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    Men can read glyphs as they are "pictures" and not writing.
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    That is the implication.
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    It is a ton of fun. There are numerous styles and campaign settings for everyone. D20 rules tend to be more grounded, while Dresden, and Mistborn tend to be more loose and easy/story driven. The biggest thing I have always liked about table top roleplaying games is that what you can do is only limited by your and the DM's imagination. When you play a video game, you are limited by what the programmer thought to include. I played in one campaign where we were evil characters, and I made a moltov cocktail using the spell burning hands, and a bottle of liqour, and then we turned the town into silent hill (thanks to the necromancer). I played in another campaign where we were on a desert world, and with a high charisma, I convinced a low intelligence ally that courtesans were a form of fruit, and he should go around to every vender asking to sample them. And finally I DMed a campaign once where a character was a roach yeti, that every time he saw a bright light, he had to roll a 6 sided dice on the chance he would walk over entranced and get electrocuted. So yeah, loads of fun
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    Wouldn't pulling it out kill him?
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    Or just maybe sooth security and tell them its your pace maker?
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    Except that they didn't have medallions nor any metalborn when Kelsier first found them, and they were shivering and dying already by then.
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    Elantris page 477 Kindle Edition "...only Dilaf bore the power that made him resistant to attacks by the Dor- a capacity that had required the deaths of fifty men to create. He felt, rather than saw, as his men were torn apart by the Elantrians' attack." Btw, the number fifty is mentioned about 21 times in describing how many monks were in Teo after they teleported, how many feet the monks were away from Serene in Teo, how many years old Dilaf was when his wife got damaged by the aon, how many soldiers left the pyre and galloped towards Kiin's house, how many buildings Serene estimates are in New Elantris, fifty to one odds described by Ahan regarding Telrii, estimated fifty elantrians clustered around observing when Serene delivers food, Teod banished the Derethi priests from the country fifty years ago, Serene knew every important event that happened in Teod in the last fifty years, and the wedding contract was a fifty page beast of a document. Quite a few fifties in there. Guess Sanderson liked the number when he wrote it lol
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    My thing with this is people are largely ignorant of the radiants and what their abilities are. The people immediately at the battle (most of which are dead, or already on the Kholin side) are the only ones that got to see what Kaladin can do. Waves and waves of people were thrown at Szeth, and he had a massive body count under his belt. Didn't stop them from trying. The typical population and rulers wouldn't know that Kaladin is practically a one man army. Then the question would be, would Kal murder someone just to prove he can to make everyone fall in line and still be able to be a radiant holding to his oaths? I think not. Now regarding the secret societies that do know what a radiant can do, they could come up with ways to deal with them. Nale (although yes he is a herald), was very effective in dealing with radiants and all he needed was a little winged crab thingie. If these secret societies are as powerful behind the scenes as they seem, I do not think it is far fetched that they could get their hands on one or more themselves. Then you have a radiant with no stormlight, no healing, and no abilities except the spren blade, which arguably would mean little if your surrounded by archers/crossbowmen that fill you with arrows/quarrels.
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    Establish a general perimeter, call in for a medic, pull wounded back behind perimeter. Exclude soldiers holding perimeter from cadmium bubble. Wounded soldier lasts longer for the medic to get to him or her to save his or her life. It can be effective, just have to think in different terms.
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    Then why would the parshendi hunt them?
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    Right, but unless my understanding of anatomy is off (I will say it is rusty), you could stab anywhere on the human body, and strike some flowing blood. To expand on that, especially in an open circulatory system, you could stab anywhere and definitely get flowing blood. The only exception I could think to this, is if the flowing blood has to be in arteries, veins, and capillaries which I do not recall seeing that requirement anywhere. edit: ah I thought of an analogy that helps convey what I am trying to say. In order to constitute blood flow, does it have to be a "river" or could it be waves in an ocean? Both contain flowing water, but does it have to have a specific direction/containment?
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    No worries, but in your post you literally asked if anyone else had a problem with those issues, and I responded as to why I personally do not.
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    I am getting confused what people constitute as blood flow. Getting stabbed in the stomach, causes you to bleed out, but your not hitting an artery. Is that what you are all referring to as blood flow? That it has to hit a artery or other tube? Because then how would the inquisitor eye spikes get the required blood flow? Also wouldn't the spikes block the flow when piercing it? My thoughts is that you can't spike something dead, so no blood moving in the body at all. That is where I personally believe blood flow comes into play, but if I missed something, and am wrong, I will concede. I am not too knowledgeable concerning hemalurgy. That was just the impression I got.
