It has been a meme for 5 years about how dumb Jiraiya was for not Summoning the other Bosses.
Did the meme include calling Tsunade, Orochimaru, Kakashi, Itachi and Kisame dumb as well?
On a related note, did you know that Mist kills half its ninja students during the exam and that their civilians killed a bunch of their ninja, and that's why going from Mist to Leaf is the best possible option?
Wait, I thought the Katsuyu thing was quest canon, what with her tiny territory on the quest 7th Path map and her enormous size and her willingness to travel to Arachnid slowly by land the moment she heard of the problem and... Well, the rest of my reasons to think this might be due to faulty memory. Was there no indication of this during the battle against the Dragons? Or somewhere else in this quest? Was it just player chatter and my own half forgotten wiki binging from ages ago?
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Unless you had the Iron Nerve, but that was a distraction.
Uh oh. Uh fucking oh. Do any of you think our aunt is a Runecrafting slave now?
A: In private, after everyone else went to bed, Mari approached you about a failsafe. If you die, she is willing to spread the knowledge about Elemental Mastery nukes. Although she does not know the actual jutsu, all that anyone really needs is "if you make a jutsu that cools the air enough, this is what happens" and you're off to the races.
You know what's fun about this? Orochimaru doesn't currently know anything about EM nukes. So we would have to break OPSEC to Orochimaru in order to make him aware of the efficacy of this dead man's switch. On the one hand, Orochimaru is the person who is already the most likely to be able to make all kinds of WMDs, even before we taught him Runecrafting. On the other hand, he could use this betrayal of ours in order to torpedo our relationship with all kinds of people, like Naruto, Tsunade, Shikamaru and maybe even Kei.
is it bad that i am still in favour of destroying the world in case he kills us?, from a player perspective losing team uplift is a game over and the world may as well not exist afterwards. Forcing a win/win or lose/lose scenario is the only way to keep him honest; also considering what orochimaru does, this may as well be considered a mercy kill if oro is the undesputed winner.
Yes. It is bad. There are more Uplift-minded people in the world and Orochimaru isn't anti-Uplift per se. Having Hazō be willing to play chicken with the whole world in order to increase the chance of his personal survival is terrible for his continued characterization. It would make him worse than Pain, by a mile. Orochimaru playing along, only to later find a way to disable our dead man's switch and kill us would make Orochimaru the unironical hero of the story.
This was at effective PS 44.
I think the bigger issue a lot of the playerbase is having is that we have seen zero evidence of these large seal arrays in the story despite having access to the vast majority of Leaf's seals and Jirayia's sealing hoard. As far as I can tell, the main source of information we have on sealing arrays is an ooc comment EJ made a few years ago:
If we had any idea that you could do something as crazy as pushing away all Nature Chakra from an area with paper seals, we would have devoted more time to this technique over the years. Furthermore, the fact that Sasori or Konan could work nature chakra into sealcraft despite not being a summoner, despite Hazo failing to to figure out even the vaguest detail about nature chakra, would break the suspension of disbelief of many players. Personally, I would feel like the Akatsuki are being granted an extra ability that does not make sense with the observed setting (and I have heard other players say the same).
I want to note that, just like Hazō has stumbled upon things in the world (and beyond) that have revolutionized his sealing abilities (more than once), the same can be true with Sasori and Konan. Maybe advanced array-sealing is up there with Minato-sealing and maybe Konan figured out the trick after leaving Jirayia and maybe the XP investment required isn't crippling, it being a stunt or a few research projects instead of a whole new skill.
It would strain my disbelief if Sasori had developed Rift-opening seals and anti-Zoo Rush Seals and done...literally anything else, really.
His sealing skill has been high for longer than Hazō's. And Akatsuki likely knew about Zoo Rush since before Sasori had a good way to go about researching rift seals.
