Choose a ferring

[Pathfinder]

Storing Bronze the Feruchemist becomes drowsy and storing enough will send them into a trans like state. This trans is not True sleep and the Feruchemist comes out of it nether more nor less tired then when it started. Its also worth noting that while storing in a bronze mind Other types of Feruchemy are disrupted and there traits cannot be stored, This is very similar to the disruptive effects of storing investiture in a Nicrosil mind.

 

The other point on gaspers is actually one thing I noticed as well. Funny enough I have ideas about that. I would actually try to do physical training while storing the very attribute I was training. This would mean that as my physical ability advanced so to would my fulcrimic ability.

You spend years Storing pewter while you have been training and no one will ever notice the increase so long as they do not see you asleep. Mean while you can get a suden "Boost" to your abilities simply by stopping your storing of an attribute.

The same 10 pound weight/300 pound's of lift because you simply stopped storing. 

So I was thinking it over and I am not so sure it would work that way either. So when you store strength, your body loses muscle mass and you look emaciated. When you exercise, you are literally breaking down muscle tissue, and when your body recovers using protein, it builds up more muscle as result. So if you are already deficient in muscle mass, then wouldn't exercising do more damage? Maybe exercise without storing or tapping, and then during the recovery time store? Or exercise till you are super buff, then store till your at the level you were originally, and then exercise? Is that what you are thinking?

[Lord Tavash Shar]

So I was thinking it over and I am not so sure it would work that way either. So when you store strength, your body loses muscle mass and you look emaciated. When you exercise, you are literally breaking down muscle tissue, and when your body recovers using protein, it builds up more muscle as result. So if you are already deficient in muscle mass, then wouldn't exercising do more damage? Maybe exercise without storing or tapping, and then during the recovery time store? Or exercise till you are super buff, then store till your at the level you were originally, and then exercise? Is that what you are thinking?

 

No I am actually suggesting training to increase ability while handicapping your self with Feruchemy in an effort to make the training for both your physical and feruchemical abilities at the same time.

think an extreme form of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyweight_exercise

Edited November 3, 2014 by Lord Tavash Shar

[Twenty@20 he/him]

The choices on this thread are interesting. A lot of people are chosing ferring powers based on their health needs like gold for sick people, tin for vision problems etc. What I feel is storing attributes is a major hindrance in these cases. A person with chronic illness say diabetes won't be able to store health because it will detoriate his health. A person with shortsightedness will become even more blind trying to store. Same problem will occur for those who try to use electrum and cadmium for chronic health problems. And storing attributes is an active process which can't be done while sleeping.

Only ferring powers I see of use bendalloy and copper. In both cases storing is easier than other cases.(edit: I missed brass. Its easy to store too, specially in summer)

I guess the Terris society was more accommodating of their feruchemists giving them time an support to store their attributes. We don't have such luck here. I apologise for spoiling the fun nature of this thread.

Edited November 3, 2014 by Twenty@20

[Scriptorian he/him]

Brass is totally useful and works both ways, store in summer, tap in winter. What I would have given to have that during summer marching band...

 

Edit: This would totally work, my marching instrument is made of brass!

Edited November 3, 2014 by Serendipity

[Moogle]

The choices on this thread are interesting. A lot of people are chosing ferring powers based on their health needs like gold for sick people, tin for vision problems etc. What I feel is storing attributes is a major hindrance in these cases. A person with chronic illness say diabetes won't be able to store health because it will detoriate his health. A person with shortsightedness will become even more blind trying to store. Same problem will occur for those who try to use electrum and cadmiun for chronic health problems. And storing attributes is an active process which can't be done while sleeping.

Only ferring powers I see of use bendalloy and copper. In both cases storing is easier than other cases.

Storing sucks, but the big thing is that you don't always mind the downsides. I think you're overrepresenting the downsides.

Someone with asthma doesn't plan on always needing to tap, but when they're having an attack, it comes very much in handy. Someone who's nearly blind doesn't care if they're more blind when they're at home, and the extra vision is useful when they're outside.

