That was not my proposal, it was that Leaf needs a prep school or university of some kind for highly technical apprenticeships. We've seen that masters have to spend fucking forever drilling absolute basics into apprentices and that it is preventing some (especially Tsunade) from taking them at all. I am not proposing he take apprentices, I am proposing giving him the project of making apprenticeship better as a system.
NB: The people who received the casualty reports were civilians terrified of fulfilling the "Shoot the Messenger" trope, and so lied/misdirected/delayed the reports to their ninja superiors.
To Hazō, it seemed more like Leaf messengers were slow and lazy, but then they'd never had to worry about the consequences of delayed communication in a regime built around brutal efficiency. Yagura had no particular feelings about bearers of bad news, but there had been occasions when couriers bringing him information too late for it to be useful simply never came back from his office. He suspected that even a clan heir told to deliver a message would be halfway out the door before they realised that they could delegate the task.
As for taking over the Tower bureaucracy? The Akane incident made Asuma/Nara take a closer look and Naruto has plenty of Shadow Clones and is generally friendly. I doubt the Tower is going to continue to run like in the past.
While the Akane thing that was going on Naruto was also temporary in charge, and was immediately willing to help:
Naruto Prime (presumably, or at least the one behind the desk) blinked. "A week overdue? What in the Sage's name was her mission, a mapping trip to Bear?"
Three Narutos poofed into existence. Two of them nodded politely to HazōTowerExplainer and hustled out. The third met his progenitor's eyes and nodded. "On it, boss." He looked back to HazōTowerExplainer. "C'mon, buddy. Those two are going to go check with the Hyūga and Inuzuka to see about their availability for a recovery mission. Meanwhile, let's you and me go see what we can do to get you some closure."
"The Hokage has already approved your interrogation," Naruto said. "And your clan head has countersigned, under the conditions that you may refuse to answer any questions and terminate it at any time."
That was not my proposal, it was that Leaf needs a prep school or university of some kind for highly technical apprenticeships. We've seen that masters have to spend fucking forever drilling absolute basics into apprentices and that it is preventing some (especially Tsunade) from taking them at all. I am not proposing he take apprentices, I am proposing giving him the project of making apprenticeship better as a system.
Why do you think a prep school would be better than the current master-apprentice dynamic? In fact, I suspect it would produce considerably worse sealmasters, a teacher cannot teach 10 students nearly so well as 1.
It seems to me that we do not need or want to mass produce sealsmiths, but instead find those who are truely talented and want to work as research sealmasters.
In fact, the Seal Bank suggests that 2 sealsmiths are enough to mass produce the two most important seals for a large fraction of Leaf's ninja. We simply don't need this in terms of function. 10-15 sealsmiths should be enough to supply all of Leaf. That's one class.
So what's the point of assigning Kagome to this school? Producing worse sealmasters at a scale we don't need. It's just a way of making him feel important without working on anything of importance.
Some quick math suggests that the increase in pressure would create roughly 1-2 gigajoules of energy. This is significant (around a quarter ton of tnt), but its also exceedingly spread out and not particularly concentrated, so I suspect you'd just get a big outrushing of (very hot) air as soon as the effect starts. This would probably cause a bunch of fires in the surrounding zones and wouldn't be pleasant to experience, but if you can survive the center of the effect you can survive that.
What if we established a second zone directly above which sets incoming air back to seasonal ambient temperature? That'd be a perpetual motion machine powering a convection cell, wouldn't it?
What if we established a second zone directly above which sets incoming air back to seasonal ambient temperature? That'd be a perpetual motion machine powering a convection cell, wouldn't it?
Sure, but I doubt it'd be a particularly powerful one. At least not compared to EM nuke. The hot zone is already going to have plenty of normal-temperature air to draw in... actually, immediately normalizing the temperature just about the hot zone might decrease the effect, because the rising column of hot gas would otherwise still contribute energy even after it exits the hot zone.
