[X] Action Plan: Give Us TH Mechanics Now + Sealing Research
Word Count: <300
  • Desired update duration: 11 days
  • Move research sites, clean up used runic substrate. Head for a random island on the other side of Aisu Bay, swing by our first FFW site and grab the expended rune.
  • Start spending as much time as possible inside a TR125 without missing obligations on the Seventh Path
  • Work on our TH project with Toad Sages
    • Buy up to TH 10 when XP becomes available
    • Candidate projects:
      • A noncombat, modified version of Earth Rend (or Spine of the Earth?) that tills fields rough enough that civilians would otherwise find it difficult/impossible to work.
      • Less chakra-intensive MARI
      • A sturdier version of Mud Hut (more compact walls/ceiling)
      • Multiple Earth Wall variant that produces stone with a slightly different mineral composition than the usual MEW granite
      • Non-elemental short (<5 cm) range activation of seal
      • ES but faster and shorter range
      • Telekenesis of rocks/earth (e.g. pull a pebble towards you)
      • QUASI
      • A modification of Earth Rend that is non-combat viable, but great at leveling ground. Intended to be used for NOBURI. This redesign(?) is teachable to other ninja without sharing Earth Rend.
      • Longer duration Earth Clone
  • Dogs
    • Go see what Canabisu has to say in his debrief about his travels
      • Assist in his "rehabilitation" of Cantelabra
    • Attend the Gray Oak's taleswap for Canaut
  • Sealing Research
    • 1st SSA track, Force Claws, full prep
    • 2nd SSA track, Army of One, full prep
    • 3rd non-SSA track, CATEARS, prep 4 days, infuse, then prep 3 days, infuse
    • 4th track - difficulty checks on the following
      • Unchained TR 150, TRA 200, RARS, Mirror Dragon Rune, Space Stretch, Wormhole, Time Twister, Flashlight, Magnifying Glass Rune
      • Ask Kagome to get fresh samples of the Mirror Dragon from Arachnid, failing that, have Noburi retrieve the ones from the Goketsu estate.
....why no runes? And do we really want to commit SSA time to Army of One right now?
And why are we reserving so many FOOM blocks instead of research progress?

EDIT:
also, isn't full-prep SSA going to slow us down for Jounin runes? I think we could have a significantly faster research period.

Also also, are we abandoning the Temporal Runes? If not, we should always be rushing them ahead of other research.
 
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....why no runes? And do we really want to commit SSA time to Army of One right now?
And why are we reserving so many FOOM blocks instead of research progress?
We don't have good runic anti-Akatsuki weapon candidates right now. I'm doing a variety of prep days to determine the best path forward. TR130s don't seem good enough to me to force them through to completion. I'm in the process of writing up descriptions of the prep days in my plan.

EDIT: I'm confused about "reserving FOOM blocks", 4 tracks is our maximum research output...
 
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We don't have good runic anti-Akatsuki weapon candidates right now. I'm doing a variety of prep days to determine the best path forward. TR130s don't seem good enough to me to force them through to completion. I'm in the process of writing up descriptions of the prep days in my plan.

EDIT: I'm confused about "reserving FOOM blocks", 4 tracks is our maximum research output...
Can we take two days to earn 14xp, prep day all candidates, and then reassess?
The current plan seems really wasteful of our incredibly limited time.
 
Can we take two days to earn 14xp, prep day all candidates, and then reassess?
The current plan seems really wasteful of our incredibly limited time.
No, since we'd need to be FOOMing to do that in 2 days, we could probably do that in 3 days. Regardless, it will take Hazou some time to finish his TH project. So this isn't wasted time, unless you think we have no business doing paper sealing at all. In which case, I disagree.
 
Move research sites, clean up used runic substrate. Head for a random island on the other side of Aisu Bay, swing by our first FFR site and grab the expended rune.
Pretty sure we can't actually do this for another couple of days—some of our runes and runic prototypes from the last cycle are still active.

