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Right, yeah, so I'd say lifeless win that in terms of cost effectiveness.

Indestructible walls, whether they're visible or not qualify as impenetrable force fields, right? Citation: the city of Elantris before the earthquake.

Chapter and page number where it says Elantris' walls are indestructible? Not to mention that Elantris is clearly a very intensive project, and might have wards that a single Elantrian can't make alone.  Frankly, there have been no indication of impenetrable magical barriers in Elantris.

Vin's so paranoid that she wouldn't touch a sword because it was just sitting there acting suspicious. Right. Since none of the worlds we have visited so far have any concept of cursed items (including people in Warbreaker, seeing as how only a few people know about Nightblood), nobody would have any reason to be suspicious of a sword. As for Raoden and Sazed, they are scholars. They study things, which often involves touching said things.

Frankly, yes, she is.  Remember that Nightblood's aura makes good people want to not touch it.  And Raoden and Sazed wouldn't take time to examine a sword while in a fight.

Should it be a gladiator-style fight, and the contestants enter the arena at the same time, Vasher merely has to use any means to make his opponent touch the sword for a split second. He would probably be able to talk most of them into it. Especially since he can appear however he wants.

Bullshit.  Most of the people here are smart enough to wonder why their opponent is trying to get them to touch his weapon instead of just using its sharp parts on them.











@Wilson, yes, exactly my point with Nightblood. 

However, Daa seemed to me like a straight firing, unaimable thing.  It has only been used in barrages with many people firing them after all.  And have we actually seen what Aon Shao does?  If it's so useful, why didn't he use in in Teod?

On the Lifeless vs Koloss, Lifeless needs one corpse and one person with breath and you get two fighters, Koloss needs three live humans and you end with one superhuman fighter.

An Elantrian (Elantrisian?) can take a beating before dying, and they could draw Vin into the bottom of the ocean or out into space in less than a minute.

And in the time it takes to draw that extremely complex Aon, Vin has put a coin through his head.  Or hit him hard enough to interrupt his drawing.

Vasher wins as long as he has Nightblood though. Vasher sits in a corner hiding as a Grey, his opponent touches Nightblood (sheathless) and dies. The end.

Not quite.  A number of characters in this tourney are too good for Nightblood's aura of attraction to work on them.

Round 1: Vin has to reach into her money pouch and bring a coin up to in between her center of mass and Raoden's head.  Raoden has to draw a complicated symbol, the result of which might not be able to take down a Pewter burning Vin in one hit.  Even giving Raoden time to practice, I give this to Vin.

Round 2: I very much doubt that Dilaf is tougher than an Inquisitor.  Dilaf makes a good showing, but loses to the Survivor.

Round 3: Too dependent on terrain and the status of Sazed's metalminds, but the fight would probably go to Susebron more often then not.  However, I see this devolving into a philosophical discussion, Suse strikes me as the kind to try to diffuse violence with talk which Saze will eagerly accept.  Sazed takes this due to his better education.

Round 4: This depends entirely on Nightblood and TLR's reaction to it.  I'm going to give this to Vasher, because I don't think that TLR can resist Nightbloold.

Round 5: If Spook can burn Pewter, then Viv loses.  If he can't, then it's a contest.  I think that Spook would still win most of the time even without Pewter, simply because he has more real fighting experience.

Round 6: A good swordsman vs TLR-lite?  Sorry Denth, Marsh takes this.



Round 7: Vin vs Kelsier.  A friendly sparring match that ends when Kelsier calls it and declares Vin to have surpassed him, that she is possibly the finest Allomancer he's ever seen, and that he couldn't be more proud of her.  Vin wins.

Round 8: Sazed vs Vasher.  I don't think Nightblood will be getting to Sazed, and with Feruchemy Vasher is outclassed in all the physical catagories.  I see Sazed getting another win.

Round 9: Spook vs Marsh.  Marsh takes Spook apart.  If Marsh is himself, then this is only figurative.



Round 10: Vin vs Sazed.  Another friendly sparring match.  I can't see Sazed beating Vin in any kind of physical fight.  They're too much on the same side for any other kind of fight though. 



Round 11: Vin vs Marsh.  Either a fight to the death or a friendly sparring match, depending on who's at the steering wheel.  Without 12(!) other Inquisitors to back him up though, Marsh is going down either way.


These types of analysis are fun, I might run them through a different tournament structure later.

What about Alcubierie (sp?) Drives?

Quote from: Aranfan on July 19, 2009, 11:53:08 PM

I might just take you up on your offer shadow, but later, when I don't have schoolwork to do.

Also, to respond to your "Go take a look at Warbreaker...".  Only a series would have a problem of repeating previous plot points.  This is why I made no complaints of such in Mistborn.

Huh?  I never said anything about Warbreaker in this thread.

You can't. In order to use Hemalurgy, you need to have the right spiritual and genetic codes. People on the Warbreaker don't have those same codes as the ones on Scadrial.

And here I thought that you needed those codes for Allomancy and/or Feruchemy, and that for Hemalurgy you just needed Ruin to be around.  I'd need to check my copy of HoA, but I'm pretty sure that for Hemalurgy you just need a spike of the right Metal (probably Atium for Breaths), a person with the powers you want that you wouldn't mind dead, and Ruin's presence.