Kurkistan

And cookies! I admire your dedication in naming your son Kaladin, by the way. If you're looking to get into roleplaying, the Caton of Inquisition could use some new blood.

Why yes, yes it is. Although not in the sense of long-lasting orbits, and not with boolets!

Ah, good point about gravity. I suppose that we ought to picturing this Lurcher like someone holding a string to spin a tennis ball around, only not applying any lateral force. Actually, wouldn't an "Orbiter" be able to walk while Pulling on these satellites, adding lateral momentum to counteract friction and increasing the amount of time that they satellites can keep orbiting, perhaps indefinitely?

You probably get this alot, but this quote kind of made my day.

An interesting theory. I see no reason why it wouldn't be possible, although it would probably take an Iron/Zinc twinborn to pull it off with bullets. There are two obvious problems with maintaining an "orbit" for any real length of time, though: friction with the air and that evil gravity applying downward acceleration on "satellites." Both of these would be non-issues in space, so I image we could possibly see something like this 50 years from now in the third trilogy. A more realistic use of this technique would be for a particularly adept Lurcher to alter the course of an object without trying to create a stable orbit, such as deflecting a passing bullet and/or slingshotting projectiles around him/her-self. Welcome to the forums, by the way. EDIT: So what that ninja Thanners said, essentially.

It's on the Twitter feed.

Yes.

It was my impression that the Vanisher in question was the recently deceased Push, who, as a Coinshot, most likely exempted himself from the "no metal" requirement. P.S. I thought I had a unique typo when I started this post, then realized it was just intentionally poor in-character grammar when I looked it up to quote.

Miles could have just been drawing from his metalminds for the few brief moments when he used his Augur ability, so that isn't evidence, but I agree that it makes sense for them to show up as two distinct metal reserves.

A U.S. Quarter weighs 5.670 g, while a 110 pound person weighs 50 Kg, aka 50,000 g. 5.67/50000 = 0.0001134 = %0.01134. If you accelerate a Quarter to 1,225.044 Km/hr (speed of sound at sea level on Earth), you will create an opposite reaction of 1,225.044 Km/hr * .0001134 on the Allomancer. That's 0.13891999 Km/hr of velocity for the Allomancer. I'm pretty sure that an Allomancer could just not notice that, and/or lean slightly against it.

I'm not sure if this is what you mean as well, but I have always understood Steelpushes and Ironpulls to be straight action-reaction events between the Allomancer and the target, exactly the same as if they had physically pushed/pulled on that target. In fact, as far as I've seen, they are actually preserve the energy of the Allomancer-target system. Therefore, it would function in space identically to a system where astronauts have exceptionally long arms that can only grip non-aluminum-alloyed metal. Which is still cool, by the way. Safety lines? Oxygen? Who needs them? Lurcher/Gasper Twinborn for the win. My mental model is such that Allomancers imparts some measure of their inertia to their target, that inertia either heading in the exact direction of the target (from the center of gravity of the Allomancer) for a Push or in the exact opposite direction of the target for a Pull. The duration (proportional to the strength) of the Push/Pull determines the amount of inertia imparted. When the object is anchored such that it cannot move, the Allomancer simply keeps imparting their inertia up to and including the point where he/she can actually perceive the effects. They can achieve special effects with anchors because the object in question remains "in range" of the Allomancer, and can serve as an "interia-sink" as far as the frame of reference of the Allomancer goes. Similar to the space-walk example, this is the same effect that you could see with someone who had infinitely long arms in a world without anchors. EDIT: To Illustrate 50 Kg Coinshot/Lurcher, situated to East of target 5 Kg target, unanchored, at rest relative to the Allomancer Coinshot: To impart 10 Km/hr of West velocity to the target, the Coinshot will impart 1 Km/hr of East velocity to themselves. To impart 20 Km/hr of West velocity to the target, the Coinshot will impart 2 Km/hr of East velocity to themselves. Lurcher: To impart 10 Km/hr of East velocity to the target, the Coinshot will impart 2 Km/hr of West velocity to themselves. etc.

