>>32400104
[X] Sleep does a mind good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs

>>32400104
>[X] Sleep does a mind good.

Rolled 22

>>32400104
>[ ] Sleep does a mind good.

>>32400104
>[ ] Sleep is for the weak.
When has our madness ever led us wrong? Making ourselves crazier with sleep deprivation sounds great.

I think the focus should be on the engine and transmission rather than the gun or the armor. We can do those later, when we're up against major enemies and have a bit more time.

For now, we gotta win the race and we can do that with relatively light armor and a ballista.

>>32400104
>>[ ] Sleep does a mind good.
I'm afraid MiB will get us again, if we don't sleep.

>>32400172
>>32400182
>>32400277

[+1 Dream]

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>>32400439
I hope dream of WaifuCoyote!

Her economic schemes against MiB will be something to see!

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>>32400439
You decide. One last day of sleep, that's what you'll get. Then begins the mad dash to completion, the same technique you used on all your finals. It never failed you before, it certainly won't now.

“Something wrong?” Judi asks.

“No,” You respond, “We should get some sleep.” You pause, “Or I should get some sleep. You need to get back to a normal sleep schedule.”

“But... people are awake during the day.”

You stare at her for a while.

Judi looks down at her feet.

“Do I need to do the no one cares speech again?” You ask.

“No...” She murmurs.

“Good. Now stay awake all day and get to sleep when the sun is down, that way on the day of the race you'll be wide awake.”

She continues to look down at her feet.

You try to think of something. “By the end of this, you'll be the biggest star in the city. People will say, 'Oh shit, is that Judicature, greatest racer in the west?' and I'll say, 'Yeah it is, now get in line because there are, like, a million other people here to see her.”

Judi laughs at your strange tale.

“Oh, you laugh now, but just wait till after the race! You'll have twenty friend requests a minute after the race. I bet you.”

She smiles and looks to you, “How much you bet?”

“Hundred gold.” You pantomime slamming some cash onto a table, “Bam! On the table! That's my bet!” You point to the non-money. “So when you lose, you better pay up!” You start walking backwards towards the inn, nodding to her as you do.

She seems to have been cheered up by your strange display, up until someone pokes their head out of a door to see what the commotion is.

The person does not look entertained by your antics.

The duelist scurries off in response.

You feel a distinct urge to slap the man, but you decide some sleep is a better option.

>>32400791
Back in your bed, you lay down to sleep. You eyes close. Your consciousness slowly slips away, and you begin to experience the strange sensations of dreams.

Dreams about...

[ ] Strange things
[ ] Strange places
[ ] Strange people
[ ] Other

>>32400813
>[X] Strange people

Rolled 33

>>32400813

[ ] Strange people

>>32400813
>[ ] Strange people

>>32400813
[ ] Strange people
[ ] Strange things

>>32400813
>[X] Other
Strange Strangeness.

>>32400825
>>32400835
>>32400843
>>32400876

[+1 Crazy]

>>32401017
>>32400813
This. Meta strangeness.

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>>32401131
Isn't all options +1 Crazy?

>>32401164
Yes, but I wanted people to choose their flavor of crazy.

>>32400104
I still don't understand how magnet can power cars. The ability to levitate like a maglev train requires so much finese and AC current it is impossible at this stage. And other magnet motors requires AC current which is difficult without a transistor.

>>32401241
Maybe she figured out electronics and used an electromagnet as an easy test?

>>32401267
So Lilac is the Edison of the Database?

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>>32401313
Yes. And we're Tesla.

>>32401332
When do we get a pigeon?

Rolled 90

>>32401332

So any hope of waifuing anyone has already been shot down.

>>32401359
You are forgetting pigeon-chan

>>32401359
I dunno. The future isn't set in stone.

>>32401358
what do you think Judicature is?

>>32401359
We could build one

>>32401370
A lander monster pigeon!

We can open the path to new diplomatic relationships between monster and man!

>>32401389
Why did I laugh.

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>>32401398
This.

Our party needs a guardian anyway.

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>>32401131
You dream of strange men. Strange men with heads of steam.

They push you and you go tumbling down.

Over and over again they push you and you fall to standing.

You shout in fury and the steam-heads dissipate.

Now you are alone and you cannot move.

Try as you might, your legs do not move. You are trapped in the darkness of this new hellish world.

Then two new steam-heads appear. One pushes you forward, the other pushes you back.

Back and forth you bounce between the two.

Then you hear a ringing.

Red lights.

“Battle stations!” You shout.

All the crew on the ship scramble for their positions.

“Fuck the police!” You shout as the missiles are fired upon the enemy vehicle.

The missiles slam into the enemy land-ship.

The crew cheers, but you hear an ominous clapping behind you.

You turn to see a man with no face, save a smile.

He continues to clap. “Goob job” He says, “But can you beat this?”

He hands you a hat made of brushstrokes and white cubes, but not any hat; no, this hat is the universal symbol of destruction. He has you. Checkmate.

The ringing continues.

“Golb.” He says. Then your land-ship goes up in smoke.

