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"We could research both options and see which looks more promising. We might need them both, actually, if it turns out that anti-anti-scrying plus sorcery scrying works."

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"But suppose we manage that, what then? Do we go into the storm once more and try to look farther afield to see what awaits us?"

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"Yes? Do you have a better idea?"

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"Yeah: build a better ward now that will deal with literally anything that storm can throw at us so we're not only reactive."

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"I do want an even better ward. I just don't want to pretend that the storm couldn't surprise us while we are in the middle of it."

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"Yeah, fair enough."

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And they proceed to work on that. They make a super-ultra-duper ward against nearly anything that can be conceivably called "weather" and work on their improvised anti-anti-scrying ward and scrying.

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This will presumably take a few days, yes?

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Well, yes. For the sake of both safety and efficiency, but they already took a while coming here.

Temperance tests sorcery scrying against the storm's anti-scrying. It won't get her all the way as it is, but it hopefully will let her see farther afield than her normal senses.

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She can definitely use magic to improve her senses and detect things in a purely mechanistic way! But no remote scrying seems to work there.

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That is strictly an improvement to being blind-sided by lightning.

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Okay, time to test the anti-anti-scrying, a lesser proof of concept version.

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Nope.

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Well, drat. He guesses they are going to fly blindly, if well-armored.

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...maybe they could spend another couple of days working on it just to be sure.

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And if they do that...

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They think of a few more things to add, and shore up a couple of defences, and then Kaede thinks they're pretty much ready to face the music.

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Alright, Felix wishes themselves luck.

Into the storm.

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The storm is extremely stormy! There is the wind, and the thunder, and the thunder that hits other thunder, and over there in the distance they can see the tornadoes...

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They reinforced the ward so much that the tornadoes don't look that scary at all. The thunder gets annoyingly frequent.

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And Kaede puts up a sound barrier so the thunder will be less annoying.

The tornadoes start becoming more frequent, too. They can see (Kaede counts) thirty-seven.

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"Man, this thing is such a waste of good magic."

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Fifty-four! "This is excessive. Why did anyone think this was a good idea?"

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"I almost hope there is some really dark terrible secret behind thing hidden by this storm. Or at least something worth all this... this."

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Onwards!

...that tornado is rather large. It is a giant tornado. It is really very extremely excessively large. They should probably dodge it because wow it is incredibly big.

(And the flashes coming from it suggest it is filled with lightning and thunder.)

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