• Hupf@feddit.org
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    I believe I may have found the correct formula for the spell I am developing. With it, I will be able to travel great distances without the need to pay others for the service.

    If all goes well, I will test out the new spell tomorrow. I believe I have worked out all of the possible complications. It will allow me to leap great distances, covering many hundreds of miles. Never before has one been able to travel in this manner: vaulting from the ground, sailing through the sky, all without that terrible disorientation of a spell of flying.

    The time is almost upon me. My research is finished, and all of my calculations are checked and rechecked. They laughed at me when I suggested this. We’ll see who laughs after I leap to the top of their towers and scream out my success.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
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    A friend of mine came close once. In Morrowind, he made a jumping potion that allowed him to clear the entire island and two jumps. one from the edge of the map to the top of the mountain, and then another one to the other edge of the island. He got stunned at the end of that last fall and drowned in about a foot of water.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    I heard that it’s easier if you start from the top of a high building so you have time to get a feel for the air.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    My parents made me wings from scraps of wood and fabric and I’d run along the sidewalk trying to take off.

    It never worked though.

  • troglodytis@lemmy.world
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    I’m pretty sure trying to fly is a pretty common experience, and many of those people tried really really hard.

    I did. I settled on doing it with mechanical help.

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      Just flying with a paraglider is fucking amazing. I bet this moron never even tried that. Twenty hours + theory exam and you’re good to go.

    • CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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      RIght! What kid didn’t jump off a chair/table/stairs hoping to fly, it fails. Then you get a cape, because Superman wears a cape so OBVIOUSLY you needed the cape…, then jump again and it fails. So you try again a few times, maybe with a super hero pose when you jump. Then someone yells at you to stop doing that…

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    This kind of a note is also one of the very first things you see in Divinity: Original Sin. I just started playing the game for the first time last night and got a chuckle out of that.