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The cover storyJust call it a jutsu. It's both the most obvious and the most believable claim.
The cover storyJust call it a jutsu. It's both the most obvious and the most believable claim.
Point of order: Aside from the rest of the Kurosawa.Invisible ink. It works, and we're one of the only ones who can do it.
Point of order: Aside from the rest of the Kurosawa slaves.
Onoki can grant the ability to his allies. So that's easily explained.Nah, it'd be a bit unbelievable that suddenly all of Leaf's ninja suddenly are able to use Earth Release. Also wouldn't look like it due to how the movement works in the air with skywalkers.
...oh, I know. Leaf has had a breakthrough in chakra control training that let them crack chakra adhesion to air. (watch some bullshit jonin somewhere actually crack this)
The vast majority of them don't want to be sealmasters and they hate the idea of everyone making them sealmasters, even though this is like the greatest contribution they could be making to the village, aside from diplomancing everyone with their picture perfect smiles.
I think we could transition them onto stone tablets to keep that from happening?So, not sure if this question has come up, but since we're considering Heating Seals how hot are we intending to get them? If we make them too hot they could burn the paper they are on and instantly stop working.
I think we could transition them onto stone tablets to keep that from happening?
What temperature does ink degrade/vaporize?
I think we could transition them onto stone tablets to keep that from happening?
What temperature does ink degrade/vaporize?
[X] Action Plan: Help From A Friend
Goals:
Methods:
- Survive.
- Ensure the cooperation of the pangolin engineer.
- Make improvements.
Try not to spend longer than a month on this plan, unless we would finish everything in it by running over slightly.
- Hazou researches Cooling Seals (to make ice for the engineer) and Heating Seals (to make airships easier when we get around to them). If Noburi decides on a present, then that takes priority. Hazou also experiments with invisible ink seals.
- Kagome upgrades the Skywalker Seal, improving duration and reliability. He tries to figure out a cartridge system for them (wooden inserts on our shoes for quick replacement, and possibly coating the seals in wax to waterproof them against clouds).
- Kei and the engineer try to create designs and prototypes for a skybase that solves the logistical and technical issues involved. Kei also spends time looking into recruiting a diplomat, for the purposes of helping us with leaf. Just being able to consult experienced negotiators other than Mari would be immensely helpful, even if it is later concluded that having them at the table fighting our corner is infeasible (and if we can get them to the table, so much the better).
- Noburi has fun being a mad scientist. He does whatever research he likes (he knows better than Hazou does here, after all). Hazou asks him to tell us if he discovers anything cool.
- Mari does Mari stuff.
Looking it up, the autoignition temperature for paper is somewhere between 218–246 °C, so we could actually generate a fair bit of heat without coming close to that, including getting to the point to boil water.
The ink on the other hand is another matter.
Ergo "one of" .
Ergo "one of" .
Point being, most people will assume no drawn seal means no seal, since very few people are sealmasters familiar with invisible ink.
Emergency Project: Cooling Seal
- If Keiko insisted, or two weeks has passed, and that the team found a use for the engineer. Pause project to start work on making ice.
Talk to Paneru (military engineer) tomorrow; figure out what she has to offer and/or relevant information.
Would Pangolins reject skywalkers out of hand because flying is associated with the Condor? Or would Keiko get squashed?
"The Pantokrator made the Pangolin Clan to rule over the ground," Panteon mused, "and to cast ourselves into the heavens might be considered heretical. After all, is it not taught that the freedom to fly has made the condors forget the concepts of loyalty and duty? And to manufacture seals would violate the Pantokrator's ancient prohibition on sealcrafting on the Seventh Path…"
I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANY MORE!
all wearing a frilly pink tutus, bunny ears, and--was that a unicorn horn?--amid choruses of "Pretty Pony no Jutsu!"
[X] Action Plan: Setting Up for Leaf
Goals:
1. Research and development.
2. Get the Pangolins on board.
3. Figure out what our goals should be in the negotiation.
- Hazō and Kagome-sensei do Research
- Have Hazō learn skywalker seals from Kagome-sensei ASAP.
- Talk to the team about how much improvement they should do on the Skywalker Tech.
- Keep in mind:
- Spending too long on the skywalker project preclude other opportunities to develop new seals or sealtech.
