The broken sword

[Hex]

Yuk. He has two boots... is there a law that says he can only have one boot knife?

 

[Sapheron]

Unfortunately there is. If we wants a second it legally has to be a boot axe instead.

Joking aside though, pulling an axe out your boot would be even more bad ass. Whether whipping out a weapon is better than using your broken one though... perhaps not, methinks.

 

[MstrTal]

Another option, since we all seem to be going on tangents with extra knives and axes, is if this has been a titanic battle is to grab up a handy fallen tree limb or small denuded sapling trunk with jagged end that the demon may of snapped off in the course of battle. Handy improvised spear perhaps?

 

[Nik]

Would he have chain-mail gloves ? These may allow the pointy part to be used safely...

 

[Blackrook]

Maybe the demon can't be hurt with weapons and must be killed with bare hands. So the hero would have to strangle it or smother it or crush its bones with a squeeze.

 

[paranoid marvin]

He could always use the pommel - perhaps it has a pointy tip that he can drive into the creatures eye/brain , or maybe it has a blunt edge which he can beat it to death with?

 

[Jake Reynolds]

Or could he rip off a sharp bit of the demon itself to stab it with? That'd be cool.

 

[MstrTal]

Or could he rip off a sharp bit of the demon itself to stab it with? That'd be cool.

This taken with someones comment, can't remember who sorry, about a berserker brings to mind a scene where he would grab the demons arm and shove its own clawed arm down its throat thus ending its existence. Death by self implement and asphyxiation. Probably not your characters style but would be a sweet read.

 

[alchemist]

Dang, there are some sick people here

Thanks for all the ideas, folks. I've rewritten it, and gone from using the pointy end, to using the end with the handle. For the story, he has to act fast, so some of the more, er, imaginative ideas wouldn't have worked. And it's set on a beach, so not a lot of improvised weapons lying about.

Now I know who to talk to if I need someone killed. Thanks

 

[psychotick]

Hi,

Just an idea, I'd go for the hilt end rather then losing fingers like most of the rest, but if by some quirk of fate the pointed end somehow found itself embedded in the ground, point up, then maybe he could ram the demon into the sword.

Cheers.

 

[Sapheron]

That's an idea. Why use a broken sword to attack a demon when you could use the demon to attack the broken sword?

 

[Glitch]

He goes to stab the demon. The demon moves making him stab the ground or a rock. The demon swipes his tail at our hero, missing but strikes the sword snapping it in two. The sharp end of the sword is still in the ground, but the break has made a sharp jagged edge. Then as psychotick suggests stab the sword with the demon.

 

[Tayfax]

I say definitely go for the hilt. For one thing the character probably still has it in his hand, and it would make a strange scene for him to throw it down, grab the broken point, and then use that. Regarding the stabbing point: the sword breaks however you want it to, author. Metal often breaks into sharp pieces, why wouldn't a sword? Imagine Narsil from the Lotr films.

 

[Cayal]

If he's been bashing at this creature with the tough hide for a while, the edges of his blade might have dulled to the extent that he could grip the blade without slicing open his hands. It would hurt, of course, and leave marks, but what is that beside being killed by a malevolent demon?

And chicks dig scars. Win/Win