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.
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Yes. It's magic though :)
Have a statue commissioned that will forever hold the sword is from then on a new religion lol
It's all fun ,and games, until one day ~~a child with no parents~~ a protagonist approaches..
So everyone on the other side of the planet has already been flung out into space
It's AOE
Another point in favor of a flat world!
Abracadabra!
Now explain this observation with the globe earth model.
Checkmate atheist
Maybe gravity still affects the sword, so when they pointed it right, "up" went right for everyone along a curve.
Easy: 2/3 of the planet is now devoid of life.
The sword of surface normal vector
The earth is flat, but its flat in spherical spacetime. Checkmate atheists
Limited range
Pretty cool concept if you're an outside observer
- 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
If you like this concept, read Influx by Daniel Suarez.
starred comment, thanks for the recommendation
Limited range could still have a gradual transition
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Sounds like a potentially great gameplay mechanic for a puzzle platformer.
Gravity rush? I don't know though, never played or saw it. I just remember the mechanic where you decide which way gravity is.
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Immortals Fenyx Rising has a similar game mechanic is I remember correctly.
This is how lashings work in Brandon Sandersons Stormlight Archive.
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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!
nah just leave it in the fridge next to vegetable drawer. No one will touch it
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
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Just cement it into the ground or something...now which way is the ground?
.......is this a flat plane of existence? Or a globe?
Neither, its sword-shaped.
Maybe it's localized.
"Kaladin Stormblessed enters the chat"
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.
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