The Staff IC: Threat IV: Daybreaker and Nightmare Moon tea party!

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"Okay..." She flutters down to the ground and begins scratching out a loose diagram with the dark coal ash near the forge.

"Imagine a four storey building... the main destructive element of the earthquake is the fact that the sympathetic vibrations moves up the structure is shifting and reverberating at a different resonance to the ground beneath the structure, like so..." She illustrated with the coal-dusted ground.

https://imgur.com/a/Kklf0aG

"Eventually the building moving atypically to the ground causes structural instability and irregular load shifts destabilizing the entire tower once the structural integrity limit reaches peak capacity to still be load bearing... But!" She wiped down the diagram while sprinkling red, oxidised iron filings to demonstrate her idea using steel composite materials intermixed with existing wooden structure.

https://imgur.com/a/yESY5EJ

"What if you had a series of I-beams and chains, leading to a hollow antechamber housing a variable counterweight built beneath your taller structures? Negating the resonance by changing the upward kinetic energy movement of the building allowing the building to better move in relatonship to the ground around it--Stopping it from shaking itself to pieces?" She paused to illustrate her ideas.

"You could hide the chains through the centre of repurposed wooden rafters with steel piping, and create wood cladding to mask the use of I-beam struts as well to maintain the harmonious architectural look of your buildings. The major work is excavating and creating the antechambers to house the counterweights of all your higher buildings... but once the work is done, you shouldn't even notice them!" She beamed.

"The trick isn't building a more rigid structure, the trick is counteracting the most destructive sympathetic vibrations of the structure so that the building does not wobble. Structural fortitude through a free moving couterweight that nullifies the destructive, irregular transfer of energy in relationship to the ground supports." She flittered back into the air at that.