Why would Hazo be confident that [asking for training in how to emit chakra from points other than hands and feet] wouldn't work, when the theory is absolutely sound? I could understand if he was unsure if he might be missing something, but confidence implies he has information that we don't have. And secondly, why would people laugh at him for the suggestion? Once again, if the theory is sound, I expect other ninja might shrug it off as possible but a waste of time. Laughing at him for the suggestion is once again a much stronger reaction than sounds reasonable.
I'm not sure if we ever answered this -- there's been a
lot lately and some things have fallen through the cracks.
All ponwog:
You might be right that 'laugh at' is stronger than warranted, and perhaps we were hyperbolic on that one. Also perhaps not; it would depend on which medic you were talking to, most likely.
That said, why is Hazō confident it wouldn't work? Because literally no one he has ever heard of can do that except the Hyūga. If it was possible, surely someone would have figured it out. This would almost certainly have been a clan, since they have more resources for research. Once a clan researcher discovered it, it would spread through the entire clan. Once it spread through the entire clan, it would become known in the wider world that this clan could do it, because the entire point of learning things like this is to gain a combat advantage. Once it became known that there were at least two different clans that could do it, everyone would be able to do it, either by doing the research or stealing the research.
Obviously, it's
possible that someone invented it in the last few years and word hasn't gotten around yet, but it seems unlikely.
A couple questions about the RAD that I've seen floating around that I'm not sure have answers yet.
1) Does Hazou think he can nest the Domes? Set say 10 domes with slightly different diameters up so that they nest inside each other. Leading to
2) Do the RADs have a thickness? If so how thick are they? For maximal nesting purposes
3) The domes are fixed in orientation to the Earth's surface. Does that mean if placed on a skytower the dome would form in midair?
4) Could we then turn one of the RADs upside down and fully enclose the skytower? Or does the dome form independent of the orientation of the rune?
- Yes, Hazou thinks the domes could be nested.
- They have a thickness – around 3 meters.
- Hazou assumes that would work, but he would need to test it.
- The dome forms independent of the orientation of the rune as a result of there being only a single rune rather than a pair of seals that can define orientation, but that orientation can be chosen at infusion time.
Speaking of which, @eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped when can we expect the prep day results from that cycle? After the combat mission finishes, or earlier? (We don't really need to know them until the next research plan, but it would be nice to have them sooner if you've already decided the results.)
We aren't done with all the rolls and such, sorry. We'll get them to you as soon as we've had a chance to do it.
Given that I think the point is to make the Out-touched sealing stunt more balanced (Only +TYS) but also apply consistently to all sealing stuff (since all seals interface with the Out, presumably).
Would this also apply to the new Minatosealing, or Biosealing, etc? Or just to these two?
Can we get in-thread confirmation that the stunt applies to biosealing and Minatosealing as well?
I think Paper said on Discord that the intent was roughly "This would apply to anything that counts as a seal", and I know that it says explicitly that the user can use the stunt to understand "all seals", but do you think we can get an edit on this portion of it so that it's clearer to all of us (including future!me, who is bad at remembering caveats like that)?
Yes, the intention is for this to apply evenly to all sealing disciplines, see the following line:
allowing the user to understand all seals through that eldritch lens.
The line:
The user gains an optional, AB-increasing bonus of +TYS to Sealing and Primordial Sealing.
Will be edited to read "The user gains an optional, AB-increasing bonus of +TYS to Sealing and
all related or derived disciplined (including Primordial Sealing and any future monstrosities)."
Also relatedly, assuming we are going to have to take the stunt: Are we going to suffer narrative consequences related to our actual Sealing level suddenly dropping by a material amount (e.g., Orochimaru wants us to collaborate on a Sealing project, but we are suddenly dumber than he expected, he decides to vivisect us)?
This isn't something that happens retroactively, it will be worked into the narrative, e.g. as a minor research-time failure with no other effects. Hazou will be a little worse at sealing, but he'll be less brain-blendered and will understand the eldritch knowledge a little better (e.g. to apply it to runes more effectively). We won't be applying any narrative consequences like a sudden Orochimaru vivisection, though. Hazou also won't suddenly lose the ability to make seals that he was previously able to make.
