@Sir Stompy (or whoever else), can we get a prep day on variable-length force claws? default blade length ~2cm, but they temporarily extend to ~4m(or whatever Hazoupilot picks) while chakra-adhesion is applied.

That should give us one hell of a Taijutsu boost, while avoiding the "cut your own face off" problem.
 
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Live reaction post! (Man, these are fun to write.)

If Hazō ever turned out to be wrong, it was because there had been a more efficient, more reliable option for accomplishing his goals and he'd been too tunnel-visioned to see it. The notion that he'd chosen the wrong goals to begin with was abstract, meaningless, something for future historians to argue about when they had nothing better to do.
I have this fear all the time when thinking about MfD.

Unfortunately, Hazō could see the rift's former site. Granite rubble surrounded the old foundations of the box, which varied between a couple inches and a couple feet, all connected by the smooth cuts of a razor edge rather than the jagged fractures of intense force. That was bad.
Uh oh. I feel bad for the villagers.

"It was a good thing we moved camp immediately, then," Hazō said. "I hope everyone remembers where this is."
Same. It is in the middle of nowhere.

"Can the stinker genjutsu Canvass?"
Oh. I hadn't thought of that. But my plan with Ma and Pa also relied on Itachi not being able to genjutsu them.

Hazō swore (as in, profanely) internally.
snerk

"Don't just say it. Act like it by leaving me alone," Fukasaku said. "Is there something important happening, or are you finally going to take your dogs and get out of here?"
This almost makes me feel like Ma and Pa (or at least Pa) are/is under a genjutsu...

Fukasaku thought about it for a second. "Sure. 'Bladehorror rift,' huh? It's a little annoying to head down to Gamadai, but we can do it once. And if there's one thing me and Ma know forwards and backwards, it's genjutsu. Can't let the Crow Summoner be fooling our clan's summoner when he's on important business. Now, if that's all, get out of here."
Nice!

"I want to learn it!" Kagome-sensei said. "Teach me!"
Classic Kagome. :)

"It will in fact instantly kill you if you don't have the chakra to form the number of clones you try to make," Hazō said, holding back a grimace as he saw Kagome-sensei's face fall. He should have thought of this – Kagome-sensei was a sealmaster and a trapmaker, not a ninjutsu specialist. "Don't worry, Kagome-sensei. Train your reserves for a few weeks or months, then I'll teach you as soon as Noburi says it's okay."
Man, I should have thought of that! Well, maybe he can use ACE?

If gaining the technique means I can skip risking my death at some other point in the future, then it's worth a little risk now, right?
Point.

Great chapter, @Paperclipped!
 
Can we increase our regen speed by staying in a chakra dense location?
Hmm. Assuming we have enough chakra to let Mari and Hazō FOOM for a month or so, we should be able to raise our natural reserves (and thus our natural regen) enough to substantially discount our FOOM cost. Maybe to the point of being able to subsist off the local wildlife.
 
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How is a separate rune from the Water Rune useful enough to justify more research time? Could you explain why it's worth spending time researching it if we can get the Water Rune?

You are Kxxrrrssszwww Hzxzzzwww, what do you do?
[X] Interlude: Escape of the Blade Horrors

Meanwhile, the disappearance of Whirlpool is one of the great mysteries of the setting. Nobody knows what happened, or even whether it was deliberate or accidental (it hardly beggars belief that a village of panicking sealmasters could have had a bad sealing failure), and nobody has displayed any ability to replicate it during the world wars since.
Simple! We invent a "wipe this chunk of land from existance" rune, use it against Akatsuki and then frame it as an epically lucky sealing failure. Jashin provides, after all.

[X] Interlude: Noburi's Training With Tsunade
 
Right now, while we don't want to be leaving Runes in a distinctive ninja-attractive location, seems like an abnormally good time work on Graphosealing projects.
I just plan to go to Vegetable or something after this and work on Runes there. No intentions of sticking around in the EN
Hmm. Assuming we have enough chakra to let Mari and Hazō FOOM for a month or so, we should be able to raise our natural reserves (and thus our natural regen) enough to substantially discount our FOOM cost. Maybe to the point of being able to subsist off the local wildlife.
What? I'm lost. How does this help?
How is a separate rune from the Water Rune useful enough to justify more research time? Could you explain why it's worth spending time researching it if we can get the Water Rune?
I just plan to do whichever rune is easiest. They all seem like viable ideas, and we don't know enough about how runes work to predict which design will be easiest IMO.
 
What? I'm lost. How does this help?
You regenerate your total chakra reserves over a day (unless you are Noburi). If you have CR 30, this means you regenerate 300 CP daily. If you have CR 55, you instead regenerate 550 CP daily.

If the entire team focuses on raising their reserves for some time (especially the FOOMing members of Mari, Kei, and Hazō), the difference in daily chakra regeneration will be significant.

Probably not enough to FOOM off alone, but definitely enough to delay the rate at which the team depletes an area and has to move.
 
