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Also we know this isn't true. Itachi forced the crows into submission and he couldn't even 1V1 Kurenai.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard open voting
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Many thanks
(I knew that after sufficient shitposts and all-around lack of filters in talk my contributions to the quest would eventually find their way to such depths that they'd be back in the positive, mwahahaha)
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We are not Itachi-tier, and I am skeptical that Itachi forced the Crows into submission at all. It could be a ruse, or a deception.
Do we know that Itachi couldn't 1v1 Kurenai? Perhaps he turned her into a Ziz-explosive.
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While an implosion seal could likely contain air at near-nuke temperatures, it would not contain the EM field itself that continues to create the nuke-level temperatures. What makes EM nukes so destructive is not just the immediate effects they create, but the fact that they continue to do so for over seven hours. A minute of liquid air rain and harsh winds can be withstood, tolerated. Hours of liquid air rain, however? Walls will crumble, the earth will crack, and any poor fools too close to escape are doomed to an icy tomb.
That said, a seal loaded up with -200 C air could certainly be a nasty surprise for any foes that seek our death. MARS is so useful because it means we don't need to pass up weaker attacks in favour of deadlier ones: all forms of murder have their place in the wombo combo.
Personally, my bet is that Itachi just hard-countered the Crow Boss in ninja Rock-Paper-Scissors, which we know to be a dominant factor at their tier of battle. It may simply be that the Crow Boss had weaker Tsukuyomi defenses than Kurenai did, despite Clan Boss-tier capabilities in their own specialty. We would be remiss to evaluate power levels solely based on who beat who in absence of any context.
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We are not Itachi-tier now. Wait around a year and there is no doubt we will be
Itachi died and Kurenai didn't
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I may have been unawares of an important plot point. Do we know for a fact that Itachi forced the Crow Clan into submission, and that they do not just accept him?
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I don't believe we heard this firsthand from either a Crow or Itachi himself.
It's further unclear what 'forced into submission' means. When Kei deposes Pantsaa, will she have forced them into submission?
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What I mean is - the thread looks like Itachi and the Crows had some kind of beef at some point and Itachi won, or Itachi may not have been accepted by the Crows at first, or... issues of that kind.
But my limited power of recall does not remember any mention of such an event. Do we assume Itachi forced his will onto the Crows for some reason or other at some point, or do we know it happened? Because the thread now discusses "what may have allowed Itachi to win: sheer force or rock-paper-scissors"
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It's probable they didn't fou?ht, simply because the Crow Boss doesn't need to fi?ht Itachi, he can just revoke his summoner privile?es and kill him indirectly and there is nothin? Itachi can do. We know the Clan was divided, and probably the Crow Boss didn't take a position, otherwise the clan wouldn't be divided
With the advent of the EM Nuke finally havin' arrived, I would like to make a case for the comin' trajectory of Akane's statline.
That bein' is that I think we should have Akane invest into becomin' a Technique Hacker, for the purpose of technique hackin' Elemental Mastery (levelin' it to level 30 will probably suffice) into a more focused (and far faster actin') touch based version that will essentially be a replication of Dio from Jojo's Vaporization Freezin' Technique.
Bein' able to instantly freeze everythin' she touches to absolute zero temperatures (meanin' even just tryin' to block Akane's blows would result in instant death) would be a incredibly hax ability and alon' with the EM Nuke make Akane a S-rank Ninja once she acquires Elite Jounin level Taijutsu and athletics. (Which will take very little time indeed when we can make Taijutsu her second level 70 stat and level it up to 79 with athlethics bein' put at level 69)
That bein' is that I think we should have Akane invest into becomin' a Technique Hacker, for the purpose of technique hackin' Elemental Mastery (levelin' it to level 30 will probably suffice) into a more focused (and far faster actin') touch based version that will essentially be a replication of Dio from Jojo's Vaporization Freezin' Technique.
Bein' able to instantly freeze everythin' she touches to absolute zero temperatures (meanin' even just tryin' to block Akane's blows would result in instant death) would be a incredibly hax ability and alon' with the EM Nuke make Akane a S-rank Ninja once she acquires Elite Jounin level Taijutsu and athletics. (Which will take very little time indeed when we can make Taijutsu her second level 70 stat and level it up to 79 with athlethics bein' put at level 69)
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But who will create thunder cross split attack?With the advent of the EM Nuke finally havin' arrived, I would like to make a case for the comin' trajectory of Akane's statline.
That bein' is that I think we should have Akane invest into becomin' a Technique Hacker, for the purpose of technique hackin' Elemental Mastery (levelin' it to level 30 will probably suffice) into a more focused (and far faster actin') touch based version that will essentially be a replication of Dio from Jojo's Vaporization Freezin' Technique.
Bein' able to instantly freeze everythin' she touches to absolute zero temperatures (meanin' even just tryin' to block Akane's blows would result in instant death) would be a incredibly hax ability and alon' with the EM Nuke make Akane a S-rank Ninja once she acquires Elite Jounin level Taijutsu and athletics. (Which will take very little time indeed when we can make Taijutsu her second level 70 stat and level it up to 79 with athlethics bein' put at level 69)
Hi. I've followed MfD for a while, but haven't posted in the thread until now. I don't plan to become part of the quest, but I think I may have spotted a possible issue with the EM nuke, and wanted to brin[] it up in case nobody else had thou[]ht of it. It may or may not actually turn out to be a problem, and I am not a physicist and may have done somethin[] wron[] somewhere, but it's specific enou[]h that it seems plausible to me that no one else has thou[]ht of it. If it's been brou[]ht up already, then sorry for the inconvenience.
Also: to forestall panic about the spoilers, I'm aware of the forbidden letter. It has been expun[]ed from this post, and replaced by non-forbidden words or [].
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Also: to forestall panic about the spoilers, I'm aware of the forbidden letter. It has been expun[]ed from this post, and replaced by non-forbidden words or [].
If I understand EM nuke correctly, it works by rapidly coolin[] the air in a re[]ion of space by, at Akane's current level, 200 Kelvin. If the air started out below around 277 Kelvin, or around 4 °C, this will cool it to below the boilin[] point of nitro[]en (and also oxy[]en and ar[]on) and so the air will liquefy. This will dramatically reduce the pressure in the affected area, causin[] an extremely rapid inrush of air which is then cooled by the jutsu and also liquefies, creatin[] a sustained zone of low pressure which if suspended will also rain liquid air.
