Journal of StarDust, Butcher-turned-broker & weaver
(the following were written on consecutive pages in the makeshift journal)
Remember those merchants I've talked about before that I've given a wheelbarrow full of clay to? Well the overseer just went to see me and ordered me to give all of the rope reed and wool thread to the merchants in exchange for some more stuff. He probably heard the merchants talking to themselves in the tavern, laughing about how the only thing we've given them is a clay-filled wheelbarrow. Anyway, I seem to be starting to get the feeling of this brokering job, although I would still prefer butchering and tanning to this.
Oh, and out of nowhere Broseph assigned to lead the weaving industry.
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How in the world did he make that decision? I'm a butcher-broker, not someone who sits at a loom all day.
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I'm currently writing this from the comforts of a home. Yes, I now have my own house, and while it is not that spacious compared to my previous home in the mountainhomes, it sure beats getting chilled to the bone by the cold winds of winter while you sleep. The new loom is sitting quietly in the next room waiting for me to work with it, and I have no idea how it works. I probably will tinker with it tomorrow.
Some kobolds tried to steal from us a few days ago, and got chased off by Tahudjt. He said to me yesterday over a mug of dwarven wine that he prefers creating statues of people being frightened by vermin rather than chasing off random kobolds. I sure wish that he would not make a statue of myself.
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Broseph's reign as overseer has ended, and Nerjin eagerly replaced him as the new overseer. His first order of business was...surprising. He wanted to construct a "much more acceptable" house for the vampire dwarf on top of his own home. Why did he thought that was a good idea, I do not know. I personally liked him more trapped in that grave on his own. Anyway, work was being done on his house when an accident happened. I was not there when it happened as I was tending the loom, but when I visited the new hospital on top of the tavern I saw the vampire himself.
He looked just like a normal dwarf, only that he looked a bit pale for being trapped in that chamber for so long. He had a broken shoulder and his upper arm was broken as well. Nerjin the temporary medical dwarf said that he needs to be immobilized, but we would need stone and a mechanic to create the table necessary for the operation. I guess we will need to wait for another caravan to arrive to get the stone. It is a good thing that he cannot move, as moving him to the newly-built house otherwise would be more problematic.
It seems to me that Nerjin is off to a bad start. I wish the rest of the year under his leadership would not be like this.