Depends what you do with it.
A sealmaster isn't inherently more dangerous than a katon master or genjutsu master. It's just that sealing is a pretty broad category of arbitrary ninja magic compared to most others.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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Depends what you do with it.
A sealmaster isn't inherently more dangerous than a katon master or genjutsu master. It's just that sealing is a pretty broad category of arbitrary ninja magic compared to most others.
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Ah, thank you for the correction!
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While that's true, you also don't see nations being sneak-attacked for jutsu development in the same way Whirlpool was.
You also don't see non-Whirlpool nations being sneak attacked for seal development.
The issue with Uzu was that they were incredibly advanced, not that they were incredibly advanced in seals specifically.
If Uzu had been exploring high-tier (but unprovably non-military) applications of, say, futon ninjutsu, I imagine the response would have been similar: "Stop being clever with chakra or we'll kill you."
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As far as specific pangolin we might want... well, one with high awareness and techniques to improve their ability to perceive threats for night watch would be ideal. Particularly if they were nocturnal.Sweet, the elusive GM-insightful-rating and it wasn't related to imminent danger
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It really depends on the options, no?
All of the following could have immense returns:
Sensory/guard Pangolin
Pangolin with teachable ninjutsu/techniques
Pangolin that can augment any of our team (ex: a Pangolin that can teach a character-fitting equivalent of Roki to Akane)
Pangolin that can provide benefits or knowledge to Kagome and/or Hazou's Sealcrafting
Pangolin renowned for combat that is interested in fighting for/with us
Pangolin that with quest hooks (ex: Ui had a fabled sword that is super OP, I'll help you if you agree to help retrieve it, we'll even let Keiko keep it)
Pangolin that can benignly summon the Pantokrator
The possibilities are endless, so it really depends on what she encounters (unless you mean direct her to specifically seek out certain Pangolin 'types', in which case sure we should definitely bring up a sensory type.
Also - time run 1:1 in here and the Summoning Realm right? Or is that something we should clarify just in case?
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But why do you want to do this?
Infiltrating Mist would be insanely hard and would be exponentially harder to reach the highest office in the country without once being discovered.
What reward are we risking ourselves for? Giving ourselves a presidential pardon? What will the Mist ninjaa do when they discover their new leader had lied to them since they came into the village?
How many countries allow immigrants to even run for the highest level of office in the first place?
How do we convince Jiraiya to let us go back to being Mist soldiers? How do we convince him to let us take Akane, a sort of Leaf ninja, with us? What do we do with Yuno if we are all pretending to be children?
How do we keep the team together once we are in Mist again? As new arrivals we will have no say in our team placements.
How does Noburi learn plastic surgery, and how does he perform an operation on himself?
How do we maintain a henge indefinitely when we will be expected to push our chakra limits to their extremes during academy training? If there is an equivalent to the bell test, how do we stop a jonin from breaking our henge without exposing our skill set? How does Noburi maintain a henge without his barrel?
How do we convince Kagome to come back to Mist with us when one or his greatest fears is getting chained to a deal and forced to make seals forever?
How long do you think it would take us to reach Kage level in order to be considered for the position? If it's less than a decade, how do we explain our explosive growth rate when questioned?
I could go on, but I hope I've made my point. I'd be happy to discuss the pro's and cons of any plan. I just need to know the purpose behind the proposed actions.
I suggest reformatting your proposal in the following way:
- What you want to do (which from the way I interpreted it is the majority of your posts)
- How you want to do it (addressing as many concerns other people bring up like the questions I listed above)
- Why you want to do it (so other players can offer suggestions in case you can't think of a complete solution on your own)
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Note that all (AFAIK) the major ninja have a summons. It's (more-or-less) necessary but not sufficient.
You can make suggestions, certainly.
Recall that 'jonin' is a title, much like 'major' or 'colonel'.
(Yes, technically 'rank' is the right term there, but that is ambiguous for 'title' or 'ranking'.)