You jump in your bed, now awake.

The ringing of your phone continues.

It is your brother.

It stops for a second, but then starts again.

[ ] Answer the phone.
[ ] Ignore it.
[ ] Answer it, but quickly hand up.
[ ] Other.

>>32401420
>Then two new steam-heads appear. One pushes you forward, the other pushes you back. Back and forth you bounce between the two.

I'm taking this as a metaphor for Lilac and Judi.

[X] Answer the phone.

>>32401398

Are we Yukari now?

>>32401420
>[ ] Ignore it.

We don't got time for this nonsense, we have tanks to build

>>32401420
>Ignore it

Come on guys, we ignored it last time too.

>>32401420
>[ ] Ignore it.

>>32401470
And we continue to be unmindfucked. I think that speaks highly of ignoring.

>>32401420
>[ ] Ignore it.

>>32401470
For good reason.

>>32401470

Tanks over bros over waifus, anon.

>>32401470
We got possessed the time before that

IF we answer it, we will have an amazing steam racer, at the price of being a minion of MIB.

If we don't, we get more weird dreams. Guess we are not building landships now.

>>32401420
>[ ] Answer the phone.
Talk to him about the MiB.

>>32401420
>[X] Answer the phone.

>this hat is the universal symbol of destruction
I have no idea what this is the reference to.

>>32401420
>[ ] Ignore it.
MiB can go fuck himself

>>32401420
>[ ] Answer the phone.
I don't want to be rude to our only brother.

>>32401569
Judi was given a hat, you know.

>>32401420
>Ignore the mindfucking

>>32401637
But what are the white cubes?

Are sugar that deadly?

>>32401420
>[X] Answer the phone

>>32401420
>[ ] Answer the phone.
So we just never contact our brother again?

>>32401637
As expected of the Betrayer

>>32401420
>Ignore it

>>32401420
>[ ] Ignore it.

>>32401420
>steam will fuck us up: the dream
We're going to lose the race aren't we?
>[x\ ] Answer the phone.

>>32401671
We can contact him through or Mutual IRL friend
Stop samefagging

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>>32401569
It's a reference to a fever dream I had one time, except it was a bird instead of a hat. I just liked the madness of the imagery, but the brushstrokes and cubes probably don't mean anything.

>>32401448
>>32401454
>>32401486
>>32401505
>>32401593

[Unforeseen Consequences.]

>>32401696
Tiny has already confirmed that hes going to railroad us to our death, so yes, we will lose horribly

>>32401708
I'M NOT PREPARED FOR UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES
I WANT TO GET OFF TINYSHEP'S WILD RIDE

>>32401724
Why bother having votes then?

>>32401708
>>32401724
Shit.

>>32401705

Actually, why don't we do that?

We can contact our brother without exposing ourselves to being mindfucked

>>32401744
He likes to pretend

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>>32401708
Goddamnit guys.

>>32401744
It's to see how much death we die.

>>32401760
>WAAAAAH, we haven't been turned into MiB meatpuppet!

>>32401784
But we could have gotten an awesome landship!

>>32401803
Why would you think that?

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>>32401816
The MiB wants us to come to New York, so he'd help us get there by winning the race.

He's a total bro. Why contain it?

>>32401848
So wishful thinking, gotcha.

>>32401871
He's done a similar thing in the past.

>>32401871
Don't you trust the MiB, Anon?

He's really nice.

>>32401871
He did get us a level. We might have had to kill someone.

>>32401888
Did MIB get our QM?

>>32402609
Yup. All because you didn't answer your phone.

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>>32401708
You ignore the call. It rings, and rings, and rings. Then it stops. Then it rings again, and again, and again.

You put a pillow over your head, but the ringing is coming from inside your head.

It continues for what feels like an eternity before it finally ends. You lift the pillow to see that it is dark outside. God damn is he persistent. You're too awake now to go back to sleep, so you get out of bed, get dressed, and head down stairs.

You wave to Tabula and the two of you head out into the streets and to his workshop.

“We're not sleeping till the race starts.” You say. “We gotta get this thing done ASAP.”

Tabula nods. “So, what are we doing now?”

“We're getting this thing to move.”

The two of you get to work building a receptacle for the coal to sit under the bucket. You make copies of the wheel contraption and hook them all up to the bucket. You then light some coals and wait.

“So, I had the craziest dream.” You say to the blacksmith.

“What was it about?” He asks.

“Uhh... steam-people and a hat? There was some guy, and he had a hat, and I knew it meant destruction, like the universal symbol of destruction, it wasn't really explained, I just knew it somehow. Anyways, he hands me the hat and my ship blows up. I was on a ship, by the way.”

“Think it means anything?”

“Probably not.”

The steam begins to pump out of the contraption and it slowly lurches forward, but all the wheels are firing at their own rate and soon the thing hobbles about and falls over.

>>32402649
You stare at the machine and sigh. “The movement isn't smooth enough. It won't work like this.” You look up and give the finger to whatever god has cursed you. Probably the god of the forge, the smug bastard. “Fuck that guy.” You mumble to yourself.

