Feruchemy: Bronze

[Ferumancer]

Sooooooooo, I've done two of these theories a while back, and I've decided to do a third. I'll be covering bronze.

Feruchemy: Bronze

Bronze stores wakefulness, causing you to become drowsy when storing, and more aware and full of energy when tapping. This is an interesting metal, because if you store 100%(and I'm pretty sure that you can, because...) you go into a trance, not awake, but definitely not sleeping. When you "wake" from your trance, you aren't any more awake than when you started the trance. instead, you have a store in your brassmind equal to that of the sleep.

What I think you can do with this is rather incredible. If you can store into your brassmind to tap from it later, why even sleep(other than the fact that sleep is one of the best experiences of most people's lives )? Sure, it wouldn't really be good to study or train at night, seeing as you would be very bleary eyed and that you probably would forget what you did in the passing days, but there is one insane advantage that you get from 8 extra hours of being awake every day. 

You would be able to store into all of the rest of your metal minds at night. Not only would this give you 8 extra hours to store, but you could store considerably more during those 8 hours, seeing as there aren't a ton of threats around, and you don't need to do nearly as much at night. The only two drawbacks I can see is that you would get bored from the time you're spending at night blind, deaf, weak, dumb, and cold. If you are still wondering how you could stay awake forever, refer to the maths below.

The average human needs 8 hours of rest per day, so if you store 8 hours or more per day(and then tap those 8 hours at the beginning of the next day), it would be like resting every day. There are several ways to accomplish this.

• Store brass 33.3333333...% all the time. Since 1/3 of 24 is 8, you'll get your 8 hours every day. This is probably the worst way to do it, since you'll be a bit sleepy all the time, lowering your productivity for whatever you do during the day.
• Store brass 67.7777777...% for 12 hours each day. this will give you productivity from 8 A.M. to 8 P.M., allowing you to have a job/hobby/something to do during the day.
• Store brass 80% for 8 hours, 40% for 4. This is probably the best one because generally, people are somewhat drowzy(say, 40%) in the 2 hours leading up to and out of sleep. Sure, you'll be fighting to stay awake during those eight hours, but they'll seem a lot shorter if you're storing steel and zinc ;).

Edited February 8, 2017 by Ferumancer

[Spoolofwhool]

Your first math point is incorrect. You forgot that during 8 of those 24 hours, you would be tapping bronze to stay awake, so you cannot be storing wakefulness at the same time. Also, with regards to everything, you're failing to take take ino account the slight charge cost required to compound the charge to a higher level of tap.

[Itchy Savant he/him]

Can you store attribtes while drawing on others? I know sazed stores a lot at once but he wasn't drawing on anything at the same time

[Pagerunner he/him]

I didn't like this mechanics of idea at first, but I'm talking myself into it. I mean, you can make an argument this is possible without Feruchemy. Just take a 20-minute nap every hour, and you won't need to go to bed at all. That doesn't work in real life because our bodies don't work like that and you'll get mad insomnia, but with Feruchemy, that is exactly what you're doing, rearranging the costs and benefits of sleep. I wouldn't argue that going around around 2/3 conked out during most of the day isn't a great way to live your life. But, hey, to each his own.

[Ferumancer]

Thanks @Spoolofwhool for the correction. So, you couldn't be storing constantly. However, I don't quite think that you would need more sleep, seeing as you are never tapping more than 100%. I may be wrong, but doesn't the inefficiency with Feruchemy only apply once your tapping more than that?

To @Itchy Savant, I think that you can, as long as they are different attributes. I personally think that a Feruchemist could "switch" metal minds by tapping from one and storing into the other, but that's just me.

Edited February 8, 2017 by Ferumancer

[Itchy Savant he/him]

@page runner there actually is a way to get your body to run with out the 8 hours of sleep a day, it takes about 3 to 4 months to get used to it. I believe it was a 30 minute nap every 3 hours or something like that, and after long enough your brain learns to go right to the REM stage almost instantly so you end up getting more sleep overall. It's the getting there part that wrecks your body. I'll see if I can find the source for it.

Over all we haven't seen enough of F!Bronze to know exactly how it works and I an sure there are ways to abuse it.

Compounding is the most effective IMO

 

@Ferumancer that's a good call, never thought about that. I wonder if F!Zinc's mental speed boost helps keep you awake on a biological level, because then you could spend a couple days out of the week storing both, then have 4 or 5 days of almost full wakefulness and productivity

Edited February 8, 2017 by Itchy Savant

[Spoolofwhool]

@Ferumancer No, it's the moment you start compacting charges to gain  a higher charge level. So if you store 50% for 1 hour, you can tap at 100%, but for less than 30 minutes.

[Ferumancer]

Alright. So, I guess the real question now is if storing bronze stores REM sleep, so you can take those odd sleep cycles. I think there was an insane extreme of a 15 minute nap every 4 hours. If it just has to do with you tapping at those times, perhaps you could store for a week or two, and then have a month of wakefulness because of the tapping cycles.

[The Technovore he/him]

IIRC, at the end of the Well of Ascension, where Sazed is storing a bunch of attributes before the battle, it emotions that storing bronze makes you Sleep for an extended period, not simply be drowsy, I assume that the level you begin storing determines how long you sleep, but it doesn't mention anything about just making you drowsy... which would kinda punch a hole in your theory....

I mean I could be wrong but...

sorry