NerdyAarakocra

What the allomantic grenades do in Era 2. Basically, I think that those grenades are (unkeyed?) Ettmetalminds.

"All my homies commit astrology" - Me

I initiate the Wallfacer Plan. Meanwhile, I steal the Sandwich from whoever currently has it.

Six, even.

Alright, it's godmetal time. We know(?) that godmetals have the basic three metallic arts properties. This is how they're presented in the Ars Arcani. Therefore, Harmonium should have an allomantic, feruchemic, and hemalurgic property. The allomantic and hemalurgic properties are mostly irrelevant, however, due to Harmonium's high reactivity. However, Harmonium should still work for feruchemy. We know(?) that Godmetals can be used allomantically by anyone (see: Atium-electrum WoB), even if they're not an allomancer. Therefore, we have some reason to suspect that they could be globally used feruchemically as well. This is a stretch, I know - but about Harmonium specifically, this has a bit more grounding. The HoA epigraphs note that feruchemy comes from balance between Ruin and Preservation, and Harmony represents that balance. It'd be strange if Harmonium didn't do something Feruchemy-related. Therefore, I posit the theory that a) Harmonium has a globally accessible feruchemical property and b) this property is to store Allomantic charges. This would explain how Malwish technology works. Incidental support for this theory has been outlined, and it fits well within the framework presented by the book. If this were correct, it would also imply that other godmetals have feruchemical properties. Tell me why I'm wrong in the comments below!

*sighs but only a little bit*

*Tien

Sigh Warning: Rant incoming. To avoid clogging up the thread, the post has been spoilered. --- --- Done? Done. Great.

Huh, that might actually work - if he had time to plan. As it stood, I doubt he had nearly enough gold to compound enough. Three Harmonium explosions really take it out of you.

The rudder of a ship isn't exposed, and would be too difficult to access. Additionally, since we know that the ship's steering was rigged to the deadman's switch (which merely entails running a wire to a sensor on the helm (which we see) and on the rudder). Changing the steering was not an option. Nope, the harmonium will split. The issue here is that if you don't defuse the bombs themselves, they detect the wire being cut due to not relieving the pulse, and then they go off. Even if you cut all three wires inside the bubble before a single bomb detonates, the bombs will still notice not receiving their pulses. Mind sharing? Remember, the ship is functionally under lockdown. Tamper with any part of it, the bomb goes off. Tamper with a barrel, the other two go off. Even if you somehow slowed down the ship enough that it didn't reach Elendel (which you couldn't, at least not to a degree large enough to matter - heavy objects like the ship carry a lot of momentum), the bomb is still on a timer (as implied by the fact that the harmonium had already been removed from the oil bath to be heated when Wayne reached the bomb). This is the best strategy you've though of, but the Duralinium required would cause the bubble to last a very brief period of time, and Wayne didn't have enough Cadmium to make it work anyway. Remember how much Bendalloy he needed for what he did? The vials only contained small amounts of all sixteen metals. I don't want to touch on this one too heavily, because I don't think it's necessary to explain what's going on, but your response is a textbook slippery slope fallacy. You take "He has to mix Ruin and Preservation, due to the conflicting powers" and make it "He can't do jack squat." Check your sources. It states explicitly in the book that tampering with the steering triggers the bomb. There is every reason to assume that they hooked up the deadman's switch to other critical systems, and the ship being "rushed" means that they still had several days, possibly over a week. If that's enough time to retrofit the steering, it's enough time to add detectors to every critical system. Okay, so your plan is "Wayne leaves the ship using a Duralinium-fueled Steelpush, somehow manages to aim accurately, gets a bunch of pulser grenades (or a pulser) from Elendel, returns to the ship using a fresh restock of Duralinium and Steel, does the exact same thing that he did anyway but from a slightly further range, without Duralinium (which was necessary in the first place), somehow doesn't die from the explosion, and gets pulled away by a rope, all in under twenty minutes." I would offer the thought that this plan has several notable flaws.

And this is ignoring the fact that the entire ship was rigged up with a deadman's switch: changing the direction of the ship would trigger the bomb, and it's likely that any sort of tampering with the engines (which would be too little too late; see above) would almost certainly be detected.

I skulk over to ChipsAHoid and slide the sandwich away from the sum of the situation.

... But we've had glimpses into far-future cosmere and Scadrial is ahead of Roshar (TSM, Emberdark previews). Certainly they haven't been subjugated.

I'm not so sure about this for a wide variety of reasons. While I agree with you on the symbolism being a little off on Taln never breaking, I doubt that he could have had his hands on a Dawnshard - there's simply no way to explain him having it. Since Honor gave power to the Heralds, any weapon Taln used would have to be given by Honor. Honor would not have access to the Dawnshards, and unrestricted surgebinding would be more than enough to scar someone's soul. That said, this doesn't preclude magical goofiness with Taln's spiritweb being the root cause of his willpower - unrestricted surgebinding would be more than enough to cause that. However, I don't feel that from a story standpoint cheapening Taln's achievements retroactively would be a particularly strong plot point. I do, however, suspect that in the back half of SA he'll fail/break somehow, so that he can be imperfect like the rest of the heralds.

I smash the television over your head and take the sandwich while you're stunned.

I question your constant use of fail RP, and continue to reap the rewards of my bad Wikipedia editing practices (in this case, the sandwich).

Hey, it's June 6th! I can now liken this to the ending of WaT, where

I append this with a [Citation Needed] tag, and while you're searching for the page where this was decided, I steal the sandwich and flee to the Spiritual Real.

I steal the sandwich with an extendo grip made out of Aluminum.

I walk to a restaurant with the purpose of claiming the lunch reservation alluded to previously.

I walk around the Beyond and wind up in the CR. I then deep fry an artichoke, correctly this time.

I trim the leaves, remove the choke, and deep-fry the artichoke, in accordance with a traditional Italian recipe.

Thank you!

I parry with my plasma fish.