Well, perfect is a strong word.
Ahem.
Um, @RandomOTP Kei and Shikamaru might kill us. I'll leave it up to if you want scrap offering up ES services.
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
Ahem.
Um, @RandomOTP Kei and Shikamaru might kill us. I'll leave it up to if you want scrap offering up ES services.
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I would prefer it removed personally but I also don't think the Nara will be mad about it
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The most shocking development from this update...
It did not cause *screaming in faflec*
Truly, puppies are a force to be reckoned with.
It did not cause *screaming in faflec*
Truly, puppies are a force to be reckoned with.
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SC Training, 10 base XP with Kei at 1.4x and Akane at 1.0x:
Kei: +14 XP
Akane: +10 XP
Kei: +14 XP
Akane: +10 XP
I'm not so sure. Shikamaru threatened Tsunade and Leaf with the Nara nuclear option. If we tell them about a shiny new technique that could have diverted Orochimaru's attention almost immediately after Shikamaru's high risk play, he'll be hugly annoyed.
He cashed in on goodwill today when he may have had a cheaper ploy to use. We might be able to blame it on the drugs and injuries, but we still could have thrown it out there during the clan meeting.
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The earthshaping jutsu is not secret and Oro would know we used it or something similar to make the Great Seal replica he derided. Plus, everyone else in the family already knows about the technique, Hazou spent 2 continuous days making the replica, but none of them brought it up either. I think Vel is tugging our chain here.
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I'm on board with investigating Sage Mode options in general. I sincerely doubt it'll be easy, but it's worth exploring. Beyond that, I'd be interested in exploring if it's possible for humans to learn non-standard elements (e.g. time, space).
[x] Action Plan: Puppies, Power, and the Power of Puppies
[x] Action Plan: Stealing the Secrets of the Sages
[x] Action Plan: Puppies, Power, and the Power of Puppies
[x] Action Plan: Stealing the Secrets of the Sages
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WIDTTY?
I mean, they know it as something to sculpt with, but I don't know if Hazo got into the particulars about the jutsu.
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[shrug]
Sure, altered accordingly.
Sure, altered accordingly.
Removed according to sound logic. It's not exactly a secret that Hazou knows Living Roots and Hiding Like a Mole, in addition to Earthshaping. Shikamaru also knows that the Nara have a Huge Favor Banked with the Goketsu, and that Hazou would probably do them the favor anyway.
Here is the action plan as it currently stands. I'll keep making content edits for a few more hours, and then tomorrow will be focused on word choice/word count alterations. Feedback is welcome, as always.
(note: I have a headache, I apologize for any unintended rudeness conveyed through the curtness of my responses. In the dreaded words of every breakup ever: "it's not you, it's me.")
There's no possible way Hazou could scan something the size of the GS with ES. It's just totally impossible, there's no way Orochimaru wouldn't have noticed that ES takes 5 minutes to power up and down, consumes chakra, and is too small to scan the entire GS. It was never an option for convincing Oro that we could scan terrain.
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Is that something we'd need to vote in, or is that usually done via Interlude?
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[X] Commission an image of this event for Kei's birthday. Enlist her fanclub.
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I know this is nitpicky, but could we change this to "Check if Hornets/Arachnids have finished learning how to operate seals"? We started teaching them almost 2 weeks ago in character time.
I want to make it clear to the QMs that we aren't just checking if they somehow magically learned since the last time Hazou asked, since they can't operate seals without someone teaching them first. But teaching them was something we offscreened while everyone else was getting ready for the assault on the Arachnid Scroll facility.
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Either/or, imo. Paper opted not to run a birthday plan last update due to QM spoons, and the characters have expressed that they will be celebrating it so I mean if we want to see it it should probably be voted in
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Added accordingly.
Added to the action plan, if QM Spoons mean that it's delayed, then I'm okay with that.
In the interest of preserving QM spoons, sure.
Would it have diverted Orochimaru from the IN seal-downloading capabilities? Probably not.
But we could have brought it up during the clan meeting to lay all the cards on the table. Maybe Oro could have accepted it as a consolation prize.
Either way, I doubt the clan knows just how far he's pushed this sculpting jutsu beyond him getting a finer, artsy thumb or the implications. It's still pretty raw, so it's reasonable he didn't want to babble about its progress. Furthermore, he seemed proud but a little cagey when Gaku inquired about it.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
[x] Action Plan: Stealing the Secrets of the Sages
[x] Action Plan: Puppies, Power, and the Power of Puppies
Doesn't it? I think we've only heard about that from the Monkeys. Perhaps should clarify that with Cannai. @RandomOTP, you might want to include that too.
Edit: Wait, no! If it summons Jashin we want to do that, to finally have a proper conversation with Him. Don't include that. Instead, specify that we draw it.
[x] Action Plan: Puppies, Power, and the Power of Puppies
Should note not to draw it, and maybe ask Cannai if drawing it would be a problem. The Seventh Path has this "map equals territory" thing, doesn't it?
Doesn't it? I think we've only heard about that from the Monkeys. Perhaps should clarify that with Cannai. @RandomOTP, you might want to include that too.
Edit: Wait, no! If it summons Jashin we want to do that, to finally have a proper conversation with Him. Don't include that. Instead, specify that we draw it.
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Sure, shuffled the wording to account for the addition.
