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- Texas
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- She/Her
Team Uplift has in general had far fewer challenges than every S-rank in the setting, actually. Everybody else has decades of experiences and multiple wars (and then there's Naruto).
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
Team Uplift has in general had far fewer challenges than every S-rank in the setting, actually. Everybody else has decades of experiences and multiple wars (and then there's Naruto).
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Outcomes are very, very swingy. Maybe none of the Akatsuki are there and we just utterly curbstomp the randos left behind. Maybe two of them are there and they get beaten down by our combined forces. Maybe all of them are there, waiting for us, and we have to somehow match the equivalent firepower of the Battle of the Gods. Maybe we don't even get into position without getting detected, by some esoteric sensory ability or just by bad luck.
On balance, I think the odds favour us. But it's hard to say how much, not when each variable we tweak dramatically changes the calculus. And of course, there's always the outside chance of the Superchiller ending.
Eisenhelm
gran dutch of douchery
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- Colombia
*hiperventilating* yep, absolutely hilarious.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
When you see this, if I may ask: what kind of plan would be helpful for the upcoming chapter?
My thoughts include any assortment of:
- "You need to finalize the distribution of chakra and how many runes you're making"
- "You should suggest some more ideas for the actual battle"
- "You should specify any contingencies you want Hazou to try if something doesn't go according to plan"
- "You should also specify any immediate post-battle actions you want to take"
- "You should make a final speech to your team/the Sannin/everyone assembled here"
So uh... I don't follow the mechanics the best and this is late to bring this up, but I swear I remember reading at one point that RERs would have some targeting variance in the first shot that could be accounted for after the first shot. Our plan does not seem to account for this at all, so am I misremembering, or did we improve that aspect of it or something?
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- France
I also want to thank the QMs for all their years of writing and crowd-managing.
But I want to say that if we fail here I will be kicking myself forever for not opening up with Superchillers. Can't blame the QMs, but I can blame the player base.
Nothing is stopping us from opening with Superchillers, if you want to see it, write the plan for it.
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I think it might be the Antimemetics Dragon
redzonejoe
Vaguely Pastafarian
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- Canada
Yes, your memory is correct.
The plan takes this targeting issue into account with weight of raw numbers. If the accuracy can be described with a coin flip, odds are decent if firing 9 RERs that we will still hit several times. Even the 'missed' shots will hit only 1 zone away from the target, with a significant AOE that will still ultimately contribute usefully to the barrage.
If you reread the story post, Hazo briefly raises the idea of firing a second shot with the RERs, but the Sannin would prefer to launch the assault after the first shot and not worry about the explosive AOE. This hypothetical second shot would have been more accurate, but the time it would take between shots is time that the S-ranks want to use.
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- Europe
The Mirror Dragon did eat the Capybara Clan Boss and their collective Soul. Might explain why that thing isn't noticeable and why Tsunade feels some level of guilt.
Using the Soul of a dead demi god trapped in a corpse of an eldritch abomination I mean.
If Oro get's killed I want it, last time his memory was fuzzy enough, hope we can keep it.
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- USA
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- He/Him
Sheets weren't created for most of the demigods at the time stagnation was added, since we hadn't needed them. When we later created the sheets, stagnancy was accounted for. So, yes. The major antagonists were 'nerfed' by stagnancy and you should be incredibly grateful.
[EDIT because forgot to respond to the first part: Eh. If that's your definition of unfair then sure, whatever. An NPC existing means that they have beaten all their past challenges definitionally, simply by the anthropic principle. That's true regardless of the mechanics. Going forward, we will likely deal with NPC unstagnations either by a %ile roll or some other simple method. If you want us to model Hazō on a "roll a d100, on a 1-N he unstagnates and on an N+1-100 he dies" then I suppose we can talk about that.]
Nope.
*shrug*? Dunno. I didn't think there was anything that needed to be dealt with but it was then pointed out that there was still chakra budgeting to do.
For the record: now that voting is open it's much more likely that Thursday will be an interlude. If it had stayed closed then we would have had several days to do the math and write everything up but if we can't start until Wednesday then that's not happening.
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- Europe
While we kill Sasori, Kisame and Hidan (?) at the Rift, Itachi, Konan and Deidara take Leaf.
ITACHI: "I am Hokage now, please Goketsu hand me the Rift"
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[X] Action Plan: Armageddon Initiative
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Desired Duration: Until the battle for the Rift
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Desired Duration: Until the battle for the Rift
- Buy 3 FP
- Assualt the Rift
- Optimize with the Sannin/Uplift (separately)
- Budget the chakra
- Source additional chakra
- Have Noburi overdraw the Moon-nin, inflicting up to Moderate Consequences, for extra chakra.
