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If you know what she's doing and she's shown that she can do it regardless, the proper power move reply is to keep staring.
She can out-escalate him easily. Remember that she is a sex-positive social spec who knows all his psychological weak points, while he is a virgin who blushes when thinking of sex with his first girlfriend (and with his second one too, of course).
 
[X] training plan Hazou: calligraphy


Alternatively, she does an amount of Shadow Clone training appropriate for a hypothetical Akane who didn't FOOM and has a reasonable amount of Resolve.

I made a copy of Akane's character sheet and edited her Resolve down to 30, a reasonable amount for a non-FOOM Akane, and the resulting SC multiplier is x0.7. This is probably within the bounds of what Leaf Jounin experience from their own Shadow Clone training and, if anything, would be less suspicious than Akane refusing to do any Shadow Clone training at all despite that being one of the most valuable parts of the technique.
Might want to reduce it down to 0.5x, just to be Safe. We know from Jiraiya (i think) that Leaf jonin use some form of SC training, and that's why Leaf jonin tend to be a little bit stronger than other Village Jonin.

But other ninja lack Hazou's spreadsheet vision and WHOOSH, so we should probably artificially bake in some training inefficiencies for the sake of opsec.
 
Does Hazō want to try this idea? This vote closes at the same time as the main vote. Once it's defined I'll edit this update based on the result of the vote. It will likely only be a couple extra paragraphs; this is an experiment to see how this mid-update voting works for our community, and also to try out the 'tasks' segment of the tally bot.

Please use the square-bracketed '[Gates]' tag so that the tally bot can separate these votes into their own section. It would be best if you copy/pasted.

[][Gates] Experiment, very carefully, with Hazō's gate-building idea about digging a trench
[][Gates] Do not try Hazō's gate-building idea about digging a trench

If you vote to try the experiment then Hazō will do it will full Kagome-level precautions and advice from appropriate experts.

This vote is separate from the main vote and therefore does not count against word count. Write-ins are not being accepted.
Also pinging @Velorien @Paperclipped If we vote to do this, should we assume that we get Asuma's permission and etc. etc.?
 
[X][Gates] Experiment, very carefully, with Hazō's gate-building idea about digging a trench

(If we give up on SCIENCE, what do we have left?)

[X] training plan Hazou: calligraphy

(I do not understand the opposition to training calligraphy. It's a massive bottleneck on sealing. Eaglejarl straight-up told us to level it. Seems like it would be a good idea to do so.)
 
"Well, yes," Asuma said, "but the buffer zone is quite wide. Wider than any Hyūga's range. It won't be an issue so long as you don't build against the wall on the western side."
Granted, the Hyūga are adjacent to it, but the width of the yard inside the wall is sufficient.
Is this true? Because if so, maybe Hazou should have taken the compound Asuma first offered. I mean, I don't think it is true, but in case it is I'm a little miffed we didn't get to vote on it?

Gouououketu! That's one long o.

"I assume they're with their genin teams, sir," Jin said.
Ah, so genin teams have been assigned, despite everything? When did this happen? Who all got a team? Who are the genin on those teams? We should take an update at some point to meet them.
 
I'm also a little confused about how/why this update was 8 days long. I thought Noburi's sisters were supposed to arrive 3 days after the last update, so this update would only be 3 days long. And I didn't think the plan would take longer than 3 days (and we didn't even finish the plan in this update).
 
I'm also a little confused about how/why this update was 8 days long. I thought Noburi's sisters were supposed to arrive 3 days after the last update, so this update would only be 3 days long. And I didn't think the plan would take longer than 3 days (and we didn't even finish the plan in this update).
[X] Interlude: Wakahisa Funeral Customs
 
And I didn't think the plan would take longer than 3 days (and we didn't even finish the plan in this update).
Notes: This plan was huge. Depending on what you count and leaving out things that are obviously to be offscreened, it could be as many as 6 scenes: Akane, the compound, visit, prepare, Noburi. My rule is -1 XP per scene over 3, but I'm very tired right now and I try to be extra nice at such times in order to compensate for grumpiness that isn't other people's fault, so I'm going to ignore that and call it a 3 XP/day plan with no penalties.
I am also confused about how the QMs determine the number of scenes that go in an update. This update's plan, to my reading, consisted mostly of administrative stuff which Hazou typically does offscreen. And some of it was stuff that Hazou was working on in the previous update offscreen, so I thought the plan was just telling him to keep doing the stuff he was doing.
 
[X] training plan Hazou: calligraphy


Alternatively, she does an amount of Shadow Clone training appropriate for a hypothetical Akane who didn't FOOM and has a reasonable amount of Resolve.

I made a copy of Akane's character sheet and edited her Resolve down to 30, a reasonable amount for a non-FOOM Akane, and the resulting SC multiplier is x0.7. This is probably within the bounds of what Leaf Jounin experience from their own Shadow Clone training and, if anything, would be less suspicious than Akane refusing to do any Shadow Clone training at all despite that being one of the most valuable parts of the technique.

