driftfleet | can a fairy fly underwater??

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can a fairy fly underwater??

Who: A well-balanced party- AKA Kirito, Asuna, Nightingale, Opal, Jayden, and Nami
Broadcast: N/A
Action: One of the underwater ruins
When: During this month!

[At some point after getting Nightingale to stop screaming, a proper party is assembled! They've got everything: tanks, mages, DPS, puzzle-solvers! This whole dungeon crawl should be a cinch, right? It's not like any of them have a tendency to attract bad luck or sudden disaster.

H e h. Good luck, nerds.]

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Okay, I have no idea what MP cost is. This is two thirds of a weather control system so its effects are variable but maintainable and some of it will be useless under water-- more specifically I'd imagine the parts that summon more water in any form-- and its range is sky high. Or line of sight, I guess. I need to be able to see what I'm doing.

Oh, and I can hit people with it. I learned how to use a staff before I ever upgraded to weather science, so in a pinch I will break someone's face, I'm sure.

[WE'RE RPGS OK]

... Yeah, weather control is probably not going to be much good underwater. Especially since we're apparently not supposed to use lightning?

[she doesn't get it but ok]

Staff is probably going to be the most useful part down here.

Water conducts lightning. In a small enough space, whoever uses it will fry us all. And we'll see-- most things are useless without the requisite amount of air to play with, but there are a few choices still available to me. My preference is not to have to physically poke a monster in the face.

... That isn't how magic works. I'll stick with fire, then, I guess.

You might need to stay in the back, then... We seem to have everything covered, anyway.

That's how science works. If you have magic lightning, it could be a different story, but finding out you're wrong down here might be kind of lethal.

[Also, are you insinuating that she's not useful here, because--] Great idea! I'll be in the back if anyone needs me!

[--sold.

]

... Right.

[She knows she shouldn't say it. She knows it can't help. And yet.]

So you think I shouldn't use my lightning underwater, but you don't have any problem with me using fire underwater instead?

That depends on the heat and volume of your fire. [Nami raises an eyebrow.] But you say that's not how magic works, so do you actually want a scientific explanation?

No. I know how science works. Mundane fire would be smothered, lacking the oxygen to continue its reaction underwater.

Magic fire just does damage to my enemies.

Then physics aren't involved. I mean, I assume you've had time to verify your magic works on the Fleet just the way it does elsewhere by now. [Shrug.] You answered your own question, anyway. If someone's nervous about you using lightning under water because of scientific reasons, they're not gonna have a problem with fire for the exact same reason.

...and if it's all magic, it's all moot, so. I don't care if you use lightning, in that case. If for some reason I get fried, I'll just come and haunt you.

If lightning magic fries anyone, it'll get me first, so don't worry.

[she's tired of ghosts :(]

I wouldn't use my lightning down here because it's based in science. [She smiles wryly.] Buuut that's moot. I still don't have that section of my weapon anyway.