Jello's Seal Ideas:
All of the below is written with the assumptions that:
- Novices have TMs of about 10
- Journeyman have TMs of about 20 (I assume this is what is needed for explosives and storage, and is the skill level most sealers top out at.)
- Masters, like Kagome, have TMs of about 40.
- Grandmasters, like Jiraiya or Minato, have TMs of about 60.
If any of the above is wrong, I'd like a heads up so I can fix the numbers below.
Most of the ideas below come from asking myself what I could expect jiraiya to have seen at some point.
Passive Weight Seal (PWS)
This is a basic seal that will just increase its weight when activated. It preserves the velocity of seal when activated. It can be activated many times, but will automatically turn off after 15 minutes or so. Jiraiya lost a bet to Guy a few years back and, instead of running around Konoha on his hands a hundred times, made a set of these seals as payment.
The seal itself gets heavier, not anything it's attached to, you have to carefully mount the seal to avoid it tearing itself or your object apart. In particular, it's the actual ink/engraving/etching that gains the weight. If you activate the seal when it's still wet it can make the ink drip or bleed in ways that will cause failure. If it's on a large piece of paper only the chunk with the actual seal on it will gain the weight, with all the consequences thereof.
Gravity does affect this seal.
Usually, on destruction the seal just stops weighing more than the original material. However, more exotic failure modes are not unheard of.
This is actually a pretty available seal, pretty much every major village will have access to it in some form. It used to be considered a training seal but fell out of favor because it's more difficult than modern storage or explosive seals. It's only really used by the occasional strength focused seal-master as a training aid, but you'll find a copy in every major village, whether it's in a clan's archives or part of the military seal library.
Basic Version:
- The seal can be activated many times and stays on for a fixed period of time determined by the seal master. It cannot be turned off manually or reactivated while on.
- Minimum Active Time (min): 5 + Ceil(200 / Sealing-TM)
- Maximum Active Time (min): 5 + Ceil(200 / Sealing-TM) + (Sealing-TM / 2)
- There is also some error to when the deactivation occurs. The same seal, on different uses, can deactivate up to a minute early or late. This error exists regardless of the TM of the sealmaster.
- The maximum amount of weight added is determined by the skill of the seal master.
- Minimum Weight (kg): 0kg
- Maximum Weight (kg): (Sealing-TM - 10) / 5
- The precision of the seal determines how finely the sealmaster can tune the weight of the seal. The more skillful a sealmaster is, the more precisely they can choose the weight of the final seal.
- Maximum Precision (kg): Sealing-TM / 10
- Minimum Skill Level (TM): 10
Jiraiya's Version:
At some point Jiraiya decided to play with making his version of the seal more efficient, and ended up with the following changes.
- Maximum Weight (kg): (Sealing-TM - 20) / 2
- Maximum Precision (kg): (Sealing-TM - 10) / 5
- Minimum Skill Level (TM): 20
Inertia Seal
The Inertia Seal is a rare variant of the Passive Weight Seal that only increases the inertial mass of an object and not the gravitational mass.
The Inertia Seal adds mass to the seal itself, along the same lines as the PWS, but that mass is not affected by gravity. This means that an unattached inertia seal will act like an object in microgravity, when you push it, it keeps going straight. An inertia seal attached to a heavier object will make that object less affected by gravity, making it fall more slowly.
The other major side effect is that while an inertia seal is active, it will shift the center of mass of an object towards itself. E.g. one on the end of a rod will shift the center of mass of the rod towards the location of the seal. Mind you, this does
not shift the center of mass for gravitational attraction, so gravity will pull the object from off-center, and objects will seem to 'hang' from the inertia seal.
Jiraiya made this when experimenting at some point but couldn't really figure out a use for it. It didn't work so well with weight training, because it shifted how your body moved so unintuitively.
- The seal can be activated many times and stays on for a fixed period of time determined by the seal master. It cannot be turned on or reactivated while on.
- Minimum Active Time (min): 5 + Ceil(400 / Sealing-TM)
- Maximum Active Time (min): 5 + Ceil(400 / Sealing-TM) + (Sealing-TM / 4)
- There is also some error to when the deactivation occurs. The same seal, on different uses, can deactivate up to a minute early or late. This error exists regardless of the TM of the sealmaster.
- The maximum amount of weight added is determined by the skill of the seal master.
- Minimum Weight (kg): 0kg
- Maximum Weight (kg): (Sealing-TM - 10) / 10
- The precision of the seal determines how finely the sealmaster can tune the weight of the seal. The more skillful a sealmaster is, the more precisely they can choose the weight of the final seal.