Unchained TR 150, TRA 200, RARS, Mirror Dragon Rune, Space Stretch, Wormhole, Time Twister, Flashlight, Magnifying Glass Rune
I think you're missing hyperlinks here.

Ask Kagome to get fresh samples of the Mirror Dragon from Arachnid, failing that, have Noburi retrieve the ones from the Goketsu estate.
The level of indentation on this is confusing.
 
No, since we'd need to be FOOMing to do that in 2 days, we could probably do that in 3 days. Regardless, it will take Hazou some time to finish his TH project. So this isn't wasted time, unless you think we have no business doing paper sealing at all. In which case, I disagree.
High difficulty paper seals take a lot of time to finish. Temporal runes finish quickly,and give us more time.
There seems like an obvious best ordering.

And why specify "full prep" instead of "let hazoupilot decide? SSA on a Jounin seal probably doesn't need full prep.
 
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[X] Action Plan: Time Chamber first, don't squander time.
Word Count: <300
  • Desired update duration: 4 days.
  • Move research sites, clean up used runic substrate. Head for a random island on the other side of Aisu Bay, swing by our first FFR site and grab the expended rune.
    • Get K&K's opinions on the advantages of constantly relocating vs staying in a time rune
  • Start spending as much time as possible inside a TR125 without missing obligations on the Seventh Path
  • Work on our TH project with Toad Sages
    • Buy up to TH 10 when XP becomes available
    • Candidate projects:
      • A noncombat jutsu for tilling or leveling ground.
      • Less chakra-intensive MARI
      • A sturdier version of Mud Hut
      • Multiple Earth Wall variant that produces stone with a slightly different mineral composition than the usual MEW granite
      • Non-elemental short (<5 cm) range activation of seal
      • ES but faster and shorter range
      • QUASI
      • Longer duration Earth Clone
  • Dogs
    • Go see what Canabisu has to say in his debrief about his travels
      • Assist in his "rehabilitation" of Cantelabra
    • Attend the Gray Oak's taleswap for Canaut
  • Sealing Research
 
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I'd vote for that plan if it didn't waste time in TR130. Remember that our actual short-term goal is weapons research, and that spending a whole cycle for a +5% gain probably won't pay off by then.
 
Unchained TR 150

Rune


As with TR 150, but using the default (30 day?) duration and the default AoE, intended to make the effect as easy as possible to produce.

TRA 200

Rune


The final evolution of the Temporal Rune, the Temporal Runic Array. Instead of a single central rune, utilizes a runic array to increase the speedup factor significantly. Speedup is defined by the number in the name. 100 being a normal rate of time passing, this variant being a 100% speedup. Uses the default number of runic elements (however many that may be) lasts the default duration, and covers the default amount of space.

RARS

Seal


Runic ARS, a variant of ARS that can activate a rune. Default range.

Mirror Dragon Rune

Rune

Inspired by the Mirror Dragon and Orochimaru's tales of Itachi's Mirror, and by studying samples of the Mirror Dragon's remains (which have been noted to still have the "reflection" storage effect active), Hazou creates a rune that can store incoming attacks in a "mirror" that we can then "reflect" back on command.

EDIT: Rune updated
Hazō decides that 'attacks' is too generic, and limits the scope of the rune to solely reflecting ninjutsu (not storing, as storing ninjutsu seems like a totally different research pathway). Hazō thinks doing this rune would remove a Sealing stagnancy barrier (though this is no guarantee that the rune is doable).

Space Twister

Rune

A rune designed to pierce esoteric defenses, chaotically, cyclically warps space around the rune (like a twister). Elongates, shortens, separates, and joins matter in the area at random. Natural duration and AoE.

Flashlight

Seal

A redesign of Hazou's Amazing Directional Lantern, this variant of the JADL is tunable in output color like a HOWS, but emits ~900 lumens in a 4 cm diameter circle out of the front of the seal just like this flashlight. Like most LED flashlights, this is temporarily blinding when shined directly in the eyes at close range (<10 m) during the night. However, it cause no temporary or permanent damage to the retinas.

