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Thank you.
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 Maple Syrup Mountains
I was actually thinking yesterday about sending Noburi along with the Kei/Yuno chakra beast mission, for similar reasons (it's not suspicious for husband and wife to go out on mission together, especially with treason dragon Hazou still at home, and it gets him out of Leaf ASAP), but even with this I'm not sure we can afford to delay a full two months. It's more suspicious, I feel, if Hazou goes out on a second scroll hunt while the first one is still ongoing and tying up key personnel.
What does that mean?
We tried to join the Minami exchange because we saw value in it. We seem content to have backed away from blowing up the Hyuga deal for cash. We advised Naruto to use the Tower for the sale of the diamonds used for the election. And we accepted dealing with the Tower while still being very aware it's compromised. That doesn't seem like players have wrote-off Leaf in a matter of months.
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Alternatively, Hazou tells Naruto that they stopped checking in and he wants to go find them; Kagome is coming because he'll go insane from worry otherwise (this is probably not a good thing). It buys us additional time where Hazou and Kagome have "known" locations, but we'd need to do something about whatever additional units Naruto assigns to us, as I can't imagine he doesn't for such a high-level group.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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The post you're replying to is questioning the point of bringing Leaf as a whole around philosophically or politically (NB: This is a very high bar to clear IMO) when Leaf will likely be made irrelevant (with respect to the overall setting) in the coming months if it hasn't been already.
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Don't get me wrong I still think your being super disingenuous. The combined leave vote is basically 60% of all voters
Heleor
^_^
As a note, this is also potentially disingenuous as the bulk of the 'leave now' and 'leave with conditions' voters are the same people.
(Edit: Whoops, this point has been made multiple times.)
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If we could manage to guide Naruto into sending, say, a squad of experienced chunin beatsticks as backup, we could have Mari mass-genjutsu them into believing the party was ambushed and that Hazo & and Kagome were kidnapped. Hazo could lead them to the "rendezvous point" where disguised Mari SC's nonlethally take down the party and fake the evidence, copy Akane's killers behavior, ect.
Then they'd return to leaf and there'd be a (fruitless, of course) manhunt, and Hazo wouldn't even be missing, but "taken by some mysterious enemy". Heck, since Naruto doesn't know about TlitF mass genjutsu, he might actually believe we've been taken.
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Apart from the illogical nature of the enemy nonlethally taking down everyone, I think this is a reasonable plan.
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Noumero
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A cogent point. I retract all my concerns.
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But isn't that just a reason for him to kill us?
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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You are literally doing a similar mathematically-incorrect comparison directly above the quoted portion of the post that compares the numbers between "leave now" and "stay" directly before saying "and it seems like the thread is inconclusive on this issue" to serve as motivation for the conclusion.
You didn't respond to the general point she made (though she also fucked up the numbers in the opposite direction) about this.
Making a mistake or accidentally presenting something flawed is fine, it happens. Dancing around it like you are doing right now, is in fact a fair bit disingenuous.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
I don't think it's plausible that he'd be able to do that if we're meeting him on the Seventh Path through a Shadow Clone while Kumokogo is sitting next to Hazou Prime ensuring nothing bad happens to him.
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How is 60% of voters wanting to leave is not a consensus to leave?
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FWIW,
1) Winnability was not considered as a factor during the design of this quest (if you'll recall, we didn't even expect you to survive the year, never mind set global objectives)
and
2) I personally believe the quest to be entirely winnable
With the screams of innocent players as my lullaby.
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Oh mb, I think the conversation got ahead of me. I thought that he was meeting us on the Human Path.
EDIT: Hunting us down, bleh.
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the dark lord Velorien of all people saying this... I'm not sure if I'm reassured or unnerved
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What innocent players?
Oh. I see Leaf as a resource that the core current Uplift can get more usage out of and a possible extension of team Uplift with the right incentives. I'm also not quite ready to dismiss Leaf just yet in terms of powerscaling since I was pleasantly surprised by team Guy (with assistance). I'd like to think the the clans, even in their weakened state, can be of use to team Uplift and the coming apocalyptic scenarios we're dealing with. One example of this that I've mentioned before was the Leaf sealing team that gave us HOWS. Their collaboration was useful even though they first appeared to be a bunch of fussy egg-heads.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
How does this stop Akatsuki from steering the setting into a cliff the next time Nagato gets a visit from the good idea fairy and decides to perform a ritual to seal all chakra into a giant tree?
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