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!
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
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
a football kicked from outside of the range would suddenly gain horizontal speed within the range, and then exit the range at freefall speed into the goal.
a nun walking from outside of the range would suddenly glide like a dark screaming angel of death across the field within the range, only to then end in a series of fantastic rolls after leaving it
a man on a pogo stick would do a super massive horizontal jump across the field, and the use that potential energy to one final massive jump after leaving the range
Still contradicts the common concept of gravity where "down" is determined by mass, not by an arrow. A flat earth with arbitrary downs and ups explains this much better. Occam's razor is clear on this.
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.
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
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 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
113 Comments
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 113 pts · 244d
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!
ByteJunk@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 244d
New rule: If nobody is holding the sword, there's no longer any "up", and everything just floats about
GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 244d
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.
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 244d
Classic Xanathar, holdin up reboots
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
tetris11@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 244d
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
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 244d
... does the person have to be alive?
rotkehlchen@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 244d
Asking the important questions.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 244d
In the meantime, find a way to unenchant it.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 244d
nah just leave it in the fridge next to vegetable drawer. No one will touch it
credo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
Just put it in space. Space has never had an up before, might could use one.
x4740N@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
Nah, just make a religous cult out of it
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 244d
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.
brsrklf@jlai.lu · 24 pts · 244d
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.
brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 244d
Brace your back against a tree and just point at an enemy. They'll fall into the sword.
Lightfire228@pawb.social · 16 pts · 244d
That's how you end up with a 200lb missile smashing your guts out
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 244d
Or they cast featherfall and start dropping things on you
rainwall@piefed.social · 3 pts · 244d
How can they drop things on you when you just point the sword the other way?
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 244d
If you point it the other way, you're not braced anymore and start falling.
rainwall@piefed.social · 2 pts · 244d
You just brace on the other side of the tree at the same time. Swing your arm right and the tree will move around you.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 244d
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.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 6 pts · 244d
Don’t forget the sheathes that reverse the blades polarity when they’re angry with the user
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
You couldn't even hold the sword of down due to the shape.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
Sounds like chaos to me.
vrek@programming.dev · 8 pts · 244d
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
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 244d
DPS? Do you play your ttrpgs in real time?
vrek@programming.dev · 7 pts · 244d
I play by mail so it's damage by strike...do you have another meaning?
Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
DPS commonly means 'damage per second' mostly for RPG video games
vrek@programming.dev · 2 pts · 243d
Yes... That's the joke. I doubt anyone plays a rpg by mail either....
Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Ah mb, I just assumed mail was just an acronym or something I wasnt aware of
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 54 pts · 244d
Now explain this observation with the globe earth model.
Checkmate atheist
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 34 pts · 244d
The sword of surface normal vector
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 244d
Limited range
tetris11@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 244d
Pretty cool concept if you're an outside observer
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 244d
Limited range could still have a gradual transition
tetris11@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 244d
well that's less exciting, but I'll allow it
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 244d
Thanks
BennyInc@feddit.org · 5 pts · 244d
If you like this concept, read Influx by Daniel Suarez.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 244d
starred comment, thanks for the recommendation
Lightfire228@pawb.social · 4 pts · 243d
Stormlight Archive also has a magic similar to this (Lashings)
zerofk@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 243d
There’s always a flying nun.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 244d
Still contradicts the common concept of gravity where "down" is determined by mass, not by an arrow. A flat earth with arbitrary downs and ups explains this much better. Occam's razor is clear on this.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 244d
Have you considered the part where this is both magic and completely fictional?
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 244d
No
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 244d
Skill issue
tetris11@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 244d
you fool, you've doomed us all!
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 244d
Sorry, I didn't intended that
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
Admit it. You did.
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 244d
Maybe the sword controls gravitons.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 244d
Maybe it doesn't.
moseschrute@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 244d
The earth is flat, but its flat in spherical spacetime. Checkmate atheists
PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 243d
Maybe gravity still affects the sword, so when they pointed it right, "up" went right for everyone along a curve.
