Okay, I think I've worked out a basic starter for necromancy that should keep us occupied for a while, depending on how difficult the QMs decide these seals are. Personally, I view them as beginner seals of the same order as the Nara chime seals. But... We all know how that goes.

  • Cause a bit of raw meat to contract.
  • Cause a contracted bit of meat to relax.
  • Cause a bit of raw meat to first contract for one second, and then relax.
  • Cause a bit of raw meat to first contract for [two, three, four, five, ten] seconds, and then relax.
  • Cause a bit of raw meat to contract for one second, relax, and contract again.
  • Cause a bit of raw meat to contract for one second, relax, contract for one second again, relax again.
  • Cause a bit of raw meat to contract-relax [three, four, five] times.

  • Cause a recently deceased fruit fly to bend its' [L1, L2, L3, R1, R2, R3] leg.
  • Cause a recently deceased fruit fly to unbend its' bent [insert leg here] leg.
  • Cause a recently deceased fruit fly to bend [insert every combination of legs here, I can't be bothered to write them all out].
  • Cause a recently deceased fruit fly to unbend its' bent [insert every combination of legs here].
  • Cause a recently deceased fruit fly to bend, and then unbend [insert every combination of legs here].
  • Cause a recently deceased fruit fly to walk slowly in something approaching a non-insane manner in a single direction for a centimetre.
  • Increase walk-distance to [two, three, four, five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, fifty, one-hundred] centimetres.
 
I should point out that the child turned out to be a girl.

Oops.
The point of my post wasn't to prove "China has vaccines, and knew that they worked!" but to suggest that there are techniques that were being used during/before 12th century Asia that acted like vaccines. Assuming MfD has any medical research system worth a damn, it would mean that a lot of the "useless alternatives" aren't going to be proliferated as anything besides superstition. But the ones that work will.

I claim that the evidence that 12th-century Asia had inoculation is taken from an account first written in 1713, over 700 years after the event, which makes it extraordinarily weak evidence. Moreover, given the importance of inoculation, it is quite strange that the first written discussion comes from 1549, over 500 years after the events described in the 1713 account. It would be a mistake to make any strong assertions about such a poorly-documented period, especially since there was this whole tradition of keeping treatments secret, and it's plausible (though unlikely) that inoculation was practiced as early as the 7th century, but right now, I'm leaning skeptical. Perhaps 30% that at some point in the 12th century or earlier did someone in China have a cotton-wool plug imbued with the aqueous extract of of scabs from a mild case for the sole purpose of preventing the disease.

We are in complete agreement about medical research worth a damn quickly filtering out useless alternatives.
 
Apologies for being rude and repeating myself, but

@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail
  1. Were there anything in the previous plan that wasn't carried out?
  2. If so, what were they?
If everything has been carried out, I don't have to pull the Kagomebomb from the last plan, but if I do these plans are going to get more annoying.
 
Apologies for being rude and repeating myself, but

@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail
  1. Were there anything in the previous plan that wasn't carried out?
  2. If so, what were they?
If everything has been carried out, I don't have to pull the Kagomebomb from the last plan, but if I do these plans are going to get more annoying.
You did not find a chance to talk to Jiraiya about Kagome's revelations. He's been working himself to exhaustion every night and the time never seemed right.

After the reveal about the Merchant Council the rest of the team fell back to "take missions, get jobs in shops" as ways to make money.

LBF gets about a dozen uses before being exhausted. (NB: I was wrong last time when I said it was one-use.) I believe we said it doesn't reset automatically--@Velorien, @OliWhail, please confirm.

The Nara seals ate the rest of your time so nothing else from the absolutely enormous list of non-binding suggestions got done.
 
Have we come across seals that are triggered by sound? If so could we modify storage scrolls to activate when a complex sound is played by another seal that activates with a trip wire? We'd sell a storage seal to a group and then multiple of the sound producing seals. They'd have to come in sets so that people can open them one at a time. This would also make it a subscription service. They'd need more of the sound producing seals.
 
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@huhYeahGoodPoint
Could we add research into button activation for storage seals into the plan? Civilian usable seals should make a strong argument for the council to grant use quickly as it would close the perceived gap between ninja and civilians in the commercial arena, likewise the mentioned mining use.

It might also be useful to sound out any of the local merchants that dominate the areas we wish to make money in. I am quite sure that our applications would get more "attention" if they were seen by preexisting blocs on the merchant's council as a way to line their pockets (not bribes, actual partnerships). If people are selling ice, partner with them to make sure the vast majority of people likely to be affected by the change want it to happen.
 
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Also, have we investigated making cluster bomb explosive seals?
All separate seals tied to a single trigger, but with different timers. One weak charge scatters the notes, which then detonate. Similar to modern cluster bombs.

