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It's like an adolscent ending to One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.
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Are kids these days even familiar with that?
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What is a "buh-ukh"?
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What is a "buh-ukh"?


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>Only ever seen the movie

I feel like I have just summed up my entire generation.
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Goddamnit Twilight Sparkle
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Twilight is the exception. Nobody reads books unless they have enough sexy dudes in them for teenage girls to mind-ogle.
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And write fanfiction about.
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And than somehow manage to publish that fanfic and get famous enough to follow it up with a guide on how to write.
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We should all get this guide and start writing posts like it.

'Saoirse grabbed the whip and slowly ran it down the man's bare, bloody back. She loved being in charge.'
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"Alsum's inner goddess giggled when the hydraulic poundin' machine started pumping."
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The lamp was like a lamp.
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A'ight, so you guys seem to be GMing quite well on your own, so I'm just gonna let you guys have at it, because I really don't feel like trying to tell you that it's not the way you say. Have at it, I might end up being gone for a while due to the fact that soccer and swimming have started up at the same time and my daily life has literally been obliterated.
I'll leave you all to govern amongst yourselves.
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Well let us not forget the blessing of the unsound engineering that is twenty people to a single spool of zip chord, thereby making no one their own anchor.

Praise the rock wall! We shall sacrifice many to its honor as the Romans did to slaves in the mighty arenas.
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A'ight, so you guys seem to be GMing quite well on your own, so I'm just gonna let you guys have at it, because I really don't feel like trying to tell you that it's not the way you say. Have at it, I might end up being gone for a while due to the fact that soccer and swimming have started up at the same time and my daily life has literally been obliterated.I'll leave you all to govern amongst yourselves.


And this day shall ever be remembered as Independence Day!
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We aren't godmodding. We are using a basic understanding of engineering. It isn't our fault that stuff works that way.
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The PE instructor eventually emerged, yet she likely wasn't the one Saoirse was thinking of, as this instructor appeared to be a girl, and much more agreeable than the image Saoirse had painted.


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'Is there a problem here, Saoirse?' he demanded, his eyes clouded from the residue of some party drug. It wouldn't come to a surprise to anyone that the various broken needles around school grounds came from his heroin abuse.
'Aye. I'll die if I do this!' she growled. 'Nonsense!' snorted the coach. 'I built this myself last night'. Some job, you drug addled wanker. 'It is a requirement of the school to take a part in these challenges unless you can cite a medical issue that prevents you from taking part. And you look fine to me, baby girl, if a little thin. Eat more, you'll get curves someday. Assets are needed by you ladies nowadays' he continued


I don't know if the laws of engineering apply to gender roles, I would think that would lie within the boundaries of biology, but if genders were included in our basic understanding of engineering I'm fairly certain a girl can't switch to a boy in half a second. That's just me not knowing anything though.
Oh, also, basic engineering would dictate that a single drug addled sports instructor would not be able to construct a standing four story wooden tower in one night, but I guess that's just me thinking funny business as well.

Dinh AaronMK said Well let us not forget the blessing of the unsound engineering that is twenty people to a single spool of zip chord, thereby making no one their own anchor.


I posted a week earlier:

The spool was rather multiple pulleys hooked together,


In no way had I specified all they would hang the students by was zip chord. I also made the mistake of assuming that people understood that there was such a thing as auto-lock pulleys or spring-loaded pulley systems often used in rock climbing.

I tried nudging you guys to stop creating your own facts out of thin air but I guess I'm not dedicated enough to this to provide ample information so you don't have to. Since I failed on that front, have at it. This is more for the fun of all participants, and you guys are a lot more interested in this than I am.
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-==-As the mass of students filed out from the school, they walked across the wide walkway and dispersed across the well-groomed field. Standing tall above the students was a massive wooden construct with synthetic stones speckled across the surface of the wall. It was quite obvious what the first challenge would be as the 20 harnesses on each side of the rock climbing wall were already set up. Though what was odd was the fact that they all fed to one spool. The PE instructor eventually emerged, yet she likely wasn't the one Saoirse was thinking of, as this instructor appeared to be a girl, and much more agreeable than the image Saoirse had painted. "Good after-afternoon everyone! I'll be your challenge instructor, Mrs. Ebels, but Mrs. E works just fine." She nods with a smile, affirming herself flamboyantly, "I think most of you know what today's Challenge will be. Some might have even noticed the twist. It's rock climbing, except you all lead to one bell and you all are attached to one spool. Here's a special rule for ya: No punching. No kicking. No biting. You can push people off the walls, don't worry, the spool system has a maximum speed of 2 miles per hour, so you'll fall safely. Everything else is simple; climb, and ring the bell before the opposing team does. Boys versus girls. 20 on each side. Have at it."


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It was quite obvious what the first challenge would be as the 20 harnesses on each side of the rock climbing wall were already set up. Though what was odd was the fact that they all fed to one spool.


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Though what was odd was the fact that they all fed to one spool.


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they all fed to one spool.


Safety mechanisms only work when they're on independent spools of rope in this instance and not all sharing the same one. They'll only fire when everyone is on the same level. So if someone's much slower than the rest and someone pushes the other off then it's a long drop with a quick stop. If there was ever a gallows for the spine more deadly needed, we're at a start here. And even if they're multiple pullies hooked up that doesn't mean shit: a pulley isn't a spool, a pulley is a weight-bearing mechanism to lift and allow rope and line to be pulled over a irregular route (up, over, and down again) while reducing the total weight of the end-object. They do nothing to alleviate the spring tension or counter-balances.

This whole thing would have been avoided if you just simply stated "rock climbing wall". But no one else ever intervened or made the point earlier. Really, your inaction on the matter really spelled the doom here by letting not one, not two, but three parties add, confirm, and build off of this. It's pretty sloppy work on your part.

And it's just as likely that there can be multiple coaches. So there may always be a male or female coach if you're getting pissy about that.
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