You start to think over what could be done.

A crankshaft? Yeah, that might work. The entire thing will move together if there is just one source of power. But then how are you going to get it to work as a tank!?

You continue to stare up at the sky. Cars do this shit. How the hell do cars to this shit!?

[ ] What if the gears move around to determine which one is connected to what?
[ ] What if the steam pushes the piston out AND in?
[ ] What if I say fuck it and go to bed?
[ ] Other

>>32402677
Okay what do we do engineers?!
>[ ] What if the gears move around to determine which one is connected to what?
Until a real engineer says otherwise.

>>32402677

>[ ] What if the steam pushes the piston out AND in?

Engineers, send help

>>32402677
>[ ] What if I say fuck it and go to bed?
Just give up. MiB is gonna blow up the world anyway.

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>>32402677
[ ] What if the gears move around to determine which one is connected to what?

I'm not really an engineer or mechanic of any kind, but doesn't a tank just have wheels that act like gears for the treads?

We need maybe two or three large "gears" and a bunch of smaller ones.

>>32402677
>[ ] What if the gears move around to determine which one is connected to what?

>>32402677
>[ ] What if the gears move around to determine which one is connected to what?
Gears are like cousins to the glorious lever.

>>32402677
How does this work? [ ] What if the steam pushes the piston out AND in?

>>32402677
>[ ] Other
I have no idea what to do, the only thing I can suggest is putting a lever in there somewhere.

What if we had two steam engines, one for each set of wheels?

>>32402824
You have a moving valve that directs steam to one side of the piston per stroke, then the other side.

>>32402874
That is ingenious. Imagine if all steam engines were like that. Double the output.

>>32402869
That sounds stupid, anon. So stupid, it might just work.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/4298-auto-transmission-video.htm

So this MIGHT help.

>>32402824
Currently?

The steam builds up, is pushed through a lever valve, then pushes a piston forward. The piston the pushes the wheel forward and at the same time closes the lever valve. The piston is then put back in place under the inertia of being pushed out and opens the valve again just before getting back to the original position.

>>32402869
One for the front and one for the back? So it is basically 4 wheel drive?

>>32402901
They'd have to work in concert, though, so we might have to develop a control scheme that would automate an equal amount of power from both when we need it and differential power when we don't.

>>32402677
[ ] Other

Set it up so that you have two boilers, one on each side of the car (each boiler serves 2 wheels). Set up a valve that lets a pilot control how much steam is going to each side of the car. They can regulate output.

>>32402986
Too hard to make the output equal on both engines.

>>32402677
Oh, I forgot an option what was supposed to be under the steam one.

[ ] Why not both?

>>32403017
Fucking both then.

>>32403007
No, not really.

>>32402864
Me again, what we need is a release valve for the steam when it gets far enough, that way we can use gravity to pull it back down

>>32403017
>>32402735 here, both sounds good.

We need to stop worrying about the engine and worry about building the rest of the car.

>>32403017
Oh god damn it. I was >>32402781
and now say both.

>>32403017

Yes, go for both then

>>32402737

Changing from this

We're missing the most important bits
Where are our treads
We cant grind out opponents under wheels, we need treads to properly oppress people

>>32403017

Go for both

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>>32402892
It'd be much easier to sync them by having 1 big engine which goes to each drive wheel.
>>32403007
on an endurance race it'll cause problems. the amount of water in the boiler and temp of the fire would require constant adjustment.
by the way, this thing is going to need a lot and coal(or other flammable) and water. On steam trains, the entire first car was often dedicated to holding coal, and water was either gotten in town or (in more sparse areas) water towers.

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Some kindly anon posted the Log Horizon anime's design book the other day, if anyone happened to miss it. Lots of character doodles and such.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/3uwx8gx54wdwfb1/Log+Horizon+Settei+Shiryoushuu.rar

>>32403109
Treads need wheels to move them.

>>32403174
Thanks!
>>32403185
And wheels needs a motor to spin them!

>>32403157
It would be easier if we just had a nuclear generator or some magical analogue that isn't radioactive.

>>32403222
Hopefully Lilac hasn't stumbled upon some magic crystals that generate electricity.

>>32403222
Like a summoned fire elemental.

Oh wait.

>>32401241
presumably abusing the physics engine for the game.
Magnet A repels magnet b which pushes the entire car that's also connected to magnet A for INFINITE ENERGY?

>>32403079
>>32403072
>>32403059
>>32403025

Both? Or did I count wrong?

>>32403261

Both

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>>32403261
We have no idea what we're doing.

>>32403245
I am still pushing for that.

>>32403298
Not like it'll matter anyway.

>>32403316
MIB will save us!

>>32403340
This. Let's call our brother.

>>32403261
>>32403284

[+1 Inspiration]

Never have i seen people so gung ho about giving up control of the character.

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>>32403157
Oh hey, I found this! ignoring the gas bit, it shows a good ideal to move towards.

>>32403387
It actually will work well too. How long did it take us to invent this in the real world?

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>>32403174
I think I found the Swag Bros. final design.