*Hoi-oid, Hoi-oid!*

I just finished a re-read of AoL, and noted that "compounded" (note the lower case 'c') was actually used within the book to fit our meaning. Page 296 I state this merely for full disclosure. I think that all of us can agree that "Compound" vs "compound" would twist so many brains into pretzels that we could all be justifiably sued for mental damage if we start using the case of the letter 'c' to differentiate these fundamentally different concepts.

Actually, exploding isn't a danger here. Vacuum kills you in many different ways, but turning you into jam isn't one of them. Link

Now let's not get too far ahead of ourselves! I don't think we need to reference exact proportions within the phrase itself. "Funneling three times his normal Weight" works well enough compared to "Triple-tapping his Weight." I've also been approaching our new verb as descriptive of a discrete phenomenon: tapping more of an attribute at one time than you put in at another. This as opposed to a description of where it falls on the range of possibilities within that phenomenon. I think that, especially in scholarly discussion, a verb followed by descriptive modifiers is on par with or preferable to a compound modifier-verb when discussing exact proportion and effects.

And I'm back. Once, again, I did go a bit overboard on the blood. I thought the "ash-snow" was a nice touch, though, if I do say so myself.

I had hope until that no-good author "Sanderson" posted about the drawing on his blog and drew in an extra couple hundred participants. It's not like anything that drives up traffic and membership on the site is good for us, and that that was the entire point of having a drawing anyway. Tangent: The board kicked the picture out of my attachments, apparently, so I will officially re-post my over-bloodied Inqui-Santa picture when I have access to the file in a few hours. Watch this space with dread and anticipation.

The odd grammar on my part is an artifact of my laziness more than anything else. I agree that we should clean up our acts as far as the proper usage for each option goes.

Thanks for posting. I hadn't known about this.

Just to throw in an update here, Brandon did say that it would be an action-RPG prequel to the Final Empire in his Dungeon Crawlers interview yesterday. EDIT: Specified that it was a prequel.

"Ladies and Gentlemen: If you would please remove your hats for both the recitation of the Imperial Oath ('wasing waser was the wasing was') and so that you can be emotionally manipulated for the duration of the performance. We appreciate your cooperation."

I forget who it was, but someone suggested that Pulsing would be useful for scene-changing/set dressing during plays or other live performances. The audience would be in a bubble of slow time while the stage changed faster than they could perceive. Suspension of disbelief maintained.

Might have gone a bit overboard on the blood.

*Warbreaker, AoL Spoilers* While we might be throwing the importance of this slightly out of proportion, I feel that it would still be useful to have a specialized word here. I envision *Filler* being used in more of an academic sense than in the middle of action scene, similar to Vasher's description of Awakening to Vivienne in Warbreaker, or even just in our discussions here on the boards. The use of well-defined terms can never hurt in that regard. An example of when *Filler* would have been useful is when Wayne was healing himself slowly after being burned by the bomb. It was explained to the reader that slower healing would allow Wayne to stretch out his reserves, but we are left mystified as to why exactly this is the case, given that the rule of diminishing returns for Feruchemy was not explained to us in that book. A little infodump with impressive terminology would not have been amiss, and would have gone to show the depth and reality of Scadrial's magic, as well as the effort which has gone into studying it. An example of an explanatory passage using "Surge": "'Surging,' when a Ferring draws upon upon more of a Feruchemical attribute at one point in time than they have stored at a single point of time in the past, yields diminishing returns as more and more energy of the energy gained is utilized to surge together attributes stored at different points in time in the past into a single moment in the present. This is why Wax can't surge together enough Weight to break Scadrial's crust and why a Spinner can't become President of the world while simultaneously winning the lottery and pedaling a unicycle backwards with one hand while winning 500 simultaneous coin tosses." Incidentally, it would be ludicrously cool if Brandon were to adopt terminology developed on these forums.

*Second post, don't re-enter* I'm not sure if the current Inqui-Santa picture is the best representation of his menace. The spikes look like eyeglasses at first glance. Perhaps some blood liberally sprayed on the the beard?