[Solo- Crafting] The key to my.... chest

[Bailin]

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HP: 100% MP: 100% RH: Antiqua Musket (lvl 5) LH: Antiqua Musket (lvl 5) QS: Starter Rapier AR: Starter Warden Armour

WC: 289 TWC: 289 Tags @people, @people, @people, @people Theme Song TS Credits Cortana

Staring at the bits and bobs in front of him Bailin ran his hands through his hair. On a whim he had gathered parts to make a lock, but he did not understand how it was supposed to fit all together. The theoretical bit of a lock’s mechanism was easy enough; the practical part on the other hand, was a slightly different tale. As his hands ended their way in his neck, his hair had become a mess, the usually neat hair, most of it tucked away in the bow, now run rampant on his head, plucks of it hanging on the side of his face, standing up or falling down, with only a small number remaining in the bow. [break][break] Letting out a sigh of slight frustration Bailin started scratching his neatly trimmed beard, as if an army of lice was stampeding around his chain making it itch like a mad man. In truth it was merely the frustration that made him scratch his chin. Per usual crafting was not one of the things he had problems with. The theoretical applications and visualisations would work perfectly fine for thinking it up and putting it to practical use. Now however the theoretical part of him said that he should put the pins in the box and drill holes in the cylinder. Small pieces of coil should be placed before the pins however so those would go up and down if the key was inserted, as well as cutting the pins in half so he could twist the cylinder when he placed the key in. “Hmmm, yes I think… this might work…” he thought to himself as he opened the small metal box in which he intended to place the mechanism.  [break][break]

[Bailin]

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HP: 100% MP: 100% RH: Antiqua Musket (lvl 5) LH: Antiqua Musket (lvl 5) QS: Starter Rapier AR: Starter Warden Armour

WC: 286 TWC: 575 Tags @people, @people, @people, @people Theme Song TS Credits Cortana

Taking the two halves of the little metal box which was intended to house the cylindrical metal tube with holes in it through which the pins could slide, Bailin gently heated and folded the edges of said box to the size of the cylindrical tube could actually fit it.[break][break]  He then cut the coil in pieces and placed them into their intended sockets along with the first halves of the pins. Next up was the cylindrical tube with holes in it and within those holes the other half of the pins. Lastly he took out a bit of coil, heated it and bent it into a U-shape. This part he fastened with both a coil of spring underneath it on the one end, so, once the lock was to be disengaged the U-shape would shoot up and thus be able to turn. The other half of the U-shaped coil would be put in the other half of the lock, to be well… locked with the help of a gear which would turn and release the metal arch or keep it tight in place, depending on the locking status. The gear would be turned by one of the holes the pins were placed, the hole itself being a bit larger and thus making the gear turn from locked to unlocked and back again. As for the finishing touch Bailin took the other half of the little metal box and placed it upon its other half after he had finished the details on the closing half. With two small pins that would interlock with each other, consisting each of two parts, he closed up the little box and tested the key to see if it opened the lock.[break][break]

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