arcadefox

Be able to fly, but only at your best running speed?

You don't get tired and out of breath as though you are running the distance, but you can't fly any faster than that speed.

For example, the best sprint speed for a non-athlete is 15mph. You can maintain your own personal best possible speed for as long as you like.

HOWEVER: You aren't immune to altitude. Go too high and you will experience the thin air, the cold temperature, and any bugs you fly into.

OR

Be able to fast travel to any place you've visited before by the quickest means available.

To clarify; you can't, for example, move at jet speeds to your nearest store, because there aren't usually jets to fly you down the street, but you can move there at a walking, or driving pace. So if it takes you 10 minutes to drive there, it would be ten minutes fast travel time. If you want to go to a foreign country you've visited before, and you want to move there at airline speed, a 16 hour flight, would still be 16 hours of fast travel.

We'll use video game rules; you don't experience the time spent travelling, you essentially fall asleep and wake up there.

HOWEVER: You must have the money to pay for the journey. Bank account will do, you don't need the cash on your person. This money will disappear during fast travel. Walking speed is, obviously free. Car speed would be the cost of the amount of gasolene to drive you there. Airline speed would be the cost of a ticket. etc. etc. I'll even make it slightly more fair and say the cost is the cheapest available to you. Cheapest gas in a 50 mile radius from your start point, cheapest airline available online, etc.

Duang with you // Episode 8

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But I know. I think it was me.

In my defense I never intended to start a rumor. Many years ago I worked as a cleaner at the school and one evening I had to transport one of those big floor washing machines from the basement to the second level via the elevator. When the doors opened a very confused looking man stood inside. He was one of those slicked back gym-bro IT guys and made no movement to get out. The elevator wouldn’t fit him, me and the machine so I asked “Where are you going? Up or down?”

He gave me a smug shit-eating grin and said “Down?” in a mocking tone.

It took me a second to realize that of course he wasn’t going down, we were in the basement, but his look and tone annoyed me so much I refused to admit I misspoke and instead said “Yeah, down. I don’t know if you’re going to the second basement”

His smile disappeared “There’s a second basement?”

“Yeah but it sounds like you don’t have access to it so I guess you’re going up? I’ll just wait”

I never thought of it as anything other than a funny story to tell about that time I got so annoyed with a guy that I invented an entire second basement, but it turns out he probably refused to believe a cleaner fooled him and the story spread.

✧ Broken ribs suck. You don’t just “walk it off.” Breathing hurts. Laughing hurts. Existing hurts. Characters with rib injuries won’t be doing heroic sprints.

✧ Concussions aren’t instant naps. Dazed vision, nausea, dizziness, maybe even personality changes, but they’re not going to collapse neatly like in the movies.

✧ Blood loss is sneaky. It’s not just about dramatic pools of blood. It’s dizziness, confusion, and the body getting cold as circulation tanks.

✧ Adrenaline lies. Someone can take a serious injury and not feel it until the fight’s over. That “I didn’t realize I was bleeding until later” trope? Very real.

✧ Twisted ankles are brutal. One bad step and suddenly running is off the table. Even walking hurts like hell. Perfect way to ground a chase scene.

✧ Burns linger. Even small burns hurt more than most people expect. Blisters, infection risk, constant pain, it’s not just a cool scar later.

✧ Dislocated shoulders = useless arm. Characters can’t keep swinging a sword or firing a gun. They’re basically fighting one-armed until it’s fixed.

✧ Shock is a thing. Pale skin, trembling, rapid heartbeat, and eventually disorientation. A character might not even realize how bad their wound is.

✧ Stitches aren’t magic. Getting sewn up is painful and recovery takes time. They’re not instantly battle-ready after a needle and thread.

Both have signature emotional support dressing style. Any deviation from the norm is a sign of crisis.

Both of them have the social circle consisting of 0 people. There are occasional colleagues and therapists but that's about it. People are permanently in their orbit, not in their immediate surrounding.

Both regard other generations with some amount of exasperation.

Both have emotional support coffee orders.

Both have have all the graze of a bulldozer. No one is surprised there are zero friends on the horizon.

Both love asking straightforward armor-piercing questions. Neither of them like answering anything that is remotely vulnerable. Both also like tossing questions at each other like cannon balls.

Both are devastated to find out their idols are human. Cue emotional spirals.

Both like giving gifts of coffee because lord knows their teams would not tolerate them other wise.

Both are obsessive and compulsive, good thing they are in law enforcement. Bad thing for their colleagues though.

Both feel like they are aromantic and asexual, which is why they should be best friends.