It takes all of the strength you can muster to actually get to the twirling rapier. While you do manage to strike it through the whirlwind and wiggle it some, the whirlwind just follows the rapier around when you try to knock it off. As soon as you pull away, the rapier goes right back to being perfectly vertical.<br/><br/>Which is all you can do at the moment to hold onto the floor for dear life. The wind power now turning from a whirlwind to a mini tornado. Now with clothes, various cookware, your booze and drugs, other gear, chairs, and the table is wiggling on the ground, threatening to get carried off into the air as well. Everything and anything is bouncing around and off of the walls, making all sorts of noise and damage.<br/><br/>(DC 18 str check to not go sailing into the air with the rest of your things that isn't nailed down.)