Cool Fight Locations

2005-05-17T06:19:53Z

Zamiel: Grouped everything into four (loose) categories. Erased periods for uniformity. Fixed some spelling errors.

[[Category: Locations]][[Category: Resources]]

A list of locations that would be excellent for set-piece battles, fights, and conflicts of all kinds. No more 10' by 10' rooms.

==Locations==

===Indoors===

* In the catwalks above a stage, with the opera/play in progress below.
* Inside the works of a clock tower
* In the Great Library of Alexandria as it's being burned
* In a wharf side warehouse, in a roped-off ring, surrounded by dozens of hard-nosed spectators screaming for blood
* In elevator shafts, but not in the elevators
* On a series of conveyor belts leading to pressing machinery
* Between the gears and pulleys of a four-story-building-sized clockwork, steam-driven difference engine
* On top of the servers in a major data center (while one of the combatants is trying to hack into the systems in that center)
* A meat locker, with entire sides of frozen cow hanging from hooks.
* In a cubicle farm (think Dilbert)
* In the food court of a large shopping mall, Sunday afternoon, one week before Christmas
* In a high voltage transformer station
* In a brick-walled olive oil cellar - when one of the casks is struck, olive oil coats the floor
* In an airlock that's slowly decompressing
* In a stopped elevator
* On a stone staircase in a rapidly falling apart castle
* On the floor of a large ballroom after the villain has insulted the hero – remember those floors are slick
* Fort Knox (Think 007)
* In a smithy filled with blades
* In a house about to be blown to pieces by a tornado- with a shelter out back with room for one
* In a dragon's lair...right next to sleeping dragon.
* In a studio prop department. (make sure to grab your REAL sword)
* In a game & comic store
* On a factory conveyer belt that dumps rocks into a furnace
* In a hospital emergency room that is in the process of accepting dozens of victims from some sort of disaster
* Backstage at a Victoria's Secret fashion show
* At a Hockey/Ice Rink
* In a biotech lab filled with glass growth reactors filled with animal cells/bacteria/yeast/flesh eating amoebas
* In the middle of 99 cent store with crowded isles only a foot and a half wide.
* In a brothel / opium den
* Inside a wind-tunnel
* In the middle of a high class 1930s nightclub
* On the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange
* In a nuclear missile silo about to launch
* In a room full of hemophiliacs
* In a paper mill
* In a museum. Lots of improvised weapons to hand, whether it's a 15th century scimitar or the tooth of a Tyrannosaurus
* At a fantasy / sci-fi convention
* At a crowded party, without letting security know
* In an Esher-esque construction of stairs, halls, and archways that warps space
* In a Wax Museum after hours
* At a rave
* In a ghetto bail-bonds/pawn shop
* During a high school gym class
* At a christening
* Lovers fighting in a huge canopied bed with dozens of pillows and silk sheets
* In the bathtub or at a Roman bath-house
* In the shrine of a forgotten/elder god who is starting to wake
* In a crypt full of life-size, realistic warrior statues, which may or may not come to life.
* While standing side by side at a urinal...while urinating!
* In the Oval Office, the floor of the UN general assembly, or other location of political importance

