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Brandon Sanderson / Re: ***SPOILERS Official Hero of Ages Spoilers Thread. Includes Q&A w/Brandon****
« on: January 13, 2009, 01:50:28 AM »
Wow, all of those names are pretty lame. But thanks for giving us some alternate names 
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"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: These Stupid Titles VIII
« on: January 11, 2009, 05:59:38 AM »
Wait, if your laptop died, Hayley, how did you post?
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« on: January 11, 2009, 05:56:56 AM »
Ummm, no offense, but that is kind of a bad comparison. If two two mistborn are fighting with Atium, they just see a bunch of atium shadows.
And yes. I know you said kind of
And yes. I know you said kind of
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Suggestions Box / Re: Holiday Survey!
« on: January 11, 2009, 05:51:43 AM »
Also true. So very, very true.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: ***SPOILERS Official Hero of Ages Spoilers Thread. Includes Q&A w/Brandon****
« on: January 11, 2009, 05:50:37 AM »
No, i think anyone can burn Atium, as in true Atium, but i don't know about Atium alloys...
Someone on these forums needs to find the real name for not-Cerrobend
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Someone on these forums needs to find the real name for not-Cerrobend
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: ***SPOILERS Official Hero of Ages Spoilers Thread. Includes Q&A w/Brandon****
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:37:15 PM »Oh, I like that idea, Ook. I was looking at the poster the other day, trying to figure out how the alloys of atium would work. I didn't really get very far, mostly because the first one I tried was Electrum, and I couldn't figure it out, because it seemed like what we knew about it (atium) already did that. But your idea makes total sense. Now I think I shall go back and try to figure out the rest.Interesting... it would make sense that "Atium" is really an Atium/electrum alloy. After all, Malatium is an Atium/gold alloy. Although, i cant even figure out what atium would do when alloyed with any of the Mental metals, or even cadmium and not-Cerrobend (hooray for proprietary eponyms!)would do
Also, in this same vein. Since Atium alloys only gives expanded mental and temporal effects, does that mean only mental and temporal metals can be alloyed with it? Or can all of them be, and even the Physical/Enhancement metals would end up being a mental/temporal effect as an alloy?
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Rants and Stuff / Re: These Stupid Titles VIII
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:57:16 AM »
FISH!!! Anyway, Loud_G is a student of divinity... that means, if you post a lot, you will get out of the choir and on to... bigger things. I wonder what the exploitation will be then. In a few levels, hopefully i will be a scribe...then i can write to fund the coalition! Yay for exploitation!
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Books / Re: What are you reading, part 3
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:41:49 AM »
Wow, it seems like a lot of people are reading Brandon Sanderson books. I might have to pick up Alcatraz after i finish the books i got for Christmas.
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Suggestions Box / Re: Holiday Survey!
« on: January 09, 2009, 04:37:13 AM »
ha... in Seattle, there is a group of people that go around dressed like Santa, getting drunk and singing songs like "It's the most wonderful time for a beer" every holiday season
on another note, isn't it a little late to be posting in this thread?
on another note, isn't it a little late to be posting in this thread?
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Rants and Stuff / Re: These Stupid Titles VIII
« on: January 07, 2009, 03:58:16 AM »
Nah, i dont think so. He's just Ben 
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« on: January 07, 2009, 03:55:50 AM »
Now that i think about it, i agree with the happyman too.
Being happy is good.
Being happy is good.
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Rants and Stuff / Re: These Stupid Titles VIII
« on: January 06, 2009, 04:37:24 PM »
If you aren't leading them, then who will? We don't have another squad leader, famous or not, right?
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Rants and Stuff / Re: These Stupid Titles VIII
« on: January 04, 2009, 05:54:29 PM »
Wait, Ben, weren't you already a graverobber? I dont see why you would go back to digging up dead people when you are already a succesful (but disturbing) mortician. You already have enough to do with dead people. Of course, you might start killing people to have even more dead bodies... but I dont really want to think about that...
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Rants and Stuff / Re: These Stupid Titles VIII
« on: January 03, 2009, 01:37:46 AM »
I can see that happening to Silk... possibly if she was juggling torches, or maybe pointy sticks... or gets knocked off the coffin in a freak tomato accident, and gets a concussion. We dont have a doctor in the coalition, do we? Well, at least we have a mortician, however disturbing. And a helpworker, whatever that is. Nobody knows what a "bygone" is either. Or what "zetta" means. So everybody gets zetta confused when you say zetta, lol.
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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Thoughts after finishing Elantris *Spoilers*
« on: January 03, 2009, 01:30:50 AM »
hmm... maybe the 3 months were to gather reinforcements and recruit some more citezens, then to be transformed into soldiers to kill everyone else...