[BBS] Open discussion post

[wrnpcs]

Hello SeeDs, Cadets, and staff members,

I'm sure you've all heard about the peculiar winter Trabia continues to experience. Normally the continent would be starting to warm up around this year (as much as it ever does), but this year the usual seasonal changes have not taken hold:

Temperatures remain cold

The snow and ice have not melted

Nights are still long

Plants are not showing signs of new growth or blooming

Hibernating animals are still hibernating

Migratory animals have not returned

Trabia's top scientists are beginning to suspect time compression is to blame. A scientific team from Esthar is looking into how to stop this seasonal freeze at its source, but since the prolonged winter is already affecting farming and looks set to affect the hydroelectricity grid, the Trabian government is more concerned with bringing on spring.

As we have considerable experience with the effects of time compression, as well as a number of people with from different worlds which may work differently from our own, a small delegation including a researcher from the University of Trabia's Environmental Science department and the Trabian Minister of Agriculture will be arriving in Balamb Garden on Tuesday to discuss possible solutions.

This will be a closed conference, unfortunately, to keep order and so as not to disrupt classes, but I would appreciate and will pass on any suggestions or proposals you may have. Please use this post to discuss among yourselves how Trabia might induce spring.

Best,

Headmaster Cid

(OOC: Open discussion post! Threadjack each other and don't feel like you need to wait for NPC responses. The date is an IC arrival date only rather than an OOC tagging deadline; please feel free to keep backtagging! The delegation's visit will not be logged, but all suggestions will be passed on IC.)

Comments

[tiamat_shot]

If you need to melt ice, you use fire.

We have more than enough paramagic, if we use it wisely.

Why hasn't this already been done?

[Emias literally sees no flaw in this train of thought.]

[rewritethis]

Use it wisely and wait for the ice to come back so you can waste some more, you mean. I wonder.

[tiamat_shot]

If there's no water then there's no ice.

We just have to use enough to dry up the water.

[...yes, the moogle is essentially suggesting that a Scorched Earth plan is an effective way of dealing with permafrost.]

[rewritethis]

Sure, that makes sense. If what they're going for is giving the farmers something else to complain about.

But come to think of it, picking one symptom to tackle first could be the way to approach this, so long as they pick something sane. [Unlike some possibilities that may have been raised.] The plants, maybe. We're talking about a whole ecosystem being out of whack. It's all connected.

That's assuming they'll be as useless about addressing the underlying problem as they have been up until now, anyway.

[tiamat_shot]

You think Time Compression is really something that can be fought? I mean... from what little I've learned about this place, it's basically a magical force of nature, like Mist storms back home. You... can't really fight something like that. You can install measures that lessen the impact, but if something happens and an area gets flooded with Mist, you might as well just find another place to live because that city is fucked.

Except Time Compression is affecting the whole world. And other worlds, if we're trusting that it's what brought us here.

[youngnobelman]

The water may be of use elsewhere, perhaps in the hydroelectric lakes.

[tiamat_shot]

Now see, that's not a bad idea if we have to forcibly jump-start the seasonal change. Certainly better than totally ruining it.

[Yeah, he knew his ideas would end up killing the plant-life possibly irreversibly. And yet he suggested them anyway, make of it what you will.]

[espio]

And setting fire to things helps... how? The migratory animals won't come back. The daylight hours will still be reduced. The weather will still be too bitter for food to grow.

[tiamat_shot]

It melts the ice.

We can't just not do anything, we have to start from some point.

[espio]

It's Trabia. Trabia is icy. Ice is Trabia's thing. Thus, the ice isn't even the problem. Fix what's broken, not what isn't.

[tiamat_shot]

I didn't know. I've only been here a few months.




Sir.

[seethelanterns]

It's almost sad to think of spring never coming after winter. I'm not sure if the Time Compression has affected the weather like this before, but if there is some way we can help, I'd like to try. Perhaps if we are able to melt the snow and ice that will help the plants at the very least?

[guidethesun]

We'd need something big in numbers for that, Blondie. If it works, there would need to be a lot of it to get as far as Trabia is concerned.

[seethelanterns]

I guess so. I'm not sure what we might be able to do to help the animals, I hope they are all right. I guess they're still hibernating because it is still so cold up there.

[guidethesun]

For some animals that's not good. They can't hibernate too long or they get sick.

[seethelanterns]

They might get sick? But, there must be something we can do to help!

[guidethesun]

What I know of Tradia is what I've gotten from books here in the library, but the only thing I can think of is regarding the animals not migrating back. Maybe someone should follow their migration path and see if they'd been cut off at a pass or something like that.

The weather's changed, right? So maybe the migratory animals are reacting to that.
- Eugene Fitzherbert

[selphie_t]

The Spring thaw is usually late though up there anyway because Trabia's so far north. Still though, it should be starting to warm up at least.

Trabia's my home too so what're we gonna do to help out when we've got all the info?

[curiouseyes]

That's very strange that it hasn't come back. I don't know much about witches, but would magic help?

[bunnypassingby]

What kind of magic?

And what do witches have to do with this? Do you know something the Headmaster didn't bring up?

[curiouseyes]

I don't know. Maybe something with nature?

He mentioned the time compression. Didn't a witch cause that?

[bunnypassingby]

Do you have any magic like that, or know if anyone around here does?

A sorceress caused time compression. I'm not sure witches and sorceresses are on the same scale...

[curiouseyes]

I don't have that ability unfortunately. I think there is someone here who does so she might be able to try something.

So sorceresses are stronger than witches? I only know one person called a witch, but I think Victor was joking when he called her that.

[earthlychild]

I'm not quite the green thumb I used to be on my home planet, but I'd like to see it for myself if that's possible. Maybe I can figure something out.

[guidethesun]

Sounds like you and Rapunzel share the same ideas.

-Eugene Fitzherbert