Bronze Weapons And Bow Making

I was not completely sure how to teach others how to use bronze tools without hurting or cutting themselves since they had never had a weapon sharp enough at the tip that it would be able to pierce bronze with only light pressure being applied.

This was mainly because although I would like to say that a finger cut would not be able to kill them because I had no medicine available to me at all, chances were that they would probably get a skin infection and contract a disease that would kill them, even in the modern age the amazon was considered a deathtrap in this regard.

Truth be told, I began to consider focusing entirely on medicine for a while or basic herbal medicine. Mostly because there was knowledge regarding herbal medicine in the system store, I noticed that some people around the settlement were sick and worried.

Yet, I had, at the moment, already spent most of my RP asking the system questions and getting the knowledge needed to make the draft furnace. Also, going back to the usage of bronze weapons, I had pretty much only been able to make bronze daggers since I didn't quite have the smelting power to make anything bigger.

The dagger was still a lot better than the current stone axes though, because although stone axes could get an animal's skin to rip, it still required a lot of strength even to get a slight cut. On the other hand, the way sharper bronze dagger was able to cut skin easily while only having the ability to bash it onto the enemy like could be done with the ax.

To make sure that everybody understood how dangerous these were, I grabbed some snakeskin, as it was the toughest animal skin I had on hand, and then pieced through it with some level of ease before letting the waterfall through it to show everyone how big the cut was as it was hard to tell without blood tinting it red.

After having gained everyone in the original settlements attention, I signaled and told one of the people I hadn't given a name to come over and slowly guided him on how to grip the sword using the Suri bugs we were going to have for lunch that day and splitting them in half on the blade with no effort to show how the blade could hurt but the handle couldn't.

From there, I, after having hunted for a new snake (since snakeskin deteriorated very quickly and I hadn't gotten my hand on anymore since we hadn't encountered one lately) before cutting it into about the same parameters of an average piece of paper and holding it up by both top and bottom with my hands as far to the ends as possible to minimize the chance of getting hurt.

Then I began to let them experiment with it; although there certainly were techniques that could be mastered using a dagger, I didn't have the RP to buy them, and even if I did, I wouldn't as it would just be a waste of RP, after all, the only purpose of a bronze dagger was giving someone the ability to pierce their weapon through an enemy.

Whether I was worried or not that one of them would betray me and purposefully try to kill me, I highly doubted it, as although I did deserve it, I had helped improve the standard of living of everyone here and had, to my knowledge at least, become an acquaintance to everybody here.

If they were to try anything though, I could easily just move away, they were barely learning how to use a dagger, so their proficiency would be average at best, plus although I was not trained well even back in the modern age, my reaction speed could still be considered fast.

After the first person successfully pierced a snakeskin, I told the next person to come up, and we just sort of continued in that sort of way until a little bit earlier than lunchtime, since you know, I was only teaching them the most basic way to use a dagger.

Once that was over though, I began to think about potentially making a bow; after all, I did already know how to make rope, plus the settlement still had a lot of disposable wood, so I decided to give it a shot, immediately going into the wilderness in look for young tree saplings that had not yet completed the transition to wood in the wild.

Once found three and cut them down with my stone ax, I then cut them all into four pieced that were slightly smaller than the rest before throwing everything else into the woodpile to be used later.

From there, I just went into the jungle again and got my hands on some of the tallest grass I could get my hands on (which was not very tall) and proceeded to weave them together to make pretty thin rope.

Once that was done, I used the thin rope to tie all four pieces of 'wood' together before using the longest and slightly thicker piece to be used as the back string of the bow. Finally, only being left with the task of making arrows.

There was only a small problem with that though, mainly regarding the fact that although I could just use annealing to make the arrowheads and just tie it to a stick, the problem came with the fact that the 'rope' would always be too lose to let the arrowhead pierce through whatever hit.

Even worse, I wasn't even able to aim the arrows I made this way. And while at first, I thought that it was simply because I was just naturally terrible at archery or something, the system was actually nice enough to tell me that the reason why the arrows weren't flying straight was that it was missing feather fetchings.