Why do you think a prep school would be better than the current master-apprentice dynamic? In fact, I suspect it would produce considerably worse sealmasters, a teacher cannot teach 10 students nearly so well as 1.
It seems to me that we do not need or want to mass produce sealsmiths, but instead find those who are truely talented and want to work as research sealmasters.
In fact, the Seal Bank suggests that 2 sealsmiths are enough to mass produce the two most important seals for a large fraction of Leaf's ninja. We simply don't need this in terms of function. 10-15 sealsmiths should be enough to supply all of Leaf. That's one class.
So what's the point of assigning Kagome to this school? Producing worse sealmasters at a scale we don't need. It's just a way of making him feel important without working on anything of importance.
You have misunderstood me; I do not want to replace apprenticeship, but rather augment it. Give hopefuls a grounding in basic (and non-practical) theory to lessen the load on potential masters, so more masters are willing to invest in apprentices as it isn't going involve so much 'don't fucking do this dumb thing' over and over. And this is not just Sealmasters, but in fact all disciplines that require a lot of technical knowledge; most critically medicine.
Sure, but I doubt it'd be a particularly powerful one. At least not compared to EM nuke. The hot zone is already going to have plenty of normal-temperature air to draw in... actually, immediately normalizing the temperature just about the hot zone might decrease the effect, because the rising column of hot gas would otherwise still contribute energy even after it exits the hot zone.
What about if that temperature-normalizing zone was off to the side, above horizontally-adjacent zones? Ground-level winds don't need to be EM-nuke equivalent, just focused inward with enough force to remove substitution targets and launch someone trapped in the middle into an overhead skyslicer.
You have misunderstood me; I do not want to replace apprenticeship, but rather augment it. Give hopefuls a grounding in basic (and non-practical) theory to lessen the load on potential masters, so more masters are willing to invest in apprentices as it isn't going involve so much 'don't fucking do this dumb thing' over and over. And this is not just Sealmasters, but in fact all disciplines that require a lot of technical knowledge; most critically medicine.
Basic critical thinking skills might help but i agree that the issue seems to be people just don't understand a specific discipline enough to accurately judge their abilities or how hard something is. That seems intractable.
Basic critical thinking skills might help but i agree that the issue seems to be people just don't understand a specific discipline enough to accurately judge their abilities or how hard something is. That seems intractable.
Probably classes for specific subjects. Individualized instructions, however, are always to be technically superior to mass education provided that you have qualified tutors.
Kagome is a superior teacher not just because he's good at teaching but he can also focus on one individuals. It would suggest to me that people working as tutors to troubleshoot individual students might be a good complement to mass education.
If he feels somehow undeserving of it he should help the Arachnis while we do research.
Kumokogo seemed to find it funny to deal with him and he seemed curious about them. Being a 40 plus year old sealmaster doesn't mean he can't make better connections and learn something from them.
Substitution works on discrete objects, so either:
1) The seal fails to activate/causes a sealing failure since the skateboard is now part of an object that contains chakra.
2) The skateboard successfully substitutes with the paired object. You react to suddenly standing on whatever the skateboard was paired with.
Since Newton's 1st applies to you, you don't move at all. The superfast movement of Substitution is too fast for there to be appreciable momentum transfer. Like a tablecloth being yanked out from under fully set dining table without knocking over a wineglass.
A rune that interferes with the function of seals within its AoE by affecting the barrier with the Out, thickening it(?) -- whatever Hazou thinks will work here.
This rune is intended as a step towards preventing seals from functioning at all, it prevents the more dangerous sealing failures -- of the ilk caused by a failed infusion, as compared to those normal in research.
Under ideal circumstances: The mechanics for this will be that it does not penalize research, and generally prevents sealing failures from failed rolls (or from storage seals being ripped, or whatever), but does nothing for the kind that happen normally during research.
Under less ideal circumstances: Something like a -6 or so to sealing research rolls BUT no more failures.
