To be fair, he didn't plan on saying it. He just got socially maneuvered into saying more than expected by a social-fu specialist who got him feeling comfortable so he lowered his guard.
I've been increasingly having these questions - QM characterization of Hazo seems like it's going further and further, and IMO regularly to the detriment of the player base and sometimes directly contradicting what's in plans. I have an effortpost on this topic that might wind up being a PM to the QMs in the pipeline: I'd like to understand if the QMs share my perspective as to what's happening, get some understanding of why it's happening, and what we can do to find a mutually-satisfying solution.
If there had been rolls here illustrating that's what happened, then that would have made sense to me, but a) you don't do social combat to your boyfriend and b) Hazo clearly put forethought into this - why didn't he have literally any answer ready especially given that the plan was sanity-checked?
Yes, he will be fine the day of the test.
To further expand my thoughts on this (mused about it while driving this morning), I kinda feel like we-the-playerbase don't really have an accurate enough ability to figure out 3D Sealing. We've been told that the sealing terms ("wuddershifting") and mechanics ("chthonic resonances") we read within the narrative is pure technobabble.
Something along these lines keeps gnawing at me too. Is the 3D Sealing unlock supposed to be simple to reach after we hit a qualitative threshold and test it out (like we did with ES 50)? Is it locked until we make a truly impressive deduction/guess on the player-side? Even when so much of Sealing is inscrutible technobabble by design? The part of me that worries about worst-case-scenarios is fretting that the QMs want us to do a deep dive into the bare metal wires of the simulation but we've been conditioned towards learned helplessness by the technobabble explicitly designed to keep us from interacting with Sealing on any level other than the abstract.
Are rolls still forthcoming for the Chapter 595 update?
Sweetie no ;-;
There once was a lady from Leaf,
Gōketsu Hazō crafts futures the way an artisan crafts their crafts (or I, terrible similes). Sorry for your loss, but in advance, you're welcome for your gain.
Throwing shade huh
I hope this is perceived as a compliment, because it is: sometimes you remind me of Douglas Adams through the sheer "I can do whatever I want with language"-ness of your writing.
That was roughly my interpretation. If an OPSEC failure is sufficiently blatant, and there is a sufficiently plausible counterfactual ("Hazō trusts his girlfriend enough to reveal some of his secret capabilities to her"), then sanity-checkers may trust Hazō enough to assume the counterfactual.
Point one: I'm hugely happy with how this turned out. This was/is the perfect gift for Ino and I'm thrilled that she loves it, as well as the descriptions etc.
Sad you feel that way. Something went astray if a reader recoils from heartfelt engagement with the story.
Suggestion: Weapons 3 (or whatever Kunai are)
All (or nearly all) the unforced errors I can remember Hazō making prior to this chapter were do to mistakes in our plans. But in this case, the plan didn't call for Hazō to reveal nearly as much information as he did (he could have, for instance, said that he made the mirror using earthshaping to stick together components he acquired elsewhere, or said nothing and kept it mysterious) and Hazōpilot's thinking, even in consultation with Mari and Kei, didn't result in a non-suspicious sensible outcome. So, if Hazōpilot is going to make these flubs entirely on his own (which, to be completely fair, makes perfect sense for his characterization after years of our own flawed plans) and doing a sanity check doesn't help... I mean, I can't say that isn't fair, or that it doesn't make sense, but it does incentivize us to make more rigid, paranoid plans, and I have to ask if the QMs actually want that.
The thing that's getting me here is that Hazo is actively surprised by the outcomes.
Emphasis mine.
In addition to all of that, based on what you've said, he did sanity-check this with Kei and Mari. What I'm hearing you say is that they both heard him talk about how he was going to give this gift to Ino, that he was going to tell her it's Inoite (Hazo is way too happy with the mirror not to brag about this to them, and rightly so, it's a brilliant gift, whoever came up with this idea must be some sort of relationship genius) and then they both assumed that he had a plan for handling her questions despite him having literally nothing else to say on the topic - no mention of her anticipated reaction, no mention of questions he anticipates her asking, no mention of how he might field those questions. Someone who is notorious for planning conversations having literally zero strategy around something we have textual evidence he thought about to the point where he cuts the date off breaks my suspension of disbelief.
This removes the issues with Hazo not having had any degree of foresight, removes the issue of Kei/Mari not having sanity-checked this at all, and gives us an opportunity to Do The Thing, while still making us deal with the situation. I'd (personally) be happy to spend a FATE point or something to have this happen.
