Fun Imaginings

[Spoolofwhool]

25 minutes ago, zeppomarks said:

Less bullets coming your way, I figure. If they can't shoot as fast, then you have less to deal with. I don't know, it makes sense to me. I don't know if I can explain it correctly.

So if we're still going on the same premise. Cadmium bubble up means normal time centre with slow time around. Cadmium down means just fast time centre. Since the ratio of time is the same between fast and slow, relative to you at the centre, people within the range of the cadmium bubble would always be moving at the same slowness.

[zeppomarks]

2 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said:

So if we're still going on the same premise. Cadmium bubble up means normal time centre with slow time around. Cadmium down means just fast time centre. Since the ratio of time is the same between fast and slow, relative to you at the centre, people within the range of the cadmium bubble would always be moving at the same slowness.

True, but with the cadmium bubble down, people outside the range of the Cadmium bubble are now going as slow as anything that would have been inside the cadmium bubble. It's just a way to slow everything down instead of just slowing the stuff in the cadmium bubble down. There's very little difference between the two.

[zeppomarks]

Hypothetical: Do Kandra fill the brain cavity of a skull with mush, or do they leave it empty? They don't need to create a brain, since their thoughts are caused by their spikes, and anything they put in there would be about 3 pounds of wasted mass. But if they didn't, I would imagine the echoing inside their head whenever they spoke would get really annoying.

[Djarskublar he/him]

Probably just fluids. It would make a good waste storage tank, so to speak.

[zeppomarks]

1 hour ago, Djarskublar said:

Probably just fluids. It would make a good waste storage tank, so to speak.

Lol. Now I'm just imagining having a septic tank sloshing around between my ears... So wrong...

[Spoolofwhool]

They would probably use to it contain extra muscle and flesh if they're posing as someone small and have too much. Otherwise, not sure what else they would keep there. 

Edited August 26, 2016 by Spoolofwhool

[Spoolofwhool]

Interestingly enough, if you started with a Augur Bloodmaker twinborn (Gold/Gold), you could create an army of Augur Bloodmakers through hemalurgy. Providing you had enough gold of course. Here's the WoB that spiking someone to charge a hemalurgic spike doesn't disrupt their spiritual identity nor prevent them from using other manifestations of investiture. The process is fairly simple of course. You make sure the original Augur Bloodmaker has plenty of gold metalminds with good charges, with at least some pierced into him. The process from there is pretty simple. You spike him for one of the gold abilities, wait for him to use the charges to heal the spiritual and physical damage, then spike him for the other. You would just have to make sure you don't run out of metalmind charge, at least when he's currently without feruchemy. Otherwise, you would have to go find an unkeyed gold metalmind, which probably isn't that common. 

Edited August 26, 2016 by Spoolofwhool

[Nedyah Drallid]

The other totally out there idea that me and my brother invented is the opposite of the knights radiant. These bond with voidspren, use voidlight, and have their own orders and surges. Here are the surges:

Opacity- X-ray, Fogging up windows

Tangibility- Basically going through walls, making holes in the floor, etc.

Density- Changing weight of objects

Acceleration- Changing speed of objects (Holding a coin in your hand and shooting it at the speed of a bullet)

Reflection- Forcefields

Hydration- Taking water away from something, or putting it in

Vibration- Vibrating t hings (It would be more useful than it sounds)

Magnification- Making things larger

Animation- Bringing things to life (Similar to awakening but not as versatile)

Dynamism- Lazers

Edited August 27, 2016 by Nedyah Drallid

[Rasarr she/her]

11 hours ago, zeppomarks said:

Hypothetical: Do Kandra fill the brain cavity of a skull with mush, or do they leave it empty? They don't need to create a brain, since their thoughts are caused by their spikes, and anything they put in there would be about 3 pounds of wasted mass. But if they didn't, I would imagine the echoing inside their head whenever they spoke would get really annoying.

I believe they use it as an extra storage. Me'laan mentions having back-up food and water in hers.

She also mentions having a brain in a metal box in her leg, so the kandra apparently do need brain for something.

[zeppomarks]

11 hours ago, Rasarr said:

I believe they use it as an extra storage. Me'laan mentions having back-up food and water in hers.

She also mentions having a brain in a metal box in her leg, so the kandra apparently do need brain for something.

Lol. That's right, I forgot she mentioned that she basically uses the space as a satchel.

I was thinking that she said it was one of her spikes that was in her leg, but I could have been mistaken. I do remember her mentioning something about a metal box though too, And she couldn't have had her spike in a metal box or else it wouldn't have worked. Maybe Kandra actually do have some sort of permanent central nervous system. I always thought that they sort of just made and unmade all the bits, but it would make sense if there were certain bits that had to always be around.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

On 8/24/2016 at 11:46 AM, Rasarr said:

Idea that's probably not true: one of the godmetals lets you store any sort of magic; for example, a Windrunner could store one of his Surges in an godmetal medallion, and then another person could tap it and use Adhesion or Gravitation without Nahel bond. Likewise, an Elantrian could store his "elantricity" ("elantriness"?), and while storing, would be a normal person; a normal person could tap that medallion to become an elantrian for the time of tapping.

