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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Velorien said:
Most were in unfamiliar scripts. Some were hieroglyphic, but didn't portray any objects or creatures Hazō recognised. Some were sequences of dots and lines. One looked like it was all a single continuous symbol covering the entire band, with markings above and below to aid interpretation. Some looked like kanji, but had little in common with the standard script Hazō was used to.
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Velorien said:
"Handle with care," he read out. "Do not open without Something supervision. This way up." He paused and gave the featureless floating sphere a sceptical look. "Something inside. If found, do not something, and something something immediately. To something, use something attached."
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped It seems reasonable for Hazou to guess that the scripts all contain the same message. Did he copy the scripts down via Iron Nerve for future study?
 
Sir Stompy said:
Does Hazou know who suppressed these memories? Or did he do it himself?
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There is no way to know something like that, but it seems a reasoable guess that he did it himself as a coping mechanism.

faflec said:
@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped It seems reasonable for Hazou to guess that the scripts all contain the same message. Did he copy the scripts down via Iron Nerve for future study?
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He did not. Writing them out with his fingers, which I'm guessing is what you mean, would have taken a great deal of time and effort (especially since most of the writing would have been out of reach and he couldn't just trace over it). I suppose you could always vote for him to go back to the sphere after the shrine visit.
 
Velorien said:
He did not. Writing them out with his fingers, which I'm guessing is what you mean, would have taken a great deal of time and effort (especially since most of the writing would have been out of reach and he couldn't just trace over it). I suppose you could always vote for him to go back to the sphere after the shrine visit.
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Damn, I would have hoped he would have gotten the Morse code version, at least.
 
Velorien said:
There is no way to know something like that, but it seems a reasoable guess that he did it himself as a coping mechanism.


He did not. Writing them out with his fingers, which I'm guessing is what you mean, would have taken a great deal of time and effort (especially since most of the writing would have been out of reach and he couldn't just trace over it). I suppose you could always vote for him to go back to the sphere after the shrine visit.
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Long shot, but did anything inscribe itself into the IN library?
 
Velorien said:
There is no way to know something like that, but it seems a reasoable guess that he did it himself as a coping mechanism
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I thought perhaps part of the enemy action would be to supress the memories of the supression. Including the culprit, but alas. Coping mechanism checks out. Good thing we bought all that Resolve.

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Sir Stompy said:
Did Hazou spend most of his chakra on something not in the update? Or is this the kind of drain we can expect from a few days without taking more shimmers in?
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Is there any chance that we can get an answer to this soon? The radio silence is concerning.
 
Sir Stompy said:
Did Hazou spend most of his chakra on something not in the update? Or is this the kind of drain we can expect from a few days without taking more shimmers in?
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QM miscommunication about how much chakra Hazō had to begin with. We'll use the higher numbers, so Hazō started at roughly three-quarters, and finished Chapter 705 nearly full at 362 CP. Chapters have been edited accordingly.
 
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Velorien said:
"Handle with care," he read out. "Do not open without Something supervision. This way up." He paused and gave the featureless floating sphere a sceptical look. "Something inside. If found, do not something, and something something immediately. To something, use something attached."
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Paperclipped said:
Something like that. [insert obligatory "chakra is hard to quantify" disclaimer here]
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Somethings never change.

PS: Something
 
I feel like we should work out a way to do a deeper examination of the Sphere. It looks like a Seal derivative, Rune or Metal-Rune or Hard-Chakra-Rune or something of the like. Finding out even a small idea on how it could be replicated seems worthwhile.

Actually, we're in a new era of MfD. May as well try it myself.

[x] Plan: Fondle the Ball
-[x] Examine the surface of the Orb independent of the writing. What does it feel like? How hard/soft/yielding does it seem to be? Does it feel like anything familiar? Use chakra for additional sense-information.
-[x] Examine the writing; It appears to be light, and it's moving. Moving in a regular pattern? Tracing lines like chakra channels similar to our Runes? Ponder if making seals out of light has any shared possibility-space with Minatosealing.
-[x] Investigate Shrine
-[x] After examining to our satisfaction/frustration, attempt to hunt more Shimmers. Ask party if they're willing to attend, or else split and head back on our own. This would be as good of a time as any to continue exploring.
 
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Spector29 said:
I feel like we should work out a way to do a deeper examination of the Sphere. It looks like a Seal derivative, Rune or Metal-Rune or Hard-Chakra-Rune or something of the like. Finding out even a small idea on how it could be replicated seems worthwhile.
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Okay. Any ideas? All our investigative tools are seal-based. There's not much we can do here besides track down the Singer who took the triangle.
 
Sir Stompy said:
Okay. Any ideas? All our investigative tools are seal-based. There's not much we can do here besides track down the Singer who took the triangle.
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I posted a rudimentary plan that involved us physically investigating it. We touched it and didn't evaporate, and presumably the locals weren't feeling particularly interested in rubbing up on it, so I figure it's a safe place to at least start gaining information.
 
Velorien said:
You can vote to return to it. Your companions may be confused and/or annoyed, but you're not on a deadline. At least, not an immediate one.
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It makes much more sense to visit it on the return journey if we so desire.

None of these tests seem worth the time to me, regardless. But even for people who want to do them they should be voting to perform them on the return journey.
 
Velorien said:
"Still," he said, looking down at the torc again, "before I go, I want to give my bondmark to somebody who'll care about it. That's the least my Yukiko deserves. I don't really know if there are kami in the afterlife, but if there are, there's bound to be one living at that shrine who'll treasure an offering with fifty years of memories inside it."
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If we want to leave something meaningful we could leave one of the Pangolin gauntlets or the Kagome explosive rings. Do we still have them?

But we should probably examine the shrine first anyway.

Velorien said:
The fingerlands were pretty much as advertised. Instead of trees, there were humanoid fingers growing out of the ground, brown-skinned with green, yellow, or red fingernails.
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I googled "Finger Yokai" and got Dorotabō, who are yokai/demon that have three fingers associated with negative emotions that are anger, greed and ignorance. The colours are kind of matching?

The part with the fingers is also on the Japanese wikipedia page.

I got curious because the shrine part also talks about it's colours,
Paperclipped said:
A shrine like that, adorned like the night with rich blues and blacks, seems like it should be good luck. They're bringing some of their favorite trinkets to leave as offerings.
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But I guess talking colour symbolism can go on forever and I probably spent way to much time investigating this.
 
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