Notes page for the RP from 4/20/2024.
All PCs and young men from the southern air temple, located in the Patola Mountain Range.
Names: Jangchup, Sangey, Wangchen, Yungdrung, Ihen, Peshohn, Hii, Nollil, Rine, Lasu
PCs are tasked with guiding a typhoon that is approaching landfall and will destroy air nomad farmlands if allowed to continue on its course.
On their way to dealing with the typhoon they do see people running for shelter, some less successfully than others, within the air nomad colonies.
It is not possible to enter the hurricane directly as the eye wall is too strong. No matter what the PCs do they will be thrown back. Flying over the eye wall. Doing so causes the PCs to enter a low pressure area where they will need to use airbending to prevent suffocation.
The eye is characterized by a strong, but not insurmountable, downdraft with the ocean below being full of massive crisscrossing waves.
The PCs will have lost their orientation upon entering the eye. The spirit of the tornado is one of excited power, warm and frantic. The PCs can opt to orient themselves based on the sun, on directing the typhoon opposite its current course (as best they can), or by trying to reach out through airbending to feel what the winds feel out to their furthest points like could be done in the swamp.
They don't have much time for discussion, though, as the downdraft will start to exhaust them.
The spirit of the hurricane is, itself, very disordiented, but having a good time. It communicates through impressions. The airbenders have to convince it to change course. Lying won't work as it can only feel intent, not understand the actual words. It doesn't get offended by lying but is confused by it and, so, is not convinced. It also isn't convinced by any argument regarding the destruction or, even, death it might cause. Death doesn't mean anything to it and destruction assumes it values things staying in one form as opposed to changing to another. The easiest way to convince it to move away is that landfall will weaken the winds and end the fun.