Nah I don't think it is. I'd cap the bonus at something like +9 or +12. No matter how fast your projectile goes, other factors dominate at those speeds.
Your ability to hit something isn't meaningfully increased by going from 160 m/s to 320 m/s
Nah I don't think it is. I'd cap the bonus at something like +9 or +12. No matter how fast your projectile goes, other factors dominate at those speeds.
Your ability to hit something isn't meaningfully increased by going from 160 m/s to 320 m/s
I feel like it might actually go higher than Weapons: 4. Weapons 4 is guaranteed bruise. I feel like getting hit by a 100 kg weight at all is closer to guaranteed broken bones.
I feel like it might actually go higher than Weapons: 4. Weapons 4 is guaranteed bruise. I feel like getting hit by a 100 kg weight at all is closer to guaranteed broken bones.
I'm half-tempted to create a post like this but have the list blank, leaving new players to worry about what happens to the Gōketsu Clan and/or the concept of birthdays and/or time itself (progressing through this list of possibilities as they learn more about how Hazō and the hivemind work).
I'm half-tempted to create a post like this but have the list blank, leaving new players to worry about what happens to the Gōketsu Clan and/or the concept of birthdays and/or time itself (progressing through this list of possibilities as they learn more about how Hazō and the hivemind work).
I feel like it might actually go higher than Weapons: 4. Weapons 4 is guaranteed bruise. I feel like getting hit by a 100 kg weight at all is closer to guaranteed broken bones.
Light Shift seal Paper seal Desired characteristics: when wrapped around a telescope and activated, shifts light passing through the telescope a little towards violet (sufficient to change red into orange or yellow). Intent being to counter visual camoflauge by disrupting colour patterns...
"Light Switch" is a term well-known amongst the adult ninja community. Mari is willing to sit Hazou down and explain it all to him, but first she wants to know who told him about the term. Hazou wasn't sure, but he thinks the fury in Mari's eyes isn't directed at him.
Cloak of the Wind God 80 would be Weapons: 5 (always round buffs up unless explicitly says round down). A few other random jutsu with a similar "effect/2" type scenario like Fist of the Asura, Vacuum Energy Ball, and Storm Wind would be Weapons: 5 at level 90 but a 90's obviously going to be even rarer than a level 80 COTWG. I think the Fire Specjonin from Neck also had a Weapons: 5 ninjutsu but I can't remember for sure
Cloak of the Wind God 80 would be Weapons: 5 (always round buffs up unless explicitly says round down). A few other random jutsu with a similar "effect/2" type scenario like Fist of the Asura, Vacuum Energy Ball, and Storm Wind would be Weapons: 5 at level 90 but a 90's obviously going to be even rarer than a level 80 COTWG. I think the Fire Specjonin from Neck also had a Weapons: 5 ninjutsu but I can't remember for sure
50 -> 60 at least increases the WR, not horrible if it's half cost (277 xp ignoring supports) but not the move unless RW is already capped or in the high 70s
50 -> 60 at least increases the WR, not horrible if it's half cost (277 xp ignoring supports) but not the move unless RW is already capped or in the high 70s
"Light Switch" is a term well-known amongst the adult ninja community. Mari is willing to sit Hazou down and explain it all to him, but first she wants to know who told him about the term. Hazou wasn't sure, but he thinks the fury in Mari's eyes isn't directed at him.
Recently, Mari asked how difficult it would be to resurrect someone a second time if they happened to die a violent death shortly after returning to the Human Path. It probably has nothing to do with Hazō speculating that he might have heard the term from Jiraiya.
"To be clear, did you mean 'for now'?" Kei asked, suspicion in her tone.
"No, Kei," Hazō said, struggling not to let the laughter out. "That is not what I meant. When I said 'Kei, thank you for your thoughts the other day, I have taken them to heart and the Gōketsu will not be pursuing the Hyena Summoning Scroll further', I meant that the Gōketsu will not be pursuing the Hyena Summoning Scroll further. Not now, not next week, not next month."
"But—"
"Yes, it is true that since becoming a Clan Head I have learned not to make universal statements and I therefore will not rule out the possibility of new information arising that causes me to reevaluate that decision at some point in the distant future, but I currently have no idea what such information might be nor any reason to believe it will arise. Therefore, after careful consideration, in my aforementioned role as Clan Head and supreme dictator of the Clan Gōketsu, I have decided that for the foreseeable future and based on all the information I have at this time and the wise advice of my wisest advisors, which might I add includes yourself, the Gōketsu will not be pursuing acquisition of the Hyena Summoning Scroll."
