Lever
Set up
Set up verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Both terms in one sentence
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Crapsack World: See above Cycle of Hurting: A bridge can be linked to a lever to make it retract, dropping anything on it to whatever fiendish surprise you've set up below.
Source: Video Game / Dwarf Fortress - Someone tries to set up an unlabelled doomsday lever, only to accidentally flood the fortress with magma while setting it up because they're drunk...
Source: Dwarf Fortress / Drunk Fortress -
Or we could set up an elaborate gate-and-lever system (make sure you label the levers so you know where everything ends up) to both keep Noble politics interesting and the population of killer carp well fed!
Source: Complexity Addiction
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