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End of an Era (Naruto AU)
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[X] [Easy] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[X] [Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[X] [Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
Following Chuichi's advice.
[X] [Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[X] [Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
Following Chuichi's advice.
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There are two ways to follow Chuichi's advice. The first is to do all easy missions.
The second is to start with an easy mission or two before moving onto a harder mission for the 2nd/3rd or just the third.
The second is to start with an easy mission or two before moving onto a harder mission for the 2nd/3rd or just the third.
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Come on guys don't you want to see Shizue take care of little children that aren't her teammates for once?
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Reaction time!
They could not even give her a couple hours to pack?
We need to set some ground rules! (╬ Ò ‸ Ó)
Yes, Saya. We know you can-
I though other than Shizue, you were clearly aiming for the leader position.
You are the best family Shizue has had in a long time. Of course she is going to care. Being able to care does not make you weak in the same way that not having fear does not make you brave. It is continuing to act in a decent manner despite everything that makes one strong, that makes one brave, that makes one loyal.
I mean I thought that everyone spoke the same language was for Doylist reasons.
...but to see that Shizue did not even realize that other languages even existed is...incredibly small-minded.
My mind is blown right now.
Now... @The Laurent
I have a bone to pick with you.
This is the tally
As you can see, it is an absolute mess.
I can already tell this is gun b gud!
Now I know Shizue is a veteran
Wait, seriously?
They could not even give her a couple hours to pack?
We need to set some ground rules! (╬ Ò ‸ Ó)
*rolls eyes*
Yes, Saya. We know you can-
Oh wait, you seriously did not think so??
I though other than Shizue, you were clearly aiming for the leader position.
You mean naive D <
You are the best family Shizue has had in a long time. Of course she is going to care. Being able to care does not make you weak in the same way that not having fear does not make you brave. It is continuing to act in a decent manner despite everything that makes one strong, that makes one brave, that makes one loyal.
Sentence seems odd, the first 'but' seems unnecessary.
typo?
Wow.
I mean I thought that everyone spoke the same language was for Doylist reasons.
...but to see that Shizue did not even realize that other languages even existed is...incredibly small-minded.
My mind is blown right now.
Now... @The Laurent
I have a bone to pick with you.
This is the tally
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Easy:
[1] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[4] Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
???:
[1] Babysitter… wanted?
Hard:
[1] Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
Medium/Hard:
[1] Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
Medium:
[1] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
Total No. of Voters: 12
Task: Easy
[2][Easy] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[2][Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2][Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
Total No. of Voters: 2
##### NetTally 1.9.9
Easy:
[1] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[4] Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
???:
[1] Babysitter… wanted?
Hard:
[1] Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
Medium/Hard:
[1] Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
Medium:
[1] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
Total No. of Voters: 12
Task: Easy
[2][Easy] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[2][Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2][Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
Total No. of Voters: 2
As you can see, it is an absolute mess.
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Reaction time!
I can already tell this is gun b gud!
Now I know Shizue is a veteran
Wait, seriously?
They could not even give her a couple hours to pack?
We need to set some ground rules! (╬ Ò ‸ Ó)
*rolls eyes*
Yes, Saya. We know you can-
Oh wait, you seriously did not think so??
I though other than Shizue, you were clearly aiming for the leader position.
You mean naive D <
You are the best family Shizue has had in a long time. Of course she is going to care. Being able to care does not make you weak in the same way that not having fear does not make you brave. It is continuing to act in a decent manner despite everything that makes one strong, that makes one brave, that makes one loyal.
Sentence seems odd, the first 'but' seems unnecessary.
typo?
Wow.
I mean I thought that everyone spoke the same language was for Doylist reasons.
...but to see that Shizue did not even realize that other languages even existed is...incredibly small-minded.
My mind is blown right now.
Now... @The Laurent
I have a bone to pick with you.
This is the tally
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##### NetTally 1.9.9
Easy:
[1] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[4] Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
???:
[1] Babysitter… wanted?
Hard:
[1] Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
Medium/Hard:
[1] Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
Medium:
[1] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
Total No. of Voters: 12
Task: Easy
[2][Easy] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[2][Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2][Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
Total No. of Voters: 2
As you can see, it is an absolute mess.
I'm very tired. I see that the task thing is... weird and a mess. I'll think about it later. But I am also too tired to parse this bolded line.
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I suppose it is just me living in the U.S for a large part of my life, but just the idea of not realizing that there are people that do not speak the same language really boggles my mind. The idea that Shizue has never even heard a hint of someone speaking something other than Japanese(or whatever the language it is they speak here) is really hitting me hard. Even in Isolationist Japan, they did not completely speak only one language in the entire contry.
So unless the Five Nations are absurdly small...I do not even know what to think.