She seemed nonplussed.
"Seriously?" Hazō asked, the laughter bubbling up in his throat. "You're seriously surprised that I'm taking your advice?"
"Another Summoning Scroll would be of tremendous advantage to the Gōketsu," she said. "I simply thought that—"
"Oh, stop being an idiot," Hazō said with a dismissive wave. "You told me not to do it, you explained why, you were right. You usually are. That's why I talk to you before I do big and important things."
Mari, who had been sitting quietly across the table from Kei, burst out laughing. "He's got you there."
Kei gave her a 'Set You On Fire With My Brain' look, but it was barely half-hearted. More of a 'Warm Your Skin To A Mildly Unpleasant Degree With My Brain' look.
"Moving on," Hazō said. "Noburi told me that Naruto had him refill shadow clones of Ruri and Sasuke."
Silence ruled the table for a moment.
"Well, it was nice while it lasted," Mari said with a sigh.
"You think the secret is definitely out?" Hazō asked.
Mari nodded. "Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long. There's only four parts to our special WHOOSH training method: having access to the Shadow Clone jutsu, recognizing that shadow clones can be used for training, recognizing that resistance to clone shock is a thing that can be trained, and having access to someone who can refill the chakra of a Shadow Clone user. Naruto must have already known the first three parts of that—there's no way he's gotten so strong so young unless he's been using massive numbers of shadow clones to train, which he can do because he's got the chakra reserves of a jinchūriki. Until now he hasn't had access to part four, the chakra transfer bit, so he couldn't let anyone else in on the secret. I'm not sure why he's waited this long."
"I'm not thrilled about losing our competitive advantage," Hazō said. "Isn't this theft of clan secrets?"
Mari snorted. "First, he's the Hokage so what are we supposed to do? Second, none of that is a clan secret. The Shadow Clone jutsu doesn't belong to us, knowing that they can be used for training is already widely known, and knowing that clone shock resistance can be trained is a fairly obvious discovery that anyone would make after pushing themselves a little too hard during training. Anyone who rises high enough to be given the good ol' SC is going to be the kind of person who rides on the edge of overtraining at all times. They'll notice that they're able to handle more and more hours of clone time."
"I agree. This is most definitely not something we can claim as clan secrets."
Hazō sighed and scrubbed his hands through his hair in frustration. "Okay, fine. Anything further to say on the subject?"
Kei shook her head. Mari shrugged helplessly.
"Fine. Moving on. Kei, you mentioned you've been feeling like you lost your edge lately. Have you thought about going back and checking out those caves with the violet shades we saw?"
"The ones where I cannot make effective use of my weapons, my shadow clones, or my summons? The ones that are filled with extremely dangerous monsters that nearly killed us last time?" She paused a beat until Hazō's mouth started to open in panicked self-defense, then smiled. "I have, yes. They would be an excellent opportunity to test out my mastery of the Nara jutsu. Unfortunately, the caverns are empty of anything larger than a vole. The shades are gone."
"Oh. Rats. ...Well, what about a monster hunt? Would that work?"
"It would indeed. As it happens, I had been planning to leave on Tuesday and I wished to ask you for permission to invite Yuno."
"Yuno? I'm sure she would like that. Go for it."
"Thank you. Now, unless you have anything else...? No? Excellent. There were a few matters I wished to bring to your attention relating to interactions of the Gōketsu and the Nara clans. The first is a disciplinary offense..."
'A few matters' stretched to encompass the rest of a three-hour meeting, throughout which Mari remained mostly silent. Only after Kei had been walked to the door and waved on her way did she take him by the arm and lead him back to the secure meeting room. No sooner were all the privacy seals activated than she turned to Hazō, her purple eyes intense.
"If you're going missing and you want to bring Noburi, you need to go now," she said. "You were planning to do some sort of long-term mission that we simply don't come back from, right? Take the team, go off on a scroll hunt or something that would logically take a couple months so that people don't start looking for us right away. Once Naruto sees how much faster Noburi is letting Leaf's jōnin train, and how fast the chūnin will be turning into desperately-needed jōnin, he is never going to let Noburi go off on a long-term mission. He can't...well, he won't force Noburi to be a water slave, chained to a desk and doing nothing but moving chakra around all day, but he's definitely not going to want him out of town for long stretches."
