Nerfwright
Explorer
Many of these presume highly specialized materials, designs, or circumstances.
1. The 'Barbarian's Haircut'. Bangs getting in your eyes? Grab 'hold of those locks and gently bring the hilt across your brow with the other hand, blade-up. Repeat for the other sides of your head. Admire the results in one of your sword's mirror-polished facets.
2. Drive nails or pegs with the pommel
3. Reinforce an intimidation check: lightly smack someone on the cheek with the flat of the blade. "Hey - I'm still talking to you!"
4. I've you've got an itch, scratch it. Why not? You're already shaving, scraping your boots, and picking your teeth with it.
5. Tuning fork/chime/triangle - yet another call for attention. Make the newlywed couple kiss at the wedding reception. Stick it in the ground and clang on it to call the family to dinner. Have it tuned!
6. A very, very big key for an unusual lock - the tuning fork feature might be an interesting twist for a lock that needs a particular vibrational frequency to pass from the key that opens it.
7. Craft a hollow weapon with fingertip-sized bleeding holes along the pommel and blade; blow into the end and play it as a sort of shofar/recorder. Perfect for those warrior skalds who want to invoke their bardic music while retaining hold of their weapon. (Yeah, not very realistic, but I've loved the idea since I first read it in a Samuel R Delaney novel as a kid.)
8. Make a sword with a moderate sized hole at the business end, pass some cordage through the hole, and you've got a giant awl. Use some dragongut and hide to sew yourself a fort, just like in Martha Stewart Unliving!
9. If you're really bonded to your sword, ritually heat it and brand yourself with an impression of its blade or pommel insignia. Share the fun and leave a mark of judgement on someone else.![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
10. Drive it into the earth and stand on the quillons for a 3-4 foot height gain for a Scout's quick circumstance bonus to Spot.
11. When you're not on watch, drive it into the earth for a hammock post when you only have one tree. (This one makes the Scout in me uneasy...)
12. Use a similar method to picket your horse. Don't do this at the same time as item 11.
12. Take your sword to dinner. Make an evening of it! Have a nice meal, a couple of drinks, a moonlight walk, and early to bed. And don't forget your scabbard.
NWG
1. The 'Barbarian's Haircut'. Bangs getting in your eyes? Grab 'hold of those locks and gently bring the hilt across your brow with the other hand, blade-up. Repeat for the other sides of your head. Admire the results in one of your sword's mirror-polished facets.
2. Drive nails or pegs with the pommel
3. Reinforce an intimidation check: lightly smack someone on the cheek with the flat of the blade. "Hey - I'm still talking to you!"
4. I've you've got an itch, scratch it. Why not? You're already shaving, scraping your boots, and picking your teeth with it.
5. Tuning fork/chime/triangle - yet another call for attention. Make the newlywed couple kiss at the wedding reception. Stick it in the ground and clang on it to call the family to dinner. Have it tuned!
6. A very, very big key for an unusual lock - the tuning fork feature might be an interesting twist for a lock that needs a particular vibrational frequency to pass from the key that opens it.
7. Craft a hollow weapon with fingertip-sized bleeding holes along the pommel and blade; blow into the end and play it as a sort of shofar/recorder. Perfect for those warrior skalds who want to invoke their bardic music while retaining hold of their weapon. (Yeah, not very realistic, but I've loved the idea since I first read it in a Samuel R Delaney novel as a kid.)
8. Make a sword with a moderate sized hole at the business end, pass some cordage through the hole, and you've got a giant awl. Use some dragongut and hide to sew yourself a fort, just like in Martha Stewart Unliving!
9. If you're really bonded to your sword, ritually heat it and brand yourself with an impression of its blade or pommel insignia. Share the fun and leave a mark of judgement on someone else.
10. Drive it into the earth and stand on the quillons for a 3-4 foot height gain for a Scout's quick circumstance bonus to Spot.
11. When you're not on watch, drive it into the earth for a hammock post when you only have one tree. (This one makes the Scout in me uneasy...)
12. Use a similar method to picket your horse. Don't do this at the same time as item 11.
12. Take your sword to dinner. Make an evening of it! Have a nice meal, a couple of drinks, a moonlight walk, and early to bed. And don't forget your scabbard.
NWG
