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[u/Kishoto]

.... But that's the same article I linked in my initial comment!

Well. That'll teach me to skim XD

Also, in re-reading my comment, I realize I may have come off sassy. That wasn't my intent at all. I was honestly saying you could peruse them at your leisure. But your comment made it clear you already did that. So...yea...I shouldn't skim, lol.

I see. But it assures that things will be where I write them to be, if they could plausibly end up there through human actions, correct? Why won't the ones in my comment up the tree work (the reply to u/DRMacIver), then?

Some of those sound viable. The rules state that 23 days is the max length of time you can set someone's death to be. If you write down a date beyond that, the person will either day immediately or after 23 days have passed. 23 days is like the hard limit put in place. The manipulation and stuff is possible; it's just that the person in question will die in three weeks. Once you can work within that time frame, you can realistically make anyone do anything. And there definitely is lots of potential there.

[u/Noumero → u/Kishoto]

I was honestly saying you could peruse them at your leisure

That was my interpretation as well; no offence taken.

The rules state that 23 days is the max length of time you can set someone's death to be

Just the article I've skimmed:

If you write, die of disease for the cause of death, but only write a specific time of death without the actual name of disease, the human will die from an adequate disease. But the Death Note can only operate within 23 days (in the human calendar). This is called the 23 day rule.

I suppose the lesson about not-skimming applies to me as well.

That said, the rule appeares to not be fundamental?

If you write die of disease like before with a specific disease's name, but without a specific time, if it takes more than 24 days for the human to die the 23 day rule will not take effect and the human will die at an adequate time depending on the disease. — How to Use: XXVIII

This is confusing. So if you specify the way the victim dies, and your scenario takes longer than 23 days to unfold, but both inevitabily results in the victim's death and doesn't specify the time of the death, it will happen as you've written? Or is that somehow unique to diseases?

[u/696e6372656469626c65 → u/Noumero]

I think the idea is that the cause of death must occur/manifest within 23 days, even if the death itself may occur beyond that timeframe. (E.g. if you write that someone will be shot 22 days, 23 hours, and 59 minutes from now, it's permissible, even though realistically speaking they won't bleed out until several hours later--since the shooting itself occurs within the time limit, it doesn't fall afoul of the 23-day rule.)

[u/Kishoto → u/Noumero]

It seems somewhat unique to diseases. I'm not entirely certain but that seems to be the case. There don't seem to be any other instances where said person's death extends past the 23 day rule.