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Got two poets and a bard to join me as entertainers and formed the Pointy Rivers entertainment troupe. We were almost called the Lobsters of Euphoria.

Edit: We did a performance in the tavern after which one of the poets suddenly quit being a poet and became a milker. Must have shaken his confidence.

Is anybody having ‼FUN‼ with the taverns (besides dead cats)? Right now I'm having a great big interspecies love fest and it's kind of bumming me out. There are a handful of goblins, dwarves, and humans and a gorlak hanging out in the tavern and the only arguments I've noted resulted in one human becoming enraged and then calming down having done nothing. I put on my race war t-shirt and dwarves #1 foam finger and now I feel ridiculous watching them have civil disagreements.

Spoke too soon. There was a disagreement between a goblin and human poet then the goblin threw a punch, another goblin jumped in with him, and then three humans jumped in to defend the woman and turned it into a great big brawl. The humans are tougher and there's more of them but the gobbos have combat experience and they aren't afraid to get a little dirty. After round one there were some bruised up humans and two goblins passed out in a pile of their own teeth. Round two we'll call a draw because the goblins gave as good as they got, they were knocked out again but one of the humans was so badly torn up I thought he might die. Round three was decisive victory for the humans, one went down from exhaustion then got his nose smashed in, his ears cauliflowered, 3/4s of his teeth kicked out and his hand stomped to pulp. The other got a chunk clawed out of her face and before she passed out declared that the nearby poetry recital was arousing her. Vomit, blood and teeth litter the ground and the performers never stopped their recitals. Taverns rule.

My favorite one so far is the Spuxi that a gorlak bard brought. It's a clear glass block that is plucked to create a single high pitch. I just love the idea of a simple, delicately created instrument made by a primitive culture.

Sooo I understand the importance of rigorous hygiene standards in medicine but I just had a dwarf lie in bed dying of thirst and starvation because his broken toe- despite being set and stitched up had not been splashed with muddy water. Finally gave up on waiting for the spring and found a muddy puddle in the caverns to placate mr fastidious.

That's the thing though.  I don't have a proper tavern set up, nor did I get any sort of message of him wanting to stay.

He's also still listed as a diplomat in the Units screen.

I'm fuzzy on the specifics but I think it's a thing that diplomats actually hang out instead of hi,bye, 1000 mile trek.

A random dwarf (No family no relations) after discussion with local rivals became queen of my civilization. We're clearly not dead because we continue to get liaisons and migrants.

A goblin bard wants to perform in the Buttery Brew. We've accepted vampires and gorlaks but this might be the true test of the spirit of drunken fraternity.