People you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley

[MacThorstenson he/him]

22 hours ago, The Forgetful Archivist said:

@The Gecko All you need to do is make cookie sale and then you'll be free to move up in one of our many state-of-the-art laboratories and start researching Hemalurgy. Good luck! Also, what do you mean by cookie potential from rats?

He pointed out that if we gave rats lerasium and they were able to burn it, we could breed them rapidly and use them to farm hemalurgic spikes en masse.

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

@MacThorstenson A certain two-armed Herdazian may be currently looking for work. Pretty interested in Hemallurgy theories. Oh, and I love cookies. Making ‘em, spiking ‘em, convincing people that they should eat them.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

Welcome, all you need to do to join is sell someone one of our cookies on the introduction threads! Once you do that, you will be a full member of the dark alley.

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

So far I’ve tried to sell one, but how will I know the sale has been made?

[MacThorstenson he/him]

You don't find out if they accept it, but just offering the cookie is enough.

Welcome to the DA!

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

Full Disclosure: I have sworn the first shydeal of the Knights Awkward. Will this interfere with my cookie selling duties?

[MacThorstenson he/him]

After having looked over their oaths and the manner in which you said them, I wouldn't think so. At our heart, we are scientists, bakers, and businessmen. So long as your oaths don't impact all of those duties you should be fine. 
 

Also, you don't have to sell cookies past the first. Personally I find it beneficial to do all three, theorize, sell cookies, and bake, but you don't have to. 

@LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian

I Have found it useful to use this link to recruit more people.

 

Edited February 3, 2018 by MacThorstenson

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

Which part of baking? The part that coincides with our Hemallurgical research, or our research into how delicious a foodstuff can be?

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

And also, I have sold two more cookies.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

Good, job on the cookies!
The Baking can apply to either part. The more delicious the cookies/assorted baked goods are, the more people will eat them.

Also, word to the wise, it's considered bad form to post multiple times in a row, if you have more information that you want to add, it's advised to edit your previous post or wait till someone else posts.

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

Thank you. I’m quite inexperienced on the 17th shard. So, here’s a question. In a perfect world, where all alleys are dark alleys, do we still sell cookies, or do we share our cookies with our dark alley brothers in exchange for baking and theorizing work? Or will we create a monopoly and then slowly bring up our prices without losing customers because we have reached a level of baking where our cookies are incredibly addictive? Either way, I’m game.

Edited February 3, 2018 by LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian

[MacThorstenson he/him]

1 hour ago, LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian said:

Thank you. I’m quite inexperienced on the 17th shard. So, here’s a question. In a perfect world, where all alleys are dark alleys, do we still sell cookies, or do we share our cookies with our dark alley brothers in exchange for baking and theorizing work? Or will we create a monopoly and then slowly bring up our prices without losing customers because we have reached a level of baking where our cookies are incredibly addictive? Either way, I’m game.

Well, to understand this, one must understand the alleyverse. I am not a master of alleymatics, but from what I understand all of the dark alleys are in place called the alleys which is located in the alleyverse. Other places in the alley verse include the roundabout and the highway. Inside of the alleys you have places like the dark alleys, the light alleys, and the mediocrity lit alleys. You enter the alleys by walking into an alley in the human world, so in a way this perfect world has come to pass.\

With that in mind. Our goal is to discover the limits of Hemalurgy and push those limits as far as they can be pushed. So we will continue selling cookies as long as we can, because we still need test subjects to experiment on. We don't actually make any money off of most of the cookie sales*. They buy our cookies with their soul. Considering that rarely do our test subjects survive the first round of experiments, there is very little need to make our cookies addicting, except for consumption by fellow dark alley members. I hope that answers your question.

On an unrelated note have we outfitted you with the basic benefits? (Gold compounding to heal your self when you remove a spike and copper feruchemy to store memories in.)

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

Not yet. I was wondering, if you spike a twinborn who uses the same metal for feruchemy and allomacy, would you steal both of their powers? And also, could we maybe get some iron feruchemy so we can boost our weight to persuade others of our cookies' deliciousness? Or alternatively, take away our excess fat so our cookies look as if they are a health food?

Edited February 3, 2018 by LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian

[The Gecko he/him]

18 minutes ago, LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian said:

Not yet. I was wondering, if you spike a twinborn who uses the same metal for feruchemy and allomacy, would you steal both of their powers? And also, could we maybe get some iron feruchemy so we can boost our weight to persuade others of our cookies' deliciousness? Or alternatively, take away our excess fat so our cookies look as if they are a health food?

Better yet, when we gather the first spike, we leave them alive enough to get the second power. Or we could give them spikes making them twinborn gold, spike the powers out of them, and let their compounding abilities heal both the physical and spiritual damage. When we have the number of spikes we want, we take back our gold spikes and let our customer find their own way out. However that may be

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

1 minute ago, The Gecko said:

Better yet, when we gather the first spike, we leave them alive enough to get the second power. Or we could give them spikes making them twinborn gold, spike the powers out of them, and let their compounding abilities heal both the physical and spiritual damage. When we have the number of spikes we want, we take back our gold spikes and let our customer find their own way out. However that may be

That. Is. Positively. Deviously. Genius.

[The Gecko he/him]

Now I am curious if we can spike out powers that have been spiked in, and if compounding gold can heal spiritual wounds from the part of your soul that has been stapled on. If that was the case, we could spike anybody with both gold powers and any other power to repeatedly create new spikes of that third power

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

And we could also use this to improve the lerasium rat venture.

[The Forgetful Archivist he/him]

4 hours ago, MacThorstenson said:

He pointed out that if we gave rats lerasium and they were able to burn it, we could breed them rapidly and use them to farm hemalurgic spikes en masse.

Genius! 

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

And if we give them gold compounding, our production rates would skyrocket!

[The Gecko he/him]

I am glad to know my ideas will contribute to our mass production of cookies 

Does this mean I get to be a Dark Alley member?

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

I believe that is up to @MacThorstenson, but as far as I know you must first offer someone a cookie.

[MacThorstenson he/him]

 

24 minutes ago, The Gecko said:

I am glad to know my ideas will contribute to our mass production of cookies 

Does this mean I get to be a Dark Alley member?

Lopen is correct, so long as you have offered someone a cookie, you are a full fledged member of the DA.

21 minutes ago, LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian said:

I believe that is up to @MacThorstenson, but as far as I know you must first offer someone a cookie.

 

I would just like to say that I am in way in charge of the DA, that belongs to @Voidus and others. I am following the rules that they set forth.

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

So, regarding the iron compounding @MacThorstenson?

[MacThorstenson he/him]

You can do whatever you wan't. My understanding is that tapping iron doesn't increase physical size, only weight. So I am not sure if it would help. As to removing fat, why wouldn't we spike an illusion to make you appear thinner? I have been trying recently to figure out if it i possible to draw an aon with a spike that would give an illusion. So far the interfering investiture currents have been causing trouble, but I have found that the more Connected you are to elantris, the more successful it is.
 

[LopenTheTwoArmedHerdazian]

Then it is very lucky that i heve a half Elantrian cousin. He is not very important cousin, so we can test on him!