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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Jan 8, 2016 22:59:29 GMT
So. This was a thread on the UG- and it was kind of forgotten a few times, but I liked it. The rules are pretty simple: - Make up a trap-situation. For example "You're locked in a dungeon cell with nothing but the clothes on your back, an old blanket, and the shackles on your wrists. Once a day, a guard comes and gives you a tray holding a bowl of lukewarm gruel and a spoon to eat it with. How do you escape?"
- Other people come up with ways to escape the situation. For example: "I pretend to be sick/dead so that they'll open the cell door and either send someone in or drag me out. Then I improvise from there."
- When people seem to be tired of the current situation or you just happen to think of a new situation that you want to challenge people with, post that new situation!
I'll start us off . . . You are stuck at the bottom of a mostly-dry well. The sides and bottom are muddy, indicating that there might have been water in it not too long ago, and thunder suggests that there'll be more water in it before too long. How do you get out?
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Post by NightBlade on Jan 8, 2016 23:12:25 GMT
For the dungeon, I strangle the guard with my spoon.
As for the well, well...(xD) the storm would put a bit of water down but not a lot....it would delay my plan of building a mud pile ramp cuz it would take longer to dry. But I would stay alive longer with the water.
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Post by Lylyss on Jan 9, 2016 0:22:00 GMT
I'd tread water until the well filled to the brim, and climb out. :P Assuming it rained hard enough.
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Post by NightBlade on Jan 9, 2016 0:33:15 GMT
Wow you'd be treading for a few days x)
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Post by Elytra on Jan 9, 2016 7:29:08 GMT
You are stuck in a room with nothing but a mirror and a table. What do you do?
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Post by Lylyss on Jan 9, 2016 7:29:36 GMT
What's the room like?
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Jan 9, 2016 7:38:41 GMT
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Post by Elytra on Jan 9, 2016 7:38:41 GMT
Concrete walls and floor three metres thick.
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Post by Lylyss on Jan 9, 2016 8:04:05 GMT
My escape would be complete in four phases.
PHASE 1. Look in the mirror and see what I saw. PHASE 2. Take the saw and cut the table in half. PHASE 3. Put the two halves together and make a hole. PHASE 4. Escape through the hole and rejoin the rest of society.
Boom! :D I am unstoppable!
Now imagine that you are buried alive in a marshmallow coffin. You're armed with a knife and a box of matches. I challenge you to escape!
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Jan 9, 2016 8:19:14 GMT
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Post by Elytra on Jan 9, 2016 8:19:14 GMT
It's actually called plywood.
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Post by Lylyss on Jan 9, 2016 10:13:10 GMT
Wellllll. Actually I decided to change it to marshmallows. xP
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Post by gamemastergrimwarden on Jan 9, 2016 10:36:41 GMT
Listen up, sis, there ain't no prison that can hold the great Gamey!
Step 2. Light the coffin on fire with matches
Step 3. Emerge, like a butterfly, from my flaming, sugar-free prison! Smoldering pieces of marshmallow still clinging to my chiseled form, as I let out a thunderous cry of victory against nature!
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Now, escape from this one!
Your stuck inside a coffin which is suspended by a frayed rope, above a vat of delicious, sizzling, homemade lamb stew (gluten free, of course). With each second, the rope keeping you from becoming the secret ingredient Grandma never intended to add, is growing ever weaker. How do you escape? OH! And you don't have any fingersā¦ and your dying of blood lossā¦ and your completely broke.
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Post by NightBlade on Jan 9, 2016 14:41:11 GMT
Well obviously I would spit acid through the coffin and fartrocket to safety xD
You are impaled on a piece of rebar through the thigh, leaving you with one leg and less than ten minutes before you exsanguinate. There is nothing around for a mile but broken concrete and ripped orange plastic fencing fluttering in the dusty wind.
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Jan 9, 2016 14:50:04 GMT
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Post by WookieeElf on Jan 9, 2016 14:50:04 GMT
Fartrocket. XD
If the rebar is not attached to anything, it's best to keep it in the leg. Like a plug, almost. Grab the orange stuff, make a tourniquet, and try my best to limp to safety.
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Jan 9, 2016 15:06:53 GMT
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Post by NightBlade on Jan 9, 2016 15:06:53 GMT
X)
Well, rebar is part of reinforced concrete, so it would be sticking out of a busted wall or something
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Jan 9, 2016 15:25:27 GMT
Well, then, modifying Wookiee's plan . . . make a tourniquet as best I can with the orange stuff, remove my leg from the rebar, and use a relatively-clean portion of my clothing to make a bandage (won't do a ton of good, I know, but better than nothing) and limp as far as I can before collapsing.
