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Also I have just noticed that Kobold is now a Prime, the same reputation level as Brandon. Are you prepared for the mass downvoting that is to come in your dedicated threads?

It is a most excellent profile picture. Like a sir.

Earl greyback has a pony!? Where!!!? The twins are native Portlanders.

Well at the end of their last post they were grabbed on the shoulder from behind, we were going to let whoever wanted to recruit them be that person, discovering them in their beer heist They're identical twins, blonde hair, blue eyes, quite short, 19 years old.

Yeah we'd better write their meeting first

Alrighty then, so is Backtrack going to crash our lunch in the shack Kobold?

Anyone know what the time is supposed to be in Oregon now? How much longer is there to the day?

We all do a bit of that

"And then Early Greyback joined in and started hitting Nighthound with a crowbar. Like a sir."

Isn't that how we've been ending all scenes? 'Then Funtimes and Nathan teleported to the museum, escaping Lucentia. Then they hit Nighthound over the head with a crowbar.'

Probability is not in favour of the coin being suspended between two allomancers no matter how it works, friction only provides a slightly greater leeway, not to mention the myriad of problems you'd get into trying to apply friction to a situation like this, the force is acting on the objects centre of gravity, a point, not on its whole surface, so where is the frictional force applied? What's the coefficient? If the friction is generated by the allomancers then why do they maintain ease of movement, they should be undergoing equal friction when Steelpushing.

No problem, would you like a cookie too? (Don't mind us, we're all just a little unstable from all the theorizing and spikes delicious baked goods)

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I refuse your reality and insert my own I choose to believe she's a phsychology grad student and all of Oregon has just been one massive psych experiment for her thesis.

Well, we don't know what Funtimes' doctorate is in...

Then may I just say, welcome to the dark alley.

It's all to do with vector forces, you need to split the forces on the coin into their component parts, each allomancer is pushing towards the coin, the line of force between the allomancer and the coin makes some angle relative to the ground, now as long as this angle is not 0 (eg. as long as the coin does not lie directly even with the allomancers but instead is slightly above or below their center of gravity) then these forces will have a vertical component in addition to the horizontal component, now assuming the allomancers are of similar strength, then their forces will be equal in magnitude and the horizontal components will be opposite in direction, the horizontal components will then cancel out, leaving only the vertical components to be considered. If the vertical component is downwards (The coin is below their centre of mass) then the coin will be pushed downwards by both the force of gravity and the allomancers, falling faster than normal. If the vertical component is upwards (The coin is above their centre of mass) then the coin will be pushed downwards by gravity but upwards by the allomancers, if this upwards component is equal and opposite to the force of gravity then the coin will be suspended.

But you explained it way better than I did Yeah what Kurk said is what I meant.

No applications are necessary to join the dark alley, just an unwavering dedication to our... art.

It requires no precision, it could happen by accident, the coin just needs to be the right height above them when they both push on it, the allomantic push force travels in a straight line, so two pushes like you suggest would be completely impossible. But if the coin were slightly above both allomancers the line between them and the coin would have a vertical component, add those two vertical components together and you get the total upwards force they generate, if that upwards force is equal to gravity then the coin will be suspended.

Yes they could, if they were both pushing towards each other and slightly upwards the combined upwards force from their pushes could counter gravity. Not sure what you mean here, slide off of what? The object would still have friction with the ground. It would still have friction with the ground, which is what is needed, my response would be that it's impossible to jump off of a coin that isn't on the ground, therefore the grounds friction must be what is preventing the coin from moving and so providing a stable anchor.

You would need to be able to convince something to turn into Plutonium though.

Lightwards: And don't even try to talk to me about Leprechauns.

Ok then I'll post in a bit with Refill and Zip picking up the momentum twins and SS and Chi wrapping up their fight then, I think that the shack is pretty much done with until the beardapalooza starts and PP can talk to the whackos again.

Oh, Twi I wanted to run something by you, with Penumbra effectively absent for the time being I've been thinking of what to do with the Epics he picked up, Soulswitch will probably follow him to the empire but Zip and Refill might not, so I've been thinking that they might just recruit all the minor Epics they can to try to overthrow all the factions and just let all Epics rule as they want instead of having a leader, might provide a nice source of regular attacks against the factions to deal with.