Under different less ideal circumstances: This rune's 'guiderails' provide an Armor rating against sealing failures, mechanically, meaning that you need to fail by *more* to cause a sealing failure. (Armor:2 would mean you'd now need to fail by 7+ etc.)
From an in-universe perspective, the thickening of the paint is not strictly thickening it -- it's more preventing chaotic, unordered interactions with the out of the type that would generally be associated with sealing failures. Kind of like guiderails for sealing.
A rune that interferes with the function of seals within its AoE by affecting the barrier with the Out, thickening it(?) -- whatever Hazou thinks will work here.
This rune is intended as a step towards preventing seals from functioning at all, it prevents the more dangerous sealing failures -- of the ilk caused by a failed infusion, as compared to those normal in research.
Under ideal circumstances: The mechanics for this will be that it does not penalize research, and generally prevents sealing failures from failed rolls (or from storage seals being ripped, or whatever), but does nothing for the kind that happen normally during research.
Under less ideal circumstances: Something like a -6 or so to sealing research rolls BUT no more failures.
Under different less ideal circumstances: This rune's 'guiderails' provide Armor against sealing failures, mechanically, meaning that you need to fail by *more* to cause a sealing failure.
From an in-universe perspective, the thickening of the paint is not strictly thickening it -- it's more preventing chaotic, unordered interactions with the out of the type that would generally be associated with sealing failures. Kind of like guiderails for sealing.
Under ideal circumstances: The mechanics for this will be that it does not penalize research, and generally prevents sealing failures from failed rolls (or from storage seals being ripped, or whatever), but does nothing for the kind that happen normally during research.
Under less ideal circumstances: Something like a -6 or so to sealing research rolls BUT no more failures.
Under different less ideal circumstances: This rune's 'guiderails' provide Armor against sealing failures, mechanically, meaning that you need to fail by *more* to cause a sealing failure.
From an in-universe perspective, the thickening of the paint is not strictly thickening it -- it's more preventing chaotic, unordered interactions with the out of the type that would generally be associated with sealing failures. Kind of like guiderails for sealing.
It looks like we have plenty of prep days to throw around, but my first instinct is to ask how quickly a rune like this would pay itself off. Hazo is operating under several constraints, and sealing failures due to difficult rolls don't strike me as being the most pressing.
The absolute worst possible outcome from our Lighthousing Research Retreat would be to spin up a lot of Training / Prep modifiers (e.g. Time Rune, Reality Stabilizer Rune) right before Naruto sends the message that Akatsuki has declared war on Leaf and he needs any weapon we can give him. It would be bad on the Doylist level because Hazo has only managed to turn himself into an even better loot-box, while spending lots of IRL Calendar gametime and QM Spoons on meta-seals (instead of kickpunching).
Of course, layering training boosts might also give us the leeway to reach for the really esoteric effects needed to escape the rock-paper-scissors paradigm of S-rank combat. So I'm not voting against investing in research infrastructure but I do want to acknowledge that at least some of our initial research plan should include a 'Minimum Viable Weapon' to prove that letting us out of Leaf was worth the risk of discovery by Akatsuki.
It looks like we have plenty of prep days to throw around, but my first instinct is to ask how quickly a rune like this would pay itself off. Hazo is operating on several constraints, and sealing failures due to difficult rolls doesn't strike me as the most pressing.
The absolute worst possible outcome from our Lighthousing Research Retreat would be to spin up a lot of Training / Prep modifiers (e.g. Time Rune, Reality Stabilizer Rune) right before Naruto sends the message that Akatsuki has declared war on Leaf and he needs any weapon we can give him. It would be bad on the Doylist level because Hazo has only managed to turn himself into an even better loot-box, while spending lots of IRL Calendar gametime and QM Spoons on meta-seals (instead of kickpunching).