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Major sense of deja vu here. I think last time this was brought up, someone segued into "I am the very model of a modern anbu general"
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Don't forget possibly sage techniques and/or whatever their elements are outside of the normal human 5 (maybe they could channel that nature into us like what the toad elders can do with Jiraiya).
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A Pangolin that could put our team in touch with other summon animals for more contracts. You probably meant that as a part of quest hooks, but I thought I should draw attention to it in particular, just to draw attention to it.
Another thing we need to keep in mind is that the Pangolins might be allied to a clan whose summoner is a member of a Hidden Village. Hopefully no one in Mist, but it could be any village as far as we know. I think we should ask about that sooner rather than later. Summoner etiquette between allied clans could be entertaining.
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I'd like to see that, myself. Given Jiraiya's... wandering ways, despite being an S class nin, it may be that summons demand quite a bit from their summoners, and therefore are given greater leeway by their village. Or that could be Jiraiya being Jiraiya.
I would very much like a Summon Realm politics rundown by Pandaa, though.
e: So, been thinking about the hot air balloon idea. It seems workable, mostly, just... we need to figure out what kind of material to use for it. And what kinds would work in general, see if we can find anything unique to this world that's particularly suitable. And set aside time for Hazou to actually research this stuff and do some experiments, because this isn't the kind of thing that he can reasonably just be inspired to do. Well, that is, he can have the IDEA, but not just toss up a mockup of it immediately.
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How about we tan some tapir hides? :3
Chapter 52: Tea and Talking
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The release of tension when Kei and Kagome walked into the cave was almost a physical force.
"You're back!" Akane said, beaming. "We were so worried! Tell us what happened!"
Kei settled down by the hibachi and gave Hazō a grateful nod in exchange for a skewer of roasted chicken. She nibbled delicately on it while thinking how to answer the question.
"Stinkers sent her into a whole corridor full of seals," Kagome grumbled. "Came out a couple hours later all banged up."
"Hang on, Kagome," Inoue-sensei said, pulling herself out of the mouse hole so that she could see who she was talking to. She winced, pressing a hand against the stitches in her belly. Noburi hurried over to fuss at her, but she waved him off and propped herself up against the side of the mouse hole.
"Start from the beginning," Inoue-sensei said, once she was settled. "You left here with Takahashi. Then what?"
Kei gulped down the bit of chicken she was eating so that she could offer the report that she had been composing in her head.
"There were two guards, but Takahashi-sensei talked our way past them," she said. "He gave me the key to the shrine, I went in and found a fake scroll sitting on a pedestal. There was a passage under the pedestal that led down to an underground labyrinth. There were a large number of traps, but I eventually found the real scroll. I attempted to open it, but it was locked shut by a seal. I brought it back aboveground to find the village waiting—villagers and council both. Kagome managed to unlock the scroll and I signed it before anyone could stop me. This"—she waved the giant scroll vaguely—"is the Pangolin contract. Pandā is their first-contact representative; he appeared when I signed it and took me back to the Summon Realm. There I met with the Boss Pangolin, Pantsā of the Adamant Scales. He found me marginally acceptable as a summoner and said that I was free to negotiate with the individual pangolins in order to be able to summon them. Pandā then brought me back. In front of the council and the village he ordered me to take the scroll and leave, to go forth and fight the enemies of the pangolins. First among those enemies are the Tapirs and the Condors. Fortunately, the Toad and Pangolin clans are allies, so we will not have any issues working with Jiraiya."
Inoue-sensei cocked an eyebrow. "Why do I have the feeling that there are a good few things being left out?" she said with a sardonic smile. "Keiko, you are amazing. Congratulations kid; you done good."
Kei blinked. "I did?" she said. "But...it wasn't actually...I mean, I offended Pantsā when I used my bloodline. And I did not think to have Pandā specifically say that the rest of you should go along when I leave. I realized that the moment he vanished. And I allowed myself to get hit by the traps, so I will slow us down while we travel, and—"
Inoue-sensei's laugh was broken in half by pained coughing. "Ouch," she said. "Oh, man, don't make me laugh, that stings." She gestured at her prone and injured form. "I think I'm going to be slowing us just a wee bit more than you are, kiddo. Seriously, Keiko—you did a fantastic job. Be proud of yourself."
