I think, but I am not 100 % sure, you are using this as a way to say the US is not a sophisticated situation. I don't want to hit this with a 'funny' just in case you're expressing genuine confusion. So, just in case: I am pretty sure @Sentient Tree is suggesting it would be an amusing scenario to read about if the hivemind's walking Manhattan Project of a character to came face to face with the 'mainland' (real!Earth) country with the most nukes
I think, given how Kiba mentioned 'blackbirds', he might be referring to the Ymaryn (probably from Paths of Industrialization if they're 'far more sophisticated' than the EN) instead of any real world situation.

Still, that shouldn't stop you all from speculating about EN/US interactions.
 
I think, but I am not 100 % sure, you are using this as a way to say the US is not a sophisticated situation. I don't want to hit this with a 'funny' just in case you're expressing genuine confusion. So, just in case: I am pretty sure @Sentient Tree is suggesting it would be an amusing scenario to read about if the hivemind's walking Manhattan Project of a character to came face to face with the 'mainland' (real!Earth) country with the most nukes
Don't be absurd.

We're not a walking Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project didn't result in transfinite nukes AFAWK.
 
I think, given how Kiba mentioned 'blackbirds', he might be referring to the Ymaryn (probably from Paths of Industrialization if they're 'far more sophisticated' than the EN) instead of any real world situation.

Still, that shouldn't stop you all from speculating about EN/US interactions.

Yes. Not!China would work too for the mainland idea. Or even a version of Not!Japan. Tech doesn't have to be far advanced, but enough to make the EN fearful.

Think of it like Perry visiting Japan and opening that country to the world.

There's certainly much excitement, but also fear, especially fear of invasion.
 
I wonder if there is a Tyrannosaurus Summon Clan.
Well there is now.

the pirate/ninja question
Why is this even a question? Ninja, duh.

Never could figure out why people had to think about that one. smh

why [is] tattooing seals on your skin is a really, really bad idea?
One of my favorite answers to technical questions comes to mind: TIAS. }:>

What do we know about what makes something a seal? Sealing languages are unique to individual sealmasters, so that implies there are multiple variants that produce the same effect. Have we had the opportunity to examine a dozen different variations on the standard explosive tag? If so, are there any clear commonalities? What does the basic explosive tag look like, anyway? Can you just infuse any inked design with chakra and have it experience a sealing failure?
*reads*

*sighs*

<dial, dial>
Hello, Bayer? Yeah...double the order this week. Yes. Yes, I know three dumpster-fulls each is pushing the LD50. Shut up and make the delivery.
 
Well there is now.


Why is this even a question? Ninja, duh.

Never could figure out why people had to think about that one. smh


One of my favorite answers to technical questions comes to mind: TIAS. }:>


*reads*

*sighs*

<dial, dial>
Hello, Bayer? Yeah...double the order this week. Yes. Yes, I know three dumpster-fulls each is pushing the LD50. Shut up and make the delivery.
Sir, might I interest you in alternatives? At the rate of your consumption, there is a significant risk that you've developed drug resistance, and thus those dumpsterfulls might kill you and still leave you with a headache :V
 
One of my favorite answers to technical questions comes to mind: TIAS. }:>

... mmmm. In the interests of minimizing your aspirin dose, I'm going to stop asking related stuff and cut to my actual inquiry:

Is there any chance in hell that you could get a working, not-lethal-within-a-month seal by infusing a Yakuza tattoo? I have a character who I would love to stick this concept on if there's even the remotest chance it could actually work, but if it's obviously impossible even they aren't that suicidal.
 
... mmmm. In the interests of minimizing your aspirin dose, I'm going to stop asking related stuff and cut to my actual inquiry:

Is there any chance in hell that you could get a working, not-lethal-within-a-month seal by infusing a Yakuza tattoo? I have a character who I would love to stick this concept on if there's even the remotest chance it could actually work, but if it's obviously impossible even they aren't that suicidal.
Possible, yes. Advisable, hell no. Also depends on what the hell kind of effect you want from the Yakuza tattoo.
 
Presumably, the commonalities between one sealmaster's explosive seal and another's explosive seal is the same way that you are able to provide another sealmaster a bonus to researching a given seal by actively teaching them, or via research notes.

