While I've been ed up in my own projects, there has been quite a few developments withiy. Zeb's been busy with new stru, and he's already gotten about one-fifth of the popution moved into new housing outside of the city ter. We've also had a few moblins evolve. A few of the fishergoblins have bee hobgoblins, one of the stru goblins that we've had for some time became a lesser earth demon, and we had one goblin who has been doing a lot of hauling jobs turn into the same goril like demon that Kaga turned into.

  There was a little bit of a otion about him taking jobs at city hall as a result of his improved ability, so I stepped in to say that if he haul twice as much as anyone else, then he be paid twice as mubsp; Since he single handedly pull a cart, which is normally a two person job, I think that's fair. He's obviously also likely to be useful for other projects where his immerength is useful, and will probably get special pay for those as well.

  The market also seems more stable now, and it isn't unon to see goblins doing some form of apprenticeship or basic bor in employment of any of the craftsgoblins, fishergoblins, or Karsh. Which is exactly where I wahings to go when I implemented currenbsp; There are still goblins who only work as much as they o survive, but it's better than the distribution of bor we had before, where rge swaths of the popution didn't work at all.

  I myself am just doing random tasks to pass the time until it es time to sheer the bargas so I attempt felt making, which is one of the st steps before we make paper at scale. We won't get much felt this cycle, given that we don't have many bargas, but the calves were borly, so our herds are slowly growing. We'll probably keep all the females and two of the males, and the rest of the males we'll butcher when they are fully grown.

  Ultimately, I'm thinking about talking to Zeb about the idea of building a basic school building. Unlike humans, demons mature quickly and goblio pick up skills pretty fast when they're younger. So a normal school won't work. Instead, I'm thinking it should be something like a job academy. Right now we have optional apprenticeships, which let some goblins observe different jobs. As the number of jobs grows, and we keep learning about raits, magics, and evolutions, I feel like it would be beneficial to educate the new goblins on all these options, so they not only know what they do, but how they achieve those goals.

  The set we know the most about is lesser earth demons, mostly because I've doted a lot of it as I was going through prestiges, but also from empirical results based on all the goblins in the stru crew. I also have a det idea of what it takes to bee a hobgoblin, a troll, and a demon goril, although those aren't quite as set in stone. So I'd like to educate fresh goblins on what sort of jobs and tasks they do to reach those heights while simultaneously having them report back when they prestige or evolve. That way we collect more extea on what sort of activities lead to different abilities. Maybe I'll have to implement some kind of information bounty where we pay them to report whehings happen.

  All this culminates in needing someone who write and read, which means I'll be waiting for some time for the goblins who are learning dwarvish to return. I myself will probably o learn dwarvish as well, sidering how much we're iing it into our society. What I'll probably do is run this academy for a time while I learn dwarvish. It'll probably be something where we run it for a few days a month to get all the new goblins from that month up to speed, and the certain days for rep, so it won't be a full time job, at least initially.

  I checked in with Zeb and then Zaka for permission to build an academy in the vilge, and was given permission. It'll still probably be year before we start summoning new goblins again, so I'm not in a rush to finish the building. I'm pnning on having it be a simple three room building. One room will be rge to fun as something of a lecture hall where information be taught. Another will be an office ected to this room, with it's owernal door where people e in to report informatioed to their prestiges or evolutions. The final room will ect to both of the other rooms, will ck windows, and ultimately will act as an intermediate ste location for all the reported information gathered about prestiging and evolution.

  Overall, it's actually a fairly simple building, and I'm already about half-way doh it after a week of work. Of course, ohe building itself is dohere are a lot of different furniture pieces that I want to make for the spabsp; I'd like filing ets, desks, shelves, and chairs, and all those will take time to make. I'd also like to tinker with a dehumidifier design for the room using quicklime, ohe other furniture is in pce.

  After awo weeks, all the stru except the quicklime dehumidifier has been pleted. It's a little finicky, sihe quicklime gives off heat as it absorbs moisture, and it reacts to form sked lime, which has a higher volume. The idea I've e up with is essentially a box with slits in it that will house trays with quicklime that are about an ind a half deep, and only half filled with quicklime, which be repced and regeed as needed. Ohing I wish is that this room could have windows made of gss. Right now, the doors o be open to let in limited amounts of light, which causes the desit to get used up more quickly.

  I've thought about gss a few times, but we have an issue with that here. These isnds are volid don't have a ready supply of quartz. The beaches here therefore aren't actually silica sand at all, but instead are crushed shells, which means in a pinch we could use it to make more lime, but also means we don't have a good source of siliake gss with. It wouldn't be impossible, as plenty of volic rocks are ri sili dioxide, and could be used to make gss, but we'd have to process them. We also ck soda ash, a necessary ingredient to gss making, especially when dealing with rougher starting materials.

  Soda ash is a little difficult to get in our current situation, but not impossible. Hypothetically, there might be o pnt life that is a good source of it. Likewise, some of the pnts on the isnd here might be a det source of it. It could be produced chemically, but without electricity and vast amounts of energy, that's not particurly viable. So if we want gss, we'll o do some researto o pnt life as the best bet.

  It had been a while since I did work at the artificial tide pools, although this time I'm not w on them directly. I've spend the st six days carving out a stairwell on the far side of the bay that drops down to the sea rather than into the bay. Giveidal ges here, I'm not sure exactly what sort of pnts I'll find, but today should be the day I find some. Once we're at the lowest tide, I'm going to start searg for pnts. There are some mossy pnts that grow on the rocks just below the high tide mark, but they're so small that I doubt I could get much soda ash at all from them, even if they were rich with it, plus they're somewhat hard to remove, making it a bit of a waste of time.

  I've brought a spear with me on this expedition, due to my s with rger sea life. I've seen at least e sea creature trapped in our tide pools before, and I'd rather not run into it or something worse without a on. I'm a bit out of my depth in the o as well. I sink. I noticed this before ihs, but it hasn't ever e up as a until now. On the plus side, I don't sink by much, so I swim up if I o.

  Once I submerged myself in the o water, initially, my eyes stung and everything was quite blurry. After a minute or so though, my eyes got used to it, and I was able to see uer. So I took one final breath of air and looked about. There sure was a lot to take in. The water was actually quite pristine, so I could see some distahere were a few schools of fish swimming about, of which I reized all of them from our various meals. There were also a few kinds of sea pnts growing.

  Oype looked quite promising, the majority of the mass of the pnt floated just below the water surface, with rge leaves tered about a small float sabsp; The rest of the pnt trailed down like a vio the seafloor with small leaves f small rings going downward. At the bottom, the vine coiled haphazardly for eat. One vine would provide a substantial amount of mass, so I gathered one auro the coast to pce it in my basket before returning uer.

  There was also what seemed to be sea grass growing for a few dozen yards or so along the dest into the deeper o. It didn't grow very tall, and eadividual pnt was quite small, but I gathered some of it as well, and pced it in my basket alongside the floating vi.

  The final kind of pnt like creature I left alone. It formed a mesh across a se of the rocks in an area underh some of the floating vis. It wasn't green, and i's mesh, I could see a fish that artially decayed and covered in many tiny roots. It may not even be a pnt, it could be some other form of life, and quite frankly, I don't know if it sges, or if it killed that fish, so I left it alone.

  With the two species gathered, I returned with my basket to attempt to recover soda ash from the pnts.