[Pathfinder]

So this caused another question to pop in my head. If someone has diabetes like was suggested, goes to the hospital to have their condition monitored while storing health, and then taps it to heal the diabetes. Does the diabetes then go away for good, or does it come back when the first stops taping? Or does it come back when the person  begins storing again?

 

also since healing has to do with identity, if I wear contacts all the time, is my sense of self as seeing without glasses enough that i could heal my eyesight?

Edited November 3, 2014 by Pathfinder

[Lord Tavash Shar]

So long as you do not recognise the diabetes as part of you the effect of Feruchemical gold is always permanent when tapped.  This would work for some one who JUST got diabetes but some one who had it all there life would not be cured.

 

At least that is my take on it.

[Scriptorian he/him]

So this caused another question to pop in my head. If someone has diabetes like was suggested, goes to the hospital to have their condition monitored while storing health, and then taps it to heal the diabetes. Does the diabetes then go away for good, or does it come back when the first stops taping? Or does it come back when the person  begins storing again?

 

also since healing has to do with identity, if I wear contacts all the time, is my sense of self as seeing without glasses enough that i could heal my eyesight?

I would say no, my tenuous reasoning being that when you tap Health, it only heals you to the point as you were when you stored it (I think, maybe?), like a backup copy of your current Physical state. Thus you would have had to have stored the Health prior to having whatever condition you want fixed.

 

At least in the diabetes case, I think it'd be pretty hard to get that out of your Cognitive Identity.

[Twenty@20 he/him]

Storing sucks, but the big thing is that you don't always mind the downsides. I think you're overrepresenting the downsides.

Someone with asthma doesn't plan on always needing to tap, but when they're having an attack, it comes very much in handy. Someone who's nearly blind doesn't care if they're more blind when they're at home, and the extra vision is useful when they're outside.

I get your point that its about choice and maintaining a balance between storing and tapping. However, when people have the option of using glasses or hearing aids or inhalers will they still chose to store?

[Pathfinder]

I get your point that its about choice and maintaining a balance between storing and tapping. However, when people have the option of using glasses or hearing aids or inhalers will they still chose to store?

I would say most definitely yes. A hearing aide and glasses makes your current level of sight and sound to "normal". If i were to store while having glasses and a hearing aide, I could have "normal" senses while storing, and when I want have EXCEPTIONAL senses like an eagle or a dog. I think that is still pretty sweet especially if there is a vehicle that allows me to accomplish it for "free" 

[Redbird he/him]

Ok, here's a question, is Feruchemical gold actually just health, or the immune system as well. If it includes the immune system, storing it would negate allergies, since they are an overreaction by the immune system.

[luckat she/her]

I'd like to have Zinc. Store while watching TV, cleaning, listening to boring lectures. Tap while taking a timed test, rushing to finish an assignment, having a complicated conversation, listening to interesting lectures.

 

Pewter sounds cool too. Store while reading, watching TV, doing homework, seriously almost anything I do. Then I'd have plenty of strength to tap for stubborn pickle jars or carrying big boxes of books up and down stairs or moving the couch when I'm vacuuming.

 

I think I might have just talked myself into pewter. Moving furniture around without having to ask for help from my dad/brother/home teacher/whoever appeals to me for some reason.

[Scriptorian he/him]

Ok, here's a question, is Feruchemical gold actually just health, or the immune system as well. If it includes the immune system, storing it would negate allergies, since they are an overreaction by the immune system.

Ah, nice catch. I'm pretty sure it is immune system as well. As I recall, storing gold itself doesn't make you ill, it represses your immune system such that you're more likely to get sick, and pathogens that normally wouldn't affect you become a problem. So yeah, you could probably use it to stop allergies. Though, this would be kind of silly for people like me with seasonal allergies, because they're almost never worse than what I imagine storing gold would feel like. Still, it could be very handy for people who are allergic to foods they like, or are lethally allergic to something.

