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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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[X] Action Plan: Transparency
MadScientist said:
Be prepared to desummon/defend+evade if things turn ugly.
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Would you be interested in expanding this line to include "If they want to yell at us, or need to be left alone, let them. They have a right to be angry."? I think it'd be good for Hazou to be willing to let them vent in addition to being ready to evac if they turn violent about it.
 
[ ] Action Plan: The Offscreened Dance, with Some Snowflake Retcons

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[x] Action Plan: While You Were Agonising Over Condors, I Was Studying the Bladehorrors
  • After Hazou has (with permission) ferried the condors to arachnid territory:
  • Time to do some sealing! Finish our current project.
  • Hazou and Kagome go and examine the site of the bladehorror rift, and do whatever tests Kagome thinks are safest in terms of danger to us but might destroy the afterlife rift scar if we did them on it and they fail.
 
RandomOTP said:
[X] Action Plan: The Offscreened Dance, with Some Snowflake Retcons
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  • Sanity check everything with Mari.
  • Throw a small, private party (close friends/family only, their polycules obviously invited)
    • Food
    • Hire a band that Akane and Ino, specifically, like.
    • Moonlight.
    • Floating lanterns.
    • Arrange Arachnid entertainment if Kagome can manage.
      • Aerial silk dancers? Trapeze?
    • Show off.
      • Dance with Ino and Akane.
      • SCs use ES to make the dance floors rise.
        • 15x15 square dance platforms rising 16m, slowly spins around like a screw.
        • Hire + consult with a mosaic artist to have one of the SC ES the dance floor with a simple moving pattern without tripping up feet.
    • Talk about getting or not getting used to a life like this.
  • If there's an in-universe reason that wouldn't upset Akane/Ino/Snowflake, Hazou dances with Snowflake
    • Such as...
      • Ask Snowflake if she'd like to help in our own experiment
        • Test to see if other high-stakes dancing evokes a similar response from the Iron Nerve
      • We want to dance with her
      • [insert other reasons, as bandwidth allows]
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So, I don't really like this plan:
  • It's a fluff flashback plan in the middle of the story arc, interrupting it for no particular reason.
  • A major part of the plan is focused around... flirting with Snowflake? I was under the impression that we all agreed not to pursue that until the Akane/Hazou/Ino polycule was more stable and secure.
    • And yes, I do see the 'if it doesn't upset anyone' in that section, but I don't think that makes it work. Like, without the dance scene, what's even left in the plan? It's already pretty vapid even if that section gets to happen, but without it there's almost no plan at all left.
  • It puts Ino and Arachnids in the same room and doesn't even do the one interesting thing we've been talking about doing with Ino and Arachnids for weeks.
I get that it's aesthetically appealing and you like shipping Snowflake and Hazou and this isn't an outright attempt to confess to her, but I feel like this is a pointless plan at a bad time that undermines our commitments to our partners by pushing in the direction of Snowflake shipping. Frankly, I will be very disappointed if it wins.
 
The alternative plans all come clean to the condors for no reason, which is IMO even worse than a random flashback that pushes a ship we'd decided not to commit to.
 
Shrooms said:
I mean, won't he be spotted on skywalkers too? I thought the point was more to be ready for conflict than anything. He could also probably just water-walk the last stretch instead.
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He can go low to the sea on approach and skysliders can't.

They also have a 20-30 ft wingspan. They're much much more visible from a distance. Things like that matter a lot when you're trying to hide.
 