The knot in Kei's stomach loosened a little. There had been so many mistakes but...maybe there had been some successes as well? And Mari-sensei seemed pleased, so maybe the successes really had outweighed the mistakes. Of course, Mari-sensei was always kind, so maybe this was just her offering a generous interpretation. The funny, beautiful, confident jōnin wouldn't have offended Pantsā and nearly gotten herself killed.
"So, this Pandā," Inoue-sensei said. "What's he like? Can we meet him, or is it too soon to summon him again?"
Kei thought about that. Pandā hadn't said anything about when he could be summoned or how often, and he'd seemed very excited about meeting humans and coming to the Human Path. The team would need to meet him sooner rather than later, and this was a relatively peaceful moment....
"I think it should be fine, sensei," Kei said. She sliced the edge of her thumb with a kunai and touched her hand to the floor. "Pandā!" she called. "I choose you to summon!"
There was a bampf of purple smoke and the pangolin appeared. He stood hunched over, claws tapping together as he peered around nearsightedly. "Ooh! Hi, Keiko!" he said, then halted. "Oh...sorry. First names are a thing here, aren't they? You keep them secret because they give power over you, I think? Oh dear." He looked at the ground in embarrassment. "I'm terribly sorry. My mother would yank my tail for being so thoughtless."
Keiko smiled; it was oddly nice to be in a position to offer kind support for another's blunder. "It is all right, Pandā," she said. "You should feel free to call me Keiko. We do not actually keep our names secret, it is just that first names are considered intimate. They are only used between close friends or family members."
Pandā's head came up. "Ooh, or mates, right? Do humans really mate face-to-face? That seems so awkward! How do you—" He frowned, peering closer at Keiko, then shuffled over so he could get closer. "Are you all right?" he asked. "You look funny."
Keiko's blush was about to melt the stone floor beneath her feet.
"She's just a little embarrassed," Inoue-sensei said, amused. Pandā eeped and spun around to face her. The jōnin smiled and waved. "It's an honor to meet you, sir. Please excuse me if I don't get up, but I'm a bit stabbed at the moment."
"Oh, no, please don't think anything of it!" Pandā said. He looked around the cave. "Ooh, you must all be Kei—er, Mori—er, Keiko's clan!"
There were some vague sounds of agreement-with-reservations, but no one actually said anything. Hazō had his hand on Kagome's arm; the sealmaster slowly slid the wooden ring box back into his pocket, but didn't fully relax.
"I'm Inoue Mari, Keiko's sensei," the jōnin said. "Let me introduce you to—"
"No, wait!" Pandā interrupted her, tapping his tail on the ground excitedly. "This is my chance for my anthropologist training to shine for the first time in my life! I can totally do this!
"You're the clan matriarch," he said, pointing a claw at Inoue-sensei. "From your muscles and your bearing, you're clearly terribly strong. And looking at how old your kids are, you started very young. You must be very fertile."
Inoue-sensei blinked. A complex series of emotions flickered quickly across her face, none of them positive.
"Oh, please don't look so uneasy, sir," Pandā said to Kagome. "I know I'm terribly masculine, but I wouldn't dream of trying to usurp your place as her consort. Besides, it's not like I can't smell the smouldering sexual tension between the two of you."
Kagome opened his mouth. Then he closed it again.
"And this must be your heir, the first daughter," Pandā moved on to Akane. "She is very strong, with excellent child-bearing hips, and I'm sure she will make a good successor together with her very virile partner," he indicated Hazō.
Hazō and Akane looked at each other, then quickly away.
"It all makes sense now," Pandā said happily. "Keiko, you are the second daughter. I can see the deep love you have for your mother, and you resent your sister as competition for her attention and leadership of the clan. You wanted the summoner's power so that you could go off and start a new family with your mate," he pointed to Noburi. "I know he's not as manly as your sister's partner, which I suppose is another reason you might be jealous of her, but I can tell he's deeply devoted to you and will make a great provider for all the children I'm sure you'll have together.
