SkyBolt

thanks, that was i was confused about

How could Marasi tap the Bands of Mourning. She didn't have the power to tap investiture

At some point in the books, it says that allomantic snapping can be caused by intense emotion, but it doesn't need to be a bad one, like someone could snap from joy. Why not get emotional allomancers to snap people, easily and painlessly.

could someone then rapidfire turn off and on gold to see a variety of images?

pretty self-explanatory

Keep in mind this is a hypothetical situation, so please ignore the human rights abuse. Right, so it'e been established that for stamps to take, likelihood of the desired result happening in the first place is key. So, here is my idea for overcoming the limit of hemalurgic spikes you can safely apply to yourself, without a god taking over (kind of.) Get a real big wheel and a harpoon gun. Strap sixteen mistings or ferrings or whatever to the wheel, then get it spinning. then load a bunch or hemalurgic spikes into the harpoon gun, go stand behind the wheel, then fire the spikes at yourself, through the wheel. Hopefully a spike will pass through it's compatible misting and into you, giving you the corresponding power. Now, if you want a different power, apply an essence mark to yourself, re-writing your history so that a different spike hit you. Ta-Da! New power, and all you have to carry around are soul stamps. Do you think it's posible

oh thank you, that helps

Depends on how much steel the allomancer has in them, duralumin burns all the available metal, so the more you have, the stronger.

what else do i need to say?

As you probably know, Feruchemical Nicrosil can be used to store Investiture. However, like other Feruchemical attributes, it doesn't make sense to store a fraction of Investiture. Lets use Allomantic Steel as an example. If The Lord Ruler (using him as he has full access to both power sets) were to store 50% of his Allomantic Steel power in a Nicrosilmind, would his steel pushes be half as powerful as he is filling the Mind? Alternatively, perhaps Nicrosilminds are filled all or nothing. Maybe, the TLR fills the Nicrosilmind instantly, and when he stops, he is completely devoid of the ability to burn steel Allomantically. Then, someone else could come tap that same Nicrosilmind (assuming it had no Identity) and immediately gain full access to Allomantic Steel forever, even when they were to take the Mind off. In this scenario, Nicrosilminds would work like a gift, giving an ability to someone, until they can give it back. Does anyone know how it works, I would like to know, just so it will be easier to comprehend things in The Lost Metal, which I assume will be full of complicated Identity and Investiture storing. So confusing, please explain?