Devaguea spent a day reviewing the kingdom, and came to the unfortunate conclusion he needed to stop expanding for a couple months at least. But he had cleared the surrounding area of a majority of the threats, with only the southern owlbears and a couple potential problems in the western forest remaining.<br/><br/>But first, he needed to find Jubilost, he hadn't been able to find the gnome explorer when he had gotten back. Once the gnome had been told his goal had been found, he would be free to talk with the advisors and his companions, figure out if Sena would be willing to replace Damien in a few months, and find out if anything had gone wrong during the two and a half weeks they had been out clearing out problem areas. After THAT, he was off to talk with Oleg about building a city near his trading post, and then to find Bokken to let him know that his area was going to have a city built inside a year. And then after THAT, he needed to stop by the Sootscales, and see if they had enough kobolds to be willing to send some off to work a nearby gold mine that was due to open next month.<br/><br/>All in all, he was going to have a very busy week. But first he had to deal with the absolute disaster of a month that had been the last one of the year. Barely any taxes had been collected, and while the newly opened foundry had taken the first load of silver from the kobolds and turned it into bullion had helped, the taxes were still an issue that needed correcting.