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Game of the Year: A Naruto Quest

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Ferdiad said:
I only read the quest yesterday but I'm wondering what ours endgame to become a S-ranked shinobi? Pretty much all of the S-Ranks we see have see trick that elevantes them far above an Elite Jonin. Whether that be a Bijuu or a Sharingan or whatever.
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The easiest way would be to get a summon contract.
 
Ferdiad said:
I only read the quest yesterday but I'm wondering what ours endgame to become a S-ranked shinobi? Pretty much all of the S-Ranks we see have see trick that elevantes them far above an Elite Jonin. Whether that be a Bijuu or a Sharingan or whatever.
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Just do it on skill? Like Sasori, Deidara, Gai etc.
 
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Sign the turtle/tortoise/terrapin contract that gai has


Tell me that isn't loyalty, love and empathy.
Plus you know, none of Gai students can/want to sign it.
Lee is Lee, Tenten pisses the turtles off and Neji...
 
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fictionfan said:
Didn't say it would be easy, but the other ways involve a lot of self body modification.
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Self body modification is probably less risky than learning Sage Mode though. There's also no guarantee our summons even have Sage Mode - I think Tsunade's slugs didn't, and neither did Sasuke's hawks or Temari's weasels.

Anyway, it's possible to become an S-rank on pure skill without body modifications, like A or Minato. (Minato was easily S-rank without Sage Mode, given his feats. I don't think he bothered to use it in combat during the Third War, or even a lot of his Shippuden battles.) I think Deidara didn't have body modifications except for his final technique too.
 
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@Vesvius 170 XP to Diplomacy, and 70 XP to Linguistics!

Considering the more recent attention we've gotten from Iron, I'm increasing our Diplo and Linguistics to Chunin level to better converse with any envoys from Iron that come to check in on us, which is probably inevitable at this point. Also there's the fact that we'll be talking to Mariko in just a moment as well.

EDIT: As a side note, I wonder how higher-level linguistics effects Daisuke's speech in future updates, if at all.
 
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Shouldn't we have had decipher already from the academy? Codes seem to be a standard thing all shinobi know so I doubt we picked it up from superhuman mental stats. Feels way too weak for superhuman mental stats...
 
Daniel14541 said:
Shouldn't we have had decipher already from the academy? Codes seem to be a standard thing all shinobi know so I doubt we picked it up from superhuman mental stats. Feels way too weak for superhuman mental stats...
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It's probably the kind of thing where you can decipher to some extent if you have any Intelligence, you can do it better with ranks in Linguistics or whatever, but having the skill itself lets you be actually great at it.
 
which, leads to the updated shortlists.
Disguise: Practiced (350/400)
Stealth: Practiced (300/400)
Disable Device: Practiced (300/400)
Decipher: Student (100/200) - new skill

Acrobatics: Adept (700/800)
Shape Manipulation: Practiced (270/400)
Beastmastery: Practiced (270/400)
Henge no Jutsu: Advanced (850/1000)
Yin Release: Song of Discord (Intermediate 590/750)
Heal: Practiced (220/400)
Kawarimi no Jutsu: Advanced (780/1000)

Strength: Above Average (1050/1300)
Dexterity: Above Average (860/1300)
Senses: Simple (450/800)

Diplomacy: Adept (630/800)
Acrobatics: Adept (700/800)
Travel: Journeyman (800/1600)
Survival: Journeyman (800/1600)
Genjutsu: Elite (3200/5000)
Bunshin no Jutsu: Master (1000/1000)
Appearance: Pinnacle (2000/2000)

and as per request, the Journeyman's list (AKA, easy chuunin standard):
Acrobatics: Adept (700/800)
Manipulation: Adept (500/800)
Bluff: Adept (500/800)
Chakra Adhesion: Adept (500/800)
Shurikenjutsu: Adept (450/800)
Intimidate: Adept (450/800)
Perception: Adept (430/800)
 
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Now that Journeyman Diplomacy has been gained, Daisuke has 8/16 Jouneryman Skills.

