Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

faflec · May 1, 2017

Oneiros43 said:
once we on the mission we can make our own calls. So if an opportunity presents itself we can try to save mom. Regardless we should ask if Jiriyia saw anyone who matched her description

I don't think Jiraiya will answer that question; he'll just say it's above our clearance. Mostly because it actually is above our pay grade; but partly because if he claims Mummy died it'll emotionally compromise us (Hazou), and Jiraiya knows it. Also because Jiraiya wasn't focused on the ANBU fights (he fought Mei IIRC) and most of the enemy Mist Jonin probably got vaporized by Deidara.

Shneddly · May 1, 2017

eaglejarl said:
(Link to list of material shear strengths)

Actually, where did these numbers come from? It seems like most of them are way off, by at least an order of magnitude for some.

faflec · May 1, 2017

1234qwerty said:
edit: also, there's no way that's all Mari will be up to.

Do you seriously think Mari will be so busy that she can't grab five minutes with Jiraiya in his office (or other secured location Jiraiya spends time in)? Because I don't.

1234qwerty said:
This is a good point. Do you think it's impossible to circumvent this problem? I don't. Also, when do you think Jiraiaya picked up ANBU escorts? Before he picked us up from the compound? While we were in his presence?

If you have a solution that gets us alone with Jiraiya quickly and without annoying him even after talking to him then by all means tell me, because I don't fucking see it.
The ANBU were already there since we're in the Hokage's fucking office, and shadowed Jiraiya as we left because he's the fucking Hokage, or even followed us from before since he's fucking Jiraiya of the Leaf Three.

QTesseract · May 1, 2017

[X] Action Plan: Leaf Leaf

Cariyaga said:
So secret, not even we knew about it before now.

All this in response to one infosec screwup? Man, the antimemetics division doesnt fuck ar- yet another failure of us to keep our mouth shut. Damnit, when will that stop happening?

Oneiros · May 1, 2017

Anyone have thoughts on training plans?

Kiba · May 1, 2017

QTesseract said:
Probably the slang for a fictional sex scene. No idea as to where it comes from, but its definitally a thing.

Don't see that in the action plan.

Oneiros43 said:
Anyone have thoughts on training plans?

Do we even have time for training plan? I hope we get some respite in field to do some training.

faflec · May 1, 2017

Oneiros43 said:
Anyone have thoughts on training plans?

Personal opinion says TacMove if we're going to be out and about for the next couple weeks. That or Stealth, if we can get level 15+ (?).

Edit: Yeah, we can all afford effective Stealth 15. I'd recommend that since it gets us the full Skywalker buff.

Though that does assume Jiraiya allows us to use them...

QTesseract · May 1, 2017

Kiba said:
Don't see that in the action plan.

Do we even have time for training plan? I hope we get some respite in field to do some training.

I assumes there was some mention of jiraiya and mari, but now I have no kdea. Maybe its something to do with the irritant.

TenebrousDreamer · May 1, 2017

zap lunch

faflec · May 1, 2017

1234qwerty said:
I don't think there's a guarantee Mari will mention it, and we'll still be stressed about it in character since we won't know what the result of that potential discussion was. If I had a solution, I would have said it, but talking with hostile observers listening in isn't my forte. I still belive a solution exists, since last time our error was a matter of mispeaking, not topic. It seemd like all of the ANBU were busy in the tower, and since he is Jiraiya, he could probably be left unguarded. Though now that I think about it, they wouldn't want to leave him with Mari unobserved. It matters little, since we should assume we're being observed in any case.

~~Then we mention it to Mari later, since we have 2 hours to get stuff.~~
~~Stating a solution exists does not mean we have the ability to figure it out. Arguing for a course of action based on the belief that we can find that solution is not a wise decision.~~
~~We are still in the Hokage Tower and the Hokage's office 3 billion percent has to have sensitive material that needs to be guarded.~~
Jiraiya was not left unguarded, ever. When we fucked up and threatened Kabuto ANBU immediately showed up. When we talked to Jiraiya in his office ANBU were already there and Jiraiya had to order them out.

Edit: Fuck it, this is a waste of my time. Ping me if you ever figure out a solution.

hYGP · May 1, 2017

Would you agree to check whether we are allowed to use skywalkers and leave the preliminary designs for the zephyr's reach rifle on his desk with the estimation for power with him, @faflec?

e: going to bed, need sleep for test

faflec · May 1, 2017

huhYeahGoodPoint said:
Would you agree to check whether we are allowed to use skywalkers and leave the preliminary designs for the zephyr's reach rifle on his desk with the estimation for power with him, @faflec?

Yes to the former and maybe to the latter. I'm pretty sure I asked Jiraiya about skywalkers, though?

Anyway, training plans:

[X] Training Hazou: Tactical Stealth
Stealth 11 [11]
Stealth 12 [23]
Wits 8 [39]
Tactical Movement 19 [58]
Tactical Movement 20 [78]
Save 6 XP

[X] Training Keiko: Tactical Stealth
Stealth 12 [12]
Stealth 13 [25]
Stealth 14 [39]
Stealth 15 [54]
Save 26 XP

[X] Training Noburi: Tactical Stealth
Stealth 12 [12]
Stealth 13 [25]
Stealth 14 [39]
Stealth 15 [54]
Save 8.5 XP

General idea is to level Stealth to 15 (getting the full Skywalker buff) and then spending the rest of our XP in TacMove.

