Lance O'Donnell

Lance O'Donnell was a carpenter and resident of the Davenport Homestead during the American Revolutionary War. He settled into the Homestead after the Assassin Connor saved him from a group of thugs, who held him above a steep rock face by a rope attached to his ankles.
Following his rescue, Lance converted the wood collected by the lumberjacks Godfrey and Terry into items such as barrels, which Connor could later sell in the marketplaces of cities, gaining income.
Lance also claimed that he had invented folding chairs, and asked for Connor's assistance in recovering his tools and plans in order to begin crafting them. Later, while sorting though these plans, Lance discovered the blueprints for the Flying Machine by Leonardo da Vinci.
With this in mind, Lance built the Flying Machine and allowed Connor to test it, though the first attempt only resulted in the invention crashing into the Homestead's bay, due to the lack of fire that would have been needed to keep it in the air.
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