- Maximum Precision (kg): Sealing-TM / 20
- Minimum Skill Level (TM): 25
Tick-Tock Seal (TTS)
This seal will make a short chirping noise at regular intervals until it dies. The interval depends on how exactly the seal is infused, and so a more consistent infusion will result in more consistent ticking times. The seal lasts about 1000 chirps and intervals can be as short as 5 seconds or as long 1 minute. The seal can only be activated once and will continue chirping until it is deactivated or dies naturally.
This was a part of an exercise that Jiraiya's sealing tutors used to (try to) humble him. They would challenge him to make a dozen TTSs and activate them all at the same time. Since the intervals on Jiraiya's (hastily infused) seals were significantly different, they would all quickly go out of sync. When the sealing tutors themselves did the same thing, their seals would be in sync until the demonstration ended (usually when the tutors noticed that the chirps were starting to sound longer, but well before multiple chirps were distinguishable.)
Presumably other sealers used the same trick to humble overzealous students everywhere.
There's no real mechanics here, like the chime seal this one only really needs exist as fluff.
Chakra Filter Seal (CFS)
Part of Jiraiya's work on reverse engineering Naruto's Kyuubi Binding seal so that he could maintain it properly after Jiraiya died.
The Chakra Filter Seal is derived from an element of Naruto's seal that filters out much of the harmful Kyuubi chakra from the flow entering Naruto.
- Incoming chakra is separated into two streams, one containing the chosen type of chakra, and one containing the rest.
- Easiest to Separate: Yin, Yang
- Hard: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Lightning, Rock
- Harder: Nature, Medical
- Hardest: Unnatural Chakra, Biiju Chakra, etc...
- The filtering is imperfect, the filtered output will contain some impurities, and the unfiltered output will contain some wasted chakra.
- The purity of the filtering gets better as the Sealmaster's skill improves.
- Chakra can be pushed into the input side from a users fingers or feet.
- Output chakra is just pushed out in its raw form, and tends to realize itself in whatever form is most natural for it. (Fire, force, chakra construct water or dust, shadow, light, etc..)
- This cannot be directly connected to any of the other seal's inputs without designing a specialized seal that contains the functions of both the CFS and the other chakra manipulation seal!
- The above applies to every other output in a chakra manipulation seal.
- The seal slowly degrades over time in a way that skilled sealmaster can repair.
I can't really say what the TN should be for any of these chakra manipulation seals, but it should probably be pretty high, on the edge of Kagome's current ability at minimum.
Chakra Dissapation Seal (CDS)
Also derived from Jiraiya's reverse engineering work.
- Dissipates input chakra as colored light and not as fire, an evil aura, or whatever it would naturally dissapate as.
- Same as before, input chakra can be pushed from hands or feet.
Chakra Buffer Seal (CBS)
Also derived from Jiraiya's reverse engineering work.
- Takes a variable stream of input chakra and produces a constant strength output stream (as long as the buffer has enough in it).
- A full buffer can usually hold about a week's worth chakra output.
- There is some inefficiency as chakra is lost on input.
- Input can be pushed into the seal from the hands or feet.
- The constant output pushes chakra out in its raw form.
- There is also an overflow output that pushes out excess input chakra when the buffer is full.
Chakra Amplifier Seal (CAS)
Also derived from Jiraiya's reverse engineering work.
- Has two inputs:
- A source input, where a large amount of chakra is pushed in.
- A control input, where a smaller amount of chakra is pushed in.
- And two outputs:
- The signal output, which outputs "Control + Min(Source, Gain * Control)" chakra.
- An overflow output which outputs "Source + Control - Signal" chakra.
- As with all of these, people can push chakra into an input and the output release chakra in its raw form.
Yes, this is just a transistor, but a transistor that takes 5 minutes of writing and years of skill to construct. It's also pretty useless on its own, and you can't create a multi-seal assembly with them a'la LBFs. Keep in mind all of these seals are small experiments by Jiraiya as he worked to understand how Naruto's Kyuubi seal worked.
Chakra Conversion Seal (CCS)
Jiraiya never actually managed to make a working version of this but he has some notes on the idea and a few experimental failures. This is basically the engine that makes Naruto's seal so powerful, and would be a holy grail of sealing if Jiraiya could have replicated it.
- Takes an input stream containing various proportions of different chakra types.
- Produces an output of a specific chakra type by converting chakra not of that type.
- The input must have some minimal concentration of your chosen type of chakra. (e.g. The input must be at least 10% wind chakra if you want to produce wind chakra.)
- The output is an absolutely pure flow of the chosen chakra type.
- Waste is released as appropriately colored light.
- Somehow seems to be self repairing? Doesn't need maintenance like the other seals or lasts longer than most lifetimes.
The idea and few failed iterations of this one are in Jiraiya's notes, but after a while he got too frustrated and busy trying to go down this path. Especially since the robustness of the corresponding bit of Naruto's seal probably meant he wouldn't actually need to maintain it.
