Quote:Array-less alchemy is possible and so is remote alchemy,” Ed muttered. “But without journeying to the Gate or paying a Tool?”Okay, Ed is doing it on purpose now.
Though it can't hurt to ask, I doubt they'd be able to just make the dust particles and such in the smoke solidify and fall into the ocean on the fly, thus killing the telling cloud and leaving only a minor heat distortion... I'd say to hear Ed out and ignore them until they actually come towards us. Wood ship versus faster metal in a game of chicken? They'd be able to out run us in the other direction and bombard us to death. Its dawn not night, so the entire fire ship would have to roll ones on all their spot checks for like an hour for us to get in the sweet spot between siege range and fire bending range for our side to crack their shell and sink their boat.