"Although," he said more quietly to Noburi, "I understand that humans are monogamous, so you should really hurry up and decide between Keiko and this other female I'm smelling on you."
"Pandā," Kei said very carefully, "I think you should come back another time."
Before Pandā could reply, she made the dismissal hand seal, and he disappeared.
"Well," Inoue-sensei said into the deadly silence, "that was an entertaining little series of misunderstandings. I've just remembered that I am completely exhausted after being stabbed, so I'm going to go back into the mouse hole and get some sleep." One hand pressed to her belly, she crawled back into the shelter and out of sight.
"Yeah," Noburi nodded as she disappeared. "No offence, Keiko, but that new summon of yours says some crazy things." He paused. "I'm going to go do stuff. See you later."
"I also have miscellaneous matters to attend to," Kei announced, and followed Noburi out, making sure to head in a completely different direction.
Kagome and Hazō simultaneously muttered something about needing to set up more traps and write more lists respectively, and one ran outside while the other retreated into the depths of the cave.
Akane stood alone.
"Well, I thought it was hilarious," she said to nobody in particular.
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Takahashi-sensei's elegantly-clad daughter led them into the inner sanctum, got them settled on cushions, and vanished with a murmured, "Father will be here momentarily."
In truth, it was less than two minutes before Takahashi-sensei glided in and slid the door shut behind them. He strode to the dais and settled easily on his cushion, arranging his hakama neatly around him. No sooner had he done so than Minori was back with a tea tray. She set it gracefully in front of her father, bowed to him, bowed to the genin, and vanished silently. Without speaking, Takahashi made tea.
Over the weeks of her training Kei had seen the Isan tea ceremony done nearly every day. It had been performed for her alone, for her and Minori, and for her and various combinations of the Takahashi clan. She still was not completely fluent in it, but she had learned to read the basic elements. Usually Minori was the one who actually handled the tea implements; the fact that Takahashi-sensei was performing the ceremony himself, and that the only people present were himself and the three genin...she found herself sweating, hoping desperately that Hazō and Ishihara would not humiliate her in front of her teacher.
Her eyes grew wider as the ceremony progressed.
Takahashi-sensei began by washing the tea bowls with hot water from the kettle, afterwards emptying the water into a pot intended for that purpose. He did not turn the cups towards his guests as he dried them. There is trust and respect between us; you do not need to examine the cup for residue or poison.
He dried the first cup with a bleached-white napkin, then swiftly folded the napkin into a circle and lay it to his left, on the imaginary line connecting himself with Ishihara. The sun, provider of warmth to all those around it, it meant...but also lack of wisdom, bringer of harm through carelessness, depending on the intent of the host. He set her cup at the sun's seven o'clock position, indicating that the intent was mostly the positive with some hints of the negative.
The second napkin was laid between himself and Hazō, folded into the stylized shape of a tapir. Loyal, strong, protector, but also young, not too bright, in need of a minder. The cup was placed at nine o'clock.
Kei held her breath as her own cup was dried. Takahashi-sensei's fingers danced through the motions of origami with speed born from a lifetime of practice, forming the napkin into a mountain lily. The mountain lily grows even in the tiniest crack on the sheerest cliff face. Your strength is that of the lily: determined, resilient, indomitable...but it also meant fragile, lacking in physical strength, uncertain, precarious. He paused, looking up and meeting her eyes for just a moment. The blood drained from her face as he nodded very slightly; his eyes flicked down, drawing her own gaze to the cup as he set it down.
A finger's width to the right of twelve o'clock.
He met her eyes again; the tiniest of scraping sounds echoed in the silent room as he slid the cup to the perfect twelve o'clock. Time passes, character becomes.
Kei swallowed as the room seemed to spin around her from shock. The world went blurry for just a moment, and when she came back to herself she was holding a cup of tea.
Takahashi-sensei raised his cup in salute and all four of them drank together. The tea was aromatic, a base of black with hibiscus, anise, and something spicy. Strong, not bitter, a touch of sweet and a taste of tart. Complex, good and bad, worthy of analysis.
