Phantom Monstrosity

Ah, here's the pair of quotes I was digging for. Also these (from same thread): Took me longer than normal because I misremembered the quote as being 'allomancy is the most portable', and not 'scandrial's magics are easiest'

Ha, I'll have you know that I spiked quotations from three now-former members of this forum. You can't get rid of it THAT easily.

It's a 'maybe'. Thread away if you like.

Yeah he can get them.

Yeah, but combat lurkers are insane.

Certainly possible. Intelligence is something that can be demonstrated in the absense of any other humans whatsoever.

If you haven't looked up the Rosslyn Motet, it's a pretty funny conspiracy theory involving these patterns. Anyway... is it possible that the cryptic headlines are the same as these patterns?

Yes.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Actually, it's entirely possible to get something to turn when it enters a medium that it travels at a different speed in. But yeah, that's sorta irrelevant since things are either 'all in' or 'all out'. But what time is it? That's right, quotetime! Bubbles are almost certainly involved in FTL travel, and the weird border interactions are probably part of that. The redshift thing is a total handwave though. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if allomantic ftl ended up being like bunny hopping in quake. You know, exploiting glitchy physics to get absurd and strange accelerations to zoom around places.

Yeah but as you can no doubt tell, I like to be thorough when looking stuff up.

It's actually the Commands.

I've edited it into my earlier post, along with a couple others I found that were related to the subject.

Well, I managed to trawl up a quote on exactly which metals preservation replaced. Anyway, are we going to get a sticky thread at some point?

Mirror version or clone version? Clone version you just pass on your right Nah, the air currents in my room should be enough to randomize it.

Well, the number includes an alloyance for side stories.

The optimal strategy depends entirely upon who the 'thousand people' are. If all of them but me are just some random jerks off the street? No reason not to pick lerasium misting / full feruchemist; lerasium was never named in the books, the metal isn't explicitly listed in the problem that's being given to the people, and it's pretty unlikely anyone would guess at it. On the other hand, if I'm going against 999 clones of myself with equal knowledge and no communication? The optimal strategy is to make a grid of all the potentially useful alloys I can think of, and pick randomly (ie: eliminate gnats, and reroll if that gets hit). Any attempt to weight the probabilities, and deviate from a pure random strategy, would be followed by my clones as well, and result in a worse outcome for me. I can't fake-out my clones, since when they're in my shoes they'll do exactly what I will do.

Interesting. Brandon's stated before that the god metals each have an additional use beyond feruchemy/allomancy/hemalurgy.

The perfectly rational strategy for a situation with no communication and equal information for all parties is to roll the dice and choose randomly.

I don't think Brandon would use the term 'bind' nontransitively.

I don't see how romantic involvement is the same thing as a DBZ fusion dance.

Well, the thing is, he's going to be pulling at an angle, so if they're initially sperated by three stories and it's deflected by a foot, about 97% of Pull's... Pull is going to be in the vertical drection, making the bullet fall faster. Dude needs to be pretty swole to get it to work, and be very good at knowing when a bullet is aimed at his head, and when a bullet is aimed a foot above his head.

This theory has just one problem... Szeth isn't bound to a spren. And he's kinda bound to a shardblade, so I don't think it's likely that shardblades are spren either.

I'll definitely concede that for arrows. Drag'll obviously be a lot less of an issue with bullets. Ideally you'd want to tumble it and create as much drag as possible, but I'm not really sure there's enough flighttime to create more slowdown from drag than the speedup you're giving it from your Pull. Anyway, since we're discussing this sort of thing, here's the first description we have from AoL. And here's the only section of the fight scene with the lurcher that matters, since he gets chumped by aluminum soon after: Note: Wax is above Pull, here. Pull is inverse-rapelling up the skyscraper. The reference to bullets ricocheting towards the lurcher's face indicates that they can't just instantly deflect bullets, since otherwise the bullets would be just kinda stuck on. And then Wax's steelbubble and bullet-pushing tricks. Steel, not iron, but the metals are basically perfect opposites. Apparently there's a noticeable difference between normal bullets and pushed bullets, and you'd think that adding more penetration power to a bullet coming for you would be a bad thing. I'm guessing that iron bubbles are more effective at this sort of thing than steelbubbles (just like how slowtime bubbles are bigger than fasttime), since otherwise you wouldn't be able to precisely direct towards your armor. Could also just be one of those intuitive allomancy things where lurchers' ironbubbles just don't pull bullets that won't hit them anyway.