- Ask for volunteer Leaf ninja to take Mild and Moderate overdraw Consequences.
- Capture the natural chakra regeneration of everyone for the 16 hours leading up to the assualt.
- First 22000 CP
- 5 Tsunade SCs and 5 Orochimaru SCs refilled to 600 CP
- Shaping and infusion of 9 RER 2.0s split into 3 sections manned by Hazouclones with unrefilled Tsunade spotters
- Additional runic infusions, and Hazou SCs to infuse the preshaped runes. Additional chakra for tunneling.
- All the Clan Bosses, the Toad Sages, genin Summons as a screen for anti construct arrays.
- Put the rest into jounin summons
- Next 6000 CP
- Refill Kurenai clones to 300 CP
- Refill Mari clones to 300 CP
- Finish Summoning the jounin Summons (no additional Toads)
- Next 5000 CP
- Cast Strength of a Hundred on the Tsunade Clones
- If chakra still remains:
- 1) If Cannai indicates he wants chunin Dogs for Strength of the Pack, summon Cansaku and a couple chunin Lightning Runners
- 2) Top off the the Kurenai/Mari Clones to 450 CP
- 3) Summon jounin Toads
- 4) Start Summoning chunin
- Source additional chakra
- Approach the Rift
- Use the plan discussed in the previous chapter.
- Shape the RER 2.0s at the staging area and carry them to their assualt positions. Fortify the emplacement with SCSA, SSSA, and skyslicer nets.
- RER bombardment positions should be inside the Force Dome, Ninja Radar positions outside the Force Dome
- Once emplaced, send a duo of Hazouclones carrying (stored) Iron Earth, Force Dome and (secretly) Superchiller blanks
- They should approach via tunneling at least a couple hundred meters underground. To a point close enough to entrap the fortress but not so close as to run into defenses.
- One should infuse the Force Dome (timeladdered up once) and the other the Iron Earth (timeladdered twice)
- That second should then tunnel away from the first (to minimize chance of discovery) and infuse the Superchiller (timeladdered twice) at a depth of ~180m.
- If possible, collapse the connecting tunnel to cover your tracks.
- Once the Force Dome is infused, that clone creates a tunnel upwards to just a few meters under the surface so that the Force Dome chakra pillar can penetrate.
- Force Dome formation signals the bombardment to begin.
- Activate the Iron Earth rune after the bombardment ends as not to strengthen the fortress by accident.
- The Battle
- Suggest all combatants dress alike and mask themselves to make them fractionally more difficult to identify.
- Kurenai Prime and Mari Prime should guard Hazou Prime outside the Force Dome, and watch for escapees.
- Aim for any members of Akatsuki you can see as top priority targets.
- Below that, any concentrations of ninja.
- Set up signals that the assualt force can give via Banshee/signal justu for calling down shots on nearby positions -- to clear defenses or sealing arrays, for example.
- Silently pray to Jashin, and dedicate all kills in his name.
- If Orochimaru and Tsunade go down and defeat is imminent, activate the Superchiller.
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We can't do that without leaking its existence. So no.
We will only activate it if things go really poorly on the surface.
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- Yes.
Suggestion: Optimize the budget/assault with the Sannin/crew.
I would write "Have Noburi overdraw the Moon-nin, inflicting maximum Consequences, for extra chakra". The meaning is slightly different: this version indicates that, on a Consequence-free ninja, we inflict a Mild, Moderate, and Severe Consequence to overdraw 5% + 10% + 15% chakra (total: 30% extra chakra). I'm not 100% sure we are allowed to do this on an unwilling/unconscious ninja, but if we can that's a lot of chakra we'd lose out on if we just did a Severe Consequence (15% extra chakra).
Uh, should we be including a Superchiller infusion in the budget? I was under the impression we wanted to do this part secretly, and Hazou could just...use his personal stores for this part. Probably should have this part in a secret section after the "Assault the Rift" section.
Assuming we're summoning at some point before this, I would suggest we use a Summoning creature to do the tunneling, to save chakra relative to burrowing 100m down and 2.5 miles forward using our own jutsu.
I would suggest that the activation of the Force Dome would itself be enough of a signal, given that the thing would pretty obviously reveal a massive dome in the sky/destroying the surrounding landscape.
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- Europe
The Force Dome means things will be contained to the Rift site, with the only friendlies present being Tsunade and Oro.
Hazou-clones could presumably tell one of Tsunade's clones that she needs to evacuate to the Seventh Path immediately.
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
May want to change it to "silently pray to Jashin, and mentally dedicate all kills in his name."
I could see the phrase "quietly" being leveraged to mean that Haozu whispers it, and some rando hears him, and chooses to make a stink about it.