Takahashi-sensei lowered the cup, cradling it casually in his hands. "You wished to speak to me?" he asked.
Kei struggled with words for a moment; the silence dragged on just a bit too long. It would have become painful had Takahashi-sensei not sipped his tea, creating a natural pause.
"Yes, sensei," Kei said, finally getting her tongue sorted out. "I wanted to thank you for the training you have given me, and the support you have given all of us. As you know, we will be leaving soon."
Takahashi-sensei nodded. "So I'd gathered," he said. "When a summon tells you it is time to go, it is time to go." He lifted his tea to his lips for a moment. "It is with great sorrow that I hear you are required to take the scroll with you. Since the founding of the village it has been our treasure, the center around which our village has turned. Things will change enormously now. We shall need to find a new center."
Kei nodded, fighting the urge to clear her throat nervously. "Before we leave, I wanted to tell you something that I learned in the Summon Realm: the Pangolin clan are enemies of the Tapir clan. Pandā saw the tapirs when I summoned him at the shrine and did not react, so I suspect they don't have a specific issue with non-sapient tapirs, but I felt it was still important to mention."
"Thank you," Takahashi-sensei said. "That could be important, yes."
Kei looked at Hazō and gave him a small nod. A feeling of relief went through her; she no longer needed to take the lead in the conversation. She would speak only to correct errors in plans, or if asked. (Ishihara, of course, had been counseled very carefully to not speak at all.)
"We wanted to ask you one thing before we leave, sir," Hazō said. "How will we be viewed? We aren't taking the scroll of our own choice, yet we are still concerned that people might blame us for it. I wouldn't want to make new enemies."
Takahashi-sensei thought for a moment. "I think you do not need to worry about acquiring new enemies," he said, the tiniest bit of stress on 'new' making the intent clear. "Change is upsetting and frightening, but most of our people are reasonable. Reasonable enough, at least."
"I see," Hazō said, thinking that through. "I'm glad to hear it. Wes have very much enjoyed our time here. I wish there were something we could do for the village to express our gratitude."
Takahashi-sensei sipped thoughtfully from his cup. "That's very kind of you," he said. "It's not necessary, however. Things will be very busy here for a time, probably best not to add the excitement of a gift on top of that. At least, not for now."
Hazō's eyelid flickered in surprise but he gave no other sign. "Of course," he said. He took a sip of the tea. "I suspect the pangolins will keep us traveling for some time."
Takahashi-sensei nodded. "I would expect so. A full turn of the seasons before you would even have a moment, most likely."
Hazō nodded. "It seems likely, yes." He smiled. "And, as if the pangolins weren't enough, we also need to get in touch with a contact of ours. He's a high official in Leaf, the most powerful ninja village on the continent, and we occasionally work with him. He seems to trust us, at least somewhat, so I'm sure he'll have a great deal for us to do."
The marble of which Takahashi-sensei's face was made became granite. "I'm sure he will," he said with a polite nod. "Such a man must be busy all the time. I'm sure he never gets out of his office." The air became heavy with something that was not quite killing intent but that hinted at the possibility.
"That's definitely true," Hazō said hurriedly. "Very busy. Probably sleeps in his office all the time. I'm sure he never has a chance to travel."
The granite softened slightly and Takahashi-sensei nodded. "I hope he finds interesting and lucrative employment for you."
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It had taken them longer to get to the fishing hole this time; Noburi was mobile on his crutches, but still needed to be careful. A nicked artery was no joke, and he couldn't afford to tear it.
Still, they were here now. Noburi had brushed the snow off a fallen log and spread a blanket on it for them to sit on. He'd also brought along a canteen of still-hot tea (after verifying that it was only the tea ceremony that was fraught with hidden meaning, not the tea itself) and they were sharing it between them. They each wrapped their hands around their tea mugs and huddled into their cloaks; the day was windless and relatively warm, but it was still winter.
