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veekie posted:Well, we know Gold compounding gives you health for free, so I figure it would give you the Feruchemical attribute, available as an Allomantic metal. If it simply boosted the allomantic aspect of the metal you'd have basically the same effect as Duralumin after all. Oh right, I was thinking about a Copper Spike then. Whoops 
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Charlz Guybon posted:I've read lots of literature in college that was objectively good and intellectually stimulating but which I did not enjoy whatsoever. I can definitely understand people wanting to put good books and fun books on different scales.
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404GoonNotFound posted:Oh right, I was thinking about a Copper Spike then. Whoops Yeah, just wondering what the Compounds did, Iron would give you unlimited weight(handy when you can Pull as well, but you probably rather be a full Mistborn to survive), Steel makes you The Flash. Still can't figure out what Compounded memories would give.
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veekie posted:Yeah, just wondering what the Compounds did, Iron would give you unlimited weight(handy when you can Pull as well, but you probably rather be a full Mistborn to survive), Steel makes you The Flash. Still can't figure out what Compounded memories would give. Permanently store the memory in your own mind, maybe.
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Or recalling repressed/lost memories that would otherwise be unreachable.
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Hmm, a Soulbearer Mistborn would sure be interesting if it does what I think, Allomancy has "The metal is a catalyst, that begins an Investiture and keeps it running", so I'm thinking you could store up a charge of whatever you're burning(possibly with a Duralumin boost), and then Compound that to give you the Duralumin boost power without running out of power like you normally would. Should give you a Mistborn that effectively can't run out of fuel and can produce allomantic effects of arbitrary strength.
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Starting to have doubts that Brandon will ever finish the Stormlight Archives. Yea, he writes fast, but he apparently gets fat even faster. Watched his BYU lecture series recently and the guy has definitely been hitting the lemon cakes. It took GRRM 30 years to grease clog his arteries, but Brandon did it in 5. Maybe Dan Wells has been sharing his bacon stash. MartingaleJack fucked around with this message at 19:15 on May 10, 2012 |
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OneTwentySix posted:I listened to 2/3s of Elantris through audiobook on a long trip. I absolutely HATED the beginning; I was completely bored, but I'd already listened to my other books first so it was either that, or the radio. I stuck it out, but it was just so boring until 4 or 5 hours in, and then it started getting interesting. Part of the problem was the audiobook's quality; they basically did it like a narrated movie with sound effects and voice actors, rather than directly just reading the book, and I found that extremely annoying, but barely anything was going on at first. It's too late for this guy, but just in case anyone else is interested, there are actually two audiobooks for Elantris, a regular version (which was quite decent) and the radio play version mentioned above ("Graphic Audio"). The idea behind the radio play version was a big turn off for me, so I thought I'd mention the existence of the regular version, in case anyone else feels the same. Still a not his best work and a bit slow at times, but the reader was good and by the end I was glad I'd listened to it.
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BananaNutkins posted:Starting to have doubts that Brandon will ever finish the Stormlight Archives. He probably eats while he writes. Edit: Just think how fat he'd be if he could drink coke or mountain dew Koryk fucked around with this message at 22:01 on May 11, 2012 |
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Koryk posted:He probably eats while he writes.
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I won't delve into thread to avoid spoiling myself but I just finished The Well of Ascension and gently caress you Brandon Sanderson now I need to find the last book as soon as I can.
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Antti posted:I won't delve into thread to avoid spoiling myself but I just finished The Well of Ascension and gently caress you Brandon Sanderson now I need to find the last book as soon as I can. I know the feeling; I just finished Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens. The series, while extremely silly and kinda stupid, was also really good, even if they're aimed at younger kids. Nothing like leaving the fourth of five books on a cliffhanger, and then apparently not writing (or announcing plans to write) the fifth one yet! At least the Mistborn Trilogy is already written, though I felt a bit down when I finished Alloy of Law, because that was excellent, too. I'm in the middle of way too many series right now; Dresden Files, Iron Druid, Stormlight Archives, The Lost Fleet, now this one, and at least two others that I can't think of off the top of my head.