===Outdoors===

* On a frozen river, with chunks of ice breaking away under your feet.
* Construction scaffolding.
* A flotilla of logs floating down a river.
* On top of a careening stagecoach, in a low-overhang forest.
* On top of a large hot-air balloon, in mid-flight.
* Top of a church tower where there's only a narrow walkway around the top. (Swinging off statues of angels and slamming people into bells.)
* Waist-deep in a stream
* On a thread-bare rope bridge spanning a chasm
* Hanging onto the ropes that dangle beneath a zeppelin (which may or may not be on fire)
* In the midst of deadlocked rush-hour traffic, leaping from car to car
* On a flat-bed semi traveling down the interstate at 90 mph
* On a rocky precipice overlooking a fall of hundreds of feet
* Inside the big cage where they store helium balloons
* On a rowboat
* In the back seat of a New York taxicab during rush hour
* In the middle of a big parade (maybe Mardi Gras, or perhaps the marching band at halftime at the Super Bowl?)
* On a dam
* In a ship's rigging
* In a bamboo forest, about fifty feet up
* On top of a mist-shrouded hill, surrounded by the crumbling remnants of a stone circle
* In a sheep pen with about 100 sheep (substitute pigs as required)
* On the back of a flying whale. And every so often it spouts a geyser of steam from its blowhole.
* On the surface of a huge, faceted mirrored lens so there are thousands of distorted images of you and your opponent.
* On dragonfly mounts that buzz around one another...
* In a cage-free commercial chicken rearing factory
* In a hedgerow maze
* On a Ferris Wheel
* On a seaside boardwalk during a hurricane
* Underwater while wearing clumsy diver suits
* A knife fight in a telephone booth (and you HAVE to answer the phone.)
* On the edge of a burning, active volcano
* On the roof of a burning sky scraper
* On the wing of a B-17 Flying Fortress
* In a gassed out mud filled body strewn WWI trench
* On a super-highway
* Up a gigantic tree, with lots of hopping from branch to branch
* On a grassy plain in the middle of a stampede
* From rooftop to rooftop in a flooded town
* An open field with snow 4 feet deep
* In the surf at a stormswept beach, with heavy waves
* In the substructure beneath a huge bridge
* Inside a submarine
* On a sweltering August day in a full-grown Kansas cornfield* On top of a giant Godzilla-style monster.
* On top of a careening coach while riding over a bridge 10 miles above a city
* Atop a burning citadel while meteorites fall all around
* While skydiving
* On the open observation deck of a gigantic steam-powered zeppelin, suspended a thousand feet above the streets of a major city
* On skis, hurtling down the side of a snow-covered mountain.
* NOT on skis, hurtling down the side of an ICE-covered mountain
* On a roller coaster
* While flying hang gliders
* Beneath a waterfall, struggling to stay on your feet under the torrent of pounding water
* On rafts, going over the waterfall
* In the hulk of a ghostly pirate ship or ocean liner
* In the water gardens of Ft. Worth, TX
* On a school bus full of little children
* Jumping from piece to piece of wreckage as it's being sucked into a huge whirlpool
* A train station. Clouds of steam, huge machines to fight across and lots of civilians running around
* In a Topiary Maze tended by big robotic hedge trimmers that look like the Langoliers from the Stephen King novel
* On two really elastic bungie cords
* While on motorcycles
* On the Boxers' Bridge in Venice, standing over a canal with no guard rails in place
* In the Capuchin necropolis in Paris, surrounded by walls of skulls.
* Inside a tram going downhill in San Francisco
* Queuing for cinema tickets. (Don’t lose your place in line.)
* A horse track just after the race has gone by, with a minute and a half until it swings by again!
* Riding horses on the beach
* In front of the grave of your twin brother that the murderous swine slew one exactly year ago
* A ferry in high wind, with cars or heavy crates rolling around
* In the desert at high noon (heat prostration anyone?) while a sandstorm is coming
* At a witch-burning, climbing up the unnecessarily huge pyre
* On the back of a giant turtle that is swimming through a swamp full of alligators & with snakes dangling from the heavy vines
* On top of a hill during a thunderstorm
* While being lynched
* In chariots, especially when running along the spar of the enemies chariot
* On top of monolithic statues depicting your ancestors/nation (The Statue of Liberty, the statues by the falls in Fellowship of the Ring.)
* On the hands of Big Ben

===Wacky Situations===

* Under direct, heavy cannon bombardment.
* On a merry-go-round
* Anywhere at all during an earthquake
* Running concurrently with another swordfight, such that each of the four combatants wants to kill the other three
* In the city's slums during a massive fire
* In the middle of a riot
* Quicksand
* In the path of a massive horde of army ants
* Near a strong gravitational or magnetic source, the swords accelerating or decelerating as they pass near it
* While having sex
* While handcuffed or otherwise bound to another swordfighter
* In front of a confused movie crew while the asst director complains about his script missing pages or "this is a romance!"
* During a motorcycle race (horse race, chariot race, etc)
* On the sanctioned dueling grounds of a local Mage's guild, DURING a full-scale mage's duel
* Last men standing on a battlefield (weapons, corpses, and setting sun mandatory, undead optional)
* Inside a transport container getting crushed in a giant hydraulic press
* Atlantis as it's sinking

===Other===

* On Mars, while wearing space suits, in low gravity
* Inside someone else's blood vessels, while shrunk to microscopic size
* Below-decks in a burning, sinking ship
* The tunnels of a large subway system
* Inside the chambers of a dying giant's heart
* On a teetering see-saw platform over something dangerous
* Atop the pistons of some great machine
* On a suspended cage with the damsel in distress within
* In an area flooded with explosive gasses. (Better not parry & cause a spark.)
* In a zero-gravity chamber walled with inertia-reflecting force fields. In other words, once you start bouncing, you don't stop; time to set up that three-corner bank shot....
* On a spaceship with unpredictable artificial gravity
* In the middle of a summoning circle, where a demon will be called if any blood strikes the ground. Better make sure to use the flat of the blade
* A psy-blade duel inside your mind, flashing through every location you’ve ever been afraid of and/or felt safe
* In a masquerade ball / Halloween party in which many people have the same costumes
* Traveling through time in a long corridor, racing toward the end of the universe

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