Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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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
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
I think this might be better as a seal? We, uh... don't want to have this set up and then not be able to turn it off.
I'd rather have him working on useful seals, roast intended
- Location
- Yes.
Well what else is he doing? I'm assuming he's not going to start on rift seals...
I love when Hazou drops lines like this.
One day, we will build a lighthouse.
Speaking of clan secret ninjutsu: it seems like many more clans have secret ninjutsu than have secret seals. And if secret ninjutsu are an important part of your clan's loadout/build, I would expect you'd want to have at least two (a master and an apprentice) Technique Hackers to modify and build upon those jutsu. It would be kinda lame if you lost the ability to improve upon the jutsu suite you rely on, and I doubt many of the clans that make extensive use of secret ninjutsu have perfected their loadout and cannot improve upon it. So that's another reason to expect more hackers to exist than we have observed.
Stompy, have you taken over the notes tracking from Shrooms? Do you know if there's anything that slipped through the cracks?
My plan has him work on Darkness Domes, as a safety measure for Hazou's light shenanigans
I don't know of anything specifically. One of these days I'll reconcile the trackers with the sheets and post my own master note tracker.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Kagome should probably be researching the darkness seal tree (or just skip to what we want) from Jman's hoard so that anything we do on the Runic HOWS front is not going to negatively impact our combatants in the upcoming fight. This might take him quite a few research cycles so we should start now instead of having him do generic rift seal stuff or some misc. research.
I note that... well if we can combo the Runic HOWS effect with something that hides it from Itachi, that just the generic version would probably significantly hinder his capacities in a fight? "If you are using your eyeballs in this AOE you are being slammed with blinding light constantly" is a pretty tough one to deal with, especially if we ensure there are multiple HOWS present so that they can't just detonate or throw a blanket over one, etc. This applies to a lot of the Akatsuki too: I doubt that most of them picked up blindfighting, though I wouldn't be surprised if Hidan and Kisame had something for that (I think the dossier mentioned as much?).
- Location
- Yes.
Sorry, I mean that we will be steering him away from doing that thing.
Pinging also @eaglejarl @Velorien
This rune should suck up a great deal of environmental chakra to operate. Does Hazou notice anything weird when using MS8, or chakrascope near it (acknowledging that he might not be able to see the seals). How about casting jutsu, is that normal?
- Location
- Washington, USA
Maybe that's what that cannibalism-inducing basilisk hack which one of Naruto's clones found in Oro's Basement was actually for - mental consequence can't be shrugged off with shadow clones, and using futuresight on something which triggers by being perceived just means you trip over it slightly sooner. Main thing about Itachi that scared Oro is intelligence, not raw power, so a slow-onset effect which compromised Itachi's judgement, in particular making him more likely to impulsively attack fellow Akatsuki members, would from a certain perspective seem like an ideal fix.
Ran through TH rolls if we had TH 30 for myself. Was interested in what kind of rolls went into perfecting the Basic 3 or how high Tobirama and Minato had to be hitting to make Shadow Clone and Rasengan. Expecting they had bonuses like SSA.
How or when does difficulty increase if multiple Shadow Clones are Tweaking the same ninjutsu on separate tracks?
Does basing a new ninjutsu on an existing technique count towards this? Thinking of how it could be abused if low level ninjutsu were split into minor variants, hacking them until you made your perfect technique before leveling it.
How or when does difficulty increase if multiple Shadow Clones are Tweaking the same ninjutsu on separate tracks?
Konan likely gets this bonus to her specialty ninjutsu from being made of paper. Runic substrate golem body time?
- Location
- Texas
Paper jutsu is nonelemental, so no bonus besides veterancy.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Bit of a longshot, but can we just, you know, can we just make a rune that blocks bloodlines? Just turns them all off. That'd be really swell if we could manage it, would turn Mr. McSharingan over there into a mortal again, at the very least.
Sharingone Rune
Forcibly turns off bloodlines in a large radius around the rune.
Sharingone Rune
Forcibly turns off bloodlines in a large radius around the rune.
Broken for never failing seal infusions if making a rune with the same effect is possible.
Nonelemental for people without paper bodies. Sad if she transformed herself into paper and all she got was paper cuts and veterancy. Would bet she needed domain experience first to do the conversion.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Sorry I just need to squee momentarily about how good this is! It's so good! One kilometer diameter!
We'd just need a few of these bad boys to cover the entirety of Leaf!
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Courtesy of xkcd's what if: what would happen if you dropped an entire rainstorm's worth of water at once? A lot of fun physics things, it seems, and a very not good time for whoever happens to reside beneath the raindrop.
Now I ask: what would happen if you made an upside-down air dome rune above a city, in the rainy season?
It's a giant manmade-lake, at first. The water in that one-kilometer-diameter area just pools into the center of the air dome. Maybe it's just the water from one storm, maybe it's the water from multiple storms. The dome only lasts a week, after all. But therein lies the trap: the air dome only lasts a week. It's gonna pop, sooner or later, and all that water will pour down all at once. You can see it up in the sky (how could you not?) but there's nothing you can really do about it. What, are you gonna scoop out all the water by hand? Order ninja to cast fireballs at it until it all evaporates? Break the dome prematurely? No, that water's coming down on you whether you like it or not, all in one devastating raindrop.
It's a nuke with no casualties. You have a whole week to evacuate the area of impact. You can't stop the drop but you can make sure nobody dies to it. All you lose is, well, all of the infrastructure beneath the air dome, everything too hard to move. Not an Akatsuki-killer, but remarkably potent against cities. Would make an excellent geopolitical threat.
Now I ask: what would happen if you made an upside-down air dome rune above a city, in the rainy season?
It's a giant manmade-lake, at first. The water in that one-kilometer-diameter area just pools into the center of the air dome. Maybe it's just the water from one storm, maybe it's the water from multiple storms. The dome only lasts a week, after all. But therein lies the trap: the air dome only lasts a week. It's gonna pop, sooner or later, and all that water will pour down all at once. You can see it up in the sky (how could you not?) but there's nothing you can really do about it. What, are you gonna scoop out all the water by hand? Order ninja to cast fireballs at it until it all evaporates? Break the dome prematurely? No, that water's coming down on you whether you like it or not, all in one devastating raindrop.
It's a nuke with no casualties. You have a whole week to evacuate the area of impact. You can't stop the drop but you can make sure nobody dies to it. All you lose is, well, all of the infrastructure beneath the air dome, everything too hard to move. Not an Akatsuki-killer, but remarkably potent against cities. Would make an excellent geopolitical threat.
Iris-Iven-Ibis
Interested-Idiot-Immortal
- Location
- You know
All I can imagine is just Hazous celebrating his New Creation and then just being suddenly truck by this knowledge
Goketsu Hazou not-inventing-WMDs challenge (impossible)
Lacoumancy here we come
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
@Paperclipped Do the new runes we researched have runic drag? Can the Air Dome Rune be moved after activation or is it fixed?