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Please help me come up with some actually useful uses of Cadmium Allomancy. Slowing down time is interesting but not particularly useful for much, given that you appear to be standing stuck still the whole time and wouldn't even really be able to perceive what's going on outside as more than a vague blur. So far I've got 3, and they're all pretty niche cases.

 

1. Making something you really want come faster, basically bypassing waiting time.

2. Giving allies more time in a time-sensitive situation (Marisi's trick with Miles from AoL).

3. Making supplies last longer.

 

Anyone have any other ideas?

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Most uses involve waiting for help to arrive, if a fire starts you can burn it to slow the flames spreading while the fire brigade arrives, same for bombs and the bomb squad, you could use it to live longer too, burning it constantly you could live for nearly a thousand years, although it would still feel like an ordinary lifetime you'd have access to future technology.

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I wonder what the effects would be on various forms of technology that cross the border. 

 

Say some clockwork device (to keep things in AoL era) sat across the border of a Cadmium bubble. The gears on one side would be moving quite significantly faster than those on the other side. As near as I understand this should cause the whole thing to either seize up or break. 

 

It would only be worse with anything electrical, particularly once alternating current starts being used. 

 

Thoughts? Could Speed bubbles be used to break machines with moving parts?

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I thought by Cosmere rules only people have a Cognitive aspect (or am I thinking Spiritual? I get the terms confused).

 

Nope, objects get them too, and an object is only affected by a time bubble if it's fully within it (ie., the entirety of the Cognitive aspect is inside).

 

Shai explains Cognitive stuff a lot in TES. I'd quote it, but I'd end up copying like a billion pages so I'll just leave that there as the go-to reference.

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The MAG talks about Time bubbles interfering with electricity in the AoL supplement, if you want another salty snack:

 

Beyond the technological benefits and challenges of this new discovery, certain Allomantic powers affect electricity. The time bubbles of Pulsers and Sliders disrupt electricity...

Page 206 for anyone playing at home. The MAG and its supplements can be acquired from here: http://www.crafty-games.com/ (When referencing the MAG I feel obligated to recommend it).

 

EDIT: More detail, same page:

the time bubbles of both Pulsers and Sliders can be used to disrupt electricity
if the bubble encompasses an electrical device or power line.

 

I think the best use of Cadmium has already been suggested... hire a Nicroburst and a Pulser, and time travel to the Future (you can't come back though). If you need it to be consistently running, have a tube down the Pulser's throat constantly feeding them Cadmium to burn, and give the Nicroburst enough Nicrosil to constantly burst the Pulser. You'll get to the distant future one way or another.

 

I'm considering having my mad scientist Mistborn character do just that (albeit using Duralumin instead of a Nicroburst) to skip to the guntastic Alloy of Law era in MAG. :)

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Thank you all. These are great. I'm currently trying to write my own game system for Mistborn. MAG just doesn't do it for me, a bit too vague and abstracted for my liking, though I have greatly enjoyed the flavour and have bought both the Core Book and the Terris supplement. Will probably also buy the AoL supplement next paycheck. Anyway, I got stuck on what to do for Cadmium (most of the system is based on maneuvers for each metal). Your posts have helped a great deal. 

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A cross cosmere use would be giving a lifeless squirrel a cadmium spike and freezing people solid with it.

What? I guess, but you'd have to teach the lifeless squirrel to use Cadmium. Not even sure if Lifeless would be capable of burning metals even if imbued with the ability via hemalurgy. Could they even swallow the metals? The swallow reflex I presume would not function in what is essentially a zombie.

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I presume would not function in what is essentially a zombie.

 

...I mean, the muscles for movement and vocalization work, and they shouldn't. Clearly Awakening breaks some expectations.

 

Use for cadmium: you're falling off a cliff and you're going to hit a drawbridge. Set up a bubble, let time elapse until the drawbridge opens, and fall safely into water.

 

... That's a bit idiosyncratic. 

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So, it's possible to extend the range of your bubbles if you flare the metal hard enough. In that case, do we have an official word on what would happen if Wayne and Marasi both burned their metals at the same time, Wayne doing a small bubble and Marasi doing a huge one? She said the bubble cancel, but what happens when the sizes differ? Do we now have a ring of slowness? Or does the whole thing come down?

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I will say in the modern-day Scadrial RP campaign, Elendel United over on tumblr, there's a character named Basil Verge who is a Pulser, and he works as a bomb defuser for the EPD. He puts up a bubble around himself and the bomb, giving the people outside more time to evacuate just in case he isn't able to dismantle the bomb. It's a pretty cool way to use Cadmium powers, I think.

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...Sort of a one-trick pony, though, because either he does, in fact, dismantle the bomb, in which case there was never any danger and he simply wasted time, or he doesn't dismantle the bomb, in which case his power only saved people once.

 

This also assumes every bomb is a timer bomb. If the bomb were on a wireless deadman's switch, putting it out of phase with the trigger would probably set it off immediately.

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What would be more useful is standing so that the bomb is right at the edge of the bubble then getting the bomb defusers to stand outside of the bubble so they have more time to disarm it.

Well the bomb disposal people couldn't stand outside and work on the bomb inside since it has been confirmed that for people if any part of them crosses the boundary they are inside the bubble. However it would give them a huge amount of time to study the bomb from the outside, gather exactly the correct tools and come up with the perfect plan before actually sending someone in to do the disarming.

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In a world where cadmium was a thing, people making bombs would probably adapt and just put a simple backup deadman's switch in almost every bomb, or some other delicate thing that would unbalance when manipulated temporally, that would simply set the bomb off as soon as it was out of phase with the rest of the world.

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