Just want to quickly affirm this -- we very much are not trying to signpost anything OOC. This isn't a "Oh balls, the GM just asked me 'are you sure?' before I did the risky thing" moment. This is purely Kagome reacting to Hazou's proposal in-character, with the breakpoint being granted because Kagome is offering up a new option that the players didn't know about when they were making their plan.
Interesting choice by the Pangolins. Do they not believe in the law of identity? Do they not care?
"Hazō, can you design me a ninjutsu that releases noxious gasses that don't go away for about ten years and are definitely mortal to pangolins?"
That was foreseeable I think? The Akatsuki were only good to her and maybe saved the Path entirely.
Cannai baby nooooo
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True, but I've got a fever and an upper respiratory infection that's fighting the antibiotics like Mike Tyson on fantasy coke.
If it helps the calculations, I plotted the travel from Chapter 684 as taking you to the small island southwest of Jiro Island.
If you go ahead with the Microrift rune, I would probably have Hazou argue not "I don't want to spend a week traveling" but instead "the risk to our family is lower from a full-protocol Microrift than from going close to a bunch of major villages trying to murder us."
I think it's not as bad as all that. In the case of Trivial seals -- sure, he probably should skip prep. But imagine rationalist!Kagome thinking about it decision theoretically: "I want to never die to a sealing failure, so that means I should never cause a sealing failure. There will probably come a day when I'm tired (read: no FP), a day when I'm unlucky (read: roll some fat -12s), and I misjudge the difficulty of a seal (read: pull a golden legendary TN49 genin seal, or the equivalent TN69 chuunin seal). What policy can I pick now that, if I apply it instead of trying to reason through every case explicitly, which might fail if I'm tired/mistaken/etc, would keep me from ever hitting a sealing failure?"
Kagome can tell you that other people knew about these sites (though they might all be dead by now). The sites are likely abandoned, but he can't say for sure what's happened in the last fifteen or so years.
Yes. He might not need access to a rift for literally every research infusion, but in general regular rift access of some sort will be required.
It would be unlikely to affect talent. I'd probably prefer to keep it as bonus training blocks for things like ACE/notes, but could potentially be convinced to have it be a source of untyped bonus daily XP like the brevity bonus.
KEI: Allow me to ask the question again, but assume for argument's sake that I did not previously express firm objections to superweapons that can easily scale to threaten civilisation.
*crosses fingers* local cult! local cult! local cult!
I remember when we first had that talk, from the other side, with Jiradad.
Can anything affect talent besides QM opinion on a plan?
One of what? Rifts? I'm lost
I don't even see why his goals should be a consideration when the literal fate of the world is at stake. We do this purely on cost-benefit.
In fairness that student was full of himself and ignored Kagome's advice which is from his point of view what Hazou is doing 🗿
Jinno was characterized as getting too confident and not using prep days. Kagome saw Kazushi beginning to do the same thing, that's why Kagome asked Hazou to allow Kazushi to help him out on some sealing: Kagome had hoped Hazou would model good safety practices for Kazushi.
Of Jiradad's advantages that justified lowering safety precautions
That's hardly the fault of Kagome's own precautions, the student failed a twist on his own.
Opening rifts to wherever is also fate-of-the-world touchy, as far as anyone's aware.
He's spent his life optimising his thought and planning patterns for trying to risk neither. If we game over to a sealing failure now it's also a bad ending, btw. And Akatsuki wins, provided the sealing failure isn't world-wrecking. His risk-reward analysis, with the knowledge he has and the quirks of his personality, is that the risk is too high for the reward to matter.
Alright you can't expect me to remember facts when they contradict my argument.
Lmao.
Except, no we know it's not, see the discussion on anthropics in the chapter.
I think... The rifts might have a higher chance of ending the world than we think. MfD seemingly is a multiversal setting. There's a sort of survivorship bias. We live in one of the timelines in which the world has not been eaten by a sealing failure. Kagome seemingly lived through... What, six? More? Timelines in which sealing failures *did* eat the world.
We have no idea what happened to Kagome, I don't think it makes any sort of sense to base any decision whatsoever on that. Based on what we've seen by basic extrapolation and arithmetic. Thousands of rifts have been opened in this EN and it survived.
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It does, thank you very much. Updated, similarly rough because of Paint circle tool sucking:
