Vertigo

Guys, imma on Struggle Street. I’ve read Warbreaker and all the Stormlight up till Part 3, but I don’t understand how you know Azure is Vivenna! What have I missed?!

34 minutes ago, Pagerunner said:

Top of page 503 inBeneathnum Unbounded. Right after they t urn on the machine for the first time.

Found it! Great. Thanks.   

Is the story  in Arcanum Unbounded more complete than the one in Shadows Beneath?

Just finished reading Sixth of the Dusk, and I can't find where the not dead ambassador is mentioned. He/she seems important.

5 hours ago, Drake Marshall said:

That hoid dude who was Kelsier's informant is pretty underrated. He was just some random skaa that Kelsier paid for information, but still, for some reason I think we overlook him a lot and he might be important.

 

This comment is so dry that environmental scientists have it listed as a desert.

58 minutes ago, Jondesu said:

 

You gave it away to me, @Vertigo. It's gotta Shallan trying to soulcast the Stick, right?

jW

 

Ah, nice job. That sounds right. I wouldn't have guessed that, so props to you. 

Hmmm...tricky...Is the squiggle Pattern?

13 hours ago, TruthlessCal said:

It's a terrible drawing but it shouldn't be too hard to get! 

 

Ha! I thought it was Hoid/Wit sitting on his chair insulting people. 

I don't know the specific quote, but I think Shallan and Pattern discuss in WoR that spren don't really die, they just fade back into normal spren. So when someone who has bonded with a spren picks up a Shardblade, they are hearing the screams of the semi-sentient spren, lamenting that the human they had bonded with broke their oaths, just like Kaladin did.

I also believe Vasher's ability to transform his appearance was due to him being a Returned.

Is his name Josh Hartnett?. Just a hunch. Which I developed after looking at the poster. With a male name at the bottom.

Cool, thanks!

I'm looking to begin a game in Era 2, and have read the Alloy of Law supplement for the Mistborn Adventure Game. However, I've missed something important. What stat is used for firing guns? Not in duels, just in regular combat. I feel as if I've read it, but I can't seem to find it where it is. I remember something about the Narrator setting the Difficulty of the shot, or if the target is trying to avoid the shot, then they roll their Physique. But what do you use to shoot a gun?

I mean, they both sound possible, and they both seem to fit what we now of Shard Pools and World Hopping, but that's about it.

I'm curious. Where did you come up with these ideas? 

Sounds cool, but what's behind this theory, or is this just pure, unadulterated speculation?

Hmm, I agree. Bloodmakers would be ideal for testing medical theories on.

In the scene where MeLaan is healing Marasi, MeLaan uses her own matter to patch the hole in Marasi's intestine and side. When Wax learns what she is doing, he says something like, "Her body will reject it", before MeLaan explains she copied Marasi's DNA in order to avoid rejection. However, this raises the question:

How did Wax know about a body rejecting a foreign organ. Because that was only discovered when transplants first became a possibility, and I'm reasonably sure they're not up to that yet.

The only explanation I can think of is that he's previously tried to graft one of Wayne's finger onto someone else, knowing that Wayne could regrow it (that, or a similar operation).

Atium's effects are to some extent internal-temporal, so it wouldn't exactly be odd if it did have a similar pulse to gold.

I would have said atium was more external in its use and application. Still, an argument could be made in favour of it being internal. 

While reading this I thought of an interesting story concept.

Say in the far future of Scadrial kandra and humans coexist peacefully. There is a kandra-human couple, but the human needs an organ transplant and they can't find a donor. So the kandra sacrifices their life in order to become the organ that the human needs.

It's a bit of a strange story, but I think it has dramatic potential.

What do you guys think?

But would it be necessary for a sacrifice to take place? Couldn't the kandra just make the organ? However, I'm just repeating things that have already been said. 

I just had a thought from the part where people were talking about Wayne talking to his leg. If a bunch of kandra got together and cooperated, they might be able to get four kandra into one set of clothes. Doesn't seem like a benefit? What if the kandra you're fighting throws its arm at you, which turns into a blob and then eats you? I know kandra have a policy about eating living humans, but kandra become a lot more cool when you use them as foot soldiers.

Kind of like babushka dolls. They just keep coming.

And that's an interesting thought. Can kandra eat living humans? I guess they can, because I can't think of a reason why they couldn't. And even a Thug couldn't keep fighting when there's this slime dissolving his leg. 

Sorry to pull the conversation in a different direction...but has anyone ever seen the anime Parasyte?

 

That being said...I wonder if a kandra could actually form a kind of symbiosis with someone who was fatally injured in order to keep them alive for a while.

 

Like...Wayne is out of stored health and gets blown up in one of Wax's habitual explosions.  He's missing most of his left leg and arm, while also suffering internal bleeding.  So MeLaan decides to ditch a bunch of her mass and just become the worlds best prosthetic until Wayne can get medical attention.

For that a kandra would need to attach to nerves, muscles, ligaments, bone, and a host of other things. I'm not sure if that's possible. 

I'm just imagining Wayne talking to his 'leg', and everyone around him thinks he is crazy when he tells them, "My leg is actually a Faceless Immortal!"

In Era 3, is it possible that we will see kandra forming organs (using corspes as a guide, or something similar), and then those organs being surgically removed to be used on patients? Because that seems like a logical step in the application of the kandra's ability.

However, is it even possible for organs to be removed from a kandra? Does it stay in its form, or just dissolve into goop or nothingness.

Or, would there even need to be a surgical procedure to extract the organs? Could the kandra just detach it from within themselves, and bring it out of their bodies?

I've read through the MAG book, and I confused about charges for Allomancy. When someone decides to use one, and say it lasts for 20 minutes, is that time in the game world, or the real world?

Rashek was a Feruchemist, so maybe something along those lines? The terms that are unique to Feruchemistry are things like tap, or fill, or bracer. Not sure if you can do something with those.

Love the project, Squirrel. Really cool idea.

One last thing though. At that point in time was it known that 16 was the number/sign of Allomancy? I think the common Allomancers thought there was just ten metals, although the Lord Ruler knew of fourteen. Maybe he assumed there was more?

I thought I'd try read the Stormlight Archive, because from what I've seen there's a lot of titbits for Mistborn in there.

Hi! Welcome to the 17th Shard! What books have you read?

Just the Mistborn Era's 1 & 2. Loved them all, though.