Oh
dammit. I've just had the most embarrassing epiphany. I searched the thread to see if it had been mentioned before and, shockingly, it has not. Tagging
@Redshirt Army because I know you'll be interested in this one.
So, you know how we've had ideas floating around for a grief sabot? To launch objects and projectiles beyond our grief control range?
The problem, of course, is that we never really had a good source of ammunition for it. We've joked about launching Kirika and I know that I at least talked using scrap metal and surplus construction materials, but that all takes time and materials. As it turns out, that's completely unnecessary.
Guys... It's real simple.
Stupid simple.
Our warhammer is valid ammo for a grief sabot. It's made of magic rather than grief so it's quite likely to be able to survive beyond our range and, more than that, if our grief counts as us wielding it, or we can
learn to make it count as such? There's this quote to consider:
On the other hand, you should be able to make it lighter, too. You drop your normal warhammer again, and focus on the Grief one. An effort of will has it feeling equally as light as your usual warhammer, and you take a careful swing with it. This time, it handles properly.
Contemplatively, you heft it back over your shoulder, and then slam it through a heavy, overhand blow at the ground in front of you, punching a hammerhead shaped divot in the asphalt with an enormous cracking noise.
You take a step to the side, picking up your magic warhammer. You repeat the blow, trying to put an equal amount of force behind it - and promptly smash a crater out of the asphalt. A crater, as opposed to a simple divot.
Hmm.
You plop down onto the asphalt, looking at the two different holes gouged out of the parking lot. Your testing methodology isn't terribly scientific, but you have a feeling that the hammer, your hammer, wouldn't work the same in someone else's hands. You make a grumbling noise, snorting through your nose in annoyance.
If throwing our hammer via grief counts as us wielding it It's likely to be
even more effective as a kinetic impactor, than it's mass would suggest.
And, of course if Sabrina has, in any way, originated from Madokami, and our weapon is described as a "meter long piece of steel" when we do this, that would make our hammer... A rod from god.
