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From: cc100jr@gitpyr.UUCP (Joel M. Rives)
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Subject: Re: unusual weapons and other silliness
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 13:30:27 EDT
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In article <76@utastro.UUCP> jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag) writes:
>
>There was also the Holy Pike with an absurd set of bonuses to
>hit &c., but was invariably located across the body diagonal
>of a small room (the only way it could fit in) so that no
>force could remove it without bringing down the ceiling.
>
>
>Jeff Brown the Scumbag
>		{allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!jeff
>		jeff@astro.UTEXAS.EDU
>Astronomy Department, U. of Texas, Austin

A first level MU spell, the reverse of Enlarge, would suffice to extract
the fabled pike of which you speak. Of course, if the item were an artifact,
there would be a good chance the magic would not work on it. Even if the 
magic did work, this type of tampering with the item might destroy the 
dweomer which has magicked the pike!!!  

Such a ploy was used by a wizard friend of mine in the not too distant 
future (or was it the past ???). Having come across an enchanted long sword
of considerable worth and power (the sword's previous owner was no longer 
in need of the weapon seeing as the poor bloke had just recently succumbed
to the ol' one-two / Stinking Cloud-Fireball combination), my good friend
was loath to forgo the benifits to his arsenal. In a flash of brilliance,
the wizard cast a reverse of the Enlarge spell upon the sword and then
cast a Perminancy spell on the Shrink spell. The result - after the DM had
determined that there was no ill side-effects to the sword - was the most 
powerful dagger in the hands of any mage, wizard or sorcerer around :-). 

			   skippin' o'er th' timelines ag'in,
			   Arch-Mage Whisper Spirit

"When the going gets tough, the mage hides behind the biggest, meanest 
fighter he can find."  - from the Mages Handbook of Survival v. IV