Eagle of the Forest Path

This story is funny, but maybe a bit disgusting too. So about a decade ago, my class (and the other classes in the year) went on a week-long school trip. We stayed in a youth hostel type place that felt like it was designed by M.C. Escher on one of his less inspired days. There as a big hall with some corridors leading off it, a staircase up to a balcony which had another staircase on it leading to some rooms. Now, some of the rooms had bathrooms and toilets attached, but some didn't, so the people staying in those had to go to the communal bathroom on the ground floor. Some of my friends were sleeping in one of the rooms upstairs from the balcony, which didn't have a bathroom. One of them must have had a very healthy digestive system, because he had already been down to the communal bathroom about a dozen times that evening. Him tromping up and down the stairs bothered one of the teachers so much that he threatened the guy would have to sleep in the bathroom if he came out of his room one more time. Did I mention the healthy digestive system yet? The guy must have eaten an ox at dinner, because he still had to poo. Knowing the teacher in question, he might have been serious with his threat, so my friend didn't dare leave his room again, even with his colon about to burst. There might not have been a toilet in his room, but he did have... ... a plastic bag. This might have been an amusing enough story by itself, but it's not finished yet. So, his business done, my friend was left with a bag of poo in his room. Even if he had been willing to weather it, his bunk-mates surely weren't, so they had to get rid of the bag somehow. Out of the room's window they had a view of the hostel's trash cans and they decided to throw the bag next to them. Ever try throwing a volleyball out of a window at night? Apparently a bag of poo is nothing like that. A gust of wind, a miscalculation of the trajectory, it doesn't really matter why, what matters is that instead of landing next to the bins, the excrement projectile made touchdown on the flat roof one floor down. By lucky happenstance, a window gave out onto that roof. By unlucky happenstance the window belonged to the teacher who'd been bothered by the bathroom trips. So when he looked out the window the next morning, he saw a plastic bag fluttering in the breeze... My friend didn't get punished for that, probably because the teacher couldn't catch his breath from laughing, but he did have to go out onto the roof to retrieve his... leavings. True story!

Sorry, but the correct answer was "fight club". so, building off that: club sandwich

cage fight

Sorry to be blunt, but that's just plain wrong. It's plainly stated in the books that Ruin and Preservation had to work together to create sentient life on Scadrial. Feruchemy inevitably came after that. I also don't see why you feel the need to "explain" the origins of Feruchemy beyond it being the system of balance between Preservation and Ruin.

You get a 1979 Clint Eastwood movie. *inserts a vehemently protesting Clint Eastwood*

The sixth sense?

Oy vey

(eeexcellent) Hoi polloi

Does "Infinite Sheldon" count?

Except that we have Brandon explicitly stating that there's a different reason magics are regionalized on Sel: "Dominion" is also a rank of angels in Christian lore, having to do with hierarchy... but whether that's relevant or not...

Academy dropout

Realmatically speaking, how do Shards predict the future?

I've actually been thinking about this for a couple months now, but I wanted a brush-up on my Physics before 'publishing'. At the moment I think the push-pull variance has to do with positive or negative Group Velocity of the wave. (look at the second graphic in the link, it's hypnotic ) But like I said, I need to brush up on Physics, at the moment I can't honestly say that one thing is represented/determined by the 'envelope' or wavelength or modulation or polarization or something else I don't remember or haven't even heard of yet. edit: It probably doesn't help that I originally learned physics in Dutch.

Here's another part of 'The Oracle' (I really have to think of a permanent title sometime) I've hit some writer's block at this point. I feel like I've written myself into a corner, so I'm going to try some other things for a while and then return to this project with a clearer head (hopefully). Until then, I hope you've enjoyed what I've written up to now. E.

Not to mention possibly shifting Scadrial out of orbit. Unlikely, I know, but it's already a repeat offender.

You get Twitter. *instantly inserts insanely inconsequential inanities* (incredible, innit?)

That's the one! edit: A classic, though I never understood the name of that movie, what does breakfast have to do with it?

One day I will watch My Little Pony to see what all the hype is about. That day will be the day after I suffer a traumatic brain injury. They're actual human people, Quiver. Yes, they are, but it's not the Power Rangers (or TMNT). Next hint: The disruptive elements (which are human people) use the time of their detainment to explore the boundaries and prejudices of their respective social groups.

Elements of society, so, yes, people.

Well, that's what happens when your description is on the back cover. Originally named for the Italian city of Florence. My question: A group of disruptive elements are detained by a representative of the establishment.

Traitor son cycle, by Miles Cameron.

The ones formerly above, now splattered on the ground?

Yup, one guy who acts under the name Sheen, but isn't really named that, and his four kids. Now if I give any more hints there won't be a question anymore.

But the Returned don't remember their former lives, so at the moment they return they don't properly view themselves as anything.

Which is where nicrochaining comes in. If amount X of steel normally gives a burn time of 30 minutes (CS), which can be condensed into let's say 10 seconds by a single nicroburst (NB-1) then if NB-1 is bursted by a second nicroburst (NB-2), his 10 seconds of burning nicrosil would be condensed into a fraction of a second, maintaining their power level, so CS would have his 30 minutes steelpushing condensed into a fraction of a second instead of 10 seconds, giving a proportional increase in power, logically speaking. If you gather a long enough nicrochain, with enough metal supplies, I think eventually someone's going to turn into a Sliver because of all the Preservation going through them in such a short time.