Langkasukan Kite Sail
Lescurel's eyes widen in disbelief and shock as Cantergloak describes his plan.
-You are insane?! You want to... jump off a mountain? Just leap off a cliff? How does that help you climb over the mountain?? Jumping is falling, the opposite of climbing?! I want no part in this...!
The Bird Masked Stranger is untangling and unfolding a very light, almost gossamery silken frame or sail, which consists of a series of cords and thin vanes and telescoping beams connected to a very wide armature akin to an enormous collapsible and steerable kite wing. You see now that this folding Kite Sail appears to explain the hidden belts and buckles that Cantergloak had strapped to his body when you first met him.
>>5490912 You also see that despite its enormous size when unfolded, this kitesail appears tremendously thin and light. Indeed, it already appears to be rising, billowing and swaying upwards, carried by invisible eddies of mountain wind, as Cantergloak manoeuvres to secure and keep the sail held down.
The Bird Masked Stranger is explaining,
-I learnt this from the Khurultai of the Far Eastern Steppe. In the high mountains there they celebrate the gathering of the nomad clans with a kite festival, some call this organisation 4Khan, after the four clan elders. When I witnessed the kites in the mountains, I wondered if it could be used to show the current of the wind, and reveal a passage through the chasms and gorges. Because all have seen from afar the Old Monastery upon the snowy peaks, that dates to before the craft of the sky vessels was lost and forgotten. There must have once been a way through them, the Ruined Monastery in the snow proves that there was once a way through! And so if we find a high vantage and leap down, with the assistance of this Langkasukan Kite Sail, perhaps the wind will carry us through...
Lescurel folds his arms, but then throws them up again in utter disbelief:
-So you are... a smuggler? Or one of those Vourukasha pirates, trying to bypass the Warguild blockade! You are insane! You will either plummet to your death as you do a flip off your mountain cliff, but even if you succeed... you will just freeze to death in the mountain snow. You really have not thought this through! Now I realise, it would have been better off for all of us had we just surrendered to those Stranded Sons cultists. Maybe they would have let us all live if we all just mutilated ourselves and praised their devouring wyrm-god Lotan. They may be insane torture cultists, but at least they don't try to persuade people to just jump off a mountain!!