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they're not real people anyway
/20thcenturyjapan
I did forget them, though. It's pretty easy, my mistake.
Well, saying 'everything's been weeded out into dialects' is just such a curious expression. Languages are...uh, kind of oppressive? (You can get a creole or a pidgin but... Everyone 'knows' the language is specifically invented since it exists alongside its parent languages within living memory, so it's not that things have been weeded out so much as they were blended, and there's the recognition of the language's origins and of groups that specifically don't speak it.) Languages are 'oppressive' because they're the original shibboleth. You know, very obviously, exactly who is like and who is not like you. You need a word for that. So you don't get a situation where Chuichi doesn't know what to call the in-group IRL. This can maybe be justified by the specific in-group identifiers only existing in contact zones, but that's exactly the sort of thing that would pop up in a 'what you neeeeeeed to know to fit in' on a Ninja Info Card for the area.
I say Chuichi is backwards because, well, take China. That's an area where pretty much everyone knows one language in common, has common cultural heritage, and they have, if anything, a heightened sense of their ethnicities and differences. There's lots of 'varieties' of Chinese but they're not always intelligible. Most of them aren't. There's dots and outposts in a sea of Mandarin-speaking Han, because Mandarin has been imposed on top of the other varieties. But you ask anyone if they're from Qingtian or Guangzhou or if they're Hakka or Miao or whatever and they'll assert exactly which area of 'China' they're from, exactly which division they belong to, and exactly which version of 'Chinese' they speak.
Or maybe you object to that example because China is a unified state with the ability to impose language. Then take the various Turkic languages instead. Very very roughly, everyone understands the people near them but they start having trouble further away. Uyghurs understand Uzbeks and Kazakhs understand Kyrgyz(es?) but introduce someone speaking Istanbul Turkish to any one of those four groups and they'd have trouble making out what the other means. It's more of a continuum of intelligibility across many states but one of the most important things in the area was always your 'people', knowing exactly who you and your ancestors were.
Or European language before the rise of unified dominant Academies or nationalism—there's jokes about Brits not understanding each other even today, and they haven't had a migration in a few hundred years. There's still Plattdeutsch and Walloons and, I mean, Catalonia ought to be enough to put to rest the idea that groups spending time together will create a unified super-group. Spain's been a single state for hundreds of years and still has immense divisions in region, language, and cultural identity.
Meanwhile Boruto's Dad-land is multiple different countries all speaking roughly the same language with dialectical differences. Sure. By my understanding of language, the fact that there's mutual intelligibility means that there's not just common history but a common origin. That's reinforced by the hard wall of non-intelligible ethnic groups like the, what are they called, the Anchikar? Then Chuichi configures language as...like, a river, instead of a tree. It's backwards. They differentiate, not join. The fact that the language doesn't even name itself sort of posits the idea that they're the only possible group, when that's clearly wrong.
I mean. He's a character, and I'm pretty sure that ninja aren't exactly educated in the same subjects that a university student is. And it is interesting, in a weird 'this character has a strange, probably incorrect, perspective' sort of way.
Uh. This was rambley and not entirely on topic.
[1] [Easy] Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[2] [Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] [Medium] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
[2] [Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] [Medium] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
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I'm sorry if I bruised your suspension of disbelief.
As far as it goes, there are more than two languages in this setting, even if there are not, in fact, nearly as many as there would be in a similar situation IRL.
Shizue is just poorly educated.
Edit: Basically, I'm aware of linguistic diversity, but I'm flattening that for reasons both OOC and IC. Most of what you said was not new information for me, @tricholysis .
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Well, that changes everything. I took Chuichi's advice to be that "this time we'll do D and C-ish rank missions, so next time they'll give us C and B rank missions." Since that's not the case, though:
[1] [Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2] [Medium/Hard] Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
[3] [Medium] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
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That was the thing.
You did not.
I have met several people that had not the slightest idea of what was going on outside of their city(yes, these were city boys).
I was just surprised at how poorly educated Shizue was ._.
Anyway, will you change the vote formatting or shall I?
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What's your suggestion?
Shizue, giving an inspirational speech: "Was it over when the Germans bombed pearl harbor? Hell no!"
Genta: "Germans?"
Saya: "Forget it, darling, she's rolling."
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Obvious solution would be to vote by plans, or to vote by [] [First]
[] [Second]
[] [Third]
[] [Second]
[] [Third]
Truthfully, I'm not sure why we even need to vote on order. Surely you @The Laurent could just put the three top-selected missions into whatever order seems to make the most sense. I don't have any strong opinions on what order they should be done and I don't know why any of the other voters in this thread would either.
