The first ten days or so, I had to fetch Tiberius to make sure he arrived at the tide pools in time to properly work. After that though, I was surprised to see that he began going to the tide pools of his own accord, and seemed to be getting along well with the fishergoblins while he worked. In the meantime, I was hauling stoo build the jetty, and using pulverize on some of the fields. Some of the float vine had begun regrowing in the area around the jetty, so I spent some time harvesting that as well.
There is definitely a surplus of stone iher valley where the new artificial tide pool area is being slowly dug out. I helped the stru teams with a problem that they had which I had solved years ago. The artificial tide pool they're excavating has started to fill with water slowly as they dig deeper and cover a wider area. They had been using goblins with buckets to clear the water out, but I had Karsh make a long screw pump using copper and steel that they use to pump the water out. The pump is overly lht now and has to be supported, but eventually it will reach all the way to the bottom of the excavation area.
Unfortunately, Tiberius has been only doing one harvesting at the tide pools a day, which means that it has run into winter, so I'm actually going to be gone when he finishes his punishment. I've gathered a handful of individuals to e with me to the other side of the isnd to harade. I'm bringing along Elora to hahe payment we have to send to the elves, along with a handful of goblins to help haul things. We might end up staying there for a while, depending ohe elves and dwarf trader arrive, though they usually show up pretty early in winter.
The elves were the first ship to arrive, twelve days into winter. We'd only been on this side of the isnd for three days at that point. I was gd that I'd brought Elora along, so I didn't actually o deal with the elves myself. Ultimately, we brought out literal tons of paper crates which they promptly loaded onto their ship before leaving. They didn't even end up staying the night. I wasn't sure if Elora would be staying or not, but it seems like she is staying. I'm not too keen on the fact that she seems to have received a bunch of different written dots which I 't read. I got a peek at some of them, but it's all in a nguage I don't reize.
While we've been over here, I've tinued ing the beach, this time with the help of a handful of goblins. Things have almost returo their pre-war state, which is nibsp; When I have mana I've been using it to begin building a new inn building, rger thaher inns. We've been staying in the fort, and sharing it with the salvage crew. There is enough sleeping space, but I imagine everyone would prefer the extra privacy of an inn space.
The dwarven trader arrived eight days after the elves. First, we iated for a handful more bargas to be brought year. I had previously wao be doh trading bargas, but we culled some of the herd before the war, and two of the inal males haven't been very lively after havirapped underground for almost a month during the war. They got a little fresh air each day at that time, but regardless, the experience seems to have traumatized them. We also traded for more roofing materials, as we used quite a bit making our salvage ship. I also traded for a handful of goods that the Rathnd refugees and the dwarves asked for.
We ended up loading up the mert's ship to capacity with gypsum in exge. The mert and his crew ended up also staying in the fort, which made the pce pretty packed. We discussed a few different matters while he was here. He asked about our odd ship, and I expined hoere rec materials from all the sunken ships from the war. Given how the ship was designed, he thought it retty ve for loading and unloading iural bay. When they load and unload currently here, it involves loading a rowboat with one or two crates, rowing it out to the boat, and using ropes and pulleys t the goods onto the ship.
Given that we were only able to load about half ypsum onto his ship before they were at capacity, he strongly enced that we start sidering building a proper harbor for ships. Not many merts are willing to load ships like they have been. Most merts are willing to pay a fee to use a harbor equipped with proper loading and dog facilities, and won't actively go to pces without a dobsp; Though we'd also o have steady supplies of repeated goods year after year to properly attraerts. Most merts prefer following a set trade path every year, rather than trading for random odds and ends.
He also gave us an update on the ditions going on in Rathnd, something Elora 'wasn't in a position to discuss'. Well, I say in Rathnd, but the try seems to have pletely dissolved into six different nations. Four of which are still fighting for trol of each other, and two of which have bowed out of the war, and have made peace with the others. This has caused an upset of existing trade practices across the various nations b the innd sea, and there is a lot of unease about how everything on the human ti is going to shake out.
Outside of Rathnd, there are a lot of different rumoing around about our try. The general sensus doesn't seem to be animosity though. Things like, "Well, if the elves and dwarves both think they're all right, then it's probably fine.". Though there does seem to be an undercurrent of fear based on the fact we seem to have decimated Rathnd to the point of ence, even if the official story is that most of the damage was done by leviathans and Rathnd's own hubris. I suspect this undercurrent is part of the reason Elora didn't want to discuss the situation with us. Though I suspect that she's learned so much about the situation with Rathnd's civil war that she's ed about lettira information leak is the primary reason.
After spending the evening discussing with the mert, they set out in the m. The rest of the group headed back to the city, but I've decided to stay for a week or two to finish building the inn. I don't like the idea of leaving it partially pleted and exposed to the elements for aended period of time.
After awelve days of work, I fihe inn building, and told the salvage crew they could stay in it while they work. When I got back to town, Tiberius had finished his punishment work iide pools, so I went to find him. Ultimately, all the previous fish blood and ans had rotted, and had been ed up in the b, though he wasn't there. When I heard that he was w with some fishergoblins again to catch more of the electric fish, I got a little nervous.
Thankfully, I found him oended jetty with the goblin and hobgoblin he worked with before. Thankfully, when I talked to them, it seemed that he had agreed to help them with work iide pool, and when they were free, they worked with him catg fish here, and they kept all the fish that weren't the electric fish.
Upon seeing a much more structive retionship formed between Tiberius and the goblins, I thought that perhaps the 'punishment' Zaka assigned was more effective than I had anticipated. Zaka might be more effective as a leader than I had thought, and is probably why the try operates as smoothly as it does.
sidering how smoothly everything was going now with Tiberius, I felt much more fortable with the idea of leaving him to his own devices over time, though I still wao help him with his current researbsp; I told him that when he needed help making anything from stone or metal to reach out to me iy. I'll be spending the couple of weeks using pulverize on the fields around the city, so it should be easy enough for him to find me on any given day.