It’s not supposed to be safe—it’s supposed to be accessible, technically, but dangerous. I don’t want any sensible guests visiting my castle at all.
…actually, if I install a very low, 2-inch barrier on either side of the path to keep wheelchairs from sliding off, it would become safer to traverse in a wheelchair than on foot. Very tempting.
Fun fact, most castles like this actually had a special pulley system for Pulling Furniture up into the castle. Furniture did not come up that disability inaccessible ramp, it came from the bottom of the cliff and was ascended into the heavens by a human powered crane.
when I’m a baron OR a count OR a marquis I’m going to insist that my castle is only accessible via one long, narrow, twisting path that drops off into an abyss on either side
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.
It’s trapped on a floppy tho this is some dark shit it has been denied its purpose forever bound to this obsolete storage
am i glad it’s in there and we’re out here
people reading fantasy novels ask “why did the ancient ones seal the evil away for ten thousand years instead of just killing it” but then we go ahead and do this shit
We have learned nothing from every fantasy novel ever O.O
The best part, from the wiki article: “According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.”
It was intended to do good, but the programmer made a mistake and it got out of hand, becoming viral.
i know jaskier is decently well known in canon but like… HOW well known? because i keep imagining geralt being like “oh yeah and this is my traveling companion” and you look and it’s just like the fantasy equivalent of beyonce