"Something dragged Yudai into the dark," Atomu said. "We didn't get a good look."
Hazō grunted a laugh. "You're a good man, Gaku." He sighed and took a moment to organize his thoughts. "Lord Hokage from Lord Gōketsu blah blah blah. At around half past today's noon bell, Gōketsu Yūdai experienced a major sealing infusion failure while working on a storage seal derivative. Every infused storage seal he had ever made immediately self-annihilated, along with all matter within a radius of between two inches and six feet. The effect was instantaneous with no lingering effects. Seals that were fully consumed seemed to disappear harmlessly, seals that were partially bisected immediately failed in turn.

"To the best of our knowledge, Yūdai died painlessly and instantly. Most of the casualties were from direct trauma, though more were injured or killed in resulting collapses or fires. Seven of the Gōketsu civilian apartments were destroyed. Two servants in the main building's east wing were killed when that wing collapsed. Cause of death was most likely seal-based traps misfiring as the wing collapsed. The immediate event saw around sixty dead, forty maimed, and forty more injured in a recoverable way. Eighteen, seven, and three of those, respectively, were non-Gōketsu civilians who were on the estate for various reasons.
I didn't realize we had a second Yūdai.
 
Honestly, yeah. That would genuinely be really interesting to see.
It would be fucking terrifying.

Atomu saw "Yudai" get taken, and reported it a messenger. Who presumably did not see this happen. The messenger told Hazou that "Yudai" got taken. Hazou told everyone else the same.

At no point did the messenger, or Hazou, or Yuno, or Noburi, or Kei witness this happen.

If true, this thing is a self-propagating anglerfish capable of ensnaring people from miles away, due solely to word-of-mouth.

This is a VERY BAD thing.
 
It would be fucking terrifying.

Atomu saw "Yudai" get taken, and reported it a messenger. Who presumably did not see this happen. The messenger told Hazou that "Yudai" got taken. Hazou told everyone else the same.

At no point did the messenger, or Hazou, or Yuno, or Noburi, or Kei witness this happen.

If true, this thing is a self-propagating anglerfish capable of ensnaring people from miles away, due solely to word-of-mouth.

This is a VERY BAD thing.
And utterly interesting to see our heros face!
 
It would be fucking terrifying.

Atomu saw "Yudai" get taken, and reported it a messenger. Who presumably did not see this happen. The messenger told Hazou that "Yudai" got taken. Hazou told everyone else the same.

At no point did the messenger, or Hazou, or Yuno, or Noburi, or Kei witness this happen.

If true, this thing is a self-propagating anglerfish capable of ensnaring people from miles away, due solely to word-of-mouth.

This is a VERY BAD thing.
Or it's normal in-universe human error revealing one of word-of-mouth's greatest flaws. That said, let's not take the chance.

[X] Armageddon Initiative
 
It would be fucking terrifying.

Atomu saw "Yudai" get taken, and reported it a messenger. Who presumably did not see this happen. The messenger told Hazou that "Yudai" got taken. Hazou told everyone else the same.

At no point did the messenger, or Hazou, or Yuno, or Noburi, or Kei witness this happen.

If true, this thing is a self-propagating anglerfish capable of ensnaring people from miles away, due solely to word-of-mouth.

This is a VERY BAD thing.
No! This is the BEST thing! Don't you see? Don't you see it? We can use this! Can lure Sasori, Hidan, Oro, the Dragons, the whole Rock contingent, whoever we want, to a place of our choosing! And then rig it to explode, rig it to eat their souls, whatever! Once we can fix their position we've gone most of the way towards killing them!

This is why sealing failures are amazing. Scary for a moment, then a limitless~ deluge~ of opportunities~
 
ASUMA: So you're telling me that there just happened to be an evil cave full of monsters right next to leaf and tunneling toward it, and Hazou's sealing failure happened to reveal it so we could stop it in time?

SHIKAMARU: It would seem that way.

ASUMA: The same guy who came across the Dragon apocalypse right as it was unfolding? And the EM apocalypse before it started unfolding? And the Akatsuki apocalypse right as it was unfolding?

SHIKAMARU: It would seem that way.

ASUMA: I have to say, Hidan might be right. I think this dude's blessed by a god.

SHIKAMARU: ....It would seem that way.
 
evil cave full of monsters
We don't know if they are evil.
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Kagome-sensei was doing research at one of the out facilities, taking his mandated day off after being in the miasma for two hours.
We should check how quickly Yudai got taken after Kagome left. If it was fairly quick, then in the future we really need Kagome's safety procedures and to not enter when he's gone. Although that'll slow investigation to a mere two hours a day.
 
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Here's an idea we may want to try with the bijuu seals. We take sequential drawings of Naruto's bijuu seal, stack them up, and see if it makes a sensible 3D seal. It might be that Minato was trying to tackle the problem of 3D sealing in a roundabout way, using 3D chakra constructs instead of some sort of substrate.

Hazo should be able to reconstruct a 3D model from multiple readings, using earthshaping.
 
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YŪDAI: Hey guys. I'm back.
ATOMU: Oh hey, Yūdai's back!
CAVEHORROR: oh no you don't, they haven't even opened the rift yet, into the dark miasma with you, i stg the shit we put up with, i'm gonna complain to the grue
 
It would be fucking terrifying.

Atomu saw "Yudai" get taken, and reported it a messenger. Who presumably did not see this happen. The messenger told Hazou that "Yudai" got taken. Hazou told everyone else the same.

At no point did the messenger, or Hazou, or Yuno, or Noburi, or Kei witness this happen.

If true, this thing is a self-propagating anglerfish capable of ensnaring people from miles away, due solely to word-of-mouth.

This is a VERY BAD thing.
Hey I wonder what happened to that Quisling Tyrant from Isan?
 
@eaglejarl , @Velorien, @Paperclipped

When Sugiyama/Shinji was first introduced, and the narrative used she/her pronouns. Subsequently, the narrative uses he/him pronouns whenever this person appears on screen.

Is Sugiyama/Shinji transmasc? I will admit some preference for this option for the sake of representation, but I also recognize that it could have been a simple copyediting error.
 
@eaglejarl , @Velorien, @Paperclipped

When Sugiyama/Shinji was first introduced, and the narrative used she/her pronouns. Subsequently, the narrative uses he/him pronouns whenever this person appears on screen.

Is Sugiyama/Shinji transmasc? I will admit some preference for this option for the sake of representation, but I also recognize that it could have been a simple copyediting error.
Sugiyama was short, muscular, with darker skin that Hazō was used to seeing and frizzy hair. His appearance was so unusual that Hazō had to remind himself not to stare
This is the first mention of Shinji in the quest and it uses unambiguous male pronouns. Do you have a source using female pronouns for them?
 
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