non-player: Nice rope and bucket!
help im a bear: Do you want it?
non-player: Not really.
teucer: You don't need it installed anywhere?
non-player: No, sorry.

So went most of our night in Chapel Hill, looking for a place to install this rope where it would be useful. We even tried asking the security guard at an apartment complex, but he had no need for our rope. He did thank us for offering and give us candy, however. We kept looking, offering rope installation to a variety of people. Be they college students, middle-aged pedestrians, nobody seemed to have any use for our rope, even when told it was free.

Having determined that what we had was, in fact, a thoroughly useless rope, we set to installing it anyway.

We selected a nice hotel in the heart of Chapel Hill as the location, and hung the rope from a balcony. Concerned that it might be useful for climbing or hauling things between floors, we verified that it was near both the stairs and the elevator, making any conceivable use of the rope entirely redundant.

Then we moved some pine cones the hotel saw fit to use as decorations into the newly-christened Official Pine Cone Bucket. We left it sitting on a chair for the benefit of guests.