Popular Post king of nowhere Posted September 17, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Many threads focused on finding some god use for some apparently uselss power. Here, I'm doing the opposite: take some perfectly good power and squander it in some ridiculous way. here my ideas Surgebinding - infuse yourself with stormlight, then read by night without needing to turn on the light. - use a lashing to bind your trousers tight so you don't need a belt - when opening or closing a door, change gravity on the handle instead of pushing or pulling it. Soulcasting - if you are stuck out under the rain, constantly soulcast the water in your clothes to air so you stay dry (that looks useful enough, but you could just soulcast an umbrella) - turn ink to blood. Sign everything in blood, because it's cool Awakening - awaken the ties of your shoes and have them tie themselves, because you are THAT lazy - same for your cravat - awaken the food you're cooking and tell it to stir itself now I'm wondering if you could use awakening to do household chores; that would actually be useful Allomancy - have a keyboard specifically made of metal for you. type by steelpushing (i figure it would be much more difficult than just using the fingers. maybe vin or kelsier could have typed at a reasonable speed and used their hands to do other things) - have a layer of metal under the pavements, roofs and walls in your house. float in your house instead of walking. - put a metal collar on your dog. use a subtle ironpull on it instead of a common leash. Feruchemy - use alcohol or drugs freely. tap gold to prevent damage to yoru body. tap more gold if you need to be sober to drive. - only for kids: fill gold to stay home from school - tap a lot from bronze to make a sauna without the sauna. Bonus points if you're in your garden in the middle of the winter dressed only with a towel and swaeting like hell. Extra bonus points if you accumulate all that heat by walking around with an heavy coat in summer. Find others! 47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straff Venture he/him Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Awaken pieces of straw so that they stand up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Aeshdan he/him Posted September 17, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Many threads focused on finding some god use for some apparently uselss power. Here, I'm doing the opposite: take some perfectly good power and squander it in some ridiculous way. here my ideas Surgebinding - infuse yourself with stormlight, then read by night without needing to turn on the light. - use a lashing to bind your trousers tight so you don't need a belt - when opening or closing a door, change gravity on the handle instead of pushing or pulling it. Soulcasting - if you are stuck out under the rain, constantly soulcast the water in your clothes to air so you stay dry (that looks useful enough, but you could just soulcast an umbrella) - turn ink to blood. Sign everything in blood, because it's cool Awakening - awaken the ties of your shoes and have them tie themselves, because you are THAT lazy - same for your cravat - awaken the food you're cooking and tell it to stir itself now I'm wondering if you could use awakening to do household chores; that would actually be useful Allomancy - have a keyboard specifically made of metal for you. type by steelpushing (i figure it would be much more difficult than just using the fingers. maybe vin or kelsier could have typed at a reasonable speed and used their hands to do other things) - have a layer of metal under the pavements, roofs and walls in your house. float in your house instead of walking. - put a metal collar on your dog. use a subtle ironpull on it instead of a common leash. Feruchemy - use alcohol or drugs freely. tap gold to prevent damage to yoru body. tap more gold if you need to be sober to drive. - only for kids: fill gold to stay home from school - tap a lot from bronze to make a sauna without the sauna. Bonus points if you're in your garden in the middle of the winter dressed only with a towel and swaeting like hell. Extra bonus points if you accumulate all that heat by walking around with an heavy coat in summer. Find others! Soulcasting: Make yourself new drinks without ever having to get up off the couch. Feruchemy: Store scent and eat enough onions and garlic to stink up a whole Dominance. Great way to win a bad-breath contest. Store taste while eating your veggies and tap it for desert. 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aminar Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Allomancy - - have a layer of metal under the pavements, roofs and walls in your house. float in your house instead of walking. Copper Piping covers this well enough. Create a generator powered by your steelpushing. Use it to keep drinks cold. Peddle a bicycle with steel pushes/Pulls. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Observer Posted September 17, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Use the "Hoidsmar" to travel a few steps forward. Start storing Copper at all times, and be sure to put away the memory of how to stop. 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 Set up a spanreed in the next room so you don't have to bother talking. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Observer Posted September 18, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Sounds almost like modern texting... 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Voidus Posted September 18, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 (edited) Steelpush the switch for the kettle. Ironpull the lock to let people in. Put Brandon in a Bendalloy bubble so SA2 gets finished quicker (Not useless but it needs to be said as often as possible ) Soulcast flies instead of using a flyswatter. At easter just soulcast real eggs into chocolate instead of buying from the shops. Awaken a pen to 'do paperwork' Soulcast your name onto someone else's homework. Use Aon Tia to get things from the fridge. Soulcast something into fire instead of using a heater. Soulcast your shoes into ice, and perform a quarter-lashing on yourself, then skate wherever you need to go. (Actually that one sounds fun) - put a metal collar on your dog. use a subtle ironpull on it instead of a common leash. When I read this one I just imagined a fledgling Allomancer accidentally pulling too hard and flinging a Labrador into some kids. Edited September 18, 2012 by Voidus 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lightflame he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 - Use Feruchemistry to have infinite bad luck. - Lash other people to their clothes so they can't undress. - Use Duraluminum and aluminum at the same time to run out of metals super fast. - Use Aon illusions to look like yourself. 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightflame he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Also, everyone in this thread gets 1+ rep. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 - Lash other people to their clothes so they can't undress. This one's my favourite so far, I was just about to say the same thing but with shoes. Upvote for Lightflame! (Also, try to just edit your post, instead of double posting if you can.) 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aminar Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 - Lash other people to their clothes so they can't undress. Lash pants to the ground... Wait, that could win fights, hard to fight with your pants around your ankles. There's some amusing but wrong ways to lash Clothing. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Zas678 he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Ooh! I know. Sacrifice a Dakhor monk to get transported a block away. 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Voidus Posted September 18, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Spike yourself with your own allomantic ability! 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pechvarry Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 New theory! Hoid is travelling through time and meddling with shardworlds, and even using limited prescience to find the best car insurance In the universe! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 I like it! Drawing the Aon for nothing. Use tin to see through the paper bag on your head - very useful. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Count he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Awaken a duracel bunny 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zenith Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Using allomantic pushes/pulls to push your chair in. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Storing weight in one metalmind while tapping it from another. Just because. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post name_here Posted September 18, 2012 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Use tin to wear sunglasses at night. Use feruchemical Atium to convince customers you are the store manager. Store identity so no one notices you are slacking on the job. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Feruchemical Brass to fake a sicky, gold for same. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cones For Eyes he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Introducing the Huuuuuman Hammer!: *Steel pushes a nail into a piece of wood...* I think I mentioned this in another thread somewhere already Oooh, also, water-skiing would be great fun, just pull yourself along with iron pulling (assuming we were in a world with speedboats and allomancy :S) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyman he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 Ooh! I know. Sacrifice a Dakhor monk to get transported a block away. I'd feel better about this one if Dilaf hadn't once done exactly that just to show that he could. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracknut he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 (edited) Oooh, also, water-skiing would be great fun, just pull yourself along with iron pulling (assuming we were in a world with speedboats and allomancy :S) I'm not really in physics and stuff but would you be able to walk on water while storing weight? Edited September 18, 2012 by 213 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cones For Eyes he/him Posted September 18, 2012 Report Share Posted September 18, 2012 I'm not really in physics and stuff but would you be able to walk on water while storing weight? Well the short answer is no. Depending on exactly how much weight you "lost" while you were storing it, you might be able to float but any kind of walking motion would be pretty difficult. I think it'd be impossible to balance with the water moving around below you. It'd probably be a bit like trying to walk on jelly (if that could hold your weight), only so much worse. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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