Of course, layering training boosts might also give us the leeway to reach for the really esoteric effects needed to escape the rock-paper-scissors paradigm of S-rank combat. So I'm not voting against investing in research infrastructure but I do want to acknowledge that at least some of our initial research plan should include a 'Minimum Viable Weapon' to prove that letting us out of Leaf was worth the risk of discovery by Akatsuki.
Uhh... I don't know exactly how much this would improve things.
But -- it is, in my opinion, very useful for multitracking sealing, because it lets us do research with less use of FP, which means saving those FP for more-impactful projects.
Uhh... I don't know exactly how much this would improve things.
But -- it is, in my opinion, very useful for multitracking sealing, because it lets us do research with less use of FP, which means saving those FP for more-impactful projects.
The two of them continued to stare at the patch of lichen that was happily sitting there, doing nothing except glowing very faintly whenever Hazō pointed the HOWS seal at it and going back to normal whenever he turned the seal away.
The Harumitsu's Outstanding World-Saving seal was a simple thing, almost a toy. It glowed slightly, with a flickering light the color of which could be chosen when the seal was infused; the more celestine the localization, the bluer the light. The average sealmaster would have looked at that and said "well, cool, that works, now let's go do something important."
Hazō was no ordinary sealmaster. He looked at the HOWS seal and said "hey, what happens if I make it as blue as possible and then make it even more blue?"
The answer was that the seal no longer emitted light, but sometimes when he pointed it at things they would glow in strange colors.
"Do you suppose..." Hazō trailed off. The idea was too crazy.
"That when you point a red-emitting HOWS at a thing the thing looks reddish, and when you point a green-emitting HOWS at a thing the thing looks greenish and this HOWS is emitting a color too blue to see, so when you point it at things they look whatever color that is?" Kagome-sensei said, gesturing towards the glowing lichen.
"'Too blue to see'?" Kei asked. "What could that even mean?"
"Hey, look," Hazō said, running over Kagome-sensei's reply. He waved the seal across HazōHOWSItGoing's face and pointed at the Shadow Clone's teeth; under the touch of the seal's effect they had begun to glow a soft white.
Kagome-sensei smiled slightly. "I figured he would. Don't worry about it."
"Anyway, how can there be a color too blue to see?" Hazō asked, leaning in to study his clones glowing dentition more closely.
They were camped on a tiny little island in the middle of Aisu Bay, fifty or sixty miles off the coast of Earth Country. The island was small enough to walk across in five minutes and it stood only five or six feet above the waves at its highest point. It was largely barren except for some hardy scrub brush whose roots had drilled their way into the stone surface and begun digesting it for nutrients. Lichen covered wide swaths that the brush didn't, and there were some seagrasses down by the rocky beach. Still, the island was far away from any possible prying eye, it had a freshwater spring in the center, and that was all the team needed.
"I wonder if watermelons are still sweet?" Kagome mused.
"What?"
"Nothing. The color thing makes sense, right?"
"It is logically coherent, if that is what you mean," Kei said. "As to the soundness of the assertion... I find myself dubious."
"Makes sense to me," said HazōHOWSItGoing. "Have to admit, I was kinda hoping for this."
"Why?" Kei asked, one eyebrow rising. "What good is a light source that sheds light one cannot see?"
Both Hazōs shrugged.
"Dunno," said Prime. "Still, we're looking for ways to kill some of the most unkillable people on the planet. The usual suspects aren't going to cut it—I can't just make a faster rock or a bigger fireball. We need weird stuff that they won't see coming and that normal defenses don't apply against. Weird light was the first thing that came to mind. Maybe it helps and maybe it doesn't, but we have to try something."
"A sensible framing," Kei said. "What will your next step be?"
"Not sure yet," Hazō said. "HOWSItGoing, how about you dispel so I can remember doing the infusion?" He held out one fist.
"On it." HazōHOWSItGoing said, rapping knuckles with his progenitor and immediately disappearing in a puff of smoke. Hazō stood still, head tipped in concentration as he absorbed the memories.
