Tyranomaster

[Vol.4] Ch.28 The Elven Emissary Part 1

"Yes, as I was saying, us elves are generally a peaceful group, and prefer to not get involved in any conflict that we can avoid.  If Rathland decides on some form of conflict, we'll stay out of it, as I'm sure most of the other elves will as well.  We'll just sit back, as we've done in all other conflicts in the past.  After seeing your village and talking with you, I don't see your country as an aggressive threat, so I believe that any defensive pacts that Rathland would atte...

[Vol.4] Ch.35 A New Coin

All in all, I had about forty new goblins to teach at the academy.  As it turned out, I had to modify my curriculum after the first week was finished.  I've decided to merge the sixth day with the third day, so that all the evolution and prestige info is on one day.  I then moved day five to day six as it's the last day before we have the different trade jobs come in to demonstrate, and it was covering those trades as an overview.

Then, day four will be extended to also g...

[Vol.4] Ch.27 Politicking

I politely asked the merchant to wait until tomorrow for negotiations for the next year.  After all, who knows what new problems might arise after this discussion with the Baron.  I did, however, make sure that we got all the merchant's supplies that we had previously ordered sorted to their destinations.

The elf patiently waited for me to finish my work with the merchant before speaking up themself, again in a language I didn't understand and hadn't heard before.  For wh...

Patreon Goals

First, let me say thank you to everyone who's been supporting this project so far!  You've all been fantastic.  Next, I've decided on goals and milestones for the patreon, along with extra rewards for everyone.  We've already discussed that above $100 we'll have 3 chapters a week.  I'll post my overall goalposts here, so that you can see them.

$100 - 3 Chapters A Week (Rebuilding Science in a Magic World)
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[Vol.4] Ch.34 Class Schedule

I ended up spending 2 days inspecting the rock dams before I actually went up to the mountain.  While a few needed repairs or changes, it was significantly fewer than last year.  Given that the goblins working on the project had built even more dams, I considered it a success.  The few that did need repairs or changes were in peculiar locations where the normal behavior of the stream had changed so much from it's initial state that the need for changes was only apparent because...

[Vol.4] Ch.26 A Messenger

Getting all the metal machines made took some time.  Considering I needed a wood chipper, a pulper, a lime furnace, five hand turned presses, a steaming chamber, and a stirring vat, I'd say getting them all made and hooked up in thirty-five days was a pretty good accomplishment.  While Karsh worked on the machines, I was making frames for paper.  I have three sizes of paper that I want, and three frames in each size.

The first size is pretty close to what would be standar...

[Vol.4] Ch.33 Glassmaking

Although we said we were going to hurry back to look at artificial minerals, we still did our due diligence and finished collecting samples from all the areas along the way back down the mountain from the cave.  By the time we got back, it was late enough that we agreed to wait until the next day for me to unveil the artificial minerals.

So, that night, I made a sample of the three artificial minerals I'd made in the past.  Lightstone, darkstone, and the redish-brown stone tha...

[Vol.4] Ch.25 Paper Mill

I experimented for two days, and as I suspected, the sea grass wasn't very great for soda ash, but the vines with the float sacs, which I'm going to call float vines, yielded enough for the process to be worth it.  The process involves burning the plants in a closed kiln, then dissolving as much of the ashes in water as I can.  After that, I mix in slaked lime, which chemically pulls out a bunch of the other impurities, then I boiled off the remaining water, leaving me with soda ash...

Patreon Info, Update 1

Hey everyone!  As some of you are probably aware, I started a poll on RoyalRoad about what sort of things would entice people to pay for this Patreon.   Feel free to go vote on that, it's on [Vol.4] Ch.15.

This though, is a preliminary update as to an initial decision that I've made.

First, starting in February, we'll be switching to three chapters a week (Mon, Wed, Fri).  We'll keep this up as long as we keep above that $100 a month mark.  I'll be checkin...

[Vol.4] Ch.32 Basic Mineralogy

I've decided to spend a bit of time working with Konkur to gain some insight into the mineralogy of the world, and how he's studying it.  For the first month or so of his time here, he was collecting samples from various locations.  I only recently took the time to enter his lab, and I was surprised to see many shelves all of which were stocked with various rocks with paper labels.  All of it appeared to be written in dwarvish, which means I can't read it.

