Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rational 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
- Location
- Book Fort
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- They/Them
[X] Declare: Asuma trusted Hazou enough to want him to learn the bijuu seal. In the same vein, Asuma has cautiously given Hazou permission to learn biosealing.
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- She/Her/They/Them
Exploring caffeine-like effects are a solid basis for making Monster Energy (with real chakra monsters inside!)
List of Concerns
- Flesh warps. Are we introducing a possibility of a sealing failure inside our body?
- Might the seal require maintenance, which Oro can then use as leverage against us?
- Oro clearly wants to study us. If we're selling him our body anyway, we can probably charge more.
- How hard is a caffeine-blooded seal once you know biosealing? We have SSA and are slowly transitioning to Sealing capstone. We might be able to reproduce the effect ourselves (relatively) soon.
- Location
- Pacific standard
Sleep deprivation plus the usual healing from surgery stuff lol. Okay so Hazō still needs to sleep every now and then and it costs him a medium physical consequence. Oh no.
- Location
- Pacific standard
Sacrifice lootbox xp to buy a one time stunt for this surgery? This is **macro action economy** muahahahaha
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- She/Her/They/Them
Now this is him paying us with that. We're not charging him for it.
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- He
[X] Reject the seal
- Location
- Pacific standard
[x] Training Hazo: Medknow 1
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
He already has that, though. This is why I'm not too worried about any such countermeasures he may install — he kind of doesn't need them against us as we are now. If he does install them, there'd be only a narrow window between "we're so weak he'd be able to overpower us anyway" and "we're powerful enough to remove them (maybe with Tsunade's help)", and we may pass that window without Oro even realizing. So it isn't much of a concern. Other things from that category, like some sort of subtle mind-altering effects (e. g., something he can activate when we enter his presence to make us suggestible), we (the hivemind) will likely notice the first time they activate, and then we can go to Tsunade, have her screen us, and she'll probably go be unhappy at Oro for doing that.
That, though, is a pretty concerning idea, and one I didn't think of.
Yeah. :/
I can totally imagine him going "It's finished. Now, the tissue will need remodelling every three months, so make sure you have something to trade for my time by then. Bye."
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I'm not sure. He doesn't need leverage against us either
- Location
- The Void
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- She/Her
We grind through the rest of our sealing notes till we have effective sealing in the 80 and deactivate it. Plus with ARS line we are already grinding seals that interact with other seals
Let's go full biosealing and use it for resurrection too. This quest is now a FMA crossover.
Nobody on his right mind would accept a bioseal from Orochimaru, this is going to get us actually looked at like the Other-infested brain we are. Remember the summoning scroll incident?
Even if it works, even if Orochimaru has tested it on himself an a couple dozen POWs and orphans and it does not contain a remote kill switch or an addiction compulsion or whatever. It might slow or deaden empathy or sexuality and he would never notice or care.
Now, for the mechanism of how it works for when we go through with it anyways: based on my limited understanding of sleep, the most important thing is the brain becoming a bit more permeable to better flush all the crud that accumulates. That change also affects neural interconnections so it can't work so well with that going on. So the seal is washing the crud away, probably by horribly dangerous shenanigans. Some ideas: it just shunts your brain in a million tiny places to a pocket dimension that gets filled with your brain juices and filters them. It warps space inside your brain so the inter-cell spaces are bigger on the inside. It connects your brainmeats to an alien the size of a planet residing on a different dimension that handles your sleepiness in exchange of getting to use your inventiveness and manipulating you in subtle ways and also may be part of the consumption of your planet on all parallel realities in his never ending search for a way to avoid entropy. I lied this is a Worm cross now.
Nobody on his right mind would accept a bioseal from Orochimaru, this is going to get us actually looked at like the Other-infested brain we are. Remember the summoning scroll incident?
Even if it works, even if Orochimaru has tested it on himself an a couple dozen POWs and orphans and it does not contain a remote kill switch or an addiction compulsion or whatever. It might slow or deaden empathy or sexuality and he would never notice or care.
Now, for the mechanism of how it works for when we go through with it anyways: based on my limited understanding of sleep, the most important thing is the brain becoming a bit more permeable to better flush all the crud that accumulates. That change also affects neural interconnections so it can't work so well with that going on. So the seal is washing the crud away, probably by horribly dangerous shenanigans. Some ideas: it just shunts your brain in a million tiny places to a pocket dimension that gets filled with your brain juices and filters them. It warps space inside your brain so the inter-cell spaces are bigger on the inside. It connects your brainmeats to an alien the size of a planet residing on a different dimension that handles your sleepiness in exchange of getting to use your inventiveness and manipulating you in subtle ways and also may be part of the consumption of your planet on all parallel realities in his never ending search for a way to avoid entropy. I lied this is a Worm cross now.
- Location
- The Soviet Republic of Canuckistan
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Shika: 'Hazo, what in the name of the Sage possessed you to accept a largely-unspecified bioseal from Orochimaru?'
Hazo: 'I only need to sleep three hours a night.'
Shika: '...'
Hazo: 'And I'm well-rested the next day.'
Shika: 'Is he accepting appointments?'
TBH I'm not sure Asuma would necessarily disapprove of bad stuff happening to people who are crazy enough to accept bioseals, much less bioseals from Orochimaru, but YOLO (for now).
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- Pacific standard
And this is unironically why we're totally safe. This is reputation repair jumping into his lap lmao
- Location
- The Soviet Republic of Canuckistan
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- He/Him
He doesn't care about his reputation - this definitely isn't safe, there's huge potential for backlash or consequences, and no one will do squat about it as long as it isn't egregious.
Bruh we ain't safe, Oro is not safe. If y'all want to do risky shit and risk permanent Consequences and Aspects because YOLO. Fine, this is a democracy, go right ahead. But saying this is 100% safe is pure copium.
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- Yes.
@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail @Paperclipped What is Mari and Noburi's opinion of Hazou accepting the seal? Do they anticipate Orochimaru flubbing the seal deliberately, tacking on additional consequences like required maintenance which he will demand we pay for, or anything else along those lines?
Hmm…
Hey, QMs? What does the hypercompetent npc think?
E: ninja'd
Hey, QMs? What does the hypercompetent npc think?
E: ninja'd
Probably plotting a route to the nearest active volcano. It'll be a bonding experience with Kei, they all promised to take care of us when the Out contamination became obvious.
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- He/Him
I'm torn because accepting seems irresponsible and foolish in a variety of ways but I'm also not fond of our usual overly cautious playstyle lmao
I am voting no though. I don't think the benefit is that big for what the many risks are (for one thing, we still don't know what happens if a bioseal gets injured/the body stretches. Does Hazou just explode?) If we had a clearer idea of the effect and it was better than saving a few hours a day I'd be more inclined to agree
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