All in all, I had about forty new goblins to teach at the academy. As it turned out, I had to modify my curriculum after the first week was finished. I've decided te the sixth day with the third day, so that all the evolution and prestige info is on one day. I then moved day five to day six as it's the st day before we have the different trade jobs e in to demonstrate, and it was c those trades as an overview.

  Then, day four will be exteo also gh day five. I figured with only about a decade worth of history it would take a day at most, but as it turns out, the goblins have a lot of questions, and there have been quite a few events of importahat have occurred. sidering this was the first trial week, I'd say it went pretty well overall, but there was obviously room for improvement.

  I didn't have aop in today to talk about evolution or abilities. That was to be somewhat expected however, as only the new goblins know about that right now. Others might have heard of it, but aren't sure if it's open to them as well. It teically is open to ao share info with me, but I'm not advertising that fact yet. I wahis first time running the academy to be fairly free for me to foprovements of the actual academy, rather than also having to worry about recordkeeping.

  Whe close to the academic cycle in about seven weeks, I'll have info posted up at city hall reted to it, so others know they participate.

  The sed week at the academy went quite well. The goblins seemed more keen to take on new jobs and to do something with their lives after having listeo the tales told by the oblins, hobgoblins, and Karsh who all showed up for their trade presentations. Overall, I think that with rowing popution, and the differences between development of demons pared to other races, this academy which double fun as a record keeping facility will work well.

  Ultimately, we gh periods of rapid popution growth followed by periods of no growth at all. By having the teag role be dual purpose, it hopefully will help with job security for whomever is in charge of running the facility. I'd hate for their full time job to be teag new goblins, only for us to go three years without expanding our popution at all, and then we lose that skilled individual to another field. Plus, they're also supposed to teach the goblins about their own evolution and skills, so having them collect that data is actually reted to their teag job.

  Either way, I finished up my work here, a back up the mountain to finish work on the new room and then the precision lever. An added be that this lever arm provides is that it'll be a solid object, which means that if I use any precision tool iure on one end, it'll still multiply that preoving down the arm. The whole thing will essentially fun as a pantograph for drawing, except it won't be pletely free hand for obvious reasons.

  I'll also o get some rails and wheels made that I secure to the rod that will act as the lever arm, as I'll to have very little fri when I'm rotating it. I'll also need a lock at the far end to prevent further rotation, and a pivot for the tral axis of rotation. I'll also o start artificially embedding crystals in the room to provide the light that I wanted. Larger crystals seem to produce a higher iy of light, so I'm hoping I have enough of them for embedding. Otherwise I'll have to resume exploratory mining for crystal pockets.

  After 20 days of work, I finished excavating the room where the giant lever arm will go. After another four days of embedding crystals, I realized I'd need more to light it the way I inteo. Basically, I'm short on the rgest size crystals for the end of the room, and for the square front of the room. For the intermediate distan the room, I should have enough medium sized crystals to give it enough of a glow on the floor that I don't o worry about walking. Which means I'm going to be expanding the old exploratory shaft that also vely starts at the bottom of this cavern.

  Before I dedicate some time to that though, I figured it would be a good idea to start minting the sed batch of s. We don't yet, but if our popution tio grow at this rate, then I want to be ready for it. Plus, I thiually o introduce a higher value .

  For our current society, the s are essentially fiat currenbsp; They're worth money because we say they're worth a certain amount. We charge a ft amount for access to certain resources, and pay a certain amount for individuals to do jobs, setting the value of currenbsp; Dwarven money by parisoo actually be valued based oerial used to make it. They seem to have a few different kinds of metal they use, and their s are sized differently to indicate value. If we had access to more kinds of metal, I'd be all for that system, but g that, fiat will have to do.

  For the new , I io make a new that is rger and thicker than all the existing s, and make it out of our steel-like metal. I'm thinking that I'll put a picture of an ingot on one side of it, and a rough picture of our isnd as if it was viewed from above oher side. Since all our s have a hole in the ter, the ter of this view, the mountain and the peak will be missing, which is actually the only pce that I 't view from above. I'm pnning oing this to be worth 10 of the other steel .

  I hadn't quite expected that the goblins would be into wealth building, but for a while a few of them seemed like they'd force me to make more s soohan now. Thankfully, ohe clothing and keeping fad died down, the goblins who had made a fortune slowly started to deplete said fortunes, and I didn't end up needing to do any emergency minting.

  With an increase in the size of our society, there will also end up being a higher tration of wealth in a few individuals, which means a higher maximum wealth. Which is why I'll hat rger . Eadividual only needs so many of the smallest s. It's inveo keep areme number of them on hand, even if you're a mert. So while the number of our copper s necessary for our society scales linearly with popution, the actual maximum wealth scales at an expoial rate. At least acc to eic theory. The expo might be low, but it's still expoial.

  Which means that if the popution quadruples, the total wealth held by all the goblins will be greater than four times the value, and that total will be primarily trated in a handful of individuals. If we only had the smallest two s, we'd o mint an ungodly number of s. Instead, we'll simply print a bigger representing a rger value. It's also a bit of a deterrent against theft.

  If a goblin has only been a borer their whole life, only w on occasion, and they suddenly tried to exge the rgest , which is worth 2500 meals, that would be suspicious. Even more-so if one of those s was reported missing. I'm not necessarily advog for stratifying our society, but it does provide certain stability bes by designing the system around it's iable existence.

  I'll spend a few days colleg some native copper, then I'll return to the city and try to get Karsh to assist me in minting some new s. I previously had some of the goblins help me with the task, but holy Karsh will be much more effective than they are.

  After four days, I'd gathered enough copper to mint aimated twenty thousand s, distributed more in the rger of the two copper s two to one. Enough to easily refill the vault I'd made and still have more that I'll o sort. I theuro the vilge and vinced Karsh to take a few days to e with me on the mountain to mint new s. Much like the two goblins, I promised him some extra money in exge for his silenbsp; He said that it was unnecessary as I'd already provided them so much when it came to trade with the dwarven kingdom, but I insisted he take the pay to make his 'silence' official.

  He and I theurned up the mountain, hauling as many ingots of our steel metal up with us as we could carry. I accessed my vault, and pulled the minting maes out, closing and hiding the vault behihen brought them up to mint s with Karsh. For the five days, all we did was mint s. At the end of it, I paid Karsh two of the smaller steel s as payment, and once he left, I spent ara day reanizing the vault.

  The day, I returo the vilge with a cart full of s, aed the process I've done in the past, where we carefully escorted all the s to Zaka's house for safe ste and ter distribution. For now, I only brought down five of the rger steel s. I made 100, but the teical value of that is more thaire existing ey, so those are bei hidden away in the vault for now.