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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallak" data-source="post: 2694520" data-attributes="member: 37105">[sblock]Go ahead and put OOC comments in an sblock.  To answer your OOC question, Troth has entangled in the shards.  Those are the triangular rope grids that run at an angle from the sides of the ship up to the top of each mast (save the top mast, of course).  They're not all that wide.  You would generally climb up them like a ladder, which is how I assume Noonchuck is moving down them.  Only, given the angle of the ship, he's moving down the inside of them rather than the outside.  He can move left to right with ease, but the shards aren't all that wide.  Troth is about a quarter of the way from the top.  Below, I have included a lovely ASCI drawing of a portion of the shards.  Now, imagine Troth's knee is wrapped over C3, around the line between B and C, with his foot tucked under C4.  .....A..B..C..D...E1...../--|--|--\2..../|--|--|--|\3.../-|--|--|--|-\4../--|--|--|--|--\Because of the angle of the ship, he's hanging perpendicular to the shards (which, in this drawing, means he'd be coming straight out of the page).  Does that clear everything up?If Noonchuck would like the help Troth sit up, he'd have to reach down to Troth, since Troth's hands and body are hanging out away from the shards.  It is something that is quite possible, but more or less dangerous depending on how Noonchuck decides to do it.  Hope that helps.  I'll be on to post more things later today or tonight.  Lot's of action, and I love it!EDIT: My ASCII drawing is apparently being reformated -- the spaces are being removed. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />   Anyone know a way around that?  In the mean time, I've included periods to make up the spacing.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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