I took the oppo...

[Vol.4] Ch.24 Sea Plants

While I've been wrapped up in my own projects, there has been quite a few developments within the city.  Zeb's been busy with new construction, and he's already gotten about one-fifth of the population moved into new housing outside of the city center.  We've also had a few more goblins evolve.  A few of the fishergoblins have become hobgoblins, one of the construction goblins that we've had for some time became a lesser earth demon, and we had one goblin who has been doing a l...

[Vol.4] Ch.31 Winter Work

While Shasta made the eight day round trip to Kao's island to pick up the immigrants, Karsh and I worked on getting all the metal smithed into the various metal items to send to Elora in exchange for their fungal crops.  Unfortunately, we hadn't quite filled the order by the time Shasta returned.  With the road on our island, her trip is much shorter than it was when Karsh first moved here, which overall is nice, but means we had less time than we needed to fill the order.  I'l...

[Vol.4] Ch.23 Paper and Glue

After a week of tinkering with Karsh and the weaver, I've made a few meshes to attempt to strain the water from wood pulp, and then to attempt a drying process.  I'm still lacking felt to layer between pulp sheets, but for now, I'll try placing them on wooden boards, then I'll press the boards to try to squeeze some water out and form the paper better.  Without the felt though, they still might end up too moist.  I won't lose hope if it doesn't work however, it just means I'll ...

[Vol.4] Ch.30 Shifting Attitudes

Later that day, I sat down with the merchant to handle our trade requests.  First, we traded some excess salt and fish, followed by the amount of ingots necessary to pay for another year of tutelage for the goblins learning to write in dwarvish.  Then I let Karsh and his family again make certain requests for goods from their homeland.  Now that they're quite settled in, I think I should probably talk with them about what their plans are for their children.  Do they intend...

[Vol.4] Ch.22 Wire

The first part of making wire should have been relatively simple.  We just need a steel box with one end completely open, and the other end with an inch wide hole or so.  Then, I'll need a mechanical press on the large opening that can be cranked with enough force to force a glowing hot ingot to deform through the inch hole.  In practice, Karsh and I keep running into issues, and its been twenty-five days.  The first attempt we didn't have nearly enough force to deform the...

[Vol.4] Ch.29 The Elven Emissary Part 2

"I'm thankful you've shared all this info with us.  We don't get much news from the outside, and given our relative youth as a country, our knowledge of the world is quite lacking.  However, as you've been so open with us, I feel it fair to be open with you.  Feel free to ask any questions you might have.  I've been the only one asking questions so far after all."  I say, while lowering my shoulders to try to relax myself somewhat.

"I do have a few questions, so...

[Vol.4] Ch.21 Freedom

With all my priority tasks taken care of, it was finally time for me to do some forward planning.  I spent three days working in city hall in a yet unused room that I had planned for use for construction oversight.  I planned out what construction needs done, along with what order it should be done in.  I made a large diagram of the existing village layout with all the roads, and then marked planned construction sites for all the different apartment style buildings and houses, ...

[Vol.4] Ch.28 The Elven Emissary Part 1

"Yes, as I was saying, us elves are generally a peaceful group, and prefer to not get involved in any conflict that we can avoid.  If Rathland decides on some form of conflict, we'll stay out of it, as I'm sure most of the other elves will as well.  We'll just sit back, as we've done in all other conflicts in the past.  After seeing your village and talking with you, I don't see your country as an aggressive threat, so I believe that any defensive pacts that Rathland would atte...

[Vol.4] Ch.20 Written Word

For immigrant applications, there were a few, but none were appealing, even with the lowered standards for Karsh's sake.  It seemed like this time it was mostly individuals with questionable pasts whom I would rather not allow into our fledgling nation.  As for training goblins in written dwarvish, she said it's not that common of an ability to write in their language.  Many can read the basics and maybe even write their own name, but outside of that, it's uncommon unless you'r...

[Vol.4] Ch.27 Politicking

I politely asked the merchant to wait until tomorrow for negotiations for the next year.  After all, who knows what new problems might arise after this discussion with the Baron.  I did, however, make sure that we got all the merchant's supplies that we had previously ordered sorted to their destinations.

The elf patiently waited for me to finish my work with the merchant before speaking up themself, again in a language I didn't understand and hadn't heard before.  For wh...

