I don't like the idea of leaving within the next couple of minutes. Recall that we still have to stay in the Swamp for the next ~3 hours, and that there's a ton of ambush people waiting to KO us/trading-nin. If we leave we have to keep up the chase for 3 hours, and/or fight them all off in a nightmare-brawl.
I think the recommendation was meant to convey the idea of throwing substitution targets into the trap field to set off said traps, rather than to use them for actual substitution
Not within the next couple minutes. Why would they think we'd be immediately activating the night lights, etc.?
But wouldn't the explosive tags have to go off around now (i.e., when we got the explosive trap)? Or was your intention to fool the other teams but NOT the one that gave us the trap?
Correct.
You need to be at the rally point at sundown, which is around 5:15pm. If you exit the Swamp more than 30 minutes before sundown you are DQ'd.
You don't know exact numbers or the full list of villages, but it's a safe bet that the number of teams from a given village is in rough proportion to the number of ninja they have. Leaf has the most at ~1500, Mist is second at between 1000 and 1200 (you aren't sure). There's probably something like 10,000 - 20,000 ninja in the entire EN.
Respectively:
Why would they? They go off when we activate the seals. They don't know when we activate the seals.
The explosive trap was a timed detonation, not an activated one. And while I do see the appeal of us looking weak if we're attacked, I don't see the appeal of looking weak to everyone in the area which will (IMO) provoke everyone in the area to attack us, and not just the people we're charging towards/actively want us fucked.
Anyone but people that know about us will just have heard an explosive go off. Anyone that sees us running for the exit, certainly would, but I expect that number to only include the people who intended to attack us anyway.
Counterargument: Force Wall seals are placed to block our escape.
(I'm being rushed out of the house and will be back to finish writing tonight, but here are a bunch of background things in my absence
You have handed Jiraiya the joint Kagome/Keiko report on Akatsuki. He sighed and added it to one of his ever-growing piles of paperwork. When asked about using flashy or impressive seals, Jiraiya insisted you focus on effectiveness - he'll find a way to brag about his sealing prodigy son to the other judges one way or another.
As far as OPSEC while in Mist: No sky-anything. Nothing about any of your jutsu, your seals, your travels (especially Cold Stone), other Leaf nin, naruto, Akatsuki, the USOUD... really just talk about the weather.
Akane is attending the Exams along with one Sakura Haruno and another teammate, name TBD.
Seal loadout that everyone ends up with, barring objection from @eaglejarl or @Velorien:
Flashbangs were not included in your loadout because I'm pretty sure you can't make those yet. Silence Mines do not stack, so you prepped fewer of them than were in the plan. Mindful of Jiraiya's prohibition of warfare-changing explosions, Hazou did not prep any pre-filled implosion seals. He did however prep additional banshee slayers to stick on equipment and misc.
- 100 each A,B,C-class explosives
- 10 empty storage, 3 full of food, 3 full of water, 3 of camping and misc ninja supplies, 2 of clothing
- 10 PMYFv1
- 5 Sawdust Macerators
- 5 Burning Log Macerators
- 5 'Probably Nonlethal' Pangolin Pepper Macerators
- 10 Misterators
- 10 Purifiers
- 20 Air Dome sets
- 5 Earth Dome sets
- 10 Alarm Seals
- 10 Banshee Slayers
- 5 Banshees @ 150dB
- 5 Silence Mines
- 2 each of red, green, yellow Party Trick
- 1 "Banshee Fucker" from Jiraiya @ 175dB
- 10 Kagome Goo Bombs
- 2 Jiraiya Goo Bombs
- 10 Implosion Seals (specifics on ranges TBD)
- 10 Force Wall sets
- 10 LBF sets
- 5 5SB sets
- 10 Wide-Cone Directional Explosives
- 10 1m flat DE
- 5 6m flat DE
Misterator mist isn't really dense enough to obscure vision, and Living Roots isn't sufficiently high level to be useful for blindfighting yet. You have practiced banshee/earmuff silent communication.
Use regular explosives to clear a path.
WE CAN'T SEE THE FORCE WALL SEALS THEY ARE TRANSPARENT WHAT HAPPENS IF WE RUN INTO A HORIZONTAL ONE AT HEAD LEVEL HUH WE LOSE OUR HEADS TO A FUCKING FORCE WALL SEAL AHHHHHHH
Yes, this is why we use explosives. To destroy the force wall seals. Alternately: Force Wall seals need be exactly four meters apart. We could just... look out for things exactly four meters apart and not cross such paths?