I'm pretty sure nicrosil could actually do this.

It might take a lot of storage to get as much power as a full Elantrian, but I think nicrosil is capable of storing more than just your status as an Allomancer of Feruchemist. Indeed, considering that behind the scenes, Allomancy and AonDor work in a very, very similar way, I am almost positive that you could gain power to use AonDor for a short time with an unkeyed nicrosil mind. Or if you were an elantrian who had a nicrosil medallion of the right construction (two seperate pieces of nicrosil would be required), you might be able to make your Aons more powerful for a short time.

Edited August 27, 2016 by Drake Marshall

[Spoolofwhool]

12 minutes ago, Drake Marshall said:

I'm pretty sure nicrosil could actually do this.

It might take a lot of storage to get as much power as a full Elantrian, but I think nicrosil is capable of storing more than just your status as an Allomancer of Feruchemist. Indeed, considering that behind the scenes, Allomancy and AonDor work in a very, very similar way, I am almost positive that you could gain power to use AonDor for a short time with an unkeyed nicrosil mind. Or if you were an elantrian who had a nicrosil medallion of the right construction (two seperate pieces of nicrosil would be required), you might be able to make your Aons more powerful for a short time.

Quite. Although the Ars Arcanum labels nicrosil as the feruchemical metal to store investiture, I think it should be more accurately labelled as the metal which stores the ability the use a manifestation of investiture. Quite mouthy, unfortunately, but more correct. Technically speaking, every metalmind stores investiture, since the attribute charge you store in it is investiture. 

[marsoupial they/them]

When in Secret History it is revealed that 

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Kelsier is a Cognitive spirit, and he confers with Spook to experiment with Hemalurgy to try to find a way to anchor him back to the Physical Realm

I always imagine that the Realms are like pieces of paper and that 

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Kelsier

is like a smaller piece of paper and that 

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Hemalurgy

is like a thumb tack, connecting 

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Cognitive Realm Kelsier

back to the Physical realm

[marsoupial they/them]

On 8/25/2016 at 8:19 PM, zeppomarks said:

Hypothetical: Do Kandra fill the brain cavity of a skull with mush, or do they leave it empty? They don't need to create a brain, since their thoughts are caused by their spikes, and anything they put in there would be about 3 pounds of wasted mass. But if they didn't, I would imagine the echoing inside their head whenever they spoke would get really annoying.

MeLaan uses hers to hide an emergency canteen...

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

1 hour ago, bleeder said:

When in Secret History it is revealed that 

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Kelsier is a Cognitive spirit, and he confers with Spook to experiment with Hemalurgy to try to find a way to anchor him back to the Physical Realm

I always imagine that the Realms are like pieces of paper and that 

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Kelsier

is like a smaller piece of paper and that 

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Hemalurgy

is like a thumb tack, connecting 

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Cognitive Realm Kelsier

back to the Physical realm

Yes. This is very much how I see it as well.

1 hour ago, bleeder said:

MeLaan uses hers to hide an emergency canteen...

Indeed. It has been mentioned I think. But on this topic... What are the physical requirements of a kandra? From this I presume they can get dehydrated, which I suppose makes sense... Other than a "brain", are there any physical organs that a kandra must always incorporate into their biology? Interesting questions, these...

[Djarskublar he/him]

10 hours ago, bleeder said:

When in Secret History it is revealed that 

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Kelsier is a Cognitive spirit, and he confers with Spook to experiment with Hemalurgy to try to find a way to anchor him back to the Physical Realm

I always imagine that the Realms are like pieces of paper and that 

  Reveal hidden contents

Kelsier

is like a smaller piece of paper and that 

  Reveal hidden contents

Hemalurgy

is like a thumb tack, connecting 

  Reveal hidden contents

Cognitive Realm Kelsier

back to the Physical realm

On this topic, not having read secret history yet I don't know about how this turns out, but if you can anchor a cognitive entity to a physical one, could you bind a gold or malatium shadow to something? Also, Kel should end up with a body that is a suit of metal, then we can start calling him Alphonse.

[zeppomarks]

On 8/28/2016 at 9:43 PM, Djarskublar said:

On this topic, not having read secret history yet I don't know about how this turns out, but if you can anchor a cognitive entity to a physical one, could you bind a gold or malatium shadow to something? Also, Kel should end up with a body that is a suit of metal, then we can start calling him Alphonse.

Kelphonse?
Alphonsier?

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

I feel that binding a gold shadow would be challenging. But probably possible, with the right magics... Also, I wonder... Can Lift touch gold or even atium shadows, like she can touch spren? How about the cognitive shadows of the dead? Interesting thoughts.

Edited September 1, 2016 by Drake Marshall