- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
[X] [Naming] Runecrafting and Runes
Alas, I am more attached to "rune" than "lithosealing".
I am now more in favour of taking Noburi with us when we go. Even if Orochimaru kidnaps another Wakahisa, he'd have to spend time cobbling together enough chakra sources to turn that into a proper replacement, which buys us more time.
Hazou says that AMITY makes it hard for him now in particular, and Orochimaru doesn't disagree, but AMITY's not that special in this regard. Chouza regards it as just another postwar treaty, and like, that implies there are other postwar treaties, which means this sort of situation where villages getting caught attacking each other is a big deal must've happened before, in the time after the other world wars. What's different? Is anything different? How do you do missions like this, in this kind of quantity, in these circumstances? I mean, Sannin being Sannin you could expect to send them out more safely than any other Jounin, but how is there even this kind of volume of murder missions in the first place? Did the Sannin account for 75% of all confirmed kills in that year? It just doesn't make sense to me, and the cynic in my head keeps saying that if we ever properly interacted with that part of the setting we'd quickly find that something in the above set of facts has to yield for the setting to stay coherent.
Alas, I am more attached to "rune" than "lithosealing".
This is very ominous, since Orochimaru has already achieved his objective of training Bones of Creation to an acceptable level and must now have simply cottoned on to how powerful the combination is. I'd say he's still missing the secret sauce of "use clone-hours to train resolve to get more clone-hours" but Orochimaru's un-FOOM'd Resolve is likely comparable to our FOOM'd Resolve regardless.
I am now more in favour of taking Noburi with us when we go. Even if Orochimaru kidnaps another Wakahisa, he'd have to spend time cobbling together enough chakra sources to turn that into a proper replacement, which buys us more time.
I still don't understand how this shakes out. Like, the impression we keep getting is that even a single confirmed case of a ninja from one village attacking a ninja from another village is the sort of thing that sparks war. And sure, if nobody escapes it's not a confirmed case, but how many missions can you do before you slip up even once? And it's not like ninja never fail these missions, so like, some fraction above 1% of all missions at minimum should be resulting in confirmed intel of enemy action. It just doesn't add up: either there can't be that many missions like this, or it should be a lot harder to spark a war.
Hazou says that AMITY makes it hard for him now in particular, and Orochimaru doesn't disagree, but AMITY's not that special in this regard. Chouza regards it as just another postwar treaty, and like, that implies there are other postwar treaties, which means this sort of situation where villages getting caught attacking each other is a big deal must've happened before, in the time after the other world wars. What's different? Is anything different? How do you do missions like this, in this kind of quantity, in these circumstances? I mean, Sannin being Sannin you could expect to send them out more safely than any other Jounin, but how is there even this kind of volume of murder missions in the first place? Did the Sannin account for 75% of all confirmed kills in that year? It just doesn't make sense to me, and the cynic in my head keeps saying that if we ever properly interacted with that part of the setting we'd quickly find that something in the above set of facts has to yield for the setting to stay coherent.