>>32403477
How does that even work? You are on a cart. You are pushing levers back and forth. Is the lever disconnected from the wheel on its journey back to its starting position?

>>32403477
We're kill.

>>32403449
according to my extensive internet research (wikipedia), first use of powered steam was around 1 AD. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_steam_engine

>>32403574
I meant the reverse valve. The Greeks knew about the concept of steam engines and Archimede's cannon in BC times.

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>>32403637
>the reverse valve
1720. Maybe.


Still writing.

>>32403637
Please tell me we're going to build a steam cannon just to say we did.

>>32403674
Ahhh thanks good shepherd.

>>32403704
considering how much trouble we're having with a simple steam drivetrain, i doubt it.

>>32403704
>>32403739
I'd be afraid of blowing up the boiler. a cannon would need somewhere to build up the pressure. If we got one to work though, it'd provide an interesting dynamic of speed vs fire rate.

>>32403362
Like a bolt of lightning you suddenly understand. Steam pushing the piston in one direction is the problem for all of this! And the gears!

It's like your brain is on fire, but in a good way! Brain-fire! Steam-men!

“OF COURSE!” You shout, “FUCKIN' STEAM-MEN!”

Tabula gives you a strange look.

“No! Really, okay. So, the steam pushes the piston out, right? Well, if we just have a way of encasing the piston, right? And have it so it pumps steam into one end, then pumps it into the other while draining the first one, right? Well, that means the steam is pushing at all times! Smooth energy! That fuckin' simple! And we, like, four of those fuckers, all turning the wheels! No! It turns gears! Those gears? We make them so we can move them around. Changing which gear ratio is turning each side. That will change their speed without changing the power output! It's brilliant!”

Tabula gives a second's thought and asks, “So, you want to control the tanks through just gearshifting each of the sides?”

“Yes!” You say, “Wait. Are you saying you know how a gearshift works?”

“Only the basics.” He responds.

You want to yell something, but you don't even know what to yell, so you just shake your head and shout, “Let's get to work!”

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>>32404240
You look at your strange contraption and quickly realize you're going to need to make the entire thing all over again, except for maybe the bucket.

You and Tabula get to work. Metal bars, metal pipes, metal boxes. Pistons, slide valves, wheels.

The prototype of the engine is done. You pack the coals in, light them, and wait.

The wheel turns, and turns, and turns, and turns. It continues to spin, not giving up an ounce of speed. In fact, it looks like the thing is speeding up.

You fall to your knees and point to the sky. You and the forge god. Best friends for life now. Fuck yeah.

After a couple of minutes of watching the wheel just spin, bathing in the sense of accomplishment, you look to the empty space where there should be a giant steam tank, and say, “Soon.”

[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”
[ ] “Let's make it small. Just enough for one person.”
[ ] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”
[ ] Other.

>>32404264
>[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”

Bitch, it's a fucking TANK.

BIG RED ONE.

>>32404264
>[ ] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”

>>32404264
>[ ] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”
This is the racer one. Gotta keep it light but usable. Afterwards we can make a big ass one for the entire crew to ride it.

>>32404264
>[ ] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”

>>32404264
>[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”

Go Big Or Go Home

>>32404264
>[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”

>>32404264
>[X] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”

We're putting in a ballista/gun, right?

>>32404264
>[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”

>>32404264
>] “We're gonna make it big!”
We need it bigger than big!

>>32404264
>[x] “We're gonna make it big!”

Guys, I know you want to have a huge tank right now, but this is not only a prototype, but one which has to be capable of winning a long distance RACE.

We'll build the next one bigger and better.

>>32404264
>[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”

The rest of you bore me to tears.

>>32404264
>[ ] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”

>>32404264
>[ ] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”
We can use it to pull a cart after for extra people.
An armored cart, even.
But for now, lets win the race.

>>32404287
>>32404313
>>32404317
>>32404325
>>32404326
>>32404353

[+100 Big]
[-100 Small]
[+100 Fuck Yeah]

>>32404264
>[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”

>>32404358
BOOOOOOOOOOORING.

>>32404264
[x] “Make it just big enough for the three of us.”

>>32404264
>[ ] “We're gonna make it big!”

Let's do this.

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>>32404398
Okay, I hope you like the biggest tank being the worst one.

Our next tank will be much better and probably not another landship.

>>32404392
Just make sure it has a fuckhuge engine to match.

We've already lost

>>32404460
Now we can extra lose. Enough to give Juli another complex.

>>32404450

I regret nothing.

>>32404460
It was fun.

>>32404460
>Juli
Her name is Judi.

>>32404460
But, bigger is better right?

>>32404543
bigger is slower

>>32404460

Live by the HUGE, die by the HUGE

>>32404564
More like crawl painfully and fail to reach the finish line by the HUGE.

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>>32404521
Eh. I got contingencies.

Maybe we could sell the Big Red One to the cowboys in iforgetthename 51 for an insane amount of money and then use that money to pay our Summoner friend what we owe him and build a better tank.

