Dogma I am not sure at all - he might be a sacrificial lamb for spiking early on just so I have less to juggle because I bet Petr is gonna be Plot Busy
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also I'm super into the idea of Petr maybe recruiting rags (also his spike should be in his hand!! for reasons!!) because he's got a canon history of just losing his entire shit and being helpful to an Urchin he was supposed to abduct one time
In fact I would go so far as to say that he is not in them, but they do kind of deal with the consequences of his actions? And Harmony talks about him a fair bit
oh my god okay not to deliberately be a powercreep asshole but THE KIND OF PERSON WHO IS A SPIKE BANDIT WOULD TRY TO BE STRATEGIC AND POWER CREEP ABOUT IT
I'm thinking maybe he was a city boy someone got to run an errand out in the roughs, cut off by his family, a Rioter, and Petr/Petr's predecessor targets him for recruitment
Petr definitely falls in with him to determine whether it makes more sense to recruit him or just spike him, quickly decides he's pretty clever for a city boy and just needs a family who won't throw him away
the gist of it is that if you murder somebody by impaling them with a spike of a particular metal corresponding to the powers, some of that power is like, stored in the spike, and then if you stab that spike into a living person they gain that power at a slightly reduced level and also magically don't die even though there's a spike in their kidney or whatev
and how much the strength is reduced depends on a lot of stuff like how long between the murder and the implantation, and maybe where the spike is on the new person (it can be in a normal spot like an earring, or Not)
I assume that they can only use the stolen power for x amount of time because the spike acts like a bracelet in that sense and eventually what it's charged up with runs out?
it's like they're stealing the magic-doing piece of the other person's soul, basically, and it leaks a little when it's not In An Person, and a little bit is lost in friction transfer
you can take 2 powers (1 allomantic and 1 ferruchemic) with one spike although I'm not sure if they have to be the same metal for that to work
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YES FOR SURE, and I think Arthur is the only confirmed PC victim so far - I'm thinking Petr maybe knows about the three-spike limit and the 'immediate transfer is more powerful' from being with the gang forever, so he could have an aim to subdue Arthur and bring him back to get spiked for another member, instead of killed ASAP
a farmer torn from the soilfrictiontransfer