[Pathfinder]

I just like Feruchemical gold for the simple fact that I can always choose when to have a sick day. Basically decide, hey I want to store, I have no plans, and I have a sick day left over at work. So just call out of work, order take out, and curl up in bed and veg. Then I never have to worry about catching a cold when I DO have plans 

 

I will say I think the worst to store in big quantities is luck. Can we say "Final Destination"?

Edited November 3, 2014 by Pathfinder

[Obtaurian]

This may sound mundane, but I would definitely choose electrum. I'm a college student and somewhat of a procrastinator (case in point: I should be working on a British Literature midterm right now). I'm also a musician, and I tend to write my best music when I'm at low points in my life. The ability to store determination, becoming depressed in the process, is essentially always a win-win situation for me. I could store while I'm playing or writing music, then tap my electrumminds when I need to really focus on a project. I also have the suspicion that there's more to electrum ferrings than meets the eye. Consider that in life-threatening, stressful, or traumatic situations, a Pinnacle could essentially tap their metalminds and force themselves to do whatever needs to be done to overcome the problem. I believe this could encompass all sorts of things, including bouts of superhuman strength, speed, or skill, memorization and increased capacity for mental gymnastics, etc. It seems to me that electrum opens up possibilities beyond extreme focus or determination. 

Unsurprisingly, if I could be a Twinborn, I would definitely choose electrum/electrum.   

[jmaster567]

Feruchemical bronze seems like the most powerful one of the group. You sleep every night so your able to store for no hassle every night. And then your able to tap into it whenever you need and not be asleep.

[Redbird he/him]

Bronze is cool, but compounders would be amazing, it would be like living twice as long anyone else.

[Moogle]

Feruchemical bronze seems like the most powerful one of the group. You sleep every night so your able to store for no hassle every night. And then your able to tap into it whenever you need and not be asleep.

 

The problem is that by storing Feruchemical bronze, you need to sleep longer.

[kinxer he/him]

I have to go for Skimmer. Being able to change my weight would be really awesome, and I just can't see myself turning that down for any other feruchemical ability. There are lots of aspects of physics that I could mess with by changing my weight, even without a complementary allomantic power (like Allomantic steel or Allomantic iron). Climbing things would be a lot easier (when storing), and I could make myself less likely to slip on flattish surfaces by becoming heavier. Also, I could essentially provide infinite energy, which could be nice.

 

Second place goes to Archivist. I have a bad memory (but apparently not bad enough for this to be first place), and it would be nice to remember things more clearly.

Edited December 11, 2014 by kinxer

[Athelia she/her]

My boyfriend thinks I would be a Pinnacle, because I have mood swings.

However, I would choose Brass, because I'm cold basically all the time, so I could store it while in a hot shower or during summer, and then I could be less cold all the rest of the time. Or maybe Copper, because it would augment my already pretty good memory and I could use it in school and to weird people out by remembering random personal details about them.

Edited December 11, 2014 by Athelia

[Pathfinder]

So I have a question that popped in my mind regarding Feruchemical brass that I wonder if anyone could help me. If you were a brass compounder, could you potentially raise your body temperature high enough to melt the very metals on your body that you are compounding?

[kinxer he/him]

So I have a question that popped in my mind regarding Feruchemical brass that I wonder if anyone could help me. If you were a brass compounder, could you potentially raise your body temperature high enough to melt the very metals on your body that you are compounding?

 

I'm not sure we really know how it works until it's used more, right? Though stuff like that would be really good for melting ice off of windshields in the winter.

[Redbird he/him]

I'm not sure we really know how it works until it's used more, right? Though stuff like that would be really good for melting ice off of windshields in the winter.

 

Wouldn't that likely shatter the window?

[Pathfinder]

I just realized something.......BAYMAX IS A FIRESOUL FERRING! Pleeeeeeaaassseeeee tell me I am not the only person who saw Big Hero 6

[kinxer he/him]

Wouldn't that likely shatter the window?

 

Well, you wouldn't do it at a temperature to melt the metal... You'd do it at a temperature to melt ice. I just meant the general ability to melt things by increasing your body heat.