I hope our fuckhuge tank is built more like a locomotive than a heavy tank, which it may very well be since it don't have a fucking artillery piece to carry around.

>>32404264
Thee of us. There will be enough willing to make us a proper one after we made a fucking steam tank.

>>32404601
So what's it like, living in the past, knowing you can't actually alter the course of events?

>>32404598

We'll owe him nothing, he's only doing this for the possibility of winning.

Thank the guy on a bike.

>>32404633
We did promise to split the winnings.

>>32404686

If we win, we won't have to sell BRO, if we lose, we'll owe him nothing except possibly a ride back.

>>32404726
>If we win
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

>>32404726
>If we win

That ship has sailed unless we do some serious cheating.

>>32404742
>>32404757
I don't even care about winning, just pointing out hypotheticals.

>>32404598
you know, instead of a single, massive artillery piece, several "smaller" ones would be much easier. as in, "mounted anti-infantry" smaller. there are modern firearms that use the gases from firing the weapon to cycle it. so, just replace the gas with steam and presto! fully automatic anti-infantry weapons.

>>32404757
>race starts
>cannon aims at the crowd
>'I win, any objections?'

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>>32404771
>I don't care about the entire point of this exercise
>I want to do something now that could be easily done after the race

>>32404825

Sorry you're butthurt man, gonna need someone to see to that.

Now that OP has torpedoed the waifu wars, we have tank wars instead.

>>32404844
Hey, I'm voting to sell the Big Red Hunk of Junk for mad dosh when we crawl past the finish line, so I'm certainly not mad.

BigTex will probably want to drive it personally.

>>32404883

Sure, you'll try man.

>>32404900
>implying it won't be eaten by coyote

Keep on living in your happy place, anon.

>>32404900
Look, it'll give us cash to make a better landship. More efficient, probably have a good weapon on it too.

You'll get what you want.

>>32404934
...Bah, fine, maybe.

>>32404883
If we DON'T jump out of it like Speed Racer I will be very disappointed.

>>32404883
I got this, guys.

Just train mobs onto the other racers while we survive in the tank.

>>32405673
>implying we will be able to catch up to even one of the other racers

We're coming in last, anon.

You could have prevented this.

>>32405701
We have a steam engine. Versus the swag mobile.

I think at least we will win against one of them. Or they will just laps us and we will throw turtle shells at them.

>>32405723
Are you forgetting the magnetmobile?

>>32405701
Don't you know Anon? Bigger tank == bigger engine == go faster == win race!

>>32405701
It doesn't matter if we win or lose, what matters is that we do it with the people that we care about!

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>>32404392
“We're gonna make it big!” You shout, “Big as fuck! We're gonna make a god damn ship! Except on the land! A land-ship!”

“How big are we talking?” Tabula asks.

“Like, give us bedrooms on this thing! Make this thing into the enterprise of land-ships!”

“That's a tall order.” He responds.

“I believe in you.”

“I believe in me too, but that doesn't mean I can build it in a day.”

“Then build it as big as you can! Big ass engine in the middle, bridge up front, bedrooms in the back! Later we can add some cannons to it! Steam cannons!”

Tabula shrugs, “I'll try, but you need to get to work on that gearshift.”

The two of you get back to work building what will soon be The Big Red One. The frame is build slowly but surely. You can imagine it now. Wooden floors: Very tasteful. Fancy wood doors: Classy. Dark and dreary boiler room: A classic. A wide open deck: A must. A tiny little bedroom in the back: The fuck? A tiny little room at the front for Judi: What the hell?

“What the hell!?” You shout.

“What?” Asks Tabula.

“What's with the tiny rooms!?”

“If I made them any bigger, things would be too heavy.”

“But how am I supposed to walk around like a ship captain now!? There's supposed to be a huge bridge! With computers! And missiles!”

“Like in Star Trek?”

“Exactly!”

“That's not going to happen.”

>>32405734
The cube squared law called. It's laughing at you.

>>32405740
You sigh and look out the window. It's still dark out? Wait, no. The sun just went down.

“Help me get this boiler in place.” Tabula says.

You look at the giant metal cylinder. It shimmered a deep red reflection of everything. “That's not iron.” You say.

“It's not.” Tabula responds, “It's dragon metal. Stats-wise, it's got decent defense and fire resistance.”

“So, what does that mean?”

“If my guess is right? Fire resistance means it's insulated. Extra defense probably means it can stand up to some heavy pressures.”

It certainly made sense to you, so you just went along with it.

After some more tinkering, the frame and gears are now done. Everything lies exposed and untested.

[ ] “Let's get this thing covered up.”
[ ] “Let's give this thing a test drive.”
[ ] Other.

>>32405764
>[ ] “Let's give this thing a test drive.”

Joy Ride time bitches

>>32405738
I like this anon.

Also, we will revolutionize the field by presenting the idea of steam engine. Soon, the sky will be full of steam Zepplins.

>>32405764
>“Let's give this thing a test drive.”

>>32405764
[ ] “Let's give this thing a test drive.”

We gotta know what's not working, because something inevitably isn't working.

And seriously? Bedrooms?