Might want to reduce it down to 0.5x, just to be Safe. We know from Jiraiya (i think) that Leaf jonin use some form of SC training, and that's why Leaf jonin tend to be a little bit stronger than other Village Jonin.

But other ninja lack Hazou's spreadsheet vision and WHOOSH, so we should probably artificially bake in some training inefficiencies for the sake of opsec.

Remember that normal Leaf-nin don't have Noburi to help train with SCs, so it would still leak part of the secret
 
Remember that normal Leaf-nin don't have Noburi to help train with SCs, so it would still leak part of the secret
If Akane is only doing 5-7 hours of training, that can be accomplished with one single Shadow Clone, the minimal chakra expense possible for Shadow Clone training. I'm not sure how this would create the OPSEC breach you describe.
 
[X][Gates] Do not try Hazō's gate-building idea about digging a trench

I'd rather not experiment with jutsu within village walls immediately after the EM nuke AND a sealing failure.
 
[X][Gates] Experiment, very carefully, with Hazō's gate-building idea about digging a trench

IIRC Asuma suggested that the nuke was a secret, hidden function of the jutsu. I want Hazo to believe that, and not "every single jutsu can potentially go nuclear if you tweak it enough". Therefore I am voting for this.


Regarding Akane's training: I am totally against giving her all the bonus XP people are earning. Not only is that bad to hide FOOM, it's also counterproductive to our current "rush the big research projects to save the world and also the clan" projects. Let's take the XP ourselves, use it for Calligraphy and ES, and later we can use Sealing time to make S-rank seals to help our slower clanmates.
 
We lost at least two clan members. Akane's mom may or may not have had died (more like Mai died, amirite? (I am right, but also a dick))
Thank you for continuing to do these reaction posts. They are super spoon-positive for me.

You lost dozens of clan members, but most of them didn't have onscreen names.

Akane's Mom survived, but is missing part of an arm.

The fact that we also lost large chunks of our compound right before having to move anyway is a heck of a coincidence
In the interest of killing epileptic trees and with apologies to @Velorien because I know it will mildly irk him for me to dispense OOC information, but I really don't want to deal with the distraction of player paranoia on this: the approximate timing and nature of the failure were determined IRL months ago, before the clan move was ever discussed.

Kagome actually ran out of explosives
Bite your tongue! He ran out of youthenizers, which are the big fireball seals Hazō invented.

It always surprises me that the Akimichi are part of the conservative bloc.
ponwog, they are more centrist than outright conservative.

Simply adore this part of the dialogue, and especially this line
That's all @Paperclipped .
And that you're, also, Just That Good that this can be conveyed in your writing
The vast majority of that scene is also Paperclipped, and I agree with your sentiment.



Eaglejarl straight-up told us to level it.
Quibble: I don't think I ever literally said "go level this", although I have definitely expressed surprise that you haven't and shown that it is my opinion that you probably should.
 
[X] training plan Hazou: calligraphy

We should probably only give seals from anyone not named Kagome and Hazou to other clans. For safety. Those two are far less likely to cause sealing failures. And cause unnecessary deaths.
 
Surprised the plays worked

Is there a way to improve sealing research safety? Also, it's unacceptable that sealing failure continue to main people unrelated to the sealmaster.
Require to have higher sealing and calligraphy before doing research. Ex finishing jiraiya notes
We should probably only give seals from anyone not named Kagome and Hazou to other clans. For safety. Those two are far less likely to cause sealing failures. And cause unnecessary deaths.
I actually think hazou is more likely to cause sealing failure than kagome students
 
The evening had been building to a crescendo with the three earlier adoptions: Haruki, the medically-retired chūnin who had been living on the estate since the Collapse, followed by Fuyuki Kazushi and Sugiyama Shinji, two of the clanless genin with whom Hazō had bonded on the way back from the Chūnin Exams and who Kagome-sensei had since taken on as sealing students. Jinno Yūdai, now Gōketsu Yūdai, had been another of the clanless bonding group from that trip, specificallythe one who had enabled Hazō to burn his mouth on honey-soaked apple slices. He was a bright young man who had been studying sealmastery with Kagome-sensei for months and had endeared himself to many on the estate by being smart enough to pick up on the simple chain of logic that went:

The link embedded in this section was incorrect. You missed the '?' before the first post.
 
If we can acquire the mis written seal. Then we could try to learn insights into sealing from the failure like arikada. Or from our own seal from zero g. Actually, did hazo download the mistyped zero g seal after infusion? Would mean it counts as a seal. If not, means sealing failures have some qualitative difference from inventing a new seal
 
Keiko: "You need to be careful, the Hokage wants you dead"
Us, completely unaware: "Hey, you're being watched 24/7 by the secret police, don't WHOOSH!"
 
[JK] Stare at your second-mom's breasts to show dominance
"You're not my real mum!" he screams to her... face. *cough*
She can out-escalate him easily. Remember that she is a sex-positive social spec who knows all his psychological weak points, while he is a virgin who blushes when thinking of sex with his first girlfriend (and with his second one too, of course).
This isn't about winning the social fight or anything, Hazō can ignore the rest if she escalates and focus on dodging
 
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