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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Velorien said:
"The Akane thing was the biggest. Hazō, if it does happen, and it might, then you'll be hearing from her first, not me, and in that moment she will need total, absolute support and reassurance. If you just stand there looking stunned the way you did, if you flail or panic, that could hurt her in all sorts of real and lasting ways. That reaction's out of the way now, and you've had time to think and prepare. [...] Same with refusing to leave. It was a situation you were going to run into sooner or later, with the kind of enemies you love making, and you handled it well, in the end. When an actual hostile jōnin tests your authority, you're going to be a lot more ready. [...] Also, it made you angry enough to guarantee you'd train with Snowflake instead of being able to go back to work. And just generally, it told me a lot of important things I needed to know about you."
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Ha, I called all of those!
Noumero said:
Ami said:
"Tell you what, how about I make it up to you with some amezaiku from my secret stash of Mist sweets? One for every reason that I did that, if you can guess them."
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I would guess that these are:
  • To inform him about her plans.
  • To entertain herself by tricking Hazou.
  • To prime him for the incoming Snowflake interaction, either for a complex and specific reason like Lailoken is suggesting, or just to ensure he accepts her offer to spar.
  • (highly speculative) To nudge him onto particular train of thoughts regarding Akane and his relationship with her.
  • To deliberately put Hazou into a social situation in which someone makes a shocking claim to put him off-balance, to improve-by-practice his ability to deal with those things and recognize when those statements are false.
  • To deliberately put Hazou in a crisis situation where he is offended and defied to his face by someone powerful, in order to...
    • ... improve-by-practice his ability to deal with those things, and...
    • ... see how he would react, to improve her own model of him.
  • To establish by precedent that, allies or not, Hazou has no real control over her, either emotional or authority-based, and that she would and could defy him whenever she wants.
    • Naturally, stems from her control issues.
  • To improve Hazou's own mental model of her behaviour.
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Even the "(highly speculative)" bit was right! I want my candy. Can we spend a FP on having written this list up, so Hazou can take it out of his pocket right now and demand payment?
 
Idea for communicating to Ami we can still play games. Bread with jam/paste/meat and stuff is a thing in Leaf, right? Probably has enough farmable land to make it a thing, whereas I doubt Mist does.

We send Ami a bread with tuna meat and eel sauce (or something suitably Mist via Hazou-pilot), with a letter (that says something to the effect of "you're invited to a dinner at the Jaybird with me"), written in red ink, in a black envelope.

Mist + Leaf bread means that "we can still be ourselves, even if we're in Leaf. The game doesn't have to stop." The personal letter signifies wrongdoing on our part, but the red ink expresses repentance. The overall gesture is an invitation to play.
 
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Noumero said:
Ha, I called all of those!

Even the "(highly speculative)" bit was right! I want my candy. Can we spend a FP on having written this list up, so Hazou can take it out of his pocket right now and demand payment?
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You scare me almost as much as @faflec. May I nominate you as my proxy in the Supreme Thread Commander role?


MMKII said:
Rez Jiraiya, laugh our way to the bank.
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It occurs to me that at can get most of the gains by simply convincing, or at least convincing to go along with, a few key people that he has besn resurrected...
 
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[X] Action Plan: Operation Plot Hook Mambo Number Five Rooty Tooty Spaghooti and Meatballs With a Side of Sealing and A Nice Chianti (In Which We Summon Reanu Keeves).

MMKII said:
Drop off three Shadow Clones at the Nara Public Library, have them quickly catalogue a list of potential books related to the Sage and/or Cannai's poem, in list form.
  • Have the third investigate known areas of super dense natural chakra — similar to the Forest of Death, Swamp of Death, the Cave near Todoroki, etc. Compile findings.
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I assume we don't have a high enough SC level for the clone to visit these places, so we might want to specify that the clone is asking around or looking up books about the places.

Lailoken said:
You assume that this is not Asuma's doing. Hokage or not, he may need a reminder of the importance of which paw he bites.
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I'm not sure how Asuma would benefit from Leaf taking in less money though. Surely more money being collected by Leaf's clans from an outside source would at least be neutral for him, probably a good thing?
 
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Sentient Tree said:
I assume we don't have a high enough SC level for the clone to visit these places, so we might want to specify that the clone is asking around or looking up books about the places.
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Oops thought it would be implicit in the context its consulting the library for this

E: fixed
 
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[X] Action Plan: EJ Picks, Yes This Is A Real Plan.
  • EJ writes whatever he wants.
    • If the plan he chooses to write is dumb, something we wouldn't want to do, or something of the sort, we can vote to declare it an omake (2/3 majority to do so?).
      • We can do so only if the plan/decision-making is bad, not if we get a bad roll or some such.
        • Honor code, be honest.
  • This keeps it fun-to-write for the authors, as they can either choose the plan/scenes they want to write most and do them or, just, with the knowledge that it is to become an omake, write literally whatever they want (within the boundaries of relevance?).
  • "They deserve it" may literally be the biggest understatement I've made in 2020.
Thoughts? Any clauses that should be added to secure votes?
 