The potential issue is that not every component of air will liquefy at the temperatures Akane can currently reasonably achieve. Specifically, neon and helium will not liquefy unless the initial temperature of the air is around -46 °C, for neon, or -69 °C for helium. This means that, in theory, these two []ases could accumulate in the Elemental Mastery zone, prevented from escapin[] by the constant inflow of air, until eventually they neutralized the pressure differential and severely weakened or entirely nullified the effect of the nuke.
I'll set helium aside, because it's about 3.5 times less abundant than neon in the atmosphere by mole fraction, and also its density is so low that it seems moderately likely that it would just escape despite the inflow of air. Havin[] done some (extremely rou[]h) calculations, thou[]h, I think there's enou[]h neon in the atmosphere that it mi[]ht actually have a practical effect on the function of EM nukes.
The potential issue is that not every component of air will liquefy at the temperatures Akane can currently reasonably achieve. Specifically, neon and helium will not liquefy unless the initial temperature of the air is around -46 °C, for neon, or -69 °C for helium. This means that, in theory, these two []ases could accumulate in the Elemental Mastery zone, prevented from escapin[] by the constant inflow of air, until eventually they neutralized the pressure differential and severely weakened or entirely nullified the effect of the nuke.
I'll set helium aside, because it's about 3.5 times less abundant than neon in the atmosphere by mole fraction, and also its density is so low that it seems moderately likely that it would just escape despite the inflow of air. Havin[] done some (extremely rou[]h) calculations, thou[]h, I think there's enou[]h neon in the atmosphere that it mi[]ht actually have a practical effect on the function of EM nukes.
Accordin[] to Wikipedia, neon has an abundance in the atmosphere of rou[]hly 18.18 parts per million (in dry air, so discountin[] water). This is by mole fraction, which because of the Ideal []as Law is approximately equivalent to volume, so we can take the reciprocal of this to work out how much air is needed to []enerate a []iven volume of neon. This yields that the total volume of some amount of air is almost exactly 55,000 times the volume of the amount of neon it contains; in other words, for every 55 cubic metres of air that enters the zone and is liquefied, a litre of neon will also enter the zone but remain []aseous.
The rules document describes a zone, the area affected by Elemental Mastery, as approximately the ran[]e you need to be from someone in order to punch them. However, this includes free movement within the zone, so I'm []oin[] to assume for the sake of ar[]ument that a zone is a 5 by 5 by 5 metre cube. (Note: I'm not very familiar with the quest mechanics, and therefore my understandin[] here may very well be wron[], but I don't think it should affect my overall ar[]ument too much.)
This zone then has a volume of 125 cubic metres. It would therefore take 125*55000 = 6,875,000 m^3 of air to extract enou[]h neon to completely fill the zone, i[]norin[] the chan[]e in volume of the neon from the chan[]e in temperature. That said, actually the neon is at a much lower temperature in the zone than it was before, so its volume is reduced by a factor of
0.267, so actually you would need 6875000/0.267 = 25,700,000 m^3 of air.
This is a lot of air - it's rou[]hly equivalent to a sphere 360 metres in diameter - but at Elemental Mastery level 40 the effect will last for 400 minutes, or six hours and 40 minutes, after Akane stops concentratin[] on it. []iven that as I understand it it doesn't take time for the air to cool when it flows into the zone - it is cooled and liquefied almost instantly - it doesn't seem implausible to me that the jutsu could liquefy this much air before endin[].
The rules document describes a zone, the area affected by Elemental Mastery, as approximately the ran[]e you need to be from someone in order to punch them. However, this includes free movement within the zone, so I'm []oin[] to assume for the sake of ar[]ument that a zone is a 5 by 5 by 5 metre cube. (Note: I'm not very familiar with the quest mechanics, and therefore my understandin[] here may very well be wron[], but I don't think it should affect my overall ar[]ument too much.)
This zone then has a volume of 125 cubic metres. It would therefore take 125*55000 = 6,875,000 m^3 of air to extract enou[]h neon to completely fill the zone, i[]norin[] the chan[]e in volume of the neon from the chan[]e in temperature. That said, actually the neon is at a much lower temperature in the zone than it was before, so its volume is reduced by a factor of
Chan[]e in volume with temperature:
\[
V_{new} = \frac{(\frac{PV}{R*273})*R*73}{P} = \frac{73V}{273} = 0.267V
\]
This is a lot of air - it's rou[]hly equivalent to a sphere 360 metres in diameter - but at Elemental Mastery level 40 the effect will last for 400 minutes, or six hours and 40 minutes, after Akane stops concentratin[] on it. []iven that as I understand it it doesn't take time for the air to cool when it flows into the zone - it is cooled and liquefied almost instantly - it doesn't seem implausible to me that the jutsu could liquefy this much air before endin[].
As I said at the start, there are a whole host of reasons why this mi[]ht not turn out to be a problem:
Finally, I think it's worth emphasizin[] that this wouldn't be a fundamental problem with the concept; 10 extra levels of Elemental Mastery would be enou[]h to liquefy the neon as well from the same startin[] temperature, and while helium mi[]ht pose more of a problem there's also less of it and it's probably more liable to escape. It mi[]ht well be a problem now, thou[]h, and since if I've kept track of votin[] correctly the EM nuke is bein[] tested in the next update I wanted to say this now rather than later.
- It mi[]ht be that there is enou[]h turbulence that despite the constant inflow of air the neon is not trapped in the zone.
- If a tornado or other vortex forms around the zone, that mi[]ht reduce the inflow of air into the zone enou[]h that not enou[]h neon accumulates to matter.
- Or it mi[]ht not; I don't understand fluid dynamics, and I don't know how to predict that behaviour.
- Some amount of neon may dissolve in the liquid air or otherwise liquify with it.
- The atmosphere of the Human Path mi[]ht not contain neon for whatever reason, which would invalidate this whole line of reasonin[].
- Other reasons that I haven't thou[]ht of.
Finally, I think it's worth emphasizin[] that this wouldn't be a fundamental problem with the concept; 10 extra levels of Elemental Mastery would be enou[]h to liquefy the neon as well from the same startin[] temperature, and while helium mi[]ht pose more of a problem there's also less of it and it's probably more liable to escape. It mi[]ht well be a problem now, thou[]h, and since if I've kept track of votin[] correctly the EM nuke is bein[] tested in the next update I wanted to say this now rather than later.
