Hello there, masters! Mr. Narrator is on paid leave so I’m here to sub for him. It’s been a while since the last time you visited. For now, how about we visit our friends and see what they’ve been up to? Ah, but first, here, we finished a construction!

The little guys have been enjoying the hell out of their new houses, and the girls sure are loving having beds to… Umm, do their business.

Hey, I already told you guys that I can’t have a child right now, have you seen my account balance?

See? They’re already on their way.

That’s probably a good idea.

Sure thing, Master, but the minions are pretty much naked, we have no weapons, they can’t do much if they come in force.

Crazy keyhole lady is bound to pop up sooner rather than later.

We could still use some intel on what they’re up to…

You lot!

We need you to scout the area around the tower, make sure we don’t have anyone spying on us, and make sure to bring anything interesting you find.

Hahaha, they’re so cute when they’re on duty!

I dub them: Fun Guys Squad!

Erm… So, ok. That’s one thing solved. How are we doing for building supplies? Building the mushlair has mostly exhausted what scrap we had lying around. It looks much cleaner, but we need someone to go and collect some more stuff for us.

That sounds cool, could you do that, Lily?

Miss Lily, I could be used for resource collection if we switch the Xtreme-Mega-Di–

We’ll also eventually run out of trees if we stay here for too long, we need to find a renewable source of materials.

We could use some money…

Elgor! You’ve been looking into the mouse economy, haven’t you?

Oh, that sounds great!

Oh boy

Welp… It looks like we have a lot to do and not a lot to do it with. Any ideas?

So… What are we looking at?

Well, we have to decide what to do next. We don’t have enough firepower to take out the mouse guild yet, so we’ll should visit some of the nearby settlements first. With the proper incentives they might be willing to help us with trade or personnel…

Hmm… Whiterock is a mining settlement, lots of blacksmiths go there to learn how to use the Palenite they gather there.

It’s a frost-proof metal that’s only found in the outer layers, it makes for most of the export around here.

We’ve already been in one of the ruins near Norta’s research camp, it’s where we found Mordred and the peep wizard, luckily we didn’t have to deal with anyone that time, it already took us one too many posts to make it back here without them popping up to stop us.

I think Elgor said he was looking for a shiny portal in that cave.

You’re probably familiar with Norta aren’t you? We can have you pay her a visit later.

Okay then enough about that, what about this one?

Oh, a big weird crab has made home in one of the hot springs there. The villagers make a hot chilly-like sauce from the liquid produced by her offspring. It’s a popular export, the only one other than the ore we mentioned.

It’s pretty much crab caviar. Royally expensive.

Er… Can I suggest a trade contract?

Think of the spreadsheets we’d have to go through to keep all this gold flowing, who’ll go around keeping the books?

Well that’s a lot of options… I’m sure we can send around some squads to deal with the simple tasks.

I said simple, Ceres… We can go to the villages ourselves, at least until we have a better hold on things.

Hah! That’s funny.

And by the way, with the mushminion lair finished we can start building something else, we have 2 more free slots.

Elgor also finished his research on the Mousekin, which lets us build brothels in friendly territory, we can employ our followers there to make us money. But for now we can start research on a new line of knowledge. What should it be?

Okay now, it’s up to you guys. What should boobs and the crew here do next?