Hazō frowned. "I thought that careful planning and preparation—Summoning Technique: Candoru!—was the cornerstone of professionalism?"
Poof!
"WHAT IN THE NAME OF BLOOD GRAVY WAS THAT?!"
"IT STABBED ME IN MY DINGUS!! WHO STABS A GUY IN THE DINGUS?!?!"
"I'll show you recharging, Toad boy. I'll recharge your ass right under that damn lake. I'll—"
"Sorry," Hazō said. "What was that, Candoru?"
"Nothing."
Candoru is a gem and I love him a lot.
"QM had fun" bonus: 0 Sigh. I'm not going to, but I really should put a gazillion-point penalty here for forcing me to admit that writing punching is no fun anymore because you guys have outgrown all the normal threats and it's difficult to justify throwing level-appropriate stuff at you. I guess I'll have to learn to enjoy...*gags*...politics and romance. :sadbird:
That just means that you'll have to start throwing hands,
esoterically. An area where jinchuuriki-weirdness or a sealing failure left a huge chunk of land that blocks Summoning. Sleeping horrors that exist in the gradient mesh between the Painted World and the Out, only coming out to munch on people who fuck around with its den: the Fabric/Threads. Outer Beings taking an increased interest in the world. Jinchuuriki hearing about Project Uplift and fleeing their nation to join --causing political stuff that'll bring punching. A sealing master decides that Hazou is too dangerous and begins to deliberately set off sealing failures near the Goketsu Estate. One of Orochimaru's old experiments tries to bring his vengeance upon the Leaf by calling on her citizens to rise up against the Amoral Exile.
It is possible to reclaim this land but it will be a massive amount of work and definitely not economically viable solely for the iron mine. If you want the mine to work then you could bring in miners to dig a new shaft, which you would then have to inspect for infestation. You would need a large amount of ninja-hours to thoroughly blow up and burn fifty acres of land, then have pangolins roll across it very thoroughly or bring in hundreds of civilians to turn it over and dispose of all the sickweed roots. You would need to outfit them all with Purifier masks and there would probably still be some losses.
With storage seals, take out all the extraneous dirt and rock (called the overburden) and dump it somewhere else.
I'm down with that. And if we save the soil, we can fertilize it with that one jutsu as Till'n'Fill missions... plus or minus the old fashioned way (once we get the sewers up and runing, we could create modified storage scrolls to put at the ends and use that, too). That would render the mine... relatively economically viable while also laying down the foundations for good farmland.
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Edit: I mean, our sewers are going to have to be the size of an adult person, plus some room for maneuverability --if only for maintenance. And medicine in MfD isn't advanced enough to prevent Cholera --sure, it
sounds obvious enough, but
we didn't discover it until 1884. Well, 1854, technically, but the knowledge only became widespread after someone else independently discovered the information in '84 and then took steps to publicize the knowledge.
Anyway, point being, if we have sewers, we could easily start Cholera outbreaks in the Leaf, since there's a dissonance between what
we know and what
they know. So I propose that we get to work on a modified sealing scroll. Wet-proof (maybe using leather, the expensive kind that lasts for decades?), conditional auto-trigger (waste touches it), and maybe increased space. Between Hazou's non-debuffed sealing stat and Kagome's sheer awesomeness, that
should be possible.
So we collect waste via the scrolls and then safely deposit it somewhere away from water sources... or turn the waste into compost and use it as fertilizer for the Mining Town's Farmland?
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Depending on whether bloodbriar, tanglethorn, and sickvine can survive compressed upon by tons of dug up overburden without access to sunlight/limited oxygen, it might be possible to reclaim the land by simply burying all the nuisance vegetation and restart with new ground. Though the blasted ground still might require some form of treatment.
Not sure if we want to bury chakra-plants under lot of soil. Chakra being the weird, inherently incomprehensible soft magic system that it is, that could just allow them to spread. I say that we use (at least) four Kagome-s of explosives and then just bring in new soil (from the mine, as you've described above) to be fertilized.