- It seems possible to me that neon, which would not be liquified at Akane's current EM level with reasonable startin[] temperatures, mi[]ht accumulate in the zone of Elemental Mastery and reduce or eliminate the pressure []radient.
- Some very (very) rou[]h calculations appear to back this idea up.
- Any number of effects mi[]ht make this a non-issue, but I think it's likely enou[]h that they don't to warrant brin[]in[] it up.
- The problem will be resolved in any case at a hi[]her EM level.
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As I understand it, air is treated as a solution and thus shares one liquefaction temperature. Whether this is true in practice, I do not know.
Probably some rando Kumo nin that the QM's will have Akane encounter solely for the meme.
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Thanks for the post! We've updated our models with this information -- we mostly weren't considering gasses with ultra-low concentrations before.
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I've considered this before, and I'm happy someone mentioned it in-thread. It's a fun question, since not only could it impede the effect, it's another way the jutsu is deadly.
I hadn't considered the effect of the probable massive tornado when I considered this, and I also do not have the math needed to know the answer with any certainty. Diffusion does seem sufficiently slow not to suffice on its own.
The first objection to any claim that these molecules may not mix via any stable dynamical system, vortex or otherwise, is simple: the jutsu continuously removes air from the center, at about the speed of sound. It is therefore necessary for air to flow in towards the jutsu at that flow rate. This seems incompatible with the result as a stable, closed system, except when entirely snuffed out.
This doesn't mean the jutsu doesn't fade out over time, as the area over which it is able to disperse its uncondensed parts may still fill up with them. However, I still have two sizable concerns with that hypothesis.
First, the more minor one, the volumetric ratio of CO₂ (solid) + N₂ (liquid) : Ar (vapor) is around 1:7, so, with the relatively lower ability for the solids and liquids to mix, so I would be concerned first with if the jutsu could be put out by flood, not by suffocation.
Second—(and this is the clincher, I think)—so much of the thermal mass of the output is inside the solid and liquid parts, and this transition happens rapidly so as to mix the components completely, that the rest of those components, once they leave the center of the jutsu, should cool extremely rapidly. Then, should they recirculate, it would be pretty likely that they do actually condense or freeze.
Reality probably sits somewhere in between, with the jutsu somewhat but not overly impeded, but I can feel the QM headache from here so I round these parts to "don't worry about it, carry on". I don't think it would be correct to actually put the jutsu out.
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A few more quick points,
- The local reduction in pressure should reduce the temperature of the air that enters, but then also make it harder for that air to condense or liquify. This probably matters a lot when you consider recirculation dynamics, since, for one, it allows densification over time, rather than instantaneously, which means replenishment effects are weaker. (I don't know how to model this, but I think it makes it easier for Ar to accumulate.)
- For scale, the full jutsu, if unimpeded, would condense about a ~2×2×2 km cube's volume of air (into a ~0.2×0.2×0.2 km cube's volume of liquid-ice slurry) over the 6+ hours.
- Ar is denser than air, so it would roll away, rather than float into the upper atmosphere. This possibly could have mattered somewhere if it was faster or several aspects weren't already far more lethal, since (fun fact!) you won't feel like you can't breathe if you don't have CO₂.
Chapter 561: Fallout
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The sun was warmish and the pair of hibachi on either side of him, each full of glowing coals, took up the slack. Hazō was sitting on a folded blanket that was thick enough to keep the chill of the September ground away, he was leaned back against a tree the diameter of a small house, the sky was clear, and he could smell apple pies baking somewhere on the estate. The sound of Gōketsu people, his people, drifted past. Happy shrieks arose from the scrum of children he had passed on the way here—they had ranged in age from anklebiter to kneechomper, and had been in the process of kicking a ball around. There hadn't seemed to be any particular rules or intended goals and only a modest amount of violence had ensued, so he had felt safe ignoring it.
The majority of his attention was not on his surroundings, but on the chunk of granite in his hands. An hour ago he had scooped it out of the wall of his office so that he could practice Earthshaping on it. He had then decided that it was much too nice a day to be working indoors, so he brought the stone outside with him and took the opportunity to enjoy the last day of September.
The chakra that made up the Earthshaping jutsu flowed through his mental fingers, smoother and richer than ever before. Perhaps the change in scenery for this practice session had been fruitful, or perhaps he had simply made a needed connection, but for whatever reason he had experienced a breakthrough. For seemingly ages, he had been suffering under a sense of potential, as though the jutsu had something it wanted to tell him and he was too dumb or too deaf to understand. It was maddening, like hearing someone say your name on the other side of a door but everything else they said was too unclear to get. The maddening knowledge that someone was talking about you virtually within arm's reach but you didn't know what they were saying? That was a close approximation for what the Earthshaping jutsu was doing. This morning, he had figured out how to tune his 'hearing' closer to the way that the jutsu 'spoke' to him, enough to catch a few more of the 'words' even if some of it stayed frustratingly out of reach.
It wasn't really speech, of course—the jutsu wasn't intelligent and didn't literally want anything, anymore than water wanted to flow downhill. It was simply a potential that could be felt, the way a heavy stone's weight showed the potential for embedding itself in the ground when dropped.
Which, now that he thought about it, wasn't a bad analogy for what he had just learned.
He wrapped his chakra around the surface of the sphere of granite he held between his hands, ensured that it was spread nice and evenly, and squeezed.
There was a faint crunch and the ball shrank. Hazō studied it for three long minutes, using all his physical senses as well as his chakra sense. The color had changed, becoming richer and more jewel-like. The surface was smoother, the fine pits and bumps that made up the granite's texture having been compressed together. It had the same lack of scent as it had before he worked it. It tasted like post-thunderstorm air smelled. When tapped lightly with a steel hammer the sound was richer, more bell-like.
His chakra told a similar story at different scale. The rock was still impure, still too bumpy and grainy inside to form the sort of chakra conduits that Hazō could form with ink and brush, but he could at least imagine the possibility now. If he could, somewhere, somehow, find a rock that was solely one thing through and through, and also completely smooth internally, then he could compact tiny slices of the rock and thereby form something that could perhaps carry chakra as easily as did ink.
It was bizarre to think that no one else had ever learned this. Surely, whoever had invented the Earthshaping jutsu must have mastered their own creation at least to the middling-high level that Hazō had managed? Surely they would have seen the potential?