@emberwing: Maybe have a segment for ideal/cheap Jouneryman Skills? Jouneryman Adhersion and Shape Manipulation would be incredibly helpful for Daisuke's Ken/Tai style.
 
Daniel14541 said:
Shouldn't we have had decipher already from the academy? Codes seem to be a standard thing all shinobi know so I doubt we picked it up from superhuman mental stats. Feels way too weak for superhuman mental stats...
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Just knowing codes at the level of an Academy student is probably just the absurdly basic level of this art. Like, they'll teach basic hand-signals for really simple things, and some of the basic codes for being a genin of Konoha. Things like specific code-handshakes and paired phrases for verifying authenticity and stuff.

Not to mention there's a big difference between codes and ciphers.

But I imagine that the Decipher skill not only allows us to encode anc encipher our own work and writings, but also to decipher/decode those of others. So, we can break codes and crack ciphers by using it. With a high enough skill level, we'll probably be able to intercept secret messages (likely with other skills like Perception, Sleight of Hand, etc), recognize them as coded or ciphered messages, and be able to figure out how the codes and ciphers work so we can discern the message's true content and meaning.

Considering how valuable intelligence and communications is, being a code-breaker capable of cracking a cipher and understanding the codes of our enemies and allies is amazing. It's a highly useful discipline, and one that we should definitely think about training up. Especially considering the politics involved in our birth and profession, and the secret messages that are likely to be passed around regarding us and those we care about.

Knowledge is Power, after all.
 
Killer_Whale said:
I've read a good (for naruto) quest (Ninja Ninja Tactics) on qq, where the GM has effectively banned all protag ships until he is 14.
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If anything was banned until 14, it was more likely to be sex than a relationship. Karasu is currently in a relationship with Akami Uchiha, Sachi Senju, Nemo Hyuuga, Shibue Aburame, and Yoruichi with a few more waiting in the wings.
[X] You may not like one of them, but you have a team now. You should make the best of it. Go find Kiba and Mariko, and have lunch.

I'm holding out for getting a summons contract from the Land of Beasts achievement.
 
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Now that Journeyman Diplomacy has been gained, Daisuke has 8/16 Jouneryman Skills.

@emberwing: Maybe have a segment for ideal/cheap Jouneryman Skills? Jouneryman Adhersion and Shape Manipulation would be incredibly helpful for Daisuke's Ken/Tai style.
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done, also modified the stat list, forgot the one stat we keep forgetting... that honestly should be trained as it's broken as hell.
chakra sensing.
 
Katsuragi said:
@Vesvius

Daisuke...

It all boiled down to that boy, didn't it.

Well. No, that wasn't fair. He was a genin now, that made him a man for all intents and purposes.

Just like it made him a man.

Uchiha Sasuke was most certainly not brooding, no matter what his classmates would say. Some of them dismissively and some of them longingly, but the point stood. He was not brooding. He was just sitting alone in his clan district, away from everyone else, in deep thought.

That was all.

A man needed time alone with his thoughts.

Despite his laziness, Shikamaru had the right idea when it came to certain things. Would he have been more like that if he had the comfort of his clan to fall back on?

He shook his head. None of that. Getting off track.

Daisuke. Daisuke had beaten him in a fair fight. No tricks...well, any more so than was to be expected in a shibobi fight at any rate. He hadn't like, slipped laxatives into his breakfast or anything super underhanded like that.

Hm. A possible tactic for that man? ...No, that was silly. That was old academy him thinking. He was newly minted Sasuke the man, the genin, he didn't have time for such silly nonsense.

He hadn't thought that it was possible. There were people better than him at some things in class. He wasn't at the top with all three of the academy basics, and Dai had him beat when it came to pure physical confrontation. Not that there was any surprise there, given who he had been getting personal training from for years.

He swallowed back a bit of bitterness.

He wasn't too proud to admit that he had done some digging into his rival. After he'd started rapidly climbing the academy ranks, he found himself curious. What was he doing differently to close the gap so fast?

Well. He had been intending to do some digging himself, anyways. Turned out he hadn't needed to. He'd off offhandedly mentioned something about his curiosity to Kairi and she'd begun to lyrically wax the things that Daisuke was doing to catch up so that he could woo him and they'd be together.

