At some point, I think we should probably build a moo those who lost their lives here in the vilge, but first es repairs. I think a simple stone mo will be pretty easy to build though, so I think I'll sider a location to build it before building the levees.
With the help of the goblins, we got the pavilion repaired, and basement drained i days. We also got the smokehouse operational again. Which was very well timed, because just yesterday, a lizard attacked, so a lot of its meat is being smoked now. Currently, I've turned my attention towards making a screw pump in the basement of the pavilion, then I'll build a moo remember those goblins who have lost their lives.
When I asked Zaka for the names of the goblins who died, he seemed fused, but gave them to me. A short distance from the pavilion, I've erected a small stone wall, ached their names in it. When Zaka saw it, he asked what the purpose was, and said it was a waste of spabsp; I noticed before that the goblins didn't have any form of burial rights or rituals, so I asked Zaka about it.
To quote him, "The being of those who died live on in each of us. There is o mark their death, as they're part of us still."
While that is all well and good, I personally feel like a reminder of those who passed is probably a good way to make the goblins value their lives more. I personally doly like the whole mi of, "We just repce them if they die." It doesn't value what tributions eadividual could make. If we had just left Zeb to die, I'd likely be uo unicate with the goblins well right now.
Either way, after some ving, he let me leave the memorial up. With only half the day spent so far, I think I'll probably be able to finish the screw pump from the drainage location in the basement up to the stream area before nightfall.
While many of the goblins were impressed with the screw pump, Zaka wasn't that intrigued by it. After asking him about it, it sounds like where he was from had lots of simple maes including waterwheels. Which makes me think that building a waterwheel might be useful down the road. All good things to keep in mind.
Zaka also said in ten days he wants to go up the mountain to summon imps again. Givehing that has happened, I don't have any qualms with it. Until then, I'm going to start doing some testing for building a levee system here in the goblin vilge.
Tomorrow we'll set out to go summon imps on the mountain. My initial assumptions about how I could make the levee aren't quite going to work. I thought using the rock from the bottom of the stream would be enough to increase the height of the edges of the stream, but that doesn't look like it will be enough based on the reports from the goblins about how much water there was. Which means I'll need more stone. And not just a small amouher. I'll need a lot. I think I've e up with a solution though, although it expands the scope of the entire project drastically.
I'm thinking of digging a quarry up stream, and l the grade of the stream all the way to the quarry location, and finally turning the quarry into a dam and reservoir. I have ao try to make it somewhat self reguting, but the goblins will probably o keep an eye on it, and do some maintenance or ges occasionally. Mainly just closing or openiain flood gates.
All of this will be a long ways away though, because the size of the project is se. Ara be of making a regutory reservoir upstream is that it will allow water wheels to work at a semi-stant rate downstream.
As for the location, it won't actually be that far away. While the stream here in the clearing is a retively low gradient, after you head only a few hundred yards upstream the slope drastically increases. Within the clearing, the slope of the stream is only a half inch over the quarter mile the clearing covers. The point that I want to dig the quarry upstream though is already approximately forty feet higher up, which would make for a pretty deep reservoir sidering I'm pnning on hand digging it. As for downstream from the clearing, the slope remains fairly shallow.
I was going to have the goblins help with logging, but actually, I think I'd like to get the levels myself from cutting the trees down, so I'll just do it myself while I work in the area. I'll o dig a new el that the stream will flow through ohe quarry is dohen redirect the stream into it after.
The goblin summoni fine, auro the goblin vilge with three new goblins. At this rate, it'll take many trips to recoup the fourteen goblins resumed to have died during the storm. Despite the losses, the vilge is starting to return to normal again. The goblins have restarted palisade stru, and ed up the abandoned huts. I don't have much time for helping, though, as I've been incredibly busy.
This project has so much work, that I actually haven't had any downtime. I'm either cutting stone from the stream's bottom, digging soil from upstream for the new el, or doing my daily rounds of chopping trees. I'm currently just piling the excess soil along where I'm w, but ter it will o be piled along the edges of the stream once I reinforce the sides with stone. As I was w on this, I realized that the project actually needs even further expansion. Namely storm drains.
In a basi, it would just be grates that gh the sides of the levee into the stream. A dowo that is obviously backflow during a flood. However, without it, the water will be stagnant during any rain. I'll probably have to make the mains closeable along the levee, so that during a storm, the goblins close it off if the stream gets too full.
This entire project is just getting rger and rger, which is being a real issue, that said, I'll have a few months to work on it, sihe snow on the mountain will be setting in soon, and I'll just be chilling with the goblins for the duration.
Almost aire month has passed again, and we'll be going up to summon imps for the st time before the snow sets in acc to Zaka. All but the biggest trees in my way have been felled on the levee projeetting me a lot of levels.
I've cut a lot of stone for the future path from the reservoir, but I'm not do. I've actually pleted the vilge's levee walls from it, meaning the quarry se is actually going to produce excess stoher than what I thought would be necessary stone. For now, I'm pnning on using the oo make basic roads in the vilge, with a storm drain underh leading to the levee.
I've already started the first road se, going from the bridge to along side the pavilion and smokehouse. I've dug a trench down to the stone yer, and then started using the oo make a hollow tube under a solid stone foundation, with occasional stone grates that funnel down to the tube. The tube then opens out into the stream a little above where the water level is. I've made a simple meism with gears to close off the outlet as well. All the goblio do is turn a valve wheel up by the bridge to close it.
I'm getting quite tired of hauling stone from where I'm w as well. Zeb is helping, but that is it. There is going to be so much excess stohat I think I'm going to ask that the goblins help haul stuff in their free time. I'd normally offer them a trade in exge for their help, but quite frankly, I'm going to be using all my mana for so long to plete this project that I'm not going to have much to offer them.