...How does that help? Anyone remotely competent will know that you can't seal seals, no?
Everybody knows that *they*
shouldn't try to seal seals. That's a little different than being certain that the maniac sealmaster child of the world's greatest sealmaster hasn't figured out some way of doing it which isn't guaranteed to kill him.
For the record, I don't buy the idea that you can coat the entire arena in enough oil to pull off this inferno of death thing you're talking about. You can certainly create Aspects like "FIRE!!!", but not create massive infernoes that burn people to death.
The easiest analogy is probably boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions. This is an armored tank being tested against a holding tank filled with 5,000kg of propane. The resulting fireball alone was 100 meters wide. Producing the same effect inside the arena's volume would require less than 400kg. Of course, we'd be using liquids and propelling them with a much more powerful charge, so the coverage would be larger and the flames last longer for a similar payload.
The result doesn't have to be insta-kill. Just producing flame and smoke sufficient to render the arena a two or three shifts-per-turn environment would force the competition to leave instead of standing there and frying.
An example closer to our scale and using a liquid fuel:
Quick question, correct me if this sounds retarded but I was thinking back on the sealing chakra issue. I know that Kagome outright said it's insane and can't be done but the thing is that the tailed beasts were all sealed despite being beings of pure chakra given form and minds. So I was thinking that it's not necessarily that it can't be done, it's that seal masters are treating chakra wrong. Despite being mindless, formless energy compared to the tailed beasts, the chakra should be sealed and trapped like you would a spirit/demon/tailed beast, while everyone else seems to treat chakra like you would treat an inanimate object and simply store it. I'm kind of assuming that storage and sealing are two different things in fuinjutsu. The sealing jutsu used to seal the nine tails for example would not be similar to a super charged storage seal, but rather fundamentally different with very different mechanics and principles on how it works.
Now assuming that I'm right, than we would need to focus on developing a jutsu that properly traps the chakra like an airtight barrel like prison, to properly seal it. What do you guys think?
The reason chakra storage seals don't work is that they would break the setting over their knee. As Kagome said, they're literally the very first thing every aspiring sealmaster thinks of. They're the holy grail and philosopher stone of sealing. With enough chakra a ninja doesn't need to eat, sleep, or breath. If you could give somebody like Kakashi an external chakra supply he could solo entire countries.
What handwaving ends up explaining it is up in the air, but chakra storage seals are not going to happen.
If we somehow figure out how destructive the firestorm plan actually is without testing it we shouldn't mention it to Jiraiya because it's too much like the sorts of things he warned us off from telling him or even thinking about once before. Let's just keep it in our pocket for a real emergency if we ever get desperate and need to kill Zabuza or something.
If we do test it first, we're probably going to have to claim it was a sealing failure to cover it up, because the whole city is going to see it.
As for beating Keiko, I thought the consensus of a while back was that she was severely vulnerable to just being bum rushed and punched in the face?
Jiraiya warned us against city-busters. This is basically a scaled-up implementation of an inferior-in-every-way knock-off of something we already make and even already used in the tournament
simply as a boast. The, "fill a storage seal with flammable stuff and blow it up", TECHINT cat is already well out of the bag, if it was ever in there to begin with.
So, how do we get a lot of fate points quickly, or get Keiko to use hers?
Re-invoke "open mouth, insert foot", reschedule the Ami date for earlier, and invite Keiko.
I know Hazou has a lot of stuff in his scrolls, but do we actually have the amount of oil neccessary for this?
Buying that much oil might be non-trivial, especially if we want to test it out a few times before the match.
This is the capital harbor and presumably primary shipyard of the world's premier maritime power. They are going to have oodles of fish oil, whale oil, vegetable oil, tar, pitch, tallow, varnish, and booze. If we need filler we can produce woodflour or charcoal dust at rates measured in hundreds of tons per hour.
