Makes sense. Right now, I think the straw is being kept over for the cows, but I can see what I can do with shards.

[ The knight pauses at that. Shards. Duke probably could have gotten nice targets with shards. ]

Maybe these in shapes like some of the monsters we find - Gasfella's are somewhat humanoid, so they work for this.

[ Angles also make sense. As for moving... ]

There's Nathaniel we can ask - he's an engineer of some sort, as is.. Colin. All that comes to mind is ... a clothes line with a pulley, but that would just go back and forth.