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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
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@Shrooms I went through your Ongoing Projects threadmark a bit.
SSSS would just be reminding/asking Shikamaru and Asuma about it I guess. Honestly I don't even remember where that left off and I do remember that we'd rather not have them as part of our Clan if we don't have to, since they're kinda badshit.
With YSJ I am currently trying to find the relevant chapter again. But I guess the way to do it is showing off what high Resolve can do (in a way that doesn't show of the SC interaction).
I guess this is on hold because we're not there anymore and probably don't have permission to build it through Leaf.
This might count as complete now? Or at least it evolved into a new project with the Aburame.
I think this is done for good.
This is not a question towards you in particular, but should we do anything about either of these two?
SSSS would just be reminding/asking Shikamaru and Asuma about it I guess. Honestly I don't even remember where that left off and I do remember that we'd rather not have them as part of our Clan if we don't have to, since they're kinda badshit.
With YSJ I am currently trying to find the relevant chapter again. But I guess the way to do it is showing off what high Resolve can do (in a way that doesn't show of the SC interaction).
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She just wanted to verify that it isn't placebo, since Shikamaru suspected it waas. I think we can safely rule that out.
tbh I think they're dead. They were present when Orochimaru led Isan against Cloud, and were never heard from again. Besides potentially dying in that battle, Oro has said he kills them very frequently for annoying him, though it never dissuades the others.
How do we know they were present? Was it in the chapter and I'm not remembering it?
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Do you remember the chapter? Or roughly remember at least? Either way, I guess we told Ino off screen that it definitely isn't placebo?
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I don't think it was expressly mentioned but that sect seemingly lived in Isan and they worship Orochimaru. I'd be very surprised if they didn't jump at the chance to interact with or impress him. It's also been... over a year? And they never showed up to Leaf, despite all these Leaf/Isan meetings that have been happening as Isan prepared to join the world publicly.
IIRC they didn't live there, they're missing nin who sent an ambassador to Isan. Arikada was the only one present.
Maybe we should ask Asuma if we need to worry about this guy showing up at our doorstep
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IIRC we already did ask once and were told no one knows anything, though that was several months ago in-universe
Alright, he's probably dead. I'm not going to worry about it. If he shows up we can just have him killed.
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... So which three of the six fooming/soon-to-be-fooming Uplift-aligned people do you expect to die?
"Oh hey Whirlpool, that's where you've been! Heh. Awkwaaard..."
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Definitely Akane.
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Akane down. That's still the Gonin, there's Futari to go. Mari, Hazō, Noburi, Ami... and let's consider Kei to represent the Snow Globe, or kill her off too to make the counting easier
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The important thing is that if we do this right it shouldn't matter who dies since we can bring them back
It'll be funny if that's what ends up killing Hazou and ending the quest, right before we unlock the secrets of Naraka.
(Although at this point we have a clear path towards resurrection and so it would probably continue even if he died?)
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Hazō is not going to be doing any training during this trip. He'll be spending the majority of his days traveling, guarding, or popping back to the Human Path very briefly to check on the clan.
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Right but he will still be accumulating XP in that time (just not FOOM)
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Some thoughts.
Unclear that the textbook is a lootbox: presumably she'd give unfettered access to the Real Deal to any sufficiently-good medic and I'm not sure we live in a universe which reflects that being the case?
Also Iron Nerve surgery stunts are unlikely IMO: human bodies differ greatly (organs in all sorts of different places) so being able to make the same physical motions perfectly is unlikely to help.
She's a clan of her own, so presumably she can just...do her stuff? Like, if we had a kid we'd be free to teach them Goketsu secrets, which include stuff like 'here's how to avoid pissing yourself with the Iron Nerve'. Maybe?
She probably has social pressures, but it's worth thinking about for sure.
What's the proposal here? Presumably Reo would have to learn the techniques, and that's Hard. If he can learn them, then that's a good start, but it isn't clear to me how he'd actually get to that point given that he'd have to hack the technique for human use prior to learning it, and that's a catch-22. Maybe if he learns enough (say) Toad jutsu already adapted for humans, then he can identify some patterns, but I don't think we're there with Ma or Pa.
I think the win here would be having them teach Sasuke under an agreement that he teaches us, and that any jutsu he learns this way are joint Goketsu-Uchiha clan secrets. (That would be a cool character development moment, potentially?)
If you think of it as something that other clans really, really value, then IMO the value proposition gets a lot better. One chunk of chakra metal is probably worth some Sarutobi secrets, at any rate.
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It's not a lootbox. What it does mechanically is let you learn mednin (and medknow(?)) up to 10 without a teacher but with a few months study.
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Every fight is different yet memorizing your old battles still gives bonuses. The point isn't to have a single motion you repeat but to have an entire library of motions to choose from, varying in length of time and motion. This is why it would likely need to be a stunt (with time and XP investment) the way Iron Nerve socials/fighting styles would be.
I believe the idea is collaborating with the Summon technique hackers to finagle jutsu exchange. The jutsu is already complete and they can walk us through the casting, but a human will presumably be needed to make human hand seals work instead of dog ear-twitching or what have you. I don't think Reo is nearly skilled enough to do this, which is why I have hopes we can obtain some TH notes. And of course, Kei and Akane have FOOM and could become experts in a relatively short amount of time especially with notes.
I'm not sure Sasuke would be able to then pass them on to us. If he's Casting via the Sharingan he may not be able to pass it on to us. I also don't think some of our summon clans would be comfortable with a deal like that (especially the Pangolins who are already annoyed by how many people know their jutsu.)
I don't think it's a no-go but I do think we should try to account for the possibility we have to do it on our own.
Oh that's a really good point... hmm, if it seems like we would be able to get an equivalently valuable secret maybe it would be worth pursuing some chakra metal. As of now though I think we know too little and it's probably not our best lead.