Skyfall

Skyfall (minor) by Stone Gargoyle

The character with this power never need worry about falling out of a plane, off a building, etc., as it automatically forms a protective sphere around him if he is more than twice his own height in feet off the ground. When falling, the protective field appears, taking one full melee round to activate, and immediately deactivates when reaching the ground or other surface, also taking a full melee round to deactivate. The sphere will hold the character and anyone within a ten foot radius of him inside it, the sphere forming at the ten foot radius point, with the character in the center, enveloping all around the character, up to a limit of 1000 pounds, plus 100 pounds per level of experience. It will not form if the 10 foot radius point is intersected/blocked. It holds enough oxygen for ten minutes of air for one person, plus one minute per level of experience, which is less if divided among several people. The sphere has an SDC equal to the character's ME attribute number X5, plus 5 points of SDC per level of experience. When falling, it lowers the character to the ground at a rate of 10 feet per second. If the SDC is depleted, the sphere will disappear and the character will fall at a normal speed of descent until the sphere reforms itself. When falling from more than 10,000 feet, the character will suffer 1d6 points of damage for every 10,000 feet fallen upon landing due to the impact in spite of being in the sphere. If created in a weightless environment such as space, the sphere will not move but rather float in space until the character is rescued or the oxygen runs out. The character cannot control the direction of the sphere, increase or decrease its rate of descent, nor activate it when not falling.