Ray and Zek head over to the houses. When they arrive at the houses a handful of kobolds can be seen carrying carcasses and hides of creatures. One of the kobolds is Zel. Ray calls for Zel.
"How did the hunt go?" Asked Ray.
"Good chief. We managed to get three giant boars and five purple poison Lizard." Said Zel.
"Good job! With this and the troglodyte meat, we should have enough food for at least two weeks. Oh, Zel where's the young troglodyte?" Said Ray.
"He's bringing his kill over here." Said Zel. Zel points towards the barracks.
"He killed something?" Asked Ray.
"Yes, chief he killed a purple poison Lizard." Said Zel.
"Ahh, that's great. Zel I want you and your group to hunt every two days and bring the young troglodyte with you." Said Ray.
"Yes, chief. Do you want us to increase or decrease hunting trips as needed chief?" Asked Zel.
"Yes, I'll leave that up to you. For now, let's get all the food and all the other stuff we brought over into the storage house and keep everything organized." Said Ray.
"Zek go round up the clan and bring them over to the barracks." Said Ray.
Zek nods his head and runs off.
"Zel let's take some of the food over to the storage house I'll show you the layout." Said Ray.
"Yes, chief." Said Zel.
Ray, Zel, and the others grab some food and head towards the barracks. As they approach the barracks Ray spots the young troglodyte dragging his kill.
Ray yells. "Follow us over to the storage house!"
The young troglodyte nods his head and follows Ray.
They arrive at the storage house.
"Ok, so this one here is for storage only." Said Ray. Facing south. "The one on my right is the dining hall, the one on my left is the barracks. Let's store the food." Said Ray.
Ray realizes we don't have refrigeration.
"Athena, how can we keep the food fresh without refrigeration?" Asked Ray.
"Ray you can smoke meat use dehydration or salt the meat." Said, Athena.
"Well we don't have salt so will smoke the meat. I'll create a smokehouse, I'll just modify a house and create a small smokehouse." Said Ray.
Ray heads outside and walks to the east side of the storage house. Ray looks around. "This should work." Said Ray.
Ray puts his hands on the ground.
"Athena activate the house blueprint." Said Ray.
The image of the house blueprint appears in Ray's mind.
"Now I just need to modify the size. 10ft x 10ft should be enough, and I need a fire pit in the center. Perfect. Create! Said Ray.
Liquidity mass appears from Ray's hands expands out and forms into the smokehouse.
As Ray finishes the smokehouse the other kobolds arrive.
"Zek, Zel let's go in." Said Ray.
The trio enters the smokehouse. Ray focuses on an iron short sword in his mind. He modifies the short sword into a rounded slender hook. "Create." Said Ray. The hook forms in Ray's hand.
"Ok Zek, Zel this hook here! You hang this end up on the beams and you stick a slab of meat on this end. But first, we need to build a fire. Ray creates five logs in the fire pit. Zek has the others bring twenty slabs of meat." Said Ray.
"Yes, chief." Said Zek. Zek heads out.
"Ok while we are waiting." Said Ray.
Ray creates nineteen more hooks and starts the fire. Zek and a few more kobolds arrive with slabs of meat.
"Ok place the meat on the hooks and hang them on the beams." Said Ray.
The kobolds hook the meat and hang them on the beams.
"Zek will need more wood. Will keep firewood outside of the smokehouse. The older kids can help gather firewood. That will be part of their daily duties. Zek the meat has to be smoked for twelve hours and I want two people in charge of smoking the meat. Besides training that will be their main job." Said Ray.
"Yes chief, I'll pick two reliable people." Replied Zek.
"Ok let us head out." Said Ray.
Ray and the group head out of the smokehouse.
Ray yells. "Alright gather around everyone! I believe that everyone should have their name! So tonight I'm gonna name everyone in the clan! We will feast tonight in celebration of our clan and for you who be well named! But before we do that we need to finish clearing and gathering all the useful material around our village! We will build a fire pit between these three buildings! So let's get going my clan!"
Everyone lets out a roar of excitement!!
For the next six hours, everyone is busy clearing and gathering. Ray spends the next six hours assimilating materials from the storage house weapons, armor, gear, living necessities, wood, plants, herbs, skins, stone, etc. Ray used max assimilation every time it was off of its cool down.
"Wow! That's a lot of stuff that I assimilated, this will be very useful to the whole clan. Zek, Zel let's get everyone to clean up and begin the feast!" Said Ray.
Zek and Zel inform the rest of the clan to clean up and get ready for the feast.
After everyone gets cleaned up they all gather around the fire pit. The fire pit is lit and burning. They skewer two of the giant boars and place them above the flames. The kids gathered a bunch of wild berries.
Ray goes over in his head all the clan members. "Thirty-two adult kobolds 18 males, 12 females, 6 kobold children 4 boys 2 girls, 5 troglodyte kids 3 boys 2 girls. We have two kobolds named Zek and Zel. I have to come up with forty-one names."
"Ok everyone while we wait for the boars to cook I will start to name everyone." Said Ray.
The first to be named is the short brown kobold, "your name is Zak." Said Ray.
Next is a female kobold, "your name is Sal." Said Ray.
Ray names the male kobolds with names starting with Z the female kobolds starting with S. The kids as well.
"The oldest troglodyte name is Wen." Said Ray.
Ray names them with names starting with W.
"Wonderful! Everyone has a name now. This makes me super happy." Said Ray.
Everyone cheers!!
Ray looks out over the clan. He smiles. "This is only the beginning." Said Ray.
Ray shouts. "Let's eat!!"