PONWOG Kei got the rest of the team to sanity-check Envelope B. There would be no reason not to seek all the optimisation she could get, and her girlfriends' lives were potentially at stake.
Hazō, sanity checking this? The same Hazō that started a clan war over an insult to his sister? The same Hazō that was willing to be vivisected by Orochimaru if it meant Kei would be spared? The same Hazō that leaked proto-aura when Akane died and he thought the Hag were behind it?

Hazō would rubber stamp the letter without a thought, and ask Kei why she isn't breaking opsec even more :p

Fortunately, Kagome was a code breaker and knows about opsec
 
Hazō, sanity checking this? The same Hazō that started a clan war over an insult to his sister? The same Hazō that was willing to be vivisected by Orochimaru if it meant Kei would be spared? The same Hazō that leaked proto-aura when Akane died and he thought the Hag were behind it?

Hazō would rubber stamp the letter without a thought, and ask Kei why she isn't breaking opsec even more :p

Fortunately, Kagome was a code breaker and knows about opsec
I was thinking more in terms of "How do we make sure this exfiltration is as reliable as possible?"

Also, I think we've talked about this before, but those first two never happened. Hazō started the clan war when the Hagoromo refused to officiate Gōketsu weddings, and I'm not sure what the vivisection part refers to at all.
 
Also, I think we've talked about this before, but those first two never happened. Hazō started the clan war when the Hagoromo refused to officiate Gōketsu weddings, and I'm not sure what the vivisection part refers to at all.
When Orochimaru started acting like he wanted to kidnap Kei and experiment on her to develop cognitively-independent Orochimaru SCs, Hazou proposed letting himself get vivisected by him in exchange for not pursuing that line of research.
 
Unrelatedly, can someone explain to me what the new reacts are supposed to mean? We now have "insightful", "brainy", and "bright spark", which I assume are supposed to have distinct use cases, plus whatever the heck "sun" is supposed to be. It's not quite as bad as "moai" on Discord, but it's in the same ballpark.
 
Unrelatedly, can someone explain to me what the new reacts are supposed to mean? We now have "insightful", "brainy", and "bright spark", which I assume are supposed to have distinct use cases, plus whatever the heck "sun" is supposed to be. It's not quite as bad as "moai" on Discord, but it's in the same ballpark.
I like using the sun react like the sunglasses emoji, which has a few use cases like reacting to something cool or badass (or the opposite of those two things, and using the react ironically.)
 
Unrelatedly, can someone explain to me what the new reacts are supposed to mean? We now have "insightful", "brainy", and "bright spark", which I assume are supposed to have distinct use cases, plus whatever the heck "sun" is supposed to be. It's not quite as bad as "moai" on Discord, but it's in the same ballpark.
Sun: cool sunglasses to denote somethings cool, a power move, or other such sentiments.

Brainy: a fancy insightful emote that has note for being temporary

Bright spark: nothing more than a fancy like, I think? I confess that I'm a little lost here, too
 
There's more to it but this is the beginning of Hazou's suggestion (and the freaking out that happens).
Fair enough. I would interpret that, however, as less martyrdom for Kei and more "a solution to Orochimaru wanting to dissect both of us which also fits with my long-standing if largely OOC interest in being examined by Orochimaru in the name of more power".
 
I am in favour of just teaching Kagome SC now. Teach it to Yuno too if she doesn't have it yet, while we're at it. Teach it to Tenten and Miyuki as well, why not.

Gotta take advantage of the brief period when the laws don't apply to us.
I'm a little disappointed that no one has suggested a holiday in BEAR yet. Who would look for us there? :p
I'd suggested that before. It indeed has some advantages: we'd be hiding under the shadow of something potentially scarier than the Akatsuki, going somewhere they may not dare pursue us. The problem is, well... Hiding next to something potentially scarier than the Akatsuki. Something we don't even know the nature of, and which might kill us with more surety than the Akatsuki.

I'm totally onboard with investigating this idea, though.
 
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I am in favour of just teaching Kagome SC now. Teach it to Yuno too if she doesn't have it yet, while we're at it. Teach it to Tenten and Miyuki as well, why not. Gotta take advantage of the brief period when the laws don't apply to us.

We have a blank check so long as we don't do anything ultra morally reprehensible or politically undefendable. Winning this is approximately infinite goodwill with the village so Naruto just has to suck it up and deal.

We just have to yknow, survive, win, and do it in a way that Naruto survives and is still the Hokage! :)
 
No, not at all. Like, in what way do you expect the nature of consciousness to be relevant to what happens here? Unless you're arguing that stopping the brain for a bit will cause some dualist 'mind' component of you to float into the abyss and be lost, I don't see how it affects anything.
No, that's a weird idea. I'm saying chakra has traditionally had difficulty manipulating anything precisely at the subatomic level so a bunch of electrons moving around seems unlikely to be perfectly preserved or replicated by this rune, and having your brain electricity randomized seems like a bad thing.
 
Tfw Hazou flips Kisame into joining Leaf
I'm tentatively interested in exploring something like this possibility as well. IIRC, even Ami said that Kisame is apparently chill for an essie. Unlike Itachi, Hidan, Deidara, and Sasori, we don't know of any atrocities he'd committed or any monstrous character traits he has. He is apparently genuinely attached to the Shark Clan on an emotional level (based on Oro's comments and Kisame's own behavior in the lead-up to the Dragonwar), i. e., not a psychopath. He's also one of the competent half of the Akatsuki. Out of all of them, he might be the one actually capable of seeing reason, and not deserving to be taken off the board.

On the other hand, he did follow Pain for some reason. And we're very unlikely to have any opportunity to interact with him that won't doom the whole endeavour. Whatever, I guess.
 
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Hazō started the clan war when the Hagoromo refused to officiate Gōketsu weddings
Pretty sure that's not the logic the players had, but I'm no @faflec and could be wrong.
We just have to yknow, survive, win, and do it in a way that Naruto survives and is still the Hokage! :)
Nah. We can also win by resurrecting Jiraiya with Orochimaru. If that happens Naruto's probably going to step down for a bit.
 
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