Makofan's Deep Dungeon Crawl PBP
Moderator: Makofan
We should bring a grappling hook too. Ideally, we would want to attach the rope to some spikes near the top (maybe 10 feet down the pit, leaving at least 20 feet of slack in the top end of the rope), where it can't be tampered with from above while we're gone. When we come back, if the top timbers have been removed, we can climb back up to the point where it was spiked and then use the grappling hook to bring the slack end of the rope back up to the top.acodispo wrote: ↑Sun Sep 19, 2021 6:23 pmFirst rough plan for descent is to purchase a timber (longer than the pit is wide) and some rope. Lay the timber across the pit, and tie our rope to it. This will allow us to lower ourselves down.
Of course any monsters wandering around on the 1st level might reasonably be expected to cut the rope, or to throw the timber down the chute after us. Better plans would involve creating anchors inside the chute or something like that.
It is probably necessary to examine the mechanism of the pit lid and see whether 1) we can open/close it from below, and 2) whether there is any structure beneath the lid that we could fasten our ropes to.
The pit isn't far from the entrance to Level 1, but we best go prepared by purchasing a couple of timbers, plenty of rope, many pitons/spikes, and a couple hammers. (Wiglaff is willing to cover the cost since it's his idea.)
Any other ideas?