Silus - Shard of Flame

I find that very surprising. Our Dell broke down a while ago and we replaced it with an HP, and it works really great. It's got a terabyte of space on it, which my mom wanted to get my grandpa to not brag so much about the terabyte he has on his laptop.

My D&D group played an RPG called Gamma World instead of D&D tonight and it was really, really fun! It's a post apocalyptic theme with really fun, random kind of mechanics. It's related to the fourth edition of D&D using practically the same system (it's owned by the same guys), and works basically the same way, but has a much more spontaneous feel to it. Each encounter tends to be different. At the beginning of a fight, each character gets an Alpha and an Omega card, which gives them a unique element for that fight. The Alphas are mutations, random mutations because the world's all messed up and stuff, and the Omegas are tech, which can be a grenade or a nanobot patch or a Gravity Hammer, they all tend to be pretty fun to use. Some are just plain silly, like the porcupine quills that I sprouted with in one fight, or the long nose that counts as a stabbing weapon that one of the others got later. And instead of picking a race and a class, you roll for two Origins, which determine certain stats and your abilities. I rolled a Mind Breaker/Plant, and there was a Felinoid/Yeti. Generally fun, random stuff. Instead of item pickups at the end of an encounter you get Ancient Junk, basically stuff left over from the normal world. There were three horses in our group, plus a wagon and a pickup truck. I had duct tape, so we were pretty much set. XD The pickup didn't have doors on it, so we used a table saw we found with one of our generators and ripped the doors off of a building we found and slapped those on the truck. We decided we were going to turn the truck into a massive RV with everything made out of doors. Lots of silly fun, despite how we were heading towards a TPK in our last fight.

The way he answers the Surgebinding focus question makes me think that he looks at Focuses in a different way than we do. I'm not sure what to make of it. What does he mean exactly by "empathy for the metal"? And how would this relate to a full Feruchemist who can use all the metals?

I just read that too, but hadn't gotten the chance to post about it.

I would like to announce that a good friend of mine just finished The Way of Kings, thus completing the list of current Cosmere books! Tomorrow, we talk about many things. Also, The Big Bang Theory is really, really GOOD!

Reading this I was thinking, "Why would the Well refilling lead to more Snapping? What's the reason for it?" The thought just kind of jumped into my head. "So there would be more bronze Mistings to find it." What do you guys think? Does that make sense to you?

But the koloss control only works with a Nicrosil burst, and it's not clear whether Chromium and Nicrosil have been discovered yet.

I'm pretty sure Constable Peterus wasn't an Allomancer.

If you're cheating, you're killing people, which is most definitely frowned upon.

You have a long, awesome road ahead of you.

Hemalurgy is cheating.

I'm reading Well of Ascension right now, and just loving it again. Vin Soothing Straff is one of my favorite scenes.

That would make a lot of sense if Hoid was a normal Shardholder, which he's not if he even has a Shard at all (which I'm pretty sure he doesn't). The problem is that Shardholder's don't have human bodies, they just can't hold all that power, as evidenced by

It's possible, but I doubt it's that simple.

The thing is that no matter what, aluminum and duralumin will always be useless unless you're Mistborn.

I love color theory, I should take a class for it so I'll know what I'm talking about.

I saw it on April 1st, like a boss. I'm not very good at picking up on the jokes at first, it takes me a minute to make the connection, since I never really pay attention to the date. I saw the thread name from the Forum main page and thought, "Is that a Portal 2 reference?" Then I clicked into the board and saw the subline for the thread: "The title is a Portal 2 reference." Awesome. Good to see you here! I'm Silus, I post here and run an RP and stuff.

Not that we know of, anyway. And it would be even harder since it would probably take at least a few of each.

Unless Brandon is dong something exceedingly clever, Jak's totally making stuff up.

Feruchemists can't draw from other people's metalminds, so when you die, the only person who can use that metalmind dies.

Do the normal Koloss retain their vulnerability to emotional Allomancy? They were vulnerable before because they were Hemalurgic constructs, but now that they are their own species, how does that change?

No, the Returned themselves are not Splinters, rather, the Divine Breath that they possess is.