Object

Poised Hammer above Seven-foot Golden Gong (Hok’s museum alarm mechanism)

An enormous hammer poised above a seven-foot golden gong in Hok’s museum. Thousands of fine threads radiate from the hammer, spiderwebbing across the ceiling and linking to every display case to form a delicate trip mechanism: any disturbed thread activates the hammer to strike the gong and sound a loud alarm. Indiana Jones studies the arrangement closely, tracing triggers and blind spots and mentally mapping an escape route through a high window.

1 appearances

Purpose

Strikes the golden gong to sound a loud alarm if any thread disturbs the mechanism, securing the museum's artifacts.

Significance

Transforms the museum into a web of lethal precision, heightening tension as Indy rehearses evasion tactics just before Belloq and Nazis pursue.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

1 moments

S1E1 · RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK

The Golden Gong's Web

The enormous hammer hangs poised directly above the gong, its linkage to thousands of fine threads making it the literal trigger. In this event the hammer functions as the implied threat—Indy reads its relation to the threads to understand how movement will translate into catastrophic alarm activation.

Before: Poised above the gong, suspended and tensioned, connected to a web of threads running across the ceiling.

After: Remains poised and tensioned; still connected to the alarm web.

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