Help!

[kaitou]

I'm a little underwhelmed by the nanowrimo help forum this year. I'm looking for some ideas on how you could theoretically 'trigger' a volcano. It can be either actually scientifically based, or magically based as long as it has a solid theory behind it. From what I understand explosives wouldn't be at all helpful.

When I asked on the nano forum I got the scintillating information that volcanoes blow when the pressure is too high, and a link to the wikipedia site. Because, gee, I didn't think to look there already. I'm trying to come up with an idea on how to artificially increase pressure in a fairly short amount of time. (few months?)

So does anyone have any possible ideas, even silly ones that could help trigger an idea? That way I won't have to go back to my useless little thread that's been buried under threads like 'vile cheeses' and 'name my character!'

Thank you!

Comments

[dogmatix-san.livejournal.com]

As for triggering earthquakes.... hmm. Some kind of super-grade magical lube slipped intbetween the continental plates? Setting off explosions on/in faults?

If a volcano close to a main city was linked to a dragon to keep it dormant, and the dragon put under a sleep spell, and then the culture kind of petered out and the dragon was forgotten, then some kind of idiot/righteous killer of dragons could show up a few centuries later, find the sleeping dragon, think 'ah, easy kill!', and get splatted under the exploding earthquake when the dragon's violent death made it go boom?

What's that one myth.. world serpent? Norse myth, I think. If someone were ignorant/powerful/stupid/lucky/just-plain-insane enough to kill said world serpent, then you'd get a looooot of earthquakes, and probably an exploding volcano or two would be the least of your worries (tidal waves, collapsed cities, etc etc), unless it was like the caldera that is Yellowstone National Park that'd wipe out a good part of the continent or something.