He shook his head, casting the idea aside after recognizing the flaws that wound through it like the flaws within this granite. Seal research and jutsu research were both all-consuming fields that carried life-and-death risks. There simply wasn't time or attention to spend mastering both disciplines, so people generally learned one and stuck to it. The jutsu hacker who had created Earthshaping wouldn't have known sealing and therefore wouldn't have recognized the potential treasure they held in their hands.
Emphasis on potential, of course. Yes, the Great Seal was a three-dimensional seal made of stone, but it was created by the Sage using unknown arts and from unknown materials. There was no reason aside from infantile folly to think that a mere mortal could learn how to make seals from stone. Oh, certainly, when Hazō squeezed the insides of the granite like this it would form fracture planes and dense threads that allowed his chakra to pass more easily than the rest of the stone, but those planes and threads did not retain the chakra the way ink did. The moment he let go it all puffed away into the surrounding stone. They weren't chakra channels the way a seal needed, they were merely areas that resisted his chakra less than other areas, which was something you would expect to see. It would be more surprising if all of a composite material such as granite were equally difficult to manipulate.
Still.
Could it be possible?
He chuckled to himself and pushed the thought away. With an effort of will he undid his change, inflating the granite out to its original size and density. Curious, he wound his chakra in a little deeper and spread his 'fingers', pushing every part of the rock away from every other part. It blew up like a bloodtoad's throat pouch, growing larger and larger but more and more fragile until he feared that a sharp blow would make it crumble to powder. He pushed it as far as the jutsu would allow, then compressed it down to its original state and began altering it yet again, this time expanding certain portions and compacting others. There was half an hour left in his scheduled practice session and the lord of Clan Gōketsu was playing with perhaps the only jutsu ever designed to produce beauty instead of destruction. He intended to enjoy every minute of his scheduled time.
Which, of course, was exactly when someone walked around the bole of the tree and interrupted him.
It was actually a pair of someones, Jinno and a teenage girl that Hazō was pretty sure was Gōketsu but whose name he couldn't immediately bring to mind. They had their arms looped around one another and were exchanging looks hotter than any hibachi. Both of them jumped in surprise when they saw him.
"Sorry, M'Lord!" the girl squeaked, touching her forehead in respect and apology. "We didn't know you were here."
"True that," Jinno said, an easy smile on his face. Unlike the girl, Jinno kept his arm around his paramour's waist and didn't go pale. "We were looking for a bit of quiet space to watch the clouds. Didn't mean to interrupt you."
"No trouble," Hazō said, standing up with a knowing smile. "Cloudwatching is very important and I was about done anyway. Why don't you keep the blanket from flying away?" He stepped clear and gestured to the object in question.
The girl was bright red and refusing to meet his eyes.
"Very decent of you, sir," Jinno said, his casualness rendering the 'sir' less of a respectful courtesy to a noble and more a thanks to another man for not getting in the way.
Hazō raised one finger in mock seriousness. "Make sure you watch the clouds thoroughly, now. Clouds can do weird things when no one is paying attention. If you look away even for a moment there's no telling what could happen. All of Leaf could depend on your attentiveness!"
The girl's eyes went wide. "R-really, My Lord?"
Hazō waffled one hand, then shrugged. "Wellll...maybe not all of Leaf. And maybe there's a little room for looking away." He winked, startling a laugh out of her.
"Good to know," Jinno said, grinning widely. "Can I ask what you were working on?" He gestured to the ball of granite. The girl shot him a betrayed glance, clearly put out that he would be extending the conversation when the inconvenient Clan Lord had been on the verge of walking away.
"Earthshaping jutsu," Hazō said, keeping it short. On the one hand, maybe Jinno was actually interested, in which case it seemed only fair to share. Indeed, what elemental affinity did Jinno have? If it was earth then it might be worth teaching him the jutsu, since the world could only benefit from having more people who knew something designed to create beauty. Also, if it was in fact the gateway to three-dimensional sealing that Hazō was hoping for then it would be important for another sealmaster (or, in Jinno's case, an experienced apprentice) to know the secret in case anything happened to Hazō. "It lets you take a chunk of Earth material and change the shape, cut pieces off, and stick them together. I just now figured out how to change the density as well."
"Interesting," Jinno said, eyebrows rising. "What's it good for?"
Hazō shrugged. "Not combat, if that's what you're asking. It was originally intended to be used for sculpture. It's about making very fine, detailed changes, very slowly. I find it a good form of meditation that also serves as a chakra control exercise." Despite how much time Jinno spent on the estate (due, apparently, both to his studies with Kagome-sensei and his 'studies' with this young lady whose name Hazō wasn't going to admit he didn't know), he hadn't been adopted yet. Hazō wasn't going to share the true potential of Earthshaping with him until the adoption had gone through.
"Actually," Hazō said, "that reminds me. I meant to ask you this when we ran into each other before, but I've been forgetting. Where are you on the adoption process? I'm afraid I don't recall—have we offered, were you interested...? I'm sorry for forgetting, I have a lot of papers and a lot of adoption details. They start to blur together."
Jinno chuckled. "You did ask and I am interested," he said. "Champing at the bit, even. It's just waiting on the KEI to cough up a ticket."
Hazō nodded. "Right. Yeah, they've been dragging their feet on that. We tried to buy one from the other clans, but they're clutching onto theirs like a miser clutches coin. We'll get it done as soon as we can, I promise."
The girl's eyes lit up and she turned to her partner. "You'll be clan? You didn't say!" Her happy expression shifted to anger and she thwapped him on the arm. "You didn't say! I've been worrying about dating an outclan for months and you didn't tell me?"
"Aww, don't be like that, Mikiko-sweetie," Jinno said, his expression hurt. "It was a surprise! Besides, I didn't want to get your hopes up in case it fell through."
"It's not going to fall through, Mikiko," Hazō said, relieved to finally have the girl's name. "The Gōketsu want all the ninja we can get, and we definitely want Jinno. He's a strong ninja, young, and a talented sealmaster. What's not to like?" 'Talented' might or might not be pushing it and sealmaster was the next best thing to a lie, but it was every decent man's duty to help another out in the romantic arena when the opportunity arose.
"See?" Jinno said. "Your Clan Lord says it's okay." He bent down and stole a kiss.