"Anything interesting?" Kagome-sensei asked.
"Not really. It was just like any other HOWS infusion, except more celestine."
"Hmph."
The three of them stood silently, watching the strange effect of the seal. After a moment, Kagome held out his hand and Hazō passed the seal over so that the senior sealmaster could play with it inspect it.
"How are you doing, Kei?" Hazō asked. "Everything okay in Pangolin?"
"The Condor Clan has evacuated and the peace of the east is holding, so at least I am not being compelled to murder slaves or Hyenas for no profit."
"Uh, that's good." Wow, what did one even say to that? Whatever it was, he didn't know it and Kei wasn't saying it, so he desperately cast about for a new topic.
"Kagome-sensei, how are you doing with the Scenery Clone seal array?"
"I'm working on it," Kagome-sensei snapped. "Stupid thing to put me on, if you ask me. I should be working on the rift so that we can recover Akane and Jiraiya-stinker, and keep those Akatsuki schnooks from bringing their Pain brat back." He sniffed. "Or you should be working on it, really, being the better sealmaster. One of us should be working on the rift, anyway. But it's fine. I'll keep plugging along on the silly 'conceal my encampment' seal array."
"Thank—"
"Actually," Kagome-sensei interrupted, "now that I think about it, it's better for me to be working on this array than you. You got it from SnakeStinker and you trust him way too much. Yup, better that I do it. I'll check the notes properly." He nodded firmly, then turned and marched off to the part of the island that he had claimed for his own research space.
"Uh...right," Hazō said, watching his teacher's retreating back. "Okay, well... I guess I'm going to go check on the other clones, see how their research is coming. Kei, want to join?"
She smiled slightly at the invitation. "Thank you, but no. I wish to check in with Noburi. He promised to— I mean, I want to see how our brother is."
"'He promised to' what?" Hazō asked, a grin spreading across his face. "Might the rest of that sentence have been 'deliver one or more lurid love letters to one or more of my numerous romantic entanglements and I am hoping a reply might be waiting'?"
Kei blushed as red as the blood that suddenly sprang from her finger where she had pricked it on her belt pin. "Summoning Technique: Pandā!"
Poof!
"Hi, Kei! Hi, Hazō!" The little pangolin looked around, claws drumming slowly on his belly. "Wow, this place smells awful. It's all salty and metallic. Why are you—"
"NevermindthatweneedtogogoodbyeHazō!" Kei squeaked, placing the tip of one finger on Pandā's head so that the young and surprised pangolin could whisk her off to another dimension.
Which he didn't do immediately, preferring instead to open his mouth for another question. Fortunately for Kei, a mild kick to the shins was enough to make him get an extradimensional move on.
Hazō watched the smoke of his sister's departure disperse and laughed. Once it was fully gone, he shook his head in amusement and went off to check on his shadow clones and their research progress on the various seals and runes he had assigned them.
o-o-o-o
Hazō threaded the last of his chakra out of the crystal and sighed, shifting position to relieve muscles that ached from hours of sitting motionless on the rocky ground.
He stood and walked around the runic blank, examining it from every angle. There was no point; he had already checked it thoroughly with the chakra sense granted by the Earthshaping jutsu. Still, he needed to move a bit and this was a good excuse.
Unsurprisingly, there were no visible problems.
He did a few quick toe-touches and backbends, then went off to find Kagome-sensei. The older sealmaster would have taken a filleting knife to Hazō if Hazō didn't invite him to a rune infusion.
"This is going to be boring," he reminded his teacher. "Seriously, it'll be an hour or so of me just sitting here like a blob."
Kagome-sensei grunted and pulled a beach chair, a straw hat, and a beach umbrella out of a storage seal. He got himself settled, then dug out a blanket and a mug of hot chocolate. He scruffled himself a nest in the chair and glared impatiently at Hazō.
"Well? Go on!"
