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 open voting
Ami being Ami (and Hazou not being a social-spec), I'd almost expect this to end with her inferring his secrets solely based on the fact that he proposed the exchange under these circumstances, without needing to give anything in exchange.
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
- Location
- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Pssh, you people.
Why are you worried about us owing Ami any favors when we can just take Keiko hostage and make Ami do whatever we want?
Threatening people has to work at some point, I'm sure.
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Action Plan: This Is A Good Plan
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Clear everything with Keiko first.
Why are you worried about us owing Ami any favors when we can just take Keiko hostage and make Ami do whatever we want?
Threatening people has to work at some point, I'm sure.
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Action Plan: This Is A Good Plan
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Clear everything with Keiko first.
- Take The Keiko hostage. Deposit her into one of the new safe houses.
- Feed The Keiko as necessary.
- Enter negotiations with Ami regarding Keiko's release. Convince Naruto to loom threateningly behind us while we do so.
- We will go pretty damn far to get what we want.
- If the previous part went well:
- Take a few Rock ninja hostage.
- Clear this with Honoka first.
- Take a few Rock ninja hostage.
- Find an inn.
- Deposit the Rock ninja in the inn.
- Ensure it is a Hyuuga owned inn first.
- Collapse the inn.
- Boast about being the Stone Stone Cold Killers.
- Collapse the inn.
- Ensure it is a Hyuuga owned inn first.
- Deposit the Rock ninja in the inn.
- Ask to meet Hinata.
- Pretense: You have information about the people who collapsed the inn. (Technically correct.)
- We will go pretty damn far for this meeting. Specifically as far as Bear and we invite her to join us there.
- Picnic time: make use of your copious amount of romance skills and seduce her.
- Clear this with Jiraiya's smut novels first.
- Picnic time: make use of your copious amount of romance skills and seduce her.
- We will go pretty damn far for this meeting. Specifically as far as Bear and we invite her to join us there.
- Pretense: You have information about the people who collapsed the inn. (Technically correct.)
- Wonder where you went wrong in life to have done these things.
- Clear this with Kagome first.
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- Location
- Yes.
We've never been "of the Kurosawa" so technically we wouldn't suffer official consequences from doing this...that being said, I still wouldn't do it. Reasons include:
- The Kurosawa Clan will murder Hana for giving away said secrets to us. She was part of the Kurosawa and so is bound by the contract, and her telling us even the limited stuff we know would have major consequences for her if it got out. Which it clearly did.
- Ren is gonna be fuckin' miserable dealing with the hardliners reminding everyone why missing-nin are missing-nin and why the whole alliance is a disaster.
- Our clan is going to be angry with us for giving away clan secrets, however not-as-angry-as-usual since they're technically our personal secrets.
- Everyone in general is going to be less trusting of us since if we were willing to give away our own clan's secrets to a foreigner who knows what we'd do to their secrets. Granted, it's muddled since technically it's between different clans of the same village (Kurosawa and Mori) but it still looks really really bad (see: Mist Drain Incident).
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Looks pretty solid, but I'm worried that the inn owner might be upset at us for breaking their inn. Can I suggest that we whisk Hinata away for a nice date in Bear Country to wrap up the plan?
- Location
- London
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
[X] Action Plan: Voices of the Out
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
- Location
- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Good points all around.
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[x] Action Plan: Continuing an Old Plan
Get the clan's approval first.
Get the clan's approval first.
- Everyone: Iwa's actions are weird. They didn't attack immediately, and are uncharacteristically treating civilians well.
- Is Akatsuki involved? Maybe they obliterated Iwa, and they're trying to ingratiate themselves to Leaf.
- Are they trying to subvert the population? How effective would that be?
- Spend our time helping (and comforting) the current leadership (Asuma, Shikamaru, Chouza). Make ourselves indispensible to them.
- Mari, what can we do to help lighten the burden of their tasks? Especially Asuma/Shikamaru, they must be at the end of their ropes.
- Chouza's probably beside himself with survivor's guilt; he's one of the few surviving Clan Heads. Hazou still may be compromised, but someone else can surely check up on him.
- Give OliWhail carte blanche to write this scene.
- Suggestions for the top brass:
- Investigate the relief party's story.
- Send (airborne) scouts to the border, check what forces are amassing.
- Find their lumber merchant to verify their story.
- Contact Suna. They might have been hit too.
- Leverage Ami, either by demonstrating Mist's already helping or by present a strong Leaf-Mist alliance to deter an attack.
- Instate Asuma as Hokage, demonstrating Leaf's still unified and capable of fighting back.
- Reveal Orochimaru's survival, as an invasion would pit him against Iwa.
- Investigate the relief party's story.
- Ask Mari to subtly prime the leadership into favoring the jutsupool idea, if reasonable.
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Tua
鸡肉面条汤
- Location
- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Do you actually want an answer to that or are you just commenting on things?
Because it's an easy question to answer but it will take away the suspense if you know what happens.
If you don't mind regardless:
Yes, they do. And it is glorious.
The Chuunin Exams.
- Location
- The Void
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yeah Mari is a crap infiltrator.
Edit: @roobee add checking up on snake and I'll vote for your plan
Also [x] Action Plan: OPSEC Breach Cascade
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- Location
- Yes.
I'm not entirely sure how many of the task force there were but given that Mist had ~1300 ninja at the start of the quest I'd imagine that something along the lines of 50-70 ninja were killed. Admittedly, that's a complete guess and isn't anything being put up to scrutiny. You can just as easily argue more people died.
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
hey so here's an ancient callback
- Location
- Yes.
@Oneiros Come to think of it, I can make a better eyeball. The Leaf-Mist-Akatsuki battle had Mist sending 3 S-class and 12 Jonins to fight (what they thought was) Naruto's team: 1 S-rank, 1 Jonin, and 2 Genin-Chunin. That's like 3-4 times the expected ninja force, since you'd want an overwhelming advantage to minimize casualties.
The Swamp of Death, as far as Mist knew, had something along the lines of 30-40 individuals, as several ninja were killed in the trip to the Swamp. Which means they'd send along the lines of 90-160 ninja, and have lost ~30 to 50 ninja (30%).
The Swamp of Death, as far as Mist knew, had something along the lines of 30-40 individuals, as several ninja were killed in the trip to the Swamp. Which means they'd send along the lines of 90-160 ninja, and have lost ~30 to 50 ninja (30%).
- Location
- Yes.
Good point; changed to "make preparations".
- Location
- US
- Pronouns
- He/Him
But... It's her specialty. It's driving me nuts. She would never have made jounin if she was this incompetent at it.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
We eventually just stopped trying. None of us are any good at it; we all have shit stealth as well.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Nah, Mari's fine at it. Just not the "sneak in" kind of infiltration that she's good at. Her specialization is social infiltration.
Things might have gone differently if we'd asked her to, uh, distract Joutarou and his other companion while we infiltrated.