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Just finished book 1 of The Stormlight Archive without realising there were no others released yet. I hate this feeling. It definitely felt he took a step up from his work on Mistborn, although maybe one day he will write a character that isn't plagued with often crippling levels of self-doubt. OneTwentySix posted:I'm in the middle of way too many series right now; Dresden Files, Iron Druid, Stormlight Archives, The Lost Fleet, now this one, and at least two others that I can't think of off the top of my head. I have just binged the entire Dresden series, followed by the 4 Mistborn books, and now finished Stormlight. Seeing as we seem to be on the same track I'm going to take your post as advice that I should at least try out Iron Druid and The Lost Fleet 
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Nique posted:I have just binged the entire Dresden series, followed by the 4 Mistborn books, and now finished Stormlight. Seeing as we seem to be on the same track I'm going to take your post as advice that I should at least try out Iron Druid and The Lost Fleet The Lost Fleet is all right if you can get past the part where every book has literally the exact same plot.
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Piell posted:The Lost Fleet is all right if you can get past the part where every book has literally the exact same plot. Yeah. I liked it; started it as an audiobook when I went to Florida last year. It's not perfect, but it was entertaining, as far as military Sci-Fi goes. The first series seems to be better than the books afterward, though; just got the last one that was released yesterday, though, so now I have more to read, along with a handful of smaller Sanderson books I haven't gotten to yet. I'd still definitely recommend it to anyone that likes Sci-Fi, though; a six book main series, two follow ups, and more to come apparently, so there's plenty to read. Iron Druid is great; it's not as good as Dresden, but it's very similar in a lot of ways and definitely worth reading. The humor is definitely hit or miss, though; he hits as often as he misses. I still like the invention of the word "gently caress puddle" in book three.
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Here's an interesting tor.com blog about the science of Mistborn. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/the-science-of-allomancy-in-mistborn-tin quote:From the series we know that an Allomancer who burns tin will experience enhanced sensory input from each of the five senses. Allowing them to not only process more information from each source of sensory input, but making them more sensitive to sudden floods of information to those inputs. For example, Kelsier warns Vin that while burning tin will give her enhanced hearing and sight, it will also allow her to be stunned by sudden loud noises, or blinded by sudden flashes of light.
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Cartoon Man posted:Here's an interesting tor.com blog about the science of Mistborn. That doesn't really make any sense to me when it comes to hearing. I can understand how adding random auditory stimulus can enhance perception and increase concentration. Hell, that's why surgeons play classical music in operating theatres. But adding random auditory stimulus in the background while someone speaks a sentence would help you hear them better? No, it does the opposite to helping you hear better. You might strain to focus your hearing to make them out properly but perception would be shot to pieces anyway. Do they mean the volume of hearing or the perception of hearing? They aren't the same. Someone who can hear normal volumes, or indeed better than normal volumes could still have difficulty understanding a single word anyone says.
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So I'm finally sitting down with Way of Kings (reading Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker and White Sand in quick succession kinda burned me out on his stock characters) and I'm just wondering, this is his Exalted campaign isn't it.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:So I'm finally sitting down with Way of Kings (reading Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker and White Sand in quick succession kinda burned me out on his stock characters) and I'm just wondering, this is his Exalted campaign isn't it. I thought the exact same thing then.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:So I'm finally sitting down with Way of Kings (reading Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker and White Sand in quick succession kinda burned me out on his stock characters) and I'm just wondering, this is his Exalted campaign isn't it. Pretty obviously, yeah. I don't think he's even very secretive about that.
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What's an Exalted Campaign? I tried googling it but didn't find any sites that actually describes what they are.
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Giant swords and armor, everything runs off Reference
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So when does the second Stormlight Archive book come out? Way of Kings was so awesome.
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He's going to start working on it right after he's done with A Memory of Light. Sooo, next spring, probably? This fall/winter at best if he's more of a machine than usual.
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TYLERþ@JETROCKETSKATES @BrandSanderson Is a direct sequel to Alloy of Law still in the works? I just finished it, and I could simply die from all the loose ends! Brandon Sandersonþ@BrandSanderson @JETROCKETSKATES Yes, one is.  I think this is the first time he has directly answered yes instead of saying most likely.