I imagine it as something like seeing that the results of an encrypted function are the same between two separate functions, even if the contents look different (being as they were made in subtly different ways).
 
Incidentally, life has once again laughed at my optimism. The Hazō/Keiko fight will be for Sunday, and @Velorien can choose whether to write the direct aftermath or proceed in to the Ami date for Thursday.
 
Incidentally, life has once again laughed at my optimism. The Hazō/Keiko fight will be for Sunday, and @Velorien can choose whether to write the direct aftermath or proceed in to the Ami date for Thursday.
Wow, I thought you were supposed to direct evilness at the players, not your fellow QMs: Making @Velorien choose between making us suffer and writing Ami date?!

...ah, who am I kidding, he can do both quite effectively.
 
... mmmm. In the interests of minimizing your aspirin dose, I'm going to stop asking related stuff and cut to my actual inquiry:

Is there any chance in hell that you could get a working, not-lethal-within-a-month seal by infusing a Yakuza tattoo? I have a character who I would love to stick this concept on if there's even the remotest chance it could actually work, but if it's obviously impossible even they aren't that suicidal.
That is the kind of OOC information we can't give out, much as if you'd asked about a character capable of interacting with chakra AI.

IC, Kagome would consider such a thing to be obviously impossible. However, Hazō does know from Arikada that there is such a thing as biosealing, and neither he nor Kagome know the extent of what it can do.

Edit: If it could be done, it would probably be Bloodline Limit material, because those are ridiculous (cf. technique-copying eyeballs that set things on undying fire, summon giant chakra mechs, and rewrite causality). I could discuss it with the other QMs once we all have the spoons.
 
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Incidentally, life has once again laughed at my optimism. The Hazō/Keiko fight will be for Sunday, and @Velorien can choose whether to write the direct aftermath or proceed in to the Ami date for Thursday.

Well, structurally, it'd make sense to have some kind of followup to the fight. To show that Hazou's speech had some kind of effect (or not, if it didn't), people approaching him to tell him he's an idiot or insane, Shikamaru facepalming, and so forth. Plus there are the remaining fights to show.

On the other hand, I don't think anyone in this thread wants to deprive @Velorien of the Ami date. Truly, a difficult conundrum.

Anyway, hope things work out for you, whatever the problem is.
 
1, as far as I understand, is not relevant, but 2 is a big issue and 3 just makes it worse.

We're not too well-informed about the real practicality of non-standard sealing mediums, because Kagome tends to shut down those topics pretty quickly with stuff like 'it's insane don't do it unless you want to die'. We do know that Arikada managed to learn biosealing, largely by using other people as test subjects, and that (from what Kagome has told us) skin is not a stable medium and so if you put seals on yourself they're likely to fail and kill you.

My guess is that biosealing is perfectly viable if handled carefully, but you'd want to use any bioseals the same day or so to reduce the chance they fail on you.

Still, if we're looking at alternate seal mediums, I would like to again advocate printing press seals. They're incompatible with our current paradigm because the nuances of a brushstroke are meaningful in a way a stamp can't replicate, but if we can reinvent even just explosive seals in stamp-style we could collaborate with the Nara to make enough explosive seals to change the face of warfare again.
The jinchuriki seals are bioseals, so that tells us that bioseals can apparently be stable if done properly.
 
If we're willing to take another week to get there, we could have the fight from eaglejarl, the aftermath from Velorien, a lore update from eaglejarl, and finally the Ami date from Velorien.
 
If we're willing to take another week to get there, we could have the fight from eaglejarl, the aftermath from Velorien, a lore update from eaglejarl, and finally the Ami date from Velorien.

I'd be happy with just a chapter of our team and their friends hanging out in Mist for the @eaglejarl chapter. Things have been all business recently and we still know so little about Mist locations/non-military people as whole so them casually visiting some shops, reminiscing about their past in Mist etc. would be really interesting for me.
 
I suspect that any knowledge of seals related to bijuu are beyond our current clearance level or the one we're going to be promoted to in a week or so.
 
I suspect that any knowledge of seals related to bijuu are beyond our current clearance level or the one we're going to be promoted to in a week or so.
We don't need explicit instructions, I'm just curious about the theory. With that we can improve our development of sealing related ideas and conjecture.
 
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