End of an Era (Naruto AU)
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Oh I am slain!
Wynaut?
- Location
- Tatooine
[x] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
This would be the most amusing approach for me, so I'll throw it out there anyway. But write-ins are difficult in this case, since they depend on how Ken reacts.
...I just wanted background music for the showdown. ^_^
Look at the possible outcomes for him: Loses and dies/gets captured at Akio's hands, or wins and gets kidnapped by these missing-nin. I think Joichiro realizes he's in over his head. Perhaps Shizue & Dosu can somehow make an unspoken deal with Joichiro, without Ken & Co noticing. Shizue has Ninja Art: Whispering at Rank 5, after all.
How 'bout something like this:
[] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[] Write-in: Use Shizue's Whispering to arrange a deal with Joichiro to throw the duel in a plausible manner. Use Dosu's reputation and the Suna Guitar as collateral to convince Joichiro that they'll honor the deal. Sprinkle in gruesome warnings about how they'll kill Joichiro if necessary. Alert Akachi if the deal is made.
Edit: Oh, The Laurent confirmed the duel is to the death. =/
Actually, wait. @The Laurent The duel terms are unclear. Duel to the death? To incapacitation? Until surrender?
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations:
Oh boy.
Wait, is this meta-commentary on the Pet Peeves thread? *looks suspiciously at The Laurent*
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
This would be the most amusing approach for me, so I'll throw it out there anyway. But write-ins are difficult in this case, since they depend on how Ken reacts.
...I just wanted background music for the showdown. ^_^
Alternatively, we get Joichiro to subtly throw the duel.
Look at the possible outcomes for him: Loses and dies/gets captured at Akio's hands, or wins and gets kidnapped by these missing-nin. I think Joichiro realizes he's in over his head. Perhaps Shizue & Dosu can somehow make an unspoken deal with Joichiro, without Ken & Co noticing. Shizue has Ninja Art: Whispering at Rank 5, after all.
How 'bout something like this:
[] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[] Write-in: Use Shizue's Whispering to arrange a deal with Joichiro to throw the duel in a plausible manner. Use Dosu's reputation and the Suna Guitar as collateral to convince Joichiro that they'll honor the deal. Sprinkle in gruesome warnings about how they'll kill Joichiro if necessary. Alert Akachi if the deal is made.
Edit: Oh, The Laurent confirmed the duel is to the death. =/
Actually, wait. @The Laurent The duel terms are unclear. Duel to the death? To incapacitation? Until surrender?
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations:
Obviously, secret info was stored in that magazine, disguised as a dirty magazine. Very clever.
Oh boy.Ooh, the plot thickens! I dunno if these summons will become plot-relevant, but their appearance did a good job of building tension before reaching the cave.
Aw yeah, you go Akachi! Though, I'm slightly worried about explanations for why they intentionally tortured him. This kind of torture seems unnecessary. Especially if it was unsuccessful.
Wait, is this meta-commentary on the Pet Peeves thread? *looks suspiciously at The Laurent*
Ok, I'm now hoping for a scene in which Dosu lends Akachi a pouch of kunai to use in the duel. That's how it works in Westerns, right?
typo: missing word?
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[] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
This would be the most amusing approach for me, so I'll throw it out there anyway. But write-ins are difficult in this case, since they depend on how Ken reacts.
Alternatively, we get Joichiro to subtly throw the duel.
Look at the possible outcomes for him: Loses and dies/gets captured at Akio's hands, or wins and gets kidnapped by these missing-nin. Perhaps Shizue & Dosu can somehow make an unspoken deal with Joichiro, without Ken & Co noticing. Shizue has Ninja Art: Whispering at Rank 5, after all.
How 'bout this:
[x] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[x] Write-in: Use Shizue's Whispering to arrange a deal with Joichiro to throw the duel in a plausible manner. Use Dosu's reputation and the Suna Guitar as collateral to convince Joichiro that they'll honor the deal.
Actually, wait. @The Laurent The duel terms are unclear. Duel to the death? To incapacitation? Until surrender?
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations:
Obviously, secret info was stored in that magazine, disguised as a dirty magazine. Very clever.
Ooh, the plot thickens! I dunno if these summons will become plot-relevant, but their appearance did a good job of building tension before reaching the cave.
Aw yeah, you go Akachi! Though, I'm slightly worried about explanations for why they intentionally tortured him. This kind of torture seems unnecessary. Especially if it was unsuccessful.
Wait, is this meta-commentary on the Pet Peeves thread? *looks suspiciously at The Laurent*
Ok, I'm now hoping for a scene in which Dosu lends Akachi a pouch of kunai to use in the duel. That's how it works in Westerns, right?
typo: missing word?
Unfortunately, yes, it's to the death. There's a reason that Joichiro's reaction was, "What what?" and "Holy shit."
Ken just doesn't apparently care that he's basically playing a game with Joichiro's life. You could assume that it's because he's afraid of a tired chunin and three exhausted genin, when he has at least two other fresh Chunin-or-above ninja with him and had a huge amount of time to prepare for you arriving. If you want to assume that, I mean.
