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  1. Like the title asks. What do you all think would happen to a kandra if they were able to burn A-Copper. Would the copper cloud they produce create for them more protection against the flaw? Could it hide them from harmony or at least make them more resistant to his will? Has it been asked or tried before and I am missing it?
  2. I guess that is sort of what I am eluding to. This is a much more modern example (and heaven knows leg press is a terrible gauge anyways) but that simulated strength to held the weight of a person... when not used to hold the weight of that person. Does it exist or not? If you can do 50 push-ups in 2 minutes at 190lbs and decided to make your weight 10x that much for those same 2 minutes would you be able to do 50 push-ups still? Why then does that not increase your bench at the same time? If you can do 10 muscle ups at 190 can you do 10 muscle ups at 1900? If yes... what changes that says you can do 10 muscle ups at 1900 but can still only wield the same hammer that you used to? If you were in a position where you are on your back and you have to kick a heavy opponent off of you and you tap weight your strength to squat a 1900 lb you doesn't translate into being better equipped to kick off a 300 lb attacker? You could lift yourself in a squat but since you are suddenly not pushing off the ground your own weight and instead are pushing off of another being or another item you don't have the strength to do it?
  3. F Iron is described as giving users the strength to function. Weight is shown to be used to directly effect the world around the user. How does the strength to function not turn into strength to effect the world around you as well? If someone that weighs the same as a car were to fall to the ground and catch themselves then do a couple clapping push-ups wouldn't that same person be able to stand in front of a car moving towards them and catch it? Someone who weighs in excess of 2000 lbs can do a normal squat but they still only have the extra strength to left over to add the same few hundred lbs to the bar on top of that squat? How does the strength your muscles are able to produce increase proportionally for everything you do while it's effect outside of supporting yourself stays exactly the same but the world can crumble around you because your new weight is impacting everything you have done? I would suggest it is the same backwards. Someone who is storing weight shouldn't be able to lift nearly as much as they would have before hand. If you weigh 2000 lbs for a baseball throw how does that not effect the way that baseball travels or even feels in your hand? I know F Iron seems to break the most rules and has the most "because magic" feel to it but I am curious if there are some smart folks in the forums who can explain to me how someone who does 3 times their body weight in a squat normally can suddenly weight 10x their normal weight and suddenly their strength is only allowing them to squat 30% of their entire weight but they can squat to support themselves just fine.
  4. If they had access to medallion tech and a few gold medallions they could have used Miles for infinite health battery. Much more valuable than just leading a little band of robbers.
  5. I was thinking about zinc vs steel feruchemy and where the differences lie. Then I saw a clip from the movie limitless and it made me wonder if bullet time is more steels thing then is zincs thing more of a limitless moment? Zinc compounder = endless supply.
  6. I got the idea of atium being burned by anyone from this thread where it was quoted as part of the potential screenplay changes that Brandon was working on. This was what initially caused me to question if a compounder if tin could compound atium even if only a sliver was left in the world to initially consume. The idea that God metals have that in common (being usable by everyone) sort of pushed me in that direction. Of course it isn't cannon as of now. Would be interesting to see how Brandon treats it in the future since atium will likely make a return.
  7. I had a feeling that all of that could be stored. My 2nd question was more along the lines of how those senses are ... well sensed. If you have stored taste can you still use that metalmind to taste something if the tongue is gone? Same with long eye sight and losing your eyes. If you used a medallion or spike to gain the ability to use bronze or steel or anything that carries a specific sense with it, then stored that is using it again tied to your tin metal mind of is it tied to the medallion or spike which granted you the ability in the first place? I assume this would be less of an issue for atium if we assume God metals may be burned by anyone in which case a sliver of atium could be compounded for the future sight alone. Perhaps a tin compounder with atiums future sight stored would go crazy. But if that person had access to say an F zinc and to lesser degree steel medallion or spike they could use some of that speed to counter the mind destroying that that much future sense could give you. I am fascinated by the ideas of temporarily having access to a power and being able to store even small portions of those powers through feruchemy (nicrosil aside because that is a massive RAFO bag I cant be bothered to investigate further). The idea of compounding a portion of power that you temporarily had is an interesting one but I guess it all boils down to what holds the sense. Is it the tin or is it the tongue?? Can you even make a parallel like that from the physical world to the spiritual world to the cognitive world?
  8. So I have been poking around the topic of tin feruchemy for a while. It seems that some feel that allomantic senses may be able to be stored. If that is true could a tin compounder also compound allomantic senses? More specifically if atium is revised to be usable by all folks as a result of it being a god metal would a tin compounder be able to burn even a scrapes worth of atium and then compound that future sight infinitely? This question dives a bit deeper into the whole identity thing but would someone who had access even for a moment to either a spike or medallion that grants either steel/iron or brass or even pewter (sense of balance) be able to then compound those senses infinitely even if they lose access to the spike/medallion that allowed them to use it in the first place?
  9. I have to say I am just a total sucker for trolling folks. If they aren't watching where they are walking just stand and tap weight. Or tap speed just to watch in awe at bullet time. I dont know that I would make a great feruchemist... I think I would lean more towards the careless use of gold that we see Wayne use/waste. He is my favorite character.
  10. 100% agree feruchemy > allomancy. I would go as far as to say ferucheny > all other systems though. I am super bias to the usefulness of feruchemy. If there was just one metal from one system I would probably have to take Allomantic pewter though. The image of Vin and that devastating headbutt just plays over and over. As for the RPG. I would so be down depending on other folks availability.
  11. I shall pay more attention to names in the future. That one should have been obvious haha. Edited.
  12. I guess what I meant was more along the lines of a ferring using a totally unkeyed metalmind. They only have access to their metalminds and ones that are unkeyed as we see in BoM. In Wayne's case would he be able to store a massive amount of his own health into his own keyed metalmind while tapping enough health from the unkeyed one to keep himself alive as he fills his mind. Basically the ability to take something that was made to be used by everyone and transferring it into a metalmind that is keyed for himself and no longer allowing that investiture to be available to any other gold ferrings who may have wanted to use it?
  13. I assume she was reffering to the autonomic nervous system which is how your body temp is regulated.
  14. It is a shame. Full feruchemist all the way any day. I just think it offers the most useful options in most every situation... not just combat. I dont see any metals as being useless or unethical to use as a feruchemist. Even some things that I dont personally think I would mess with much could be sooo good in certain situations. Not to mention we live in a pretty cush world that makes storing even the harder attributes way easier. I have wondered; if steel feruchemy speeds you up and you precieve the world as being slower (the bullet time effect), then wouldn't filling it make you precieve time as being faster? How nice would it be to take long passenger rides / flights or even just plain boring days at work and being able to store speed and precieve the day to be going way faster? Feruchemy is my vote 100x over.
  15. Thanks for pointing this out. I totally missed that no lie. I was listening to the book half dead driving that day (literally had no idea just how ill I was and was just focused on making my 10 hour drive in one piece). I totally pictured the southern people with big voodoo looking masks (warcraft troll mask vibes) and living in a tropical land... its good to know just how far off that was. I may need to go crack the book and actually read that section again as opposed to listening to it. This definately adds a thinking point to another thread asking about tech advancements on scadrial as well. The people who are living the harder life would naturally evolve faster or die out. The basin is too cush for advancement to be needed.
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