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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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OrthernLight said:
We've heard a version of this story before - Pain killed it.
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Re-reading that chapter:
eaglejarl said:
chakra metal is rare in society because it's so dangerous. By definition, it only appears in places like this, places where the chakra flux is so strong that it can corrupt the very rocks. When you have a pocket of sufficiently pure iron ore in a sufficiently dense chakra field, the iron will sometimes be transmuted into what we call chakra metal. Unfortunately, at the same time the rocks around it are often corrupted along with the metal. They become..." He paused, frowning as he tried to find the right words. "Nagato explained it to me, but I don't remember it all. Chakra dynamics was his field, not mine. Regardless, the rocks around a chakra metal nodule often acquire a sort of pseudo-life. They can swim through the surrounding rock, carrying the nodule with them at their core like a heart. Occasionally one of these things accidentally breaches the surface, at which point it stumbles around causing horrific damage."
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It sounds like we might be deliberately manufacture chakrametal by running normal iron through a rune-induced hyper-condensed chakra field. Conveniently, condensing chakra with runes is something we're already working on!

eaglejarl said:
Itachi paused, turning to face them. "Yes. A place so rich in chakra." He glanced over at the confused looks and frowned. "Didn't you lot spend time in the Swamp of Death? Remember how high the predator density was and how strong their abilities? This area is like that, and according to our maps this cave is the center of it. It's an even richer source than the meteorite at the center of the Swamp, but fortunately it's underground and the earth blocks most of the energy from getting into the environment. Still, there's almost certainly chakra metal in there."
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Huh, if the meteorite is the source of the chakra field, not the result of it, that implies it might be something other than chakra metal.
....I'd rather like to go back there and look around, actually.

Plus, if the meteorite is a dislodged piece of Kayuga's moon prison or whatever, it might net us some forbidden lore!
 
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eaglejarl said:
Hey, I was reading through an old post and it reminded me that Jiraiya did not kill Minami.
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Quirrelmort said:
I am wounded by the injustice of your accusation. I did not kill the one you know as [Minami]. I simply commanded another to do so.
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Just say he didn't order it, or allow it to happen by inaction, and we'll be good. Don't think we don't notice how carefully silent you are about those possibilities.
 
Rafin said:
This is surprising to me. Supposedly, there's people who forge weapons out of the stuff. How could one do that with an "indestructible" material?
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I assume they get it hot and hit it with a hammer, "indestructible" doesn't really mean anything in material science.

Incredibly hard and tough at room temp? Sure. Doesn't mean it's incredibly hard and tough at 1400C. Although tungsten is...

Perhaps they get it up to 2500C or something, special forging techniques etc.
 
The real question is why didn't Itachi send a massive bolt of lightning near the chakra golem to generate a perpendicular magnetic field that would have…. /s
 
Rafin said:
"Get it hot and hit it with a hammer" sounds like something that ninja can replicate using jutsu.
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Can they do it while it's trying to vaporize them with chakra metal sand at Mach 3? Even a very hot fireball at ninja combat speed doesn't have the time to heat the golem very much. If you can stick it inside your forge for 5 minutes to heat up things become much easier.
 
Rafin said:
This is surprising to me. Supposedly, there's people who forge weapons out of the stuff. How could one do that with an "indestructible" material?
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Could be it's initially only as difficult to physically reshape as ordinary iron, but channeling chakra through the finished weapon progressively locks it into that shape and function. If there's no known way to remove the material's chakra-conductive properties in a hurry, it's effectively indestructible for "how to defeat the golem" purposes.
 
Rune of Chakrametallification

This rune is similar to a Capacitor rune, in that it gathers and holds ambient chakra. However, the Rune of Chakrametallification focuses on containing as much chakra in as small of a volume as possible.

There is a small hollow in the middle of the rune where the chakra is contained, just large enough to insert a small piece of metal. The hope is that inserting a piece of iron or iron ore into the hollow will replicate the natural process that creates chakra metal.
 
Buggy said:
Rune of Chakrametallification

This rune is similar to a Capacitor rune, in that it gathers and holds ambient chakra. However, the Rune of Chakrametallification focuses on containing as much chakra in as small of a volume as possible.

There is a small hollow in the middle of the rune where the chakra is contained, just large enough to insert a small piece of metal. The hope is that inserting a piece of iron or iron ore into the hollow will replicate the natural process that creates chakra metal.
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1) The Capacitor Rune stores the chakra inside the rune. No external field.

2) This is how we die to a chakra golem
 
Velorien said:
I mean, you're the ones who decided not to tell her why it was important.
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Sir Stompy said:
Didn't we tell everyone to level Resolve in the hopes we would one day get them FOOM? Did I imagine that?
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eaglejarl said:
Hazō debated whether or not to say more. "Incidentally," he said, looking around the table, "I would like all of you to start putting in some extra meditation time. Focus on concentration and resistance to distraction."
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Hazou very much did not explain why it was important.

Shrooms said:
Was it before Yuno joined?
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Also yes -- the instruction went out in Chapter 352, but Yuno only formally joined the clan in Chapter 388.

Sir Stompy said:
Looks like Reo was holding out on us, not wanting to share his jutsu. After we did so much for him 🥲
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ponwog: Atomu called it Earth Spikes instead of Reaching Arms of the Tsuchigumo because the latter is too long.

Sir Stompy said:
1) The Capacitor Rune stores the chakra inside the rune. No external field.
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Note: this is not the extradimensional sense of "store".
 
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