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Hey! Why is the tavern owner not on the list?!? ((Steve_Irongut swstiglich3))

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Entry 6 I investigated weapons simliar to the ones the pirates used to bombard our town today. Alras has them and they call them "cannons". The use the explosive powder that is used in TNT to propell and Iron spherical ball out of an obsidian vessel. I was thinking we could try to fabricate these for Holm's Deffense. We could set them up on the walls. Especially around the main areas where ships would attack us. I think I had a break through today on something I hadn't thought of before. I was canning some items in one of my especially hot furnaces today and the thing exploded. It exploded with about the same force, if not just a little less, as a stick of TNT. Here is a drawing of what my work area looked like before the accident. These are the only things I put in the Furnace. This is a drawing of what happened when I left it on the furnace too long. It scared me almost to death. What if I could harness that power. Maybe controlled release of the power over a duration of time. Maybe I could power something else with just water and heat. Have you ever seen the steam off a hot bowl of soup as it is cooked. The violence of a violently boiling liquid. The best aspect of it is that all it requires is water and heat from some source. I wonder what lava would do. I bet I could get more power with lava than even TNT could supply. What if I created a huge can. It would take quite a bit of dwarvin iron, but I believe I could make it work on a larger scale. The power could power mills as same as the wind. I wonder if I could make something that would blow on a ships sail with the steam to make the go even if there was no wind... No That doesn't seem possible, but maybe I could put the furnace on the ship to power something else... I know some dwarfs put furnaces in their rail carts to power the weels I bet I could do that on a bigger scale...I don't know. I'll be working on this more for sure.

Entry 5 They craziest thing happened today. I was manning the tavern and gambling with some customers when explosion started to ring out in the town. It was mass pandemonium, but luckily we had had a town safety meeting a couple days earlier so everyone knew what needed to be done. The emergency plan for all emergency was to meet in front my tavern. Everyone remembered and did as planned. The civilians all were directed to the tavern's basement, and then they where instructed on what to do in case the tavern was compromised. Luckily that never happened. It was a little touch and go there for a little bit, but everything turned out okay. Many buildings were seriously damaged by the cannon bombardment. The tavern remained untouched luckily. The citizens remained okay through the whole thing. I on the other hand got a cutlass thrown at my face, but luckily I ducted out he way fast enough for it to just cut my cheek. Luckily we had a doctor of sorts who used a sharp piece of iron and some thread to sow the wound up. He said it shouldn't scar luckily, but let me record how the full story unfolded. I had stacked the bar stools against the door to further protect me and the citizens from the battle King Hiebe was waging outside, but my inquisitive mind would not allow me to remain inside the tavern. I looked outside and saw the barricade that Hiebe and the miltia had made in front of the tavern. I saw the person connected to a voice I had not heard before. He was wearing dark clothes with a leather hat that was shaped like a roof of a human house. He had a scull embroidered into his dark jack also. He smelt like a 100 year old zombie. Anyways back to the story of my cut. Hiebe and a group of militia men had him surrounded. They were in a stand off of sorts when it happened in the blink of an eye. He chucked his sword at my head. I ducted to my right and the cutlass glanced my cheek, and embedded itself in the tavern door behind me. I ducted into the doors, stacked the bar stools back against the door, and rushed in the basement to tend to my wounds leaving Hiebe and the able militia to the smelly man. When I came back, I rounded up the citizens and we remained safely in basement until King Hiebe came and told us that it was safe to come out and that the battle was over and the evil men had retreated to their black sailed ship. The cannon explosion made me think of ways to better defend our secluded island from future attacks. My investigation and invention drive shall be put to more use until I come with valuable ideas.

Entry 4 I sit at my bar waiting for costumers, and none come. A bit a low time I guess for business. Now that I look at my log books business has died down substantially. I making enough money to keep open, but its not fun with only company every once in awhile during the work time. I been noticed some strange people boating around the island recently. The didn't bother to dock at our ports, but boat all around the island. I heard some take pirates from a conversation I overheard while working in the tavern. We are an island in a vast ocean so I'm concerned that might be who I saw.

Im guessing stores will stay put.

Down with Thorik! Long live King Hiebe!