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Just curios my plan essentially has all of this in it. Is there any reason your not voting for it?
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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
Just curios my plan essentially has all of this in it. Is there any reason your not voting for it?
Do you accept submission?
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I like to think Kagome is aware that Hazou has 12 undefined seals floating in Hazou's grey matter. To Kagome, the past is as mutable as the future.
Of course those seals always existed.
Of course he will have and had always been able to figure out their functions.
Of course time is linear.
Could any man remain sane in his position, or is it that sane men would scream if only they knew how the world truly functioned?
Kagome screams regardless.
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Sounds good. Specified the "previous suggestion" and expanded the conversation as per your suggestions.
Good point, especially since EJ warned that it might be a mandatory part of the next update, since it was in the last action plan.
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When possible I prefer 2 scenes at most for our QMs to write so each scene gets the attention it needs in order to convey to us all of the actionable details. Since we almost assuredly have to have Snowflake's birthday that leaves time for one other minor scene and I'd prefer to have some progress with the Dragon seal since I dislike the thought of the world ending regardless of how slowly the apocalypse may take.
The wording also confuses me:
Which "the five" are you referring to? The five thinker clans or the five great villages? Why does Hazou have to give an opinion on world geopolitics? It would be one thing to insist that by defeating Rock and/or Cloud we could reduce the number of great villages to three, but questioning the standing of a nominal ally seems unnecessary to me if we don't discuss it in private with Asuma first. Denouncing a nominal ally, even if it could be considered warranted, isn't something underlings should decide by themselves.
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Yes that is the point. It is intentionally trying to probe to see if there is a connection between the them
The plan is ultimately just scaffolding for probing for information from Shikamaru. None of the questions are important themselves. But the way that Shikamaru lies will give us information. This is one of the major things I feel like we should be investigating
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24? Compared to the scion of a key clan in Leaf who's been groomed for politics his entire life, and a clan that specifically has a huge secret to keep that he's been read in on and has, seemingly, been read in on for quite a while?
What would Shikamaru's deceit need to be for you to feel like this is a sweep, if we accept for the sake of argument that failing that roll could cause nontrivial Nara-Goketsu relationship problems?
@RandomOTP updated their plan - you could probably pull from there.
Making this evident to the QMs in the plan is probably a good idea - it isn't obvious to me.
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Will do when get off work
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Even if that's your intent it's still grammatically confusing and the intent to probe for a connection is definitely not apparent in the plan itself as it currently stands.
Why should we be investigating this?
Why do you believe Shikamaru will lie to us?
What argument can you make in favor of pursuing this over using more of our time on fixing the Dragon Seal?
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Because learning more forbidden lore about the conspiracy that secretly is running the word and has a connection to abominations beyond time and space is interesting
Because we know he is part of a vast international conspiracy and that when we investigated it where shut down by Kei
Mostly because I don't see how a scene is created from this
If there is more of a tangible plan than to grind through some leads I would be happy to vote for that. Also you'll note that my plan does include all of this.
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Lots of things we could be doing are interesting. That doesn't mean we should do them over researching ways to save the world from a threat we already know exists. There is a real benefit to stopping the Dragons: everyone lives. There is no apparent benefit to pressuring Shikamaru and Kei about a topic we already know they don't want to talk about.
Once we stop the Dragons and win the world war then I would be more inclined to look into new unrelated research topics. I believe we have too many existential threats to indulge in flights of fancy for now.
It can wait. Let's not disrupt Snowflake's birthday party by bringing up conspiracy theories, please.
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While you can disagree that this shouldn't be a priority don't act like it's not real. We have tons of examples that the five are another existential threat waiting to happen
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their plan, you mean
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I'll try to clarify: by flights of fancy I mean that anything not related to ending the war or stopping the dragons is a distraction that has a real opportunity cost that could mean the difference between having enough time to solve either problem or the world ending in some manner.
As far as I can tell, "the five" aren't as pressing of a problem (if our limited information about them is correct) as the Dragons or the world war. Anything that does not help us achieve those objectives nor help Hazou destress in his limited downtime is not worth it, IMO.
