Uh… that was supposed to be an impossible task. So you’re saying we did the impossible?
I guess… how did you know that spell? I dunno, ask Luna I dunno, ask the giant gold brick. MWWUHHH.
I see. [Outstretches a tongue and licks Fausticorn with it] I think he likes you. This is beyond weird.
Going through the effort of smelting loads of gold into a cube and burying it under a road isn’t weird enough?
But that was for my amusement. Pretty pricy amusement if you ask me. But well worth it.
Of course, I could upset this upset by spawning in an even bigger block of gold, thus devaluing your gold and forcing you to return my gold.
But why would I want my block of gold back if I can easily just materialize more of it? So you can create a castle for us on the fly?
As in we don’t need to camp out why workers build our new palace for us over the next few years? Nah. The economy needs it.
Aw shoot; we could have brought along our camping gear! Nah- let’s live without equipment
We’ll filter our own water, make our own tree-house, hunt our own food. It’ll be epic. I like this idea.”
@OrionFOTL
It’s probably an alloy – maybe as low as 20% purity, the rest being brass or something for durability.
@Background Pony #01E0
Couldn’t they just dismiss the spell when they’re done moving it?
Well, given that anything from a moth to Mega-Ultra-Squid produces the same amount of gold, that’s not necessarily the case.
(Yes, Gild won’t work on Emrakul, but King Macar will.)
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Considering what Gold tokens do in Magic, that cube up there must be worth a million mana or something.
When they aren’t being slightly interesting.
Or subtly horrifying.
…Are the descriptions of Magic cards always that snarky?
Indeed she is XD
Knowing Beavernator, this may be a Magic card reference.
They can keep it like Fort Knox, and issue brass bits against ownership of tiny fractions of the cube. Eventually a growing economy will go off the gold standard anyway.
Alternatively, if you’re skilled enough to ensoul an object you’re probably skilled enough to transfer a soul between bodies. Move the cube’s soul to a new receptacle. Maybe the castle itself.
Maybe it’s a hollow cube.
It could be hollow to make it bigger and therefore harder to move.
Based on this fact there is only one logical explanation.
This is no gold at all. They’ve been bamboozled.
Or it could even be shaped into a functional mobile warehouse of sorts, with extra supplies for the new kingdom all inside.
Gosh, the possibilities!
Or if they use a different weight system.
Perspective + very little ponies = the cube looks bigger than it is.
Or pones are very small.