Was it? I remember something about not being able to henge into a multi-thread object like a sheet, but the easy workaround to that being henging into a sheet made out of a single continuous thread. Or was that a different henge spoon void?
The writeup I did is here, which finds math which works, however the assumptions which went into the model require Hazou to have become a sheet 160 meters wide for it to work, and at that point, the assumptions regarding falling no longer hold. I believe in the discussion which followed the limits of henge were restricted such that such an exploit wouldn't work.
 
I mean, presumably Summoning Contracts are signed so that the Seventh Path nations donate some military capacity to eventually get a jonin or S-Rank ninja on their side; everyone's somewhat aware that ninja that survive and are active don't really have hard skill-caps, so anybody that the Summons can boost to a high level can do stuff for the Summons on the Human Path plus or minus any favors a jonin or S-Ranker can do on the Seventh.

Of course, that can be a bit of a double-edged blade. I recall we heard that Itachi showed up and basically took over his summon tribe by killing anyone who didn't say "yes sir".
 
Can we pursue the "people's minds have been overwritten" plot-hook when we return? I've been wanting to pursue the "Mari's eyes change colors" thing for years irl. Maybe with the grue, we'll have enough player support to pursue it instead of / while doing empire building?

That'd be awesome.

I'll consider it if you have a halfway decent plan for how to follow up on it. Where do we look for more information? What experiment could we run?

Esp. when Mari won't be casting Truth Lost In the Fog again. (I would not vote to blackmail or force her to)

It doesn't have to be a complete plan or anything, just vaguely reasonable/plausible first steps.

The main theme of this exam to Hazou has been consequences. Reflection should be the second. That's the only way I see us starting the "Mari's different eye color" quest.

I think Hazou doing an AAR on himself would help. He has to consider a few impactful things and their repercussions. I could see him working on identifying and considering errors, hints, and info he missed during the exam. This then gets him to recall situations outside of the exam to examine as well.

Here's some stuff he'll think on:
  • I think the free range we've been given to use with our seals on so many fellow genin in the exams
  • Light seal scare
  • How we use seals, jutsu, plans (lethality, opsec, )
  • Possible Jutsu and Seal after-effects by Hazou and others he should have considered.
  • Akane breakup
 
Incidentally, an alliance between the Crows, Toads, and Pangolins would probably do them all three well.

(And getting us the Crow scroll...)

Remind me, what's happening to the Condor summoning scroll? Specifically, how is it being decided who the summoner is? I feel like the Pangolins would have a strong opinion on that now that the Condors are their slaves
 
Remind me, what's happening to the Condor summoning scroll? Specifically, how is it being decided who the summoner is? I feel like the Pangolins would have a strong opinion on that now that the Condors are their slaves
Quite probably. I doubt they'd necessarily want the Condor summoner wrecked in this case.
 
Quite probably. I doubt they'd necessarily want the Condor summoner wrecked in this case.
They might very well want to replace the old condor summoner with someone they have influence over. Weren't we just talking about how much better it would be if Noburi were the summoner? I smell opportunity.
 
I feel like that's a stronger in route to us getting a second summoning scroll (especially an avian one).
Oh, sure, but imagine the crows going from Itachi "Murder everyone who doesn't agree with me" Uchiha to Hazou "I will cooperate with explicit enemies in pursuit of world peace" Gouketsu.
 
A former housemate recommended it to me: I think it's been making the rounds in the bay area rationalist community.
Oooh, hello fellow bayrat! (Though I'm on the east coast now, I will always be Bay Area in my heart)

Don't believe the rationalist memes. Roko's Basilisk is up there with Scientology in weird culty bollocks that only makes sense when you've been marinading in the subculture long enough that it's bled into your heuristics.
It's not even a rationalist meme except as a joke! I have heard it brought up as a serious example precisely no times! The only people who seem to care about it are folks looking for any excuse to mock the weird outgroup.
 
