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''Lots of activity at desert I see. You forgot to add the time, but that's ok. I'll just forward it by a small amount.''

Banana: Day 2, 9:30am

Banana slowly awoke from his slumber, trying to focus his eyes and check the time. Man, he was tired. And he'd slept in too, a couple hours later than he was used to. Of course, this was to be expected. Banana had somehow got it in his head that it would be a good idea to make all 25 gears in one go, in order to get it out the way, but the actual effect of this was that he'd stayed up till midnight hammering away at bluesteel until it made the right shape, at which point he'd pick up another lump and start again.

On the bright side, he had done all 25 gears. In an incredible feat of endurance, he'd managed to create every single one of the stupid little circles, and they now stood proudly in a neat stack next to the crates. Having finished the main bulk of the work, Banana would now have a couple days to himself, which was a relief. After a little while, Banana mustered up the willpower to get up, and started making himself breakfast.

Once he'd finished eating, Banana decided to set off for the village so he could have a look at what new trinkets the inventors had come up with this week. They were a funny bunch, always trying to best each other or do something innovative. Usually this ended up in failure, but they never gave up. They just took the machine apart, and tried again. And again. And eventually, they'd manage what they were trying to do, and for the effort they'd put in for it, it looked like a rather silly endeavour, but they'd be pleased, and think of something new to build.

Today however, one of them had come up with something rather interesting indeed. It was a functioning model ballista, which came complete with it's own bolts and a key to wind it up with. Despite all this, it was only about 20cm in length, and half that in width, so rather than a weapon to you put on a ship to kill your enemy, it was a weapon you put on your desk to kill time. Given Banana had nothing better to do, and everything else on sale was a slightly different version of the automatic broom that didn't really work, he decided to buy one, and took it home to mess around with.

Indeed, it was just as fun as it looked. Banana eventually found some straw on the dirt road outside his house, and made it into two equally small people, which he used to practice his aim. It was a most enjoyable evening.

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