Mistings messing with people

[Arook he/him]

So I Just thought of this I'm sure someones talked about it before but a Lot of Allomancy could be used for petty tricks to mess with some one. So what would you do to someone?

 

What made me think of this was having a Cadmium burner mess with a persons sleep habits. Just make the night time go away so that they never get enough sleep if you did it right you could even get the bubble edge between their clock and bed so that its harder to tell that it was done, or Just have them lose a day or two during the night. Cadmium has large potential to really mess up a persons day.

 

So what power would you use and how would you do so remember the idea is to mess with them without hurting them physically, mentally is OK though.                            

[SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him]

Use Rioting to make someone feel lust every time they see a certain person. If they were homophobic then they would be lusting a member of the same sex. Never enough to force them to act on it but enough for them to notice.

 

Then observe. 

 

You could also send huge feelings of fatigue at people in a job interview. They would start yawning half way through the meeting.

[Kestrel she/her]

Step 1: snap a lurcher or coinshot

Step 2: find tons of random change

Step 3: place random change in the sidewalks

Step 4: hide coinshot or lurcher and have them burn their metal

Step 5: push/pull coins away from people who try to grab

Step 6: ??????

Step 7: profit

[Guest]

Use Rioting to make someone feel lust every time they see a certain person. If they were homophobic then they would be lusting a member of the same sex. Never enough to force them to act on it but enough for them to notice.

Then observe.

You could also send huge feelings of fatigue at people in a job interview. They would start yawning half way through the meeting.

Forget person. Riot their Lust every time they go near the office plant or water cooler.

[Kaymyth she/her]

Use Rioting to make someone feel lust every time they see a certain person. If they were homophobic then they would be lusting a member of the same sex. Never enough to force them to act on it but enough for them to notice.

 

Then observe. 

 

You could also send huge feelings of fatigue at people in a job interview. They would start yawning half way through the meeting.

 

But Rioting only works with emotions that are already there.  You can make things more intense, overwhelming even, but you can't create emotions out of nothing.

[Guest]

Humans pretty much have a permanent background Lust all the time unlike, say, a wild rabbit that undergoes seasonal breeding cycles.

[Guest]

Riot someone's Joy for 2 seconds every time someone starts talking to them, Riot their Terror for 1 second when the person starts to walk away.

[Guest]

This was an interesting thread along the same lines, but applying to all forms of Investiture.

[yurisses]

But Rioting only works with emotions that are already there.  You can make things more intense, overwhelming even, but you can't create emotions out of nothing.

 

If this is suggesting homophobic people have zero attraction to people of their sex, well, I'd dispute that. Most people are on a spectrum of sexual attraction for one thing, and homophobic people are shown by various studies to feel on average more sexual arousal to people of their sex than nonhomophobic people. The sheer number of famous homophobic people outed as bisexual or gay supports the idea of overcompensation.

[Kaymyth she/her]

Humans pretty much have a permanent background Lust all the time unlike, say, a wild rabbit that undergoes seasonal breeding cycles.

 

As in all things, it depends on the individual.  There do exist completely asexual people.

 

 

If this is suggesting homophobic people have zero attraction to people of their sex, well, I'd dispute that. Most people are on a spectrum of sexual attraction for one thing, and homophobic people are shown by various studies to feel on average more sexual arousal to people of their sex than nonhomophobic people. The sheer number of famous homophobic people outed as bisexual or gay supports the idea of overcompensation.

 

This isn't what I was saying at all.  Attraction and lust isn't an all-or-nothing deal; you can be attracted to people of a particular sex and/or gender without being attracted to all people of that type.  You can Riot someone's lust all you want, but you can't control where that lust is directed.  If you already know that someone is attracted to an individual, ramping it up will cause all sorts of fun and consternation.  But if you kick someone into overdrive while they're sitting next to someone who is not at all attractive to them, it's not going to change that baseline.

 

For example:  me.  I'm mostly on the hetero side of the Kinsey scale, but I'm not quiiite all the way over.  There is a rather narrow subset of women that I could potentially find attractive, like, say, Eliza Dushku.  'Cause dang.  But Rioting me near some random woman from down the street may not get the results you're looking for.

 

And while I have a much larger subset of men that I find attractive, there is no amount of Rioting in the world that could make me want to jump some men's bones.  Like Brad Pitt.  Ick.

 

I know.  I'm weird.

Edited June 12, 2015 by Kaymyth

[Voidus]

As in all things, it depends on the individual.  There do exist completely asexual people.

