"Instead, I will remind you of my other points, hopefully summarized in a reasonably efficient way. This is not a weapon you can use repeatedly, or in front of Orochimaru, for the fear of instilling aforementioned apocalyptic inspiration. This is not a weapon you can present to the Hokage and expect to be used to create a peacetime without atrocity. This is not a weapon that I would trust even you to never err with."
"I'm sorry," Hazō said. "Honestly, I didn't mean for it to be a city-killer. Runes have a tendency of being stronger than I expect them to be."
I don't think there's any chance of keeping the concept of city-killing weapons from Oro, since, as we've seen, inventing them by accident is a common outcome of runic research. Sooner or later, and probably sooner, he'll work on some rune or another and notice that the easiest possible version of it has a kilometer+ radius of effect.
It does not appear in the Players Known Seals & Runes document afaict tho
My
fork continues to be up to date. I've also been trying to include some rulings on runes that weren't in the original mechanics for them, e.g. the thing about volleys of remote explosives.
I'd be surprised if Jounin Aura depended on how fast she can dodge. XP total, sure, but not specific combat stats.
I could see it caring about number of skills at 60+, or about highest single skill. But also, while shiny, it's not that useful... I don't think it makes sense to build around it even though I am curious.
Though speaking of which; if and when we resurrect Jiraiya, are we going to teach him PS? He already has Earth Element; but I'm not at all sure I trust him to be responsible with the power, and it would make us a lot less valuable to Leaf. (I trust him much less than I'd trust Kagome, for example.) On the other hand, since Oro already knows it …
I'd be very reluctant to teach literally
anyone runecrafting.
It makes WMDs easy; we don't know how bad a rune failure would be but 'apocalyptic' seems plausible, and we still don't know if the Sage had reasons beyond that to take it to his grave.
I trust Jiraiya more than most people, but every additional runecrafter is a risk. The saying is "three can keep a secret if two of them are dead" (but we're working on necromancy so maybe even that isn't enough caution...?)
Do you have a better plan? LFEs aren't viable because a. the fuse is only accurate to an hour, so there's time for observing ninja to remove them and b. we can't put them on the rune because it's a constant pillar of lightning
On a), I continue to not see any reason they can't be put under it. On b), could using a bunch of LFEs mitigate the timing issue? With enough of them, one will go off close to the start of the time they're set for.