He had to dismiss a lot of it as...artistic license, but there was no doubt that he was pushing himself. Hard. He'd staked out a few areas of the village at various parts of the night and day just to confirm (he was just switching up his training routine timing! He wasn't stalking or anything!) and it did seem like the rumors of Dai barely sleeping were accurate.

Coupled with the amount of time he was spending with Ino (Though he was a bit baffled there. Were they not aware there was no way the village would allow that match to happen? Forget just the absurdity of a romance being permitted, the village wasn't going to break the Ino-Shika-Cho tradition for teams) and he had a willing partner to help drive him. He would have dismissed working with someone to better yourself as foolishness but... in private, to himself, he couldn't guarantee that if he and Ino fought that he'd win every time. That couldn't be coincidence.

He reached his hand out and clenched it into a fist. Was this his limit? Was this as far as he could reach on his own? He'd slaved away, but Daisuke slaved harder. He'd looked at every book and resource, watched more experienced Ninja train to figure out ways to improve, and Daisuke had Ino working directly with him.

It was possible.

No...

But it was possible...that his methods were flawed.

That man was a prodigy in a way that no one, not him, not Daisuke, not anyone that had ever graduated the academy before or after, was. Just being naturally better than him wasn't going to happen.

Daisuke pushed himself even harder than Sasuke did. He'd need to double down on that, sleep less, train more, but at best he'd match the other genin there.

He'd seen that Sakura girl show a solid shape manipulation construct. Apparently she'd worked it out with that big lumbering friend of hers. He had no delusions he'd have worked out something similar in the same span of time.

He wasn't the most naturally talented. He could, maybe, push himself to catch up on the handwork side of things, and he didn't have allies to play off of and learn from.

And that man had all of them, at least at some point in his life, and a huge head start between the two of them.

He.

He swallowed.

Without Daisuke beating him there, he had his doubts he would have ever confronted this particular reality.

It wasn't a gap that he could close. Not by himself.

He...

He would make allies. People to spar with, people to train jutsu and physical skills. And...people he could call on, when he decided to go after that man.

Yeah. Yeah. He had to avenge his clan, regardless of what it took. Even if what it took was swallowing his own pride.
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Nicely done. Take 60 XP.
Fabled Ranger said:
@Vesvius since I had fifty exp and spent thirty on Taijutsu I would like to put my remaining twenty into dexterity rather than strength.
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Enetious said:
@Vesvius 170 XP to Diplomacy, and 70 XP to Linguistics!

Considering the more recent attention we've gotten from Iron, I'm increasing our Diplo and Linguistics to Chunin level to better converse with any envoys from Iron that come to check in on us, which is probably inevitable at this point. Also there's the fact that we'll be talking to Mariko in just a moment as well.

EDIT: As a side note, I wonder how higher-level linguistics effects Daisuke's speech in future updates, if at all.
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Heard!
Katsuragi said:
@Vesvius - Put together a high quality Mariko.

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Very well done. Take 150 XP for this one.

Also, time for a deadline! Two hour warning!
 
kenmadragon said:
Just knowing codes at the level of an Academy student is probably just the absurdly basic level of this art. Like, they'll teach basic hand-signals for really simple things, and some of the basic codes for being a genin of Konoha. Things like specific code-handshakes and paired phrases for verifying authenticity and stuff.

Not to mention there's a big difference between codes and ciphers.

But I imagine that the Decipher skill not only allows us to encode anc encipher our own work and writings, but also to decipher/decode those of others. So, we can break codes and crack ciphers by using it. With a high enough skill level, we'll probably be able to intercept secret messages (likely with other skills like Perception, Sleight of Hand, etc), recognize them as coded or ciphered messages, and be able to figure out how the codes and ciphers work so we can discern the message's true content and meaning.

Considering how valuable intelligence and communications is, being a code-breaker capable of cracking a cipher and understanding the codes of our enemies and allies is amazing. It's a highly useful discipline, and one that we should definitely think about training up. Especially considering the politics involved in our birth and profession, and the secret messages that are likely to be passed around regarding us and those we care about.

