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  1. Kurkistan
    My plan? Don't even look at 17th Shard from the beginning of March until I finish the book. I also intend to filter out all alerts/emails from this site for that period, just to be sure. I was going to post a thread for everyone to post their "away messages" in when we got closer, actually.
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    I think the cover does a fair job of it; at the very least so far as the shape goes.
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    Wes, I'll be honest with you here: That looks like someone breathing rainbow-fire. Like a dragon.
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    "And finally we shall have Spiked blood! Shiv shall die! Praise the Mistborn!"
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    Lol, nice ketek.
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    Ah, I had forgotten just how thorough the quote was. Thank you, Weiry.
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    I suppose I'll languish with the Caterminator for awhile yet.
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    Fixed that for you.
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    Not really, no. Miyabi asked Brandon a question. Brandon took a moment and answered it. They were sitting down in a quiet restaurant: there was no misunderstanding. Brandon heard and very clearly answered the question at hand. It would be leagues beyond Aes Sedai for him to answer "can you store in metal" with "no yes you can hide Breath in things". Consider this: If storing Breath is the same as making a failed Command, then won't all below the Eigth Heightening who try to Command metal/rock "fail" and just end up storing it? Problem solved.
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    [Nice. I'm trying to figure out all the references: So obviously a TNG reference after Picard first encountered the Borg, then I think that might be a ME2 reference, then Dr. Who... Any others I should have got?]
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    A good idea, Barty. At the very least, we can start questioning why person X or Y hasn't told Peng his/her role yet. Kukri.
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    Note: Well that was irritating. I was about to post when the server ate my message. Teaches me not to copy it to the clipboard first. Once more unto the breach, I suppose. Yes, I did miss your edits. My apologies. On Snell: I would also hazard that something shot radially from the center of a bubble wouldn't be deflected. That's mostly just intuition, though. Good question on allomancy reaching outside/into the bubbles. It's been discussed. I don't really regard going into other dimensions (aka Shadesmar) as properly FTL in the way that Brandon's discussed it. It is indeed a widely held theory that Shadesmar expands/contracts depending on how much Cognitive activity there is in a region. I fully support this theory, and would be very surprised if it was false, especially given Brandon's comments on the non-existence of Shadesmar-proper in interplanetary space. As I said, I doubt that Allomantic FTL relies upon Shadesmar, but I suppose it is a fair question since some kind of Allomancy/Feruchemy probably does the job. I think you may be placing a tad too much weight on Syl's comments. True, it seems that gravity, and perhaps even all the laws of physics, is Spiritually-based. Syl also seems to rather casually enable the manipulation of gravity. But this doesn't entail that all of physics is held together by gum and string: rather, just that it can be manipulated with a bit more ease than we're used to. No problem. I'm really not one to talk about either wall-o-texting or the ease with which posts can be parsed. Rest assured: Atium is not related to Scadrian worldhopping. I usually talk of somehow traversing the Physical: I think this is suggested by how Brandon discusses the nature of the third Mistborn trilogy as SciFi: It'd rather undermine the point if SciFi-Scadrial used fundamentally the same world-traversing method as their Renaissance-technology counterparts. We also have Brandon saying that Scadrian FTL involves "propulsion", which implies movement through normal space. A new godmetal alloy? Lerasium burned Allomantically or used Feruchemically? An unkown use/combination of existing metals? There are a lot of possiblities. Also, as you suggested, Demoux in particular could be side-along apparating. There is no such quote: I can honestly tell you that I'd know if there was. There is quite a lot of speculation on that front, though. --- My apologies if my post is brusque/incomplete: it was a bit easier writing it a second time around, but I was mainly focused on re-writing my main points as quickly/accurately as possible before I forgot them.
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    Now I really want a new avatar. Any chance you're artistic skills extend to some non-freaky-looking version of a catquisitor?
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    Brandon & Co. give away the eBook free to people who have the physical copy, and as Peter said they'll be updating that version shortly.
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    Curses! Annamalai(CSA) has deceived us!
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    If you insist.
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    I also may or may not have a few thoughts on time bubbles... (sorry ) OT: Exactly once before that I can recall, actually. And I don't think it was in reference to FTL-theorizing.
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    Aha! You're the limerick-requester!
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    @Haelbarde I appreciate the regard. Don't feel like you have to read through everything I've written on the subject, though: a lot of it is inaccurate/out-of-date at this point. I'll be sure to mention it if you run afoul of any existing evidence/theories, I think.
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    Uh oh. I do not think that having Peng be trusted and followed by all, which I strongly campaigned for, is of any great benefit to the Inquisitor. I do, however, agree that we should be a bit more active in our discussions each day and so give everyone, but especially Peng, more to work with.
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    On my silence: Honestly, there's little for me to say. I've made my case for why we should trust Peng and follow his lead on voting and, by and large, we are now all trusting Peng and following his lead on voting. Mission accomplished.
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    "How dare you question the Mistborn! PRAISE the Mistborn!"
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    Kukri, hearing the words of his Lord Mistborn, began sharpening his knives and looking in Eddy's direction. "PRAISE the MISTBORN!"
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    I don't think the device is quite so sophisticated as of yet: I'd chalk up her political acumen to political acumen, which is still impressive on its own. Nice work translating the entries independently, by the way.
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    That's odd. Mine does.
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