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    Blood does flow in an open circulatory system otherwise oxygen would go no where and the organism would die, just I do not think the bind points could be derived the same way as it is an entirely different system.
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    Trading I believe it a literary quirk of his character for humor. Lying to everyone in a form of disguise to catch a bad guy is bad? Then what is Wax who kills people? What he did with Ranette was wrong of him, but he grew as an individual, apologized and respected her feelings after that. He heard the kandra out because he knew information, regardless the source is better than willful ignorance. He clearly never liked them, and still made their lives hard (a la Vendel) but still listened in case it was something important to Wax, even if Wax wasn't ready to hear it. He would bear it for him. Hooking up with MeLaan during the gunfight was because they were secure on a train, could not hear the ruckus and had no reason to believe a fight would happen right then and there. Yes such things tend to happen to the group, but by that logic they should never sleep either.
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    That quote is faulty. All that is saying is that a kandra can't break down the carapace and create their own like they can with muscle and tissue. Carapace is made of similar or in some cases the same stuff as bone, which kandra can't replicate either yet they can take human form fine.
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    But as the kandra eats it, it will only taste better as it rots more and more lol
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    So then Bruce is on a planet that is pre-industrial, with only the gadgets he happen to have on him at the time, during a rulership where aluminum is such a closely guarded secret that no one but the Lord Ruler himself and the inquisitors know of it. So how is Batman supposed to figure out that Rashek is a fullborn, what that means regarding compounding, and how to make something anti investiture with aluminum when the main characters of the original trilogy didn't know? The only way they end up learning is by nearly dying multiple times coupled with literal divine intervention, of which the only reason they survived is due to their own mistborn powers of which Batman has none. edit: oh and add that the atmosphere would be toxic to him due to the prevalence of ash
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    Wasn't that Vin's first reaction to a mistwraith? She thought it was just another mound in the ash till it started to move.
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    Here's a thought. Let's say we give both the Lord Ruler and Batman equal time to prepare. Couldn't The Lord Ruler burn malatium when he sees Batman to learn he is Bruce Wayne and by tracking him, learn the location of the batcave and sabotage all his gadgets? Store his connection so he (hypothetically) isn't noticed by Batman or Bruce Wayne, and follow him to Wayne Manor. Then using steel, the Lord Ruler would see the entire cave complex under the manor, and also using steel trigger the hidden catch to open it while Wayne is gone. Then using compounded bendalloy, he has all the time in the world to sabotage all of Batman's gadgets, and check on whatever plans Batman is making and out think them. Then when combat happens, and Batman reveals his amazing plan and pulls out his anti-investiture gadget that will win him the day, it explodes in his face, and then the Lord Ruler rips out his heart.
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    Not weighing in one way or the other, but just pointing out the reference with the pig is incorrect. He did not eat the pig to gain enough mass to be able to eat the horse. He ate the pig first so he had the added mass to, when he ate the horse, could make a musculature far greater than the horse had to begin with. This made it possible for him to plow through the ash mounds and still maintain a decent speed. So the pig was just to be able to make a horse on steroids, not a prerequisite to be able to eat a horse at all.
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    Right, but that's to break it open. I mean to drive a spike into it, and the spike stay lodged. Wouldn't it be better to drill a hole and have inquisitor screws instead? Then the strength of the carapace isn't cracked and compromised, and you still potentially get the same result. Though that may be more traumatic to the creature.......
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    Also there is something to be said that once you get the hang of it and set up your house right, you basically have telekinesis with iron and steel
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    I dunno, it could be argued taking drastic measures to get someone you care about out of an abusive relationship would be altruistic. Now in this case true Steris is not abusive, but Wayne knows how destroyed Wax was when Lessie died. Wayne also knows how dedicated Wax can be to holding to his word. So at least from Wayne's perspective I could see him viewing what Wax is going to do is consigning his friend to a life where he is miserable and empty all to avoid being hurt again. Wax spared Wayne's life when he didn't need to and gave him a second chance. At least from Wayne's perspective I could see him feeling this is him trying to save Wax and give him a second chance. I think this is expanded upon that when Wayne saw Wax ended up truly being happy and in love with Steris, he backed off and in fact supported them.
  25. Pathfinder
    Would that crack the carapace?
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