Mikiko jumped at the contact. Her eyes went wide and her cheeks, which had slowly lost their color over the course of the nothing-bad-is-happening conversation, flamed red again. "Not in front of him!" she hissed, flicking her eyes towards her Clan Lord.
Hazō laughed. "I think that's my cue to move along," he said kindly. "I've got paperwork to do and those clouds have been unwatched for far too long."
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"This feels very strange," Akane said, smiling slightly.
"What does?" her paramour asked, looping an arm around her hip and hugging her close. The physical contact was always emotionally satisfying, but today the shared body heat was especially nice; it was an unusually cold day for the first of October, with frost on the ground and several unattended water pitchers in Gōketsu mansion having shattered due to their contents freezing solid.
"These precautions," Akane said, gesturing vaguely around.
The pair were currently standing on a hilltop, looking out over the vast expanse of trees that was western Fire Country. Dahlia, one of Akane's Shadow Clones, stood amongst the trees almost three miles away, at the very limit that Akane's skill with the jutsu would allow her to travel. Behind each set of ninja lay a trail of logs perfectly suited as Substitution targets, enough to let them cover two hundred yards in a metaphorical snap of the fingers. There were also several granite walls, courtesy of Hazō's Multiple Earth Wall jutsu, that would make for excellent barriers to hide behind. All three of them were wearing skywalker seals so that they could flee into the air if necessary. Trustworthy people waited at home, having been briefed on where they were and when they would be back. Both Akane and Hazō had updated their wills, and if they weren't back within 24 hours then Gaku would open the sealed document that designated Hazō's heir as Clan Head and formally transferred power.
Hazō shrugged. "This jutsu was originally designed to keep a house at a comfortable temperature. I suspect you have spent more time practicing and improving at it than anyone else in history, and I'm certain that no one has ever used it as strongly as you have. We're pushing it way beyond anything it was ever intended to do, which means we are effectively doing jutsu research. Jutsu research isn't as dangerous as seal research, but there's no reason not to use seal-level precautions."
"Oh?" Akane asked archly. "I notice that you and Kagome don't travel two hours from Leaf in the freezing cold in order to do your research."
Hazō shifted guiltily. "Well, um, it's also a clan secrets thing? We need to make sure that no one sees anything because if they do then we could lose legal protections. I checked the maps and there shouldn't be a human being within five or ten miles of this spot except us."
"So it has nothing to do with wanting to play hooky from your paperwork for half a day and have a romantic picnic with me?"
Hazō laughed and ducked his head in embarrassment. "Well...maybe."
"Thought so." She turned and kissed him on his chilly nose. "It's a lovely thought, but we'll definitely want to get back before that thunderstorm arrives." She pointed at the roiling black clouds moving in from the north, only a few miles beyond where Dahlia waited and advancing quickly. "I don't fancy being rained on in this chill."
"Eh, we can always take out the porta-cabin and take shelter until it blows over."
"Prepared to be stuck in the woods for longer than intended, I see. Your poor paperwork is going to be so lonely."
"Hey, I'm a Gōketsu! I always have a porta-cabin on me. And you should too."
"I do," she admitted, chuckling. "And the more I think about it, the more certain I am that I was wrong. We're definitely going to have to take shelter after this test."
"Oh?"
She nodded. "Yes. And given how cold it is, we'll have to huddle together for warmth. You'll have to hold me very tightly so I don't freeze to death."
"There's a hibachi and lots of blan—yes, you're absolutely right. We shall definitely need to huddle for warmth. Can't have you getting a chill."
She laughed and kissed his cheek.
"Seriously though," Hazō said, "we need to be very careful. The last time you tried this, we got snow appearing in mid-air and it disappeared back into smoke almost as soon as it touched the ground. It was a dry day; there shouldn't have been enough water in the air to make that happen, and even if there was then it shouldn't turn to smoke upon touching the earth. It most definitely shouldn't have kept happening for the entire duration of the jutsu."
She nodded. "Dahlia should be in position by now. Shall we signal her?"
"Mask on, seals on," Hazō said, slipping his own mask into place. It was an improved version of the one he had worn on the Seventh Path while traveling through the wildfire smoke with the Dog clan members. It fit close to his face and had an Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Preserver seal in it to filter out anything that might cause him harm. It was unpleasant; the seal took air in on its outer side, cleansed it, then blasted it into your face on the inside. It flowed in your nose and back through your sinuses, drying them out and feeling alien. Wearing the thing, much less wearing it while it was active, while two miles away from the action was a ludicrously paranoid level of precaution. Or, in other words, basic Kagome-sensei training.
He checked that Akane had her mask on with the seals active, then took the torch that he'd been holding in his left hand and tossed it onto the pile of leaves and other slightly damp materials in front of them. The pile was soaked in vegetable oil that burned smoky; within moments there was a thick column of black trickling up into the sky.
They waited, watching the trees below. After a minute or so, another column of smoke rose into the air as Dahlia signalled that she had seen their 'we are ready' sign and that she was casting the technique now.
o-o-o-o
"Sigil displayed, weapons to hand, once more to battle," Dahlia said to herself, smiling as she slid down the tree trunk. It was a line from a poem that every Leaf Academy student learned and every Leaf ninja quoted to themselves at least once per mission. It brought with it memories of family, of the bonds forged in fire between young children driven by limitless desire to become ninja of the Leaf.
At the base of the tree from which she had been watching for Prime's signal, a torch and fire materials waited. She kicked the torch over so that it fell onto the kindling and then backed well away until she could only just barely make out the fire through the trees. She waited until she was certain that the column of thick smoke would have wended its way through the tree canopy and be visible from the hilltop where the flesh people waited.
She took another moment to bask in her relief that Hazō had insisted a Shadow Clone do this test instead of Akane Prime doing it. Dahlia was in no real danger; even if everything around her...dunno, exploded? Melted into goo? Whatever. No matter what happened, the worst that would happen was that Dahlia would cease to exist here and would start to exist somewhere else the next time Prime used the Shadow Clone jutsu.
What about Naruto and the cannibal seal? whispered a traitorous part of herself. What if something happens here and it transmits back to Prime?
Firmly, she shook that part of herself to silence. There was only so much that one could possibly prepare for, and they had prepared for everything they could. It was time to act.
"Fire Element: Elemental Mastery," she said, twisting through the handseals that Prime had learned during the team's first visit to Isan so very long ago, back when she was 'Akane' instead of 'Akane Prime'.
