17th GraniteElven traders have arrived, and to the surprise of many nothing bad happened as they strolled into the vomit soaked courtyard.
Toaster walked alongside Mephansteras as they surveyed the goods being offered. "They brought a nice stockpile of wood for us, which should help us for a while."
"Indeed." replyed Mephansteras, picking up a wooden shield. "And we can use some of these items as well. Stretch out our stockpiles a bit more." He put it back down. "How are we on trade goods? We should have quite a few ceramic goods from the magma kilns..."
"Yeah, we're good. Plenty of stuff to trade for everything we'd want out of here."
"Good, good. I'm going to see about having the forges make up some Silver Goblets for trade with the Mountainhomes. We'll need a lot more wealth to get what we want from them."
22nd Granite"Gold!" beamed TheDarkStar. "We keep finding more veins of it!"
"Good, good." Mephansteras looked down at the nugget in his hand. "We should make plans to use some of this. Maybe some sort of grand Council chamber..."
"Nice thought, but shouldn't that wait for the Crannog to be finished?"
"Ah. Yeah, good point." he handed the gold back. "Well, keep up the good work."
1st Slate"Uh...hey, Mephansteras", a confused looking icefire2314 walked up. "Uh, Reg just took over the Carpenter's shop. He looks kinda...strangly happy, and has started gathering up materials. You...uh...want us to let him do his thing, right?"
"Oh. Oh! Of course, of course! Make sure he gets whatever he needs to make the artifact."
5th Slate"How's the Artifact coming along, icefire?"
"Good, I think. He just finished gathering up stuff. He's got wood, some blue garnets, cloth, and a few bars of copper."
"Ok. Well, we'll just hope it's something useful."
10th Slate"It's finished! My Grand Work is finished!" a dazed Reg stumbled out of the carpenter shop.
"I. I could really use a drink."
"Ha!" icefire gently grabbed his arm. "I bet you could. Come on, let's go celebrate."
Peaceful so far. Mostly my time has been spent following up on projects. Placing beds, keep up with workshops, and the like.