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  1. Landis963
    Fortunately for everyone involved, he can't directly harm living humans. So he can't go on a Mistborn-powered zapping spree.
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    Assuming of course that it is Autonomy who isolated Taldain. I'll admit it's well within character for him to do that, but given that Khriss eventually leaves, and Mraize has a sample of Taldaini sand, there had to be some impetus for it. Also, I think you accidentally a few words here and there.
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    I was more wondering how you'd equate different forms of Investiture with Stormlight/joule. My trick with the nicromind and the clearchip might work for some forms, but not nearly all of them. Notably, Breaths, which as you state aren't used up in granting things motion, unlike Stormlight or allomancy. Also, anything relating to pulling power directly from a Shard - The Dor being a prime example - has no real method of quantification.
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    Taldain has a living Shard and therefore a Shardpool, so it should only be a matter of finding the perpendicularity and setting up a viable trade route from wherever the sand is being "mined" (I assume one of the deep sand regions would be the best for this purpose) to wherever it is. Then set up an outpost of sorts within walking distance from Taldain's shore in the Cognitive Realm. And for the third impossible task, the last leg of the trade route needs to run over the Cognitive Realm of Taldain's Dayside, from perpendicularity to outpost. However, it does have the saving grace of not being as difficult as Sel.
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    I like the way you think, sir. Upvote for you!
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    When you put it that way it sounds so easy. However, what about, say, Breaths? Or Dor power?
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    There's no guarantee that any discrete measure of Investiture will be equivalent to 1 joule. (Which you'll need to find if you want to have a proper conversion between Joules and whatever we're calling units of Investiture) For all we know, we could be trying to get a single cup of water with a 3-cup measure and a 5-cup measure. And we can only tell how much water's in each measure by echolocation. With that said, however, the easiest way to populate such a scale as I describe would be to push on a standardized metalmind in increments of Joules. Which gets the units right, at least.
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    Scadrian Metals are not invested in and of themselves. However, they are the plug on the end of the connection which plugs into Preservation's essence. Picture, if you will, a Rosharan sphere that started infused, and that never went dun, but when a Radiant went to pull the Investiture out, the sphere was consumed in the process. Allomantic metals are a more limited version of that.
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    I imagine that Shai, were she to hear that explanation, would be nodding along with Wax in a "that makes sense, yeah" manner.
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    And once you have the measure of interference from the chip, you can compare that to feruchemic interference, which gets you a basic scale of how much investiture is in a clearchip. The only issues with the setup are 1) you need the scale of how much feruchemic investiture messes with allomancy first, and 2) there might be some loss if your Radiant guinea pig doesn't immediately transfer the Stormlight over.
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    Not really. Find a Squire Radiant who doesn't have any 'Light in him at the moment, hand him an unkeyed empty nicromind and an infused clearchip, and ask him (in the interest of science) to breathe in the 'Light from the chip and place it in the metalmind. At which point you take it to a handy-dandy Coinshot or Lurcher and ask them to push (or pull) on the filled nicromind with a specific amount of force for a specific amount of time, and compare that to your control, which would be that same metric applied to another nicromind which is identical to the first save that it is completely empty and is thus a normal piece of nicrosil. Presto, a measure of how much an infused clearchip's Stormlight messes with Allomancy. And a similar system can be used with basically any system where Investiture is floating around - wouldn't work for, say, Sand Mastery, as seen in the first volume of White Sand anyway, but would work for both BioChroma and Stormlight.
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    Well, if nothing else, the name doesn't point directly toward Scadrial anymore. (I had a feeling when I posted the YouTube comment that the name overlap was entirely accidental, if only because the Aarik in the first episode didn't feel like the Aarik in White Sand.) However, Elsric has read the Words of Founding, and was present for the "incredible revelations" that came after the Catacendre. (Not the way I'd choose to describe it, but hey, I'm sure he has a proper rationale for calling it that). His correspondent is in contact with "our Friend" (I assume the capitalization is important, but I'm getting ahead of myself), and Elsric considers him close-lipped and unhelpful. My hypothesis is as follows: One, that Elsric's correspondent doesn't tell him anything cosmerically germane because all they know is in the Words of Founding, and Two, Elsric and his correspondent's "Friend" is a Shard, which I assume to be Harmony, from the rest of the circumstantial evidence. (Most salient is the fact that not only is "Friend" capitalized, so is the pronoun "Him", plus all the non-name related evidence from the first letter.)
