the most useless uses for useful powers

[Alfa he/him]

as a full feruchemist/allomancer...make your own version of the BoM.  Hide them somewhere no one would ever look.  Then store the memory of where you hid them in a coppermind that is a large sheet of copper with a map on it that has an x somewhere really hard to get...that is not where the bands are hidden.  Take the coppermind/map, and give it to a skilled treasure hunter, swearing that it holds the location of an item of power.  Watch them get upset about not finding it and laugh.

 

When they get frustrated and give up...take the map yourself and go get your bands.  Give them to someone else in front of the treasure hunter and laugh some more.

 

Just make sure to make the "X" somewhere, where the Treasure hunter is unlikely to vanish, since else your Bands would be lost forever.

[natc]

Just make sure to make the "X" somewhere, where the Treasure hunter is unlikely to vanish, since else your Bands would be lost forever.

But it would enhance the uselessness!

[Lexodio]

- Use Duraluminum and aluminum at the same time to run out of metals super fast.

This is my favorite.

[Bowiespoon he/him]

use duraluminums counterpart to flare a tineye, then pop a paper bag in his face. (works best on high cliffs)

[hoidhunter he/him]

Use the ability to read lips combined with burning atium to finish someone's sentences ALL THE TIME.  Pick one individual you don't like so much at work or school and only do it to them...but do it every time they speak.

[Stormgate he/him]

Or answer the questions they haven't asked.

[natc]

That. Is. Brilliant.

Use atium to gauge reactions to your behavior so that you can basically cheat your way through your social life.

[Espella]

Store identity at a party so no one can remember that you were the one doing all the stupid things you inevitably do.

I assume that's how it would work?

[Bob The Peanut]

First, practice pushing and pulling for years. Then use your skills to trim the bushes with no hands.

Watch Brandon writing his books while burning atium. Tell him what he will write next.

[king of nowhere]

First, practice pushing and pulling for years. Then use your skills to trim the bushes with no hands.

Watch Brandon writing his books while burning atium. Tell him what he will write next.

but if yu do that, you'll influence what he'll write, so he may want to write something else -  if nothing else just to contradict this annoying guy who keeps tellling him what he'll write. so this will generate multiple atium shadows, and you won''t be able to keep predicting what he'll write. Bonus uselessness!

[Dunkum he/him]

building from there: as a writer, constantly burn electrum to see what you will write next, then write something different.

[natc]

And that is why electrum shadows almost certainly split the moment you begin burning.

[DreamEternal]

And that is why electrum shadows almost certainly split the moment you begin burning.

Compound physical and mental speed to try to make a sense of the shadows before it is too late!

Except that will only make them multiply faster.

[Voidus]

Burn Atium to see what's about to happen, then store mental speed so by the time you react it's already happening.

You have just invented normal reflexes.

[Alfa he/him]

Burn Atium to see what's about to happen, then store mental speed so by the time you react it's already happening.

You have just invented normal reflexes.

 

This is only useless if you'll never tap the metalminds again. Otherwise it's a complicated way to gain end-positive mental speed.

[natc]

Your mental capacity to understand the images increases from atium as well. You can afford to store even more if you solely use shadows for vision.

[Jazzy Kandra she/her]

Alloy Lerasium and aluminum. Burn the alloy. Become a gnat.

Regret your choices in life, you could've been a Mistborn.

Edited April 10, 2016 by Kandra-in-disguise

[asterion137 he/him]

use duralumin to burn all your aluminum

[Espella]

Alloy Lerasium and aluminum. Burn the alloy. Become a gnat.

Regret your choices in life, you could've been a Mistborn.

Though depending on how you do it (and assuming that the more of the lerasium alloy you swallow the more power you get) you'll either have some lerasium left over or be the most powerful Aluminum Gnat ever known... which is still pretty useless, unless you worldhop a lot I guess.

[Shard Slayer]

use duralumin to burn all your aluminum

 

Actually, Brandon has hinted that aluminum savants (and presumably duralumin fueled aluminum) can remove other negative forms of investiture. Sort of like a purging effect. So this might not be totally useless.

[king of nowhere]

Alloy Lerasium and aluminum. Burn the alloy. Become a gnat.

Regret your choices in life, you could've been a Mistborn.

or you could alloy it with gold. True, it's not totally useless, but burning gold will help a lot in regretting your life choices of not becoming a mistborn.

[Oversleep]

or you could alloy it with gold. True, it's not totally useless, but burning gold will help a lot in regretting your life choices of not becoming a mistborn.

This is gold XD

[Alfa he/him]

This is gold XD

 

Pun absolutely not intended.

[king of nowhere]

oh, and i forgot to mention that you are also wasting an expensive metal to feel guilty about yourself. You could have been a rich mistborn.

[Espella]

oh, and i forgot to mention that you are also wasting an expensive metal to feel guilty about yourself. You could have been a rich mistborn.

Is gold really that expensive in Mistborn? Can't remember if it's been mentioned anywhere, the only metals I remember being said to be super expensive were silver and aluminum.

Then again if it was said to be expensive I probably just tuned it out because that's normal for our world.