The chakra came at her call, bouncing eagerly from her coils and into the form of the jutsu. She pushed it as far away from herself as she could, centering the effect around the fire she had lit to create the smoke signal, and shaping her intent towards making the target area colder instead of warmer.
They had already done experiments with making the target area warmer. With little effort, she could raise the temperature high enough to boil water, and when she really pushed it she could make the area so hot that it was like standing in front of a glassmaker's forge, with air far too hot to breathe. Today they were going the other way.
She could have sustained the technique by concentrating on it, but instead she immediately tied it off. The 'knot' would untie itself over time and the jutsu would fall apart once it did. With her current level of skill her knots were tight enough to last for hours—which was both good and bad, since the jutsu allowed for moderating the temperature to greater or lesser degree but did not permit modifying the duration. You couldn't use an Elemental Mastery effect in an area where one was already running, so there was no way to cancel it out before it ended. Whatever happened as a result of her casting was going to keep happening for six or seven hours.
The jutsu took effect over the course of a few seconds, cooling the area around the fire more and more. A playful wind sprung up, tottering outwards and pressing the flames of the fire down and out. At first the flames danced higher, but as the temperature dropped below the kindling point of its fuel, the fire was extinguished. It didn't stop there; she had pushed the jutsu as hard as she could, and it continued to plummet into realms that even the worst winters of Snow Country had never seen.
The fat-flaked snow that they had seen before precipitated out of the air and rained down, turning to grey smoke upon touching the ground. The wind grew stronger, causing Dahlia's hair to stream out behind her except for a few strands that whipped across her face and into her mouth.
And then the snow changed to drops of liquid, the trees exploded, and her world ended.
o-o-o-o
Miles away, Akane jerked as her other self was destroyed and the memories of her death reunited with those of their progenitor.
"What happened?" Hazō asked, concern ringing in his voice.
"It...it..." Akane trailed away, struggling to integrate what she had seen. "There was snow, and then there was rain, and wind, and then I think everything exploded."
"What do you—"
Hazō cut himself off mid-word as his eyes showed him the answer to his unformed question.
Miles away, the thunder clouds were dipping downwards, reaching out to the beckoning earth like a child reaching for its mother...except this child was made of cubic miles of angry grey clouds among which danced eye-searing lightning.
The clouds moved slowly at first, stretching themselves with lazy comfort. Then they reached a specific point and something greedy and huge and invisible inhaled, tearing the clouds from the sky and into its eldritch lungs. The invisible monster stamped its foot and the trees around where Dahlia had stood blasted outwards, a wave of destruction that spread like the splash of a rock thrown into still water. The monster breathed and the air turned to a river, sheets of water crashing to earth.
"RUN!" Hazō screamed, grabbing Akane's hand and sprinting away just as the wind reached them. He activated his skywalkers, dragging Akane up into the air until she gathered her wits and activated her own seals. The wind was at their backs and it blew so fast and so hard that Hazō's ankles shrieked in pain every time he flickered the seals on just long enough to give him a platform for one step.
They were barely in time. Seconds after they stepped free of Mother Earth's support, the land below them turned into a frothing, roaring flood of colorless liquid. Not water, some form of demonic hell-spit that froze trees so fast they cracked, then burst them apart under the impact of the flood. Pale smoke frothed from the flood as it moved.
Hazō's Preserver seal was still active, taking in air, cleaning it, and blasting the result into his face. What it didn't do was change the temperature of the air, and that temperature was plummeting. Hazō's lungs were pumping, sucking in great gulps of air to power the muscles through which his chakra surged, enhancing his speed to a full-on ninja sprint so fast that a civilian would have had trouble tracking him and throwing off concomitant amounts of heat. The pain in his lungs and sinuses was building as the cold air knifed him from within. Akane's hand was tight around his, so tight the bones of his hand ground together in yet more agony that he was too distracted to notice.
And then her hand was gone and she was batting at her mask, knocking it free of her face. Fear lanced through him and he lunged towards her even as they both continued running forward. He tried to catch her mask and force it back on her. She could not afford to breathe whatever was coming off of that hell spit!
She dodged and danced across the air away from him until she could fumble a seal out of one of the pockets of her CHAOS suit.
The cold was racking through him, digging into his lungs like knives. He spun chakra through himself, trying to rev his body even faster in order to gain a few extra dregs of heat, but it barely helped.
And then Akane was looping back to run beside him, the Tunneler's Friend still clutched to her face in one hand even as the other stretched out to him. "Use this!" she shouted, her words muffled by the paper pressed tight across her mouth and nose.
They were running full tilt, burning chakra like tinder in order to maintain a superhuman speed. They were moving in slightly different directions with mismatched cadence that made it hard to connect hands, and he still had a mask on his face that was giving him life-giving air, but he trusted her. He stopped breathing without drawing in any more cold air, clawed his mask off, and allowed it to fall forgotten into the flood that now raced a hundred yards below them and farther away with every step. He grabbed the seal from her hand, pressed it to his face, and switched it on.
Air fountained out, shoving its way down into his lungs with almost damaging force. It was warm, but in contrast to the air around him it felt like a furnace breath. He sucked deep from the life-giving warmth, feeling the pain vanish from his lungs, and focused on driving himself forward faster and faster, upwards and upwards, as they fled from the monster that breathed in thunderstorms and panted forth icy torrents.
o-o-o-o
"How did you know?" he asked, much later.
They were on a skytower, miles above and far more miles away from the destruction. They could see it below, a place where the sky tore at the earth. A column of clouds were ripped from the heavens and smashed into the dirt below while rivers of that hellish liquid cascaded forth and were hurled away to flow miles across the earth. There was a sound to it, a continuous scream as though the Paint was tearing itself apart. The trees and ground were simply gone everywhere within a mile of the origin point and varying levels of destruction spread outwards from there. At a sustainable travel pace it would have taken Hazō more than an hour to run from one side of the destruction to the other.
"Know what?" she asked, looking over at him. They were lying in a Gōketsu porta-cabin, tied to the skytower with the purpose-built bollards, facing out with their heads hanging over the edge of the platform so they could see clearly. There was a hibachi at the far end of the cabin radiating life-giving warm and every blanket they possessed was piled atop them, warding off the chill that was the price of using every ounce of your strength to flee in terror from certain death.
"To use the Tunneler's Friend seals," Hazō said. "I'm pretty sure you saved us with that. I knew that our lungs were going to freeze if we kept breathing that air, but I had no clue what to do about it."
