The Metallic Olympics

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

So considering that every misting and ferring isn't working illegally for someone, hunting down a murderer, or working in some combat-based line of work, what if there was the Metallic Olympics (or something like that)? It would be a place where a bunch of people could come together to enjoy their metallic abilities, instead of using them to kill each other for once. Here of some ideas of what it could be like:

Steel Soccer:

This wouldn't be too different from regular soccer, just inside the soccer ball there's metal inside of it, so Coinshots can push it around, and it won't rip through any body's skull. Maybe the refs are Rioters or Soothers to prevent fights.

Pewter (or maybe steelrunning) 100m-3200m runs:

People would burn pewter for the entirety of the race, significantly speeding up times from what they are right now, like maybe a 2-minute mile or something. Steelrunning would be a lot harder because there wouldn't be a way to regulate how much speed is in each metalmind, but maybe it could work somehow.

Iron Baseball:

Baseball, but after someone hits a metal ball into the air, catchers/lurchers have to pull it into their glove by Pulling it instead of just normally catching it. Maybe the batter is a Thug, or they're a Coinshot.

Of course, all of these sports are based off of modern day sports, so of course they would look very different, if they existed at all. If Sanderson decides to do this, he'll probably think of way more complex sports that I could never think of

Do you guys have any ideas of what potential sports could look like?

[Bookish Ocelot she/her]

Steel Highjump- using steelpushing to jump hurdles

Tin archery- Shooting targets thrown into the air really far away.

Steel Ferring Capture the flag- Changing weight while playing capture the flag

Copperminding?- How much of a phone book can you memorize?

Tin Taste-testing - Try and see how good their storing abilities really are- can they eat horneater food without projectile vomiting?

Chromium Wheel of Fortune- exactly what it sounds like

[Stormfather-in-Law]

You could call it the "Iron Man."

 

I'll see myself out.

[SwordNimiForPresident the sword/that sword]

Speed chess with F-steel and F-zinc. Alternatively you could have them play Go.

Iron twinborn tug-of-war.

Coinshot Quidditch.

[Gasper he/him]

20 hours ago, BookishOcelot said:

Steel Highjump- using steelpushing to jump hurdles

Tin archery- Shooting targets thrown into the air really far away.

Steel Ferring Capture the flag- Changing weight while playing capture the flag

Copperminding?- How much of a phone book can you memorize?

Tin Taste-testing - Try and see how good their storing abilities really are- can they eat horneater food without projectile vomiting?

Chromium Wheel of Fortune- exactly what it sounds like

Steel is speed, changing weight is Iron

[+robardin he/him]

I've been pondering how someone in Era 2 could re-create Vin's "horseshoe trick" to travel long distances, which involved both Pulling and Pushing.

Either Wax gets spiked for A-iron (and then could compound F-Iron, as a bonus), or heck, why not harness together a Coinshot and Lurcher to pull it off, as if they were operating separate legs on a speed skater robot? It'd just be practice and coordination to get it down, right?

Now that you bring up the idea of a "Metalympics", that'd be one event I'd pay to watch: tandem paired "two-legged races".

When the Set sent the two Allomancers with Miles that were code-named "Push" and "Pull", I was sure they would coordinate to do something like that, but no, Pull just got shot with a gun and then Push got ceramic-tip-shrapneled by Wax.

Edited April 9, 2019 by robardin