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Post by Ellron Silvertree on Jan 10, 2016 20:52:28 GMT
I mean, technically the only thing you're trapped to is the rebar, so by removing my leg I have already escaped :P
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Post by NightBlade on Jan 10, 2016 22:19:21 GMT
That and the mile of desolate concrete that you'll then die in the middle of xP
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Post by gamemastergrimwarden on Jan 11, 2016 0:01:49 GMT
I'd just call for Tom Bombadil. Ok, so your duct-taped to a window on the empire state building, hundreds of feet above the ground. Your only resource is a sledge hammer, which is duct-taped to the building, right out of your reach. Your also covered in angry rats, how do you escape? XD
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Jan 11, 2016 1:22:19 GMT
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Post by NightBlade on Jan 11, 2016 1:22:19 GMT
Oh this is actually a good one! Well, I spit whatever remnants of food in my mouth onto the duct tape on the hammer. The rats will chew through so I can grab it and smash the window behind me so I'll fall back inside.
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Post by Aviar Goldeneagle on Jan 15, 2016 8:25:15 GMT
Your hanging with a rope around your neck 50m down a 100m high cliff with jagged rocks below if you fall and with one arm tied behind your back. All you've got is 5 seconds left before you're totally strangled and die. All you have is a book entitled "How To Escape When You're Hanging Over A Cliff With Jagged Rocks Below". You know that on page 593 there's the information you're going to need to escape from this situation, but you also know that it will take you more than 5 seconds to find the right page and another 5 minutes to read how to escape.
So... how do you escape?
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Jan 15, 2016 13:27:23 GMT
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Post by WookieeElf on Jan 15, 2016 13:27:23 GMT
I'd swing to the side until I hit the cliff, then grab onto an outcropping so I can relieve the pressure around my neck and breathe, then I either find the correct page in the book, or use my rope to pull myself back up to the top of the cliff.
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Jan 15, 2016 15:23:43 GMT
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Post by NightBlade on Jan 15, 2016 15:23:43 GMT
I'd flip myself upside down so the pressure isn't on my windpipe. Then I'd do the swing thing because although I have the upper body strength to climb straight up maybe 50 feet, 50 METERS is a bit much. I'll just read the book when I'm safe from strangling.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Aug 12, 2016 1:41:43 GMT
*revives thread* You are locked in a room at the top of a 75-foot stone tower. There is one window looking outside, which has wooden shutters. There is one thick wooden door, securely bolted, which leads onto a staircase that winds down through the tower. At irregular intervals, the stairway passes through guardrooms, each of which contains six well-armed men of varying skill levels. There are six of these guardrooms in total, and each is able to message the others by way of both a bell and voice.
In your prison room are basic, but relatively comfortable furnishings: a cot, two wooden chairs, a wooden table. Your captors have also been courteous enough to put you in a room with a fireplace (though you have to ask nicely to get firewood and firestarter) and to leave you with a few books for entertainment and a very lightweight pitcher of water if you get thirsty. You're fed twice daily with porridge and in the morning and soup and bread in the evening, and are provided with a wooden spoon to eat both meals. Despite your relatively favored (for a prisoner) status, these meals are pushed through a slot in the base of the door just tall enough to fit the bowl on the tray.
How do you escape? If you need further details, ask and they will be provided.
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Aug 12, 2016 2:00:17 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Aug 12, 2016 2:00:17 GMT
Grow out my hair and escape a la fairy tale style.
Lol. Idk tho... I'm never good at these. >.<
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Aug 12, 2016 2:02:35 GMT
Heh. I guess you could do that . . . could take you a while though. xD
I'm not amazing at them either. But I still enjoy both answering and coming up with them.
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Aug 12, 2016 2:06:50 GMT
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Post by Ellron Silvertree on Aug 12, 2016 2:06:50 GMT
Well obviously I let down my excessively long hair. I tie it to the cot and lower myself down, then use a spring from the cot to cut my hair. FREEDOM.
EDIT: If that or throwing the cot to the ground and jumping won't work, I ask very nicely for fire starters, then I use the wood from the shutters and chairs and the paper from the books to start a fire. I lay the cot on top of the table, break the legs of and add them to the fire, then when the door is weak enough I burst through and ride my cot-sled to the ground. And hope the front door is open.
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Aug 12, 2016 2:07:01 GMT
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Post by jliessa44 on Aug 12, 2016 2:07:01 GMT
I would probably try to heat up and weaken the hinges if they're metal/destroy them if they're leather with some of my fire that they kindly provided. From there I would knock out the guards with my rock hard porridge.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Aug 12, 2016 2:13:27 GMT
@ellron: The tower is 75 feet tall. I'm pretty sure that even with a cot at the bottom, you wouldn't survive the fall. The other idea is more doable, but keep in mind: it's a spiral staircase, and there's six guards at each guardroom that you have to get past.
@liessa: Metal hinges. And haha, I suppose you could do that.
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Aug 12, 2016 2:19:20 GMT
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Post by Ellron Silvertree on Aug 12, 2016 2:19:20 GMT
I mean, there are cases where people have survived falling from an airplane. It depends in part on how you land. But fair enough. And I'll just speed by everyone! Just kidding. However, I'll take a chair leg or a table leg for a weapon, and then I'll use the cot to block the staircase, as spiral staircases are pretty tight fits, and then I can take out each group on at a time. Even each individual one at a time, if I play it right.
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Post by Kirenyth Fireblade on Aug 12, 2016 3:26:32 GMT
Not to mention once you defeated the first group, you could arm yourself with their weapons/armor which would give you a better chance of defeating the next five
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