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You guys remember when this was played for laughs?
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
Yeah, you sure showed him!
Three responses to this, in order.
1. What?
2. Yes, in fact, you do seem a bit crazy.
3. WHAT???
I have a feeling that Hazo will be wishing this line actually worked in more situations.
I have a feeling that summoning is gonna produce some eldritch horrors
Ninjas can have the gravity element? that seems kind of unfair.
Gravity Ninja: sets all enemy acceleration due to gravity to -1000m/s^2
All other ninjas: suddenly develop a new space program
Black ops announcer: Hunter Killer drone ready for deployment
I wanna see more spooky stuff
Speaking of spooky stuff, it seems that the reason she had trouble getting out of the trance was because she didn't take the time to anchor herself to points in the real world, and also she was looking at a very complex subject.
Is this good communication and preemptive conflict resolution? In a Naruto fic??? But the entire main plot wouldn't have happened if any of the main characters knew how to handle their disagreements. It's like I can't even recognize the world this story takes place in
Well that's a punch to the gut.
It seems that the Mori Bloodline does more than just shake a person up the longer they use it, but might warp the person, taking a bit of their personality/humanity and replacing it with some of that "ice"
Chapter 19 ends with a cliffhanger but it's somehow 3 am already, so I had better call it for the night.
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Nothing given up, 2 things delegated. Summoner training and running the clan.
I can agree with this, but I do feel we have to bring this to light how hypocritical she's being, especially if we actually plan to continue our relationship. People can't grow without their mistakes/flaws being brought to light.
Though if it guarantees your vote, I'll gladly take suggestions for what to change there.
Agreed, but see above for what I'm trying to do.
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I shall endeavour to write an omake later today, when my outrageously long stay in classes of varying quality during a single day is over with.
Im going to try and be funny but still cater to very specific interests, with callbacks to chapters 197 and pre-retcon 483.
(This is enough clues for now. This post to see if people here will find the theme immediately, and if you'll think of the clues as too subtle, relatively subtle, or absolutely not subtle, in order to calibrate levels of subtlety accordingly to better fit your collective needs and desires in the actual writing)
Edit: if someone was hoping for funny reader-made content (or "fan once removed content", "fanfanfiction", or even, I suppose, a "derivative work of the second order") this won't happen until tomorrow because of a predictable SK-Class Spoon Failure Scenario.
Edit 2: "later today" turned into "be done at half past midnight on the 22nd of March of the next year", because I am a paragon of executive function.
Im going to try and be funny but still cater to very specific interests, with callbacks to chapters 197 and pre-retcon 483.
(This is enough clues for now. This post to see if people here will find the theme immediately, and if you'll think of the clues as too subtle, relatively subtle, or absolutely not subtle, in order to calibrate levels of subtlety accordingly to better fit your collective needs and desires in the actual writing)
Edit: if someone was hoping for funny reader-made content (or "fan once removed content", "fanfanfiction", or even, I suppose, a "derivative work of the second order") this won't happen until tomorrow because of a predictable SK-Class Spoon Failure Scenario.
Edit 2: "later today" turned into "be done at half past midnight on the 22nd of March of the next year", because I am a paragon of executive function.
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- EagleJarl always tells the truth, but in the maximally misleading way.
- Velorien always answers with whatever would seem most ominous to you in retrospect, once you've acquired all information.
- Noburi flips a coin before making each statement, and decides whether to lie or tell the truth based on the outcome.
- Kei always tells the truth, but her answers are limited to 5 words, after which she runs out of patience.
- Ino always tells the truth, but you can't ask her direct questions lest you embarrass yourself by looking stupid.
- Mari always crafts her message to be maximally deceiving given your algorithm for analyzing her statements.
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- Asuma tries you for treason if you ask smartass tricky questions, or if you commit treason
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I don't disagree with this second part at all. I guess my argument is that you should lean more on it. That it makes more sense for Hazo to have completely misunderstood Cannai and then proceeded to try and find ambassadors without a care in the world than it does for him to have kinda sorta misunderstood him and thought that excluding him in the short term would lead to any potential benefit. His conversation with Mari should lead to a "holy shit I'm dumb" moment or a "I don't think that what I'm doing is actually a problem but okay I'll ask" moment, not hemming and hawing. The final consequences could potentially be the same though. Just with less/a different kind of self-blame.
The Akatsuki letter was a very different situation than this.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
[X] Training Hazō: Chakra Scarcity
[X] (GS) Tell Asuma, then tell the Leaf sealmasters
shitpost totally serious riddle.