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Here's a hell of a lot more from Brandon. Wall o text incoming! TLDR: 1. Two previously written novellas will be self published by him in 1 book, Defending Elysium and Firstborn. 2. Legion is still coming by subterranium press. 3. Brand new novella "The Emporer's Soul" is coming from Tachyon Publications, read below for details! Set in a remote corner of Sel, the planet from Elantris... 4. Stormlight 2 not coming till Fall 2013 at the earliest. http://fantasy-faction.com/forum/advertising-your-novels/advertising-some-of-my-smaller-projects/ Brandon Sanderson posted:Hey, all. I'll update this if he answers anything of note.   Tachyon Publications posted:From the bestselling author of the Mistborn Trilogy and co-author of the final three books of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series comes the tale of a heretic thief who is the only hope for the survival of an empire. Brandon Sanderson posted:Second Stormlight book is scheduled (by me) for fall of 2013. That really depends on me getting it finished by December of this year, at least in first draft form. That's possible, but I can't tell you how possible or not until I get the WoT done right. That will take as much, or as little, time as needed. quote:Question: quote:Question:  quote:Question:  quote:Question: Cartoon Man fucked around with this message at 01:14 on May 22, 2012 |
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Wait, so the Forgermancy story is actually set on the same world as Elantris? drat, guess I'll finally have to read that one.
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I don't think you'll see any major characters or plot points from Elantris showing up there, if Brandon is to be believed. Just a clue here or there. Hoid shows up in a deleted scene, so he must have cut that out because he wanted it to stand on its own. Still, who knows what will happen.
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IRQ posted:Isn't all his stuff somehow tied together as far as a shared universe (to use the term literally rather than in it's lovely fanfiction sense)?
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IRQ posted:Isn't all his stuff somehow tied together as far as a shared universe (to use the term literally rather than in it's lovely fanfiction sense)? It's called the "Cosmere" yeah. It's actually one of the most interesting bits I think.
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I'm listening to the Mistborn trilogy on audiobook, about 1/4 of the way through the 3rd one. (The audiobooks are excellent by the way.) But this world just got so depressing it's almost hard to listen to. I feel like there's no fixing things, everyone's going to die a slow miserable death. Elend just gave this "What Would Kelseer Do? Smile!" speech to the crew and it didn't even help. I really liked the first book, and the second was okay, but this one the futility of it all is really starting to make it unenjoyable to read (well, hear). Maybe it's just the audio format, since it's so much slower. 5 hours of every character acting doomed is just 
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mistaya posted:I'm listening to the Mistborn trilogy on audiobook, about 1/4 of the way through the 3rd one. (The audiobooks are excellent by the way.) Well, the good thing about depressing and grimdark stories is that the climax is always sweeter. Unless the writer is G. R. R. Martin, in which case there will be no climax.
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mistaya posted:I'm listening to the Mistborn trilogy on audiobook, about 1/4 of the way through the 3rd one. (The audiobooks are excellent by the way.) The Sanderson avalanche is in full effect in that book. Just wait for it.
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Here is the next article from Tor on the science of Allomancy. Today's lesson is copper. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/05/the-science-of-allomancy-in-mistborn-copper quote:Aside from masking their own allomantic pulses, Kelsier tells Vin that “copper’s influence occurs in a bubble around you. This cloud — called a coppercloud — hides anyone inside of it...” 
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Cartoon Man posted:Here is the next article from Tor on the science of Allomancy. Today's lesson is copper.
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Just finished the Way of Kings. Thought it was quite sluggish up until the last quarter, at which point I couldn't put it down until I finished it. My only real criticism would have to be Kaladins never ending self pity and doubt in his internal monologue, which I found quite irritating at times. Considering reading the Mistborn trilogy now as I have a thirst for some more Sanderson.
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dmccaff posted:Just finished the Way of Kings. Thought it was quite sluggish up until the last quarter, at which point I couldn't put it down until I finished it. Be warned that the second book is basically a lot like how you describe Way of Kings, except that the payoff is moreso in the last two or three chapters then the last quarter.
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