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  1. Kurkistan
    Ooooohhhh... Shiny.
  2. Kurkistan
    Thanks. So far as the Q&A goes, I can verify just from memory that there was nothing cosmerically interesting there.
  3. Kurkistan
    Brandon has this to say on the division for Feruchemy: Source: The Mistborn Adventure Game would have us believe that the second physical quadrant (made up of the temporal metals) is called the "Hybrid" metals.
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    Okay, somebody did some serious cut-and-pasting on the transcript. The last edit on October 17th moved a bunch of stuff around and ended up moving things into a really weird order that I'm pretty sure is incorrect: the answer (and only the answer) to the question at 0:12 is moved down to to the middle of two pages down, for instance, a bunch of stuff ended up deleted, etc. I've reverted the transcript back to the revision just before that. I would very strongly advise Limelleth to lock down the doc from editing and only allow Suggestions from now on: it's close enough to finished that that shouldn't hinder anyone, and it will stop these kind of shenanigans. P.S. Also got started on moving the Unimportant stuff into its proper place, which I imagine might have been what the other edit was trying to do?
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    Okay, I've gone through basically the whole transcript as of this writing, cleaning up where I heard discrepancies and attributing questioners where possible. My trademark at this point looks like it's using a non-breaking next-line betwen the timestamp and the first question, since it doesn't look anyone else was doing that, so any questions that look like that should have had a once-over by me.
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    Posting here because one of the relevant WoBs contains a SoS spoiler. It all started with a single innocent thought... Then I started gathering the evidence... Source: And then I acquired the last two pieces of my diabolical empire of evil. Source: To sum: We know that: -Natural double-gold compounders can heal back their Allomancy using Feruchemy and their Feruchemy using Compounding -Hemalurgists can still benefit from compounding Feruchemical stores, even after they've had the power-granting spikes removed We only really needed that first bullet point to get off the ground, but the second helps smooth out the logistics. So, until Brandon figures out the loophole and says something like "oh btw the spiritual shock of being hemalurgized kills you before you can actually heal back", then we can have a Scadrian future of basically everyone benefiting from death-free Hemalurgy of all the powers (basically suffering-free as well, if you do it at all right), so long as the gold supplies last. An alternative loophole-closer is that you can only get soul-patched so many times before things start getting wonky, since the bit of soul you heal back isn't the same one you lost. Source: (Small WoR Spoilers, just stop at the bolded section and you'll be good.)
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    UPDATE: So that's a RAFO on Paalm compounding. Source: EDIT: Also got a RAFO on the aluminum compounding question. Honestly I was flabbergasted, as I didn't even consider the possibility of a RAFO. If I had, I would have just asked the base question of "do you get a little bit of Allomantic burn first..." and called it a day.
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    Next best thing: here's a diff between the versions.
  9. Kurkistan
    I'd guess coincidence, but I would believe it being a nod.
  10. Kurkistan
    Thanks. I think that might be our most direct confirmation that "yeah, shardpools are totally used for worldhopping". Are those all verbatim?
  11. Kurkistan
    Cool, thanks for asking that and posting here. Would you mind terribly re-posting this in the appropriate Event thread? Otherwise it's quite hard to keep track of all of this stuff.
  12. Kurkistan
    Yeah, Brandon said basically the same thing in Chicago. I feel more than a bit bad for Peter & Co. if it does have that fast of a turnaround time, though, as I'm given to understand that it's quite a punishing process to get everything done that quickly.
  13. Kurkistan
    Cool. Would you mind posting in (or starting, if there is none yet) the event thread for the signing?
  14. Kurkistan
    Just went over Extras and Personalization 1 (well, the parts of Personalization 1 that you already had transcripts for), everything looks basically good. Did a few tweaks here and there, but most of the meaning was already there, so it looks like I was being pessimistic. The one major change was that I expanded out all of the discussion on the mist-spirit. I also attributed whatever questioners I could, which essentially amounted to me, Argent, and Alterodent in the Extras part, since those are the voices I know how to match screen names to. --- One possible problem, though: RAFOs are our friends. We like knowing what's RAFOd so we don't get blindsided by RAFOs coming down the line (see: my question about compounding aluminum in Personalization 2). I noticed a part where the transcript didn't have an entry for a RAFO'd question that followed immediately after some non-RAFOd ones. We want to record RAFOs. Were there any others that were in the original recording but didn't get transcribed?