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@The Laurent
Basically what Briefvoice said
Part of the problem was that you added tags unnecessarily. Then you added the numbering system.
So my suggestion is this
So, what missions taken? (Choose three. Priority will be given in order of the number of votes taken)
[] Easy - Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[] Easy - Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[] Easy - Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[] Medium - Passing a message on to another nearby tribe shouldn't be too dangerous, but it does involve going out into the desert, and it's at least a decent amount of hard work.
[] Medium - When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
[] ??? - Babysitter… wanted?
[] Medium/Hard - Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
[] Hard - Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
[] Write-in.
That way we can consolidate votes more easily and it is much easier to read the tally.
Basically what Briefvoice said
Part of the problem was that you added tags unnecessarily. Then you added the numbering system.
So my suggestion is this
So, what missions taken? (Choose three. Priority will be given in order of the number of votes taken)
[] Easy - Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[] Easy - Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[] Easy - Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[] Medium - Passing a message on to another nearby tribe shouldn't be too dangerous, but it does involve going out into the desert, and it's at least a decent amount of hard work.
[] Medium - When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
[] ??? - Babysitter… wanted?
[] Medium/Hard - Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
[] Hard - Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
[] Write-in.
That way we can consolidate votes more easily and it is much easier to read the tally.
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Eh, fine. Honestly I thought people *would* care about the order, as the order does effect how things go, but. Eh!
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And we do!
But the order is easier to set with going in order. Switching a task from first to second becomes a matter of someone just taking out their vote and done.
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You rock, that's much easier on the eyes
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Wait, is that a fine, we do it as I posted? Because if so, I need to tag everyone @_@
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[1] Easy - Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[2] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] Medium - When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
[2] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] Medium - When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
I mean I'm not expecting anything different, it's not exactly rare information. Chuichi's still got it backwards
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Okay then
@veekie @Zeitgeist Blue @RideTheWalrus @Diomedon @Briefvoice @NemoMarx @Nicklance @wingstrike96 @NotteBoy97 @karmaoa @Derpmind
Due to the mess the vote tally looks like
We are redoing the vote formatting!
Here it is:
So, what missions taken? (Choose three. Priority will be given in order of the number of votes taken)
[] Easy - Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[] Easy - Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[] Easy - Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[] Medium - Passing a message on to another nearby tribe shouldn't be too dangerous, but it does involve going out into the desert, and it's at least a decent amount of hard work.
[] Medium - When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
[] ??? - Babysitter… wanted?
[] Medium/Hard - Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
[] Hard - Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
[] Write-in.
@veekie @Zeitgeist Blue @RideTheWalrus @Diomedon @Briefvoice @NemoMarx @Nicklance @wingstrike96 @NotteBoy97 @karmaoa @Derpmind
Due to the mess the vote tally looks like
Vote Tally : End of an Era (Boruto's Dad AU) | Page 395 | Sufficient Velocity [Posts: 9862-9898]
##### NetTally 1.9.9
Easy:
[1] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[4] Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
???:
[1] Babysitter… wanted?
Hard:
[1] Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
Medium/Hard:
[1] Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
Medium:
[1] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
Total No. of Voters: 13
Task: Easy
[2][Easy] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[2][Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2][Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
Total No. of Voters: 2
##### NetTally 1.9.9
Easy:
[1] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[3] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[4] Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
???:
[1] Babysitter… wanted?
Hard:
[1] Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
Medium/Hard:
[1] Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
Medium:
[1] When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
Total No. of Voters: 13
Task: Easy
[2][Easy] Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[2][Easy] Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[2][Easy] An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
Total No. of Voters: 2
We are redoing the vote formatting!
Here it is:
So, what missions taken? (Choose three. Priority will be given in order of the number of votes taken)
[] Easy - Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[] Easy - Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[] Easy - Running messages across the tribe does sometimes feel like an exercise in helping the lazy not get out of their tents, admittedly.
[] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
[] Medium - Passing a message on to another nearby tribe shouldn't be too dangerous, but it does involve going out into the desert, and it's at least a decent amount of hard work.
[] Medium - When it comes time to move, they could use someone to help them carry things.
[] ??? - Babysitter… wanted?
[] Medium/Hard - Digging a well is definitely not something done casually, and even with a team, it'll be… at least hours and hours of work.
[] Hard - Digging through sheer rock is even harder, but there are apparently parts of the cliff-face, and areas of it down below, that could use some exploring.
[] Write-in.
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[X] Easy - Weeding is a simple task, and one that the people here take seriously. Helping out could free others from the chore.
[X] Easy - Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[X] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
There
[X] Easy - Some of the cattle are cows, and some of the cows have milk. Milking cows… and churning butter is… wait. Horses too?
[X] Easy - An extra hand is needed for sewing. Or two.
There