"Yuno...," Noburi said. He bit his lip, gathering himself for the conversation that he knew he needed to have, no matter how much he would prefer to have his teeth extracted. "We need to talk."
"Yes?" she said, looking at him with soulful eyes.
Agh. This just didn't get easier. "Yuno...there's something you need to know about our betrothal," Noburi said. He took a deep breath. "It was a political move on the part of Elder Kannagi."
Yuno nodded. "Yes, of course," she said. "All marriages have political overtones. By allowing me to follow my heart and marry you he was foreclosing the option to have me marry into another clan."
"Um, no," Noburi said, fiddling with his mug. "That's...not what I meant. I meant...our marriage was never intended to happen."
Yuno blinked. "What?"
"It was a ploy," Noburi said. "The idea was that you and I would be betrothed, so Kannagi could show the other elders that my team and I were tied to the village by blood. It gave him political clout and helped him get elected to the council. He was supposed to cancel the betrothal, though, so that he didn't look too radical. He wanted to keep ties open with the conservatives, and he couldn't do that if he was allowing an outlander to marry one of his children."
Water was brimming into Yuno's eyes. "But...."
"Yuno, I'm sorry," Noburi said. "I do like you, but I'm not ready for marriage. It was never supposed to go this far." He swallowed. "Look, I know you're miserable here. Me and my team, the pangolins ordered us to leave. We'll be going in a couple of days, once our sensei is a little more healed. You could come with us, if you wanted...?"
Yuno scrubbed furiously at her eyes. "'Come with you'," she snapped. "You cast me aside, and then you want me to go with you? For what, pity? Because you feel sorry for me?"
"No!" Noburi said. "I like you, really. I think you're smart, and funny, and really scarily good with that axe, and my team likes you, so I thought—"
"You thought?!" Yuno snarled, jumping to her feet. "You thought? What did you think, that it would be fun to have me follow along at your heels like a puppy, just in case you decided it would be fun to have a girl later?" Her voice rose as she spoke; by the last word she was looming over him with her fists clenched at her sides.
"No, that's not it!" Noburi said, leaning away in fear. "I just—I...I didn't want you to be unhappy! You said it yourself, the people here fear you and distrust you, even though you've done nothing to deserve it. You should—"
"I should get as far from you as I can, before I do something to earn the reputation the village has given me!" Yuno snarled. "I'd rather be feared and distrusted than pitied! Get away from me, Endo Daisuke! I never want to see you again!" She turned and leaped away at full chakra-boosted ninja speed, leaving Noburi staring dumbly after her.
For long seconds there was no sound except the river.
"Well," Noburi said to himself with a sigh. "That went well."
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Tomorrow morning everyone is going to Transform into a non-injured form long enough to get back to your base on the coast where they can heal up properly. You're staying in the open-air fort for tonight and will leave at first light.
Vote time! What to do now?
Voting ends on Wednesday, 29, 2016, at 12pm London time.
Also, all the props to @Velorien, who wrote the scene with Pandā and was kind enough to let me use it.
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It needs to be at least 20 square meters as well as contiguous and sturdy enough to hold warm air as well as approximately 1200 freedom units of weight and not tear apart. Granted, we may be able to supplement these with seals.
Aaaand I nearly got ninja'd by an update, but made my awareness check. Well then.
e: Poor Yuno. I do hope she doesn't hate Nobby too much... I'd hate to have her slit our throats during our sleep or something. Or to have Nobby have to kill her.
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Yes! Noburi's love triangle is solved! Our ties to this place are dissolved! We can return to our true calling of RIGHTEOUS FACE PUNCHING!
Thank. God.
Let's GTFO.
Thank. God.
Let's GTFO.
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I get the feeling that someone is just flat out done with writing about talking. Can't imagine why.
As for Yuno, at least she didn't go full crazy ex on Noburi. If our lovable barrel bearer had worded his reveal a bit better I would have been okay with taking her along, but so long as she doesn't try to harm us on the way out this is an acceptable end to their courtship.
