the vilge, it was decided that the smaller field that was built on the edge of the vilge will be enclosed in the wall, along with a mirr area on the opposite side of the creek. Overall it should add about 50% more area within the wall. Iure, the field also be cleared if necessary to make room for more buildings.

  Before that though, we also decided on two ges to the existing vilge. First, all the houses are going to be retrofitted with basements. The stone from that should be helpful for building the ent of wall. Sed, on any particur week, a portion of the goblins will be on duty for prote purposes, and a few guard stations will be built he existing gates of the vilge in addition to oral building as well. Iure, we might switch from this cycle system to having dedicated guards, but at the current popution, it's not quite feasible to support as many guards as would be necessary.

  For the few weeks, Zeb and I will be busy with repairing and updating the vilge's houses and the pavilion. The goblins themselves have a lot of small repairs they take care of alongside ing all the debris.

  After a solid week of work, we've gottehhouse and pavilion repaired, and gotten a lot of the rubble moved to pces where it's useful. Everyone has been very busy w in their respective areas. The only person in as much demand as Zeb and I is the carpenter goblin, who seems to be experieng quite the learning curve reted to his profession. He is, after all, attempting to repair things in the vilge all at ohat previously took months to slowly be built by someone else. At least Zeb and I have the practice of having made all the things we're repairing at least once before.

  The artificial tide pool has been quite handy, as the easy food has allowed more bor to be dedicated to repairing the vilge. It's gotten to the point where we're direg goblins to haul specific amounts of stone rubble to locations so it's already set up for us whe there. During our brief respites while we work, I'm trying to have Zeb teach me the demon nguage, but, as I suspected, I'm really not cut out for learning a new nguage. I've got a few basic phrases down, but my pronunciation is apparently quite abysmal. I'm hoping that it'll get a little easier when I'm not als to repair buildings while I work.