u/Cyclic_Peptide

I had the goal of getting a trolley up these stairs and it proved to be quite the challenge.

I managed to use a rocking mechanism (getting the trolley vertical and back to horizontal) and incrementally getting it higher by putting suitcases, boxes, and eventually an upside-down trolley (that was hard too) under it. Then just tip it over the railing, do some balance work and you're done.

It's also possible to do this much faster at the stairs, by getting the trolley to an almost vertical, kinda diagonal position (using some clever prop tricks), and push it up. The handle part of the trolley won't catch in the steps like the wheels do.

I got the second trolley from a the other side of the spinning door thingy so that was fun too.

I might do this again and record a timelapse if you'd like to see the hard and easy way of doing this.

(I also found that you can go out of bounds without glitches after Alyx saves you, by using similar tricks to get a big box on the window sill, and jumping from the edge of the box to the nearby bridge's railing.)

(I often start with a random title for inspiration, and leave it as is, even if it's not a good title for the poem)

Hyperbole, parallel speech:

How to fit a character into a rhetoric.

What's your body count, manipulation streak?

You're worse than the average normie freak.

At least I'm not a normie, just a normal freak.

Which eye do you bat when I speak,

The straight or the oblique?

Watch the silver mirror cold and bleak,

Future's down once you reach the peak.

Hug and kiss your ash, before it learns to speak,

Grotesque homunculi who breach

From the surface beneath of consequences, aberrational.

Deemed their freedom of speech unconsitutional?

Wondered why a decision seemed so ir- or rational?

Shake hands with your past, held hostage, accountable,

One's ego's been quite aggrovational.

Don't criticize me for being self-referential,

Here doing a traditional hypocrite scandal.

Impressed by a show without rehearsal,

Congenital actor on a whim, that's all.

Signed yours truly, ancient heartworm in a thaw.

Had some fun with trolley phiysics :)

Muscle, man