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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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faflec said:
Also partially-related thought: It might be a good idea to work with eyes on, as in we should have another ally in proximity to us when we do social interaction in case things go pear-shaped (e.g., Downfall shows up and tries to KO Hazou again).
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Was about to mention this. @Cariyaga - this was put in the last plan, but never got implemented due to things going so bad:

Use the buddy system. Always have a buddy, never be alone and potentially defenseless.


Cariyaga said:
Why does it require we henge into proctors?
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At this point who is and isn't a proctor will be pretty much known. Also, proctors are supposed to prove they're not henge'd when they call someone to a break room.

I'll also note this is a known trick at this point. Someone tried it on us, so it's likely been tried on several others.
 
Enjou said:
At this point who is and isn't a proctor will be pretty much known. Also, proctors are supposed to prove they're not henge'd when they call someone to a break room.

I'll also note this is a known trick at this point. Someone tried it on us, so it's likely been tried on several others.
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To be fair...we're supposed to be doing this on drunk ninjas. Who may not be the best at recalling such things.
 
Ugh. I kind of feel like we should just be boring and go with nothing but the "pick out people by sweating" tactic. I just want this over :p
Enjou said:
Was about to mention this. @Cariyaga - this was put in the last plan, but never got implemented due to things going so bad:

Use the buddy system. Always have a buddy, never be alone and potentially defenseless.




At this point who is and isn't a proctor will be pretty much known. Also, proctors are supposed to prove they're not henge'd when they call someone to a break room.

I'll also note this is a known trick at this point. Someone tried it on us, so it's likely been tried on several others.
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Fair points. I'll adjust it once there's been a little more discussion if no good counterpoints are made.
 
[X] Action Plan: No Half Baked Ideas

Goals: Get the majority of the people here drunk without getting caught. Reduce the non-Leaf high ranking teams point scores. Get lots of points for Team Uplift.

Means:
  1. Use the Tipserator to get a bunch of ninja drunk. Don't get caught.
    • Hazou will use Hiding Like a Mole to move under the porch near where the people are gathered, toward the back so he doesn't get caught, followed by using the tipserator
      • Do not release Hiding Like a Mole: Instead, immediately sink back underground the moment the tipserator goes off, taking the tipserator with Hazou.
      • This should also make the tipserator look less like a cone.
    • While this is going on, Hazou is to wear a grey cloth over his face as camouflage against the darkness under the porch, keeping his eyes as close to closed as he can. Remove this before returning to STL.
  2. Return to Super Team Leaf.
    • Return to the marquee from underground. Hazou emerges at a well-concealed location (using an FP if necessary for there to be one) partially as-before to check that STL is by themselves, before returning to them underground to rejoin them.
    • Find out the results of the operation
      • Assumedly, Hinata is taking a peek to ascertain who won the bets made.
    • Suggest that the teams cooperate by sharing names of high scoring non-Leaf teams by sharing information. Targets of particular interest are Team Downfall, Team Mugiwara, those that Hazou gave intel on from the Oyabun before, and any other team that other members of STL want dealt with.
      • Hazou suggests sharing those particular teams' names with any cliques that have formed. He has one in mind.
        • This information will, of course, be bartered with the cliques and shared back with STL given opportunity.
    • Express a general willingness to work together with the other teams to maximize point gain for STL. The better Leaf does in general, the more powerful Leaf appears.
  3. End the update after we returned from deploying tipserator. We don't have time to sort out half baked ideas IRL in time for Wednesday.
 
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@Cariyaga

I believe we should definitely use the buddy system!! As soon as we return we should instigate it.

I think to better delineate things in the last part you should put the

-in case of nuke; Throw posters everywhere (BONKU)
- Matchmaking game

Both as the last bulletpoints in that plan, for clarity .

In addition if you tack on a "in case we have literally no other ideas left to capitalize on" on the matchmaking one. Once we make that clear and do the edits mentioned by @faflec I think I am A okay on this plan


Edit: @Kiba in what way are those ideas half-baked once we edit in the aforementioned details?
 
