With all my priority tasks taken care of, it was finally time for me to do some fornning. I spent three days w iy hall in a yet unused room that I had pnned for use for stru ht. I pnned out what stru needs done, along with what order it should be done in. I made a rge diagram of the existing vilge yout with all the roads, and then marked pnned stru sites for all the different apartment style buildings and houses, along with occasional open air eating areas like the sed pavilion I made.

  I've also marked a small area for two of a yle of building. These will be temporary housing for new goblins to live in for up to a month until they decide where they'd prefer to live moving forward. These buildings are going to have a lot of rooms in a small spabsp; They aren't meant to be an enjoyable space to live, but rather a space-effit b area to tide them over until they make their mind up about where they'll move to.

  I then made a sed diagram of the tidal pool area, plete with the salt evaporation ponds and the windmill. There, I added a location for the pnned produ of a sed windmill. For the sed windmill, I have a few minor adjustments I'd like to personally make to the internals, based on what we learned operating the first one for a season, but a rge part of the stru be do any time. For now I haven't marked the remaining two yers of the tide pool area, but iure I'm sure I will.

  For now, these two diagrams sit attached to one of the walls in the room. The stru crew should be returning to town any day now from building the barn oher side of the isnd. When they do, I'll give them the rundown on this room, and make some ges tanizational structure. Until that time, I'm going to tinker with some ideas for a meical thresher for processing ko.

  After four days of tinkering, the stru crew returned. First, I talked with Zeb. It had been a while since I'd really gotten a long versation in with him, so I was ied in finding out what he wao work on moving forward. After getting through pleasantries, we got to the meat of what I wao discuss.

  "I'm sure you've noticed, but I'm trying to restructure how things operate here in the vilge. It's too much work for one person, or three, to really manage everyone alone. For a while now, Zeb, I've left you in charge of handling the rge stru projects, and you've done a good job of it. Holy, without your hard work and problem solving, the vilge wouldn't be nearly as far along as it is. We already have enough goblins with stone shaping that I was hoping to split them into two teams. What I want to know is what you want to do from here on out. If you said you don't want to do any more stru, that's fine by me, although I'd ask you at least train your repts before you stop. So, what do you want to do?"

  "For almost as long as I remember, I, and most of the vilge, have just been copying your work and designs. Building duplicates of things you've made. I think, what I want to do is e up with my own projects to work on." Zeb pauses for a moment seemingly thinking about something, "I'm not leaving or anything. What I mean to say is that I've had some ideas for buildings and simir projects that I'd like to design myself. I've gottey close with the stru crew, so I think I'd like to tinue w with them, but I'd like to have more trol over stru and building."

  I thought about what he said for a while. On one hand, if he makes mistakes with rge projects, it could have devastating sequences on the vilge. Oher hand he's worked under me for years now doing various stru projects, so he probably has a pretty good sense of how things are done.

  "Alright, I accept that, on one dition. If you pn on doing any rgescale infrastructure, like a rge tunnel or a dam, double check with me first. We've worked together for a long time, and I trust your judgement when it es to buildings, but when it es to mega-projects, those be especially dangerous. Even our dam could have been a catastrophe if the dwarves had used it as a on against us in the war. Other than that, I have oher statement of information to leave you with. Iy design, I've purposefully set aside an area for future dwarves to live in if they move here, because of cultural differences and how they reprodubsp; Other than that, feel free to re-arrahe pns for the city."

  It seems like a bit of a waste of the work I've already done pnning stru iy, but if that's what Zeb wants to do, he's wele to. I holy wasn't sure what he'd say, but if he wants to take over more of the stru and design duties, that's fine by me.

  After our versation came to an end, I let the stru goblins know Zeb was in charge from here on out, a him to decide how he waahem.

  Given my newfound freedom, I was initially at a loss as to what I should be doing with myself. For years now, it's been one project after the o improve the city. Sure, I have more projects I could work on, but they aren't that pressing. I've decided, however, to return to ahat I had tabled a while ago. I want to try my hand at paper making. We keep trading for part, which is something I'd rather not have to do. Paper is drastically more space effit thaoablets I've been using, although I'm going to have to do a lot of testing to get a w product.

  The first thing I want to try my hand at is meically pulping wood. If I get that down, the step will be attempting to press and dry sheets. Then I'll experiment with some different things to try to produce better quality paper if I at least get the beginning of the process figured out.

  I was tinkering for a week when the mert returned with some of oods. He had a little over half the goods that Karsh's family asked for, only the two males of the bargas we ordered, and about a third of the roofing materials. Thankfully, that is enough roofing material to coat four windmills of our current size, so we should have plenty to get us through the year. I'm not a big fan of paying the extra fees to get a sed shipment in winter, but it's hat it's at least doable.

  As for how my tinkering has been going, I've crafted a few different meical pulverizers to crush wood into fibers. They're all still retively small and just for experimental purposes. The step will be ing up with a way to s the fibers and dry them. Historically, a mesh filter was made t through a slurry of fibers, and after the water drained from that, the sheet would be transferred into an alternating stack of felt and other drying paper where it would dry even further. Eventually, they'd be individually hung to finish drying.

  I've got two problems with that process. Our natural pnt fibers aren't going to cut it for making a s, and I've traded away this year's bargas wool so I 't make felt. Both of whieed solutions. The making of felt shouldn't be too difficult, but it will require it's own mill for produ. Ultimately, the bargas wool will o be agitated and pressed repeatedly in hot water until a sheet is finally produced. That is, as long as their wool actually produce a felt in this way, as not all hair .

  As for making a mesh, I think that while other optio, I could try to knock out two birds with oone, and make copper wire. With copper wire, fine meshes could be made which are very durable, and I'd have a ready source of copper wire for future endeavors. Thankfully, we should be able to make a wire extruder since we have some form of steel avaible. Then it's a matter of wire drawing after that to make more fine wires from the initial product.