No-Gear Level/Quotes

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Let's break out of jail! From the inside! Without any outside help at all! On our own timetable too, usually no more than a day after being thrown in, rather than when opportunity knocks! Using only materials they felt unimportant enough to leave in our cells, like beds and toilets! And then usually escape the rest of the large, highly staffed prison facility armed with at most the same weapons as the guards who heavily outnumber us! And then treat this whole thing as a minor side adventure, rather than, I dunno, more of an accomplishment than the entire rest of the story.


I mean for heaven's sake, it's a prison. It is a building made, used and staffed for exactly one and only one purpose: To make it impossible for anyone inside designated 'prisoner' to leave until they are supposed to...
from an online forum posting by dbrickey