Board Thread:Off-Topic/@comment-5354667-20140720164201/@comment-24108228-20140721152216

Inside the walls of the plateau camp, the atmosphere wasn't nearly as peaceful.

Plateau Leader: WHAT DO YOU MEAN "That's the catch."?!? I CANT HAVE MY ENTIRE RANGED FORCES WINDING UP A CRANK! Banana: Well you see, the crossbow can shoot much more bolts per minute, and it- Plateau Leader: I DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR FANCY NUMBERS! THIS CONTRAPTION OF YOURS COSTS 6 TIMES AS MUCH AS A REGULAR CROSSBOW, NEEDS A CONSTANT SUPPLY OF OIL TO PREVENT THE GEARS FROM JAMMING, AND YOU HAVE TO SPEND AGES WINDING UP A CRANK FOR IT TO DO ANYTHING! Plateau Leader: UNLESS YOU CAN PROVIDE A WAY OF POWERING THIS WITHOUT A MAN AND A HANDLE, I'M KICKING YOU OUT! I'VE HAD IT WITH YOUR SPINNY CREATIONS!

Banana had been working at the plateau tribe for a while now, getting in only because the tribe had lost their last engineer to an explosives accident. The tribe generally disliked Banana's obsession with steampunk engineering, as it created quite the noise and consumed metal faster than any other profession. Banana had insisted that it could automate many tedious processes, but to little avail.

Now that the leader had come to inspect the first contraption of Banana's, they were not impressed. If anything it required more effort, it costed more steel and iron, and it was much heavier, requiring additional training for anyone who was to wield it. In a frantic scurry of self preservation, Banana flicked through their notes they had made on a fabric notebook before he joined the Plateau tribe, and found something called a "Steam Engine". Banana showed the blueprint to their angry boss, who asked: Plateau Leader: The picture is all well and good, but what is it? Banana: Its a steam engine. It takes in flammable materials and produces charge for the mechanical inventions. Just stick your crossbow onto the top, insert wood or coal, and it will charge in a few seconds! Plateau Leader: And how are we going to get this flammable material? Banana: The best way I see would be to steal some magma from magma island, providing an infinite heat source, but I doubt that would have positive effects on the dormant volcano there, so magma island's tribe would probably complain. Plateau Leader: How much so? Banana: Swords and bombs. The more accomplishable way of doing this would be slave labour. Plateau Leader: Build me one of these "Steam Engines" and I'll see how well it works. If it can successfully charge one of your silly contraptions at a fast enough pace, I'll start the slave import.

And so the leader left the room, and Banana got to work building the machinery requested.

Yes, this is just an excuse to get some conflict going, this thread will die if we don't actually have anything going on except a few people struggling to make a stone spear.