Timeline for Could somebody get temporarily stuck/“glued” to a wall by way of energy or some other force?
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| Apr 8, 2022 at 13:28 | comment | added | Brinstar77 | @NuclearHoagie This answer could be easily modified to make the tentacles and their lubricant completely undetectable via vision. You get the 'unseen force' requested by the questioner, the benefits of tentacles outlined above, and the added psychological effect of the things grasping at the prisoner being completely invisible as well as being wet and slimy. The idea of being held against a wall by a mass of wet, slimy tendrils is creepy enough but even creepier is being held against the wall by something that feels like the above, but you can't be sure because they're invisible to you. | |
| Mar 7, 2020 at 18:16 | comment | added | Jay Dee | @villeniemi i was actually looking for an unseen force, in a way that might give off a supernatural vibe to the torturers, for lack of a better explanation. That said, my dark writer’s mind fully enjoyed the psychological implications of slimy, metal tentacles lol. I’ll have to save it for another prisoner some day. Haha | |
| Mar 7, 2020 at 4:34 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @GlenYates I refer you to the comments by IT Alex and ribs2spare at the beginning of comments and admit my defeat. You have outdone me. | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 21:58 | comment | added | Glen Yates | "And a compact cylinder made of metal is hard to crush." Wait? Where did the metal come from? I was envisioning biological tentacles (octopi or squid like) up until this point. | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 13:13 | comment | added | Tobias F. | Reminds me of this guy: coub.com/view/sghdg | |
| Mar 6, 2020 at 0:20 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Great plan, until you get a female Japanese prisoner. Suddenly you're NC-17! | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 21:36 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @BrianStamper Look, I get what you are thinking but force means force nothing less and nothing more and in this question it is specifically "or" with "energy", both times it is mentioned, so it cannot be limited to force from an energy field and that means "physical" force must be included as on option. He would just prefer it to be invisible to naked eye. His own example used nanobots. | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 21:19 | comment | added | Brian Stamper | I think it is pretty obvious that "force" isn't meant as any physical force in the Newtonian physics sense, given that the text does in fact say "force unseen by the naked eye". | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 18:07 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @NuclearWang The person is stuck by the force applied by the tentacle, note the "energy or some other" before the "force". And yes, it is quite open ended. Only real limitation is the "temporarily" which kind of implies it must be turned on and off without henchmen attaching and detaching the chains. I think he kind of wants something like a light switch maybe even one operated with voice commands. | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 17:56 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | @VilleNiemi Without that requirement, though the question is just "how can I attach something to a wall", which seems pretty mundane for Worldbuilding. The question title clearly asks for "energy or some other force", but a tentacle is neither of those. | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 17:23 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @NuclearWang The question does not actually specify "unseen". He just "wonders" if it could be done by "energy" or "force unseen". It would be reasonable to assume that "unseen force" would be a bonus and he'd prefer that but it is not what was actually asked for. So I gave a physical solution that has most of the benefits of an energy field. | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 17:13 | comment | added | Nuclear Hoagie | This completely fails the "unseen force" aspect of the OP's question. Don't get me wrong, there's a great psychological factor here, but I don't see how this fulfills the OP's requirements any better than good old fashioned rope or chains. | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 16:26 | comment | added | ribs2spare | @ITAlex I know...it's a great answer but I need a shower... | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | Ville Niemi | @ITAlex How rude! And I even censored myself not to mention body cavity searches despite that being important to stopping prisoners from having things you do not want them to have. LOL | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 13:47 | comment | added | IT Alex | Sometimes, I see something and I wonder how horrified I would be if I saw their browsing history with no context. | |
| Mar 5, 2020 at 8:18 | history | answered | Ville Niemi | CC BY-SA 4.0 |