Tyranomaster

  Myself and the mining crew spent three weeks up on the mountain mining. We shipped down a signifit amount of ore, and ran into one edge of this ore deposit. We haven't run out yet, but in theory it could run out at any time now, which means that we might end up wanting to make an exploratory mine part of the the mountain below the snow level to try to find new valuable deposits of things like ore. If we do that, I don't have to worry about workers intruding on my mountain house either.

  With the amount of ore we shipped back this time, Karsh should be busy for a few more weeks after this just making ingots. He's wele to work on any other projects in the meantime, but it gives him something to do that we know produces value, so I'm hoping this year we trade for some iing items. At the very least, having a lot of wealth to trade spreads rumors about our isnd, which should attraew migrants. It might not be until year that the migrants show up, but I've really decided its a good idea to get skilled talent in from the rest of the world.

  I only do so much, and with Karsh around, its apparent that I owledge in some pces. By bringing in a small number of outsiders, we more effectively expand without having to rely on myself as the sole bringer of eologies. An even bigger difference is the parisoween my own skill with those teologies and other's. I made a furnad smelted metal, but all my work is childish in parison to Karsh's speed and quality. Plus he told me about the idea of rock dams, which we'll see how effective they are in a few months when the spring rains and snow melt happen.

  I alsht down more of the age from the mountain after all the goblins and haulers left. We don't quite yet, but I would hate to be left without any new currency during winter. I'm probably going to have to do a sed inting in spring, just to be ready for when the popution ends up expanding.

  I've finished up the structure for the city hall after another week of work. It'll take some time before it's pletely ready, since I o make and ission a bunch of furniture for the insides. We've had a couple good developments in the meantime. The stru crew has really made some goress, and has all the sewer lines, roads, bridges, and even about a quarter of the new city wall pleted, save for those blocked by existing crop fields. This time, we're making the wall a little thicker to hopefully make it a little more effective against a sed invasiohey just turone in the wall into spheres. In a perfect world, we'd coat the walls in a thin yer of metal to prevent that, but realistically that would be far too much work and value lost to cover such a huge area ial.

  All the dwarven crops are finally ready for harvest as well. We've already had plenty of reka through the year, and it's been iing to say the least. I personally find it to be tastier than s beets, but the majority of the goblio have an acquired taste for s beets over the more mild reka. Ohe harvest of the ko and boto-boto are done, we'll see how those taste. I might have to sult with Karsh's wife for information on how to properly prepare ahem, although I know we at least make flour from the Ko seeds.

  I'll have to keep a close eye on how hard it is to process the ko to get the seeds though. If it's anything like wheat, I might have to make a sed windmill to power a thresher to make that process signifitly easier. Iher case, the vines from the boto-boto ohe fruit are harvested should also be useful for some of our industries, and the ko stems should be edible by the bargas, so we'll have plenty of harvested goodies.

  I wasn't sure whely the bargas would begin mating, but it seems that it's also around this time. I'm hoping that means that by spring we'll have a few new ones ready, which means I'll need more than just one additional field for them. It'll be important to keep them sorted geically, so we don't run into inbreeding issues in the long term as well. That's why we're getting a few new breeding males via trade. The females born of one herd be reanized into the pen with a different male, and so on. After five or six geions young could be reintroduced into the inal geic group and they'll be different enough that it shouldn't cause an issue.

  I spent anht days w on furniture and other design withiy hall before the ko was hand threshed, and it became time to show a few goblins how to operate the mill. We first lubricated the bearings with our homemade fish soap lubrit made from oil and lime. Then I showed them how to operate a lever to lower the upper grindstoo the lower one, and operate a chute to feed grain into the eye of the main rotating stone. After a few practice runs, and some tinkering on my part, we got it w, and started milling flour.

  I figured the first person to inform of this should be Karsh's wife, Rishi, as she would be the most likely to know about making bread. She initially seemed excited, but then seemed to realize she didn't have some of the ingredients she'd want to make what she wanted. I'm not that surprised, but I told her to make a list so we could try to trade for it. Until then, I offered her quite the supply of flour, and asked if she'd do some experiments with making ftbreads, sihey need only water and flour. Obviously, redients be added, like salt or fats and oils. I gave her some of each of those as well, and told her to let me know if she needs any redients.

  After anhteen days, I finished furnishing the city hall. In that time, snow had fallen on the mountain and Rishi had e up with a few viable recipes for ftbreads, which I was gd to hear. I'm not going to push her to work, but if she decides she wants to make a bakery, I'll probably end up giving them priority and a dist on stru.

  Now that all the fields are fully harvested, the stru crew was able to build the remainiions of road and sewer that had to wait for the crops to finish growing. Since we've had to remove parts of some of the crop fields, we're going to have to build them again, and I figured if we're doing that already, we should probably expand them further, in anticipation of needing more food moving forward.

  I have more exg priorities right now though. With the city hall building done, I finally start having other individuals hahe ma of work. Sure, I could just train someoo ha, but without a physical institution where records are kept, if that goblin just stops w, it would be worse than if I didn't have them at all. With the building in pce where records be kept, it means ah training should be able to pick up where someone else left off.

  For now, most of the rooms will be unused, si's designed much rger than we currently need, so we grow into the space as needed. For now, I have three jobs in mind that I'm going to advertise for. The first job will be for someone who manages hiring and paying goblins for tasks that I y out. Instead of me going around recruiting people, outside city hall I've put up a rge wall where I hang ptes that have pictographs of certain kinds of work. The goblin is in charge of putting the correct pictograph up, and then helping anyone who inquires about work inside.

  The sed job will be for an overseer. Their job is to go to different jobsites and make sure that work is being done. Ultimately, they aren't in charge of punishing anyone if they aren't w. Instead, they're to inform Zaka of what happened, so he make a judgement call after talking to them. I io be le about bor, they don't o be w super hard all the time, but I also don't want someoo be sg on a two month job, and find out we've been paying them for doing nothing for a few months.

  The third job will be for recordkeeping. That one will require some degree of training, sihey'll o learn a written nguage. I don't doubt that the demon nguage has a written form, but no one here knows it. Zaka only spoke the nguage, and since he is the entire isnd's source of information oter, we're stuck without a written form. Which means we need writing.

  I could go one of three ways with this. In Europe for a long time, many records were kept in tie no one speaking the nguage anymore. I could go that route, where we use English for our written records, and we speak demon. The other option is that I have to e up with aire written form of the demon nguage, then teach a goblin that written form. The third option, which I'm even more torn about, is using dwarven for our written nguage. Over time, this would probably lead to a hybrid demon-dwarven nguage that gets spoken on the isnd, which might not be a bad thing. Plus, it would facilitate trade, siy hall workers would be able to read and write in the nguage of the try we're trading with.

  Given those choices, I think we'll end up going to with the dwarven. Of course, one further issue arises from that. If Karsh or Rishi don't know how to write in their own nguage, then I'm going to have to either give up on the idea, or hope I find someone who does over this winter.