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Aug 12, 2016 3:35:39 GMT
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Post by NightBlade on Aug 12, 2016 3:35:39 GMT
I would live peaceably in my conditions until I eventually go mad, then kill all the guards with my porridge spoon and run off. I could have done it in the first place, but I needed the madness to motivate me. If you must know if I can kill armed guards with a spoon, I could explain xP
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Aug 12, 2016 11:31:23 GMT
@ellron: Sounds like a pretty good plan. Particularly taking into account Kirenyth's suggestion. NightBlade: I . . . am somewhat curious, but mostly I'm scared to know. How violent is this explanation?
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Aug 12, 2016 13:50:31 GMT
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Post by Ellron Silvertree on Aug 12, 2016 13:50:31 GMT
I expect he would strangle them. Either stab into the soft spot at the bottom of the neck or press it down their throat.
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Aug 12, 2016 14:26:21 GMT
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Post by NightBlade on Aug 12, 2016 14:26:21 GMT
Quite. Well, I would probably go for the eyes, and get there weapons away from them. If not, well...repeated trauma to the face outta do it. Knees, maybe a wall or a corner.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Aug 12, 2016 15:31:39 GMT
Ah. Lovely.
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Aug 12, 2016 21:39:00 GMT
NightBlade: ... ... ... You bring new light to that video called The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon.
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Post by NightBlade on Aug 13, 2016 0:51:42 GMT
NightBlade: ... ... ... You bring new light to that video called The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. Hahahaha I've seen that! I'm trained to be quick and efficient though. Not unnecessarily messy
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Sept 5, 2016 14:32:37 GMT
This brings to mind that immortal line... "Robin Hood, I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon!"
Why a spoon? Because it's dull, you twit, and it'll hurt more. ;D
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Sept 9, 2016 13:54:19 GMT
Here's a scenario:
You're trapped on a large slave ship, kept at night in a cell in the lower decks. The guard with the keys paces back and forth all night long. There are about seventeen other crew members up above, and twenty other slaves. You have at your disposal the chain attached to the manacles you wear, the shards of a wooden crate that you broke earlier in the day, a trustworthy friend who also wants to escape, and the element of surprise.
How do you escape?
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Sept 9, 2016 15:08:22 GMT
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Post by NightBlade on Sept 9, 2016 15:08:22 GMT
I would try to pick my manacles with a spinner silently, as would my friend. Then, freeing as many slaves as we fended off slavers with sharp sticks, we would arm ourselves with enemy weapons and fight to freedom!
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Sept 9, 2016 15:22:56 GMT
To add a further complication, what if the prison ship was anchored amidst half a dozen other prison ships and several schooners full of enemy soldiers. How would you escape after you took command of that ship?
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Sept 9, 2016 15:41:17 GMT
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Post by NightBlade on Sept 9, 2016 15:41:17 GMT
To make a qualification to my first post, we'd start by quietly assassinating the guards first.
As for Warry, well I was actually just gonna jump and swim anyhow
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Post by Warrior of Aror on Sept 9, 2016 17:07:50 GMT
Less of a swashbuckler flare but probably a better idea. XD
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Sept 9, 2016 18:37:30 GMT
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Post by Ellron Silvertree on Sept 9, 2016 18:37:30 GMT
I would take the uniforms of the guards and lay in wait with the other ships, hiding in plain sight until I found an opportunity to break free from the other ships.
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Post by Leilani Sunblade on Sept 9, 2016 20:52:29 GMT
Ooh, I don't think I've had this scenario before. My plan: 1. As Nightblade said, either pick the lock on the manacles or, depending how the chains are attached from the ship, work the chain free of the wood (like someone or another did in a Redwall book- I think it might've been either The Legend of Luke or Mariel of Redwall, but I'm not sure). If necessary, my trustworthy friend could do this step instead (or we both could, if we needed to). 2. Wait until the middle of the night. If it's the same guard pacing the whole time, he's going to get pretty tired. Once he's starting to get sleepy and less alert, either I or my friend (whoever's chains are no longer attached) catch the man by surprise and take him out as quickly and quietly as possible, probably with a chain around the throat or swung into his skull. 3. Ideally, we've done all this without alerting the crew above us. We grab the guard's keys and unlock whoever didn't attack the guard, also taking enough of his clothes to fashion a disguise of sorts. Then we unlock whatever other slaves are willing to join us in our escape, warning each one that if he wants to escape, he'd better not make a sound. 4. Whoever's the most fit takes the guard's clothes and his weapons and heads up to the main deck. He takes out whoever of the crew is on watch and distributes their weapons to the rest of us. Then we carefully bind and gag the hopefully still-sleeping crew so they won't be following us in a hurry. 5. The final step depends if the ship is at sea or in port. If it's at sea, we then transport all the slavers to the cell and lock them up, first moving the other slaves elsewhere. We then proceed to sail wherever the heck we like. If the ship is at port, we simply head on shore and make our way from there (most likely helping ourselves to some supplies from the slavers' galley before we go).
