I ended up having to deal with three problems basically at the same time shortly after I pleted the initial testing for nitrogly. I had started the process of designing the reactors and the building itself for nitrogly produ when a third eagle arrived. Uhe other two, this one decided that, ihe top of the isnd was too crowded for it, and it'd much rather settle a little ways down one of the ridgelines in the craggy portions of the isnd. That required my immediate attention. If we let it settle for too long and anle es along, we might pound the problem.

  Trying to deal with one drugged eagle was already going to be a handful, aing it get out of hand could result in us not being able to easily drug individual eagles, with the e being us needing to cull some of the popution. The eagles seem sympathetic to each other to some degree, so allowing oo aggravate others would be very unwise. It's thus best to deal with them individually as they arrive. Once we've do a few times, I probably leave the task to the eagle ma teams, but I'll o oversee and monitor the sedative uses until I'm fortable with the dosage necessary.

  This particur eagle was extra difficult to deal with. First, it settled quite far from the road, meaning all of our handling of it required foot traffibsp; Sed, it was our first attempt at drugging and clipping the wings of an eagle, so there were multiple unknowns. The first problem we had to solve was the initial drugging. Some basic testing had been doh ground birds to determihe best bait delivery system, but whether or not it could work on an eagle in the air.

  What we decided on was a carried bait tainer with an ing hood that could be attached separately. The bottom of the tainer had a paper pulp that had been soaked iher, with fish stacked on top. The hood was then attached to the bait box, and a decoy object made of fish ear the box to get the eagle's attention. It took two days, and four batches of ether before the eagle took the bait. The ether evaporates somewhat quickly, so we had to repce it twice a day, requiring it's own logistics lio keep us supplied.

  We waited a ways away, keeping watch over the bait station until the eagle finally came down. It first ate the decoy, and then ied the food box. To eat the fish iher box, it had to stick it's head through the hood, which served to trate the ether fumes. While the eagle was cautious, and clearly reacted to the initial fume whiff, they also seemed to sedate it initially, and cloud it's judgement, as it tio eat and i soon fell unscious, allowing us to quickly get to work.

  The few dozen soldiers and eagle ma demons and I all came as quickly as possible to begin our work. While the eagle was heavily sedated from the ether, we had multiple tasks to quickly take care of. While I worked to get the leather mask attached to the eagle to begin supplying oxygen and nitrous oxide to keep it sedated, multiple demons spread its wings out. I'm not even teically sure if clipping the eagle's wings will wiven it seems to use some amount of magic to fly, but I suspect it'll at least impair its flight trol enough to disce it from flying often.

  Ohe mask lied and w, I quickly made my way to the es of the eagle's wings. I used very rge clippers to snip about 8 feathers to half their normal length oer edge of each wing. After I finished one wing, the demons began moving the wing back, so we could be ready as quickly as possible to begin the process of moving the eagle.

  After both wings were clipped, a rge rope was ed around the eagle in multiple pces, and then the eagle was lifted onto a makeshift stretcher we had desighat was meant to be carried by 20 individuals. In the meantime, a dozen or so demons had arrived to where we were, all hauling various items. Some had baskets with dowhers, others carried bundles of branches. All had e from the eagle's initial ing site that they'd found.

  By then, the eagle had been out for nearly an hour, and we were still at least 8 hours of travel from making it up to the selected artificial for this eagle to reside in. The demons carrying the ing materials were able to move more freely, a ahead to begin prepping the area. Every two hours or so, a resupply of nitrous oxide, oxygen, aher would arrive to s out the supply in the cart we were using to keep the bird unscious.

  There were a few close calls where the eagle started to stir and rock the stretcher, but a sharp sudden supply of ether would knock it out again. After we finally set the eagle up in its new , and removed everything, it came to in about ten minutes. It seemed quite out of it, and clearly was distressed. On one hand, it seemed to be a success, with us having relocated the eagle without killing it. Over the few days though, it became clear that it wasn't as successful as I'd hoped. Perhaps it was just that the eagle is still somewhat fused between the clipped wings and being relocated, but it seemed that it might have suffered some amount of brain damage, probably from being unscious for so long.

  I've asked fur updates on the eagle's situation. If it recovers fully, then it's not much of a problem, but if it's permaly injured like this, we'll maybe o ge how we hahis process. Perhaps we'll o split the travel up, or transport the eagle while its awake using some metal restraints. It did at least seem to be a partial success for a first try.

  It was unfortuhat I had to take a multi-day detour to deal with the eagle, because we really do o start dealing with the leviathans as well. We had our first major problem occur as a result of the leviathans, though I suppose killing them would have still caused the issue. A crab shell blocked off a rge part of one of our artificial tide pools, and it took a few days to clear it enough to restore our supply of fish. I was dealing with the eagle at the time, and Zaka came up with the solution to remove it. It was too big to move, and very difficult to break. So, he ended up having an artillery piece brought over, and at cle they repeatedly fired into the shell.

  It didn't break through on the first shot, but it did damage the crab shell enough to ence them. They ended up using about 100 artillery shells before they'd broken the crab carapace down enough to allow use of the artificial tide pool to resume. When I returned and saw the remnants, I suggested that they use some sulfuric acid to remove any rge pieces that were still in their way during low tide. The process would be extremely dangerous, but it should embrittle the shell. Ultimately, you just need a strong individual to use meteor shot to throw a rge gss tainer full of trated acid directly at the shell. After a few hours, a siillery shot should be able to break through the newly embrittled piece of carapace.

  After both of those urgent problems were taken care of, I finally returo finish the final stages of the nitrogly facility's design, as well as begiing and design for making an explosive barge to deal with leviathans. There are multiple problems to solve reted to making an explosive barge that I o tackle. We have the issue of fiuning the sensitivity such that it doesn't explode due te wave, but does explode when damaged by a leviathan. That breaks down into multiple smaller problems of a trigger meism, and whether or not dynamite actually be used in this setup, or if we o figure something else out. Ohe nitrogly pnt is under produ, I'll begin tinkering with the designs.