The first two weeks of using the currency were exceptionally bad, but by the third week, problems bee less frequent. There was a lot of fighting that broke out during the first two weeks when disagreements about prices would occur, and the majority of those were about the prices of fish. I shouldn't be surprised, but I was a little shocked he-less when all out brawls would occur when fishergoblins would u each other, or when the fishergoblins who sold fish the cheapest ran out while oblins still waheir fish.

  I even got scolded by Zaka for causing so much strife, and I had to talk him down from annulling the currency usage. I'm thankful that is slowed down during the third week, otherwise we might have stopped using money. I'm just thankful that we haven't had any ht robbery occur, although there is a det ce that will start happening soon. Basically, even the goblins who haven't worked haven't run out of money yet, but some are getting close. At that point, I'm expeg at least a few attempts at some form of thievery.

  We've had plenty of job offers out, and have been adjusting our prices acc to the going rate for food. Right now, food seems to have settled at about two of the smallest s for a day's worth of basic meals. As such, we're currently five small s for a day's worth of basic bor, whether that is hauling stone ging dirt.

  A few goblins have been proactive about taking those jobs, as the jobs started out paying more than they currently do because the food prices were high at the start while the fishergoblins were figuring out their prices. I'm hoping that more will take them as their funds start to dry up.

  It took all three weeks for me to build the open air marketpce downstream of the vilge. Right now, it sits outside the city walls, but eventually we'll want to build a sed circle of walls, at which point, it will be enclosed. I'm hesitant to build more buildings ihe first circle of walls uhey're vital to the city's survival, because they'll probably need destructed iure to make way for official gover buildings. Sihe marketpce will need extra room to expand iure as well, I figured it was best to build it here.

  The market itself is quite simple. It's just perma stands that have some shelves for dispy alongside the road, with other loops of roads in tric circles, with more of the stands as you go outward. Between stands, I've put short fences of stoo denote each lot, and keep people walking where they should. Since we now have some degree of excess stands, I'm going to move back t on the road stru projetil I'm needed again in the vilge.

  It only took a day of w ouo realize why so few goblins were willing to take the manual bor work for the road. I hadn't realized because I haven't been w on this project for almost three months now, but the road to the tunnel and it's al alongside it, have reached the tunnel already. The tunnel stru was still left for me, but the stru crew has been climbing over the valley edge, going back down, and following the set of path that Zeb has marked. Which means that all the stone has to be hauled a signifit distao build road.

  I've thus made a few ges to the work priorities for the time being. First, no more work will be done on the se of road until this tunnel is plete. I'll have a few jobs avaible for manual bor to help me with the tunnel, and I'll also have one of the stone shaping goblins help me. Last month, another of the goblins got access to stone shaping, and I'm pnning on sending a few moblins to go manually cut stone in the reservoir in a few months wheer level drops to near empty.

  Zeb will be in charge of adding another yer to the artificial tide pool traps in the mean time. The two other stone shaping goblins either work for him, do other work if someone is willing to pay them, or just rest if they so choose. We pay a pretty det wage for the stone shaping goblins at eight small s a day, so I'm hoping that vihem to keep w for us, otherwise I might o increase their wages.

  Progress ounnel has been moving at a pretty good pace with the extra help. We're eight days in on stru of the tunnel since I ged our priorities, and we've made it about six-hundred feet of the estimated 2000 total feet that this tunnel will o span. I've actually found a pretty good use for the stone shaping goblin, which means he's being utilized quite well. I was initially worried due to his slower speed of stone shaping and inferior mana capacity that he'd barely be useful, so it's quite the pleasant surprise for both him and me.

  What I've done is used stone shaping to drill a small line where the horizontal wells will eventually be located. The stone from that was simply shaped into balls and allowed to roll out of the path slowly. After using my full mana capacity to drill the line on one side, I'd go back to the vilge and recharge my mana at the bathhouse while the goblin would cut the proper tunnel using the line as a guide. The tunnel is too small for oblins to e in and haul sto behind him, so he has to cut the blocks himself and haul them to the tunrance, but sidering I'd have to be doing that instead of him normally, it means he's basically as effective as I would be at the task.

  Since he's w on that, it frees me up to cut and shape the proper tunnel, where I have the goblins haul the sto while I just cut the path. Every so often I use teise to make sure I'm following the guide cuts I made for the wells oher side too. The streams ing out of those wells have increased to about the same rate as the stream running through the vilge during the dry summers, so it's actually providing a det amount of water. Over time, that rate should drop until it reaches a eady state, but without doiensive groundwater studies, it's difficult to know how long until that happens.

  Ince rates of flict have dropped in the vilge again, but we had our first ince of attempted theft. Zaka had to preside over the disagreemeween two goblins, where one cimed that the other stole s from his room in an apartment building, and there seemed to be fusion as to whether that was true or not. Two witnesses came forward and said that they saw the accused thief going into the oblin's room while he wasn't inside, and Zaka deemed that good enough to sider him guilty.

  Zaka deemed it a pretty serious crime, tantamount to betrayal, and initially sentenced him to be exiled from the vilge the day. When I came back, I talked him down from that to making the criminal spend 10 days in the small jail cell, and do 20 days of forced bor for exactly his meal costs and ra money. I definitely don't want a den of criminals cropping up somewhere on the isnd, so exile is a no go. For now, the vilge is small enough that we don't really o deal with much of a pral system, and Zaka funs in the role of a judge as the vilge chief.

  There has also been a trendy em that has appeared in the market. cords. Tied off on one end so that s 't fall off, and desigo be worn, the rope maker has started to make an obse amount of money, and has already exged currency for two of the highest value s. They're selling the cords at five small s each, and they've been selling out of their wares every day in the market. I've given them a little bit of advice as I've watched their success. I warhem that eventually, everyone in town will have enough cords for themselves, and they'll only occasionally need repts, so they should be sure to save some of their money for when that happens.

  The other craftsgoblins have defiaken note, and I've seen a few of them tinkering away when I walk through the area. It's been a while since I've seen as many of them as fired up as they are right now, which makes me gd I introduced the currenbsp; I had been a little regretful, given how much turmoil it caused i few weeks, but if it's already bearing fruit, I'm excited to see where it goes from here.

  Speaking of innovations, I've noticed a few of the fishergoblins have started to develop differehods to differentiate themselves from each other. One of the goblins is always at the artificial tidepool as soon as the water level is safe to use even the highest yer acc to Zeb, and he only harvests the tastiest fish. He then spends much longer of his time in the market, selling them at a higher price than most of the oblins. Where as there is anoblin who's actually taken t some help himself. He gets to the tidepools ter, and harvests just about everything that is left, even the fish that isn't that appetizing. He has his help haul it back to his stand, where it's sold dirt cheap in bulk. There are some who have taken to harvesting only the non-fish like creatures, and others who only get particur kinds of fish, and each has ers who prefer to go to them. Overall, I'm really starting to appreciate the heavy lifting that a little bit of petition has caused for both motivation and innovation among the goblins.