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[X] Action Plan: Doggy Style
Word Count: 297
  • 7th Path
    • Canvass
      • We are still investigating your ancestor's missing dog group. Could you give us their history to better help find them?
        • How long ago was this? What breed were the dogs? How many dogs were there? What region of the Human path? Any information helps greatly.
      • We may or may not need to do this, but would you be willing to let us summon you one extra time so that you may speak with an Inuzaka directly? They are the experts and it would assure less information is lost in transit
    • Canun and Cannai
      • Meet with Cannai and your summons
        • There is a new member of our pack with injured fingers, Atomu
          • As you know, humans need fingers to cast most of their ninjutsu. We are concerned this affects both his career and his own self-image
          • If we don't deserve to know yet, we understand, but for his sake we ask:
            • Ninjutsu experts, the dogs cast their ninjutsu without making Human handsigns. Is this something a Human could theoretically learn?
              • If it is, is it something you would be willing to share with Atomu? He may not pursue it, but we would like to be able to give him a chance to try
        • Ask about nearby packs and where they are, and if their Summoner has something to offer to their communities
        • When's the next Taleswap? Are we welcome to attend?
  • Misc
    • Begin research on Strobelight Seals
    • Explain Canvass quest to Gaku when you get back, have him hire ninja to start gathering relevant intel on wild dog packs in Fire
    • Ami-Style training
      • Stamina
        • Wear a harness with a rope during your trip to the 7th path, have Candoru try to tug you in random directions as you make your way around
 
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Supersuslik said:
Are you advising against this plan, or just stating this? If the former, please cite a more specific reason why not.
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We're kinda putting all the work on the QMs by not giving a prompt or direction
If they have an idea in mind already it makes sense to vote it in but if we're in a lull like right now being like "okay make something up" can kinda suck for them
 
@Shrooms , @MMKII ,

Adding searching for the largest or most prominent wild dog packs description would probably help the Canvass quest. Something like this

  • Send ninja to get an accurate description of wild dog packs (largest territory, numbers)
    • Ask Canvass for more information
    • Present her the new findings


Also, just ask Cannai about the other clans close to him (lets just kill some summoners).
 
Shrooms said:
As far as killing summoners...not sure we're quite there yet lol
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I just want to kill something, would be fun to kill something strong and remind everyone that Hazou isn't just a nice speech giving boy

[X] Action Plan: Doggy Style

Shrooms said:
  • Explain Canvass quest to Gaku when you get back, have him hire a ninja to start gathering relevant intel on wild dog packs in Fire
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If you remove the "a" from hire a ninja we would get +1 wordcount and a plan that sends more then one. :p
 
SC Math for Chapter 397 (Applied):
@eaglejarl, @Velorien
By the SOPs, Keiko is training with 4 clones (with a little help from Noburi) and Akane is training with 4. With 3 base XP, the SC payouts are:
  • Keiko: +1.2XP (3 x0.4)
  • Akane: +1.2 XP (3 x0.4)
SC payouts for Chapter 396 have not yet been accounted for:
Inferno Vulpix said:
SC Math for Chapter 396:
@eaglejarl, @Velorien
By the SOPs, Keiko is training with 4 clones (with a little help from Noburi) and Akane is training with 4. With 3 base XP, the SC payouts are:
  • Keiko: +1.2XP (3 x0.4)
  • Akane: +1.2 XP (3 x0.4)
All previous payouts are accounted for.

[X](NextSeal) Strobelight Seal
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Supersuslik said:
[X] Action Plan: EJ Picks, Yes This Is A Real Plan.
  • EJ writes whatever he wants.
    • If the plan he chooses to write is dumb, something we wouldn't want to do, or something of the sort, we can vote to declare it an omake (2/3 majority to do so?).
      • We can do so only if the plan/decision-making is bad, not if we get a bad roll or some such.
        • Honor code, be honest.
  • This keeps it fun-to-write for the authors, as they can either choose the plan/scenes they want to write most and do them or, just, with the knowledge that it is to become an omake, write literally whatever they want (within the boundaries of relevance?).
  • "They deserve it" may literally be the biggest understatement I've made in 2020.
Thoughts? Any clauses that should be added to secure votes?
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[ ] Coherently extrapolate our volition.


Shrooms said:
[X] Action Plan: Doggy Style
Word Count: 292
  • 7th Path
    • Canvass
      • We are still investigating your ancestor's missing dog group. Could you give us their history to better help find them?
        • How long ago was this? What breed were the dogs? How many dogs were there? What region of the Human path? Any information helps greatly.
      • We may or may not need to do this, but would you be willing to let us summon you one extra time so that you may speak with an Inuzaka directly? They are the experts and it would assure less information is lost in transit
    • Canun and Cannai
      • Meet with Cannai and your summons
        • There is a new member of our pack with injured fingers, Atomu
          • As you know, humans need fingers to cast most of their ninjutsu, and we are concerned this affects both his career and his own self-image
          • To the ninjutsu experts present: How can the Dogs cast their ninjutsu without making handsigns?
            • Is this something a Human can learn?
              • If it is, is it something you would be willing to share with Atomu? He may choose not to pursue it, but if it's possible we would like to be able to give him a chance to try
        • Ask about nearby packs and where they are, and if their Summoner has something to offer to their communities
        • When's the next Taleswap? Are we welcome to attend?
  • Misc
    • Begin research on Strobelight Seals
    • Explain Canvass quest to Gaku when you get back, have him hire ninja to start gathering relevant intel on wild dog packs in Fire
    • Ami-Style training
      • Stamina
        • Wear a harness with a rope during your trip to the 7th path, have Candoru try to tug you in random directions as you make your way around
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By the authority I absolutely refuse to accept, I demand that we refer to them as "tailspins".
 
If we do figure out ninjutsu with missing fingers, that might need to be a high level secret on the level of SC.

[ ] Action Plan: Doggy Style
 
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The Real Question:

Are Hazou's stats high enough to pin down Keiko's baby chakra beast, and pet it?

We absolutely must packbond with it!!!
 
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