How do you get a centaur out of a pit?

[Agent 333]

I had this setting that involved a war between the Centaurs and the Fauns for who was the rightful ruler of the forest, and though the Centaurs were better combatants, the fauns were winning through trickery and booby traps. The most effective boobytrap for a centaur is, rather obviously, a pit. You can even cover the pit so that a faun could walk across without difficulty, but the weight of a charging centaur would cause a collapse. Assuming the poor beast survives his (or her) fall into a pit even 10 feet deep, how does he get out? He can't even attempt too climb, even if one of his friends gives him a rope. Centaurs weigh enough that hoisting him out is going to be difficult at best. So, how do you get a centaur out of a pit? Creative solutions are welcome.

[Aragathor]

It's a forest, there are trees nearby. 3 centaurs can pull the rope. The centaur in the pit can bind himself.

[spinningdice]

Snap Fly's an elegant solution though requires  a channeler.

[TheAuldGrump]

Brute force - dig a ramp out of the pit - it does not need to be all that good a ramp. Given a shovel the centaur can do it himself.

Engineering - build a ramp, lower it into the pit. A couple of logs will work.

Rocks thrown into the pit, filling it up. Flooding the pit also works - centaurs are allowed to swim.

The Auld Grump

[Agent 333]

I like spinningdice's solution, though Grump gets bonus points for having the only solution so far that doesn't require anyone to know the centaur is in the pit other than the centaur himself... (barring the centaur himself knowing any fly spells, natch).

[Morgenstern]

I'm glad Aragathor posted a picture, bcause my first thought was absolutely "use a crane". That's actually the thought I had back when I first banned them from being able to climb .

Banned checks are a really, really good tool for making a non-human play differently from a normal human character .

[OverNinja]

The crane would be quite humiliating experience for the centaur.
Even the cow in the pic seems a bit unhappy.

[Mister Andersen]

Explosives. Lots & lots of explosives.

[TheTSKoala]

It's a forest, there are trees nearby. 3 centaurs can pull the rope. The centaur in the pit can bind himself.

Imagine the nights around the Bonfire after that incident for poor Bonfire?  He'd become a social Recluse!

[Aragathor]

Not really, it could all be turned into a tale of humility or cooperation against the big bad fauns who cowardly dig holes instead of fighting.

[Agent 333]

The crane would be quite humiliating experience for the centaur.
Even the cow in the pic seems a bit unhappy.

To be fair, have you ever seen a cow that looked happy?

[TheAuldGrump]

The crane would be quite humiliating experience for the centaur.
Even the cow in the pic seems a bit unhappy.

To be fair, have you ever seen a cow that looked happy?

At least no one has suggested a blender and a straw yet....

The Auld Grump

[Mister Andersen]

At least no one has suggested a blender and a straw yet....

Oh, I dunno...

[glimmerrat]

I agree - explosives. If it doesn't work, you're not using enough.

[The_traplord]

Actually If the pit was only ten to twelve feet deep (s)he could could crawl out. Possessing six limbs gives a lot of body length and strength, and standing on its hind legs your average horse already comes to just about Ten feet. Centaurs have more then that due to added torso length where a horses head would be,  added to this they have hands.

Now I'm not saying that this would be easy in the least but it is feasible.

And before you take away the centaurs ability to climb remember, there are goats that can climb trees without any kind of gripping ability whatsoever.