The Winter Olympics are here, six months after the summer ones last year due to the delay. Normally it would be a year and a half, then two and a half years to next summer. So if they’d moved the winter games to next year it would have been a year and a half on each side. Not great for the competitors but the most even spread for the audience.
I overthink things sometimes.
The Winter Olympics has the skiing and shooting Biathlon being the most James Bond contest (though not the most Player Character) as well as all the fun of isolated ski resorts suitable for snowbound murder mysteries. (Personal note: The first adventure I ever pitched and had turned down, when I was probably eleven, was a mystery set at a fantasy Olympics. So I still kind of want to do something with it.)
Add international politics, odd heroic moments like the Jamaican bobsled team and Eddie the Eagle (famous for being a bad ski jumper but he got down that slope and walked away every time) and both seasonal Olympics have room for all kinds of trouble for PCs to get into.
A nice low-key Opening Ceremony, mostly relying on the floor screen and cute kids.
Obvious pulp adventurer background of the games is Nathan Crumpton, author and photographer representing American Samoa as he did in the summer games last year and going out shirtless for the flag parade.
And we had hail here after the ceremony, so, seasonal.
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