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I would certainly be interested in nonhuman races. Or, at the least, humans modified by Barrows Magic or other means and/or magical creatures which happen to be intelligent.

Name: Grimore Fauna (born John Woodsman)
Gender: Male
Race: Human (probably)¹
Appearance: Looks thoughtful; wide, brown eyes; short, brown hair; lithe; tanned skin; short and broad-shouldered; wears a dark-colored tunic and a distinctive blue-and-red hat²
Bio: John Woodsman was born in the forests to the northeast of Beanie, in a village which subsisted on timber exports and hunting. His childhood was dully average. He was apprenticed to a woodcutter at age 10, and discovered his talent for magic entirely on accident about a year and a half later. By his 16th birthday, John had begun calling himself Grimore Fauna; he teamed up with his friends Zach Hunter and Jillian, who called themselves Tiger Saberdark and Robin Witchhunter, just before his 17th and left home to become a trio of adventurers. The three of them did okay; they saved a few people and defeated a group of minor bandits with Grimore's magic, Tiger's bow, and Robin's swords. During the bandit encounter, though, Robin was mortally wounded; Tiger and Grimore split up after that. Grimore was the best planner in the group, and therefore managed to become a minor officer in a clan leader's army. Now, however, he has severed ties with said clan leader for reasons he's keeping to himself, and has decided that he will probably freelance from now on³.
Skills: Charisma, Wild Magic

1: This may change, depending on your eventual ruling on nonhumans.
2: Imagine if a blue bicorn had a figurative child with the Red Mage's hat.
3: Unless you need me to be a "noble" of some kind, in which case he's decided to try his hand at being the one calling the shots.

Any problems?

Just imagine the voices in your head are arguing.

Seriously, why the obsession with me?

You can't transfer my assets to you. I've got a will. Not that you'll be able to kill me...or that all of the benefactaries would make sense until the 2060's or so...

Given how...use-impaired they are ATM, I'm not surprised there's only a few kinds.

Midnight Dye, found from some deep-cavern plant, would be neat.

Why are you so obsessed with me? Seriously, you're on your own.

Peek behind the door.

Because curiousity is a sign of intelligence and all that.

If we don't see anything interesting,

I think we should discuss what has happened with our fellow goblins.

Quote from: Thecard on December 27, 2012, 03:56:40 pm

But zero-g is impossible, there will always be some kind of gravitational pull, though it may be almost completely non-existent.  So yes, it should stop because of gravity.  A vacuum does not mean an absence of gravity, last I checked.

When was the last time you felt the gravitational effects of the sun?  They are stronger then the effects of the earth where you are sitting right now.  But you feel the gravity of the earth not the sun because the earth is pushing back against you while you are in free orbit around the earth.  A zero-g environment doesn't mean no gravity, it means no normal force due to gravity.

Problem is, on Earth it's drowned out by the Earth's gravity, analogous to how the Sun's light drowns out the starlight in the daytime.
Actually being in outer space lets those distant things affect you more. A LOT more; if you're several thousand miles above Earth's surface, Earth's gravity is only about a quarter as strong, and around the Moon's orbit it's hundreds of times weaker.

They don't turn rotation among the axes into forward momentum though, doing so would violate physics. It's like as if I were floating in near zero-g and I rapidly swing my legs about. I can't change my trajectory or anything if there's no air for me to push myself from, but I will be able to cause myself to spin myself.

Which leads me to further confusion for me...
How exactly can you simulate the acceleration from gravity, against the pull of real gravity, without expending any energy?