Her chuckle was weak and exhausted. "The Purifier seals clean the air around you, but that air was cold enough that it hurt. The Tunneler's Friend seals contain air that was stored there weeks ago, so I hoped it would still be warm. Luckily, it was."
Hazō leaned over and kissed her hard on the mouth, tangling his fingers in her hair so that he could pull her almost bruisingly close. When he leaned back she was flushed and her pupils had contracted in surprise and lust.
"You are so fucking smart," he said, fervorous sincerity riding the words. "It is one of the many, many reasons I love you."
o-o-o-o
They came over the wall of the Gōketsu estate as the sun was nearing the horizon. Tension hung thick in the air; everything was too silent and there weren't enough people around.
"There," Akane said, nudging him and pointing up towards the roof of the nearest house.
Hazō looked where she pointed. The roof was packed, edge to edge, with people looking out over the trees in the direction Hazō and Akane had come from. A glance back left no doubt as to why; the sky was still being pulled down to earth and eaten. The effect was so large that it was clearly visible from thirty or forty miles away.
"Ah, crap," Hazō muttered.
Akane snorted. "Were you really expecting this to go unnoticed?"
He shot her a betrayed look but all he said was, "Let's go see what's happening on the ground."
It took less than ten minutes to locate Gaku, since the 'CURRENT LOCATION' entry on the chalkboard hung on the door of his apartment said "on top of Gōketsu manor". Akane and Hazō hurried there, only to find the roof packed with Gōketsu civilians and ninja. Fortunately, rank hath its privileges and everyone moved aside so that their Clan Lord could pass unobstructed.
"What's going on?" Hazō asked, tapping his seneschal/chancellor/secretary/friend on the shoulder.
The old man had clearly missed their arrival while staring slack-jawed at the catastrophe in the distance. He yelped and jumped in the air, spinning around in surprise and nearly stumbling backwards off the edge of the roof. Hazō caught him and pulled him back.
"Ah, thank you, My Lord," Gaku said, brushing himself off and taking a moment to still his breathing.
"Welcome. What's going on?"
"Oh, yes, of course." Gaku blinked, ordering his thoughts, and then nodded as they coalesced. "The phenomenon appeared three to four hours ago. Everyone stopped what they were doing and came up on the roofs to get a better view. A messenger from the Hokage arrived, perhaps twenty minutes after the first sighting. We were told to ready ourselves for a potential attack by Rock, Akatsuki, or some other unknown force. Lord Naruto, Lady Mari, and a group of other jōnin were dispatched to investigate the event. I would assume that they will report to the Hokage immediately upon their return and a Clan Council will be called moments thereafter."
Hazō groaned. This day just kept getting worse.
Author's Note:
The "The concerns of the KEI" scene from the plan did not get done. Hazō was busy with Earthshaping practice and destroying the landscape. Also, I couldn't tell what the action item was—was it supposed to be a meeting with the KEI coordinators?
The following has been added to the Earthshaping entry in the list of player-known jutsu:
At level 40 you gain the ability to compact or spread the material in order to increase/decrease its density by +/- (Effect x 10)% to a maximum of 50%. Density-enhanced materials are stronger, density-reduced materials are weaker. Material may only have its density altered one time; further castings of this jutsu will not allow density modification regardless of who casts the jutsu. Using this ability causes the jutsu to strain and leap in excitement, urging you to go further with your training in order to do more.
Using the above ability will increase the TN for your targeted shape.
At level 40 you gain the ability to compact or spread the material in order to increase/decrease its density by +/- (Effect x 10)% to a maximum of 50%. Density-enhanced materials are stronger, density-reduced materials are weaker. Material may only have its density altered one time; further castings of this jutsu will not allow density modification regardless of who casts the jutsu. Using this ability causes the jutsu to strain and leap in excitement, urging you to go further with your training in order to do more.
Using the above ability will increase the TN for your targeted shape.
When Hazō says 'we got that snow appearing in mid-air', what he means without realizing it is 'you pushed the temperature below -78C and the carbon dioxide in the air started condensing out and turning into dry ice.'
The effects of the Elemental Mastery nuke are extremely hard to predict. We-the-MfD-community have spent literally half a decade trying to figure this out, talking to different experts in various flavors of physics, and our best models are still very uncertain guesses. Based on all that, here's what the QMs have decided to go with:
Elemental Mastery changes the temperature of the air in a given zone by up to 5C per level, meaning that Akane's level 40 allows her to change things by +/- 200C. This change comes on slowly, the air cooling/heating over the course of a few seconds. Air that leaves the zone initially retains its magically-assigned energy but thereafter answers to normal thermodynamics and will shift to match the ambient temperature.
The jutsu lasts for as long as the caster concentrates and then another 10 minutes per level thereafter, meaning 400 minutes (6.66 hours) in Akane's case. The duration cannot be altered. What happens when Akane cools an area as much as she can, especially when she does so on a cold day and there happens to be a thunderstorm rolling in from not far away?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) condenses at a measly -78C. Oxygen is a bit more resolute, sustaining its gaseous nature down to -186C. Nitrogen is the most obdurate of the group, making it all the way to a beefy -196C.
The exact size of a zone is flexible, but in open terrain we're calling it a circle50m [EDIT: this later got revised to 30] meters in diameter. When the temperature in this area drops to about -80C you're going to see dry ice precipitating out as snow. Once it drops to -200C you're going to see the air itself converting into a liquid and raining down. It will hit the ground, instantly boil back into gas, and spread out to the sides. The air liquifying will reduce the pressure in the zone, thereby pulling air down from above and around the zone. The result will be a sphere of inward-drawn air blasting a torrent of icy hell at the earth.
Should there happen to be any interesting weather formations in the area that aren't too high up, they will be sucked down into the effect and lend their own sparkle to the destruction.
The aforementioned destruction will come in a variety of forms. In the immediate area of the zone you get Mach 1 winds, meaning around 400 mph given the cold air. (For reference, the strongest hurricane ever recorded had winds of 185 mph and the strongest category-5 tornados are up to 318 mph.) Then you've got the cryogenic liquids freezing everything. If the 'anything' has water inside it (or sap, or blood, or...) then it will freeze and expand, destroying whatever it was inside. The liquid nitrogen (LN2) and liquid oxygen flow outward as a flood being driven by those hyperhurricane winds. They freeze everything they run into and also batter it with tons of kinetic energy.
