Copperkeep

I find it interesting to note that Allomantic steel and Feruchemical bendalloy can make a Crasher-lite, though the benefit to your allomancy isn't nearly as strong and it sounds much more potentially uncomfortable to use it at extremes of storing and tapping. It would be interesting if Feruchemical cadmium really did store up physical air instead of just "Breath." You could overtap and blow out a constant stream of air, while anchored to something yourself, to get some wind in the sails of the ship, too. Alas, I'm pretty sure that's not what it does. Feruchemical cadmium/Allomantic iron is fascinating, though. Could Feruchemical cadmium help you adjust to different physical pressures better? Does it depend on how liberally you interpret "breath"? Allomantic bendalloy/Feruchemical steel is just fun, of course. I wonder how the speeds and productivity they can achieve compares to Steel Compounders. For one thing, they can probably interact with physical objects on a smaller scale more easily than someone compounding steel to achieve the same level of speed. Allomantic bendalloy bothers me from an economical standpoint. When you burn it to do more work in a shorter time- well, it doesn't make much sense for you to be paid by the hour, does it, and what employer would be willing to pay you based on "subjective" hours? I just get the impression that there's going to be an emotional/social pressure that makes it very difficult to capitalize on your ability to get more hours of work out of a day. ...is it strange that my first thought with Bendalloy's potential is to get excited about the idea of being able to work longer hours on a regular basis, aging myself in the process, and figuring out a way to get paid for the subjective hours? Even in a narrow, workplace context, the benefits of speeding up time can do better than that- providing perfect service in a restaurant by having a complex dish that takes time to cook prepared seconds after the customer finishes ordering, getting several hours of work done for school and still having time for rest and recreation and- hey. This is really unorthodox, but could you train your body to burn bendalloy instinctively while you sleep, the same way your body will do that with pewter? It sounds like an awful idea to try (is bendalloy toxic?) but if you can, then... but then, of course, we probably already have people with Slider friends making arrangements to use their time bubble to let them get a full-night's sleep in the middle of the work day at the same time the slider is using that time to do work of their own at an accelerated pace. !!! Bingo, there's a business model. I guess the idea of charging others to join you in your time bubble is a little obvious, though. There's so much potential with both of the new temporal metals, though. If Pulsers really can find a way to anchor their bubbles to the frames of ships and trains (so far WoB sounds like it's possible, but very finicky at best), they can dilate time to let those on long rides speed it up a little. Or they can help with food storage on long journeys, or even just working in place at a storage facility. And how many people would love to rent out a room with a Pulser and a Nicroburst and just skip forward a few weeks, months, or years? Another idea for Sliders would be helping to get crops to grow a little faster, though that's probably hideously inefficient for its output, and I doubt the coverage of a Slider bubble combined with the dilation effect would let you get your money's worth out of having multiple Sliders double up on the effect or working in shifts to boost your crops' growth. And it would probably do screwy things to the plants' natural cycles in relation to the days and seasons anyway. (On a tangent of a tangent, I'm all but convinced that the Atium-Cadmium alloy or the Atium-Bendalloy alloy will create a bubble of rewinding time.) Back on topic, it's hard for me to choose between Feruchemical Copper and Feruchemical Zinc, boosted by Allomantic Bendalloy. I'd love to be an Analyst or a Flashwit.

