Pinging @OliWhail too: Who fails the event if a single individual leaves the swamp? Just the individual? Or the individual plus their team?
Presumably it's like how the Russians have Spetznaz and the Americans have Navy Seals and South Korea has the Black Berets etc. etc. At some point it's easier just to call them all Spec Ops forces rather than come up with unique names for all of them.@eaglejarl And here I thought that this will be your bog standard exam.
Also, it's weird that the ninja villages all use the same term ANBU, which literally means Special Assassination and Tactical Squad. There should be some variations in how the ninja villages name their special operation units.
Right then.
So we can actually expect twenty thousand seals, with the new estimate?
To clarify, this is twenty thousand seals which each have a small possibility of major seal catastrophe, which they seem to have so far avoided due only to being used incredibly rarely, when rich people want to show off in front of the Jones'es?
Y'know, just to make sure the characters and I are on the same page...
Oh shit, I think I know the Akatsuki plot here; they snipe that facility, they SEALING FAILURE the entire Elemental Nations power structure.
[X] Action Plan: CODE Z! CODE Z!
- Find another proctor. ASAP.
- As in, get everyone to run right the hell out of the base, blow it to cinders, and run at top ninja cruising speed.
- While running, tell Keiko her worst case estimates are severely underestimating, because the process of drawing this blank is about five times faster than her estimate.
- Get another night light seal. Check if it's just as volatile.
- If it is, execute the rest of the plan.
- If it is not, stop, hand in the seal, and report that there may be traitors among the Mist ANBU. Execute the previous plan as written at the new location.
- If the seals are volatile, leave the area immediately. Don't stop for anything.
- Throw explosives into the air in our path so that the other Leaf Genin know we're moving out of the combat zone.
- Continue throwing explosives into the air when we head into town; we need to get attention fast.
- When ANBU inevitably approach, tell them we need to see Jiraiya, priority yesterday
- If they don't get the point, tell them that there are twenty thousand potential sealing failures in the next two days, where the lucky outcome is for them to explode in the user's hand. Unlucky is summoning a hellbeast invasion.
- Show Jiraiya the night light seal. Tell him there may be up to twenty thousand, or whatever number Keiko mentally revises the count to, of these seals in circulation
Not at all. Kurosawa Ren knows that failure here will reflect on Mist, and by extension Ren far more than any blowback to that caln.
If a Mist ANBU was deliberately handing unsafe seals to foreign genin against presumable orders to do nothing of the sort, I think that qualifies you as a traitor.I wouldn't say traitors. It looked like no sealmasters check whoever incompetent invented this.
If a Mist ANBU was deliberately handing unsafe seals to foreign genin against presumable orders to do nothing of the sort, I think that qualifies you as a traitor.
Hm. That's fair. Editing.We don't know if that was his intention. Just report the ANBU who handed it to you.
Hazō stopped to think about that. "Well...these things are ridiculously simple and they don't actually store that much chakra so...let's say that the 'rip' would be very small. That's not right, but it gets the idea across. If enough chakra leaks out to make the seal collapse then the rip would almost certainly just close. If it didn't then it would probably just emit a puff of force or light or the smell of purple, but it could tear the rip wide open and create a massive breach to the Out."
If the rip is supposed to be very small wouldn't a sealing failure caused by the rip be, correspondingly, very small?"Get away from there!" Kagome said, shooing him back. "Sawdust burns!" From a hip pouch he produced a tiny blob of mushy red stuff, which he set in the center of the seal. "Berry," he said, pointing proudly. "Split it open, take out the seeds, use the squidgy part. Doesn't burn, won't hurt if it hits you at high speed. If it turns into steel before hitting you at high speed then the flattened-out shape will spread the impact. If it turns into a ravenous spikey monstrosity then at least it'll be a small one. If it dissolves into acidic goop then it won't do a lot of damage to the landscape. If it implodes into a tiny pinhole rip in the universe then nothing big will be able to get through. If the water gets pulled out of it and converted into high-pressure steam then there won't be enough to matter. If—"
I dunno, a pressurized tank functions by having a very small "rip" connected to a valve - does that make rupturing the tank any less catastrophic?If the rip is supposed to be very small wouldn't a sealing failure caused by the rip be, correspondingly, very small?
Minor quibble, but this should be three thousand; presumably four thousand is after Keiko's corrections to look at the worst case.Twenty proctors times one hundred and fifty seals each is four thousand seals.
Watchers are a myth, remember? They're a cover for the lupchanz spiriting away sealmasters.Also: The Watchers are a thing, and if they aren't getting involved, that puts an upper limit on the potential danger.
It could be, or maybe the amount of chakra involved could cause the rip to expand exponentially, or maybe etc. etc. Hazō is out of his depth and assessing this to the best of his Kagome-educated skill.If the rip is supposed to be very small wouldn't a sealing failure caused by the rip be, correspondingly, very small?
We were confident enough that the J-man could spin a victory out of using Party Lights and we are doubting if he couldn't do the same by pointing out that we chose to forgo promotion to save our fellow comrades from Leaf, our (future) allies from Mist and Suna and our temporary (for the exam) allies from the other Villages at the very minimum? All while letting Aunt Ren save face by not going public with this? Yeah, this is just inconsistent with our previous decision to rely on him.
If he can't spin this as a huge victory for our team and himself I will eat Panashe's top hat.
Also: The Watchers are a thing, and if they aren't getting involved, that puts an upper limit on the potential danger.
We know precious little about the Watchers, but one of the things we do know about them is they threatened Jiraiya's life hours after he deliberately failed an infusion, but didn't/couldn't stop it. We can infer that they have a pretty hefty intelligence network, but we don't know how it works or whether they'd actually notice this budding threat, especially given that the one and only known case of their intervention involved a deliberate failure.
It is starting to get dark now so moving around in the swamp will be very difficult for the next 10-12 hours unless you want to bring easily-visible lights.
@Tua You should probably [x] that action plan. Also I'm not 100% on being able to do the plan right now because it's dark.