The above plan, of course, assumes a singular ship. In the case of Warry's modification, I'd just make sure we were in port before we made our move.
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Nov 9, 2016 19:41:12 GMT
Great plans, guys! XD I like it.
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Here's a new one!
You are held on an island prison. The island is cold in climate, with dry, black soil and very few trees. What trees there are grow in scattered clumps, and they are very short and incredibly thorny. There are also patches of a low-growing shrub that grows to be about waist high, but these patches do not grow closer than thirty yards apart. The island is about three square miles. At the very center of the island is a stone prison, antiquated and castle-like in design. The prisoners are kept unchained in rusty, individual barred cells. They are fed three times a day with minimal meals of porridge, dry bread, and water. Some prisoners who are not especially violent or high-spirited are assigned to work in the furnace room, which is a level below the main prison blocks. The prison is heated with coal fires, and the heat is distributed trough vents that go through the prison, but never lead to the outside. There are usually about forty guards on duty in the prison, and they change in small groups four times every 24 hours. The reserve guards number at fifty.
On the shores of the island are wooden lookout towers that reach a height of twenty five feet. The towers are located along the shore at two-hundred yard intervals, and are manned by five guards. The island is surrounded by first a moat that is two-hundred feet wide and thirty feet deep, then by a large river forks into two branches that curl around the moat, and then join back into one on the other side. This gives the island the appearance of a target from above.
In order for the guards to get on and off the island for leave, There is one vessel that takes guards in and out, and there is one vessel that brings prisoners in, and releases them should they manage to serve their term. The guard vessel leaves through a channel that is built through both the moat and the river, and there are stations on either side of the channel ready to fire on the vessel should any suspicious behavior be observed. The prisoner vessel leaves and arrives through a different channel that can be closed off at four points, one for each bank of the moat and the river. Both channels are parallel to each other.
You are held prisoner in the castle. You have recently arrived, and are young and strong. The man in the cell next to you has been here for a long time and used to be a guard himself, so he knows the layout of the island. He agrees to tell you if you help him escape. However, he was placed in prison for murdering six inmates during his time as a guard, whereas your crime was swindling nobility. You even have a decent bit of money left from your excursions, hidden in a secret place in your cell. How do you escape?
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Post by Derago Thorkson (The Hunter) on Nov 11, 2016 2:51:53 GMT
Night is your best option. Visibility is limited for the tower guards. The only thing I would need from the former guard is a basic map of the best hiding spots and general times of the shipping docks. Assuming the guards do not have access to facial recognition technology, The first step is to assume the role of a guard. Step one, while on the island, make sure the few guards you manage to come into contact with don't get a good look at your face. I, being a male, would do my best to grow a beard, which gives me a good disguise to my facial features. So, the first step would be to sneak out at night, setting myself in a good location to ambush a guard of similar weight and height to me. Preferably when the guards just get on the island, so as to keep any old guards from recognizing that a new one suddenly looks different. Ambush and overpower the guard, shave and clean up and assume their role. Disguise the unconscious guard in your prison uniform and leave them in a place far enough from the towers but close enough so they are spotted and near a tower with the highest concentration of new guards (so they won't recognize that it doesn't quite look like a prisoner they knew). Assume his role for his entire rotation and go with the other guards when the boat comes to rotate out the old guards.
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Nov 11, 2016 4:26:26 GMT
Sounds like a good plan, but how do you get out of your cell before all that?
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Post by Derago Thorkson (The Hunter) on Nov 11, 2016 5:53:56 GMT
Act mild mannered enough to work in the furnace room and just break for it. Guards won't expect a subservient man to break, so it'd totally catch them off guard if done right.
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Post by Elethia Arvell on Nov 11, 2016 17:54:05 GMT
Okay, that works.
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