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    You basically did it right, so far as I can tell. Overlapping speech, repetition, simple clarification of meaning, etc. are all the kind of thing where having verbatim doesn't really help convey what people were saying, so it's to the good to clear them up during the transcription. We just have to be careful on where we're making judgement calls on where the exact wording is important, and ere on the side of detail. A long-winded RAFO that lets spill a bit of info about a tangentially-related subject isn't exactly the same thing as a RAFO, mid-answer clarifications can illuminate the mindset of Brandon and/or the asker, etc. Also consider that, when you find a question confusing, Brandon might have been confused as well, so he might actually be answering a different question than either the asker intended or we as the transcribers parsed. Thus why often it might be better to just put down the question in all of its confusing glory. An example of where it's hard to make the call is at 3:56 of "Extras" where Brandon's talking about the mist-spirit. There's a lot of detail spilled out in a little time there, and not all of it got into the transcript: presumably in the name of clarity, but some of those bits might prove useful moving forward. P.S. I am by no means the authority on transcription, and whatsmore am now doing the equivalent of "you missed a spot" while lounging eating bon-bons, so my apologies if I'm being presumptuous here. This is mostly coming from my perspective of someone who references WoBs alot: usually it doesn't matter, but sometimes quite a bit can hinge on interpretation of the exact wording used, so when detail has potentially been left out... P.P.S If you don't mind, I think I'll skim through the recordings/transcript adding some detail (and crediting questioners, where I know who to credit) later. It's about 1000x easier to do this kind of thing when the vast majority of the text is already on the page, which you've been kind enough to do.
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    Sweet, thanks for all the hard work. I do have one concern, though. It seems that the transcript takes a few liberties with mixing paraphrasing with verbatim and/or cutting out where intejectionary questions or clarifications/confusions happened. One spot that jumps out in particular (this just from memory) is in the Extras section when he's talking about burning Forged metal. There was a fair amount of back-and-forth there, some thinking-out-loud, etc. that went into the answer. One potentially/particularly interesting bit that's left out of the transcript is an offhand comment Brandon made stating that the reason why it's easy for a normal Allomancer to just burn a metalmind for Allomantic effect is because the two systems are similar/on the same planet. Very often we can tease quite a bit more out of verbatim answers with complete context, so I'll ask to what extent such trimming happened in the rest of the transcript? If you find that it's endemic and/or that you don't think anything worthwhile was missed, then would you mind just flagging the places where you condensed stuff in case other people want to spot-check or add details?
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    Cool. Would you mind posting it as a Google-doc so people can offer comments. etc. in case parts are hard to hear or the like? It also helps let multiple people work on the same transcription together without duplicating work. EDIT: @Skaa To give a sneak preview, it was about how to heal withering. If I'm recalling correctly, both Feruchemical gold and Allomantic aluminum would work, but Allomantic aluminum would work better/perfectly. Also it's "fair" to describe withering as a "cancerous Forging" (my phrasing).
  18. Kurkistan
    Got it, thanks. No wonder Brandon stopped being coy about REDACTED.
  19. Kurkistan
    Could someone tell us what chapter the Hoid scene is in, at the very least?
  20. Kurkistan
    Ooh, nice catch. (and this is why I really need to sit down and do a non-breakneck-speed reread).
  21. Kurkistan
    Too true. Why, back in my day (March) Argent and I had Brandon all to our selves for the lightning round. ( )
  22. Kurkistan
    The shade questions were mine (the tell is how deep and manly my voice is ). They came about as a result of a discussion with Darnam/Mac/Outis/Oudeis on another site; a friend of mine was asking the gem question (he's on the site but I'm not sure if he wants to be credited). The way I see it, follow-up questions (particularly the more spur-of-the-moment ones) tend to be pretty fast and it's pretty easy for Brandon to just say RAFO and then we move on. But when he does answer them, they give us a lot more to work with. As an example, we wouldn't know about ralkalest if not for follow-ups. That was essentially my reaction when he RAFO'd the aluminum compounding question. EDIT: And the really annoying thing about that is that I could have just asked the underlying question ("Do you have a moment of Allomantic burning every time you compound a metal?") and gotten what I wanted. I just didn't anticipate the possibility of a RAFO.
  23. Kurkistan
    Just got in to a friend's house after the signing. Some good stuff, nothing earth-shattering that comes to mind immediately. The signing table was literally littered with people's phones recording stuff, so we should get a lot of good audio and transcripts.one thing that pops to mind is that Ralkalest is definitely aluminum unless Brandon spiked out Peter's powers of trolling.
  24. Kurkistan
    Well Nightwielder didn't know for sure when David found out his weakness. So depending on the circumstances where Tia found out and how Batman she was about not letting Prof knew she knew, Prof could be unaware. EDIT: Ah, you may be referring to Prof knowing his own weakness, rather than just if he knows she knows. I'd still say it's possible that Tia could know Prof's weakness without Prof himself even knowing what it is. Theoretically she could deduce it from observation about his past/character like David's been figuring out—highly unlikely, given that this seems to be a new approach. More realistically, it depends to an extent of how aware Epics are of their powers failing. So if Prof wasn't actively using anything and lost his powers for a second, would he notice? Assuming he'd notice, it's still possible that Tia could have observed some power-failure while Prof was distracted and/or insensate. So if Prof's weakness is melted marshmallows, then she could have noticed a marshmallow-induced burn not healing if Prof dozed off while making s'mores. Another scenario is if Prof's powers fail and he notices it, but he's unable to figure out exactly what triggered it; meanwhile Tia does.
  25. Kurkistan
    @Yata Thanks for asking that question. @Ari No problem, I was just a bit surprised: thought you took particular umbrage with that particular post or the like.
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