Oh I am slain!
Wynaut?
- Location
- Tatooine
Ah, noted.
Hrm, I'll temporarily switch to the Shizue-plays-totally-innocent-background-music idea that relies on too many ifs. Maybe some of y'all can think up unconventional ideas that might actually work.
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That'd be amusing. She could also, of course, if it was dizzy spell, talk or make noise with her mouth in general. Click her tongue, speculate loudly on the results, etc, etc. As long as she makes noise to use for the jutsu, it works, more or less.
I'm getting the heavy implication that there is a right vote and a wrong vote here, and the right vote is not to go hell with it and attack right now.
"Get her." That was your whole plan. Get her.
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- Underground
Three chunin at the least, Shizue is low on chakra and Akachi's poisoned.
We'd have to be VERY lucky to get the drop on him and win an all out fight.
[X] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
Can we write-in to try and cheat in Akachi's favor somehow? Not sure if Shizue would have anything that can help. Or could we write-in to tell him to throw up, at least get that stuff out of his system.
Now there's a strategy:
"You need to throw up! Get rid of the poison!"
"How am I supposed to do that?!"
"Finger down your throat"
*Akachi vomits in Joichiro's face.*
We'd have to be VERY lucky to get the drop on him and win an all out fight.
[X] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
Can we write-in to try and cheat in Akachi's favor somehow? Not sure if Shizue would have anything that can help. Or could we write-in to tell him to throw up, at least get that stuff out of his system.
Now there's a strategy:
"You need to throw up! Get rid of the poison!"
"How am I supposed to do that?!"
"Finger down your throat"
*Akachi vomits in Joichiro's face.*
Oh I am slain!
Wynaut?
- Location
- Tatooine
Truly, Akachi is a skilled ranged-specialist. :3
Yeah, I was considering having Shizue whisper more details about the genjutsu poisons to Akachi. Not that she knows much either, but Akachi might not even know that yet.
The Laurent did just suggest this:
Though, I'm kinda hoping that Shizue would do this anyway, regardless of whether we write it in. Seems like an obvious thing for her to do.
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Typo. Unless Shizune came back from the dead, learned sound jutsu and is here to help us right now.
Though it'd be a lot easier for Shizue to just do the jutsu
But I could vote for this.
It would be more subtle. But then we wouldn't get Shizue playing appropriate standoff music.
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[x] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
Diomedea
A piece of the continent
- Location
- The interblag
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[x] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
Yeah, I don't think we can take a prepared chuunin level team when they've handled us so deftly. If we attack, even if we win, we'll have multiple causalities in the dead/maimed category.
It's also interesting that this Ken guy will be toast if things go his way (or even if they don't). Emiko will want that poison, and if he (indirectly) kills Akachi, Emiko will assassinate him and likely everything connected to him in revenge. It's also irritating that Emiko's bounty is large enough that we can't threaten with her reputation since it would force us to flee Suna.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
Yeah, I don't think we can take a prepared chuunin level team when they've handled us so deftly. If we attack, even if we win, we'll have multiple causalities in the dead/maimed category.
It's also interesting that this Ken guy will be toast if things go his way (or even if they don't). Emiko will want that poison, and if he (indirectly) kills Akachi, Emiko will assassinate him and likely everything connected to him in revenge. It's also irritating that Emiko's bounty is large enough that we can't threaten with her reputation since it would force us to flee Suna.
[x] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
Zeitgeist Blue
Currently Made of Metal
- Location
- Manila, Philippines, GMT +8
[X] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[X] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
-[X] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
[x] Play the 'game.' A duel. Hopefully if all goes well, then… well. Then you'll be out of here just a little past noon.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
-[x] Write-in: Act overconfident that Akio will win. Somehow ensure that Shizune gets to play Joitero's prized guitar during the duel, thus allowing her to sneak in Sound jutsu during the duel. Maybe appeal to Ken's sense of entertainment.
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Vote closes tomorrow night!
Oh I am slain!
Wynaut?
- Location
- Tatooine
Just a reminder: my write-in is more like improbable fluff, rather than a likely path to success. I went with it because it's entertaining and it's probably not worse than the default options.
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Vote closed, @lkmcclenahan is breaking out the lucky red d20 for this.
Well, that's what we're going with. Luckily, Ken is the sort of person who... ehh, let's roll and write and then you'll see what kind of person Ken is.
Well, that's what we're going with. Luckily, Ken is the sort of person who... ehh, let's roll and write and then you'll see what kind of person Ken is.
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I am listening to wild west duel music as I write. Feel free to recommend tracks.
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- United Kingdom
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- Somewhere!
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- the netherlands
I was just reading through your quest, and this part is some great writing. You can really feel the mother's emotion she is a great character.
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Tomorrow morning.
Oh I am slain!
Wynaut?
- Location
- Tatooine
Just post it on the hour, and I'm sure it'll be high noon somewhere. ^_^