Invocation

Yeah, you're pretty right. That might be the only non-homebrew system I'd consider for something like this. (I'm a fan of making homebrew systems for flexibility, and they generally end up somewhat of a mashup of multiple official versions)

Have you read Emperor's Soul yet?

That's fair. I tried to do a Mistborn one too, but the same issue came up. No one knew about it.

I don't trust it anyway. Too much of a threat of cross-contamination.

Era 2 doesn't do it so much because they don't see the use in it, since if they do the right combo, they can out-maneuver someone without directly overpowering them. It does stack the Allomantic affects, though, and that would be useful for certain things like extra-efficient compounding with some combination of the same Allomantic and Feruchemical sets of spikes. Two of one, one of the other would help some, probably two Allomancy, one Feruchemy. Unless you were just making yourself a compounder from where you already had the Feruchemy which would be interesting with a 3x multiplier on that. Bindpoints wouldn't really be an issue, since there's a ton of them. Didn't someone say there was something like 300 bindpoints across a body?

Not officially, or I'd have offered a certified cookie. I'm just passionate about cookies being prime quality with no soul-damaging effects.

Don't listen to Ene. Don't eat the cookies. It's not worth it. In the words of the space-fairing lobster: IT'S A TRAP

I tried to do a cosmere DnD thing, but none of my friends irl know cosmere so it didn't go anywhere.

Hoid is already too powerful, and pretty much has been for as long as we've seen him. Mr Sandman has limited Hoid some, though. He can't cause harm directly, and even thinking about it messes with him. Did I miss something? When was that said, because that's a juicy tidbit, and make Hoid as a protagonist the bookends for the entirety of the cosmere, with Dragonsteel and Era 4 both having him as protagonist.

I'd probably set up multiple teams composed of one Windrunner, one Stoneward, one Edgedancer, and one Lightweaver. Ideal combination, even if you remove the Lightweaver, who is mostly there for the extended missions that need Soulcasting. Windrunner for group transportation, Stoneward for fortification and emergency escape stuff, Edgedancer for medical. That seems to be one of the ideal combat groupings, get the Windrunner to drop himself and the Stoneward in the middle of the battle behind/in the middle of enemy lines (if they have both Blade and Plate), and then they can fight back-to-back and crush whoever and whatever they're fighting, carving their way through the poor defenseless cretins without magic glow powers with Shardweapons and the very stone under their feet turning into an enemy from the Stoneward. If the trip was long and they have a Lightweaver there, the Lightweaver could help with the people who aren't wounded enough to need the Edgedancer's Regrowth with heliodor and garnet Soulcasting. Absolutely ideal situation there. Though if you're looking for exploration or parley groupings, Willshapers and Elsecallers together would work well, maybe with an emergency Windrunner, too, for evac where they can't transition or flying back up to Urithiru.

What is Aimia's hidden thing is literally just Tanavast's body? Cultivation didn't want Odium to disrespect Tanavast's body and so set a watch over it, perhaps, secluding it in Aimia, preserving it, even, in case someone could meld Tanavast's Cognitive Shadow back to his body if things go a certain way. Any merit there?

No. It has to be the specific bindpoint to do exactly what you want., otherwise it's just like shooting them any other way. I'll be the bullet has to stay inside the person to make a spike, too, at least for long enough for the person to realize they've been shot.

Now here's the question: does Voidlight do the same? Because wouldn't it be interesting if that's where Ba-Ado-Mishram and the gem that it was shoved in was buried there?

Yeah, but I'm talking a full backup of who Kelsier is. That is an entire backup for him in case he has to go back to being a disembodied Shadow for a while, so that he could tap it once he got a body again. He's made it to where he can always find himself again.

I have a theory as to what that aluminummind could be for: it's Kell's backup.

You'd think so, but this is Hoid we're talking about. Universal constants don't apply to him.

Did she end up in the caverns below Urithiru or just mystically magic herself out of the entire area somehow?

I don't know if that would even affect him, nor where you would have to spike him to get it to do what you want. He's not technically human anymore, per WOB, so he probably has different bindpoints.

It's unusually warm for its elevation, but that's still pretty cold, and there's some oddities with the atmospheric pressure as well, caused by the whole "Urithiru is a massive conjoined fabrial" thing and that fabrial not being at 100% capacity in the absence of the Sibling.

Well, TenSoon said he needed a large hog to acquire enough flesh to become a horse of appropriate size, albeit TenSoon was less massive than normal due to near-starvation and atrophy, but that's still an extreme amount of flesh to need to become a horse. Now the issue with determining the same for a dragon is that we don't fully know what dragons are like in the cosmere, other than they have extreme lifespans. Presumably they are large, but that's still only a raw baseline. How large is large? We don't know. How dense is the draconic flesh? We don't know. Would the kandra be able to replicate the presumed wings of the dragon? We don't know. It would have to be a lot of flesh, like a couple elephant's worth at a minimum, but there's nothing exact until we know what the deal actually is with the dragons.

I think the only way we'd actually be able to do something like full automation of all vehicles with actual trust in them is to make it to where everyone has one and there are no non-self driving cars left. That way they all actually can communicate with each other without the potential for an "off-grid" human driver to come through and throw everything into disarray. That's mega-impractical, though, to the point of it not being even slightly feasible at the moment. Air Taxi would be pretty cool, which is half the fun of the fact that Uber helped fund Tesla making the flying car.

Yeah but this one does that. It's a Tesla, so it has the most advanced auto-pilot they have at the moment (which isn't as good as completely self-driving, but we're getting there)

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https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1083095876392964096 The dude is crazy. A flying car? Insane! I love it! His new rocket looks like it was covered in tin foil? I don't care, that's an amazing retro-space age aesthetic! This is now an official Elon Musk appreciation thread.

Here's an analogy, if it helps for anyone trying to understand @Calderis's thing about the Intents: You take a mixture. Put it in a bowl. Then you put a semi-permeable membrane over it, allowing only certain things to filter through and appear out of the other side. The mixture in the bucket is the Shard's power, the membrane is the Vessel. Not every Vessel has the same filtration pattern, so different things seep through the membrane that is their mind and their version of the Shard's intent, and those differences radiate into different manifestations of just about everything, given enough time.