[X] (GS) Tell Asuma, then tell the Leaf sealmasters
Good addition. I canonize it in the context of this
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Compel: Open Mouth, Insert Fate
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So big whoops on my part. I hadn't yet actually read the retcon when I wrote my last couple of comments. Having read it, it fits Hazo just fine. No more complaints from me on that front.
I assume that Noburi taking over for us with Kagome would be a problem, both due to Noburi's high demand on missions and other projects and due to the setback of switching teachers. We might have to think about doing that anyway.
We might have to delegate management decision making to Gaku for a while. He's seen how we decide on most things and he is intelligent. If something truly novel or dramatic happens he can still ask Hazo, similar to when we were traveling to Arachnid territory. We can have him keep track of all the decisions he makes and have Noburi and/or Akane and/or Mari check intermitently. And once our punishment is over we can speed-read through all of Gaku's decisions and see if anything is off.
We can do food however the punishment squad does food and we can have someone else wash us while we get read paperwork. That's not nearly enough to make up for five hours though.
I assume that Noburi taking over for us with Kagome would be a problem, both due to Noburi's high demand on missions and other projects and due to the setback of switching teachers. We might have to think about doing that anyway.
We might have to delegate management decision making to Gaku for a while. He's seen how we decide on most things and he is intelligent. If something truly novel or dramatic happens he can still ask Hazo, similar to when we were traveling to Arachnid territory. We can have him keep track of all the decisions he makes and have Noburi and/or Akane and/or Mari check intermitently. And once our punishment is over we can speed-read through all of Gaku's decisions and see if anything is off.
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So, here is my too-late counter argument, because voting is about to close. (Exams, apologies).
1) It is unknown if we'll actually get the next earth shaper upgrade at 40 or 50. 50 is estimated, sure but that isn't guaranteed. I could also easily see the payoffs getting more consistent at high levels, because knowing a thing is fine, but once you're really good at a thing, you can consistently do more with it. Level 40 sealmasters seem like they can do a lot more than double what a level 20 one can do, you know? So, it isn't a guaranteed thing, just a matter of probability.
2) My point about knowing how much more is required still stands. The more we know Earth shaping, or sealing, the better an idea we'll have, and at this point we're hitting dead ends. Sure, yes, the severes leaving will be helpful. But if we're predicting we can hit the low 60s on a roll as is, boosting it gets us into the 70s, which is where we start to have a fighting chance, I'd argue.
3) We don't have time. It's been made clear the great seal is failing. There's an urgency here. Hazou finding the cracks supports that things are escalating. FOOMING to stats of 100 sounds great and all, but lets be real, that still take YEARS. "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan 5 minutes too late" and all that.
4) Meta. Eaglejarl liked my training post. And the QMs are unlikely to make an unwinnable challenge. Getting to stats of 100 likely isn't necessary to solve this.
5) Optics. If it doesn't seem like we're trying our best to get better at the relevant skills, other folks are going to assume it isn't a huge issue, and be less likely to support us in it.
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That seems like a much more succinct way to put it than I had, I like it.
[X] Don't Enter the Diva Path
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Also I hadn't seen it, so thank you for pointing it out to me. I've been having a hard time keeping up with the thread.
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"Until I get tired". Nice. There's few things that cause such a feeling of preemptive suffering as that qualifier. "silently, if you please" is also such a polite kick in the teeth. Effective, but mean. Which is likely the goal here.
Thank you Eaglejarl. Not just for the quality interaction, but also for hearing the confusion and dissonance of the thread, working with us, and updating the model so that it's more congruent with our collective understanding. The difference between "that's not how I see things, deal with it" and "that's not how I see things, let's talk about it" is a big divide with huge implications. It hasn't been in doubt which side of the Responsible Authority Figure (pun intended) line you're on, but times like this do help, and are affirming for why so many of us are willing to put so much time into the quest.
(Vel, this goes for you as well, I'm just quoting EJ, and know he was in the giant discord discussion. You have also historically been good about this, no worries.)
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Also aren't we forgetting about Cannai's jutsu exchange that we need to talk over with Asuma sometime?
Also aren't we forgetting about Cannai's jutsu exchange that we need to talk over with Asuma sometime?
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Welcome aboard! I see you'll fit right in.
Aodyssey
The glass will not protecc you
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I will offer you one year's worth of your income. Would you kindly kill all of leaf's jounin?
There, easy
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Asuma: seriously? Killbox for you, and you get a killbox, everybody gets a killboxI will offer you one year's worth of your income. Would you kindly kill all of leaf's jounin?
There, easy
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First try in a long time. Zeus and Hades have mercy on us all.
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Giant Spaghetti Monster of the Third Alignment Axis, may ye look upon us with Bacon and not Necktie inclinations.
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[X] (GS) Tell Asuma, then tell the Leaf sealmasters\