Grimm's Journal — Apr 04

Been out at the mines near Minoc all day, and my back's feeling it. Spent half the time chasing off pesky earth elementals just to get at a decent vein of iron, and then the forge back home gave me nothing but trouble—must've been a dozen times I couldn't get a good heat to smelt the ore. Still, managed to hammer out a few solid daggers before calling it quits.