Blackhoof

I've started this thread to discuss the ways that we would like Allomancy and Feruchemy depicted on screen. Some powers are very easy to depict, others not so much. So how would we like it done? I'll get started with some suggestions. Allomancy: Steel/Iron: pretty easy. Include the blue limes, but only briefly to avoid overpowering the audience. Pushing/pulling is easy to depict. Zinc/Brass: harder. Not really sure at all. Pewter: easy. Flaring doesn't need a depiction, and once it is established it should be obvious when it is being burned or not. Tin: have a HD effect occur when a character burns it, zoom in on things, maybe do a POV shot. Bronze: have the pulses be drumbeats, and have Vin zoom in on different characters or locations combined with the beats increasing/decreasing in volume to show where they are coming from. Copper: no visual depiction needed. Atium: an easy one to depict, but all the ghosts could be confusing. Maybe only do ghosts for immediate threats?

Well he probably has enhanced strength too, if you recall. Asphyxiation might work, but ge could theoretically heal the damage lack if oxygen does to his body. And use his fields to pry you off of him, or disintegrate whatever you are using to strangle him.

No, weaknesses can be activated without the realization of the Epic, so it doesn't matter what the Epic thinks.

Indeed, in fact there is already one named Gordon in the Portland thread

Personally, I think people should only make new Epics if they are managing their current Epics well. No point someone making a third Epic, until they know they can handle two.

Geelong, 17 months ago Sergeant Gordon Pike sighed as he sat at his desk, sorting through the reports he had been receiving from all over the city. A building blown apart by some madman calling himself Lightshow. An unknown, but large, number of people massacred in broad daylight in a shopping centre by a pair of unknown attackers. Several houses and their inhabitants killed, rocks and dirt smashing the houses apart. Looters running rampant. Murder, assault, theft, all violent crimes were skyrocketing. People were scared, and order was breaking down. The barely 200 officers in Geelong were fighting a losing battle, and they were beginning to realise it. He barely noticed as the two Epics entered the station. There was a crash and shouting, and he looked up to see a plump, short, elderly black woman throwing an officer across the room. Everyone exploded into motion, chairs flying backwards and guns leaving holsters. A thin, smirking man stood behind the woman, and with a wave of his hand a room full of drawn pistols crumbled into dust. Silence descended like a blanket. Finally, the smirking man spoke up. "I think it is time for introductions, don't you, my friend?" The woman nodded slowly, her eyes sinisterly wide and unblinking. "Indeed. I am Warbreaker." "And I am Ceasefire." "And we.... we are in charge here now." Silence greeted the claim. Pike and the other officers looked around at each other, confusion and fear in their faces. Finally Pike rose from his desk. "You are both under arrest, for assault of a police officer, and destruction of property." He began approaching them, at first reaching for his gun, but then reconsidering and grabbing his taser. Several other officers followed his lead, cornering the intruders and pulling out cuffs. The two Epics looked at each other, and rolled their eyes. With a gesture, Pike's taser dissolved. His jaw clenched in anger, and he grabbed a lamp off of a nearby desk. He kept walking. Ceasefire waved a lazy hand, but the lamp remained whole. The Epic's eyes narrowed in brief annoyance. "Looks like my powers only work on objects designed to be weapons. Thought so. Ah well." Pike stood in front of the mismatched pair. His voice was firm, despite his fear. "This will go more smoothly if you do not resist." Warbreaker smiled, her eerie stare fixating on Pike. "I could say the same to you." She raised her arms, and shoved Pike hard. Her strength was unnatural, and Pike found himself in midair, flying backwards until he crashed into a desk. His head hit the wood hard, and he blacked out for a split second. Dizziness fell upon him like a shroud, and the Epics and officers had become nothing but blurs. Blurs of rapid motion, he now saw, although he couldn't make out any details. When his head finally stopped swimming, he saw the two intruders standing triumphant and alone, broken bodies surrounding them. Warbreaker tilted her head. "See? I told you it would be easier." Ceasefire chuckled. "Now, you will all either work for us, as your new overlords, or you will turn in your badges, and we may or may not shove them down your throats. This whole suburb is now under our control." The Epic smiled like a wolf. "And we need a police force to control our new subjects." Pike groggily rose to his feet, barking out a laugh. "You think we will work for you? You think you can just... declare yourselves dictators? You think you won't be stopped in a few weeks by the army, when they come to liberate us?" The pair of would-be rulers frowned, annoyed at his defiance. Warbreaker began striding towards him. "You will have to kill me before I will ever bow before the likes of you." He spat towards the strength Epic, and she puled up short. Irritation became rage on her wrinkled face. Ceasefire scowled. "Rip his arms off, and beat him to death with them. That will demonstrate what becomes of rudeness in our kingdom." Gordon Pike, like several of his colleagues, died that day. But every officer afterwards bent their knees and pledged loyalty to their new rulers. And so began the reign of Warbreaker and Ceasefire over the suburb of Waurn Ponds, that only ended when Warplock seized control of the entire city.