Magnifying Glass Rune

Rune


AKA Archimedes' Death Ray

Why generate your own power to make a death laser when the Sun is right there?

A rune that collects and concentrates the sunlight over a wide area and focuses it into a burning ray of extreme power. The power output of the sun is, on average, 1370 W/m^2 so a rune that collects even a fraction of that over several hectares would be a megawatt beam emitter, enough to melt the ground to lava and burn a hole in more or less anything.

This variant can't be aimed. Simply the collector (chakra construct mirrors?) and emitter. Much less powerful near sunset and sunrise, strongest at noon. Archimedes would be proud.

Wormhole

Seal/Rune

Idea courtesy of @Cariyaga. A combination of seal and runecrafting. This rune folds space, using the seal element as a target. When the rune and seal elements are both activated, the combo creates wormhole through which chakra effects, seals, people, and things may pass.

In practice, treat the Zones in which both ends of the wormhole are located as the same Zone, and adjacent Zones to one affected Zone are adjacent to both as long as the wormhole is open. The wormhole is offset somewhat to avoid intersecting the rune

The range of the combo is to the tune of miles.

Substrate Rune

Rune


This rune either slowly extrudes, or slowly transforms the surrounding earth into suitable substrate for runecrafting.

Runic MARS

Rune


Similar to the MARS, this rune connects with and then activates all seals within its (large) AoE.
 
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Pretty sure we can't actually do this for another couple of days—some of our runes and runic prototypes from the last cycle are still active.
We don't have any active runes IIRC. TR 125 is a week, and the prototypes shatter.
I think you're missing hyperlinks here.
Still working on them.
The level of indentation on this is confusing.
Yeah this part needs editing.
 
Sealing Research
  • 1st SSA track, TR130, full prep
  • 2nd SSA track, Army of One, full prep
  • 3rd non-SSA track, CATEARS
  • 4th&5th track - difficulty checks on the following
    • TR 150(full duration), TR150(full duration but with an off-switch), TRA 200, RARS, Mirror Dragon Rune, Space Stretch, Wormhole, Time Twister, Flashlight, Magnifying Glass Run
      • [todo: pare down list and add links]
    • Ask Kagome to get fresh samples of the Mirror Dragon from Arachnid, failing that, have Noburi retrieve the ones from the Goketsu estate.
This takes exactly the same amount of time as my plan. It also leaves TR130 hanging for 6 days while it catches up to Ao1. Frankly, this doesn't seem to save any time compared to my plan. Mostly I'm just confused.

Regardless, it seems to me that it's pretty goddamn stupid not to full prep jounin seals for the first cycle, we'll drop the prep down after that considerably if Hazou says he's comfortable with less.
 
This takes exactly the same amount of time as my plan. It also leaves TR130 hanging for 6 days while it catches up to Ao1. Frankly, this doesn't seem to save any time compared to my plan. Mostly I'm just confused.

Regardless, it seems to me that it's pretty goddamn stupid not to full prep jounin seals for the first cycle, we'll drop the prep down after that considerably if Hazou says he's comfortable with less.
Whoops, that should be runic air dome on track 2.
Fixed, and no wonder it was confusing.
 
I dont think the boost from 1.25 to 1.30 is meaningful enough to spend several days on it. 5% of two months is 3 days. If we spend more than 3 days on it, then does that actually balance out?
It at least makes that track probably time-neutral while we do prep days. And even time-neutral, it nets us clone-hours and veterancy.
 
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Hazou wants 3 days of prep on CATEARS, do you want him to drop it to 2?
Sealing Research
  • 1st SSA track, one prep day on the difficulty check list, then TR130, full prep
  • 2nd SSA track, one prep day on the difficulty check list, then
  • Runic Air Dome , full prep
  • 3rd non-SSA track, CATEARS
  • 4th&5th track - difficulty checks on the following list.
    • TR 150(full duration), TR150(full duration but with an off-switch), TRA 200, RARS, Mirror Dragon Rune, Space Stretch, Wormhole, Time Twister, Flashlight, Magnifying Glass Run
Good catch, thank you. is this better?

