Connection Iron Feruchemical Shenanigans

[The Stick]

It occurred to me that you could potentially hack the storage of Feruchemical weight, and likely speed as well. 

In Stormlight 4, near the end we see Ishar doing Bondsmithing shenanigans with the connection of the Windrunners. He ultimately is able to connect them to the ground to a degree where the Stormlight believes the ground is part of them and siphons off. 

My question here is if he did this to an iron ferring, could he connect them to a huge tungsten block weighing thousands of pounds. If so, when storing, would this not count as part of their weight, and allow you to hack physical weight.

This would also theoretically work with physical speed by Connecting a Steelrunner to an extremely fast moving object, but that would likely be more dangerous.

 

[Trusk'our he/him]

15 minutes ago, The Stick said:

It occurred to me that you could potentially hack the storage of Feruchemical weight, and likely speed as well. 

In Stormlight 4, near the end we see Ishar doing Bondsmithing shenanigans with the connection of the Windrunners. He ultimately is able to connect them to the ground to a degree where the Stormlight believes the ground is part of them and siphons off. 

My question here is if he did this to an iron ferring, could he connect them to a huge tungsten block weighing thousands of pounds. If so, when storing, would this not count as part of their weight, and allow you to hack physical weight.

This would also theoretically work with physical speed by Connecting a Steelrunner to an extremely fast moving object, but that would likely be more dangerous.

Hmm, if you could use Connection to make the tungsten block believe it was part of the Feruchemist, I don't see why this wouldn't work; if it can leech a Surgebinder's Stormlight, it seems likely that you could find a way to Store weight from it as well.

As for physical speed, I bet that it has to be an object that has potential movement already in place; a Steelrunner wouldn't fall slower by Storing physical speed, so by that logic neither would a hurled boulder generate more Storable speed.

That said, I think it's likely that the Scadran space ships in era 5 will have this very capability. Why else would an Awakened Steelmind, of all Feruchemical metals available, be used in the construction of a ship?

[The Stick]

As a continuation, this is how I think you could try to mess with each of the 16 base attributes.

Iron-see above

Steel-see above

Tin-maybe if you could Awaken security cameras and microphones, then do the same connection trick, you could get something. Or you could potentially connect to animals with really potent senses?

Pewter: If you grew artificial organic lab muscle, then did the trick and connected it, you you could probably mess with the investiture, especially if it was derived from you.

Brass-just connect yourself to a furnace and store.

Zinc: Besides connecting yourself to animals, or maybe an awakened computer, I think this one would be nearly impossible.

Bronze: This one is weird, and I don't really have any great ideas.

Copper: Memories are really strange. Maybe you could connect yourself to a hard drive or something?

Gold: Connect yourself to a planaria or some lab-grown tissues.

Electrum: This is another weirder one. I don't have many ideas.

Aluminum: Nothing else really has your identity, but if you connected something to yourself, it would. This is weird.

Duralumin: This is a recursive loop.

Chromium: Umm. Connect yourself to Renarin or some other methods of future sight?

Nicrosil: Just connect yourself to an investiture user.

Do you have any ideas on the ones I could not fill in?

[listerfeend]

12 hours ago, The Stick said:

Bronze: This one is weird, and I don't really have any great ideas.

Maybe connect yourself to someone already in a coma...