It's only been a day, but it feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders after successfully making a rge crystal that survive down here in the goblin vilge. It even seems like things are more cheery. I heard a lot of birds chirping in the m, and had time to just listen to them. I felt just bristling with energy to go start my day. While the path needs work done on it, today I just went to che the various other things in the vilge that need potential maintenance, like the rain runoff system and the dam. I have a few other vilge improvements that I'd like to do as well before w oh.

  Namely, the salt evaporation pond and the potential leather workshop. The salt evaporation pond has been useful, and the goblins have gotteo using it. The bad news is that they've been using all the salt for food, and as such, there isn't much excess to use for makiher, whieeds to be remedied by making more salt evaporation ponds. Sihey do have some salt on hand, I teach the goblin how to make leather at least, and he begin the process for some hides.

  It's been just one more day, but I'm starting to wonder if there really were this many birds he vilge in the past. All the goblins haven't paid much mind to it, so I'm not ed. Maybe it's just that occasionally flocks move into the area, and so they're used to it happening occasionally. I had a sed weird event happen though as well. It's been ages since I've seen a lizard around the goblin vilge, basically since Zaka went on a rampage killing them, but I ran into one on the way to go expand the salt evaporation ponds. After it noticed me, it tried to attack me, and I dealt with it fairly easily. I let Zaka know about it, so they could e and harvest it, and also keep their eyes peeled for any other lizards that might be about.

  Fighting one near here reminds me of when I first came to the vilge, where all the goblins lived in glorified holes in the ground, and weren't even hunting with tools. A whole lot has ged in the area sihen. The goblins were practically paleolithic, but it seems that Zaka had some retive knowledge that he didn't know what to do with until the vilge got it's feet u. Now, it's some mix between stone age and medieval, and I'd like to move it forward even more. Having others who tribute and provide valuable resources is way better than doing it yourself.

  It's been two more days, and I'm almost certain something is up now. Zaka seems to also sense something is wrong. There is a lot more wildlife just outside the vilge than there was before, and the goblins have run into lizards twiow on trips outside the vilge. It's been quite a while, but one goblin died while colleg vines. Until we figure out what is going on, all the goblins who aren't explicitly hunting are to stay in the vilge. Zaka is already f a group to try to go deal with the lizards that have moved bato the viity.

  It's been three more days, and things have started to get a bit wild. We had a lizard attempting to break down one of the wooden gates this m. Zaka's squad has been hunting lizards, and every day they've killed five. Which is more than they were killing back before they started the extermination. I'm almost done building a sed smokehouse just so that there is a pce for all the extra meat.

  Something clicked in me when the lizard was hitting the gate this m, and I'm starting to suspect the crystal is the cause of all this. On the mountain, we've had a few run-ins with the lizards when we hadn't seen them in some time up there. Once, back when the four foot crystal broke and there was the massive mana wave, and then more retly when we finished making the six foot crystal.

  I'm starting to wonder if the reason I've been feeling so ei the ms isn't because I've finally fihe crystal project I've worked on for so long, and is instead some property of the crystal itself. I'm not certain about this, and I'm also not about to smash the crystal. I'm afraid that would be like setting off a bomb. Also, it doesn't seem like it's making any of the wildlife behave differently, lizards were always aggressive.

  I'll need more evidence before I make a move on this, but I'll keep a for any ns that the crystal is the cause...

  It's only been two days, but we're experieng what only be described as a siege... of lizards. Lizards are outside the walls of the vilge, pounding on gates, and even fighting amongst themselves. At this point, I'm fairly certain it's the crystal's fault... which makes it also my fault. There isn't a way to undo this now though. We 't exactly take the crystal out of the town. I've said before too, that I'm pretty sure if I break the crystal, it'll explode with mana.

  No, the only way out is to kill the lizards. At this point, none of us leave the walls to the vilge. I've already reinforced the gates with leftover stone so that they don't get broken down. Zaka is full time on the wall shooting fireballs at the lizards, although a single fireball barely hurts them, but the ra least allows him to use it freely.

  We talked it over, and tomorrow, I'm going to start w on closing off an area near one of the gates inside, so that we let a few lizards in at a time to attempt to kill them all off. Zaka 't easily kill any from the walls, because when they get siderably hurt, they run away.

  Today was a fug disaster. I built a space behind one of the gates so that we could try to fight a handful of the lizards at onbsp; What followed when we opehe outside gate was a nightmare.

  Lizards flooded in, and there were so many that we couldn't close the gate behind them. Myself, Kaga, Zaka, and some of the hunting goblins were in the walled io kill lizards. Initially, things were going well. With the lizards having no way back, it was easy to kill them. A well pced Earth Spike could easily kill one lizard, and Kaga and Zaka were able to easily kill lizards whearted.

  As the minutes dragged on though, we noticed a problem. The gates weren't closing, and the dead lizards had started to pile high enough that the alive lizards were using them to attempt to climb up the wall. Zaka and I were both practically exhausted of mana, and had resorted to old fighting tactics to kill lizards. We had only po kill a dozen or two lizards at a time, close the gates, recharge, and the. What we didn't t on was the stone meism used to close the door from on top of the wall to break due to the lizards ramming into the doors while the goblins on top attempted to close them.

  What followed that was a fight for not just our own lives, but for the lives of all the goblins in the vilge. We had to frantically fight through the lizards towards the door while exposing our backs to any lizards we might have missed in the age all in an attempt to manually close the gates. Being out of mana, I couldn't eveone shaping to safely close the gate. When we eventually made it to the gates, we realized that as long as the lizards were trying to get in, we couldn't close them. At least one of us would have to be outside the gates, holding the lizards back while the gates were closed and reinforced.

  I don't know if it ride in the fact he made the gates himself, or if it was just something I'd failed to see before in Kaga, but he marched through the gates and in a feat of sheer strength he used a lizard's corpse as a plow and shoved bato the approag horde, and as the gates closed, he was surrounded by the horde.

  I'm still shaken by what happened. If we had been more prepared it could have been easy. If I'd been more careful with the crystal, we wouldn't be in this mess to begin with. If I'd checked that the meisms could hold up to this, no one would have had to been outside the gates. If I'd had spare rope on the walls maybe we could have gotten Kaga out.

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