Inferno Vulpix said:
So, I don't really like this plan:
  • It's a fluff flashback plan in the middle of the story arc, interrupting it for no particular reason.
  • A major part of the plan is focused around... flirting with Snowflake? I was under the impression that we all agreed not to pursue that until the Akane/Hazou/Ino polycule was more stable and secure.
    • And yes, I do see the 'if it doesn't upset anyone' in that section, but I don't think that makes it work. Like, without the dance scene, what's even left in the plan? It's already pretty vapid even if that section gets to happen, but without it there's almost no plan at all left.
  • It puts Ino and Arachnids in the same room and doesn't even do the one interesting thing we've been talking about doing with Ino and Arachnids for weeks.
I get that it's aesthetically appealing and you like shipping Snowflake and Hazou and this isn't an outright attempt to confess to her, but I feel like this is a pointless plan at a bad time that undermines our commitments to our partners by pushing in the direction of Snowflake shipping. Frankly, I will be very disappointed if it wins.
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  • The main point of the fluff interrupt was because (at the time) we were still discussing what to do with the stranded Condors, and weren't really coming to any consensus. So I offered up this alternative to allow for more time, irl, for discussion.
  • I don't mind toning the flirtation down, and providing a more innocent reason (after all, people dance with other people at parties).
  • Good point, added
I think I've addressed your main points, but I also recognize that my fever hasn't gone down all that much, so I'm still a little spacey, let me know?
RandomOTP said:
[X] Action Plan: The Offscreened Dance, with Some Snowflake Retcons
Word Count: <300
  • Sanity check everything with Mari.
  • Throw a small, private party (close friends/family only, their polycules obviously invited)
    • Food
    • Hire a band that Akane and Ino, specifically, like.
    • Moonlight.
    • Floating lanterns.
    • Arrange Arachnid entertainment if Kagome can manage.
      • Aerial silk dancers? Trapeze?
      • Introduce Ino to the Arachnids and help Ino convince them about human fashion and artistry.
    • Show off.
      • Dance with Ino and Akane.
      • SCs use ES to make the dance floors rise.
        • 15x15 square dance platforms rising 16m, slowly spins around like a screw.
        • Hire + consult with a mosaic artist to have one of the SC ES the dance floor with a simple moving pattern without tripping up feet.
    • Talk about getting or not getting used to a life like this.
  • Offer a dance to Snowflake
    • Tone: not flirtatious, people dance with people at parties and we don't want Snowflake to be left out
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[X] Lore Update
RandomOTP said:
Introduce Ino to the Arachnids and help Ino convince them about human fashion and artistry.
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Here's a phrasing I think would work better:
  • Find an Arachnid interesting in learning about human fashion and artistry, and introduce them to Ino. Tell Ino to come prepared.
The angle I'm thinking is that most Arachnids probably don't see much interest in non-Arachnid artistry, but there's probably at least one who's interested in novel ideas from strange places. And then meanwhile, giving Ino some forewarning means she can show up ready for a no-holds-barred (artistry) battle.
 
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Updated accordingly ^.^

RandomOTP said:
[X] Action Plan: The Offscreened Dance, with Some Snowflake Retcons
Word Count: <300
  • Sanity check everything with Mari.
  • Throw a small, private party (close friends/family only, their polycules obviously invited)
    • Food
    • Hire a band that Akane and Ino, specifically, like.
    • Moonlight.
    • Floating lanterns.
    • Arrange Arachnid entertainment if Kagome can manage.
      • Aerial silk dancers? Trapeze?
      • Find an Arachnid interesting in learning about human fashion/artistry, and introduce them to Ino. Tell Ino to come prepared.
    • Show off.
      • Dance with Ino and Akane.
      • SCs use ES to make the dance floors rise.
        • 15x15 square dance platforms rising 16m, slowly spins around like a screw.
        • Hire + consult with a mosaic artist to have one of the SC ES the dance floor with a simple moving pattern without tripping up feet.
    • Talk about getting or not getting used to a life like this.
  • Offer a dance to Snowflake
    • Tone: not flirtatious, people dance with people at parties and we don't want Snowflake to be left out
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MadScientist said:
(Iirc, we specifically didn't submit his best seals to the contest, but I've had trouble finding the plan in question.)
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I don't know for sure either (and this was like right before I became an active player), but my understanding was that we only submitted the notes themselves, no seal designs were thrown in