But damn, Noburi, you need some lessons from Mari in breaking up. That shit was
As for Yuno, at least she didn't go full crazy ex on Noburi. If our lovable barrel bearer had worded his reveal a bit better I would have been okay with taking her along, but so long as she doesn't try to harm us on the way out this is an acceptable end to their courtship.
But damn, Noburi, you need some lessons from Mari in breaking up. That shit was
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So um...
I know we talked to Takahashi and he didn't seem worried about people stopping us leaving, but...
Does the rest of our team think the same?
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Rant incoming, was writing this before the chapter dropped.
So, that macerating seal would have lots of utility in cooking. Ground beef, ground bone into bone meal to get at the marrow and easier way of getting at the calcium and other minerals within the things we eat into an easy to digest form. Turn the meat of seeds into powder for easy cooking when making breads. The processing of foods cut down from hours into mere minutes would be a great leap forward in society. People are limited in the amount of time they have to do things like Train or Innovate or do anything not directly related to getting food to survive. If we could manage to get this seal working we would be able to better sustain ourselves further out side the villages where we would have to go to get more processed foods to cut down on the preparation time from doing every step from killing to eating animals and gathering and processing grains into something better suited to... long term... storage...
FUCK THIS WORLD! Storage scrolls prevent spoilage! You can't need to teach hunters to bleed a kill, just learn to kill quickly and get to the animal fast enough to seal the sucker then take the kill back to the person who is specialized in the preparation of animal parts into food and tools. Storage scrolls solve huge amounts of problems for human survival by making food preservation as simple as using a bit of chakra to save ALL the food. So much effort going into saving food from spoiling, drying, salting, smoking! All of it is trumped by the simple storage scroll! You can cook any meal you like and seal it away and it will come out exactly like you put it in! Spices are now a thing of preference instead of necessity to keep the food from becoming the food of something else! WHY KEEP THIS FROM EVERYONE! No more need for taking up farm space to build a silo, toss it into a scroll and keep it in a closet in your house. More room for farmland, which means more food for everyone! We just need to industrialize food production so that a single person can grow crops for feeding more people than just himself. Gah, I should have seen this back when storage scrolls put a pause on time for things held inside! We just need to figure out how to limit output of the storage scrolls so you don't need 500 miles of scrolls for all the many times of items and a specialized building to handle retrieval of items. We need to hunt down Ten-Ten and figure out her hammer-space scroll to see if she just has several seals on a single scroll or if she has a way of limiting the output of a single storage space with the output being regulated by the other seal marks.
The implications of regulated output from a single massive inventory would have on this world for just civilian use! I want to go on a longer rant but I have so many ideas bouncing around in my head I don't know where to start! I need to know what percentage of the population is dedicated to just farming and what is being done to help increase the yields of crops to the point where YEARS of time can be dedicated to the training of ninja.... (Gets distracted looking up food in Naruto)
BAGS OF CHIPS! BAGS OF FUCKING CHIPS! FUCK THIS WORLD! You can't just have hand worked farms and BAGS OF CHIPS in the same world! Are every single farmers ninja enhanced beasts who can outperform machines to work the size of lands you would need to dedicate feeding the people who would be working on making BAGS OF CHIPS! GAHHHHHHHHH!
Onto my reactions for the chapter. I am with Akane, the culture gap was very funny. What is also funny is the culture gap between Yuno and Noburi. Noburi could have handled this a lot better, but clearly his heart was not in this seduction enough for it to be real for him. Keiko, you still have a chance at winning his heart!
Yuno is now feeling very betrayed and might take actions to hinder Noburi and those who she thinks have wronged her, so if Nobby is not going to take the time to try and clear misunderstandings up we should just leave and let time be the healer of all wounds. Except we can't because factions within the village will forever be bringing up our group and all the good/bad we have done thus those factions will make the hate Yuno feels fester and boil forever. I'll just add this area of Tea to the List of places we can't come back to for a while. There it is Noted right under Iron with a another notation to subsection dealing with places Nobby can't be seen due to him flirting with the wrong people the wrong way.
We should show Akane the list we made about whether or not we should consider her as a romantic partner, I think she would get a kick out of it. We could also provide her with a sheet of paper and a pen and ink so she can make her own feelings about us known in a way we can understand.
