The ultimate counter to aluminum bullets

[Deception He/Him]

Just throw a bunch of super fine metal dust with sticky stuff on it into the air. You might want to wear a mask and goggles for safety reasons. Anyway, now aluminum bullets would just get covered in the metal stuff and then you could push them - YAY!

Would this actually work??

[Treamayne]

6 hours ago, Deception said:

Just throw a bunch of super fine metal dust with sticky stuff on it into the air. You might want to wear a mask and goggles for safety reasons. Anyway, now aluminum bullets would just get covered in the metal stuff and then you could push them - YAY!

Would this actually work??

Unlikely - Aluminum disrupts in a field, not just line-of-sight. WoBs:

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Questioner

Is aluminum shielding from emotional Allomancy strictly line of sight? So, can someone in the basement bypass somebody’s aluminum hat on the first floor

Brandon Sanderson

No, they could not. You just put enough aluminum there and it disrupts.

Questioner

So it disrupts like a field.

Brandon Sanderson

Yep.

Shadows of Self San Francisco signing (Oct. 9, 2015)

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Questioner

So, if we switch to Scadrial, and I had lined the inside of my hat with aluminum, I'm protecting myself from emotional Allomancy. What if I was able to use emotional Allomancy? Would that block me?

Brandon Sanderson

So, it's going to interfere a little bit. But the issue with that is, a lot of Allomancy is coming from center and going to head. So, you're probably still gonna be okay with the helmet... So, I'm gonna say, you don't want a lot of aluminum around you, but you could probably still make it work.

Oathbringer release party (Nov. 13, 2017)

 

 

[Adonalsium Will Return He/him]

Well, Vin’s spear-ring trick worked. Would it be akin to that?

[Nitpicking]

8 hours ago, Deception said:

Just throw a bunch of super fine metal dust with sticky stuff on it into the air. You might want to wear a mask and goggles for safety reasons. Anyway, now aluminum bullets would just get covered in the metal stuff and then you could push them - YAY!

Would this actually work??

Have you thought about the timing? The Coinshot would have to wait until the aluminum bullet was fired and passed through the cloud of dust, and only then start Pushing (or she'd just push the dust away before the gunshot). That's some mighty fine reaction time you're giving the hypothetical allomancer, to start pushing in mid-bullet-trajectory.

It's probably easier to do what Wax did and dodge like crazy.

[GG0z He/Him]

Or… armor

[Frustration]

12 hours ago, Adonalsium Will Return said:

Well, Vin’s spear-ring trick worked. Would it be akin to that?

No. Vin's spears were stone, not aluminum.