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- The Deep Blue Sea
We're still deciding between two final versions. In neither of them is Akane a better diplomat than Keiko.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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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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- The Void
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Kei is probably about as good as a non social speced jounin
Vecht
Self-Requested Ban
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- Snarksville, Snarkland
It is possible to make a "computer" out of pretty much anything. All you need is to be able to persistently store one of two states, to be able to easily read states, and to easily toggle one state to the other. That's it. You can theoretically do it with explosive seals and LBF tripwire if you really wanted to -- I think I made a post about that a while back.
The hardest thing about building a computer isn't building the physical construct, but understanding computation in the first place.
The most useful thing about a computer isn't that it does computation (lots of things can do computation), but that it reliably does computation really fast.
We aren't going to build any useful computers. Not by a long shot. (Not to mention, what problems do we have that we need computers to solve?)
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- Yes.
Noted, and I have changed the plan such that Hazou and Keiko (not Akane) are sent in.
Does anyone have objections to this?
And yet, people still found MONIACs useful for modelling economies.
Of course we are, it's just a matter of time. I'm aiming to have analogue computers and simple electronics down by the next in-game year, but combining them will take quite a bit longer. We'll need to improve the materials industry most likely, and that will be a time-sink. Once we can build transistors, we can just set the Nara on the project and let them go nuts on making a room-sized tickertape calculator or whatever they had in the fourties.
I shouldn't need to spell out why having computers is good.
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- The Void
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Reposting training plans
Vecht
Self-Requested Ban
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- Snarksville, Snarkland
[X] Training Keiko: Stealthy ninja
[X] Training Noburi: Stealthy ninja
[X] Training Hazou: Stealth at full Capacity
Stealth 11-12 (23 xp)
Capacity 11-12 (46 xp)
Roki 10 (10xp)
Save 6 exp
Prioritizing Capacity, since that is our bottleneck to fast movement. Unlikely we'll need to punch things, but we probably should get Roki 10-12 eventually. I'm not sure I agree with getting MEW to 10 just to have the discount. We don't need the discount for anything at present, nor do we have prospects of getting more useful Doton jutsu.
[X] Training Noburi: Stealthy ninja
[X] Training Hazou: Stealth at full Capacity
Stealth 11-12 (23 xp)
Capacity 11-12 (46 xp)
Roki 10 (10xp)
Save 6 exp
Prioritizing Capacity, since that is our bottleneck to fast movement. Unlikely we'll need to punch things, but we probably should get Roki 10-12 eventually. I'm not sure I agree with getting MEW to 10 just to have the discount. We don't need the discount for anything at present, nor do we have prospects of getting more useful Doton jutsu.
[X] Training Keiko: Stealthy ninja
[X] Training Noburi: Stealthy ninja
[X] Training Hazou: Stealth at full Capacity
[X] Training Noburi: Stealthy ninja
[X] Training Hazou: Stealth at full Capacity
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- She/Her
With Noburi having 650 chakra points don't think we have to worry about running dry
Vecht
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Capacity limits Hazou's ability to use Noburi's chakra. This will give him +20 base and +10 from Noburi. This means one additional boost before needing to refill.
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- Maidenhead, UK
[X] Action Plan: Akatsuki Rising
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Most importantly, this will allow us to go meta, and Hazou and and his team can run an international quest. What better way to bring people together?
Vecht
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I presume you would agree that we should also presently divert resources to working on spacesuits, since we will eventually want to travel in space?
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- Phoenix, AZ
I for one would like to know why having computers is good in the context of Marked for Death, where computers are things we'd need to develop from the ground up.
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Ehh you're not wrong. Leveling Capacity is basically 2 more dice to chakra boost with. I'd still give a slight edge to levelling Roki to more often win the deception roll.
Regardless I think the most important thing is making sure Hazou get's the full benefits of stealth
[X] Training Hazou: Stealth at full Capacity
Edit: Also if we level capacity to 12 We will have the chakra reserves for Hazou to make 2 earth clones in combat. which is a cheap way to get 2 taijutsu dice. Especially after we get earth wall to 10
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You jest, but when we get a good opportunity to R&D without pressing issues.... yes.
Primitive space travel is possibly even easier than computers, with seals and jutsu. Hell, basic space suits might even be needed to skywalk above the troposphere lest we run into problems of a low-oxygen nature.
I never said we should drop everything and build a computer, but it should be something we do in the next year, definitely. And yes, spacesuits are also in that category.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
We can get a foothold on electricity tech with morse code, which to Jiraiya would serve as instantaneous long-range communication, with the caveat that a continuous line of wire has to exist, which may be tricky. Radio would be better, but require more components and are generally more complex, so it'd be best to start with morse code to prove the potential.
For basic morse code, we need:
e: also with some basic experiments with wire and electricity Hazou can invent very crude lightbulbs.
For basic morse code, we need:
- A switch which sends a DC current down a wire.
- Something to make a sound while receiving DC current.
e: also with some basic experiments with wire and electricity Hazou can invent very crude lightbulbs.
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Crypto is a big deal here. Ask Kagome whether a machine that does maths for him would be helpful. I think I can predict the answer.
HoratioVonBecker
Imperfectly Aligned
It really isn't insanity, it's a useful thinking tool and I don't like how the rest of the team is treating it.
Honestly, I can understand why one or other of the QMs would be annoyed enough at missing sleep to come up with the idea, but it's not actually helping the story. I'd prefer a retcon (or a quiet dropping of the subject), but I'll go for solving it with CCnJ if we have to.
HoratioVonBecker
Imperfectly Aligned
Besides, he seems more appropriate as a grandfather, anyway. Spends way more time showing us tricks and sneaking us presents than he does diciplining us or demonstrating how to act like a responsible adult.
Besides, he seems more appropriate as a grandfather, anyway. Spends way more time showing us tricks and sneaking us presents than he does diciplining us or demonstrating how to act like a responsible adult.
Hmm. He is in the right age range to be more of a grandfather figure.