Thus Spake Zaraborgstrom/ParryFalling

rebeccaborgstrom - 11/18/2003 17:11:55

Hm!

I think I agree that relativity is invalid, for a simple reason: defense trumps offense, which means that defense must always be well-defined. In particular, "stopping the ground's attack" in your reference frame means "forcibly accelerating Creation downwards so that it falls at the same rate" in Gaia's.

Hm.

My conclusion is as follows: you fall when 'natural law' (the pattern spiders, but not in their capacity as moral agents) moves you towards the ground, then uses you as a weapon in an attack upon the ground.

This is in fact parryable, but you are not the defender. You're not even the attacker. Accordingly, it requires a Charm or a stunt. The goal of a HGD stunt is to parry *yourself*---absorbing the force of your fall into your weapon, on Creation's behalf.

In fact, as a stunt, you don't even need HGD. It looks to me like, if the stunt works, you can trim one level of pre-soak damage off the fall per parry success.

Of course, if your Storyteller grinds teeth at the use of Melee to handle falls, social situations, sneaking, poetry composition, and disguise ("I mingle with the gathering of metal djinni using IRON WHIRLWIND") then this may not work as well.

Rebecca