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Sasuke summons demon Cam
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Orochimaru is making Sasuke do his dirty work again. At least this time it only involves painstakingly drawing out a seal large enough to fit a person on a smoothed surface prepared specifically for this, rather than any wet-work. Sealing is dangerous if he puts a single stroke wrong, of course, but it's unlikely to lead to him being disciplined by his 'teacher.' Intentionally sabotaging it to spare Orochimaru's next victim wouldn't work here, after all.

He finishes the last stroke on the inner circle, sharingan active to make sure it's precise enough. 

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"Haven't established that you don't need to be from this planet or part alien or something to do chakra stuff. - Oh, the sage of six paths was half-alien, it's a thing."

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"I'm probably going to have a reaction to that when I'm awake."

"There's some basic chakra exercises that're easy to teach. And I think all of our zombies were ever teachers."

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"Maybe I should hit them up for lessons."

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She hums a bit sleepily.

Heading back to the base? (Looks like Sasuke's already stalking off, and she should follow him to make sure he doesn't fall over.)

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Cam flies, keeping pace with them in case he's needed.

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Doesn't seem to be.

Karin goes straight back to her apartment, presumably to go back to sleep.

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Sasuke does pause outside the base, glancing over at Cam.

"...Thanks."

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"You're welcome. Let me know if you need anything."

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"Might need some more information on Orochimaru at some point, though there's a trade-off between speed and preparedness."

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Nod.

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He heads inside to track down Minato. Minato seems easiest for him to handle right now, and, well, he'll need the man's speed if he wants to dart from Orochimaru to Itachi.

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Cam sits up in the atrium, on his computer, adding to the character encoding and reading by turns.

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Tobirama's the first to come find him, some time later. 

"I was wondering if you have a way for two people at a distance to communicate without chakra," he comments once he has Cam's attention.

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"Yes. I'd need to put some satellites in orbit or something since there's no infrastructure planetside, but it's doable on tech alone."

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"It'd be useful for us to be able to communicate, without relying on chakra flares or any sort of relay. I'd also like to test if illusions can transmit over technological channels. If not, sending me with something would be safer to speak to Itachi - while Sasuke's concern over subversion is valid, I have fought many Uchiha before, and it is unlikely I could be subverted enough Sasuke could not dismiss me."

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"You can check technological channels' compatibility with illusion with a local connection. Here, have a computer." Cam hands him a computer.

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He takes it and immediately starts fiddling with it. He seems fast on the uptake for how it works.

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Once he's figured it out they can set up a video call.

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And: 

Illusions do not, in fact, transmit over video nor audio. 

(Tobirama is separately fascinated by the camera.)

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"That's convenient except insofar as they're valuable visual aids," remarks Cam.

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"There's a few that are technically ninjutsu..."

He changes the structure of his face and the color of his hair, then back. This one does work over video. 

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"Yeah, that one I can see."

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"I'm not too surprised. It's a solid construct, like the shadow clones. More chakra-intensive and generally harder work than genjutsu, but superior here and in a few other uses. It does mean we cannot simply point cameras at people to ensure they have not disguised themselves, though."

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"Alas. I can do identity verification but it's annoying."

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"Uzumaki Karin and I, and Uzumaki Mito if we return her as well, should all be difficult to fool, at least."

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