Feather fall and gravity attacks

[Fink]

I always was under the impression that feather fall does *not* protect against gravity attacks, and that this belief was just an old wives tale. But I noticed this in spell1.c:

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            /* Gravity -- stun plus slowness plus teleport */
            case GF_GRAVITY:
            if (fuzzy) msg_print(Ind, "You are hit by something strange!");
            msg_print(Ind, "Gravity warps around you.");
            teleport_player(Ind, 5);
            (void)set_slow(Ind, p_ptr->slow + rand_int(4) + 4);
            if (!p_ptr->resist_sound)
            {
                  int k = (randint((dam > 90) ? 35 : (dam / 3 + 5)));
                  (void)set_stun(Ind, p_ptr->stun + k);
            }
            /* Feather fall lets us resist gravity */
            if (p_ptr->feather_fall)
            {
                  dam *= 6; dam /= (randint(6) + 6);
            }
            take_hit(Ind, dam, killer);
            break;

So what's the story there?

Also, interesting to note that this is yet another case where res sound is useful: the anti stun deal there. Blows my mind how many things can stun you that res sound protects against.

[Berendol]

It works out pretty nicely that feather falling makes gravity attacks less effective, I think. You basically are affected less by gravity due to feather falling.

Old wives' tales can be true in this game...

We could use a reversed version of the ElementsOfMagic document in the Library. Anyone care to add a section there, or make a new one?