Swimmingly

Also, spulcasting Shallan's blood at the end of WoK.

I think that, perhaps, instead he would be Lashed in the direction that the original Lashing lashed him in. So you could store being-lashed-to-the-sky, giving you the ability to flip upside down for a limited time.

Sell. That results in a bit of a chicken-and-egg paradox. I'm thinking that Adonalsium is going to have been a Prime Mover in the Cosmere - a standard God-type thing. Until he wasn't, of course.

Sell. Electricity is enough of a thing that I can see their computers going at it. There's magic system in the Cosmere that requires pacifism.

Buy. Of course Hoid is much cooler. Computers will be a thing by the modern trilogy, and by the end of the SA, we'll see primitive fabrial-tech counting machines or computer precursors.

Depends on your definition of small. We have a lot of occasional posters and lurkers, but probably less than a hundred regular posters.

The best thing to do would be to throw a grenado with a lot of metal shrapnel in any room you're about to fight in, then use the lodged metal to manuver.

Unless, say, you were given a handy hemalurgic spikological alteration.

This is just an idea, though.

The streets surrounding the former skyscraper are empty, avoided by all but the foolhardy. Among a city of steel, one building is wrapped in ice, a crust weighing a million tons, a hundred feet thick in places. It soars out in harsh juts and lifts like a thousand teeth to the veiled sky. A low blue light illuminates it, rippling out; a beacon challenging visiting Epics to try their luck. Among its harsh edges and soft, even organic curves, a net of tunnels and chambers expands - a spider's web, or perhaps an ant's hive. They almost disregard the column of steel that was the original building, burying through it in places. Over time, the ice will superscede the steel in this place, until the ruler is defeated - or grows angry, transmuting it anew. Perched upon this precipice of the superhuman ego, a throne room thrusts above the cold metal blocks far below, wrapped in ice and a dead blue glow. It is the court of Elsa Steelheart, queen of this cold and unforgiving place. In her hand, she holds ice, but at her heart... Is steel. Cold, bitter steel.

I think the main difference in strength relates to how quickly you can store - a weak Ferring would only be able to fill a metalmind at such and such speed, while a strong one could fill it much faster.

He doesn't always Awaken things, but when he does, the Command is Fetch Drinks.

Note that it never says outright that there are no more feruchemists - just that you can have only one Allomantic and one Feruchemical power at a time.

He doesn't always Worldhop. But when he does, he visits every bar in the Cosmere

This concept is known as an author insert (least demeaning, but still meh), author avatar (a bit accusative), or Mary Sue (the character can do no wrong). All three are generally seen as marks of amateur writing, and break the fourth wall to an extent. However, all characters are ultimately based on the writer, some more closely than others. Hoid goes for the more whimsical and comedic situations, and is certainly knowlegable, but he's a character unto himself and, frankly, is a bit to damnation clever for his own good at times, as well as being impulsive and improvisational. He's by no means a biographical character, though we do joke about him.

Because we're all so used to Brandon defying genre conventions that, confronted with the idea of the lead woman and lead man getting together romantically, we laugh snobbishly while waving our champagne-soaked Cuban cigars. They don't even light properly.

Caring Door?

Wow, I just realised how powerful bendalloy and cadmium are when burned together. You can trap your enemies in a shell of slow time around you while being unaffected yourself. Even better, because it's a mechanical effect arising from the overlap of the bubbles, two Mistings standing next to eachother have the same effect. Wayne and Marasi, for example? With Wax in the mix, they could slow, detect, and repel any bullet, and make close-range attacks prohibitively dangerous for any attackers.

With Wit, he lost a battle of wits, and so, epithetically berift, he used with thrift his manly fists.

It seems to me that Allomancy is a thing that works very well with experimentation and science. The abilities seem almost like sci-fi style psychic abilities, with hard limits, clear cause and effect, plus the metal theme, which can be played off as anything from magical to alchemical to technological to anything in between. I'm guessing that the modern trilogy will read a lot like a alternate-earth scenario where the religions are different and psychic powers are part of every day life. A kind of blend of epic fantasy, police procedural, urban fantasy/modern supernatural, and even a touch of magic realism.

When he sneezes, a highstorm starts.

Brandon has said that there are Allomantic abilities we haven't been introduced to yet; presumably a pair of those creates something like a time bubble but acting on space. This seems like it could be part of the solution.

It's possible that it's just something that can happen when you stress the Surges oddly, breaking down barriers. I wouldn't be surprised if seeing into the cognitive occasionally is an effect of bonding with a Cognitive being that's used you as leverage to enter the Physical; when you pull yourself up, you push what you hold down. I think, as a consequence, all Surgebinders are a little in the Cognitive, and might glimpse it occasionally, even if they can't use it for anything useful.

They can tell the exact amount of browning a perfect waffle needs!

She's presumably been doing Firefight for several lifetimes now, and I bet it comes easily to her.