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[X] Action Plan: Rest, Relaxation, and Reading
New Word Count: 246
EDIT: additions indicated with orange
- Politely go home to sleep
- Give orders only to be disturbed if the Hokage demands it or if Leaf is under attack
- Use your best judgment, Gaku, for other situations
- Give orders only to be disturbed if the Hokage demands it or if Leaf is under attack
- After 24 hours of recuperation have an open invitation for Akane and/or Ino to join Hazou whenever either are available for quiet dates
- Hazou can't do anything too strenuous but spending time with both of them is important to him and he doesn't know when he might get another chance with the war going on
- Keep the conversations relatively light, citing outstanding orders from the Hokage concerning general OPSEC
- Request authorization from the Tower and from the Nara to read as many pertinent historical accounts and records of the previous world wars
- Hazou needs IC knowledge so our pilot can prevent us from making "obvious" strategic and tactical mistakes in the war room and in the field
- We frankly don't know what we don't know and we need to fix that
- We don't need detailed histories, but some minor QM-deemed-relevant anecdotes would be nice
- Why were they started, why did they stop, what did the victors get, that sort of strategic data
- Basically, the overall idea of the update would be Hazou being cozy, cuddling with his girlfriends in front of a warm fire, reading to give his body time to heal while still being somewhat productive, and having some quality puppy play time throughout if our pilot would prefer that too
New Word Count: 246
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IMPORTANT
Also, this seems to suggest that the range doesn't vary as much from person to person as I suspected.
"tiny but existent negative air pressure from the first rift" strongly implies that the first rift is still slightly open. Negative air pressure meaning that the air on the Asura Path is slowly entering theNaraka Path.
EDIT: He said that he didn't give this information because it wasn't about the rift we wanted to know about, meaning this was the black portal to the ??? path, not the one to the Naraka Path.
"the fact that plant roots from the second had worked a 1.5" crack into the 12"-thick floor of the granite box surrounding it"
There are two alarming scenarios with regard to the second rift. The first is that it never closed; we boxed it in and cannot see through 12" of granite and I suspect there's a good chance that a Byakugan might not be able to see a rift while active, even though it's visible to the naked eye. In this scenario, the plant tentacles are slowly tunneling through the granite and will eventually escape. The other scenario is that the portal closed and it left some plant matter behind that is tunneling on its own. Of course, the portal could have closed and the plant stooped tunneling then, but knowing the QMs, that's definitely not what happened.
1.5 inches tunneled from April 2, 1069 AS to November 11 (possibly November 10) 1069 AS.
1.5 inches over 223 days
assuming a constant rate, it would take an additonal 1784 days (from this update) to tunnel through the granite box
It has been 73 days since that update, so we have 1711 days from now before the plant escapes
assuming it has tunneled and will continue to tunnel at a constant rate
THIS IS A POTENTIAL END OF THE WORLD SCENARIO
We need to go back and investigate this. This is OOC information so the first step has to be learning it in charecter, possibly by asking Motokazu for extra details and phrasing our question in such a way that he would view this information as relevant.
Then, we need to go back and see if the root is more than 1.5" through the granite box. If it is, it's still growing, and we might be able to confirm whether or not it's tunneling through at the expected rate.
We can buy ourselves more time by creating more walls but I have no idea how to go about permanently solving this.
Might as well do a reaction post to this chapter since we're going to take a look at Necromancy again after we heal our consequences.
This would imply the Nara have a decent understanding of the range of the Byakugan AND that the Hyūga know that. He called it a statment of power which heavily implies he thinks that its intentional.
Also, this seems to suggest that the range doesn't vary as much from person to person as I suspected.
The Nara knows exactly how good particular individual's Byakugan have.
Yep. Shikamaru gave Hazō a number.
This feels like a hint.
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"tiny but existent negative air pressure from the first rift" strongly implies that the first rift is still slightly open. Negative air pressure meaning that the air on the Asura Path is slowly entering the
EDIT: He said that he didn't give this information because it wasn't about the rift we wanted to know about, meaning this was the black portal to the ??? path, not the one to the Naraka Path.
"the fact that plant roots from the second had worked a 1.5" crack into the 12"-thick floor of the granite box surrounding it"
There are two alarming scenarios with regard to the second rift. The first is that it never closed; we boxed it in and cannot see through 12" of granite and I suspect there's a good chance that a Byakugan might not be able to see a rift while active, even though it's visible to the naked eye. In this scenario, the plant tentacles are slowly tunneling through the granite and will eventually escape. The other scenario is that the portal closed and it left some plant matter behind that is tunneling on its own. Of course, the portal could have closed and the plant stooped tunneling then, but knowing the QMs, that's definitely not what happened.
1.5 inches tunneled from April 2, 1069 AS to November 11 (possibly November 10) 1069 AS.
1.5 inches over 223 days
assuming a constant rate, it would take an additonal 1784 days (from this update) to tunnel through the granite box
It has been 73 days since that update, so we have 1711 days from now before the plant escapes
assuming it has tunneled and will continue to tunnel at a constant rate
THIS IS A POTENTIAL END OF THE WORLD SCENARIO
We need to go back and investigate this. This is OOC information so the first step has to be learning it in charecter, possibly by asking Motokazu for extra details and phrasing our question in such a way that he would view this information as relevant.
Then, we need to go back and see if the root is more than 1.5" through the granite box. If it is, it's still growing, and we might be able to confirm whether or not it's tunneling through at the expected rate.
We can buy ourselves more time by creating more walls but I have no idea how to go about permanently solving this.
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[ ] Future Plan Fragment - Investigate The Gaping Hole In Reality
- Ask Motokazu if he noticed anything about the other two rifts.
- Return to rift site; check if root has penetrated further than 1.5"
- If yes:
- Inform Asuma
- Inform Kagome
- ask which path he suspects each rift leads
- ask for standard procedures for closing dimensional rifts
- ask if open rifts can be detected through 12" of granite
- Inform Shikamaru and probe for relevant information