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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cognomen's Cassowary" data-source="post: 7078030" data-attributes="member: 6801445">I think that this is unambiguous. The passenger cannot gain energy, which must include kinetic energy from falling. He or she would therefore "impact" after a long fall with no more kinetic energy than he or she had at the start, which is none at all.In fact, this raises the prospect that the sphere and its passenger would not fall in the first place. If kinetic energy is gained by work being done on an object, and if the contents of the sphere cannot gain energy, the implication is that gravity cannot do work on the contents. That leads to a whole world of odd complications, including that the sphere itself being weightless would make it lighter than the atmosphere, so it would immediately begin floating upward. That is if physical forces act on it at all, which is not clear from the spell's description. Even if that did not happen, any creature could pick it up and hurl it into outer space. The passenger, of course, would be unaware of any of it until the spell ended, because he or she would be blinded and deafened to the outside world and unable to sense changes in velocity.All of which, I think, leaves us only with more questions.</blockquote>