>>32405764
>[ ] “Let's give this thing a test drive.”

As much I'd love to surprised everyone else, we do need to work out any possible kinks.

>>32405764
>[ ] “Let's give this thing a test drive.”

>>32405732
they without something to move the magnets, they closest they can get is hand cranking generators to fill batteries.

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>>32405732

You mean Magneto-mobile.

>>32405764
>[ ] “Let's give this thing a test drive.”
Fuck yeah, time to have a little fun with it.

>>32405806
It is a multi day trip.

The way things are going, we are going to spend at least a week in the desert.

>>32405764
>[ ] “Let's give this thing a test drive.”

We're going to crash it, aren't we?

>>32405842
Eh, I 'd prefer storage rooms for camping gear.

We shouldn't be living in this thing.

>>32405842
>implying the ride ever ends.

we're in coyote country, now

>>32405846
All famous mobiles crash. Especially the T4.

>>32405723
Dont underestimate it. Adventurer base stats mean they can use ALOT more force than what you guys are probably thinking if they have some decent levels and/or are a melee class.

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>>32405854
And thank god for it. We still have a chance to recruit her.

>>32405854
Haha. I like you anon.

>>32405853
We are doing rotation shifts. The steam mobile chugs on at night.

Also we don't have room for coal. We need the fire elemental.

>>32405846
Then we'll yell at Judi and absolutely no one will be happy at all

>>32405782
>>32405803
>>32405806
>>32405810
>>32405811
>>32405825
>>32405846
[+1 Joyride]
[+1 Intimidation]
[+1 Swag]

>>32405935
make Judi know where the brakes are AND how to use them!

>>32405935
>intimidation
Yes, fear our godly machine

>>32405935
>no +1 sabotage or -1 steam tank
Feels good man

>>32406012
>implying +1 swag doesn't include both of those and more

>>32406017

Great, now we're gonna have to sleep next to the tank now guys.

>>32405764
seeing as be won't have time to make weapons before the race, I vote we build them during the race. we're going to have a lot of free time in the near future.

>>32406012
I don't really see how that's possible, considering we're going to continue to refine our tank until the race starts.

The faster we go, the better. And that's not just important in this race. It'll give us an advantage over Coyote and whatever else we come across.

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>>32405935
“Let's give this thing a test drive.”

Tabula adjusts his glasses, “It's the only way.”

You both climb aboard. You head for the drivers seat, Tabula walks around to the front of the machine.

He summons forth a water sprite. The watery woman pours gallons and gallons of water into the boiler before being dismissed.

“We ready?” You ask.

“We're ready to go. Just need some heat.”

He heads down the stairs, into the boiler room, where you can't see him.

You rub your hands together and move the gearshifts; one to reverse, the other to first gear. Then you play the waiting game.

Over time you can hear the steam traveling through the tubes, pressing on the metal cauldron. Then you hear the hiss of steam and the machine suddenly jerks to the right. Then again. Now you are facing the door and you can't help but put both sides into first gear.

There is a big grin on your face as the machine begins to move with a smooth pace, heading out the now bigger door with a crash.

“What was that!?” Tabula cries out.

“Nothing!” You shout back, “Just give us some more power!”

The machine begins to get a good pace as you head down the main street, crushing fruit stands in the way.

The people look up to your metal behemoth with mouths agape and looks of terror on their faces. You pass by a bunch of were-cats with a bike. The fools, they can never match the power of The Big Red One.

You drive this monster all the way out of town, and that is when you switch gears, increasing speed. The majesty of the mechanical creature! Faster and faster it runs!

“More power!” You shout. The speed is obscene! You leave clouds of dust in your wake. You are rulers of this mountainous world! The highway is your kingdom, and none shall question your rules!

>>32406883
Then the titan starts to slow down, and down, and down.

You are stopped.

“What's going on!?” You yell.

Tabula gets back on deck. “We're out of water.” He responds.

You lie back in the chair, “But things were just getting good.”

He summons up another water sprite. “We should get back and finish this thing off.”

“But we have so much time left!”

He points to the horizon. The sun slowly peaks its body above the line.

“Fuck.” Is all you have to say on the subject.

The two of you painstakingly get back to the workshop with the newly-expanded doors.

“Why is there a huge hole in my walls?” Tabula asks.

“It was a sacrifice we needed to make.” You respond.

Tabula does not look too pleased by your joke.

“I'll just...” You try to think of something.

[ ] Find someone to fix that hole.
[ ] Get back to work.
[ ] Go get some breakfast for us.
[ ] Other.

>>32406914
>[ ] Find someone to fix that hole.

Yeah, that was a dick move.

>>32406914
[X] Get back to work.

NO TIME! Tell Tabula he's become the Henry Ford of Elder Tale.

He'll soon be paying people to make shit for him.

>>32406914
>[ ] Get back to work.
Promise her that we'll pay for repairs to the place with our portion of the winnings.

>>32406970

This.

Also holy shit, apparently our tank is fucking fast.

Who woulda thunk it?

>>32406914
>[ ] Find someone to fix that hole.

