There is, of course, a problem. If a violent marauder with a heart of pure evil and an indomitable spirit were to barge in and seek the sword they could just take it. The monks can't fight that kind of person off either, they're pacifists.

So they conduct a holy ritual to seal the blade within a great boulder. Only a worthy warrior may remove the blade and worthiness is deemed by the order of monks through a series of trials.

Downside, the monks can't really stop anyone from attempting the trials. The trials are quickly duplicates off-site by a band of thieves so they can be completed by a powerful thief before they can break in and steal the sword. The monks catch wind of this and they have to figure out a better method to protect the sword on the fly. But they dot have many more resources, they don't have time for a ritual.

But they do have a gift shop that sells decent replicas.

The thieves arrive, their captain having co.pleted the trials and meeting the standard of worthiness of the monks and is pure of heart (pure greed) and has powerful spiritual energy. However, when they come upon the chamber with the boulder and the sword they find that three more boulders have been added. All four in the room are poked full of swords that all look almost exactly the same. Any one of them could be the real thing. It would take hours to remove them all by hand, enchanted or otherwise. By the time the thieves could do so, the monks could call the city guard and the thieves would have to put up a real fight against a tremendous number of trained soldiers.

The monks follow up on this after the thieves leave and admit defeat. They add more swords, they conduct more rituals on the boulders themselves so that only trial worthy individuals can take any of the swords. More swords are jammed into all the walls (internal and external) of the monastery. Even the grounds are littered with them. They are all gradually enchanted with a spell that gives the false magical fingerprint of the real sword.

since i was a part of the tech for my high school's rendition of white christmas i wanted to share a couple of the things i built for it!

i helped make both of the "rooms" which consisted of two flats and a platform (the actors kept stepping on

me and my friend cut the ornaments out with the jigsaw as well as i painted a few of them

my friend and i made four of these tables for the jimmy's scene

me and a couple of my friends made the moon bench which looked really cool during the show

i helped make the train and i also was behind it and i moved it on and off the stage

this desk was so hard to make yall dont even get it

dude these wedding cake stairs took forever to make and i also moved them on and off stage