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 :)
Have a statue commissioned that will forever hold the sword is from then on a new religion lol
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.
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
Immortals Fenyx Rising has a similar game mechanic is I remember correctly.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Abracadabra!
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.
Keep it slightly tilted just to fuck with people.
It’s like an Excalibur that fucks with rotational symmetries, GR tensors ‘n’ shit!
Just cement it into the ground or something…now which way is the ground?
Would putting it in a gyroscope work?
For a time.
Mind blow idea.
“Kaladin Stormblessed enters the chat”
flying glitch
cool bird
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
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
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.