>>32406914
>[ ] Find someone to fix that hole.
>[ ] Get back to work.

Apologize, and mention that you'll pay for repairs out of the pocket, but that we really need to work on this.

TinyShepherd, could you give us estimates on length, height, and speed of our tank?

>>32406914
>[ ] Get back to work.

Repair money will come from our portion of the winnings. But yeah, we don't have enough time to dilly dally.

>>32406914
>[x] Get back to work.

We'll fix the hole later with the prize money. I'm sure Tabula will understand.

How should we get more water fast out in the desert?

>>32407057
nigger, do you even read?

Just use elementals. Like we've been saying for 3 threads.

>>32407057
Maybe judi can sacrafice hp to make it keep going?

>>32407057

Mana potions to summon more water elementals.

Summoners are hilariously useful that way.

>>32406914
>[ ] Get back to work.

We'll pay for repairs.

>>32407083
They're the most OP class post-Apocalypse, honestly.

>>32407083
>>32407075
I know that, but maybe there is an even faster way.

We might want to buy a map that has some water sources on it. Yeah, water elementals will come in handy, but let's not fuck this up by thinking our summoner and driver will do all the work.

Let's just plan for them to get tired and be unable to function at a critical time. If we plan for that, we won't panic and will just move on to our contingency.

>>32407057
Summon a masochistic water sprite.

>>32407124
>thinking we have a chance of victory

we're going to lose, OP. The railroad has no brakes.

>>32407011
About 12 feet high, 30 feet long, speed is dependent on internal pressure, but I'd say max speed is somewhere around 50 miles per hour on a good day. Not stupid fast, but certainly a lot faster than you have been traveling for the past week.

>>32406970
>>32406997
>>32407020
>>32407042
>>32407104
>>32406952

[+1 Hard Workin']
[+1 Lilac Snoopin']

>>32407144
>lilac snoopin
kill her

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>>32407144
>[+1 Lilac Snoopin']

Eyes grow back, right?

>>32407144

>Lilac Snoopin

Not to start waifu shit, but it might be a good idea to hedge our bets with the race thing.

Form an informal alliance. We agree to help each other out against the other racers but we each compete to win.

If Lilac wins, our party gets 33k, if we win we get 67k - wall repair funds. Either way, it helps our chances of winning and getting paid.

>>32407144
It should also go faster with The Betrayer driving.

>>32407144
Silly elves and your primitive concepts that buildings need walls.

>>32407199
No. Fuck lilac and her lies.

>>32407144
>50 miles per hour

That's damn faster than it has any right to be.

>>32407199

If you want to try anything like that, at least ask Tabula and Judi first.

That said, not too keen myself.

>>32407199
Yeah, let's make this competition friendly.

Imagine how our steam tanks will benefit from magnet technology. Railguns soon, comrades!

>>32407231

I don't see how they would object although I agree we should talk to them. It directly increases our chances of winning since we gain another competitive edge over all the other racers.

It's not a matter of liking Lilac so much as getting paid and recking shit easier.

>>32407286

I'm primarily talking about splitting up the winnings with them.

I doubt Tabula will be too pleased with that myself.

>>32407234
>>32407199
I gotta agree here. There's still enough time for Lilac to make last minute adjustments and we just showed her the power of steam in plain enough of a view that she knows where to start working from if she didnt already. She possibly could integrate both in order to make some ungodly thing and show us up while leaving us with a debt to a nun puncher.

>>32407144
Welp, it was fun while it lasted. Into the coyote she goes.

>>32407317

What?

We are not splitting winnings and we will still be competing.

I'm just saying either Lilac gets paid 33k or Judi/MC get paid 33k each. As long as the party is held together, that's basically communal funds.

It's better than Swag Bros winning

>>32407333
Hopefully we'll get a better waifu out of the deal.

>>32407144
"It's just a wall! We're we're going, we don't need walls! Also I'll try and get some guy to fix it while we're out."

>>32407324

I really regret showing off now.

That said, I seriously doubt she'll be able to make a steam engine in one day. It took us three days to figure it out. She's hardly going to try and redo everything again so close to the race if she has any sense.

>>32407350

>Implying Big Red One isn't waifu enough for you

Absolutely disgusting

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>>32407324
>our next landship is even more fuckhuge and has reasonable bedrooms and a dining area

>>32407386
You go ahead and stick your dick in the boiler hole and tell us how that works out.

>>32407400

2lewd

>>32407391
She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro.

>>32407384
Three days to make a locomotive engine. electromagnets are much easier to make, are barely a step from making radios, and we've pretested a viable power source for her. We dont want to find out she did have engineering skills and just gave her the inspiration to take the magnets to the next level.

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>>32407324
>integrate steam engine technology into an already complex machine with only a third of the time to figure it out and implement it

Question: do Pirates get a bonus to sailing?

>>32407464

One day left to figure out a technology where it took three days for a dedicated team to do so.

The math seriously isn't that hard.

>>32407464

Can you not read? The vast majority of our time was spent figuring out how to make the damn engine work, the chassis was the easy part.

