On the Future of the Sootscale Kobolds...

We have provided a great service to the Sootscale Kobolds, as well as accidentally pity killed their Gnome puppeteer. Though I see possible problems with them in the future. While they have agreed to live in peace with us, permitting any future attempts to establish a productive mine near their domain, they are still evil creatures by nature, and this will have to be considered.

The presence of a mystic and the threat of a curse kept them controlled before, perhaps some sort of similar method of control will suffice. The cunning of this gnome rather impressed me, and while he was in possession of an actual kobold body, this is nothing another skillful illusionist couldn't handle. Maybe there is another group of hideous tiny vermin nearby that we could occupy the kobolds with. Perhaps even one among the kobolds is power hungry and selfish enough to be up for the task, though the idea of using another kobold itself brings a cornucopia of fresh problems...

I guess I must reflect on whether this is all really worth it or not. After all, they are kobolds. Even if they did decide they were unhappy with our arrangement, the damage they could cause before being put to the sword would be minimal at best. It only took the four of us to wipe out an entire colony of mites, and these were the very things the kobolds seemed to be a sort of stalemate with. Hm.

No matter, these concerns are in a farther off future, and we have more pressing matters to attend to now. I believe we are soon coming to a confrontation with this 'Stag Lord', and I look forward to these negotiations. Perhaps he can be reasoned with, and if not he, perhaps his men.