>>5511415Securing your escape route IS a rather essential part of leaving, but honestly... why not put more furniture in the way first? It shouldn't take you too terribly long to twist and tie together some blankets and sheets, and the longer it takes that thing to get up here the longer you have to do that. You just have to put some elbow grease in first.
And elbow grease you do put in. Into the top of the stairway and almost up to where the hallway swerves a great many things get moved. Dressers and TVs and closet doors, oh my. While your work does get slower, and your breathing more labored as time goes on, eventually you finish your task. Both of the bedrooms are now rather bare, and another massive pile of things have been shoved into the stairway. A job well done.
While you're pleased with the end result, what you didn't expect was how long it would take- 50 more minutes have passed, and you have only two hours left. Perhaps you'll be lucky enough that the thing will just be unable to find you before this is all over.
Once you finish, you flop down on the bed in the master bathroom. You're exhausted, and your shoulder is aching from all that work. It's just a good thing that the wound on it didn't open up again, you guess. You can't imagine that putting all that strain on it was a good thing. Well, the hard labor is done with. Now you should put together a rope to climb down. You have plenty of good material, so you don't imagine that will be a problem at least.
You take a short break before you start making the first escape rope. As you do, you try to figure out what your plan is. You have enough good material to make... well, a stable rope at the very least. Two, you imagine. But that does make you wonder. Should you be making two separate ropes, so that you can use the other in the other bedroom or as a backup, or should you just be focusing on making one rope as thick and strong as possible? You'll only actually go down on one, and perhaps the lack of choice in where you leave from is worth the additional security.
>Create two ropes. Anchor one to the bed in the master bedroom, and one to the bed in the child's bedroom, so that you have two routes to leave from.>Create one strong rope and anchor it in the master bedroom. Your main concern should be how strong it is, not having two exits.>Create two ropes. Anchor one to the bed in the master bedroom, and then leave one to the side. You won't be able to use it unless you anchor it somewhere, but if you do need it as a backup then won't have to waste time untying it from its original location no matter where you plan to use it.>Write-in 