>>32407391
We'll probably have to make the living quarters like a submarine though. It'll be a tight fit and we'll have to have a split between male and female bunks, but we'll manage it.

>>32407484
They might have a small passive boost to ship-based activities, but I'd guess it's most likely a combat boost rather than one for operating them considering that there's already a specific subclass for that.

http://lh.oksub.me/wiki/Subclasses
ctrl+f Sailor

>>32407602

Our next step is obviously to make a Steam!Battleship.

>>32407471
>>32407549

The TLDR of it is she just has to get it to spin. Do you have any idea how simple is is to do that? The very first steam powered invention from ancient Greece could power that shit.

You had to make a complicated engine. She just spins shit to generate electricity, adds some wires and she has a supermagnet. The design is much simpler here.

>>32407621
>battleship

Dreadnaught with Ironclad screens. Let's keep an old school theme, so as not to anger whatever gods Elder Tale has.

>>32407602
Hmm... sounds like we need to make a tanker subclass.

>>32407633
She could've done that with the knowledge she already had. She chose not to.

>>32407633
I bet that you've just described her current design.

So I'm guessing that there's going to be nothing new her.

>>32407685
She decides she has to add more power and hires a mage to make lightning?

>>32407718

Maybe.

I highly doubt this incident will drastically increase her capabilities or something though.

>>32407718
This is probably what she's doing. She's using a mage as a battery, which means her car might be fast but it'll run out of steam.

Ours runs out of steam too, but we got a summoner and, if we find a map with water sources, other options as well.

She just has the mage. Two mages, tops. And I doubt she'll have enough mana potions.

>>32407633

Whatever, I don't really give a shit, she still isn't getting our steam engine design out of it.

>>32407761
>She just has the mage. Two mages, tops. And I doubt she'll have enough mana potions.
depends on pt setup. If one of them is a bard or enchanter specced for this the mage will run out slower and this is a couple so they may just have designed their characters around each other.

>>32407464
EM engines are too high tech level. Needs too high a skill level to use. Steam engine? Just the right mix.

>>32407718
>>32407761
Well, she's a sorcerer so that's one, what about those lovey-dovey little shits that were helping her? what classes were they?

>>32407889
I think one is an alchemist of some sort.

One thing is for sure, Lilac couldn't do it alone and she's a blacksmith. So one of them has to be an engineer.

>Sigilmancer subclass

We could hire one of these guys to enchant our tank.

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>>32407144
“I'll just get back to work.” You say, “I'll pay you back once we get the prize money. Hell, by that time we'll be able to just sell steam tanks to people. You'll be rich, even if we don't win!”

He still looks disappointed in your actions.

“Back to work!” You say with an awkward smile.

The two of you get to covering up the exposed gears and pipes with nice, thin coverings of metal and wood. “That's some classy shit right there,” you say to yourself.

That's when you hear the sound of whirring gears. You turn around to see Lilac driving around the workshop in some kind of tiny car. She looks like a child in a chrome colored power wheels car or something.

“What are you doing?” You ask her.

“I thought I would cruise around to pick up some fly honeys.” She responds.

You stare at her.

“I thought it was funny.” She says with an awkward smile.

“And you thought I would just ignore you trying to steal our design secrets?”

She looks a bit insulted, “It's a few hours before the race, I couldn't steal your design even if I wanted to!”

You look back to Tabula, then to Lilac, “A few hours!?”

“Right.” She responds.

You begin to panic, “Is it ready!? Are we ready!? How much more do we need!?”

“We're still missing some panels.” Tabula responds.

You scramble back up the land-ship.

“Need some help?” Lilac asks.

[ ] “Sure!”
[ ] “No!”
[ ] Other

>>32407999
>[ ] “Sure!”

Only a few hours?

Meh, can't hurt to let her put on a few panels.

>>32407999
>[ ] Other

"That wouldn't be fair to your teammates"

>>32407999
>Other
Ask Lilac if she'll keep this competition friendly. We're both engineers of one sort or another and when the race is over we can work together on shit.
Apart of this means no espionage or sabotage. The best design wins.

If she agrees to that, then
>[ ] “Sure!”

>>32407999
>[ ] “No!”
You'll have to sabotage us more overtly, liar.

>>32407999
>[ ] “Sure!”

Letting her stick on a few panels isn't going to be the end of the worlds.

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>>32407999
>[ ] “Sure!”

>>32407999
>[ ] “Sure!”
We are totally taking a giant steamtank to the Big Apple, by the way

>UNucili Tabulas
Tabula's coming!?

>>32408052
This

>>32407999
putting my vote behind
>>32408052

>>32407879
So are bombs with explosions the size of a building capable of one shotting a lv 99 and those exist. it's all about exploiting loopholes there. They aren't "using" the engines. they're just chucking lightning at them.
Plus taking your hypothesis into consideration the conbustion engines the people in Japan are going to make should be too high level for anyone to bother using. Guns just have an equip requirement while the engines aren't gear so you aren't going to run into that.

>>32407999
>[x] “Sure!”