Folk Lore/Intersection of Allomancy into Stories.

[Myst He/Him]

Basically, I want to talk about how allomancy would influence the scary stories people tell each other. Basically allomantic horror stories.

I’ve come up with two so far: basically, a story about a sentry ferring filling a bronze mind, thats bigger than they think it is, and falling asleep and dying from dehydration. Basically, filling a bronze mind that happens to be a statue or something, and then not being able to stop as time is weird when you’re sleeping.

the second is basically the idea of threatening people with being a lurcher. I was talking with @Honors Ghost and @Shatter about how easy it is to die as a lurcher. So I can see someone telling someone they’d die as a Lurcher as an insult of either they’re ability or common sense.

Got any more?

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

46 minutes ago, Ookla the Broken said:

Basically, I want to talk about how allomancy would influence the scary stories people tell each other. Basically allomantic horror stories.

I’ve come up with two so far: basically, a story about a sentry ferring filling a bronze mind, thats bigger than they think it is, and falling asleep and dying from dehydration. Basically, filling a bronze mind that happens to be a statue or something, and then not being able to stop as time is weird when you’re sleeping.

the second is basically the idea of threatening people with being a lurcher. I was talking with @Honors Ghost and @Shatter about how easy it is to die as a lurcher. So I can see someone telling someone they’d die as a Lurcher as an insult of either they’re ability or common sense.

Got any more?

During the night, a coinshot is camping. He starts hearing noises outside his tent. Eventually he gets out and looks around.

Nothing's there. Eventually he gets the idea to burn his steel, and a line points to directly behind him.

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

Allomancy horror stories? Sounds fun, here's one. I'm going to call it "The Man Who Broke Time"

A Slider uses his Speedbubbles constantly, for every aspect of his life. From taking breaks from doing paperwork at his job, to taking naps in the middle of annoying conversations with his wife, even up to getting out having to interact with his children. He uses his power as an escape from all of life's troubles, having all the time he wants to himself whenever he feels like it.

Then one day, he decides that he wants to have even more time to himself, so he began to push his power even further, flaring his Bendalloy all the time, until one day, he succeeded in the middle of his wife finally divorcing him for his laziness and neglect. Time seemed to stop, his Bubble became solid crystal around just him.

At first he cheered at his success, to making time itself bend to his will, until he realized that his Bendalloy had stopped burning, but the Bubble still remained, he tried to simply step outside the bubble, but he couldn't, for his Speedbubble had become as hard as steel, he couldn't leave it nor drop it.

He began to panic, he screamed for his wife to help him, but she hadn't moved at all, her face still contorted into frustration at him. He clawed at the walls that surrounded him and he realized what he must have done. He had pushed time so hard it broke, and now he was trapped in the time he'd wanted for himself, all alone. For eternity.

 

Just came up with all that on the fly, it's a very exaggerated story with it's moral being about Savantism and how you shouldn't do it or something.

[Myst He/Him]

18 minutes ago, JustQuestin2004 said:

Allomancy horror stories? Sounds fun, here's one. I'm going to call it "The Man Who Broke Time"

A Slider uses his Speedbubbles constantly, for every aspect of his life. From taking breaks from doing paperwork at his job, to taking naps in the middle of annoying conversations with his wife, even up to getting out having to interact with his children. He uses his power as an escape from all of life's troubles, having all the time he wants to himself whenever he feels like it.

Then one day, he decides that he wants to have even more time to himself, so he began to push his power even further, flaring his Bendalloy all the time, until one day, he succeeded in the middle of his wife finally divorcing him for his laziness and neglect. Time seemed to stop, his Bubble became solid crystal around just him.

At first he cheered at his success, to making time itself bend to his will, until he realized that his Bendalloy had stopped burning, but the Bubble still remained, he tried to simply step outside the bubble, but he couldn't, for his Speedbubble had become as hard as steel, he couldn't leave it nor drop it.

He began to panic, he screamed for his wife to help him, but she hadn't moved at all, her face still contorted into frustration at him. He clawed at the walls that surrounded him and he realized what he must have done. He had pushed time so hard it broke, and now he was trapped in the time he'd wanted for himself, all alone. For eternity.

 

Just came up with all that on the fly, it's a very exaggerated story with its moral being about Savantism and how you shouldn't do it or something.

Okay, so I was writing a reply to this about how the person who did this would probably have gotten older(relative to everyone else) doing this, and people might notice that. But then I had an idea:

Pulser Models.

It’s the ultimate way to ensure you maintain your looks. Instead of using hair products and and makeup and everything else(though they probably will use that) Scadrians can ensure every second of your model life is useful, and as soon as you don’t look amazing , they through you out, they don’t need consistent perfection, they can do temporary, effectively freezing the look and using it later… 

not sure where the horror story is in this. But I suppose you could have one about someone missing life because literally every hour of their 20s was spent either in a pulser bubble or a photoshoot, and so some moral about living life.

On the subject of time manipulation. Bendalloy mistings are so amazing in an office environment. Assuming you can provide enough bendalloy, they’re automatically faster at completing any task(other than customer service) even if they’re twice as lazy. The cost in money would be high, but getting hours of work done in seconds, it better be.

This kinda got off topic, so, coppermind horror story:

A person is obsessed with learning it all. Inspired by the keepers of old, memorizing treasure troves of information, information in all subjects, covering all of human knowledge.

this person goes to the biggest universities, studies books, and as soon as it’s memorized, shoves it into their coppermind.

and then

its a normal day for them, memorizing a transcript of meeting between the Malwish empower and the governor of Elendel. The person finishes, tired, shoving the memories into a coppermind, only to put all their memories into it. 
they collapse, their head empty of memories… they don’t know there a copper ferring, they don’t know anything, they don’t know anything about themselves or any they’re past. 
they spent their life studying the world, only to lose it.

[Nitpicking]

9 hours ago, Ookla the Broken said:

they spent their life studying the world, only to lose it.

And then he dropped his glasses.

[Ink and Embers Any pronouns]

On 12/25/2025 at 7:53 PM, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

During the night, a coinshot is camping. He starts hearing noises outside his tent. Eventually he gets out and looks around.

Nothing's there. Eventually he gets the idea to burn his steel, and a line points to directly behind him.

I have been thinking about this

And the way I think teenagers would turn this into a joke:

It's a dog's collar

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

9 minutes ago, Ink and Embers said:

I have been thinking about this

And the way I think teenagers would turn this into a joke:

It's a dog's collar

But with no dog...

[Duxredux he/him]

There were some kids playing tag in a junkyard, running and laughing until one of them out of view yelps and then makes really good howling and scary noises that chases the other players. Then one of the kids sees a friend cry out in pain, then twist into an inhuman shape and lurch towards him - he had become a Hemalurgic Chimera like Dawnshot fought. Panting and sobbing the kid runs for the junkyard exit and just before he reaches the gates he feels a sharp pain and looks down to see a nail sticking into his foot.

Brought to you by Elendel's Occupational Health and Safety Administration - a reminder for all construction workers to keep their workplace clean and to properly dispose of all metal involved in puncture wound incidents. Remember to report it, tag it, or the next guy might end up more than "it".

Edited January 13 by Duxredux