Twenty Third Day of Obsidian in the Fourth Year of the New Age
The forlorn ogre Lasut died some time this week. The vent has caused a number of highly strung ogres to grow angry at how things are at Polish Dark. Some have thrown tantrums, including a particularly violent individual who went on a rampage through the trading area, destroying several crates and rendering the depot temporarily unusable.
Third Day of Slate in the Fifth Year of the New Age
A number of elven traders who say they are from The Copper Buck arrived to trade plants and fibers today. While ‘Drunka’ is still recuperating, ‘Shovel’ has taken over trading duties with supervision from ‘Drunka’ and seems to be doing quite well at hiding wooden cups and craft work while trading seeds, useless plants and leather to the merchants.
Twelfth Day of Hematite in the Fifth Year of the New Age
The heat of summer has brought with it a caravan from my home; I will make myself scarce for the moment while ‘Shovel’ deals with the merchants.
While the merchants were trading at the cave entrance depot, the bodyguards amused themselves by slaughtering a passing kobold.
The merchant’s visit has been roundly seen as a good thing as the camp has been able to secure some animals and an anvil amongst other things, as well as a new hammer for ‘Bluto’. The ogres will be bolstered by the ability to create metal weapons and armour in the near future.
Twenty Second Day of Hematite in the Fifth Year of the New Age
An ogre contemporary of ‘Gum’ created a yellow stone amulet while attention was fixed upon the human trading delegation. While the object is not particularly valuable, the ogre in question has asked ‘Drunka’ to be allowed to try his hand at stone carving.
‘Drunka’ in turn has graciously allowed the fellow to try to bring more wealth to the camp, as well as turning out high quality stone axes.
Also, the ogre ear marked as a hunter ‘Premer’ announced today that he will not be hunting again. Given the size and skill of the fellow, ‘Drunka’ seems to agree with the assessment, but has wisely asked the warrior to keep a look out for goblins when he is not talking about how powerful he is to other ogres.
Fifteenth Day of Limestone in the Fifth Year of the New Age
A caravan of dwarven traders arrived from The Short Mechanism earlier this week. While they were setting up, an ogre named Slozgo created a wooden amulet that is referred to as Rosyround the Contingent of Greed. I am at a loss as to why these artefacts are coming from the hands of possessed ogres, they are not especially good with their hands.
However, the end results speak for themselves.
‘Drunka’ and ‘Shovel’ on the other hand are organizing an effort to have the artefacts kept in a special chamber. I assume this is to keep them out of the hands of light fingered kobolds.
Sixteenth Day of Moonstone in the Fifth Year of the New Age
One of the woodcutters was clearly not impressed with the quality of their crude stone axe, for they commandeered a crafting hall to work on a new chopper. The result was a little unexpected, a bone axe that ended up being quite fanciful. I have sketched the artefact below.
The vaunted ogre waterworks project that ‘Drunka’ has been planning while recovering from her wrist injury turned out to be a dam. The builders put it together over the course of a week or so and ‘Gronk’ and her team dug out a diversion for the brook to fill it.
Twelfth Day of Slate in the Sixth Year of the New Age
An ogre beast tamer and keeper of the Glutton’s dungeons arrived this week and with his arrival, the population of the camp is up around a hundred ogres.