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* In the catwalks above a stage, with the opera/play in progress below. | * 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 | ||
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* On a frozen river, with chunks of ice breaking away under your feet. | * On a frozen river, with chunks of ice breaking away under your feet. | ||
| + | * Construction scaffolding. | ||
* A flotilla of logs floating down a river. | * A flotilla of logs floating down a river. | ||
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* On top of a careening stagecoach, in a low-overhang forest. | * On top of a careening stagecoach, in a low-overhang forest. | ||
* On top of a large hot-air balloon, in mid-flight. | * On top of a large hot-air balloon, in mid-flight. | ||
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* Waist-deep in a stream | * Waist-deep in a stream | ||
* On a thread-bare rope bridge spanning a chasm | * On a thread-bare rope bridge spanning a chasm | ||
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* Hanging onto the ropes that dangle beneath a zeppelin (which may or may not be on fire) | * 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 | |
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| − | * 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 flat-bed semi traveling down the interstate at 90 mph | ||
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* On a rocky precipice overlooking a fall of hundreds of feet | * On a rocky precipice overlooking a fall of hundreds of feet | ||
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* Inside the big cage where they store helium balloons | * Inside the big cage where they store helium balloons | ||
* On a rowboat | * On a rowboat | ||
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* In the back seat of a New York taxicab during rush hour | * 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?) | * In the middle of a big parade (maybe Mardi Gras, or perhaps the marching band at halftime at the Super Bowl?) | ||
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* On a dam | * On a dam | ||
* In a ship's rigging | * In a ship's rigging | ||
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* In a bamboo forest, about fifty feet up | * In a bamboo forest, about fifty feet up | ||
* On top of a mist-shrouded hill, surrounded by the crumbling remnants of a stone circle | * 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) | * In a sheep pen with about 100 sheep (substitute pigs as required) | ||
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* On the back of a flying whale. And every so often it spouts a geyser of steam from its blowhole. | * 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 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... | * On dragonfly mounts that buzz around one another... | ||
| − | * In a cage-free commercial chicken rearing factory | + | * In a cage-free commercial chicken rearing factory |
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* In a hedgerow maze | * In a hedgerow maze | ||
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* On a Ferris Wheel | * On a Ferris Wheel | ||
* On a seaside boardwalk during a hurricane | * 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.) | |
| − | * Underwater while wearing clumsy diver suits | + | * On the edge of a burning, active volcano |
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| − | * On the edge of a burning, active volcano | ||
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* On the roof of a burning sky scraper | * On the roof of a burning sky scraper | ||
| − | * On the wing of a B-17 Flying Fortress | + | * On the wing of a B-17 Flying Fortress |
| − | + | * In a gassed out mud filled body strewn WWI trench | |
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| − | * In a gassed out mud filled body strewn WWI trench | ||
* On a super-highway | * On a super-highway | ||
* Up a gigantic tree, with lots of hopping from branch to branch | * 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 | |
| − | * On a grassy plain in the middle of a stampede | + | * An open field with snow 4 feet deep |
| − | * From rooftop to rooftop in a flooded town | + | * In the surf at a stormswept beach, with heavy waves |
| − | + | * In the substructure beneath a huge bridge | |
| − | * An open field with snow 4 feet deep | + | * Inside a submarine |
| − | * In the | + | * 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 | |
| − | * In the | + | * Atop a burning citadel while meteorites fall all around |
| − | * | + | * While skydiving |
| − | * On a | + | * On the open observation deck of a gigantic steam-powered zeppelin, suspended a thousand feet above the streets of a major city |
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| − | * On the open observation deck of a gigantic steam-powered zeppelin, suspended a thousand feet above the streets of a major city | ||
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* On skis, hurtling down the side of a snow-covered mountain. | * On skis, hurtling down the side of a snow-covered mountain. | ||
| − | * NOT on skis, hurtling down the side of an ICE-covered mountain | + | * NOT on skis, hurtling down the side of an ICE-covered mountain |
| − | * On a roller coaster | + | * On a roller coaster |
| − | * While flying hang gliders | + | * While flying hang gliders |
| − | * | + | * Beneath a waterfall, struggling to stay on your feet under the torrent of pounding water |
| − | * On | + | * On rafts, going over the waterfall |
| − | * In a | + | * In the hulk of a ghostly pirate ship or ocean liner |
| − | * In | + | * In the water gardens of Ft. Worth, TX |
| − | * On a | + | * On a school bus full of little children |
| − | * Jumping from piece to piece of wreckage as it's being sucked into a huge whirlpool | + | * 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 | |
| − | * A train station. Clouds of steam, huge machines to fight across and lots of civilians running around | + | * On two really elastic bungie cords |
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| − | * 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 | ||
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* While on motorcycles | * While on motorcycles | ||
| − | * On the Boxers' Bridge in Venice, standing over a canal with no guard rails in place | + | * 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. | * In the Capuchin necropolis in Paris, surrounded by walls of skulls. | ||
| − | * Inside a tram going downhill in San Francisco | + | * Inside a tram going downhill in San Francisco |
* Queuing for cinema tickets. (Don’t lose your place in line.) | * 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! | * 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 | + | * 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 front of the grave of your twin brother that the murderous swine slew one | + | * In the desert at high noon (heat prostration anyone?) while a sandstorm is coming |
| − | * A ferry in high wind, with cars or heavy crates rolling around | + | * 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 | |
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| − | * In the desert at high noon (heat prostration anyone?) while a sandstorm is coming | ||
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| − | * 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 | * On top of a hill during a thunderstorm | ||
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* While being lynched | * While being lynched | ||
| − | * In chariots, especially when running along the spar of the enemies chariot | + | * In chariots, especially when running along the spar of the enemies chariot |
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* On top of monolithic statues depicting your ancestors/nation (The Statue of Liberty, the statues by the falls in Fellowship of the Ring.) | * On top of monolithic statues depicting your ancestors/nation (The Statue of Liberty, the statues by the falls in Fellowship of the Ring.) | ||
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* On the hands of Big Ben | * On the hands of Big Ben | ||
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| − | * | + | ===Wacky Situations=== |
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| − | * | + | * Under direct, heavy cannon bombardment. |
| − | * In a | + | * 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 | + | * In the city's slums during a massive fire |
| − | * | + | * In the middle of a riot |
| − | * On the sanctioned dueling grounds of a local Mage's guild, DURING a full-scale mage's duel | + | * Quicksand |
| − | * | + | * In the path of a massive horde of army ants |
| − | * On | + | * 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!" |
| − | * In a | + | * During a motorcycle race (horse race, chariot race, etc) |
| − | * In | + | * 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 |
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| − | + | ===Other=== | |
| − | * In a | + | |
| − | * | + | * 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 | ||
Revision as of 23:19, 16 May 2005
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
