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Ultima IX: Ascension (1999)

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There is this room in the final dungeon where you initially see a lightning sword, but when you get close, it turns into a key.
What if I told you that you can get both?

Placing any item on the floor triggers the transformation just if you stepped there, yourself, but using the insta-jump trick of the speedrunners (open a book and close it while jumping) you can get close without the sword vanishing. If you put out the candle to remove the flame barrier, the key replaces the sword (even if you try to drag it quick into inventory), but by moving the camera, you can reach there and you have a third Lightning Sword!

I also show off this double lightsaber design caused by wielding one in the sword, other in the lantern slot. Playing around the slots also can make the game think you are bare handed, so you can perform the backflip, like in the movies.

Finally, it is also apparent that when you take the key and place it somewhere without it touching your inventory, it still floats. The first two times when I pan the camera there, it refuses to float up-down though. I played around offcamera, but it doesn't seem to affect glitch wielding.

Sidenote:
This trick works great here, as well as at the air part of the main Abyss area, but not for example at the small skeleton room of this final dungeon. There the small heaps of gold aren't actual items, one can't move them by any way I tried.
So, so far I found three types of places: where both the original and transformed object can be obtained with tricks; where trying to manipulate the vanishing object causes a crash (like with the egg shells in Destard's main room); and where so far there is no way to manipulate the transformation.

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