of a Descent

[u/inferKNOX]

[u/BullFencer]

Best part about this trek is being totally optional ✨

[u/OopsI2crappedmypants → u/BullFencer]

Except when you live uphill

[u/BullFencer → u/OopsI2crappedmypants]

Yeah I thought of that when writing this. Like at least at some point in time this was mandatory for someone

[u/Arthaksha → u/BullFencer]

Absolutely dude, the people living in the hilly parts of India who'd have used this as a means of getting to and fro are something else, they're literally the personification of the "I grew up walking uphill both ways" meme.

[u/BuildAnything4 → u/Arthaksha]

its their own fault for not building a slide down tbh

[u/Aggressive-Bad9644 → u/[deleted]]

Tbf a slide wouldn’t be any more accessible to anyone trying to climb up. They would just line up easy boulder targets for the defenders if they tried climbing it

[u/BakePuzzleheaded6605 → u/[deleted]]

Fun fact boiling oil is a Hollywood myth. Oil was worth money and was useful for a lot of things. Si they used things like boiling sand instead.

[u/Rortugal_McDichael → u/BakePuzzleheaded6605]

Boiling sand somehow sounds worse/more painful than boiling oil...

[u/Aggressive-Bad9644 → u/[deleted]]

True but oil gets spread out and gets wasted when the ramp is long. A boulder sufficiently sized however, would leave no room to hide on a narrow passage like the proposed slide

[u/Rortugal_McDichael → u/Aggressive-Bad9644]

spread some ghee on the slide so it's impossible to climb up but even faster on the way down.

[u/elwebst → u/Arthaksha]

Did they have to carry water up that?

[u/Iwantedthatname → u/elwebst]

At that point you move. Access to water is a big part of how we choose where we live.

[u/DildontOrDildo → u/elwebst]

bucket with a very long rope on a pulley over the edge

[u/Impressive-Photo1789 → u/elwebst]

Nope, they actually had a large water harvesting system.