a very interesting idea. Perhaps a high-ranking vanilla servant for an Epic? An enforcer of sorts, for occasions that do not deserve an Epic. We know from Steelheart that vanillas had a place of importance in Newcago, not just as managers and accountants, but as gangsters, gangleaders and vicious mobsters. In a more civilized city like Corvallis for instance, the Queens could have a use for a bloodthirsty psychopath in the Security department who will do bad things to keep rebels in line that lazy Epics can't be bothered to. And Portland is so chaotic people could do what they like and no-one could stop them.

Since Epics cannot use Epic power items, i don't think stealing Epic powers would work. To be honest, I'm not sure about all these new Epics. People are making up new Epics when they either don't even have one in the game. Or they do, and they aren't maintaining them in favour of bringing in new ones. Can we please stick to fewer Epics guys? I know the draw of having a bunch and using every cool idea you think of, but in the best interests of the game, can we stick to one to begin with, for new players? If you overload yourself, the game will just be dragged down.

Ah ok then

Yeah, ut seems like it "enhances" things without simply changing the materials involved. Therefore, they would lose their enhancements fully.

Corpsemaker would be utterly disgusted by her, and as a teleporter he would immediately hate her so good drama there

please don't be rude, we are all just trying to help others with their characters. I share his concerns. i just want to backtrack and reiterate what others have said that his weakness is insanely hard to trigger. I don't this this was addressed. It isn't even a once-a-year trigger, it is a will-probably-never-be-triggered-naturally weakness. Maybe downgrade the severity if the storms required? So being out in a thunderstorm triggers it?

I don't think having a teleportation power is a good idea, as we have discussed, we have an over-abundance of them. well some mysteries about their powers can be left for a flashback, that shouldn't be a problem

Ok, for Corvallis, lets work out what is happening for the rest of the day. What are people's plans, and what developments need to occur this game-day to make them happen? On my end, Iconoclast is happy to begin plotting with his new ally. He doesn't have anything planned for the rest of the day, I don't think. I'll change that if things get too slow. ooh i didn't see this one, was the answer good at all?

I'm positive that I'm not the first one to notice this, but does it seem to anyone else that the two main religions in Elantris (Shu-Korath and Shu-Dereth) are similar in philosophies to Sel's two Shards (Devotion and Dominion)? Dereth: Strict, hierarchical, orderly, and expansionist. They are driven by divine mandate to expand and convert, an effort to control the world, in an effort to release Jaddeth. Korath: we know less about this, but it seems sedate, relaxed, not as interested in conversion or evangelism. It seems a religion about quiet, personal devotion to Domi. I don't suggest that the Shards themselves (that were splintered, after all) guide the religions, but perhaps they inspired Korath and Dereth in the beginning. Or perhaps the lingering effects of their Intents (like a mist spirit for Preservation) inspired, started or indeed remain to guide the religions. The similarities just seem too uncanny to be coincidence.

Either one works, I should think.

Well we can just have them operate in the background. Then they rose up to kill Electro at a suitably climactic moment.

Well we can always do a post where the remaining Reckoners decide to leave, to give their plotline some closure. Was the entire rebellion Joe's thing? And all the charcters too?

Indeed, taking down despots is something they explicitly did not do before Steelheart- that was the point.

*double post*

In terms of Reckoners in Corvallis, it seems like they would be more likely to go after lone psychotic Epics (like the hit on Fortuity) instead of trying to take down the government. In fact Iconoclast or Hypno, real twisted Epics, would be their preferred targets i think.

well I'd heavily recommend reading or at least skimming the whole thread, so that you know everything that is happening. I can do a quick summary for you, but it is important to know the little details. Summary

Sweet! When can I kill Broadcast and take over his station?

Seems like it would be easier for her to carry real bullets and then transform and shatter them. Carrying glass bullets, turning them metal, and then glass, seems needlessly complicated for her.

Its basically just me worldbuilding with little scenes at the moment but new people are welcome! And for any newbies who don't know, it is set in Australia two years after Calamity, as opposed to the rest of the RP, set in Oregon ten years after Calamity.