Pathfinder

So if the planet where illnesses provide super powers, suddenly occured on earth, then doctors and nurses assigned to the child ICU job's have suddenly gotten A LOT more interesting.

So i now have an idea for a band. Hemalurgically spiked drummer using some of his spikes to drum, breath infused singer, guitar aon playing elantian, and stomlight wielding lightweaver for lighting.

Spike allomancer, then play drums with the spikes. oh wait i was supposed to do something else with these?

No, I think just that based on this thread and the prior one, this forum likes to use overwhelming and incredible powers to screw and or prank people. Just my two cents lol.

I forget which feruchemal metal lets you store breath, but challenge all the kids to a breath holding contest. Then tap air while pretending to hold your breath. Wait for all of them to pass out, and then relax for the remainder of the babysitting job.

I wonder what looking out through the bubble would be like due to the time distortion? Could you see from the bendalloy bubble, through the cadmium bubble to normal time clearly, or would it be like trying to look through water? Distorted and warped?

Lol I am thinking more along the lines of the kids game "operation" but hemalurgy style

Put up a Cadnium bubble, so instead of having to babysit for like 3 hours, you just have to sit there for like 10 minutes.

And that is another excellent point. Wow Scadrial really lost out in Miles Hundred lives. He could have SAVED a hundred lives, instead of preserving only his own and taking others. Oh wow I thought of a kinda twisted use for cadnium bubbles. Have them as back ups for emergencies. For instance if a building catches fire, or a gunpowder store room is about to explode, send a runner to get help, then burn cadnium. It will mean you might die as it is normal time for you, but it could result in firefighters and response teams getting there that much sooner and preventing the fire/explosion from getting out of hand. Oh! oh! they could be part of every bomb squad! Bomb ticking down, set up a cadnium bubble, evacuate the surrounding area, and then disarm it.

Put a little belt on all of them, with a metal buckle. Anytime they fight, or go someplace they aren't supposed to, just steel push or iron pull on the buckle without even having to get up.

That is an excellent point. So assuming the brass compounders sit in a vat of water, which they boil into steam which turns a turbine for electricity (is that what you were going for?), vs steel compounders running on a treadmill, vs pewter compounded turning a giant crank. Please tell me there is an engineer out there that could calculate this lolol.

I also think to expand on the different difficulty of the surges, I came up with possibly a realmatic analogy. With gravity you are not changing its identity, you are changing its state. So it would be like taking water, and freezing it. It is still water, but it operates differently. So gravity is still gravity, just it makes you lighter, heavier, or in another direction. Soulcasting on the other hand actually changes the objects identity. So a glass becomes a block of wood. It not only operates differently, but it IS fundamentally different. So basically my example is not to prove or disprove, but just to further expand on the points already made with my own little analogy lol.

Punch someone hard in the chest enough that they fall back. Stand over them, and as they look up stunned, have an illusion of a bloody beating heart in your hand, and call out "kali ma! kali ma!" and watch them freak out. edit: oh oh! play hot lava with kids, but cast an illusion so the floor looks like ACTUAL lava!

I see your points, but regarding this point in particular. I could totally see any of them killing their spren and walking away if such were to occur. Shallan AND Kal almost did themselves. Shallan because she blames Pattern for the death of her mother, and Kal thinking his abilities to survive were a curse making him watch everyone around him die. I don't think it would be a stretch at all for any of the three, after seeing the devastation wrought by THEIR powers (and I say their because although Szeth would have a different subset of abilities, it is still from the same source, and they each have the same potential) to feel they have to stop it. If ONE of them could use their powers in such a way, what is to stop ANY of them from doing so? All it would take is a Radiant of some renown, and respect to do something they felt was in the best interest of all, (and considering how being "honorable" has been shown to manifest in many lights, that also wouldn't be a stretch at all) for them to begin to question "how long will it be before I do the same?". Then it is just a hop to think of yourself as an unstoppable monster, a skip to equate becoming that monster being connected to the power you wield, and a final leap to the conclusion that power corrupts, even despite the governing of the spren. If the spren's governing can't prevent such atrocities, then can anything they say or do be trusted? Betrayal leads to pain, pain leads to hatred, and hatred leads to the darksides heh heh heh (lol). Now all of this is conjecture, and would come about in very extreme circumstances, but one thing to remember, despite their ideals, all radiants are "human". Human's are falliable, able to be manipulated, and on many occasions see and hear what they expect to/want to. The above string of causation, in my opinion at least, is not that far fetched.

I am with Cstryon on it becoming a controlled material/monopolized. I would hazard the restrictions would even be greater than diamonds BECAUSE of how useful it is. Admittedly this is a rather cynical view of life, but if something bestows power, there will always be those seeking to hold it for themselves, and themselves alone. Prime example being the Lord Ruler and compounding. I could put it even further that, if as the Set (this is hypothetical since what their goal is has not be explicitly stated) they wish to breed a mistborn, then it would also stand to reason they would want to be in control of the one substance that said mistborn cannot affect. Thereby you make sure your mistborn is effective against everyone else, but ineffective against you.

Not sure if this is quite in the same vein, but how Elend runs off into the mists using steel pushes during a ball, Vin runs off into the mists using steel pushes during a ball. I also believe though its been awhile since I have read both, that in both situations combat then suddenly occurs.

I know this is thread necroing AND double post, but I just had to write this thought down. Steel compounders could be paid to run on treadmills that produce electricity for cities. Hows THAT for green energy? lol

LOL, that might get a little awkward. glad to help

He tried to wipe feruchemists out to prevent others from having compounding like him, thus ensuring his hold on the empire.

Well since it is your game, you could always come up with some all of your own. Hell you could even come up with ethnic slurs. When a noble refers to a skaa misting, he or she could call them slags (stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore). I would need more time/research to come up with more, but then again like I said it is your game, so might be more fun for you to do so. It could get you more immersed in the world you create.

I forget where it is stated, but there are Words of Brandon that said ferrings arose due to interbreeding with allomancers. that the same thing that caused mistings, by interbreeding screwed around with feruchemists enough that they can produce ferrings.

the map looks awesome! great work!

So here is a thought regarding the speed in which Kal learned vs Jasnah and Shallan. Kal's biggest breakthroughs happened while running with bridgefour which was the worse of the worse, and the most damaging. For all of Brandon's magic systems, the user has to be emotionally "broken" in order to use investiture for the magic to fill in the cracks. The way I see it, Jasnah had breaks, but maybe not as frequent or as dramatic as Kal. Regarding Shallan she had multiple and traumatic breaks, but in order to handle them, she forgot them. Setting her back basically. So perhaps it is the extreme nature of Kal's tutelage as it were that accelerated his process. Also, Kal got to see Szeth in action. Duplication is far faster than innovation. Jasnah and Shallan are breaking brand new ground, and trying to learn from books that are at best rumors. Kal gets to SEE Szeth walk on walls, and SEE him fly. That's why in so many sci-fi plots, technology makes huge leaps when they jury rig another cultures advanced technology versus developing it on their own. When you know where you have to go, finding the path is much simpler than wandering aimlessly.

Hopefully there are people out there that have seen the movie "Mom and Dad Save the World". Megan would be the only person on that planet to pick up the grenade, die, come back, and MAYBE learn from the experience. That or she would spend the rest of her existence next to that grenade lol

Well I am hopping back into this thread, so I am unsure if you have read Alloy of Law yet, so just in case I have put this in a spoiler tag below: That and I can confirm having read the Words of Brandon where he explicitly states that Sazed altered the koloss to breed true. Regarding the Kandra, I agree I could see him giving them something, but they are still very much his agents in the same sense as they were in the original trilogy.