Does Hazō think he needs to be concerned about Sasori decoding the manual? Is the whole manual contained in the ninth seal or spread across all the seals?
What Hazou previously thought of as "the extremely long notes for the ninth seal" is actually "a long manual on unusual technique hacking exercises" plus "notes on the extremely weird ninth seal". Supposing Sasori is not a technique hacker, Hazou is not worried about Sasori decoding the manual.
Do we need a teacher or are the notes we have now sufficient?
Minato's manual is sufficient, hence why the stunt is unlocked for the players.
Sure but like, what does this even translate to in practice? Does this just end up rubberbanding TNs for cool stuff up by 10 or so?
We have no intention of rubberbanding TNs. For many of the runes in the "maybe" category, we already defined TNs as part of the difficulty check. We will not be changing any TNs upwards if Hazou takes DoB (or downwards if he doesn't).
Does this mean Hazō would need a combination stunt (costing 100 XP) to get the benefits shown in the table for Disciple of the Beyond?
Correct.
Also, have Naruto check whether turning on the Sharingan is enough to activate Chakdar. That's a passive observation system that we can turn into a trigger.
Sasuke is not willing to share that information, but Hazou suspects that the answer would be no – chakdar doesn't detect ninjutsu being cast until they're manifested. Assuming that the Sharingan activation is entirely internal, it seems unlikely that it would trigger chakdar.
Since it looks like we might be buying Napalm Shot for a named character pretty soon, can we get the full mechanics for it?
Like Fire Bullet, except it inflicts a lingering Aspect until the target spends a Standard to stop, drop, and roll. Every round, the target can choose to take 1 stress: in exchange, the Aspect doesn't generate a tag.
At the tender age of 17, how is Hazou's facial hair situation? I'm considering having him dye his hair and grow his beard out as a disguise.
Are such things as false facial hair part of the standard disguise kit? I assume something like shoes to change your height/clothes to appear fatter would be standard.
Can Hazou imitate the local dialect with the IN? Seems like something he'd be able to do with relative ease.
Is there a sort of iterant peddler economic niche we could pretend to fill as a disguise in flyspeck villages? Hazou's team has enough stuff in storage seals that they could conceivably pretend to be selling things.
- It's extant, but patchy and thin in the way you expect a 17 year old's facial hair to be. Hazou doesn't know how long it would grow if left unattended (but if the recent time rune effect was to be believed – not much).
- Yes, that's standard.
- Not with ease, but if he could get some listening in, he could try to set a Deceit Block to imitate the local accent.
- It depends massively on the locale. Some are too dangerous or self-sufficient for this to make sense, whereas other parts of the EN are better-connected.
Can we get an update on Yuuma?
He's very likely to make a full recovery before the end of the year. He's not taking up any particular secondary focus.
Does Sasha still want to be a ninjutsu specialist?
Yes.
Further, as an aside, we gave Oshiro the commission to design Rocket Boot-compatible Kunai
on May 1st. It is now July 30th, as of chapter 661.2. Meaning it has been about 3 months, or 92 days.
Do we have any updates on the progress of it?
He had around a month to work with Kei on it. There was no real progress in that month, and the project is presumably on pause with Kei out of Leaf.
someone on Discord said:
Does the Fast Forward rune experience runic drag? (i.e., can't be moved faster than ~1 foot/minute)
Yes, they do. It looks like all runes would be banned from reading to children in much of the lower half of the USA.
Note: Hazō does not know for a fact that it is impossible to research a rune that does not have runic drag.
Incinerate, explosively shatter, or otherwise wreck the non-5SB'd wooden components? If the wire stays in place, that's probably not quite as efficient as a true skyslicer but still bad news to collide with unexpectedly.
Kagome's First Rule in action!
All praise
@Paperclipped for the incredible work he has been doing on collecting and proposing answers to questions. Especially at the moment, when real life is extra busy for him.
EDIT:
Oh yeah that would work fine. Still, I'm not seeing the utility of this. We won't be able to stop our enemies from following us up onto the skytowers, now we're trapped with them.
You'd be able to stop anyone whose initiative was after Hazō's.
