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[X] Kaizuki

A storm like this should dissipate quickly once we remove its energy source, and Flattening the city would make Homura very cross.

We don't want that.
 
[JK] Find girl to make a wish that will turn storm into a girl
-[JK] Befriend storm
-[jk] relize you just helped Kyuubey
-[jk] Panic
 
Most ways of adding heat to the storm have a high chance of being counterproductive, I think. Anything that warms the air, or vaporizes water--thus adding heat and vapor content--will drive an updraft, which will potentially draw warm moist air from ground level and thus sustain the storm. If you find a downdraft and add heat there, you could probably disrupt it with a somewhat precise amount of heat, but the normal behavior of a blob of warm air full of freshly vaporized water, however created, is to rise up and rain.

So, like, finding and disrupting the storm-producing magic is valid, but solutions based on natural atmospheric behavior want a step where you stop the convection. As long as there's still enough Convective Available Potential Energy (ie warm and/or humid air low to the ground), there's a way for it to restart. Actually, even if one disrupts the magic, there might be enough stored energy to keep it going.

It seems like heating the air at high altitudes might be valid--but it's tricky, since if one did that enough to remove the buoyancy of the low-lying air, then denser air from around the storm could flow in, which would cause high winds. I'm not sure how to fix that.

Cooling and dehumidifying low level air is the way to go for starving the storm, I think. And an attempt to do that will likely be fighting the magic that currently sustains the storm, so it may be a valid way to draw out whoever's doing it.
 
Redshirt Army said:
Yeah, leaving it to Mika seems like the safest approach.
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Some magic or other is what's actually driving the storm. Her interest in having a look at the storm seems strongly suggestive that she can at least interact with it, so inviting her over is likely to be productive.

Her interrupt-the-natural-processes toolkit is not necessarily better, since the stored energy is mainly in humidity rather than air movement.
 
Genial Precis said:
Some magic or other is what's actually driving the storm. Her interest in having a look at the storm seems strongly suggestive that she can at least interact with it, so inviting her over is likely to be productive.

Her interrupt-the-natural-processes toolkit is not necessarily better, since the stored energy is mainly in humidity rather than air movement.
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Sabrina: "We should take this storm, and push it somewhere else."
 
IIRC, Asunaro are more friends than formal allies, but we did sign a contract officiating a defensive alliance with Fukushima; we should definitely contact them if we have any reason to believe this is enemy action (if for no other reason than to keep them appraised of the developing situation), just because that's part of our mutual commitment and helps assure them that we're serious about it.
 
Kaizuki said:
Okay so purely for my edification (1) I'd like to request people contribute a large variety of ways we might, oh, you know, get rid of the entire storm system.

So far I'm at "flash vaporize the entire thing by emission of heat from grief seeded into the storm via ribbon." Thoughts?

(1) -- and also to raise general confidence, but mostly for my edification. Cat want imagine weather go BOOM, nya.
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Okay, but perhaps we've all been so caught up in talking about weather we could, that we forgot to ask about weather we should.

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But obligatory pun and reference aside, I do think there's an important question there: Our response to the storm itself should probably be an answer to it's purpose.

Why in the world would someone even make a storm like this in the first place? That's the thing that gets me in all this.

If it was a hurricane, that would be something. But the storm itself doesn't appear to be doing anyone immediate harm. It's just... a thunderstorm, and not a particularly dangerous one. Sitting there longer than it should. Sure it's subtle in that its hard to see the magic in it, but subtle so as to do what?

That's part of why I'm a lot less in the mindset of enemy action. I'm having a hard time seeing the hostile intent here. The only person I could see using it for hostile purpose is Akiko, and then just as a convenient source of water for her powers that doesn't require breaking watermains.
 
The Phoenixian said:
That's part of why I'm a lot less in the mindset of enemy action. I'm having a hard time seeing the hostile intent here. The only person I could see using it for hostile purpose is Akiko, and then just as a convenient source of water for her powers that doesn't require breaking watermains.
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In the event that we are about to be ambushed by a waterbender, though, dialing our grief fog up might be a good idea.
 
The Phoenixian said:
But obligatory pun and reference aside, I do think there's an important question there: Our response to the storm itself should probably be an answer to it's purpose.

Why in the world would someone even make a storm like this in the first place? That's the thing that gets me in all this.
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I agree that the storm's purpose is currently unclear. I think we should (somehow) find whoever's doing it and open a dialogue. Fight if necessary, but the storm is not immediately particularly disruptive. If it just goes on it'll presumably eventually cause flooding, but it's not even clear that that's a concern? Like, meguca fights are one thing, but it's quite another to just up and try to flood a city. That goal would pretty much imply Iowa. They would be trying to draw out the locals for a fight.

Mami's elven eyes are probably enough early warning to avoid a nasty ambush. Dialing up the grief fog per @Torgamous might be wise. Stay with Homura.

I'm a little biased toward messing with the storm since it seems like a non-hostile way to draw out whoever's doing it. Throwing up a beacon, as it were. But other (more effective) measures to go and find stormguca for a chat are valid.
 
One thing that I feel shouldn't be overlooked is the possibility of a witch doing it.

Random nonsense happening for some random nonsense reason is definitely within a Witch's MO.
 
The podium-constructing witch. Her nature is procrastination. She enjoys spinning in circles but quickly becomes dizzy. She will continue to rotate aimlessly throughout the world until she makes some parts of this age more dramatic than they were.
 
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