Time to pack up and head out, things are about as wrapped up as anything can be. Lets go see about checking off more boxes for S-Rank considerations.
So, that macerating seal would have lots of utility in cooking. Ground beef, ground bone into bone meal to get at the marrow and easier way of getting at the calcium and other minerals within the things we eat into an easy to digest form. Turn the meat of seeds into powder for easy cooking when making breads. The processing of foods cut down from hours into mere minutes would be a great leap forward in society. People are limited in the amount of time they have to do things like Train or Innovate or do anything not directly related to getting food to survive. If we could manage to get this seal working we would be able to better sustain ourselves further out side the villages where we would have to go to get more processed foods to cut down on the preparation time from doing every step from killing to eating animals and gathering and processing grains into something better suited to... long term... storage...
FUCK THIS WORLD! Storage scrolls prevent spoilage! You can't need to teach hunters to bleed a kill, just learn to kill quickly and get to the animal fast enough to seal the sucker then take the kill back to the person who is specialized in the preparation of animal parts into food and tools. Storage scrolls solve huge amounts of problems for human survival by making food preservation as simple as using a bit of chakra to save ALL the food. So much effort going into saving food from spoiling, drying, salting, smoking! All of it is trumped by the simple storage scroll! You can cook any meal you like and seal it away and it will come out exactly like you put it in! Spices are now a thing of preference instead of necessity to keep the food from becoming the food of something else! WHY KEEP THIS FROM EVERYONE! No more need for taking up farm space to build a silo, toss it into a scroll and keep it in a closet in your house. More room for farmland, which means more food for everyone! We just need to industrialize food production so that a single person can grow crops for feeding more people than just himself. Gah, I should have seen this back when storage scrolls put a pause on time for things held inside! We just need to figure out how to limit output of the storage scrolls so you don't need 500 miles of scrolls for all the many times of items and a specialized building to handle retrieval of items. We need to hunt down Ten-Ten and figure out her hammer-space scroll to see if she just has several seals on a single scroll or if she has a way of limiting the output of a single storage space with the output being regulated by the other seal marks.
The implications of regulated output from a single massive inventory would have on this world for just civilian use! I want to go on a longer rant but I have so many ideas bouncing around in my head I don't know where to start! I need to know what percentage of the population is dedicated to just farming and what is being done to help increase the yields of crops to the point where YEARS of time can be dedicated to the training of ninja.... (Gets distracted looking up food in Naruto)
BAGS OF CHIPS! BAGS OF FUCKING CHIPS! FUCK THIS WORLD! You can't just have hand worked farms and BAGS OF CHIPS in the same world! Are every single farmers ninja enhanced beasts who can outperform machines to work the size of lands you would need to dedicate feeding the people who would be working on making BAGS OF CHIPS! GAHHHHHHHHH!
Onto my reactions for the chapter. I am with Akane, the culture gap was very funny. What is also funny is the culture gap between Yuno and Noburi. Noburi could have handled this a lot better, but clearly his heart was not in this seduction enough for it to be real for him. Keiko, you still have a chance at winning his heart!
Yuno is now feeling very betrayed and might take actions to hinder Noburi and those who she thinks have wronged her, so if Nobby is not going to take the time to try and clear misunderstandings up we should just leave and let time be the healer of all wounds. Except we can't because factions within the village will forever be bringing up our group and all the good/bad we have done thus those factions will make the hate Yuno feels fester and boil forever. I'll just add this area of Tea to the List of places we can't come back to for a while. There it is Noted right under Iron with a another notation to subsection dealing with places Nobby can't be seen due to him flirting with the wrong people the wrong way.
We should show Akane the list we made about whether or not we should consider her as a romantic partner, I think she would get a kick out of it. We could also provide her with a sheet of paper and a pen and ink so she can make her own feelings about us known in a way we can understand.
Time to pack up and head out, things are about as wrapped up as anything can be. Lets go see about checking off more boxes for S-Rank considerations.