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If ever I happen to disappear, it's my own issues at play.

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I think I'm in a roughly equivalent climate to Madam Hatter, actually. Jumped from 10C/50F to 32C/90F here a couple weeks ago and it was a fucking nightmare, but has calmed now. For comparison, it was -29C/-20F a couple times in this past winter. At least swimming will be plausible soon.
I'll have my post up sometime today if I don't die in this heat.


Yeah, I did die. It was pretty nasty, blood everywhere, severed body parts in the whole neighbourhood, women screaming, children crying... You know the drill.


You have a very different sort of heat than we do, I gather. Ours does not typically cause limbs to detach.
Masakazu looked at the kunoichi when adressed by her, and considered the sealing request, completely failing to note her uncertainty. It struck him that this would have been much easier if she'd asked him really any time before now. Then again, Masa couldn't remember her name, so he couldn't fault her for such a lapse.

It wasn't until after creating a mental list of books, scrolls, and notes he could consult, that Masakazu realized he was going to attempt this job for his compatriot. He wondered if the fact he was a hormonal teen and a young woman was asking for a favor mattered, and decided it probably did. Regardless, the problem-solving ritual of sealing flowers would help keep his mind off their upcoming treason, and the fact he was about to leave his home for a potentially indefinite period.

When the kunoichi finished speaking, Masa considered answering her, but he wanted to hear what Kajiya had to say, being the only person around with any fuuinjutsu knowledge. After that, the youngest conspirator shouted rather more loudly than the room they were in allowed for. Masa looked dubiously at him, openly letting his expression question the proposition of this person employing subtlety in a take-down.

Finally, Masa had the opportunity to politely speak to the young woman. "I can try. But I can't make any promises about the quality of the seals, or of the amount we have time to-"

A knock upstairs interrupted them, and Masa's arms instinctually crossed, hands entering opposite sleeves and contacting scrolls there. While the genjutsu ninja - Masa really would have to learn these people's names, he supposed - made his way upstairs, Masa addressed the group.

"I'm a terrible liar." he said, bluntly, trying to pitch his voice low to keep quiet.
I appear to be a somewhat more sane me. Hopefully I can be of use.
A roomful of people trained to murder, and he was one of them. This was not novel for Masakazu, and rarely occurred to him as noteworthy. Gathered in a basement about to commit treason though, he was struck by the potential damage a double-agent of their sort could commit.

Still, a traitor now would be preferable to failure in their escape. The consequences of their plotting wouldn't prevent Masakazu from thinking - from theorizing. Indeed, Gobi might allow him to continue designing seals for them, though not likely testing them. Being captured after betraying a Hidden Village though.... Well, it would probably be best not to let that happen.

Masa realized the conversation had moved to his sphere.

"Food and water have been sealed into scrolls that aren't too cumbersome. Almost a week, assuming one scroll per person. The food lasts longer when sealed. I will carry them to the gate, unless someone objects. I am seen carrying similar scrolls semi-regularly."

Masakazu scanned the room while awaiting responses. It wouldn't provide him much information, given his lack of people-reading skills, but the attempt felt useful, which staved back-stabbing paranoia.

"I have many maps", he added, with less interest.
Haven't been feeling great. Taking effort to create anything. Sorry for delays
@Halvtand I don't think it would hurt.
No more 'wait to post'? Not entirely sure what to have Masa do with his free hour, but I will think on it.

Not enough sleep lately, due to three kittens. Starts to add up after a couple weeks.
@The Mad Hatter Oho! Congratulations.

@Hillan Shame. Hope all goes well.
The idea of text moving of its own accord was tempting enough to almost make Masakazu suspend disbelief in favor of the genjutsu. But he had never been a fan of genjutsu; the art of making one's senses lie. He decided the obviousness of the false perception made it tolerable.

Masa considered the problem posed to him, not responding to what his senior conspirator was saying for a while.

"The girl knows poisons, doesn't she?" Masakazu asked, eventually. He had forgotten her name. "Have her make something non-lethal; something to distract or incapacitate for long enough they don't notice us leave. Find a way to make the tower guard or both consume it. Laced dart or arrow? Henge? Or we could try convincing them they fell asleep and their shift is ending. That would be more a trick for you though. Hard to genjutsu both."

Masa didn't bother pointing out he wasn't much use with this sort of subterfuge. Or most sorts. It was a large part of why he'd taken up cryptography. But he suspected one-time pads wouldn't be much use to their party any time soon, and this genjutsu nin and the girl would be their strongest in stealth for a while.

Absently, he wondered whether the gender ratio would upset their group's coordination. Masakazu had never been a follower of the teen romantic dramas that developed in school, but he did not hold out much hope that adults were any more mature about it.

The annoyance of the genjutsu kept Masa from losing track of the conversation, despite his mental wandering.
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