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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 1880489" data-attributes="member: 2020">Well, from a casual observer's point of view, the Sword Berserk looks like it was made by some tinker gnome from Krynn who had a grand scheme of building a superweapon combo sword/spear/club.  The typical Sword Berserk weighs 30 pounds (but some weigh up to 50 pounds.)  The typical Sword Berserk is shaped like a long sword made for a fairly large human (they come in variants up to very large two-handed types)  Like a typical long sword, the Sword Berserk has a blade that is thinnest at the blade's edges, and thicker in the midst of the blade.  However, in the case of a Sword Berserk, the weapon goes from razor thin at the edges, to a ghastly 6 inches thick down the very middle of the blade.  This thickness extends almost to the point, but the point itself is needle sharp.  The typical reaction of the observer to finding such a weapon, who does not know it's true nature, is one of curiosity, disbelief, and disgust.    There are some who have simply passed Swords Berserk by in their adventures, considering them crazy orc inventions that obviously failed, and not worthy of bagging as treasure.  There are more who took the weapon as a curiosity item, put it in their vaults at home, and these horrific weapons remain there still, waiting to be used once more.  At least one Sword Berserk was taken immediately to the nearest elves for examination.  It is recorded the elven mage present fainted on the spot, after he magically deduced the Sword's true nature.  (The shocked elves put the Sword aside to tend to the mage.  The thief among the adventurers seized the moment to steal the Sword and hightail it out of the area.  The infuriated elves are still after him, and the Sword, today.)  Remember this:  when a Sword Berserk is in it's fury mode, it can move at up to 100 miles per hour.  Combine that with a strength of 23 and it's weight of 30 pounds, and you have something very formidable just from that.    Imagine just being hit by a large, hard metal object at 100 miles per hour, that weighs 30 to 50 pounds.  Then imagine it decides to play golf (you're the golf ball) with it's 23 strength just as it slams into you, using it's momentum to aid it's swing.  (A combined speed of up to 190 miles per hour at the club end!)  And that's before you add in it's lethal, + 3 edge and point, the pommel which it will use like a mace, and it's crafty, ruthless thinking and unstoppable killing fury.  Aye:  many, many mighty and noble elves - men and women - have dared the wrath of the orcs and their Swords Berserk, and paid the ultimate price for it.</blockquote>

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