- On the other hand, skywalker is the innovation that outweigh any others that Hazō and Kagome-sensei made in the past year. No other inventions come remotely close. So it might make sense to polish the hell out of it rather than work on new projects.
- Consider all applications of skywalkers by Leaf: Military engineering, strategic movement, raids, etc.
- Skywalker technology may not need much improvement if other aerial technologies becomes available.
- Airships could easily replace skywalkers for long range strategic movement, but takes a long time to develop.
- Gliders are clearly already possible.
- The idea that Leaf sealmasters could continue where we left off WRT skywalker research so we don't need to spend all our time on it.
- Discuss with the team about which projects they should pursue for Skywalker.
- How long the duration of skywalker seals should last? 30 minutes? 1 hour? 2 hours? As long as possible?
- How convenient it should be? Is it really necessary to have a cartridge/slot system if skywalker duration starts to get long enough.
- Should Kagome-sensei and Hazō go overkill on safety research?
- Finalize technical spec for Skywalker Research.
- Do Skywalker Research. Pick from list of ideas. See Spoiler for more details.
- Skywalker Research Ideas.
- Make it last longer.
- This also make it safer to use, as we don't want to switch in the middle of an operation or fighting a chakra monster.
- Increase duration by using a better design.
- Trade air dome size for duration.
- Trade air dome durability for duration.
- Trade air dome thickness for duration.
- These configurations should undergo combat and safety tests.
- Make it safer.
- Figure out a method of water proofing the seal. Maybe wrap it in leather bag and tie it to the cartridge/shoe?
- Consider a purifier or tunneler's friend variant to get rid of moisture.
- Last resort is to figure out a new substance for smoothed stone medium to draw seals on.
- Make it more convenient.
- Why? We don't want to be caught with our pants down while switching shoes.
- Develop a slot/cartridge system of some kind for easy switching.
- Hazō sucks at crafting, so this is more of Kagome-sensei's thing.
- Maybe interleaved wedges to hold the cartridge in place, like interleaved telephone books.
- Have a pulley handle so that the user can pull the cartridge out.
- Should withstand combat testing.
- Shrink the seal design to fit within the slot system. The smaller the better.
- Prototype hot air balloon.
- Start by constructing a sky lantern and get a feel about how they work.
- Try constructing a fabric version and get it to fly. Could try different materials such as canvas, cotton, silks, paper, etc.
- Use Tunneler's Friend to store hot air from a fire rather than using a fire directly.
- Do not keep the seal near the campfire as that invites DISASTER.
- Instead, build a sideway tunnel using MEW for hot hot air to follow.
- If Tunneler's Friend doesn't work as well as hoped against a fire in the balloon, develop heating seal.
- Scale prototype up gradually. See how much mass they can uplift.
- There is no need to develop a full blown airship. That's a long term project that could be done at Leaf. Instead, the prototype's job is to impress Jiraiya and Leaf with possibilities and ideas.
- Possible use for a military engineer:
- Construct a large hidden underground laboratory with plenty of ventilation shafts.
- Build a windmill device for a wind tunnel.
- Test hot air balloon in wind tunnel.
- Do not reveal skywalker to the pangolin unless cleared by Mari-sensei and Keiko.
- Use the excuse of constructing the balloon to carry people/pangolins up to a sky tower.
- Emergency Project: Cooling Seal
- If Keiko insisted, or three and a half weeks has passed, and that the team found a use for the engineer. Pause projects to start work on making ice.
- We have seven weeks of ice. With three and a half of ice, we have plenty of time to complete the cooling seal project.
- Mari-sensei and Keiko do Pangolin Diplomacy
- Talk to Panchipaama, the Naraka Roller head. Need to see if she's cool with us, or is still pissed. Figure out concessions.
- Talk to Paneru (military engineer) tomorrow; figure out what she has to offer and/or relevant information.
- What can we get from the Pangolin for skywalker considering their supposed religious objection?
- Any chance of them becoming really upset with the use of seals to fly as hersey?
- Once issues and concerns are cleared with the team, sound out the idea of flying to Pandaa.
- Noburi do Research
- Hazō and Kagome-sensei will consider Noburi's ideas when he broach the subject.
- Continue his research into chakra water.
- Consider cataloguing and dissecting all animals and plants on the island.