Vendetta had fished nearly the whole damn river, and had neglected to actualy process the fish, which he began to do. The fortress now had more raw fish than any other staple.
Acadamia Nut helped excevate a series of dining areas, which Pezook helped furnish. They had tried to smooth the walls but as Nut had pointed out, the walls were made of soil, not rock. Joviwan felt mixed reactions when he had found that for the second year running, there would be no migrants to his fortress.
It suddenly occured that while Peptuck's death had not effected anyone in the slightest, some profit could be made out of him yet. He ordered Nut to dig to the bottom of the pit, so they could turn Peptuck's bones into trinkets to sell. And it soon became apparent that they were going to be very very rich.
Joviwan set to work burning wood and turning the platinum nuggets into bars, while in the meantime Covenant was having trouble understanding just which bones they wished to make crafts out of. Joviwan had even placed a new craft shop almost right next to Peptuck's bones to help him get the point, but with no success.
It soon became apparent that the bones might as well have been invisible.
SKULL'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU FUCKFACE.
But it was of little consequence. Covenant was soon set to make crafts out of platinum using the anvil they had brought with them, which as it turned out, were highly, highly valuable. At 400 gold per craft, the dwarfs started gossiping about what they would do with all that money.
And for no apparent reason, Rawtooth and Acadamia Nut got marriaged.
Earlier that year an elf and a dwarvern caravan had arrived but as at that time they had nothing of real value to trade with, and the caravans had nothing they wanted to buy, they were largely ignored.