This is exactly what I love about the idea of double iron twinborn: Have a friend fire off a round from a high-powered rifle, store as much of your weight as you can, and tether yourself to the projectile at just the right moment. The result: Bullet Sledding. I'm a little skeptical about whether or not it's mathematically possible (I'm not really equipped to do the math myself, I'm afraid), but I can't help but think it just feels right. Let's be charitable enough to assume that this is possible, and that the protection iron ferrings have against being crushed by their own weight extends to not suffering any more harm from a fall than they would normally. (Allowing for the fact that whatever they land on, if they were compounding weight, is likely not absorbing the same way it would if they were at their ordinary weight.) There are still any number of ways that the person who decides to do this on a regular basis is embracing their identity as a "Deader" and likely to seriously injure themselves very frequently at the very least, between the G-forces involved in bullet-sledding and the general harm they do to themselves when they're gliding high in the sky at reduced weight, then suddenly pull themselves in the direction of a little bit of metal worn by someone on the ground and start compounding weight once they're already on a collision course. Lord Ruler, now I'm imagining a full Feruchemist/Mistborn with Kelsier's level of control over Ironpulling and Steelpushing. Feruchemical iron to adjust their weight on the fly to manipulate motion even more precisely, compounded Zinc and/or Steel to go into full bullet-time with mental calculations, and you've got a lunatic demigod swimming through the air in a field of bullets flying every direction, casually twisting the trajectories of the ballistics around him, dancing with bullets and shrapnel in a no-man's-land. There's a lot of math on how much weight you can store at once and how much effect a bullet's momentum has on the force involved in manipulating it with iron and steel allomancy, none of which I could begin to do and which I confess feels a little suspect, but... if you could get away with fudging it just enough to allow this, wouldn't you? It helps that, from what I remember, Wax can't usually completely reflect a bullet back the direction it came, can he? So the force of their motion is enough that even with Wax tapping weight to boost the strength of his steel bubble, the bullets are sliding off course instead of arcing backward? Or am I misremembering?

I'm not sure where, but I thought we had confirmation that storing too much weight for too long would make you sick? I'm still generally confused because I've heard it said that it kind of is and kind of isn't storing gravitational pull, kind of is and kind of isn't storing mass, and kind of does and kind of doesn't affect your body's density.

The way the original quote reads to me sounds like it might not be Duralumin specifically but any of the feruchemical metals of connection. At least, it's been my understanding that: Aluminum stores your spiritual connection to yourself. (Identity) Duralumin stores your spiritual connection to others. (Which is just described as "connection to others," which I believe might be a source of confusion.) Chromium stores your spiritual connection to the world around you. (Luck) Nicrosil stores your spiritual connection to the divine. (Investiture) The way things are worded makes me think any or all of these metals might be helpful for doing whatever kind of screwy tricks you need to do to get an easier time with other magic systems, possibly in different combinations for different purposes.

I honestly don't find much value in dishonesty in any of these situations. I do understand how someone can see lies in this case as kinder and I don't mean to disrespect the opinion, but I also very strongly disagree. In the third example, you're avoiding discussing something you don't want to talk about or that you don't think the other person wants to talk about, and lying in the second example runs the gamut from being a way to avoid confrontation to just being a manipulative jerk, depending on context, so it's hard for me to see why you think it would be essential. I wouldn't say either is always wrong, either, but it seems like a huge stretch to me to say that being able to lie in order to avoid social interaction is necessary to keep social interaction from falling apart. And when it comes to really examining things like those you can probably get into conflicting definitions of what constitutes a lie and whether or not you should expect someone to know what you really mean in a given context- and that can be an awful mess. (In the case of "I'm fine, and you?" you might be assuming that the person who asked the question doesn't have any expectation or desire for your answer to be meaningful, as generic expressions of care might be turned by common use into essentially just a greeting- which may raise confusion or communication barriers when someone asks it and really *does* care, or want an honest answer.) In the first case, on the other hand, I would say that lying to someone who's dying is hideously cruel- but I imagine people have a wide range of different feelings about that, and it's hard to judge that on anything but an emotional, gut reaction if a specific answer for it isn't something you can extrapolate from your moral philosophy. -- Back on topic, I'm fascinated by the idea of Copper Compounding, and really want it to somehow involve getting more information. I love the compounding stunts for Copper and Zinc from the MAG (Stitched Memories letting you store multiple accounts of an event and compound those stored memories to remember actually being there, to reach the truth of the issue, and Zinc's Lateral Link letting you expend massive amounts of compounded charges of mental speed to spark brief bursts of something similar to Tattletale's power from the Web Serial Worm), and while I don't assume those to be reflective of how it "really" works, getting extra information just seems like the only explanation that makes much sense to me. Ideas like multiple copies of the same memory or permanence make some sense on a basic level, but I just doubt that Copper compounding is anything that underwhelming, especially with the tone Sanderson used when mentioning it.