Down with the sickness and Gold feruchemy

[DoctaDajman]

I am typing this as I suffer from flu. Whole body aches and the pains of nasty chest congestion. 

It makes me think about gold ferrings who suffer systemic illness to store their health. I think I would make a terrible gold ferring because I would simply wimp out and never actually choose to store health at all. 

But being a full feruchemist makes me wonder how you could offset the awefulness of the moment. 

Tin can store pain... perhaps the whole body aches of storing health would be lessened greatly if you stored away the pain itself as well. 

What about zinc? If you stored a ton of mental speed along with your health would you be able to essentially fast forward through the worst parts of storing health? 

I guess you could probably tap some determination to help you through it. And since so much of being systemically ill stems from some sort of shock, and our #1 answer to that is hydration... maybe tapping some bendalloy would help to ease the pains and suffering of storing gold. 

Im.open to other suggestions. Another obvious one is burning pewter through it to power through. 

[Trusk'our he/him]

15 minutes ago, DoctaDajman said:

I am typing this as I suffer from flu. Whole body aches and the pains of nasty chest congestion. 

Ah man, being sick sucks. Hope you recover quickly!

15 minutes ago, DoctaDajman said:

Tin can store pain... perhaps the whole body aches of storing health would be lessened greatly if you stored away the pain itself as well. 

What about zinc? If you stored a ton of mental speed along with your health would you be able to essentially fast forward through the worst parts of storing health? 

I guess you could probably tap some determination to help you through it. And since so much of being systemically ill stems from some sort of shock, and our #1 answer to that is hydration... maybe tapping some bendalloy would help to ease the pains and suffering of storing gold. 

I think tin would be a good candidate for helping along gold storage, at least psychologically. 

Electrum would also be helpful for the above. 

I don't know that zinc would be particularly helpful here. It doesn't fast forward time to the Feruchemist, it just makes parsing the meaning of things harder. So I guess storing mental speed would be useful while on bedrest, but it wouldn't ease the discomfort of it I believe. 

I actually think brass might be extremely powerful for storing health. Since Feruchemy protects its user from the direct harm of over tapping, giving yourself a super-fever occasionally might help you purge foreign microbes.