Leesi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 243d
These hairy balls suggest otherwise
cley_faye@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 243d
Easy: 2/3 of the planet is now devoid of life.
nialv7@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 244d
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.
Lightfire228@pawb.social · 7 pts · 243d
The wind would make it rotate
phx@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 243d
Imagine how much fun such a thing would be attached to a windmill on a stormy day.
Xell22@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
Yes. It's magic though :)
lauha@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 244d
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
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 244d
spin the planet!
EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 244d
Largest game of Spin The Bottle evah!
schema@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 244d
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.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
It must be localized somehow. Otherwise, other planets...
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 244d
How do you think earth got its rotation?
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 244d
Sounds like a potentially great gameplay mechanic for a puzzle platformer.
Daefsdeda@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 244d
Gravity rush? I don't know though, never played or saw it. I just remember the mechanic where you decide which way gravity is.
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d
Oooh I'd never heard of it, that looks cool! I'll check whether it can easily run on a pc.
Killer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
It's playstation only, i think you can emulate the vita but the 2nd game is ps4 which i'm not sure has emulation
Aneb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 244d
Immortals Fenyx Rising has a similar game mechanic is I remember correctly.
IzzyJ@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
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
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 244d
VR game. I can feel the motion sickness already
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d
First-person platformer with portals. It's set on a cruise ship in a storm.
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
The movements consist mostly of backflips and power slides.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 244d
This is how lashings work in Brandon Sandersons Stormlight Archive.
yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 243d
VVVVVV did something like this, but if I remember correctly you could only change between up and down.
Locoroco from the old PSP had a really nice mechanic of turning the world to affect the direction of gravity to move the creatures. Real fun game too.
Finally, that I know of, the most recent implementation of the mechanic is in the game called Limbo which is quite nice too.
TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
How the hell did I forget that that was a thing in Limbo?
I shall whip myself, and play three levels of Braid and five levels of super meat boy for penitence.
yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 243d
I was going to say, no need to punish yourself for forgetting something... But if that's the punishment I want to be punished too.
chunes@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 244d
So everyone on the other side of the planet has already been flung out into space
Ellvix@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 243d
Nah, it's a disc planet resting on 4 elephants standing on a giant turtle. They good fam.
papertowels@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 243d
Another point in favor of a flat world!
Rooster326@programming.dev · 4 pts · 243d
It's AOE
Xell22@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Abracadabra!
LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 244d
Have a statue commissioned that will forever hold the sword is from then on a new religion lol
Rooster326@programming.dev · 17 pts · 243d
It's all fun ,and games, until one day
a child with no parentsa protagonist approaches..Xenny@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 244d
.......is this a flat plane of existence? Or a globe?
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 244d
Maybe it's localized.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 244d
Neither, its sword-shaped.
Guitarfun@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 243d
Put it on a giant clock face and see if humans can adapt.
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 243d
How does that mesh with a spherical world?
callyral@pawb.social · 8 pts · 243d
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 242d
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?
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 242d
Who says the sworld is spherical?
The planets are obviously swords themselves
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 242d
Good point.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 244d
Just cement it into the ground or something...now which way is the ground?
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 243d
It's like an Excalibur that fucks with rotational symmetries, GR tensors 'n' shit!
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 244d
Imagine throwing this sword at someone lmao
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 244d
The sword remains stationary in the air while the entire world spins around it.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 244d
I like the idea that the orientation of the entire universe is relative to this sword
Empricorn@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 244d
That's... brain: ow.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 243d
Keep it slightly tilted just to fuck with people.
baggins@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 244d
I'll just hang it from the tip? And maybe the bottom too just for safety
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 244d
I'd half-ass tape it to a wall and call it a day.
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org · 21 pts · 244d
I appreciate the commitment to making that gif
x4740N@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Without context this sounds very dirty.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 244d
gonna tell my kids this was arin and danny
x4740N@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
Would putting it in a gyroscope work?
Chais@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 243d
For a time.
JustinFront@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
Mind blow idea.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 244d
"Kaladin Stormblessed enters the chat"
notreallyhere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 243d
flying glitch