The alternative plan is to level only TacMove, but that would give us fewer levels since we don't get bonuses.

Briefvoice · May 1, 2017

@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail

One question because I have to know. Without confirming or denying anything that happened at the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.... Did you just decide how it would all turn out, or did you roll dice to randomize some of the results?

TenebrousDreamer · May 1, 2017

zap lunch

Oneiros · May 1, 2017

faflec said:
Yes to the former and maybe to the latter. I'm pretty sure I asked Jiraiya about skywalkers, though?

Anyway, training plans:

[X] Training Hazou: Tactical Stealth
Stealth 11 [11]
Stealth 12 [23]
Wits 8 [39]
Tactical Movement 19 [58]
Tactical Movement 20 [78]
Save 6 XP

[X] Training Keiko: Tactical Stealth
Stealth 12 [12]
Stealth 13 [25]
Stealth 14 [39]
Stealth 15 [54]
Save 26 XP

[X] Training Noburi: Tactical Stealth
Stealth 12 [12]
Stealth 13 [25]
Stealth 14 [39]
Stealth 15 [54]
Save 8.5 XP

General idea is to level Stealth to 15 (getting the full Skywalker buff) and then spending the rest of our XP in TacMove.

The alternative plan is to level only TacMove, but that would give us fewer levels since we don't get bonuses.

Hazō and Noburi are actually better of rolling taijutsu or water whip in combat than trying to use tac move to dodge. Hazō brings 49 with Roki and chakra boost. where as Noburi gets
51 with water whip and hozuki's mantle.
So suggest Roki instead of tacmove for Hazō

But these work
[X] Training Noburi: Tactical Stealth
[X] Training Keiko: Tactical Stealth

schlega · May 1, 2017

For the zephyr's reach rifle, LBFs aren't going to work. We need storage scrolls with Kagome's proximity sensor. Just make the range extremely small and have the trigger push something just far enough to trigger the seal when it's in the right position.

faflec · May 1, 2017

Oneiros43 said:
Hazō and Noburi are actually better of rolling taijutsu or water whip in combat than trying to use tac move to dodge. Hazō brings 49 with Roki and chakra boost. where as Noburi gets
51 with water whip and hozuki's mantle

We're on a delivery mission and are not expected to see combat; furthermore, if we do see combat it's going to be either with Jonin-levels or above at which point we're already fucked.

turbinicarpus · May 1, 2017

faflec said:
You know, this would be the perfect opportunity for Jiraiya to kill us. Isolate Mari-sensei in Leaf, have us sent off to nowhere-space, and then quietly have us killed while we're down our strongest member.

Kagome: 'Bet the stinker just wrote in the letter, "Kill whomever delivers it." But the joke's on him, 'cause I've added some extra seals to the envelope.

Oneiros · May 1, 2017

faflec said:
We're on a delivery mission and are not expected to see combat; furthermore, if we do see combat it's going to be either with Jonin-levels or above at which point we're already fucked.

Why do you think we will only be targeted by Jonin? Much more likely that a bunch of chunnin target us.
Also we are limited to lowest Tacmove in our travel speed so leveling Hazou only doesn't help. Where as if we hit combat an extra 3 dice is huge.

Kiba · May 1, 2017

faflec said:
We're on a delivery mission and are not expected to see combat; furthermore, if we do see combat it's going to be either with Jonin-levels or above at which point we're already fucked.

I hope to god we don't see any combat. Our stealth is shit, even shitter if we have to rescue some poor civilians.

Oneiros · May 1, 2017

Kiba said:
I hope to god we don't see any combat. Our stealth is shit, even shitter if we have to rescue some poor civilians.

If we level stealth to 15 we can reach effective stealth of 33. That's not crap at all

faflec · May 1, 2017

Oneiros43 said:
Why do you think we will only be targeted by Jonin? Much more likely that a bunch of chunnin target us.

With chakra boost + Skywalkers we have 45 TacMove, we'll be fine against Chunins. Jonins, on the other hand...

OliWhail · May 1, 2017

Briefvoice said:
@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail

One question because I have to know. Without confirming or denying anything that happened at the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.... Did you just decide how it would all turn out, or did you roll dice to randomize some of the results?

We spent a lot of time figuring out everyone's die pools and tactics, and then rolled everything.

Briefvoice · May 1, 2017

OliWhail said:
We spent a lot of time figuring out everyone's die pools and tactics, and then rolled everything.

Whelp. I guess that could have gone worse for us then....

Oneiros · May 1, 2017

faflec said:
With chakra boost + Skywalkers we have 45 TacMove, we'll be fine against Chunins. Jonins, on the other hand...

We actually will have close to comparable Tacmove to Jounin. The problem is that weapon users will dominate us. Right now with Roki it gives as a better comparative advantage to level that then Tacmove. After getting up to Roki 12 Tacmove goes back up in value

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