[ there's a coil where the rope goes, that much is obvious, and a system of wheels and gears and springs to wind it up with. The rope runs threaded through a nozzle of some kind on one end, with thin metal pipes running out from it, leading to a little tank of some kind inside the mechanism. The rest of it however just kinda looks like a mess of parts to the layman. ]

...do you teleport or fly, then?