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Aquillion

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SCIENCE question: Do chains and ropes prevent falling?
« on: September 17, 2011, 01:57:58 am »
Build a chain in an alcove in the wall.  Channel out the three tiles adjacent to it.  Build a retractable bridge over the hole.  Tie a dog to the chain.  Retract the bridge.

What happens?  Does the chain keep the dog from falling?  Does the dog escape the chain by falling?  Does the dog fall, and somehow remain chained?
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Re: SCIENCE question: Do chains and ropes prevent falling?
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2011, 02:08:17 am »
Sorry to burst your bubble, but a rope/chain works via mind control. If I pressurized and blasted water into a chamber with a tied up animal, it would be blown backwards.
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Re: SCIENCE question: Do chains and ropes prevent falling?
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2011, 02:52:38 am »
You could use this for wardog drop pods, couldn't you? Although I suppose it would work just as well with pastures on the drawbridge, I guess. So long as you make horizontal fling not an issue.
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Re: SCIENCE question: Do chains and ropes prevent falling?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2011, 03:08:07 am »
Dropped animals could work to catch [TRAPAVOID] -creatures. Drop a cat on one, stunning it, apply cage trap.

This might just work. Sorta.
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Re: SCIENCE question: Do chains and ropes prevent falling?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2011, 06:48:59 am »
Unless it's been fixed in one of the more recent releases (which I doubt), dropped creatures stopped being attached to the chain/rope.  I wanted to string up some goblins I had in a fort once, and tested the rope-drop thing on a dog.  The dog fell to the ground and the chain was no longer attached to anything.
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Re: SCIENCE question: Do chains and ropes prevent falling?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2011, 06:59:34 am »
the chain/rope became a part of their clothing,same happens when you deconstruct a chain (or not,demand more !!science!!)
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Re: SCIENCE question: Do chains and ropes prevent falling?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2011, 09:24:08 am »
So if you hook up a chain & a bridge to a pressure plate, so that when a trapavoid walks...wait, they avoid pressure plates as well...
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