Knowledge is Power, after all.
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What's your point?
 
Daniel14541 said:
What's your point?
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You said that the Decipher skill was weak and a poor reward for Superhuman mental stats, and that such subjects ought to have been covered by the Academy already.

My point was that there's a significant difference between knowing a couple military hand-signs and some passwords, and being capable of acting as a full-fledged code-breaker capable of cracking codes and deciphering enemy intelligence. They don't exactly teach the latter to just anyone, and certainly not to 6-13 year-old children.

So it's not really a weak reward.
 
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Enter Team 8 by Enetious (canon)
  • Sidestory
    • @Vesvius All of this omake's XP to Acrobatics, and also up to 50 XP into Acrobatics as well, until its Journeyman.

    "So… uh, I guess we're on the same team then." Mere minutes after the announcement, and after all of the commotion over the insane (to them) team assignments, Sakura reluctantly made her way over to Shino, with Jabari following behind her with a noticeable frown.

    "Indeed, that would be the case Sakura," Shino replied staring at her. The way Shino speaks has always freaked Sakura out, and she shivered a bit at the kikaichu-user's response.

    Jabari sat down next to Shino with a noticeable plop and took out his bento. "This kinda sucks and all, but I guess we should eat up before our sensei comes to pick us up." Jabari had been hoping to be on a team with at least one more of his friends, and though Shino wasn't exactly a bad guy, he was kind of creepy to most of the class including himself. No reason not to give the guy a chance though, and at least he didn't seem to be put off by his large stature like many of his other classmates.

    Sakura, in no hurry, sat herself down next to Jabari and pulled out her bento as well. Shino had apparently followed their example as her was already picking at his bento with chopsticks before they'd even opened their own.

    "So how do you guys think our sensei will be like?" piped up Sakura between bites to cleave through the awkward silence. Jabari shrugged and continued to eat from his bento. Shino paused in his eating.

    "Given what we know of the Inuzuka clan, it is logical to say that this Inuzuka Gaku will be a tracker. Why, you ask? Because of the Inuzuka clan's heightened sense of smell and their companionship with their ninken."

    '... Huh, Shino's pretty smart,' thought Sakura. Though he had an odd way of conversing with them, he seemed pretty knowledgeable as well. Then she heard a subtle rumbling coming from Shino's direction. Shino then continued consuming his meal.

    "Um, Shino, what was that?" questioned a curious Sakura. Shino looked over to Sakura to answer, pausing once more in eating his meal.

    "My kikaichu live within my body, so I must supply them with a steady stream of chakra to continue their development. How, you ask? By eating enough to support my kikaichu and myself." Shino sped up slightly in his eating.

    Sakura immediately slipped away a seat while shivering slightly at the thought of the bugs in Shino's body.

    'This team-building thing is going to be hard,' thought Sakura, as Jabari slid into Sakura's now unused seat.
     
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    • [X] You may not like one of them, but you have a team now. You should make the best of it. Go find Kiba and Mariko, and have lunch.

    *checks character sheet*
    Daisuke is elite level at genjutsu?o_O

    The power of omake is bullshit.
     
    kenmadragon said:
    You said that the Decipher skill was weak and a poor reward for Superhuman mental stats, and that such subjects ought to have been covered by the Academy already.

    My point was that there's a significant difference between knowing a couple military hand-signs and some passwords, and being capable of acting as a full-fledged code-breaker capable of cracking codes and deciphering enemy intelligence. They don't exactly teach the latter to just anyone, and certainly not to 6-13 year-old children.

    So it's not really a weak reward.
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    Okay you consider it to be far stronger then I do...

    Still is weak compared to other potential skills that we know about in setting. Setting up enemies to follow our plans ala sherlock homes style planning for example.

    Useful. Sure. Effective for what our build does. Not at all. We are a fighter first and basically everything else a distant lapped second cosidering our skill levels.

    And no I never ever said it was weak. Check your reading comprehension.
     
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