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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Does Hazō understand [redacted]?

Hazō (Primordial Sealing): 36 - 5 (Severe Consequence penalty to Sealing * 1/3) - 4 (Severe Consequence penalty to Primordial Sealing) - 6 = 21
Hazō spends a FP to reroll!
Hazō (Primordial Sealing): 36 - 5 (Severe Consequence penalty to Sealing * 1/3) - 4 (Severe Consequence penalty to Primordial Sealing) - 12 = 15

Hazō thinks he could perhaps understand aspects of the Great Seal's function, but a bunch of minor distractions and the eternal brain fog left behind by his intense healing regimen have him too exhausted to put things together. He's certain the full difficulty of the seal is well beyond his current capability.
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Great Seal:
Now that he has his wits about him, Hazō will again do a prep day to try to figure out what's going on with the Great Seal:
Hazō (Primordial Sealing): 11 + 25 (cross-disciplinary bonus from Sealing) - 6 = 30

He still can't quite wrap his head around it. The Great Seal is just too complex for him to understand.
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Study the Great Seal with DoB. Open the mystery box. Does not use ES, can be multitracked with itself.
 
[X] Interlude: Kei Convenes a Polycule Meeting on Aisu Bay Murderland - Snowflakes Stand in for Missing Paramours.
[X] Hazou Training Plan: PS Step
[X] Action Plan: To Out Or Not To Out
[X] Action Plan: Bug Out (Redux)
[X] Action Plan: Take The Fam And Go
 
faflec said:
There's no way in hell Gaku becomes the actual Clan Head; civilians aren't respected enough and people like Sasuke only ever choose civilian regents due to extenuating circumstances --namely, that the only of-age ninja sharing the blood is a mass-murdering fuck.
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Which is why I suggested that we could take all the Gōketsu ninja except for Sasha and/or Honoka with us. Then there'd be precedent for Gaku being made regent.

faflec said:
We've already been showing Atomu around the ropes for a bit, he is likely to hold the fort and work with Gaku on the rest. Hopefully.
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Oh OK. If we only take Team Uplift, if Atomu knows to rely on Gaku then that's fine, I suppose. Your excellent memory strikes again.
 
[X] Interlude: Kei Convenes a Polycule Meeting on Aisu Bay Murderland - Snowflakes Stand in for Missing Paramours.
 
[X] Hazou Training Plan: PS Step
[X] Action Plan: To Out Or Not To Out
[X] Interlude: Kei Convenes a Polycule Meeting on Aisu Bay Murderland - Snowflakes Stand in for Missing Paramours.
 
[X] Interlude: Kei Convenes a Polycule Meeting on Aisu Bay Murderland - Snowflakes Stand in for Missing Paramours.
 
[X] Interlude: Kei Convenes a Polycule Meeting on Aisu Bay Murderland - Snowflakes Stand in for Missing Paramours.

Presumably as a result of Hazou telling them about The Plan.
 
Why are we voting for an interlude. Do you want to wait longer to find out whether the rest of Team Uplift managed to safely exfiltrate or were murdered horribly?

Inferno Vulpix said:
If I notice that an argument could be extended or abused, particularly in a way that should I agree with it under reasonable circumstances I could be compelled to agree to it under unreasonable circumstances, an alarm blares in my head and I snap out of my ordinary default mode of examination. The one we're discussing is very benign, all I could be compelled to do is let someone save face in a situation that ought to be embarrassing, but there are other problems of similar shape that can be used to compel people to suspend their own judgement and do whatever someone else says, and that makes for a tantalizing weapon in the wrong hands.
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Interesting. Can you provide a few more examples of arguments of this shape? This seems like a potentially useful mental motion, but it's not immediately obvious to me what those arguments generally look like.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Velorien on Jul 10, 2024 at 10:58 AM, finished with 339 posts and 26 votes.
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Voting is closed.
 
@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped

A few questions from the last chapter.

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"Medically relevant!?" Noburi said. "It's a Sage-damned medical miracle seal, you know! I figured out it basically lets me look into a patient's chakra system and see exactly what's going on inside them. There's a bunch of medical ninjutsu that gets super complicated by interactions between your chakra and the patient's chakra, and someone that knows how to read these seals can basically make all those problematic interactions go away."
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Do these seals provide mechanical benefit to Mednin rolls for wound healing/triage? Something like +AB/+2AB or +6/+9 seems reasonable for what Noburi describes as a miracle seal. He certainly didn't seem that enthusiastic about Dampeners.
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Canope stood up again. "I don't think so. Your human combat sounds like an elegant dance of attacks and counterattacks. I don't think you'll find that on the Seventh Path unless you for some reason fight someone a dozen times – and even then, you're going to have such asymmetric capabilities from your opponent that you might not get the reliable block patterns for you to feint your way past."

"Okay," Hazō said. "Let's test it out in a more organic scenario then. I'll jog in from that way, and you jump on me when I reach about here, and I'll see if I notice any place where I could build a Roki trap."

"Sure thing," Canope said as she settled into the grass. "Why would I say no to a roll around with the summoner? On your mark!"
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Did Hazou figure out a way to use Roki on quadrupeds? Or was this ultimately not possible?

Separately, did he figure out a way to apply the bonus from Force Claws to the Roki roll?
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He was mid-infusion when a puff of smoke signaled Kei's return from the Seventh Path, and his chakra shifted slightly more chthonic than he'd intended.
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Hmmmm interesting, no question here, but if Unsummoning shifts chakra around like this I see potential ways to deflect Unsummonings like the Unsummoning Anchor is intended to do.
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"I think the fire is just emitting a spread of colors – yellow, orange, red, and past-red," Hazō said, after a quick debate. "I guess I can tune a receiver to receive past-red, but the Light Relay's emitter is just like HOWS, so tuning the emitter to past-red might cause a sealing failure again. Still, we should test it. I could scribe another Light Relay and try tuning the receiver more chthonic than red and see if it shows the same behavior. We could do that now, and if it produces the same result, we-"
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A later test of past-red receiving Light Relays reveal that they can be stably infused and reliably activate when exposed to flames of various sizes and sorts.
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Now that Hazou has seen that past-red exists and is a stable input for Light Relay, is he willing to reclassify that past-red HOWS as a past-red HOWS and not a sealing failure?

I want to stress it was a very atypical Sealing failure, and from what Hazou has seen, it is completely consistent with the behavior of HOWS that they could emit past-red. In addition, the seal was warm, and fire is warm. So that past-red might be warm is not a great leap by any means.

I think Hazou has shown enough intellectual flexibility by now to make the leap that he mistakenly classified the past-red HOWS as a failure rather than realize it was emitting invisible light.

So would Hazou be willing to infuse a past-red HOWS and try to use it to activate a Light Relay? That seems like the next step here.
 
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