8th Granite, First year of Revenge.
Camp has started to take shape. For diminutive rat-lizards, these kobolds can cut down trees fairly adequately. The river hasn't shown any signs of unfreezing, nor have the several semi-large bodies of water scattered around amongst the trees. A campfire was started, and abruptly put out by me when it was clear that these savages haven't the faintest idea of how to prevent a fire from engulfing the surrounding scrub and woodland.
A butcher has been set up, alonside a tanner and a couple of other crude workshops, just to start getting some tents up, keep this snowdrift from encasing us while we sleep. I have gotten the woodcarver doglizards to start on easy things, crude utensils for a small kitchen, for cooking vermin. should help our Rats to last until breeding time passes around.
We have a very small amount of meat to spread among our Bolds, but the only animal to hunt is currently a faedog, which I am working on some mechanisms to complement our cage in a effort to catch the damned thing. A first line of defense to safeguard ourselves and our oh so precious drakes would be appreciated. I have started erecting a log palisade for just this purpose, with everyone not engaged in more important (or make work to prevent accidents, like with our herbalist) duties currently dragging the smaller logs to create a wall. A crude weapon rack has been set up next to our wood stockpile, to allow our kobolds some experience if fighting, we currently have 6 of our 20 dispensable minions (I as the 21st, am not dispensable) in the military, headed by Jaso, and seconded by Gunarex, with a squealing mass of idiots trying to follow the semi-garbled instructions they are given.
TemptsFate (A name I gave this kobold, as I always put him on scouting duties on the way here.... he has the most annoying high pitched cackle when amused.) has been taken off hunting duties, which I put to Matarata, and TemptsFate has been told to steal what he can. Apparently he needs a tunnel of some sort for this, as opposed to just walking away from camp until he finds something but such things could be arranged fairly easily.
The is a Kobold here, a smith just like in
RegalDoom my previous abode that hellhole from where I lost my Jreb, who smell disturbingly similar to one of the skeletons who I used to boss around. Therefor instead of JeniBoibinins, he has been named TenderRoast, to keep them straight in my mind. I have set him a duty far from the fire, the wood or the currently being dismantled remains of the wagon, as the first thing he did when he saw the fire was dive his hands in, and grab one of the red embers, and start trowing them at the other kobolds. Thankfully our Dragons Claws (Or maybe Rat Meat) squad managed to subdue him with some pointy sticks and a deserved beating. He and the burned kobolds are under the care of what passes for a physician here, the only kobold who seemingly gives a damn about any other Bold. Name of Kayben, Kaytab, Kaytavo.... something along those lines anyway.
Only one other Kobold of note in our group currently, who is a very disgruntled fisherman. I have put him (Calls himself Mithril Leaf, I've started with Mithy, and it seems to have stuck.) on marking out where he can fish when the ice melts, and to keeping other kobolds off 'his' fishing areas. with any luck, this restriction will result in less kobold deaths come Thaw, as opposed tMithys body being found in a snowdrift in a few weeks because someone got pissed at him.
Sorry Meph, no Druid just yet. seems everyone else got a cameo, so you get a spoiler