Cariyaga
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Just be careful not to speak for Keiko, especially regarding the Pangolin.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rationalist romance armageddon is looking better and better damn you kishimoto explosions everywhere explosives solve everyone if in doubt surrender to the mercy of zabuza it seemed like a good idea at the time looks like a really bad case of being a jōnin my god. where does the lore end? precommitting is the winning plan screaming in kagome screw the rules i have explosives something bad might still happen sometimes you gotta sociopath stabby zabby subsection c of paragraph 9 should include we can weaponize this so hard
TaliesinSkye
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Hey everybody, can we use this to use shadow clone earlier than would otherwise be possible?
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No. That would require enormously overloading your chakra coils, which would kill you.
TaliesinSkye
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So you can't use a technique by feeding chakra into it more slowly than you normally would and having a Wakahisa slowly refill you at the same time, enabling you to put more into a technique than you can actually contain in your coils at one time?
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Thanks a bunch! I think 'your old team' is sufficiently clear as a suggestion, but if you want Orochimaru explicitly mentioned I still think there's room to improve that section.
Apart from whether or not Tsunade or Orochimaru are explicitly mentioned, this section as it currently is is kind of stating the obvious to Jiraiya in a few places and is structured a bit oddly in others. I'd recommend a different variant on the suggestion I made earlier:
- Itachi apparently fought the clan solo, but it's probably a good idea to bring backup.
- We don't know many summoners, but this may be worth contacting Tsunade and Orochimaru.
- We can already guess that you're in touch with him, after that board game he sent.
- Keiko's probably not strong enough to help out, but she could send a message through the Pangolins.
- We don't know many summoners, but this may be worth contacting Tsunade and Orochimaru.
[X] Action plan: Operation Murder
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Emstar
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Why would you be able to do that in the first place?
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Edits added to the plan
TaliesinSkye
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I'm not totally sure what you're asking.
The thinking is that chakra manipulations aren't instantaneous, techniques take some amount of time to channel the chakra outside of ones' body and form it into the right shape. By deliberately going a bit slow in forming a technique you could create time to absorb more chakra as you spend it, allowing you to put more chakra into a technique than you can actually hold at one time. Theoretically. If there's some reason in this world's physics that it doesn't work that I'm not aware of that's fine, but it seems promising.
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Well, here're our Uplift-tour, family reconciliation and voyage to Hidden Mountain, going south and waving their imaginary hands.
Also, it seems @Velorien is ready to do almost anything to not reveal that Akane is dead.
Also also,
[X] Action plan: Operation Murder
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Emstar
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Besides this seeming like a pretty delicate and potentially lethal balancing act to test out...
Well, for one, we dont even know the magic obeys physics in that manner. For all we know the all powerful AI in the sun manages everything behind the scenes with the power of quantum nanomachines (or equivalent technobabble) and that "chakra" is really just a nickname for the amount of permissions it grants to certain users, which gets increased if they do specific things.
Or something equally inscrutable.
There are techniques that can be slowcast for less chakra expenditure. If Shadow Clone was one of them and the discount was large enough to be substantial, I would expect that the world would look a bit different than it does. Leaf doesnt appear to have all that many shadow clone users though.
We could test it on techniques we have, but I would bet 50$ on the outcome being "Nope, sorry hoss."
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Wait, hold on:
I'd recommend instead frankly asking Ami if she intended this when she brought Yukino here, with implied subtext that we'll be very upset if she did.
I personally don't think that Ami planned for anything like this outcome. She's got every reason to not irrevocably sour Leaf-Mist relations and I really doubt she'd be confident enough in her estimation of how we'd use our favour to wager her continued ability to be in contact with Keiko. Further, this is a very aggressive move and we should at least try to keep things cordial.
I'd recommend instead frankly asking Ami if she intended this when she brought Yukino here, with implied subtext that we'll be very upset if she did.
This update has me smiling.
I now predict the zabuza + gaara interrupt to be a prank made by ami, to whom zabuza obviously owes favours and who is also on it for the schadenfreude. Meanwhile, akatsuki have freed the tailed beasts from their mortal jailers in exchange for help on the colonization of a different planet.
Or something completely different, which is why I enjoy this thread so.
Thanks.
I now predict the zabuza + gaara interrupt to be a prank made by ami, to whom zabuza obviously owes favours and who is also on it for the schadenfreude. Meanwhile, akatsuki have freed the tailed beasts from their mortal jailers in exchange for help on the colonization of a different planet.
Or something completely different, which is why I enjoy this thread so.
Thanks.
TaliesinSkye
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Why are we even calling it Operation Murder? We aren't even murdering anyone yet. (And we certainly aren't murdering anyone by operating on them, because Tsunade isn't here.)
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Because it's a plan about going into the summon realm and beating up a bunch of crows.
Cariyaga
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TaliesinSkye
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Agreed that it may or may not be possible, that's why I'm asking. I wasn't aware of the techniques that can be slowcast for efficiency gains thing, that's interesting. If this works it would be helpful with all techniques of course, not just those.
*facepalm* Ah yes, of course. Silly of me.
Emstar
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I dont put any stock into this "Exactly as Ami planned." thing. If this was true, the correct response is to just give up and lighthouse until the infusion failures kill us or we have enough sealing bullshit to crack the planet in half, and then kill her and any genius-level intelligence bloodline user we suspect may have ill intentions.
TaliesinSkye
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She could have intended to provoke Zabuza without knowing exactly what he would do. I think that's my guess.
In any case, don't be so ready to give up. It's not like there aren't counters to analysis powers, not the least of which are people on your side who also have them.
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Maybe something like:
- Pangolin want to exploit the internal tension (Ask Keiko)
Emstar
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I would put way more stock into "Doing it for the lulz, but didnt know about Battle of the Gods."
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Edited the Ami section to make it less confrontational
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I don't like that phrasing. Normally I wouldn't nit-pick something that small, but it implies that we have a choice, and it's important to remember that we are under Jiraya's chain of command. I'd say we're "ready to scribe any seals [...]" instead. Phrasing like that has caused issues in the past.
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