[Vol.4] Ch.19 Handing Off Work

As it would happen, neither Karsh nor his family can write in dwarvish.  Karsh can read some basic things and sign his name, and the same goes for his wife, but it's not nearly enough to deal with record keeping.  Which means that if I don't find anyone by the end of this winter, I'm going to either have to choose one of the other options for a written language, or give up on keeping records for a year, and neither of those options sound particularly good.

Outside of that, I'v...

[Vol.4] Ch.26 A Messenger

Getting all the metal machines made took some time.  Considering I needed a wood chipper, a pulper, a lime furnace, five hand turned presses, a steaming chamber, and a stirring vat, I'd say getting them all made and hooked up in thirty-five days was a pretty good accomplishment.  While Karsh worked on the machines, I was making frames for paper.  I have three sizes of paper that I want, and three frames in each size.

The first size is pretty close to what would be standar...

[Vol.4] Ch.18 Bureaucracy

Myself and the mining crew spent three weeks up on the mountain mining.  We shipped down a significant amount of ore, and ran into one edge of this ore deposit.  We haven't run out yet, but in theory it could run out at any time now, which means that we might end up wanting to make an exploratory mine part of the way up the mountain below the snow level to try to find new valuable deposits of things like ore.  If we do that, I don't have to worry about workers intruding on my m...

[Vol.4] Ch.25 Paper Mill

I experimented for two days, and as I suspected, the sea grass wasn't very great for soda ash, but the vines with the float sacs, which I'm going to call float vines, yielded enough for the process to be worth it.  The process involves burning the plants in a closed kiln, then dissolving as much of the ashes in water as I can.  After that, I mix in slaked lime, which chemically pulls out a bunch of the other impurities, then I boiled off the remaining water, leaving me with soda ash...

[Vol.4] Ch.17 Moving Costs

Progress on expanding the village has been going relatively smooth.  It's been 23 days since we started all the construction, and we've gained two more stone shaping goblins in that time.  One is helping me, and the other is going to make the reservoir more orderly before winter, which is slowly approaching.  The sewers and roads aren't quite done yet, but they're getting close to finished.  Bridges still need to be put in, and then a new outer wall will have to be constru...

[Vol.4] Ch.24 Sea Plants

While I've been wrapped up in my own projects, there has been quite a few developments within the city.  Zeb's been busy with new construction, and he's already gotten about one-fifth of the population moved into new housing outside of the city center.  We've also had a few more goblins evolve.  A few of the fishergoblins have become hobgoblins, one of the construction goblins that we've had for some time became a lesser earth demon, and we had one goblin who has been doing a l...

[Vol.4] Ch.16 Windmill Part 2

We spent another twenty days getting the dome to rotate thanks to a small fan installed on part of the dome.  There were a lot of small tweaks and changes we had to do to make it work effectively, but I'm glad the whole thing works now.  It's also been about long enough now that I expect the road construction crew will be finishing up.  Once they do, I want to have them add another layer to the artificial tide pool.  I've also set a few goblins up with rock breaking jobs i...

[Vol.4] Ch.23 Paper and Glue

After a week of tinkering with Karsh and the weaver, I've made a few meshes to attempt to strain the water from wood pulp, and then to attempt a drying process.  I'm still lacking felt to layer between pulp sheets, but for now, I'll try placing them on wooden boards, then I'll press the boards to try to squeeze some water out and form the paper better.  Without the felt though, they still might end up too moist.  I won't lose hope if it doesn't work however, it just means I'll ...

[Vol.4] Ch.22 Wire

The first part of making wire should have been relatively simple.  We just need a steel box with one end completely open, and the other end with an inch wide hole or so.  Then, I'll need a mechanical press on the large opening that can be cranked with enough force to force a glowing hot ingot to deform through the inch hole.  In practice, Karsh and I keep running into issues, and its been twenty-five days.  The first attempt we didn't have nearly enough force to deform the...

[Vol.4] Ch.21 Freedom

With all my priority tasks taken care of, it was finally time for me to do some forward planning.  I spent three days working in city hall in a yet unused room that I had planned for use for construction oversight.  I planned out what construction needs done, along with what order it should be done in.  I made a large diagram of the existing village layout with all the roads, and then marked planned construction sites for all the different apartment style buildings and houses, ...