Also, adding shrapnel to our explosive seals by simply putting material around them.

Let us not forget that kagame's directional seal allows reactionless claymores.
 
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Also, have we investigated making cluster bomb explosive seals?
All separate seals tied to a single trigger, but with different timers. One weak charge scatters the notes, which then detonate. Similar to modern cluster bombs.

Also, adding shrapnel to our explosive seals by simply putting material around them.

Let us not forget that kagame's directional seal allows reactionless claymores.
Kagome already made those. Like, before he knew us.

(God, I love that man.)
 
@huhYeahGoodPoint
Could we add research into button activation for storage seals into the plan? Civilian usable seals should make a strong argument for the council to grant use quickly as it would close the perceived gap between ninja and civilians in the commercial arena, likewise the mentioned mining use.

It might also be useful to sound out any of the local merchants that dominate the areas we wish to make money in. I am quite sure that our applications would get more "attention" if they were seen by preexisting blocs on the merchant's council as a way to line their pockets (not bribes, actual partnerships). If people are selling ice, partner with them to make sure the vast majority of people likely to be affected by the change want it to happen.

Partnering also allows us to take parallel actions while we are away on missions and focus on our specializations. Basic economics.
shit we need a license to sell seals.

I think though, if we can get the sealmaster and LBF seals approved quickly we can probably earn a lot of goodwill by going to the Merchant Council directly and giving them LBF wands. We could make partnerships with individual businesses, but that establishes us in the position of subordinate - not necessarily a bad thing, but I think we gain more if we have them come to us.
 
You did not find a chance to talk to Jiraiya about Kagome's revelations. He's been working himself to exhaustion every night and the time never seemed right.

After the reveal about the Merchant Council the rest of the team fell back to "take missions, get jobs in shops" as ways to make money.

LBF gets about a dozen uses before being exhausted. (NB: I was wrong last time when I said it was one-use.) I believe we said it doesn't reset automatically--@Velorien, @OliWhail, please confirm.

The Nara seals ate the rest of your time so nothing else from the absolutely enormous list of non-binding suggestions got done.
Some questions, to you and @Velorien @OliWhail:
  • Did we talk to Mari regarding Kagome's revelations, i.e., did she agree that we should tell Jiraiya?
  • What do you mean by "get jobs in shops"? Are those the missions we did, or are we planning to find employment in shops as alternative income?
Also, @Velorien says here that LBF doesn't seem to need re-activation after each use.
Yes, the tripwires (LBFs) are persistent as long as the tags on either end remain intact. That means that if you connect them to an explosive or anything else destructive then the tripwire is destroyed too, but if you attach it to (e.g.) a storage seal then the tripwire sticks around.

To eliminate ambiguity, a tripwire is a physical object (a piece of wire), but an LBF (Lesser Barrier Formation, which I've been referring to as a 'tripwire seal') is an invisible sensor beam between two seals. Damaging or moving either seal will cause the sensor beam to fail.
 
I mean we are ninjas. We have an social spec jounin. We have the freaking Hokage. How are we going to let some merchant council stop us? Like can't we bribe them? Or hire non leaf merchants to bring the ice in and sell it?
 
I mean we are ninjas. We have an social spec jounin. We have the freaking Hokage. How are we going to let some merchant council stop us? Like can't we bribe them? Or hire non leaf merchants to bring the ice in and sell it?
We probably can, but doing so will have long-term consequences. The first of which is probably "Jiraiya is no longer Hokage," unless that gets beat out by "Trade in Leaf grinds to a halt" or "Ninjas assassinate Hazou for breaking trade balance."
 
I'm lazy, I'll add stuff later.

[X] Action Plan: Therapy no Jutsu

Goals:

  • Get therapy.
  • Make money.
  • Socialize.
  • (Secret) Mari's birthday.
  • Personal projects.
Non-binding methods:
  • Get therapy.
    • Ask Jiraiya. Doesn't have to be a Yamanaka, they're probably expensive.
    • Try and get Noburi & Keiko to go as well. They're not doing much better.
  • Make money.
    • Do missions as necessary.
    • Get jobs in shops.
    • Get licensed.
      • Sealing licenses for Kagome & Hazou.
        • Also give them the appropriate licenses to sell explosive & storage seals.
      • Medical license for Noburi.
      • Trading license for Keiko (with Pangolins).
        • Ask Jiraiya if he has a license, and (if so) if skipping the license and facilitating Toad-Pangolin trade would be a good idea.
      • Merchant licenses:
        • Ice-making.
  • Socialize.
  • (Secret) Mari's birthday.
  • Personal projects.
    • Training.
      • See if we can get any training/productivity-increasing techniques.
      • Casino seals.
      • Beginner book seals.
      • Mountain seals.
    • Design zeppelin prototypes.
      • -to be added-
 
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