I'm also surprised that you're so adamant that we need to address these entities compared to your dismissal of the Watchers' presence. To me their existences seem equally plausible.
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If you will compare just some of the info we have about the five
compared to everything we have about the watchers I think you will realize one is much more tangible
edit: furthermore I think Shikamaru is pushing to give a scroll to sand to make sure that they keep their status as one of the five villages to protect the thinker clan that resides there. If we wait the chance to follow this line of inquiry will be gone
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[x] Definitely Not Sealing Research
- Snowflake's Present
- Purchase samples of different minerals/crystals.
- Use Earthshaping to create a thematically appropriate friendship bracelet.
- Also check the materials for 3D sealing purity.
- If no material works, use contrasting black and white stone instead.
- Party Time
- Focus on activities that Snowflake has shown interest in.
- Run interference between Mari and Kei/Ami if Mari is present if required.
- Compliment Snowflake's appearance in an appropriate manner.
- Making The Rounds
- Socialize with the guests.
- Set up emergency plans to evacuate or fetch help with Noburi's help.
- Following Days
- Meet with Shikamaru to discuss Rock Annihilation Strategies, high OPSEC.
- We are currently researching a series of seals that will allow us to destroy sections of Rock at distance (Suborbital strikes).
- Shikaku once told us to come up with countermeasures before releasing WMDs.
- We have preliminary ideas for protecting Leaf from this type of attack (Skyslicer nets, 5SB shields).
- Could he provide his analysis regarding topics of concern.
- Do not say that Kei asked to spare some Tama.
- Spare one Shadow Clone to aid with seal research.
- Finish Air Tunnels.
- If time and ability permits, begin ARS research.
- Meet with Shikamaru to discuss Rock Annihilation Strategies, high OPSEC.
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- Geometry
- Have Gaku purchase available Geometry books.
- Check if the Nara are willing to sell/teach to the Goketsu.
- Geology
- Collate all known and suspected information on the GS material.
- Ask Leaf masons/geologist/Earth elementalist and allied Summon Clans if they know of it or something similar.
- Geometry
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I have a couple suggestions, from among the seals Jiraiya might have made when he was younger. As I recall, he mentioned trying to replicate elemental techs so he wouldn't have to learn the elements. And since we shared Jiraiya's seal docs, these should be publically available, and someone may have made them. So, here's a couple air seals:
Air Bubble Seal: A bubble of semi-solid air surrounds the seal (melee range), penalizing ranged attacks and techniques in and out, but not melee. -1 AB, lasts 3-5 rounds.
Air Burst Seal: A blast of air in all directions a small distance away from the seal knocks attacks askew. It affects fewer techniques than the Air Bubble seal, but still some (primarily physical (earth or otherwise) and fireball-type techniques; some wind, few lightning). -6 [Numbers based on macerators, created at genin level, providing a +3] to attacks against the user, melee and otherwise, in the round it's activated. Special: This seal is sensitive enough to chakra that it may be activated as a supplemental action off turn. This is not something easy to apply to other seals that are researched.
e: These are intended to be sealtech of approximately chuunin (TN 35-43-ish) level. Does that seem about right?
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I think we already had 5SB ninja wire shield idea for protection against skywalker based attack.
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Yup, that's the idea!that we've done our due diligence
It was already proposed at one point to at least Jiraiya.
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I've only very briefly looked at the thread, but I put that this is a Naruto fic and somebody is bound to have a jutsu that melts rock.
I also put that spending XP on non-FOOM things or things of similar impact like Elemental Mastery is a poor use of our differentiating strengths. Trying to rock-shape a seal so advanced it's not safe to look at is only going to work if we are one with the narrativium. I cannot see it being an actually good idea on first principles.
I also put that spending XP on non-FOOM things or things of similar impact like Elemental Mastery is a poor use of our differentiating strengths. Trying to rock-shape a seal so advanced it's not safe to look at is only going to work if we are one with the narrativium. I cannot see it being an actually good idea on first principles.
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Jiraiya liked it, but didn't have time to do anything with it before he died, so we resubmitted the idea to Asuma, offscreen. He liked it and implemented it.