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Aradan Liese, Mistwarrens "I...have been told a place where I might find him, but I was told it was secret. I would greatly appreciate your help, but he told me this place in confidence. You mention that I shouldn't have trusted Thav, but he trusted me. I'm not going to betray that. On Scadrial, I battled with criminals and brigands. I know how wily and deceptive people can be." Aradan watched as Eza threw a knife into the air and then pulled it back into her hand. She's clearly mastered iron. "I'll be going now. I cannot tell you where his hideout is." He turned towards the door and opened it. @Lunamor

Good job! Plus, she still wants to talk to you, so I don't think it went as poorly as you're making it out to be.

This is the problem. We don't really have a great reference for how powerful TLR's allomancy actually was. We know he was vastly powerful, but shardplate is incredibly invested.

We got some stuff from Brandon on this (sorry for the WoB dump). Journey before destination (I wish my foreign language skills were that good). Btw, your English is excellent. If you hadn't said you were Spanish, I would've thought you were a native speaker (albeit a few errors).

Oh yeah, I misunderstood you. I was talking about something like a notebook at home. I agree that bringing it with you would probably be a bad idea.

Why not write down your passwords? Unless your house gets broken into, it's probably one of the more secure methods. While you will want multiple copies in case of fire, it is secure from most technology breaches.

Here's all the stuff for unpublished works/deleted scenes that the Shard is allowed to distribute.

Aradan Liese, Mistwarrens Aradan frowned. Why does she want to help me so much? "Very well." Aradan sighed. "Lead the way." Aradan held out his hand towards the door. If she knows where Thav's hideout is, I can probably trust her. I'll have to be vigilant though... @Lunamor @Steel Speedster

Necroing posts, which is usually considered a year, is not allowed.

Hah hah, these rules look really complicated. (mostly just the weights) I'll play as Randal Boar, a young, red headed man. Very tall with blue-gray eyes. Around twenty one.

Honestly, even just motors and engines would help a lot.

Aradan Liese, Mistwarrens "Luckily, I already know where I can find him. That is, if he wasn't captured and brought somewhere else. Don't feel as if you have to repay me further. You helped me escape as well, bringing me here. That was risky for you to do, you could have just run off." Aradan walked towards the door and grasped the handle. "If you need anything more, please speak now. I don't really have a reliable place for you to send a message." @Lunamor

How will you determine how a post is AI? Because, while it is obvious for many posts, there are many situations where it is impossible to determine origin. How stringent are the mods planning on being regarding this new rule. Also, will there be an appeal process different from regular staff decisions? Because this rule, depending on its enforcement, is likely to be subject to a staff member's best judgment, and not any sort of clear cut methodology.

What does this mean for HP canon?

There were a lot of "bad days"

The voice at the end—the one that announces "...Bonneville Distribution...All Rights Reserved..." (That sort of thing) still sounds wrong after the previous guy retired.

I mean yes, but Radiants are generally pretty easy to hide, especially considering that half the soulcasters are Lightweavers.

Ah, yes, I get it now. Besides the previous mention of the heart not being the bind point for all spikes, access to AonDor generally means you could easily defeat most uninvested entities. Consequently, the combat applications are mostly aimed at stronger opponents who can heal from regular attacks.

That's not true, bind points are important in both stealing and giving powers. The heart is a common bind point for theft, but it isn't always. I don't really understand how this connects to the rest of your post, if I'm misunderstanding, can you please clarify?

I know that he isn't writing it, but Brandon is almost certainly going to have to review the book and we've already been waiting for some time.

That's reasonable. I forgot that the Vessels were in the Spiritual Realm, and even if the Shard itself could normally access Fortune by itself, the Dor is in the CR anyways. Sand Mastery is a plausible way to do it, though I am worried that it's not precise enough to hit a specific nerve in the heart. Although, I don't currently have access to any canon version of White Sand so I can't verify that. Awakening is going to be very difficult to do this with. It's very hard to be precise—long, lengthy commands that are hard to visualize are extremely difficult. Awakening metal requires many breaths and the already invested metal may have difficulties getting a Hemalurgic charge. Yes, but I am more interested in other powers that would be significantly harder to do by trial and error. Stuff like Elantrian-ness, Connection, and other non Metallic Arts. It's true, incredible precision is necessary. But it is much easier to research where someone's heart is and tell the spike to go there than to have the surgical accuracy and dexterity to place a spike in the correct position during combat. You make a good point about different people being different sizes.

You could do that with a single soulcaster.

I was thinking, Hemalurgy is—theoretically—an incredibly powerful art. However, it is also very precise and variable, depending significantly on your target. In practice, placing the spikes is incredibly difficult, necessitating surgical accuracy. Knowing where to place the spikes is also extremely difficult to obtain information—particularly if you're trying to do more than steal the metallic arts. AonDor is also an incredibly precise and variable art, and I believe that they have synergy. Considering the validity of spike guns, I believe moving a spike with AonDor would hemalurgically charge it. Given the available precision to AonDor, a spike could be put through any nerve with perfect precision, only needing a basic knowledge of anatomy and AonDor—allowing for many more spikes to be produced. It could also open up the possibility of spikes being used in combat situations. If you can engrave Aons on an item to summon an steel spike and send it to a specific location in an enemy's body, this makes a hemalurgist much more dangerous. If you fight this hemalurgist, then they could potentially steal the powers of anyone attacking them. Of course, this would need to be done in advance, but, given my second idea that I'm about to present, you could easily set up plans to deprive any Radiant, Elantrian, or Metalborn of their powers by simply touching a combination of Aons. Powers don't even necessarily have to be stolen. If you, in a fight, can deprive your opponent of any of their strength, their senses, their intelligence, you could potentially defeat a much stronger foe—even one that can heal from a metal spike hurtling at their body. Of course, this plan would require an incredible amount of knowledge about bindpoints—something that is frequently ignored by many Sharders (mostly due to the inability to get much more information about them). However, I have a proposal that I believe may fix the issue. Given that AonDor can be conditional and Shards can access a wealth of information upon request, I believe that AonDor—the Dor being the body of two shards—can potentially give access to this information. For example, you could create an Aon equation that goes like this "if a steel spike in this position would steal Allomantic Iron, then summon a light for 5 seconds." You could use this to discover bindpoints for spikes without intensive testing—something that would often be wrong for highly invested individuals given the fact that many of the spiritwebs are unusual, shifting bindpoints. Given these points (pun not intended), I think it would be possible to use AonDor to vastly improve the efficiency and practical aspects of Hemalurgy. The actual theoretical power would be mostly unchanged, but it would allow an individual or group to reach this theoretically power much easier before Era 4 starts bringing us stuff like CAT scans for spiritwebs.

Aradan Liese, Mistwarrens "I...was investigating the group with a man called Thavel Tallin. I found him mugging and impersonating a man. He claimed to be chasing after this organization, and part of me believed him, part of me wanted to make sure he didn't mug anyone else. We infiltrated a meeting when he was recognized and a fight broke out." "I was captured, but I don't know if he was. I woke up in that complex and managed to escape when I heard you. I don't know who these people really are and I believe they wanted to use my powers for a spike." @Lunamor

It was locked for April Fools and stayed locked for quite some time after. #1 Taln Fan "won" for probably longer than anyone else has.