TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 When you go to parties, spike the punch with steel and iron. Laugh as guests wonder why their drinks are attacking them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 When you go to parties, spike the punch with steel and iron. Laugh as guests wonder why their drinks are attacking them. Achievement unlocked: "People to Avoid at Parties." 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkarma Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 It all depends on how annoyed the fish was with people who poke it in the mouth with hooks. Magickarp evolved in Odiumdos! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athelia Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Not technically a power, but using spanreeds to pass notes in class. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Soulcasting rib-eye steaks into big macs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChocolateRob Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Wear a Cryptic on your face and tell everyone you're cosplaying as Rorschach. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rederel Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Try performing a circumcision with a shardblade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted July 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 being a coinshot with a very bad case of vertigo. being a soother/rioter without any good perception of how other people really feel, so you can't really nudge them. being a bloodmaker in a third world country where a gram of gold is worth more than your monthly salary. being a tinmind living and working in very loud environment. being a thug while having the kind of personality that will make you live a sedentary life and seek an intellectual job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 being a thug while having the kind of personality that will make you live a sedentary life and seek an intellectual job. I don't get it. Everybody has to open a jar every once in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 I don't get it. Everybody has to open a jar every once in a while. However, things could get bad when your computer gives you the blue screen of death and you decide to perform a little "percussive maintenance." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Swear the oaths. Return to men the shards they once bore. And then melt the shard blades to build an Iron Throne. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 I don't get it. Everybody has to open a jar every once in a while. I'm pretty sure you don't feel exhaustion while burning pewter. A pewter savant in a low-stress lifestyle, in fact, would probably have more energy than a ADHD convention sponsored by Red Bull, wouldn't ever get sick, would be immune to friction injuries like carpal tunnels, and would scare the boss pantsless. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwiLyghtSansSparkles Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Go to any sort of concert with loud noises and flashing lights. Burn tin. Scare everyone up to and including the paramedics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Find a tineye walking alone at night without any sort of lighting. Scream like a banshee, tackle them, and burn nicrosil while punching them in the face. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curiosity Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Give Odium's shard to a fish. Wouldn't that give the fish sentience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nowhere Posted July 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 (edited) I don't get it. Everybody has to open a jar every once in a while. well, of course having a power is better than not having it. however, i feel it's quite underused on the occasional jar. which is mostly the point of all the examples i made: not useless, but still wasted. it's like having a holiday home in the mountains or seaside and going there one weekend per year (with the difference that on allomantic powers you don't use you at least don't have to pay a real estate tax). or getting a PhD and then finding a job flipping burger (actually, that happens pretty often in the current economic climate; i wonder if a similar thing can happen on scadrial, with allomancers having no job and having to apply on flipping burgers? I'm imagining wayne as a waiter at a restaurant, using his bendalloy bubbles to set tables faster, while marasi near him activates cadmium bubbles for the clinets who are waiting their food) However, in the specific case of pewter and a sedentary person, there is an additional trap: we all know lack of excercise is dangerous for your healt, and excercising while burning pewter equals to no excercice. so while even a very sedentary person will have to climb stairs or walk around every once in a while, keeping a minimum of muscles, the sedentary pewterarm will do those things with pewter, resulting in even lower muscle tone than even real sedentary people. which has a good chance to lead to hear disease by age 40, with the guy having to burn pewter all the time just to avoid a heart attack or, in a milder case, being unable to walk without pewter. EDIT: but I forgot the "you need less sleep" part; having a couple more hours of free time every day would actuallly be pretty good. resisting illness can also be useful, but must be done with caution or it will depress your immune system. so, all in all, not that bad. still, a huge waste compared to someone who actually make a professional use of his pewter. Edited July 27, 2014 by king of nowhere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Awaken the Stick with the command to fight Odium, sit back and let the almighty stick prevail! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Awaken the Stick with the command to fight Odium, sit back and let the almighty stick prevail! But that's not useless at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 The great Stick transcends usefulness! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baine Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Achievement unlocked: "People to Avoid at Parties." I think we have a new list! Why should dark alleyways get all the fun? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurkistan Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 I'm beginning to think that people are just baiting me to put them on what is truly meant to be an exclusive list... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmingly Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 The best kind of exclusive list is one that everyone wants to be in. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pathfinder Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) Be a thug, and start a show called "jackass". now yes on the surface this sounds very beneficial but think about it. the point of the show is to do insane things AND get hurt doing it but somehow survive. If you build into the show an ability that deadens you to pain, then the reactions are dead pan. This is also a useless use for thugs, because you are putting yourself into painful situations ON PURPOSE and risking becoming addicted to it. Like the simpson's episode where VH1 looked at homer behind the scenes with his morphine addiction. Edited July 29, 2014 by Pathfinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkarma Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 (edited) Use the ability to world hop for pizza delivery.Guarantee its delivery before the next desolation or you'll get your shard blade back. Lightweave a dictionary to look like a dictionary. Soulcast the said dictionary into stone paperweight. Tell them its so you can throw the book at them if they get out of line. Sooth Hoid so he's witty and incorrigible.... Soulcast someone's wine into water while they're drinking it. Speak the AI Paradoxes to pattern and then riot his interest. (Would that work?) Capture Humor spren and give it to a parshmen during a highstorm. Soulcast any noble into popcorn if they object. Soulcast any man who eats Chouta into meat, tell everyone chouta is people! Edited July 30, 2014 by Darkarma 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 I'm beginning to think that people are just baiting me to put them on what is truly meant to be an exclusive list... What can I say, we people to avoid in dark alleys are heavily into recruitment by spikings offering delicious cookies! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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