Dance in the fire V1 and V4
"I think they followed us through the jungle to Vindisi," said Scotti nervously. "There was definitely a group of something jumping along the treetops."
Scotti crawled onto the strongest branch that pointed toward the wet, rocky face of the cliff. It was not a far jump at all. So close, in fact, that he could smell the moisture and feel the coolness of the stone. But it was a jump nevertheless, and in his history as a clerk, he had never before leapt from a tree a hundred feet off the ground to a sheer rock. He pictured in his mind's eye the shadows that had pursued him through the jungle from the heights above. How their legs coiled to spring, how their arms snapped forward in an elegant fluid motion to grasp. He leapt.
His hands grappled for rock, but long thick cords of moss were more accessible. He held hard, but when he tried to plant his feet forward, they slipped up skyward. For a few seconds, he found himself upside down before he managed to pull himself into a more conventional position.
Mystery of Talara
The Black arrow
“I may not join as an archer, maybe I'll join as an acrobat,” she said. “Or maybe as both. I figured that Valenwood would be the place to go to see what I could learn. You've got all those great teachers to imitate in the trees here. Those ape men.”
She coiled up, bracing her left leg before springing forward on her right. In a second, she had leapt across to a neighboring branch. I found it difficult to keep talking to her.
The word acrobat doesn't work to the argument as it doesn't say it have to be a skill, it's a word to describe someone that can do amazing physical feats. It's just a word. That aside that wasn't the main point, the main point was the feats that were unrealistic, which wasn't proven. He jumped down off a cliff because there was nowhere else to go, that's far from a feat that is constantly done by skilled acrobats, it was his only way out and he managed not to get killed. As for the jumping across the trees and jumping into the water from the cliff, those weren't normal people you can play, they were beastly Khajiiti creatures. They can climb and tree with their claws and jump from limb to limb with their nimbleness of a cat. I mean, they were confused for werewolves, so obviously they were fearsomely strong and agile. These are hardly evidence that anyone can do amazing things like jumping really high or running really fast, this is just evidence that a guy had to jump off a cliff and survived a hundred foot fall and that beastly Khajiit can climb trees and that the word "acrobat" exists in Tamriel.
Again, those laws can and are broken, both naturally and unnaturally. Not to mention they are different laws and these are not humans. a flea can jump up to 200 times its body weight and thats on Earth with Earth limitations. Plenty of tales about Bosmer and Khajiits jumping great distances and being faster than Nedic races. We get it, you dont like it, so dont use it. You want to get rid of somthing because you personally dont like it. Who's the one actually for variety here? go read the books, you ll see. But Im sure you ll try to defend against it by saying that it was only a tall tale or somthing.
*sigh* I've said that same thing like 10 times and each time I've said they are bound by the laws of reality of the mythos but the one time I leave out "of the mythos" someone goes "BUT THIS IS NOT REALITY RAWR!" Oh well, my fault for not watching my ass so I don't get torn apart the first time I don't mention the disclaimer phrase. As I said, none of the lore has said any of these incredible, amazing feats you guys said they did. Nothing about people jumping 70 feet in the air or running at 100 mph, especially not without magical items. Everything I've ever read in the game was well within conceivable bounds. Some of the beast races may run faster than humans but not 50 miles and hour or jumping 50 feet.
» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:20 am 
yes I did, I figured sleign missed it because he said Acro and Athle were not mentioned in lore I gave an example. 
