Chinkoln

"I will do my best to distract the beast while you attack," Chinkoln says, trying and failing to sound confident. "I may be annoying, but I will protect those in need. Fadran, it is your job to hit it with a big stick while I dodge. Otters aren't very offensive in direct confrontations, we generally wear it down and run away, or wear it down and then die because we failed."

“I’m sorry” Chinkoln said, finding the words that Fadran desperately wanted to say, but couldnt

"Great! I was worried I had made the wrong impression on you people. I am sure you will get used to me. I tend to grow on people, like a fungus."

"You might be, but are you OCD, dyslexic, ADHD, ADD, and TMS?" Chinkoln replied, as he lazily ambled over to the door. He opened it and walked out. He stepped into a puddle and let everyone gape in amazement as it formed into a slide that he rode in the direction that they were running. "You may proceed to worship me."

"If you want to have a wager then I bet a bowl of my best fish stew and Fadran's glass of water that I am OCD, dyslexic, ADHD, ADD, and TMS and you are not."

Chinkoln looks at Fadran with an incredulous expression "Do you know who invented insults? Because I don't and that really annoys me that I can't figure it out. But he started it, I was just finishing it.".

I sigh. "You seriously believe that I, an all-powerful time traveler that can make fish stew, would gamble? I literally have a quantum processor embedded in my skull, so even if I did gamble, I would always win... unless my opponent cheated."

Chinkoln looks around and whispers "Y'all need to act impressed, he thinks he is taking away the heat, but all that frost is just an illusion I made. I took away the heat from him so he feels good about himself, but the rest of you get to stay nice and toasty."

"That is my bad, I told you that I might have other powers, well it pretty cold in here and I don't like that, so I am heating it up to the point that it should feel like an otter giving you a hug."

"Great, BTW, I would go get some mouthwash, I was waiting in your glass for a while because I wanted a dramatic entrance."

"Well for starters, I'm an otter, so I can contort my body and be acrobatic. I can time travel, but I have my own rules so I won't be doing much of that for you. You may have noticed me come out of the glass of water that you were drinking from moments before. I can travel through water, but I have to follow the rules so I can't just go grab your friend and leave. My main talent is being an otter, so nobody hurts me. I was once in the middle of a fight and both sides stopped and just looked at me until I scratched off their faces and ran away with their wallets. Also, I can cook really good fish stew. Did I mention that I'm an otter? I might be able to do other things, but it would break your feeble mind if I told you everything."

"That is quite the predicament, if you want some advice, then how about this. Don't get caught, it will be bad for your health. Returning the memory of a friend sounds interesting. I don't have much experience in that area, but I will do my best to help, I have a very unique skill set."

"Finally, a response! That is what I am asking, yes."

"Hmm, nobody gave me a summary as I asked for, maybe I should try another language... Est-ce que tu parles français? Hablas español? Sprichst du Deutsch? An labhraíonn tú Gaeilge? Do you speak English, or must I try a few more languages?" (Just realized that this is my 100th post!)

All of a sudden, an otter jumped out of the nearest source of water, the glass that Fadran was holding. "Howdy y'all, whats going on? I'm to busy to look back in time at all of your past conversations and interactions."

I believe they invented the "backspace" key for that very reason.

Granted, it never gets published I wish for a pet otter (Don't you dare do anything to hurt an otter!)

Granted, each hour only has 42.352 minutes. I wish for infinite boons that retroactively work to remove all of my banes.

What is your opinion on COVID-19? If you keep quiet about it, I can show you... you know what...

Well, let’s look at our universe. We have thousands of astronomers, scientists, and space probes looking out into the stars for new planets, meteors, stars, and any other celestial body. We have been looking for hundreds of years, getting more and more advanced the entire time. We have military grade telescopes and we still find new planets EVERYDAY! Now let’s look at a new universe, we will call it the Cosmere. They have few astronomers and little technology. Only a few planets that we know of are inhabited. The inhabitants don’t care about the stars, they care about surviving a few more years because all of these planets have messed up societies. These people don’t know about many planets, especially not a specific one that could be anywhere in the entire Cosmere. The handful of people that MIGHT know where this one planet is, aren’t telling or giving hints. Now, on top of the uncaring people, the people who aren’t going to tell, and the prospect of finding not a needle in a haystack, a needle in a country piled high with hay, there is something else. This one, tiny little needle/planet can use magic that makes illusions. Also a dragon lives there. Does that answer your question?

For Hoid, if something is partially functional then, he can make it work. He has had a couple of thousand years to master using it.

I never knew this existed! Well, here I am.

I'm not sure, I hate graphic novels so I haven't read that (I am really sad to miss out on something written by Brandon, but I just can't stand graphic novels) but I thought I heard that somewhere. Isn't that what he was doing in OB when he was telling the story of the moon and the Natanan people when Shallan found him.

What I don’t get is why he needed to bond a cryptic. He already had Lightweaving from Yolen and Taldain, he already has access to more healing than we can imagine, so unless he wants to soulcast, being a Lightweaver is useless to him. If he did want to soulcast then it seems that Elsecaller would be better for him because then he can hop between realms more easily, something he has had trouble with in the past (see Mistborn: Secret History).

Well, aluminum is a special case in all forms of Investiture in the Cosmere, so of course it is exempt, but what else do you refer to?