| You fall three feet
and your inseam catches on one of the support cables. It's not painful;
knights are especially protected in that area by their armor.
"I'm not wearing armor," you say. Oh, then it is painful. At any rate, your eye level is now closer to the bridge boards and you see that the next few are thoroughly rotten on the inside. Had you stepped on them, you would have certainly plunged all the way through to your death. |