Oh, sure, but imagine the crows going from Itachi "Murder everyone who doesn't agree with me" Uchiha to Hazou "I will cooperate with explicit enemies in pursuit of world peace" Gouketsu.
I'm gonna say this right now, but the next summoning scroll we get should go to noburi. Imagine how hurt he'll feel when even though Keiko and Hazō can't use the summoning scrolls without him he still doesn't get one and is resigned to the role of the chakra battery, he was already upset when he had to stay back in the initial assault in this event, imagine if that was EVERY engagement
 
The movie trailer posted here a few days ago inspired me to write my own.

[Scene of the team playing games and eating food together. Happy music is playing.]
Hazou voice over: Inhale clarity. Exhale panic. You can't panic. If you panic, you can't think.
[A twig snaps. The music stops. Everyone goes silent, reaches for weapons, and assumes defensive positions.]
Voice over: If you can't think, everyone dies.

[Shot of Minami being killed, as dramatic music starts to build]
If you let your guard down, you die.

[Noburi's barrel gets recognized by the shopkeeper]
If you get spotted, you die.

[Fighting a Jonin in Hot Springs]
If you pick a fight with someone better than you, you die.

[Hazou feverishly making and checking lists]
Miss one detail...

[Quick shots of Shikigame, Takahashi, and Jiraiya]
Trust one person you shouldn't have...

[Black screen. Music goes quiet]
And its all over.

[Shikigame emerges from the tent, wincing and covered in blood.]
Shikigame: Mist betrayed us. We've all been marked for death.

[Hazou punches through someone's skull]
It doesn't matter what it takes.

[Hazou crying and being comforted by Mari]
What you've lost.

[Team getting herded into the killbox]
Or how badly you've screwed up.

[Close up shot of Hazou, hurt, distressed, and breathing rapidly. No music.]
You have to find a way to survive.
[Hazou takes a slow breath, and his eyes go unfocused for a second as he does his thing]
Hazou: Okay. Here is what we are going to do.

[Montage of explosions, awesomeness, and danger. Music gets loud.]
[Title screen: MARKED FOR DEATH.]
 
It doesn't matter what the Pangolins want because the boss condor escaped.

Also, determining what the Mori voice is is another hanging plot line.
 
We need to do lots of chakra science in general .

Also didn't the qm mention something about that hyuga looking at certain seals could have interesting results ?
I vaguely remember something like that .
 
Oh chapter update. Reads chapter Well that was odd, let's refresh the page to see the response. 20 pages of rampant paranoia

The thread just flys now a days. I can't keep up with the conversation moving at full steam.
 
Uh oh... let's never mention that...

AAHHH! Sacrilege against the Pankrator! That's why Jiraiya is sprinting over!
We're all going to die!

Well you see, the Pantokrator only said that Pangolins (and other summon clans) can't infuse seals, his divine law has nothing in it against those weird humans doing it.

Speaking seriously though, the Pangolins are known to twist their interpretation of their religion into convenient shapes if the incentives are large enough. I figure if they're not already implicitly okay with humans infusing seals over there, if the topic came up they'd prefer to just ask 'please don't do that in the future' rather than sever all ties and turn against the S-rank superninja.

e:
Probably. Also, somehow, I was unaware of the triple cost Noburi problems (I think they came about during the rules revamp?). We probably ought to level his chakra reserves a bit so he can cast his heavy stuff.
He's triple cost but quintuple storage, so that he can act as a giant chakra battery without outright having obscenely large reserves for personal use.
 
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I'm gonna say this right now, but the next summoning scroll we get should go to noburi. Imagine how hurt he'll feel when even though Keiko and Hazō can't use the summoning scrolls without him he still doesn't get one and is resigned to the role of the chakra battery, he was already upset when he had to stay back in the initial assault in this event, imagine if that was EVERY engagement
Ideally, yeah. Same thing goes for Noburi, though.

We need to get him some levels in Technique Hacking so he can work out how to get around that downside of his bloodline. Maybe Kabuto can help with that.
 
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