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    WoB says the branch is Yolish - from Yolen. In addition, Patji's Fingers are too large to be reduced down to "curio on a mantelpiece" size (a full blossom was lashed to a harpoon, remember). It's one of the Tears of Edgli. And a crystal soul stamp is specifically described as "difficult to carve" by Shai, implying that carving a stamp out of, say, quartz would be as difficult as it is IRL. (unfired soulstone is an exception, although I thought that was naturally grey, with red flecks showing up after firing) Agreed that the lock of hair is presumably a sample of the Royal Locks, and that the silver knife is Threnodian. (I have no idea about the hairpins, though. Neither Mraize nor Iyatil seem the type to trail after protagonists and swipe trophies from them, or at least they'd have higher ambitions than "Vin's hairpins.") Much more likely that these are samples of magical materials, as in materials that on their home planet are naturally Invested.
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    What's this about lichen, and where was it in the pages of White Sand vol. 1?
  15. Landis963
    For the confused: Yata meant to type "Arsteel", and what he did type was autocorrected to "Allomantic steel."
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    Normally it works like "I save your life, then you save my life, and we're even." But Kelsier gonna Kelsier. RE: Dox: Specifically, his last thoughts were: "You know, Kell, I almost started to believe that they were right, that you were watching over us. That you were some sort of god." Then "he sent a final curse Kelsier's way" before getting smacked with the koloss' sword.
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    Yeeah, this is why I'm shelling out for the physical copy.
  18. Landis963
    Ken Watanabe is definitely Gaotona. Daniel Wu... Ashravan, perhaps? Priyanka Chopra seems too sultry to be Shai, but also too young to be Frava. I don't know her career so I couldn't tell you whether or not she'd pull off either role. Amr Waked seems like, with a bit of makeup, the Bloodsealer and Iko Uwais is Striker Zu to a tee. The next series cast is an anthology of Brandon's otherwise disconnected short stories, Cosmere or otherwise. (Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell, Sixth of the Dusk, Perfect State, etc.) You have: Liam Neeson Edward Norton Walter Koenig Diana Rigg Keira Knightley
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    If anyone is still present and willing to ask, would you please put forward this question:
  20. Landis963
    Well, Endowment shows them a picture of the bad future, and then offers the chance to Return and change it. There's a bit of manipulation going on here that seems to be flying under the radar.
  21. Landis963
    Allomancy and Surgebinding are both end-positive, however: Investiture is from an external source (Preservation and Stormlight, respectively) and gives the practitioner power. Any "loss" of Investiture in that manner returns to the source, as you said. Hemalurgy, however, is end-negative: Investiture is taken directly from one person's soul, and bestowed on another's. The victim's soul is in no shape to re-absorb the Investiture deficit in the case of a loss. EDIT: It appears that I have inadvertently hidden the only copy of my original post. (Thought it was a double) If any passing mods want to unhide that for the benefit of the thread, I'd greatly appreciate it.
  22. Landis963
    In a lot of other places I've seen Play-by-post RPs, there's been an "Out-of-character" thread where players can roll dice for checks, or resolve OoC disputes, or defend their characters from accusations of Mary-Sue-ness, or what have you. Is there anything like that for the Reckoners RPs?
  23. Landis963
    In the case of Spook, it's the strong Connection to Kelsier as he was in life (ace thieving crew leader), and as he is now in death (Vessel of a god's power). More on the former than the latter, judging from the text.
  24. Landis963
    To a suitably paranoid reader, any competently constructed twist is predictable. I will admit that the Melhi=Sophie twist becomes rather glaring in that regard, esp. on a re-read. However, from Kai's perspective, there's no reason to think that the robot sent by his enemy to seduce him and then suicide when he became attached was telling the truth about anything, especially since there's no way to actually check up on Sophie's story.
  25. Landis963
    We have seen, in the past, that in-universe religions reflect some facet of local Realmatics, e.g. The Malwish belief in "Herr" and "Frue," or the Survivorist belief that their savior had somehow survived death. We have also heard from Preservation (and seen on numerous occasions) that how people think affects and alters the Cognitive Realm. In that vein, then, could a suitably popular religion change the nature of the local Cognitive Realm and/or any Shards that happen to be present?
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