"Right, sorry," Hazō said, smiling at his grumpy teacher. He sat down again, placed his hands on the blank, and began to lead his chakra into it with the obsessive caution that every sealmaster took when infusing a seal (or, in this case, a rune) for the first time.
The blank was strange, its internal chakra structure bent and looped on itself as a necessity of the design. Infusing it wasn't difficult per se, but Hazō was taking extra care since this was the first time. It ended up being closer to an hour and a half before he opened his eyes and glanced over to Kagome-sensei.
"I'm about to tie it off," he said quietly.
Kagome-sensei was up and out of his chair in a blink, everything vanishing back into seals within moments before he disappeared behind the nearest berm.
"Ready!" he called.
Hazō took a deep breath and closed the final loop of chakra inside the rune. Immediately, he Substituted away to where Kagome-sensei and HazōMeatBagMinion178012 waited.
Hazō had given up requesting that his clones not choose names like 'MeatBagMinion'. He also no longer bothered protesting that there had not been 178011 previous clones with that name—or, indeed, any clones with that name—but his clones had literal minds of their own and absent a direct order to change their names they would not be moved. He wasn't quite sure where they got their sense of 'humor' but it was definitely not from him.
The three waited silently for five minutes until it was clear that the newly-infused rune wasn't going to explode or convert the island into sausage or anything other than sit there. Finally, HazōMeatBagMinion178012 stood up and gave the two flesh people a jaunty wave.
"First activation of Fast Forward Rune, Mark I, proceeding! HazōMeatBagMinion178012 proceeding to the rune for activation! Equipment check: hourglass!" He produced the hourglass from his pocket and held it up to show it to both men. It was, obviously, a clone of the one that the actual Hazō had in his pocket. Hazō Prime pulled his out and held it up. Simultaneously, he and his clone flipped them over.
"Acknowledged," he said. "Good luck"—he sighed—"HazōMeatBagMinion178012." The name was infuriating but the least he could do was respect his clone's chosen identity when it was about to throw itself on a potential runic failure to protect Prime.
The shadow clone placed a hand melodramatically on his heart. "It is a far braver thing I do than has been done by—"
"Get on with it," Hazō said, caught between impatience, annoyance, and a smidgen of amusement.
HazōMeatBagMinion178012 sighed, long and windy. "Fine. Be you later." He jogged off down the berm.
"You're sure we're out of the area of effect?"
"Yes, sensei."
"Really sure? You did the math both ways?"
"Yup. I was careful, sensei. I used all the tricks you taught me. And yes, I did the dances."
Kagome-sensei nodded, not taking his eyes away from the telescope that he had trained on the rune. HazōMeatBagMinion178012 was in the process of laying his hand on the rune to activate it, and the senior sealmaster was not about to miss this.
The air—no, reality itself—rippled out from the Fast Forward Rune, rushing out in a hemisphere that stopped a comfortable twenty yards short of the berm where the two flesh people waited. It stopped and faded away, leaving no visible demarcation.
Hazō studied the rune and its surroundings through the telescope that Shino had given him; it was a wonderful tool that he firmly intended to make standard issue for every Gōketsu sealmaster going forward.
HazōMeatBagMinion178012 was standing next to the rune, undisturbed, unpopped, and apparently feeling fine. He carefully placed his hourglass on the ground and wedged it in place with a few rocks to make sure it didn't get knocked over by a gust of wind, and then he started walking a spiral search pattern around the rune, trying to see anything out of place. He was moving at a perfectly ordinary pace.
"Well, not as good as I was hoping," Hazō said with a sigh. "I can't see anything."
Kagome-sensei grunted. "S'what the hourglasses are for."
"I know, but...I was really hoping that it would be a big deal, right from this first version."
"Yeah, well, I'm just happy that it does what the math said it would do. It's bad when it doesn't."
"Fair point." Hazō settled in to wait.
And wait.
And wait.
And wait.
After far too long, HazōMeatBagMinion178012 turned to face them, raised his arms in a T-shape in front of his chest, and then bent to flip his hourglass over.
