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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7078057" data-attributes="member: 19675">Spells, almost by definition, break rules of reality- or in the alternative- work with rules unavailable to those who don't have access to it.  The reason why the occupant can roll the ball is because the spell's designer thought things through and designed it to work that way.Cause and effect is why.  The contrition is imposed on a target for a reason- physical trauma, deprivation of food/drink/air, etc.  if the condition is imposed without some such cause, there is no reason for the condition to be imposed at all.To put it differently, the only way in which the occupant of the ORS could experience G-force effects is if the force of impact- the kinetic energy- crosses the barrier of the ORS, which we know it does not do by the spell's description.  After all, what is our speeding freight train but a very large blunt weapon?Impossible, since the impact of hitting the ground cannot be transferred across the ORS barrier.There is zero logical reason to distinguish between steps 1 & 2 with the ORS.  Remember, physics doesn't care whether A hits B or B hits A, it just cares about the transference of forces between them.  Egg hitting a brick at 5mph is the same physics equation as for brick hitting egg at 5mph.In step one, the train hits the ORS with enough force to send the ball flying 0-60mph in an instance.  We know reading the spell the inhabitant takes no damage.But in the equations, that hit is no different from the one that reduces the ORS from 60-0mph.  The forces incurred are identical.  If the math is the same, the results are the same.</blockquote>

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