"You just said he won't stop us."
"I said he won't chain Noburi to a desk. Naruto will use every tool at his disposal to make Noburi sit at that desk voluntarily, and he's got the tools. Fat stacks of coin, honors, public praise, maybe jutsu for the clan. We'll get the best teachers available for our younglings, our projects will get approved for Tower resources unless they're completely insane. Probably more, but that makes the point. But only as long as Noburi is on the home front doing this."
"Damnit."
"Yeah. That was the plan, right? Take the family on a long term mission, then bounce so that you can keep doing rift research?"
"Mari, I'm shocked that you would ask such a thing. I am, as you know, a loyal ninja of Leaf and would never consider going missing. Although yes, taking the whole family on a long-term mission so that we could spend some time together away from the pressures of the city does sound nice."
"Right. Good answer."
Author's Note: I'm tired and not feeling it, so I'll summarize the rest:
With Cannai's approval, you spoke to the Toad Sages. They have no problem with the Horizon Chasers coming to Toad, although they aren't going to host them per se. Basically they'll arrange for their visas (to the extent that such things are things, on which subject no comment), housing, etc, but they aren't going to have the dogs sleeping in the guest room
The Horizon Chasers agree that getting out of Pangolin is a good plan and they're on their way to Toad. They don't need an escort
You talked to Cantahapuyu. She's willing to try teaching a human technique hacking but she's not optimistic after Hazō's failure at learning the jutsu she had explicitly adapted for humans
You did all the research. We'll get you details later
Great Seal:
Now that he has his wits about him, Hazō will again do a prep day to try to figure out what's going on with the Great Seal:
Hazō (Primordial Sealing): 11 + 25 (cross-disciplinary bonus from Sealing) - 6 = 30
He still can't quite wrap his head around it. The Great Seal is just too complex for him to understand.
Done! Unfortunately, this seal doesn't achieve the intended benefit of making it easier to see camouflaged enemies, as it only outputs a single color of light in the same way as the other Lantern-derived seals.
Setting aside one point early in the project where he really took it easy with his seal scribing and barely caught a potentially-dangerous error, Hazō finds the Substitution seal to be an entertaining puzzle – somewhat challenging but not too strenuous to work on. He thinks he'll be done in one or two more days of research at this pace.
Hazō thinks he's very close to getting this seal finished up.
Reusable Rocket Boots:
[This is @Paperclipped's comment]
The plan says to invoke as much as possible. In the past, we've occasionally granted Aspects like "Team Uplift" and "Lord of Clan Gōketsu" on sealing research, but I think this was rather generous – Hazō's sealing-related Aspect is "Out-Touched Sealing Genius", and these other ones really are meant to fill other roles (LoCG representing his social position, primarily for social-combat reasons, and Team Uplift… I'm not exactly sure).
I'm increasingly inclined to be very stingy about granting Aspects for sealing research (particularly as a result of trying to model other top-end researchers like Orochimaru and Sasori, and wanting their highest-achievable-sealing-rolls to be reasonably low), so I do not expect that I would grant these Aspects in the future. Still, the players didn't know this before the plan and Hazō is flush with justly-earned FP, so I'll grant "Team Uplift" while Hazō is working on RRBs (since Hazō's primary motivation with this seal is to keep TU safe if/when he goes missing). Just be aware of this for the future.
Hazō (Calligraphy): 47 + 3 (IN) + 12 (prep) + 3 (Dampeners) + 3 = 68
Hazō (Sealing): 51 + 24 (SSA) + 16 (prep) + 8 (Invoke "Out-Touched Sealing Genius") + 8 (Invoke "Team Uplift") + ? (Kazushi's assistance) - 6 = 101 + ? Hazōpilot would probably reroll here, for progress rather than safety, but the plan overrides him.
Kazushi is well out of his league here, but he's still helping! Together, they make pretty substantial progress on RRBs. Hazō thinks he's about a third of the way done.
XP AWARD: 32 XP This update covered 10 days.
Brevity XP: 10
"GM had fun" XP: 0 Nothing terribly exciting in here, but maybe that's just me being low-energy. The Toad Sages could probably have been fun.
