The first four months back at the cave have been pretty standard work. I worked on growing the crystal after checking everything was intact from winter. Zeb worked on building the path ...
2023-07-14 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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It's been a little less than forty days. Zaka didn't arrive last month because we left the village so recently, but he did visit yesterday. There wasn't much to report on, other than he...
2023-07-10 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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When we return to the goblin village, there are a few things that have changed, but not quite as drastically as the last time I was here. It seems the basket backpacks have become quite the p...
2023-07-07 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Three days to build the bridge, which might seem like a lot, but I really wanted to make sure it'd be fine through floods, so I ended up building a bit of path on either side as well for good measu...
2023-07-07 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I've been hard at work for the last four weeks growing an even larger crystal in the new apparatus. I'd say I'm about a third of the way to getting it to four feet tall. Zeb doing other...
2023-07-07 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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One week and the salt evaporation pond and channel are done. Rather than show random goblins how to operate it, I show Zaka, and he can figure out who should know how to use it. Ultimat...
2023-07-03 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Draining the crystal took a bit of time, but once we were done, Zeb and I moved it up to the surface in a cart with a bit of effort. Thankfully, it didn't break right away, and actually made ...
2023-07-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Zaka's visit yesterday brought with it the new basket backpacks we requested and one was filled with lizard meat. According to Zaka, it was meat from the lizard we killed on the trip up here ...
2023-07-03 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Our return trip up the mountain actually did have a little excitement. Part of the way up, we ran into a lizard. Between me and Zaka, we killed it pretty quickly. Then he asked Ze...
2023-06-30 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Another three weeks, and we're closing in on the top of the dam, at 34 feet tall now. With the snow melt coming down the mountain the past few days, the water level in the reservoir has been ...
2023-06-12 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Another eleven days of hard work, and I've got the remaining houses finished, as well as Kaga's storage shed behind his workshop. Now that I've finished up all the outstanding works that need...
2023-06-10 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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When we reach the village, I'm a little surprised. I had done so much setup and work on the village, that I sort of just expected the goblins to stagnantly just live their lives as before.&nb...
2023-06-09 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Today, Zaka should arrive. Other soaked liquid tests weren't as successful as the initial one. Non-bark wood behaved similarly to the bark wood, if a little less viscous. Other pl...
2023-06-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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After letting the crystal recharge overnight, it's time for more testing. This time, the first test is going to be with the boiled wood. For good measure, we actually have two separate ...
2023-06-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Zaka arrived with two goblins other this time. One was carrying a rolled up lizard hide, the other and himself carrying dried lizard meat. I asked him how lizard hunting has been going,...
2023-05-29 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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I need to make a decision on the crystal project. First, it seems like it might be dangerous to make the crystals larger than they already are if someone uses them to regenerate mana. T...
2023-05-26 17:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Zaka arrives tomorrow, and we've been hard at work. Although the crystal isn't quite to the maximum capacity of the current apparatus it is in, I think it is large enough to move into an even...
2023-05-22 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Between the work area and the initial two apparatuses, it took us seven days. A large part of which was actually rebuilding the apparatuses after doing some tests on them under vacuum. ...
2023-05-19 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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There are a few reasons crystals may not have formed. Some of the reasons won't be too bad to rectify, and some will be nearly impossible as things are right now to fix. Some of the bad...
2023-05-15 17:00:03 +0000 UTC
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After all the metal work yesterday, I want to take it a little easier, and not do as much physical labor, and I'm sure Zeb feels similarly. Today, instead, I'm going to collect small crystals...
2023-05-12 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Only a day after Zaka left and we're at another attempt at smelting the copper. I've brought a bucket of water to drop slag into as well, since I'm hoping to scoop that out of the crucible if...
2023-05-10 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Getting the storage area expanded has turned into quite the hassle because compared to other projects, it's not nearly as fun. That said, some benefit of the past four days of expanding it ha...
2023-05-08 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The last three days have been spent digging out the other major points of interest from the survey. Namely the two layer changes that I identified before. The large one near the entranc...
2023-05-05 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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The trip up the mountain was fairly uneventful. A lot of the areas that had mudslides have started to grow plants through the wreckage. It'll still be a long time before it's fully heal...
2023-05-01 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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It's been another month, and the quarry and houses are coming along well enough. I've gotten about half the stone out of the quarry that I intend to remove. It's become quite sizeable n...
2023-04-28 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The imp summoning went fine, although we only recruited two goblins this time. When we returned, I tried to recruit the goblins to help with stone hauling for these projects, but they didn't ...
2023-04-24 22:27:09 +0000 UTC
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For the past two days, I've been fixing the bridge, and finally completed it. The goblins have been fairly demoralized by the destruction of their village. Digging out damaged property ...
2023-04-21 17:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Zaka left later the next day with two new goblins in tow. There was an interesting commotion at one point in the night when an imp made its way up to the exit door, and started making noise a...
2023-04-17 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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I wake up in the morning, ravenously hungry, and check my stats as I go to stuff my face with food.
<UNCOMMON LESSER EARTH DEMON>
Level: 0
HP: 911/911
MP: 353/353
Traits: Ma...
2023-04-16 17:17:32 +0000 UTC
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When I return to my sub-cave that I once called home, I'm greeted by a putrid smell. It seems that one of the toilet pots I sealed broke. I'm not sure if it was pressure buildup or some...
2023-04-16 17:16:32 +0000 UTC
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