With a time limit on how long the webbing last before it dissolves, I don't dawdle in setting up my own harness. I don't really need it, at the end of the day, but I figured it was probably a wiser course of action to treat us as equals. Maybe I'm not as adept as Pepper at handling his ego -- and frankly, I don't want to be, that'd just be weird, and inappropriate, and did I mention weird? -- but I'm not entirely clueless, either.
Crouching down to close up my bag, I slide the straps over my shoulders, then step up to the rock face, looking straight up for about a second. The trick to making sure no one dies, here, is occasionally placing protection points to feed a web-rope through, one that's connected to each of our 'harnesses.' That way, if one of us loses our grip-- that is, if Tony, here, loses his grip -- I'll be able to stop him from falling. It's a simple, if effective, system. Dispensing a long line of webbing, I thread through the belay device, then hand him one end.
"Here, tie a knot through the waist," I tell him, doing the same with my own end before I move to jam my foot into a crack along the rock, making sure I'm secure before hoisting myself up. "And seriously, do you? Know a lot of vampires, I mean?"
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Date: 2011-02-14 09:13 am (UTC)With a time limit on how long the webbing last before it dissolves, I don't dawdle in setting up my own harness. I don't really need it, at the end of the day, but I figured it was probably a wiser course of action to treat us as equals. Maybe I'm not as adept as Pepper at handling his ego -- and frankly, I don't want to be, that'd just be weird, and inappropriate, and did I mention weird? -- but I'm not entirely clueless, either.
Crouching down to close up my bag, I slide the straps over my shoulders, then step up to the rock face, looking straight up for about a second. The trick to making sure no one dies, here, is occasionally placing protection points to feed a web-rope through, one that's connected to each of our 'harnesses.' That way, if one of us loses our grip-- that is, if Tony, here, loses his grip -- I'll be able to stop him from falling. It's a simple, if effective, system. Dispensing a long line of webbing, I thread through the belay device, then hand him one end.
"Here, tie a knot through the waist," I tell him, doing the same with my own end before I move to jam my foot into a crack along the rock, making sure I'm secure before hoisting myself up. "And seriously, do you? Know a lot of vampires, I mean?"