As it would happeher Karsh nor his family write in dwarvish. Karsh read some basic things and sign his name, and the same goes for his wife, but it's not nearly enough to deal with record keeping. Which means that if I don't find anyone by the end of this winter, I'm going to either have to choose one of the other options for a written nguage, ive up on keeping records for a year, aher of those options sound particurly good.

  Outside of that, I've spent two days interviewing goblins who were ied iwo other jobs. For the overseer job, I narrowed my choices down from an inal seven goblins down to the didate I think I'll pibsp; A goblin named Kertus. He currently already works as one of the city guard, and oversees the colles at the artificial tide pools. We'll have to hire a new guard after he ges jobs, but I'm gd to have it go to someone who already works a sistent job. He seems well liked by his peers and has a rexed attitude, but be serious when he o be.

  For the job of managing tasks, I'm still narrowing down my choices. I started with ten individuals, and I've narrowed it down to two. Eae has their strengths and weaknesses. One of the goblins, Zata, is very personable and responsible, but be fetful at times. The oblin, Kita, has a very good memory and is very methodical, but sometimes es off as rude due to their bluntness. This job will require a lot of iions with oblins, but also requires them to keep track of all the jobs we currently have going, and remembering where they actually take pce, and instrus to give to the workers who are ied in them.

  I'm ined to hire them both, so that I get the bes of eabsp; I'd have Zata run the reception desk, handling most of the iions, and Kita would set up the pictographs out front, and interject as needed if Zata fets something about the tasks that need handled. For now, both will have a pretty light workload as a sequence, but ohe popution expands, we'll need more people to mahis anyway, so as long as they get along it should be fine.

  I spent just about two weeks training the three goblins on their jobs in city hall, along with money handling tasks. Ultimately, I've given them a simple way of keeping track of how many individuals are needed on each job, and how many worked it in a given day using pegs and rings. Then we have a sed peg system that they use over time to keep track of how many work days worth of work have been done on any given task.

  All this is in pce so I check the amount of money I give them against the pegs to make sure that no one is embezzling funds. Of course, someone could still do so, but it would require them to also fudge the numbers on any given day to make the totals add up. It's possible, but for now, unlikely. I've given them a few secret partments for st money in a shared archive room, and they keep a small amount of funds on hand for paying individuals at the end of a work day in the room where they work.

  It took a little while for the goblins in town to cat to where they are supposed to go to find work, but now that some are catg on I've already had requests from some of the craftsgoblins to allow them to post their own job requests on the board. I've deed them putting the job requests on that board, but I've agreed to make a sed board that I'll put a different symbol on top where, for a small fee, they pce their own symbol, and inform Kita of what task they're requesting, what the pay is, and hoositions they have avaible. This way, the goblins have a tralized job agency, which already seems to be facilitating work.

  As for Kertus and the overseeing job, each day he's supposed to che with either Kita or Zata and see what jobs are being worked on, and pick at least oo go observe the jobsite for a brief period. I've started reanizing the existing long term jobs to che with Kita and Zata as well, so it's no longer my problem to keep track of their pay.

  I've also made two small ges to the way we're paying for jobs, just to make things easier on the goblins handling payment. Goblins either be paid daily for their normal pay, or they be paid oime a week, on the same day for all the goblins, a a very small bonus added in on their pay. They get a little extra money, and Kita and Zata only have to haheir pay one day a week instead of every day.

  Now, when Zeb, Zaka, or myself have jobs we want done, all we o do is brief Kita and Zata on the job, and they'll hahe rest of the work fetting goblins w on it, aus will be ht making sure the jobs are actually getting done. I've beeed for the past few days as I've helped them handle learning their jobs because it feels like I'll finally be free to work on projects myself again without spending months managing all these side projects.

  I didn't have much of an opportunity to take advantage of my new freedom from managerial duties because after only one day, the mert returned along with Shasta. He brought with him the five bargas and the extra part we requested st year. He gave his pliments on the road we built, which made their travel across the isnd both quid fortable. I'll be sure to inform the stru team about the pliment. I asked if the extra time they saved thanks to the road is enough that they'll be able to return again this winter, rather than having to wait a whole year, and the mert replied that it just depends on the speed of procurement of goods on the mainnd, but it should save them almost two weeks worth of travel time for each trip to the isnd, so it definitely doesn't hurt.

  I then asked what it would cost for us to have two trips worth of goods brought back to us, one of what they could get in time to make the trip this year, and the rest for year. The mert thought on it for a bit, and gave us aimate. It wouldn't be cheap, but it is hypothetically doable.

  I the and got Karsh and Rishi to get their requests for trade goods they needed. After they each listed quite a few things, but sidering most of our mohis year will likely be ing from ingots that Karsh made, it seemed fair to give them carte bo make trade requests. None of the things they requested seemed excessive either, so I'm not going to pin.

  While they were discussing, I had a member of the stru crew start hauling ots of metal to trade with. I've only brought out a quarter of our supply, but its more than triple what I traded the first time the mert was here. I'm very ied in seeing just how much we get for this. We alsht out some excess salt and the wool we sheared from the bargas this summer. I didn't have time to make anything for properly turning the wool into yarn or string, and the goblins who use pnts for fibers couldn't figure it out. So I decided we'd just sell it this year, and potentially ha year.

  I made a request for two more male bargas and twelve females along with a rge amount of the materials we would need for roofing wood. Between those items and the costs of having the mert make an early return trip regardless of trade returns, that ended up exhausting the avaible trade value of the ingots and other items we were trading.

  We offered to load the goods into some wagons and have some goblins help haul the goods to the other side of the isnd sidering the weight of the goods. I think I'm going to have the stru crew build a barn over by the harbor where a few wagons be stored year round to further help facilitate trade.

  With trade iations done, I had a few questions for Shasta this year. First, did we have any applications for immigrants? Sed, does she know anyone who could help train some goblins in written dwarvish over this year? Third, how are things going on Kao's isnd in the ? Fourth, has anything iing been happening on the mainnd, and are there any rumors cirg about our isnd?