Trying to figure out how levitate spell applies to regular movement at ground level. While the spell description indicates what you can do when you are adjacent to something, it does not say what happens at ground level.
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You defy gravity and levitate the target 5 feet off the ground. For the duration of the spell, you can move the target up or down 10 feet with a single action, which has the concentrate trait. A creature floating in the air from levitate takes a –2 circumstance penalty to attack rolls. A floating creature can spend an Interact action to stabilize itself and negate this penalty for the remainder of its turn. If the target is adjacent to a fixed object or terrain of suitable stability, it can move across the surface by climbing (if the surface is vertical, like a wall) or crawling (if the surface is horizontal, such as a ceiling). The GM determines which surfaces can be climbed or crawled across.
If a PC has levitate cast on it (caster or not), and is at 0ft height, can they move horizontally as their normal move speed, or would they have to use the adjacent rules to pull themselves along the ground. Would it be like being at ground level and held up by helium balloons, and you would not be able to run horizontally at all, but have to inch yourself along by grabbing at the ground?
We had an instance where someone fell off a boat, I cast levitate on them (using reach) and next turn moved them up to deck height, then someone else threw them a rope and pulled them on board (0ft relative height to the deck). The question was, could the levitating character, once on board, run away from the giant tentacle monster, or are they stuck running in space?