Also, can you reply to my core question? :
why not do a short rune cycle while we do our prep days, finish our current projects, and start the next batch of runes sooner? Dropping our current projects for a long cycle, then pausing the new projects to start new-new projects means we're slower on the new runes, and have fewer completed projects.
 
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I'd vote for that plan if it didn't waste time in TR130. Remember that our actual short-term goal is weapons research, and that spending a whole cycle for a +5% gain probably won't pay off by then.
Sealing Research
  • 1st SSA track, one prep day on TR150(full duration with off switch), then if either variant of T150 is well within abilities, research that. If not, research TR130.
  • 2nd SSA track, one prep day on TR150(full duration no off switch), then research Runic Air Dome, full prep

Extended the cycle by one day for CATEARS and to parallel prep 2 versions of TR150. If either is well within abilities, we'll do that instead.
 
Good catch, thank you. is this better?

Also, can you reply to my core question? :
why not do a short rune cycle while we do our prep days, finish our current projects, and start the next batch of runes sooner? Dropping our current projects for a long cycle, then pausing the new projects to start new-new projects means we're slower on the new runes, and have fewer completed projects.
I am not interested in any of our current projects and think our time is better spent on paper sealing. Air Domes and TR130 aren't doing it for me.
 
[X] Action Plan: Time Chamber first, don't squander time.
Word Count: <300
  • Desired update duration: 4 days.
  • Move research sites, clean up used runic substrate. Head for a random island on the other side of Aisu Bay, swing by our first FFR site and grab the expended rune.
    • Get K&K's opinions on the advantages of constantly relocating vs staying in a time rune
  • Start spending as much time as possible inside a TR125 without missing obligations on the Seventh Path
  • Work on our TH project with Toad Sages
    • Buy up to TH 10 when XP becomes available
    • Candidate projects:
      • A noncombat jutsu for tilling or leveling ground.
      • Less chakra-intensive MARI
      • A sturdier version of Mud Hut
      • Multiple Earth Wall variant that produces stone with a slightly different mineral composition than the usual MEW granite
      • Non-elemental short (<5 cm) range activation of seal
      • ES but faster and shorter range
      • QUASI
      • Longer duration Earth Clone
  • Dogs
    • Go see what Canabisu has to say in his debrief about his travels
      • Assist in his "rehabilitation" of Cantelabra
    • Attend the Gray Oak's taleswap for Canaut
  • Sealing Research
    • 1st SSA track, one prep day on TR150(full duration with off switch), then if either variant of T150 is well within abilities, research that. If not, research TR130.
    • 2nd SSA track, one prep day on TR150(full duration no off switch), then research Runic Air Dome, full prep
    • 3rd non-SSA track, CATEARS
    • 4th&5th track - difficulty checks on the following list.
      • TR 150(full duration), TR150(full duration but with an off-switch), TRA 200, RARS, Mirror Dragon Rune, Space Stretch, Wormhole, Time Twister, Flashlight, Magnifying Glass Run
      • Ask Kagome to get fresh samples of the Mirror Dragon from Arachnid, failing that, have Noburi retrieve the ones from the Goketsu estate.
Er, I think phrasing could be better in the sealing research segment: It comes across as being "one prep day [to research], not to check difficulty." At least to me.
 
I am not interested in any of our current projects and think our time is better spent on paper sealing. Air Domes and TR130 aren't doing it for me.
OK.
Do you also think that personal poweups like Force Blades and Army Of One are more valuable than runic weapons research? An 11 day pause on those is very expensive.

Also, if you aren't interested in Runic Air Dome, why the heck did you sink several cycles into researching it last plan? What's going on here?
I'm so confused.
 
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