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I just plan to do whichever rune is easiest. They all seem like viable ideas, and we don't know enough about how runes work to predict which design will be easiest IMO.
Fair point. I have no objections to doing a prep day on both and doing the easier one.

I just plan to go to Vegetable or something after this and work on Runes there. No intentions of sticking around in the EN
Vegetable might fall into the "near part of the eastern continent" that Akatsuki's spy network is strong in. I'd feel more comfortable being on a random island off the map.
 
You regenerate your total chakra reserves over a day (unless you are Noburi). If you have CR 30, this means you regenerate 300 CP daily. If you have CR 55, you instead regenerate 550 CP daily.

If the entire team focuses on raising their reserves for some time (especially the FOOMing members of Mari, Kei, and Hazō), the difference in daily chakra regeneration will be significant.

Probably not enough to FOOM off alone, but definitely enough to delay the rate at which the team depletes an area and has to move.
I doubt this will matter on a timescale sufficient to matter for the Akatsuki war, they're better off raising combat stats so they don't get killed unstagnating.
Vegetable might fall into the "near part of the eastern continent" that Akatsuki's spy network is strong in. I'd feel more comfortable being on a random island off the map.
Go look at the map, it's pretty damn far from the EN, I suspect an island off the coast of Vegetable would be fine.
 
Go look at the map, it's pretty damn far from the EN, I suspect an island off the coast of Vegetable would be fine.
OK, to be fair, I did look at the map but not the scale. :redface: After looking at the scale, I'd agree that over 200 miles really isn't "the near part". Although Vegetable is uncomfortably close to the Hidan-affiliated Demon country. But if we do go that way, I suggest stopping by Marsh's capitol to check up on our contact there.
 
I doubt this will matter on a timescale sufficient to matter for the Akatsuki war, they're better off raising combat stats so they don't get killed unstagnating.

Having higher CR is useful in general, including "stack buffs and punch hard". It also helps the whole Team having more CR thanks to Noburi.

And thanks to Noburi being able to overecharge people (and possible heal them), having higher CR allows us to summon Cannai at least.
 
Having higher CR is useful in general, including "stack buffs and punch hard". It also helps the whole Team having more CR thanks to Noburi.

And thanks to Noburi being able to overecharge people (and possible heal them), having higher CR allows us to summon Cannai at least.
I think sir stompy supports raising it (after capping PS), he was just pointing out it has minimal impact on FOOM haul.
 
Having higher CR is useful in general, including "stack buffs and punch hard". It also helps the whole Team having more CR thanks to Noburi.

And thanks to Noburi being able to overecharge people (and possible heal them), having higher CR allows us to summon Cannai at least.
Yeah, the math suggests getting 2-4 levels of CR would be enough to summon him. We plan to do that after softcapping PS.

CR is not very useful in a fight unless you're running out of chakra. Most of our guys have oversized reserves from being Summoners. I don't think it's a smart investment.
 
Yeah, the math suggests getting 2-4 levels of CR would be enough to summon him. We plan to do that after softcapping PS.

CR is not very useful in a fight unless you're running out of chakra. Most of our guys have oversized reserves from being Summoners. I don't think it's a smart investment.
It could still be useful for Mari but I'll leave that decision up to Mari. She still has buff stunts to buy
 
Yeah, the math suggests getting 2-4 levels of CR would be enough to summon him. We plan to do that after softcapping PS.

CR is not very useful in a fight unless you're running out of chakra. Most of our guys have oversized reserves from being Summoners. I don't think it's a smart investment.
I think sir stompy supports raising it (after capping PS), he was just pointing out it has minimal impact on FOOM haul.

None of our Char's have overzided reservers, that's just delusional.

Just say that you want to spend it on other things.
 
None of our Char's have overzided reservers, that's just delusional.

Just say that you want to spend it on other things.
Uhhh yeah they do, 30 CR for a chunin taijutsu fighter is too much. If Hazou didn't have PEA his reserves would be comically oversized, instead of oversized.

Kei literally had nothing to spend her chakra on except Sub, VS, and Boost until we got CotWG
 
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Uhhh yeah they do, 30 CR for a chunin taijutsu fighter is too much. If Hazou didn't have PEA his reserves would be comically oversized, instead of oversized.

Kei literally had nothing to spend her chakra on except Sub, VS, and Boost until we got CotWG

This has nothing to do with summoning. Do you actually think that summoning is such a useless skill?
 
None of our Char's have overzided reservers, that's just delusional.

Just say that you want to spend it on other things.
Hazou and Kei don't have very chakra expensive builds if they aren't summoning. Hazou was getting by on like CR 10 for ages lmao

Noburi's build is more chakra expensive but he's also got fucking huge reserves even with his triple casting cost
 
This has nothing to do with summoning. Do you actually think that summoning is such a useless skill?
Nope
Having higher CR is useful in general, including "stack buffs and punch hard". It also helps the whole Team having more CR thanks to Noburi.
More CR for us is not all that useful in combat except for the 2-4 levels we need on Hazou to Summon Cannai. After that we have other priorities. Noburi and Kei don't need it at all.

That's all
 
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