Shrooms said:
There is an alternative option here, we could buy ES 40 and Sealing 39 (Eff 61), then bump ES to 50 and Sealing into 40-something later, without slowing down our sealing or ES 50. Also we might get lucky and only need ES 40 to begin 3D Sealing

Will also require another 20 however, so I guess maybe it is slower by a few days
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Looking it over, I think I'd rather buy a 20 and Sealing 40 and then just jump ES to 50, rather than have to buy 2 20s to bring ES up to 40 and Sealing to 39, and then bring ES to 50 and Sealing to 40, but as with all detour purchases no purchase order is technically slower, so long as it makes progress towards the intended final pyramid shape

TalonofAnathrax said:
The alternative plans all come clean to the condors for no reason, which is IMO even worse than a random flashback that pushes a ship we'd decided not to commit to.
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There's
[X] Lore Update
now if that interests you (interlude of Velorien's choice, sometimes worldbuilding, sometimes character building)
 
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Shrooms said:
Looking it over, I think I'd rather buy a 20 and Sealing 40 and then just jump ES to 50, rather than have to buy 2 20s to bring ES up to 40 and Sealing to 39, and then bring ES to 50 and Sealing to 40, but as with all detour purchases no purchase order is technically slower, so long as it makes progress towards the intended final pyramid shape
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100% in agreement with this. Mostly because we can do it immediately and better S-rank sealing will probably be a requirement to figure out 3-d seals and we can start benefiting from it immediately
 
Shrooms said:
I don't know for sure either (and this was like right before I became an active player), but my understanding was that we only submitted the notes themselves, no seal designs were thrown in


Looking it over, I think I'd rather buy a 20 and Sealing 40 and then just jump ES to 50, rather than have to buy 2 20s to bring ES up to 40 and Sealing to 39, and then bring ES to 50 and Sealing to 40, but as with all detour purchases no purchase order is technically slower, so long as it makes progress towards the intended final pyramid shape


There's
[X] Lore Update
now if that interests you (interlude of Velorien's choice, sometimes worldbuilding, sometimes character building)
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Let's do it, then. Presence 20, Sealing 40. We've got enough to bump it up to 40, right?
 
Cariyaga said:
Let's do it, then. Presence 20, Sealing 40. We've got enough to bump it up to 40, right?
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Here you go
[X] Training plan: Social Sealmaster
Sealing notes XP = 762
Normal XP = 211.12
  • Sealing 40: cost 770 XP
    • spend 762 sealing notes XP and 8 Normal XP
    • XP remaining = 203.12 XP
  • Presences 20: cost 90 XP
    • XP remaining =113.12 XP
 
[X] Training plan: Social Sealmaster

[X] Training Plan Akane: Reaction Time
Alertness 45 -> 49 (236 XP)
MedKnow 15 - 17 (33 MKNXP)
Use 33 MedKnow Notes XP
Save 43 XP
[X] Training Plan Keiko: Reaction Time

Alertness 40 -> 49 (405 XP)
Save 9 XP
[X] Training Plan Noburi: Reaction Time
Alertness 40 -> 48 (357 XP)


I think this is all right!
 
[X] Training Plan Noburi: None

Thought we were pretty concretely in agreement to bump reserves for Sage summoning? If we aren't, then I guess I should express that's where my preference is

Or if people really hate seeing over a hundred unspent XP on the sheet then:

[X] Training Noburi: Reserves
CR 30 -> 35 (330 XP)
Save 35 XP
 
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[X] Training plan: Social Sealmaster
[X] Training Plan Keiko: Reaction Time
[X] Training Plan Akane: Reaction Time

These seem fine to me. We prob need to come to more of a consensus on order of raising Akane AB skills though. Going for EM nukage at this point might be prudent

Same goes for Kei who has approximately 0 non-Summoning sauce at the moment. Some of her wind jutsu are good and could use attention
 
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