 

 

This isn't what I was saying at all.  Attraction and lust isn't an all-or-nothing deal; you can be attracted to people of a particular sex and/or gender without being attracted to all people of that type.  You can Riot someone's lust all you want, but you can't control where that lust is directed.  If you already know that someone is attracted to an individual, ramping it up will cause all sorts of fun and consternation.  But if you kick someone into overdrive while they're sitting next to someone who is not at all attractive to them, it's not going to change that baseline.

 

For example:  me.  I'm mostly on the hetero side of the Kinsey scale, but I'm not quiiite all the way over.  There is a rather narrow subset of women that I could potentially find attractive, like, say, Eliza Dushku.  'Cause dang.  But Rioting me near some random woman from down the street may not get the results you're looking for.

 

And while I have a much larger subset of men that I find attractive, there is no amount of Rioting in the world that could make me want to jump some men's bones.  Like Brad Pitt.  Ick.

 

I know.  I'm weird.

It might not actually cause someone to act on it but make someone feel lustful every time they walk past a palm tree and they're certainly going to notice and get some confused feelings.

Riot someones feelings of awkwardness or nervousness every time they're about to say something, watch them stumble over their sentence due to nerves and promptly become even more embarassed.

Burn pewter every time you meet one of those guys with the crushing handshake. Proceed to break his hand.

[Arook he/him]

I can honestly say that I never thought to engender lust for inanimate objects using Allomancy bravo. 

[DreamEternal]

I can say this thread is creepy.

[Guest]

For a full Mistborn, find some poor sap wearing a lot of metal (metal buttons, zippers, change in both pockets, and so on). Sooth away their sense of calm, Riot their paranoia, and then randomly push/pull on them when no one is looking.

Compete with other Mistborn to see who can send someone to the nut house the fastest.

[Kaymyth she/her]

It might not actually cause someone to act on it but make someone feel lustful every time they walk past a palm tree and they're certainly going to notice and get some confused feelings.

 

 

This idea entertains me.  I still think it's more likely that they'd decide that palm trees are an aphrodisiac than wonder, "Am I attracted to palm trees on a personal basis?"  But it's funny.

[Guest]

That's why you do it with a SPECIFIC plant, not all plants

[Arook he/him]

What if you slowly made some one afraid to go to the bathroom or really angry. Start small and over weeks increase the level fear or anger.

[Guest]

Riot someone's paranoia, walk up to them and ask "did you hear the news?" Just as they're about to respond, get distracted and walk away.

Do it 3-4 times a day, until they Crack

Edited June 13, 2015 by LabRat

[Voidus]

Riot someones sense of fear, randomly push and pull on pen nibs at their desk so they keep getting lost. Occasionally use a super powerful push to send their work flying across the room.

Congratulations. Your friend/enemy now believes they are haunted by a ghost with some unfinished pen-related business

[Fatebreaker he/him]

One of my favorite Allomancy Pranks:

Get a  Lurcher misting to come with you.

Find someone who's alone and hide out of sight nearby.

Lure them into a large coin on the ground that the lurcher steadily pulls towards your hiding place

When they're within your reach jump out with your Lurcher friend, and stab a spike through the Lurcher into the unsuspecting person shouting, "Surprise!" 

Not only did you get to pull a funny prank, but now the person has super-powers! Every one wins!

[Arook he/him]

I worry about giving powers to someone that follows a moving coin for more then 1 push.

[Mistdork she/her]

I worry about giving powers to someone that follows a moving coin for more then 1 push.

 

To make it work, you're a Riotor; stroke their sense of greed each time the coin moves until it's overwhelming! Then...PROFIT.

[InstantWalrus]

assuming that someone had metal aglets on their shoelaces you could constantly tie their shoelaces together or to other objects if you were super slick.

 

same with peoples trouser zippers (that could get annoying fast)

 

unplugging peoples power cables on their laptops/phones constantly

 

make magnets look like they repel/attract in the wrong directions in science class when the teacher is making a demonstration

 

stop coins from going into vending machines

 

make those whirlydoes in trainstations and things (the weird spinning metal gate things you push to walk through) not work and not let people pass

 

make light metal objects seem increadably heavy by pushing on them then when the person is trying real hard to pick them up stop pushing/pulling on them so they smack themselves

 

mess with people trying to write with metal pens

 

win at pinball/make people loose at pinball

 

poltergeist doctors stephoscopes

 

screw with people wearing steel toe cap boots

 

make people rage quit at games at a party so you can have a go

 

(sorry went overboard)

 

edit: oh and i forgot the most important one:

 

step 1: find Uri Geller

 

step 2: ask him to bend some spoons

 

step 3: stop him *by* using allomancy over and over and over

 

step 4: ????

 

step 5: profit

 

step 6: bend swords and other ridiculously big objects infront of him then laugh

Edited June 21, 2015 by InstantWalrus