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Kiba said:
Someone noticed the same set of people are using Bonku and identified us as ninja and used Bonku as patsby,
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We don't use Bonku there except in the nuclear option , which is only to take place if someone else in the event tries to information bomb.

So I don't see what your argument is


@Cariyaga If it's just us three have Nobs tail the two of us discretely while we do the proctor thing.

Otherwise "Try not to be anywhere alone except in a break room." Suffices I think.
 
Cariyaga said:
How do you propose we use the buddy system when there's three members in the team?
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I'm thinking of a semi-buddy system: Everyone is doing their own thing, but they should be doing so while also being within earshot of each other or something. That way each of the three of us should have the ability to react if something happens to their teammates.
 
faflec said:
I'm thinking of a semi-buddy system: Everyone is doing their own thing, but they should be doing so while also being within earshot of each other or something. That way each of the three of us should have the ability to react if something happens to their teammates.
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@Cariyaga (sorry for all the tags)

This works better than what I said!
 
Roomba said:
How long do we want this update to last? Are we ok if ends with the event itself? If not, we should indicate that in the plans.



When looking at these strategies, I ask myself "If someone else did this, how would we react?". In this case, I think we'd join in and submit intentionally confusing garbage information. The organizers of the auction are obviously fishing for info, but they have no good way of distinguishing truth from lies if a large fraction of participants do this.

Honestly, I'd be inclined to try and convince Shikamaru to run the auction. As an info broker, he's already known to be a ninja, and his presence would lend it legitimacy that it desperately needs. Bonku is an unknown that is likely to fuck everything up in some unforeseen way.

The primary problem, is that there's no valid reason for anyone to be holding such an auction as anything other than a trap. I don't really know how to solve this, unfortunately.
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You have to remember that not everyone is as paranoid or as cautious as we are. Someone in pre-event 1 fell for the "What is your word?" trick. If we got one or two dozen fake participants I think it would've lended a lot of credibility. The viability of pulling this off probably died as soon as Hazou was knocked unconscious though.

The real irony is that to make it more legit I was going to add that they immediately burnt the bids after they were read but that Team Uplift would be up in the rafters or trees spying down with binoculars/a telescope.

I caught myself before putting that in because I remember the lack of telescopes being such a fucking meme in this quest. :)
 
Completely irrelevant side note: We should get Kagome something as a post-birthday gift, since we'll probably be in Mist until after December 18. I mean, it's November 13, the Fourth Event ends at sunset today, there'll be another Event (god knows how long that'll take), then we get a month, then we get the tournament. And then we have to go back home.

Hm. In canon, Gaara's team was allowed to go back home to Suna during this time, but I'm not sure that's the case here.
 
faflec said:
Hm. In canon, Gaara's team was allowed to go back home to Suna during this time, but I'm not sure that's the case here.
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Canon travel times are stupid.

We should make him something really nice, after our seal research is done, while we're recovering from being bruised by Gai, Lee and Neji all morning and afternoon.
 
faflec said:
Meh, more like ninja travel times. It took us like something over two days to get from Konoha to Mist, and based on the map going from Suna to Konoha isn't that different.
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I would rather spend those four (in total) days training if possible tbh.
 
MMKII said:
I would rather spend those four (in total) days training if possible tbh.
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There may be an argument in favor of going to Leaf to avoid getting spied on as we do seal research, but yeah. It's a trade off between making Kagome happy and being (relatively) stronger for the tournament.

That being said, I'd still spend those four days for Kagome.
 
faflec said:
There may be an argument in favor of going to Leaf to avoid getting spied on as we do seal research, but yeah. It's a trade off between making Kagome happy and being (relatively) stronger for the tournament.

That being said, I'd still spend those four days for Kagome.
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Dipping out of Mist will cut into precious politicking time. Bad idea.
 
faflec said:
There may be an argument in favor of going to Leaf to avoid getting spied on as we do seal research, but yeah. It's a trade off between making Kagome happy and being (relatively) stronger for the tournament.

That being said, I'd still spend those four days for Kagome.
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I suspect we're going to spend our seal research time on basic seals rather than dreaming up new ones, and training with Team Gai for combat.

Besides, the really basic seal like party trick seals has proved immensely useful to us.
 
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