How can my character escape from a dungeon?

I need an idea for my story:

My main character is in a basement vault, in a small cell, with steel bars, etc. Now she's supposed to escape, in as little time as possible. Do you have any idea how to do this well?

For example, something like digging tunnels would be too time-consuming, more like bribing guards or something like that…

Best regards and thanks!

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Aylamanolo
1 year ago

He’s lying on his bed and looking at the summer blanket. There he sees the plastic cover of an air shaft. You can remove it. Because he’s very slim, he fits, sporty he is anyway. He builds a fake for a sleeping prisoner with a few blankets. He pushes the chair under the air shaft and throws it around with his foot while he climbs and escapes. Because of the fake sleeper, he’s not gonna notice the guards very late. Outside he steals a car and escapes.

DAs works, because Ted Bundy had successfully demonstrated this in his second attempt to break out. I don’t know exactly how long he was free, but long enough to get from Colorado or Utah to Florida – with stolen cars. And there he killed five more people,

LordMeleval
1 year ago

There are endless possibilities. It only depends on what situation the figure is and what you have planned for the rest of the story.

  1. The first possibility would be help from outside. But your main character must have friends or allies, and if you haven’t established at that time, it could become a Deus-Ex-Machina moment. You still have to look. However, this method has the advantage that you can already give your main character weaknesses – one of the most important aspects of each figure -: everyone needs some help, even the radiant hero.
  2. The exact opposite is help from the inside. In this version, the main character finds friends (can be one or more; it is usually more prisoners) who have either certain knowledge or certain talents that help the main character break out. The advantage is that it is fun to write an outbreak story with a cool team dynamic. Just… once the outbreak has succeeded, what are you doing with the rest of the characters? Are they now the friends of the main character? Do they die during or after the outbreak? Do you leave the story and are saved for any spin-offs? That’s all for your rest of the novel.
  3. You mentioned the third possibility: bribery of the guards. However, it is a rather boring method to write an outbreak and it only works if the main character is very rich or has already been established that the guard wants something quite certain. So I wouldn’t recommend it.
  4. This option can easily be combined with possibility two: One of the prison brothers or even the main character itself is either so thin that it fits through the lattice bars and can therefore easily slip out of the cell, or so strong that it can bend the lattice bars. But that’s more… well, a little weak. You also have to write the entire remaining plan.

All in all, these are the main possibilities that I think of. There’s more, but you have to look at yourself, which fits best.

Janaki
1 year ago

Does the figure have friends outside the prison? Friends who could pretend, for example, to be police officers / guards and to bring several prisoners (it must be several so that the escape of your figure alone does not occur) to another prison? Or a ship to take her to a prison island. Or to the point where they are to be hanged/cooked… whatever suits your story best.

purushajan
1 year ago

she should consider a list of how she can overthrow the unconscious awake and lock herself while fleeing herself with the wrenches of the watch and possibly their uniform dressed.