Hazō Prime and Kagome-sensei both looked down at Hazō's hourglass. It still had a bit of sand in it. They looked at each other, a smile spreading onto Hazō's face and a nervous one onto his teacher's.
When the hourglass ran out, Hazō flipped it over and went back to waiting.
And waiting.
And waiting.
Later, HazōMeatBagMinion178012 once again signalled time was up and flipped his hourglass over. Hazō Prime's hourglass had, as far as he could tell, twice as much sand still to run as it had the first time. Prime waited for his to run out, then flipped it. He couldn't keep the grin of delight off his face.
The single greatest challenge that Hazō faced in saving the world from Akatsuki, saving Akane and Jiraiya from the afterlife before they faded, and so many other things, was time. There simply wasn't enough of it to let him do the work he needed to do.
Now? Now, time was his to create.
Kagome-sensei looked very alarmed when Hazō started laughing and rubbing his hands in full-on 'evil vizier' fashion.
Day 1
Prep day on the Hot Pocket Rune. Prep for RRBs and Force Walls.
Result: Hazō thinks he could maybe do this rune.
Hazōpilot has a slight concern with this line of research. While the rune will be stable, he is worried that the rune pushing the storage seal too much may cause the storage matrix to fail. For instance, imagine a rune that doubles the mass of the storage seal contents—what would happen if this breaks the 100kg limit? Hazō doesn't know, and he doesn't want to be nearby when someone finds out.
Day 2
Prep day on Chakra Mapping Rune. Prep for RRBs and Force Walls.
Hazō doesn't know how he would distinguish between human and nature chakra. He tries prepping the rune to measure the general chakra field around the rune, on the assumption that at the very least this would provide good veterancy for a human chakra-specific version.
Result: Hazō thinks this rune is well within his capabilities.
Day 3
Prep day on Chakra Filtering Rune. Prep for RRBs and Force Walls.
Result: Hazō thinks this rune is beyond his capabilities.
Day 4
Research Jiraiya's Cooling Seals. Prep for RRBs and Force Walls.
Despite awful calligraphy rolls, the project is easily completed. The Cooling Seal chills an attached object of up to 100kg down to around 0 degrees Celsius. Cooling takes ~10 seconds per kg of the attached object, and the seal burns out after an hour – which can be broken up by deactivating the seal. The object is cooled evenly, and can be heated by sufficiently strong external forces (e.g. an oven, a forge).
Day 7
Research Force Walls. Prep for RRBs and Fast Forward Rune.
Not having an assistant is definitely slowing Hazō down somewhat, but he thinks he's comfortably more than halfway done.
Fast Forward Rune
Hazō (Earthshaping): 50 - 6 (timeladdering down) + 0 = 44
Hazō (Primordial Sealing): 15 + 25 (crossover bonus from SSA-boosted Sealing) + 4 (prep) - 3 = 41
This is a medium-size rune, consuming 5 units of runic substrate, leaving 2166 units. Hazō completes research on the Fast Forward Rune!
Speeds up time by 3% in the zone the rune is in plus the adjacent zones (i.e. 3x3 grid of zones). Nothing interesting seems to happen while crossing the boundary. Lasts 1 month.
Day 10
SSA recovery.
Day 11
SSA recovery.
Kagome makes progress on the Scenery Clone Seal Array and says he'll likely be done within a month.
This update covered 11 days.
XP AWARD: 46
Brevity XP: 10 (caps at 10)
"GM had fun" XP: 5 I regret not getting to the Cannai stuff, but this was still fun.
By default the next update will feature the rest of this plan, so voting remains closed unless @Paperclipped or @Velorien open it. (If they do then it's a new plan and you should re-vote the Cannai scenes.)
By default the next update will feature the rest of this plan, so voting remains closed unless @Paperclipped or @Velorien open it. (If they do then it's a new plan and you should re-vote the Cannai scenes.)
