Editing Escape Rope (section)

==Creation==
The ropes are created using a complex [[diagram]] including [[Diagram#Argumentative Diagrams|Argumentative]]<ref>It was an argumentative diagram, calling out to outside forces.  The number 12 was emphasized in roman numerals, the number, and written out at three different points.  Then around the border, there were letters, a phrase yet unfinished in what was supposed to be a connecting circle, two blanks.  Short one or two letter blank, PETHEH, blank, DMANSR, then the first blank again.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref> and [[Diagram#HeraldicDiagrams|Heraldic]] elements.<ref>The lines at the edges were heraldic fortification.  Embattled.  The symbols and patterns that looked like they belonged on an old shield or flag were Heraldric practice, suggesting enchantment.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref> The diagram is a circle<ref>The circle was four fifths done, and the final fifth had been erased by ongoing remodeling.  It also looked like there was a void on the inside, where something was yet to be written. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref><ref>There was no sun, moon, or stars, there were no coordinates, nothing to suggest there was a specific outer power, and the contents of the circle were vaguely key shaped, with symbols around the edges. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref> and employs embattled borders at the edges.<ref>The lines at the edges were heraldic fortification.  Embattled.  The symbols and patterns that looked like they belonged on an old shield or flag were Heraldric practice, suggesting enchantment. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref> It includes the number 12 three times - once as the numerals 12, once as the word "twelve", once as Roman numerals.<ref>The number 12 was emphasized in roman numerals, the number, and written out at three different points. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref> It also includes a large key-shaped space in the center with three symbols around the edges, in which is placed the ropes to be enchanted. The symbols are a parachute, some lockpicks, and a door, all pointing away from the center.<ref>Key made sense if the plan was to escape.  Then the three symbols.  One like an open umbrella, but with three lines extending sideways to the blank spot.  One with four lines in parallel, one ending in a squiggle, one in a zig-zag, one in a hook.  One with an elongated rectangle, the space filled in.  There was meant to be something at the side of that rectangle, but it was mostly erased- only two lines stuck out at an angle. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref><ref>Ropes.<br>
She placed them in the blank spot.<br>
This was a ritual to quickly create escape ropes.  Like the ones used on the Promenade.  Or that they’d ''tried'' to use on the Promenade, before the Wolf had locked them out.  Tug to get yanked out.<br>
Verona hurried to put the ropes into position, coiled in the center, so the lines of the ‘umbrella’ connected.<br>
She knew the starting point now, she knew the desired endpoint.  If the objective was escape, forcing their way free, then what were the symbols.<br>
The rectangle was an open door.  She finished the symbol.  The lines with squiggles and hooks were lockpicks.  The umbrella with lines-<br>
''Parachute''.

- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref><ref>She fixed up the border, sorted the ropes so they both touched the base of the door, the base of the lockpicks, and the tethers of the parachute, then paused. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref> Ideally, the ropes are coiled in patterns, varying based on the number of ropes to be enchanted; but this isn't strictly necessary.<ref>“I sure hope it does!  Did the ropes need to be in a certain configuration?  I coiled them!”

“The papers ''strongly'' recommended certain configurations for differing numbers of rope!”</ref> Around the edges of the circle, forming an unbroken loop, are the words "The Hanged Man's Rope" - THEHANGEDMANSROPE.<ref>Then around the border, there were letters, a phrase yet unfinished in what was supposed to be a connecting circle, two blanks.  Short one or two letter blank, PETHEH, blank, DMANSR, then the first blank again. [...] She paused, considering, then filled in an ‘o’ for the short blank and ‘ange’ for the longer one.  ''THE HANGED MAN’S ROPE. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]''</ref> The diagram requires an infusion of power, and glows when activated.<ref>She needed power to make this argument.<br>
“I know you’re strained, I know you don’t have a lot to spare, but I need something from you, Kennet,” she murmured.  “From spirit, from Other, from people above and people beneath, from warren, faerie, and from ruin.  Power this.  I make my request, I bid you-”<br>
[...]<br>
“-Power this.”<br>
The diagram glowed white, in that way that was harsh against her eyes in this sketched out, coffee-painted landscape. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref>
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