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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2008, 02:19:51 AM »
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:oWhat if the sixteenth metal is located within the Ashmounts and Vin or whoever has to go and retrieve it? That would be the opposite of LOTR! It would make sense.


Lol, that'd be just like Brandon, breaking fantasy conventions and all.

"Now, Frodo, we want you to dive into the lava and get the Ring out."

"WHAT!?"

"Yeah... heck of a plot-twist, eh?"

As funny as that sounds I doubt it. ha ha!  OH!!! WAIT!  She could PULL the metal out!

LOL! you forget chaos2651, this time it won't be frodo it would be YOU!

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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2008, 03:17:07 AM »
Well, that makes perfect sense, considering I'm the Hero of Ages.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2008, 03:25:07 AM »
Hey, don't worry to much--you might not even have to jump in, you might find Gollum bathing in the lava. So if that should happen (fingers crossed) you should bring a sack of raw fish with you. Gollum loves his fish.

Or, im not sure where im getting this but my intuition keeps telling me that a riddle migh work.

Try this on him. "Two coins add up to make thirty cents, and one of them is not a nickel."
"I love you."
"you dont. You just think you do because i'm all you know."
"Really? So whats this burning sensation i'm having in my stomach?"
"Too much ale."
"Not love?"
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"I don't feel good."
"They do that to you."
"my legs, their numb."
"Hahaha!"
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2008, 03:30:09 AM »
Like miyabi said, all I need to is Ironpull. Tis easy.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2008, 03:37:04 AM »
I don't think it's going to be that easy, this isn't Eragon, it gonna be a little more complicated than that.
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"you dont. You just think you do because i'm all you know."
"Really? So whats this burning sensation i'm having in my stomach?"
"Too much ale."
"Not love?"
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2008, 03:53:26 AM »
Well, if you were trying to Ironpull it out, you would need to hope that you were close enough to the lake of lava/magma in order to sense the metal. Then you would have to have a pretty stable anchor outside to prevent yourself from pummeling down into the lake of lava as you tried to force the ring up through molten and semisolid rock. It's doable, but it's not as easy as, "Ooh look! Something down in the lava! *zip* Let's go home."
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2008, 04:03:11 AM »
So who's going to take tomorrow's theory? I thought that one was pretty good for the first day. Honestly, I hadn't thought of the "reverse of LoTR" thing in this context. I should have started with elmandr1's idea! Good one!
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2008, 04:11:24 AM »
I believe Chaos stated that the first poster tomorrow can decide the theory of the day. Unless someone has a stroke of genius in the next few hours, I'm assuming that's the way we're going.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2008, 05:05:12 AM »
*shrugs* I don't really know how it's going to work out. We could start the next discussion now, but that would mean we lose two hours more of discussion. I know that at least Ookla likes to weave through the forums late at night, but I don't know about other people.

We could start suggestions right now, I suppose, and just begin discussion after 12?

Really, though, I'm glad the first day's comments worked out so well. In a sort of open-ended topic like this, these things could get horrible really quickly.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #24 on: September 15, 2008, 05:17:42 AM »
Well, it's kind of like the buy/sell thread, just with more time between each post and discussion allowed. If you don't try to take it too seriously, there are all sorts of interesting ideas you can come up with.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #25 on: September 15, 2008, 05:32:01 AM »
Yeah, it's really working out well.

Any ideas for T-29 days' discussion?
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #26 on: September 15, 2008, 06:29:49 AM »
*Eyes the Forum to see if anyone is there....*

Sweet new topic on a platter!

 ???

The first topic is a bit hard to follow...

OH!

we haven't talked much about Elend, though he was the most dynamic character in book two. He lost his kingship because his people thought he was too weak but now he's Mistborn...Is it possible that he will retrieve the throne?
Is he the HOA?

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"you dont. You just think you do because i'm all you know."
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"Too much ale."
"Not love?"
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"I don't feel good."
"They do that to you."
"my legs, their numb."
"Hahaha!"
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #27 on: September 15, 2008, 06:32:00 AM »
Well, technically he's the Emperor now. He's better than king. However, the topic about Elend being the Hero definitely has merit. Let's discuss that.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #28 on: September 15, 2008, 06:36:59 AM »
I know this is my own topic but after i wrote the question i really started to tink (and no i didn't misspell it ;D) and i remembered something that i read from the book. I can't remember who said it but they said that the Mistborn's were slowly growing weaker, that the Mistborn's in the past were much more powerful. This got me thinking, has Elend started a new lineage of Mistborn, and if so, does that sorta make him like a draccula of some sort?

I might be suffering from lack-of-sleep disorder, or i might have become so exhausted i have slipped into a part of my mind, an unconcious state of exstacy--i might be genius right now. If not, then im definitly delusional.

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"you dont. You just think you do because i'm all you know."
"Really? So whats this burning sensation i'm having in my stomach?"
"Too much ale."
"Not love?"
"No. But i can see how you confused the two."
"I don't feel good."
"They do that to you."
"my legs, their numb."
"Hahaha!"
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #29 on: September 15, 2008, 07:42:25 AM »
Elend as Dracula. HmmmMMMmmmMMmm.
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