On 21 Mar 2013, at 16:50, Chris Lemens <chrislemens_at_...> wrote:
> Jeorg says:
> > How do you fight a wildfire? By depriving it of fuel. Maybe Waha did have the foresight to make the herds bare a stretch of chaparral so that the wildfire would run out.
>
> Well, sort of. You literally fight fire with fire. If you are on the prairie, you will see a wildfire seom a long way away. It looks like a bunch of streamers of smoke, then becomes more like a wall, going with the wind. If you see if coming toward you, you light a back fire.
Although a good real world method, I'd go with a story.
In my Wastelands, Waha has met Foundchild and thus Helpwoman and her three famous meals. She already knows the secret of taming fire to cook. Waha remembers this, goes to her and learns to be a firekeeper. He makes his own magic fire horn from something really cool - like an old broken tip of Storm Bull's horn (the tips grow back of course). He goes to Oakfed and bets him that he can't set fire to the equally cool horn contents. Oakfed jumps... and is trapped. He then gets him to promise to be good, to help the survivors.
A simplistic myth, but should get the idea across.
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