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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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What's the deal with Snake btw? As far as I remember we met her once and offering her adoption seems really random?

Are there no better/more known candidates?

Kiba said:
1 of them should be the brevity bonus?
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Brevity and Bravery bonus for dealing with Ami.
 
[x] Action Plan : Eldritch Perception 101

Hi Hazou, we're one of the otherworldly entities influencing you. 🤗 Presumably through the Out, but we're not quite sure how that works ourselves.

Regardless, we've been with you since the swamp and have been augmenting 🧠 your planning ability though those moments of insight you get. You're welcome. 😁

The newer, post-summoning scroll incidents (visions, disassociation, etc..) are not from us, though we were the ones who prompted you to try and memorize the scroll.

Also yeah, some of the stupid stuff you've done is our fault. Sorry about that. 😓 We see you and your world through small snapshots of incidents in your life. 🔭 This leaves out a lot of the cultural context, minor details, and laws that you consider common knowledge. 💫

All of which brings us to the point. Over time we've been slowly ceding more and more control over your actions to you.🏃 In the beginning you were following our suggestions word for word, 🗣 and small errors in wording caused things like the killbox incident. 😵 After that we agreed to allow you to overrule and tweak our suggestions if you thought it best.

With various mistakes on our part, latest of which was the miscalculated bluff we proposed to Naruto, we have been giving you more and more leeway in your actions. 🎭

Now that you've finally gotten enough context to understand who we are, we can reveal our existence to you more directly. 💩 We still hope our ideas are useful, 💭 and that you can come to trust us enough to not get caught in cycles of doubt in critical situations. Especially combat, we're pretty good at that. ⚔💣

Ideally instead of being your occasionally incompetent puppet masters, 🔥 we can start being your extra-universal support network and think tank. 🛠🗃💌

With love, ❤
The Hive-Mind

(@QMs: I'd really like to see a non-canon omake based around this.)
 
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[Χ] Message From the Other World

Hazou,

The real one was not among them. Trust Kagome.

-Jiraiya

P.S. Get me out of here!
 
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[x] Action Plan : Eldritch Perception 101

Edit: adding
[x] thank Keiko for being best!sister. We don't actually give her positive feedback unprompted very much.
for good measure
 
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Uh. Why the heck are people voting for a joke plan?

Roomba said:
I think this is the most useful kind of QM feedback. Nobody wants to actually do accounting to participate in the quest (well, some degenerates wanted to write an actual research proposal, so it's possible in principle, I suppose), and this kind of broad rule should be enough as long as we don't try to game it. Which we won't. You just need to let us know when whatever we're doing is close to crossing the line, and I think we'll all be happy.
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This is my kind of thing, actually.
 
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Shadowwarp said:
Wasn't there an omake where Hazo meets the hivemind way back when?
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Multiple, including a canon example when Oli ascended.

But I think the context and style of this one is different enough to be interesting. I just don't feel like I can do Hazou's inner monologue justice here.

I'm just very used to not being in control of my mind while being very aware that I'm not in control of my mind. It's more annoying than existentially horrifying these days.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by eaglejarl on Dec 7, 2019 at 12:48 PM, finished with 130 posts and 21 votes.
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While you're around (hopefully) @OliWhail, still planning to write that bit with Chouza? I'm looking forward to it, whenever you get the chance!
 
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