The first stru crew worked oending the jetty for awe days before they nearly caught up to where the float vines were cut to. Their progress tio slow due to both the distahat the roeeded to be hauled now, and the added depth of the water requiring them to use more rocks for every foot of distahe jetty went out to the o.

  The sed stru crew also finished getting the road and sed tunnel built, and has resumed building residences iy, which means I'll be running csses at the academy again soon enough. Iime while the stru cre, I took nine days to go mahings at the paper mill. The desit was getting pretty close to needing to be recharged in their ste area so I did that. Then I decided on making a standardized box size for each of the different paper sizes we have.

  I figured that it'll actually be easier for all parties if the stone boxes are mostly pleted already and the mill workers just load them up and put a lid on them. Any boxes still ie area would theo be sealed with stone shaping and could then be moved to a different warehouse, sihey'll no longer o be stored with desit as the boxes would be air tight after being sealed.

  I made about a dozen boxes that hold about 100 sheets of paper each for the various paper sizes and filled most of them. I then sealed and hauled them off to the vilge where they ter be opeo get access to the paper stored inside. Food measure, I made another forty of each box size while leaving the lids off in the mill's ste area. I then informed the workers as to how many sheets to store in each of the boxes before they put lid on them.

  Ohat was done, I was starting to clear some more forest areas to make room for more bargas herds when Boggs returned again from fishing somewhere on the isnd. His dition was quite bad, however. He had makeshift bandages ed around various parts of his body, which were soaked with dried blood.

  When I asked him what happened, he said that he had a run in with a dangerous catch that had shot bone spines into him as he attempted to pull it up from the o. Ohe spines had gotten embedded into him, he noticed that the areas started to go numb, so he released his rod with the caught creature and immediately started removing the spines from his afflicted arm and leg.

  He said that once he finally got them all out, the numbness had spread through a det portion of his body, and he was worried that would be the end for him. He id there for hours, uo feel almost anything and uo move his limbs, worried his heart would stop at any minute, but it beat faintly the whole time, until he slowly started tain feeling.

  He didn't seem that upset by the injuries themselves though, instead he seemed more frustrated by the loss of his fishing rod that the beast had taken with it bato the o. So I decided to take the time w with him to try to get our fishing rod designs finalized so that he could take oh him. He'll be hanging around the vilge for a few weeks while he heals back up. The jetty needed me for harvesting more float vines, so I left Boggs with the test rods a him know who all would be helpful to him fetting things like fishing line made.

  Karsh had been funing as the transtor between Boggs and I while we were in the vilge, so I paid him some s for his help and then some more as advanced payment for helping Boggs work with oblins in the vilge for his fishing equipment. Karsh is also to make sure that Boggs tells me all the ges to our fishing rod designs before he leaves the vilge, so I make sure that we make more of them.

  Having Boggs fishing like this has turned into quite the informational boon. Knowing what things be caught around our isnd, and knowing the dangerous ones means that we more safely allow fishing off the jetty fe sea life, so I'll probably sider his debts paid once he gets the fishing rods figured out.

  I got a few of the goblins to help me with harvesting float vines. It didn't go that well. They 't hold their breath nearly as long as I . They could at least harvest the very closest float vines, but even after I had them spend seven days practig holding their breath and maneuvering uer they didn't improve mubsp; I also tried having one of the hobgoblin fishergoblins that had water resistary as well as ohat didn't have water resistance.

  The water resistant one did seem to be able spend a noticeably loime uer, but he was both higher level and higher prestige thaher hobgoblin, so I 't rule out that it could have beeed to that instead. I 't justify pulling more hobgoblins away from their jobs for now, especially as we've already harvested quite a bit of float vines, so the remaining float vines are getting a bit far for even the hobgoblins. I myself could still go about twice the distahat the two groups had already harvested without running into oxygen issues. I hadn't checked previously how long I could hold my owh, but I k was quite long. After a few tests, I determi was about fifteen minutes.

  If I get a ce, I'd like to have Zeb give it a try. If and when a new lesser earth demon es about, I'd like to have them also try just for informational purposes. I suspect that different species of demon probably have different lung capacities, but I 't rule out that levels and prestige also py a role iter. The ime that the jetty catches up to where I've cut float vio, I'll have to be more picky about which goblins I have help me so that I start to determihese differences.

  I could also just have them hold their breath uer to test it ht, but with all this other woing on arou doesn't seem like a good time to just be pulling individuals from their work to see how long they hold their breath. Once I actually do o have others harvest float vine in my pce, I'll gh the experiments because I'll have a good justification for it then.

  After the seven days of work that I had the goblins do, thewo days of w with some hobgoblins, I myself worked for another nine days to get the rest of the float vines harvested that were in the way of the jetty. At least as much of it as I could, as there is still some ahead of it. However, it looks like we're reag the edge of where the float vine grows. The depth of the water looks like it might be too deep for more to grow a little further out, as I think I see open o about thirty feet from where I've harvested float vine so far. The good news is that the deeper the water has gotten, the taller the individual float vines have been, which means much more biomass for verting to soda ash.

  Even after all that time Boggs still wasn't fully recovered, although he was almost there. Some of the spines ended up digging iy deep into his leg in some pces and that was what was taking so long to heal. He made a ent about how on the mainnd he could have paid for a healer to help him recover much faster, but we don't have one here.

  I noticed before when we first ran into the party that was traveling with Shasta that individuals could heal others with magibsp; We haven't unlocked any healing powers that would be useable on others here on the isnd, but it seems like at least some people on the mainnd have that ability. He'll just have to heal the old fashioned way I suppose. I did inform Boggs that once he gets the new fishing rods figured out, he probably fish on the partially pleted jetty while he's healing, sihere should be individuals around to help him if there is an emergency.

  He seemed to appreciate the gesture at least. He's been w with the rope-making goblin to try to e up with a good substitute for his fishing line, ahinks that they're at least getting close to a viable solution. I certainly hope that they are, as they've spent a lot of time w on the problem. Their issue seems to be that the pnts avaible here on the isnd aren't quite the right durability, and that the liend to go bad soohan Boggs would like.

  I suggested that they could use copper wire, and Boggs gave me a weird look, but said he'd give it a try. After a two days of making wire, Boggs gave it a try, and I see why he gave me the look. The wire is too stiff to properly use. I'd heard of people using wire fishing line oh, but irospect it robably used from a boat where you could just lower the wire into the water rather than needing to cast it out.

  After that failure, I told Boggs he's wele to have plenty of rept line made of lower quality if he needs it, and that we'd look into getting whatever pnt imported to grow for fiber materials in a few months when the mert arrives.