Sword of up

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?

Put it on a giant clock face and see if humans can adapt.

flying glitch

It's like an Excalibur that fucks with rotational symmetries, GR tensors 'n' shit!

Would putting it in a gyroscope work?

For a time.

Keep it slightly tilted just to fuck with people.

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 :)

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!

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.
- ... does the person have to be alive?
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

Now explain this observation with the globe earth model.

Checkmate atheist

The sword of surface normal vector
Maybe gravity still affects the sword, so when they pointed it right, "up" went right for everyone along a curve.
- These hairy balls suggest otherwise
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
- 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.
Easy: 2/3 of the planet is now devoid of life.
The earth is flat, but its flat in spherical spacetime. Checkmate atheists

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

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!

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.
- Brace your back against a tree and just point at an enemy. They'll fall into the sword.
- 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.
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?

Sounds like a potentially great gameplay mechanic for a puzzle platformer.

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.
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.
Immortals Fenyx Rising has a similar game mechanic is I remember correctly.
This is how lashings work in Brandon Sandersons Stormlight Archive.
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

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?

Just cement it into the ground or something...now which way is the ground?

.......is this a flat plane of existence? Or a globe?

Mind blow idea.

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.

"Kaladin Stormblessed enters the chat"

gonna tell my kids this was arin and danny

cool bird