Everything within a 0.75 mile radius is completely obliterated and a crater is dug into the ground, ranging from 'massive' in sand or loam to 'modest' on stone.
Everything within a 1.5 mile radius is destroyed. Concrete buildings are leveled, trees are demolished, etc.
Every living thing within a12 [EDIT: the revision in zone size reduces this to 9] mile radius is killed through a combination of wind, cryogenic flood, breathing cold air causing the water in your lungs to freeze into lots of tiny sharp ice crystals that will shred your alveoli like grapes on a grater, etc.
If the caster starts inside the inner or middle regions then they're dead, period. (Well, unless they manage to escape during the ~1 minute that it takes for the effect to go from 0 to hellstorm, perhaps by reverse summoning or tunneling really fast and deep, then sealing the tunnel behind them. And conceivably there's some bullshit S-ranker out there with sufficient bullshit to survive being in the heart of the storm because S-rankers are made of bullshit. Hazō has never heard of anyone with such an ability and can't imagine what it would be, but he can't completely rule it out because S-rankers are bullshit.)
If the caster starts in the outer zone then they have a chance of escaping if they run immediately and very quickly, and they have skywalkers or some other way to get off the ground so as to escape the LN2 flood, and they have a way to breathe air that's killing them via grapes-on-a-grater cold.
Given the above, a brief summary of the EM nuke scene looks like this: over the course of ~7 hours Akane turned ~17 cubic miles (yes, miles) of air into cryogenic liquid and threw it into the middle of a katabatic Mach-1 hyperhurricane that blasted it outwards across a circle with area of~500 (EDIT: after the zone size reduction, 250) square miles, demolishing the landscape and killing every living thing in that area except herself and Hazō. Despite Hazō's best efforts to be far from habitation, the affected area was vastly larger than he could have anticipated and Akane almost certainly killed a bunch of Fire's civilian population. Best guess, somewhere in the 200-600 range, although the Gōketsu likely will never know exactly.
For the record, the players did very well in selecting security precautions. If you were less cautious and had done this anywhere near Leaf then Akane and Hazō would have died, Leaf's civilians would almost certainly have all died, and a good share of Leaf's ninja would have died.
The effects of the Elemental Mastery nuke are extremely hard to predict. We-the-MfD-community have spent literally half a decade trying to figure this out, talking to different experts in various flavors of physics, and our best models are still very uncertain guesses. Based on all that, here's what the QMs have decided to go with:
Elemental Mastery changes the temperature of the air in a given zone by up to 5C per level, meaning that Akane's level 40 allows her to change things by +/- 200C. This change comes on slowly, the air cooling/heating over the course of a few seconds. Air that leaves the zone initially retains its magically-assigned energy but thereafter answers to normal thermodynamics and will shift to match the ambient temperature.
The jutsu lasts for as long as the caster concentrates and then another 10 minutes per level thereafter, meaning 400 minutes (6.66 hours) in Akane's case. The duration cannot be altered. What happens when Akane cools an area as much as she can, especially when she does so on a cold day and there happens to be a thunderstorm rolling in from not far away?
Carbon dioxide (CO2) condenses at a measly -78C. Oxygen is a bit more resolute, sustaining its gaseous nature down to -186C. Nitrogen is the most obdurate of the group, making it all the way to a beefy -196C.
The exact size of a zone is flexible, but in open terrain we're calling it a circle
Should there happen to be any interesting weather formations in the area that aren't too high up, they will be sucked down into the effect and lend their own sparkle to the destruction.
The aforementioned destruction will come in a variety of forms. In the immediate area of the zone you get Mach 1 winds, meaning around 400 mph given the cold air. (For reference, the strongest hurricane ever recorded had winds of 185 mph and the strongest category-5 tornados are up to 318 mph.) Then you've got the cryogenic liquids freezing everything. If the 'anything' has water inside it (or sap, or blood, or...) then it will freeze and expand, destroying whatever it was inside. The liquid nitrogen (LN2) and liquid oxygen flow outward as a flood being driven by those hyperhurricane winds. They freeze everything they run into and also batter it with tons of kinetic energy.
Everything within a 0.75 mile radius is completely obliterated and a crater is dug into the ground, ranging from 'massive' in sand or loam to 'modest' on stone.
Everything within a 1.5 mile radius is destroyed. Concrete buildings are leveled, trees are demolished, etc.
Every living thing within a
If the caster starts inside the inner or middle regions then they're dead, period. (Well, unless they manage to escape during the ~1 minute that it takes for the effect to go from 0 to hellstorm, perhaps by reverse summoning or tunneling really fast and deep, then sealing the tunnel behind them. And conceivably there's some bullshit S-ranker out there with sufficient bullshit to survive being in the heart of the storm because S-rankers are made of bullshit. Hazō has never heard of anyone with such an ability and can't imagine what it would be, but he can't completely rule it out because S-rankers are bullshit.)
If the caster starts in the outer zone then they have a chance of escaping if they run immediately and very quickly, and they have skywalkers or some other way to get off the ground so as to escape the LN2 flood, and they have a way to breathe air that's killing them via grapes-on-a-grater cold.
Given the above, a brief summary of the EM nuke scene looks like this: over the course of ~7 hours Akane turned ~17 cubic miles (yes, miles) of air into cryogenic liquid and threw it into the middle of a katabatic Mach-1 hyperhurricane that blasted it outwards across a circle with area of
For the record, the players did very well in selecting security precautions. If you were less cautious and had done this anywhere near Leaf then Akane and Hazō would have died, Leaf's civilians would almost certainly have all died, and a good share of Leaf's ninja would have died.
This update covered 2 days.
FP Award: +1 because you are below 4
XP AWARD: 9
Brevity XP: 2
"GM had fun" XP: 30 I have been waiting literally half a decade to write the EM-nuke scene.
It is now about 6pm. After you escaped from the EM nuke you spent half an hour or so on a skytower watching it before deciding to head home. Mari and the others left roughly an hour after everything started, so they're likely to be back very soon.
Hazō's best guess is that the sequence will go: Mari et al return sometime in the next 30 minutes to 2 hours => they report to the Hokage => Mari is sent to summon Hazō to a Clan Council => Hazō and Mari have about 5 minutes to talk before he needs to run to the meeting, and even then he's going to be one of the last arrivals.
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