- Location
- Liverpool
She closed her eyes and grimaced as the image from her nightmares came into her thoughts once more -- Hideo's severed head sinking into the blackness of the ocean, mouth moving in a silent condemnation moments before he was consumed whole by a giant walrus.
I see someone's recently gained a thousand yard stare point.
Let them do something useful for now and let them hunt. We'll solve our food problems, they'll gain experience, they'll stay alive!
That sounds like a perfectly sensible management decision.
Worse, over the course of weeks or months, he always convinced her and everyone else around him that he was right. The rest of Glacier was eating out of the palm of his hand.
No matter what she tried to tell him, no matter how unreasonable his great plans were, he never changed.
And this sounds like what happens when a reasonably high wisdom character is interacting with a high charisma, low wisdom character!
Be careful if you do manage to get it though, the texts indicate that carrying it is dangerous in some way. It's described as bringing the owner bad luck of some sort."
Is it bad my first two thoughts were "how could Kakashi tell, on the macro?" And "I wonder if we can weaponize that somehow?"
Say, are there any body parts of his that you're not particularly attached to?"
More like "are there any body parts that he's not particularly attached to anymore" amirite?
first, Kakashi had moved through the forest by leaping from tree to tree and shaking snow out of their branches in his wake. Yaganita had quickly told him how the Snow ninja moved -- on the ground rather than in the trees, with quiet, quick steps moderated by chakra repulsion.
I really enjoy this bit. Partially for the worldbuilding, partially because it shows Kakashi as the talented but still fairly young ninja exploring the world and learning as he goes.
Kakashi (Taijutsu): 55 + 6 (boost) + 6 (Sharingan) + 6 (Chidori) + 3 (tag "Mini Blizzard") + 6 (tag "Raining Flames") + 6 (invoke "Flat Footed"; -1; 3 FP) + 6 (invoke "Ex-ANBU, Ex-Jounin, Ex-Leaf Ninja"; -1; 2 FP) + 9 (dice) = 103
Nadare (Athletics): ?? + ? (boost) + ? (Terrain Expertise: Snow) + ? (invoke ????; -1; ? FP) + ? (invoke ????; -1; ? FP) + ?? (Substitution; -14; ??? CP) + ? (dice) = ???
I don't know what's worse: that we hit everything we could but missed Strong Fist; that we got over 100 for the first observable time (I think) without our fighting style; or that, on arguably the best roll we could possibly do, we still lost.
She definitely had to burn a lot to get away, but dang, that's still impressive and speaks of a high base Athletics.