Interesting question. The rule on Shadow Clone chakra return is that chakra above your max is lost, so the timing would need to be very precise if it were even possible. As @ProperAttorney said, mechanically all the chakra is paid at the same time, but we have shown it taking a few moments...
Maybe make it require a stunt? Something costing maybe 50-75XP, representing the practice needed to pop clones with precise enough timing and deal with the sudden influx of chakra while still holding the ninjutsu together? Example below:
The alternate flavor is that your Shadow Clones notice when you're about to cast a technique that'd take more chakra than you have, and are prepared to dispel themselves on a very precise timing. This means the additional cognitive load of tracking the timing is offloaded onto SCs, instead of the caster.
Sure, but that requires your clones to be close enough to you to see that you're casting the technique. This way you could use clones anywhere; if you're ambushed while your clones are out patrolling, say.
I think the concern isn't so much that the husk might let someone else learn runecrafting (which was always highly implausible), or that it might reveal that runecrafting is possible (which as you say Akatsuki likely knows), as that it might reveal specifically that runecrafting is possible and we can actually do it. Akatsuki knows we were working on it; they don't know or have any reason to believe that we succeeded, and it's them finding that out (and the attendant change in their estimation of our threat level) that people are worried about.
Is this Kagome's FP or Hazou's?
I'm really not sure this is worth an FP tbh. Like what do we gain over the counterfactual? It'll be classed as a sealing failure either way. It's not recognizable as a 3-D seal after the chakra pathways were destroyed. If Akatsuki gets the fragments or the expended blank they'll be on high alert.
Conceals from Akatsuki that Hazou has learned an out-of-context stealing paradigm of unfathomable power, so they continue to assume that he's a worse/slower researcher than Sasori and that he lacks the firepower to seriously attack the rift site.
Does it? I don't think that claim is supported by evidence.
Pinging also @Velorien @Paperclipped
Huh. Nice!
We only know that it isn't enough to learn from. This is a little like saying that a half-burnt quarter of an explosive seal isn't recognizable as a seal.
Is it really a Sealing SOP? Maybe we just need a Life SOP at this point
It's more of a runic research SOP than anything else but that gets pulled under the header of sealing research SOP.
Paper indicated in the Discord that this is cheese and would be unlikely to fly. We won't be able to assign XP to BoC retroactively if the TH project fails. So... we should spend the XP now, either in CR, TH, or BoC. (Or combat stats and later spend the XP in one of the former three)
I guess I'm just like... this was always likely to be a concern so I'm just surprised the people who want to stay maximally stocked up didn't make this an issue of discussion earlier
This is more how I feel.
On that note, I have a similar nitpick:
Prior to this update, I'd been assuming that Hazou always briefs the team about what he's working on and what he'll be infusing on any given day, specifically in order to ensure they're forewarned about any dramatic happenings and can distinguish intended effects from failures (since, in the latter case, they may need to escape or go help). Incidentally, if Hazou followed this protocol, this would've provided Kei the opportunity to point out that activating the Storm Rune would be something everyone in the EN would hear, and therefore averted the mess.
Agreed. We have time here. There isn't a frantic rush. I think we should take our time and try to raise combat stats a bit before unstagnating combat.
Yeah, never underestimate the degree to which knowing a thing has been done makes it easier to do. That's a universal truth that applies to real life, not story specific.
