Dig a hole as deep as you can, bury it oriented correctly, hide the burial site as best you can. Sooner or later a landslide or earthquake or flood or something might move it, but hey, if we get really lucky, we might have bought a few million years!
New rule: If nobody is holding the sword, there’s no longer any “up”, and everything just floats about
The support Djin told me the enchantment is written on Read-Only-Magic runes. We can’t patch it in, and no one knows the rumplestiltskin recovery key, so we can’t disable the indestructability enchantment either to disintegrate it. Honestly, it’ll take a hard reboot of the material plane, but Xanathar is online right now and I’m told it’s pretty important stuff, and he has the reboot button anyway so take it up with him.
That’s just classic sales-wizard razzle-dazzle. It had to be programmed somehow and there’s likely a service rune on the side for debugging. Read-Only runes can be overpowered with the right equipment
Classic Xanathar, holdin up reboots
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… does the person have to be alive?
Asking the important questions.
In the meantime, find a way to unenchant it.
nah just leave it in the fridge next to vegetable drawer. No one will touch it
Just put it in space. Space has never had an up before, might could use one.
Nah, just make a religous cult out of it
hmmm.
As DM, I’m always looking for ways of creating the potential for highly improbable but incredibly humorous TPKs.
And I think I just found a new toy.
Best part is, the Murder Hobo is going to love it. At least, until, eh, we’ll they’ll just have to find out.
Give it a quick spin and if you’re fast enough, it’ll just shake everything a bit but everyone around is going to puke.
Sure. And imagine trying to swing it at something or stabbing someone with it. They’d get sucked into the sword, sorta.
But.
Interactions with the sword of down is going to be interesting.
Also, there’s shield of upside-down causes it to reverse when it successfully blocks.
Also, there’s a small chance it’ll break at a really inopportune moment.
Don’t forget the sheathes that reverse the blades polarity when they’re angry with the user
You couldn’t even hold the sword of down due to the shape.
Sounds like chaos to me.
Make it have an insanely high damage, like 50, 000 dps but since he soon learns a sword is useless if you can’t swing it. Bonus points if he gives up his primary weapon to get the up sword so when he learns it’s useless he has no weapon
DPS? Do you play your ttrpgs in real time?
I play by mail so it’s damage by strike…do you have another meaning?
DPS commonly means ‘damage per second’ mostly for RPG video games
Yes… That’s the joke. I doubt anyone plays a rpg by mail either…
Ah mb, I just assumed mail was just an acronym or something I wasnt aware of
Imagine that thing being real and you point it sideways and the whole planet’s center of gravity shifts 6700 kilometrrs under you and the whole mass off the planet starts to crumble in that direction
spin the planet!
Largest game of Spin The Bottle evah!
Wouldn’t the way he is holding it already kill a good chunk of the population? People on the other side of the planet would just fall into space along with the athmosphere loose matter and water.
I guess it must be the direction relative to the direction from the earth’s center.
That little tilt he did definitely killed a few hundred millions from the tidal waves alone unless the effect of the sword is local to an area.
It must be localized somehow. Otherwise, other planets…
How do you think earth got its rotation?
You can just put it on the ground. Since it always points up, gravity will always go straight down through its center, so it will be self balancing. You just need some one to guard it.
The wind would make it rotate
Imagine how much fun such a thing would be attached to a windmill on a stormy day.
Yes. It’s magic though :)
Sounds like a potentially great gameplay mechanic for a puzzle platformer.
Immortals Fenyx Rising has a similar game mechanic is I remember correctly.
Gravity rush? I don’t know though, never played or saw it. I just remember the mechanic where you decide which way gravity is.
Oooh I’d never heard of it, that looks cool! I’ll check whether it can easily run on a pc.
It’s playstation only, i think you can emulate the vita but the 2nd game is ps4 which i’m not sure has emulation
It would be if you can find an elegant control scheme. Problem is, it has to be mapped to something, so you either can’t move or can’t use any buttons while altering it
VR game. I can feel the motion sickness already
First-person platformer with portals. It’s set on a cruise ship in a storm.
The movements consist mostly of backflips and power slides.
This is how lashings work in Brandon Sandersons Stormlight Archive.
So everyone on the other side of the planet has already been flung out into space
Nah, it’s a disc planet resting on 4 elephants standing on a giant turtle. They good fam.
Another point in favor of a flat world!
It’s AOE
Abracadabra!
…is this a flat plane of existence? Or a globe?
Maybe it’s localized.
Neither, its sword-shaped.
Put it on a giant clock face and see if humans can adapt.
How does that mesh with a spherical world?
Perfect, all the down vectors mimic the rotation of the local down vector, which is the inverse of the Sword of Up.
Although… What happens to “down”… in the “foreground”? And background?
Who says the sworld is spherical?
The planets are obviously swords themselves
Good point.
Just cement it into the ground or something…now which way is the ground?
Imagine throwing this sword at someone lmao
The sword remains stationary in the air while the entire world spins around it.
I like the idea that the orientation of the entire universe is relative to this sword
That’s… brain: ow.
I’ll just hang it from the tip? And maybe the bottom too just for safety
I’d half-ass tape it to a wall and call it a day.
I appreciate the commitment to making that gif
Without context this sounds very dirty.
Keep it slightly tilted just to fuck with people.
gonna tell my kids this was arin and danny
It’s like an Excalibur that fucks with rotational symmetries, GR tensors ‘n’ shit!
