We know that it's in the realm of possibility for Hazou to research MEW seals since he already knows the jutsu, but we have no idea how that would work with a jutsu described by someone who doesn't know any Sealing.
EM seems to me to be the best technique for us to experiment on, in regards to making a seal-based version of another teammates' technique. At its most basic level EM barely raises or lowers the temperature of a very small sphere; we aren't creating matter, the seal only outputs on thing: heat, and it does not require precision control to utilize, like Zephyr's Reach. Akane seems like the most willing person to share with Hazou a technique to be turned into a seal. Yes, it will be dangerous since all sealing experiments are dangerous, but I believe this is the safest technique a teammate has that we could possibly experiment on.
You don't need the seal for the prototyping phase, since you don't know if the hot balloon idea is going to even work in the first place.
It was mostly meant as a way to keep Hazou busy with an actual project for the three months of rest and recuperation the team needs. In addition, it could give us valuable feedback about the difficulty of translating a technique from another team member into a seal, as stated above.
There are other, more immediately useful and less dangerous seals we could spend our time on. (For example, we should research the casino seals to finally get access to chakra detection, voice and light output. If we want more work we could do tweak the sound seal to work on vibrations for silent alarms or pursue flashbangs.)
I agree that the casino seals could also have some uses, but how are light and sound emitting seals less dangerous than a heat emitting seal? For all we know, the casino seals could act as an alarm system that, when triggered, create blaring sirens or obnoxiously flashing lights. Furthermore, an EM seal is critical to any long term floating platform plans we have; the sooner we get started on it, the sooner we can traverse borders with ease by floating so high above them that we appear to be a bird.
In addition, we are probably looking for an extended break due to our injuries. Meaning there's a chance that we can do both Training and Research in the same update and we should attempt to do that.
I have nothing against an extended break, so long as we do not miss something important by deliberately time-skipping. I would rather like the results from all of the various Hot Air Balloon experiments ASAP, though just to see what we need to gather, improve, repair, re-evaluate, etc.
I think we need to make an actual decision where to go. The bordering countries are Rice (Oro-tan!), Frost, Fire and a bunch of islands to the east. This is kinda important since we have kicked a hornets nest and there'll be people after us. A small town might be nice, but it will also make it easier to track us down.
Originally when I first wrote up the plan I intended for it to only be a Proto-plan, but with my busy schedule recently I just said "fuck it" and voted for it anyway in case people thought it was good enough as is. If the hivemind can reach a consensus on where we want to go, I'd be happy to edit in said destination. Deferring to the resident medic seemed like the most prudent choice at the time; if Noburi (or anyone in the team, really) believes we should not risk going over open water in our state (for whatever reason), we should listen to them, not make them go on a forced march too far.
The tone of this thing seems awkward, what do you mean by her true self? Also, we have never had a conversation with a party member that has gone according to our plans, so I think it would be better to put something very general like: "Talk with Keiko about her and Mari." and see where the QMs take it.
By "true self" I mean that, whatever her preferences, quirks, embarrassing personality traits, what-have-you, Hazou will not criticize her for who she is or chooses/wants to be. The specifications were meant as a way to (hopefully) gain more XP, as more well-thought out plans generally give us more XP. Simply telling Hazou to talk to Keiko will most likely result in him putting both of his feet in his mouth due to his low Diplo skill level. I, personally, absolutely do not want to use Deception against one of our own teammates when she is having an overwhelming sense of embarrassment after blurting out about her crush on her teacher.
We also need to debrief the team, talk about the future, and take a stance on whether we are planning to go back to Tea to get our pay or not. (I vote for not going.)
Agreed, but having an update that only covers:
"Omg, we almost got creamed."
"Ikr, shit's cray-cray"
"Fuck Shady quest-givers"
"Agreed"
"Do you think Honami is pissed at us?"
"Definitely"
"Uh... Keiko, are you
actually a lesbian... or..?"
"SHUT UP BARREL BOY"
Seems a bit redundant to me.
Might as well do something productive to take our team's mind off of almost dying horribly again and other stressed induced outbursts.
(Not saying we should ignore any such outbursts, but we should not force Keiko too much at this point in time. Having a difficult, interesting project will help alleviate the pressure she must be feeling right now.)
