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| Dec 10, 2018 at 15:34 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @bukwyrm Your understanding is mostly accurate, but you cannot exactly beat up people by jumping over them. There's a lot of kicking and punching (or cutting with daggers) involved, just a lot faster and from a lot more unexpected directions than their victims can predict - and to do kicks you need to be able to stretch your legs :-) | |
| Dec 10, 2018 at 15:27 | comment | added | bukwyrm | @KeizerHarm I understood your scenario as: 'People who can manipulate gravity to do somersaults they themselves would not be able to pull off in normal circumstances' and was asking myself why the dress would be such a hindrance if they essentially already had a spell in place to 6D-manipulate the trajectory of matter (their own bodies). | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 14:47 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @bukwyrm What do you mean with having the magic extend to dresses? They cannot exactly materialise cloth from thin air :) All powers they have are pretty much tweaking with the most basic forces of physics. | |
| Dec 8, 2018 at 14:41 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @Clockwork-Muse Their means of locomotion is partially that, forward acceleration, but there is still running involved. It is hard to explain in these comments but basically they can simulate running downhill while not losing any altitude (they can walk on air). | |
| Dec 7, 2018 at 12:51 | comment | added | bukwyrm | I understand from your question that the ability to do sports stems from magic? then why not have that extend to dresses? --- And: underskirts really do a lot for you in this scenario: they facilitate the gliding of the fabric, so you do not have to move as much mass with every step and movement. Dresses that do not skimp on fabric usually give you a wide range of motion, but quickly wear you out - solution can either be magic or underskirts... | |
| Dec 6, 2018 at 19:11 | comment | added | Clockwork-Muse | Note that, depending on how your gravity manipulation works, their highest rate of speed is going to be via accelerating themselves forward. Do like Aliera (from Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series) - get a longer dress and levitate above the ground. | |
| Dec 6, 2018 at 12:49 | answer | added | TripeHound | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 6, 2018 at 1:15 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 56 | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 19:44 | comment | added | JBH | This is not about worldbuilding, | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | StephenG - Help Ukraine | Ginger Rodgers did some petty darn demanding dancing in full evening wear and high heals. Reputedly you can see the blood stains from those high heal straps cutting into ankles during a day (or two ?) of shooting. Your witches have it easy. :-) | |
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| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:27 | vote | accept | KeizerHarm | ||
| Dec 5, 2018 at 17:13 | answer | added | user_629957 | timeline score: 102 | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:52 | answer | added | Jedediah | timeline score: 82 | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:48 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | I am not even calling them witches in my story, I only used the term here to simplify things for StackExchange. Rest assured that I fleshed them out properly. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:48 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | Doesn't cast spells on things. It works more as an inherent ability here - they can only cast magic, and only one thing at a time - they cannot enchant things. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:46 | comment | added | RonJohn | What is a witch that doesn't cast spells? | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:42 | answer | added | chasly - supports Monica | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:41 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | My witches do not put spells on things. I am very well aware of the freedom that comes with writing fiction, and I utilised that freedom to determine what magic cannot do in this world in addition to what it can do. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:40 | comment | added | RonJohn | My point is that it's fiction. If you want your witches to have placed spells on their dresses so that they don't interfere with Action Moves, then make it so. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:37 | comment | added | KeizerHarm | @RonJohn Yeah, miniskirts I am trying to avoid since they would definitely not blend in well with the Sumerian fashion... I'll give it a read though, so thanks for your input. As for your second comment... No. This is hard magic, not "a wizard did it". | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:36 | comment | added | RonJohn | "Can you do acrobatics and/or long-distance running in a long dress?" No, but they're witches. Assert that they can. | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:36 | comment | added | RonJohn | TV Tropes has a scad of relevant pages. I'd start with tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicSkirt (even though it's about Very Short Skirts). | |
| Dec 5, 2018 at 16:27 | history | asked | KeizerHarm | CC BY-SA 4.0 |