Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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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
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- Yes.
Alliances are made between individuals, not nations. With a lot of Leaf's military power dead, any old alliances they may have had are...under renegotiation, I would imagine.
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I personally think it would be fine but I also don't mind waiting until the current plots are over, since a direct question like this shouldn't take much waiting time.
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- Yes.
I would wait to do Summoning Scroll stuff in general, and especially would not want to alert River that we may or may not be poking around for 'their' Scroll.
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I definitely want to wait for the others, cuz any team we send to claim it would probably want to keep it. I'd like cursory info on the kanga scroll if possible too, but like I said we could always do it later. Not like we're going to get it anytime soon.
On a related note, we talked in discord about going on a diplomatic mission to Sand to talk to their healers/puppet experts about buying Advanced Prosthetics from them for healing purposes, and even setting up some kind of ongoing prosthetics trade with Sand. Could be a great opportunity to swing by and nab the Otter Scroll. Could be a good next option once the current arc is over.
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Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
It might be useful to have a tactics discussion with the dogs when we stop for a rest, or are on a lower speed day. Go over fighting styles and abilities so if we fight they know what to expect from you and vice versa. Set of some quick plans you or they can call out in case of possible scenarios (including the protect my escape at all costs option). At least talk through combat scenarios vs. different major threat categories such as one big for, large numbers, and specifically against bears and cats. Share from what we know about different Human realm monsters for more scenarios too.
We are the Plan and Checklist Summoner so let's take advantage of down time and do our thing!
We are the Plan and Checklist Summoner so let's take advantage of down time and do our thing!
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- Yes.
Basically this. At the least we should get an idea of their combat abilities beyond "guard dogs" or "diplomat". Hazou should have this information already based on the update so it's just a matter of brief tactics discussion while resting.
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[X] Discuss tactics and abilities with your companions
Let's trade skysliders for their puppets?
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Doubt Asuma would...let that fly B)
They need arable land, could trade them fertilization techniques or even a fuck ton of stored soil from Fire
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As nice as it would be to have this conversation, let's not piss off Cannai. It can wait
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- Book Fort
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[x] Bring Akane flowers from the 7th path
Not sure we should be taking an afternoon off so soon into the mission. Feels rude. I would be okay with gathering flowers for Ino (as flowers seem to be a hobby if hers, iirc), or including Ino in the letters we send back to the Leaf.
Not sure we should be taking an afternoon off so soon into the mission. Feels rude. I would be okay with gathering flowers for Ino (as flowers seem to be a hobby if hers, iirc), or including Ino in the letters we send back to the Leaf.
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If you believe Lailoken it actually can't wait :y
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Map updated with new information, and the beginnings of an expedition path!
Eighth draft: Hares are on a northern peninsula, Bears have northern coast, Cats west of Bear. Possible upwards curve of Bear coast (heading straight west is apparently faster than following coastline). Expedition path being tracked.
edit: Seventh draft, after new information on the Dog coastline and existence of a great lake:
edit: Sixth draft, after EJ generously gave out some information on Porcupine/Hyena/Pangolin borders in discord.
edit: Fifth draft, including some tidbits EJ generously gave on discord and the location of the Squirrels that I scrounged up from the Enma chapter.
edit: fourth draft:
edit 2: third draft, now including a location for the Dogs and clip arts of the various clans.
(There weren't any Mara icons anywhere I could find, so I had to take a photo of one and trace it. Still turned out pretty okay)
edit: updated with a second draft after recent loredump.
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Alright, got a sketch done. Still not sure which side of the Otters the Condors are supposed to be, but with other statements about the Capybara and so it'd be very awkward if the Condors touched the Pangolins and Toads and were south of the Otters.
Still a good deal of guesswork on the details, but this is roughly how things fit together.
Also, the Pangolins border a heckton of other clans.
- Location
- USA
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TBD
Note that Asuma has already stated that everything related to aerial superiority, explicitly including skysliders, is a military secret of Leaf.
Note that storage seals can contain 1 m^3 or 100 kg, whichever comes first. Soil is heavy, with a density of ~1.5 g/cm^3. You're not going to be able to carry a lot of it without truly egregious numbers of seals.
Technically, Canabisu is chief of mission. Hazō's understanding is that Canabisu does have the right to give him the time if he asks for it.
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- Central Standard Time
[x] Bring Akane flowers from the 7th path
[x] Bring Ino flowers from the 7th path
[x] Bring Ino flowers from the 7th path
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This could be mitigated by having Summoners in both villages. Of course, this would eventually wear out the Storage Seals, but they still get a good 12 activations or so first, right? We can make "produce the seals that we store dirt in for you" part of the deal so we don't have to do it
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- USA
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You could, but consider the scale. The roots of corn grow around 1.5m deep. One acre is 4047 m^2, so in order to cover one acre sufficiently to grow corn (chosen somewhat arbitrarily as an example food crop) you need a depth of 2m. That means you need ~8000 m^3 of soil per acre. I'm having trouble finding clear numbers, but it looks like 12 acres was enough to support one family in the Middle Ages. If you want to allow Sand to support itself, you're going to need tens of millions of cubic meters of soil. Soil has a density of ~1.5 g/cm^3, meaning that you can fit roughly 66,666 cm^3 into a storage seal (the most that will fit within the 100kg weight limit), which is 0.06 m^3. That's a lot of storage seals.