Anyone care to explain the magic or "Investiture" here?

[Quickbronze he/him]

I heard there was some kind of ingestion involved

[CaptainRyan he/him]

There is a long running joke (and I use joke loosely here) on the forums to offer new members a hemalurgically spiked cookie because... reasons I guess. There is no actual connection between this overly repeated joke and anything in the Cosmere.

[Landis963 he/him]

4 hours ago, CaptainRyan said:

There is a long running joke (and I use joke loosely here) on the forums to offer new members a hemalurgically spiked cookie because... reasons I guess. There is no actual connection between this overly repeated joke and anything in the Cosmere.

I think it began as a bait-and-switch: a new person would be lured in by the promise of cookies with the thinly-masked intent of spiking them when they got close.  

[Landis963 he/him]

In which story, specifically?  

[Argent he/him]

35 minutes ago, Crimson Not Blood said:

I heard there was some kind of ingestion involved

Sounds like Mistborn, but yeah, can you add a little more detail to your question?

[Ammanas]

This website can answer this question and similar ones. Possible spoilers though.

https://coppermind.net/wiki/Investiture

[Quickbronze he/him]

Ooooh, sorry 'bout that, should have thought that through. I'm talking about the cookie investiture that I was warned against on my joining thread XD

Wait. What the heck? I thought I put this in General Discussion, not Cosmere Q&A

Edited November 10, 2017 by Crimson Not Blood

[Podman]

Ah. Most baked goods here, especially cookies, are rumored to be Hemalugically altered. Stay away from those.

[Quickbronze he/him]

But they aren't living, so they shouldn't have Hemalurgic bindpoints, and swallowing Hemalurgic spikes shouldn't be any worse then swallowing regular spikes... which is admittedly bad, but why bother murdering people to make tiny spikes when you're going to use them for something that normal spikes could do just as well?

Unless there's a hemalurgic bindpoint at a narrow point in the digestive tract...

[Toaster Retribution he/him]

37 minutes ago, Crimson Not Blood said:

But they aren't living, so they shouldn't have Hemalurgic bindpoints,

You know nothing of cookies, my friend...

[Quickbronze he/him]

How dare you I love cookies

However, I do not know much of Hemalurgy...

Edited November 10, 2017 by Crimson Not Blood

[Unlicensed Hemalurgist he/him]

4 hours ago, podman36 said:

Ah. Most baked goods here, especially cookies, are rumored to be Hemalugically altered. Stay away from those.

 

"I am shocked--SHOCKED--to find Hemalurgy going on in here!" 

"Your extra spikes, sir." 

"Ah, thank you!"