prerequisites: advanced painting, thinking hard
cost: 70
field: knowledge
effect: the cavemen can draw a hut or a house or a machine to help everyday life on cave walls, so that the other cavemen can help them building it.
As a weekly action any caveman may make a Contraption blog post in the Story category starting with the words “Let’s make a…” and the name of the object they want to build. They can be referred as the Inventor of that Contraption.
They need to list the components of the object, that may be any tool in any quantity with the following restrictions:
*any kind of rocks that is not basic can be listed only if the caveman has at least 15 intelligence;
*any kind of sticks that is not basic can be listed only the caveman has at least 30 intelligence;
*any kind of axe can be listed only if the caveman has at least 40;
*any kind of fire can be listed only if the caveman has at least 50;
*at least 5 and no more than 15 tools shall be used;
They shall then write the effect of the contraption, that may not affect the gamestate.
They may add a picture illustrating the Contraption.
Any caveman holding a tool listed in the components may then help the poster build it by making a Helping comment only containing the symbol and a Tool they are holding that thay shall remove from their GNDT cell. After this, one instance of that tool shall not be considered a component any more for the purpose of the previous sentence.
The contraption is built when all the components needed are listed in the Helping comments.
Any admin may admin the post commenting “Built”, and all the following comments to that post shall have no gamestate effect. They shall then add X intelligence to the Inventor, where X is a third the number of tools required rounded up, where axes and fire shall be counted three times and non-basic sticks twice. They shall add X/2 to the every caveman that wrote at least a Helping comment for that Contraption, except for the Inventor.
If the Chef or at least half the quorum rounded up added a in their comment, the Inventor shall get a 2 smartness bonus.
If the Chief writes a post containing the symbol, the Contraption post shall have no gamestate effect.