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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Gōketsu Hazō, the man that has been to Bear several times and returned safely, surely will be able to be the first to lead a team in and out of Bear and dodge these Akatsuki miscreants.

We just need to start introducing ourselves as such!
 
eaglejarl said:
I'm going to go loot Hazō's office for the ninjutsu scrolls and burn anything that seems appropriate.
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We're really going to fuck over the Gokētsu remnants as completely as possible, aren't we?

How far is the looting and destruction going to go? Will the Clan be left with anything worthwhile at all? Like notes from Orochimaru and Jiraiya? Or jutsu scrolls for jutsu that all of Team Uplift's eligible members already know? Or cash they can use to keep the civilians alive and the businesses running?

Honestly, this whole thing hurts my heart.
 
Rafin said:
We're really going to fuck over the Gokētsu remnants as completely as possible, aren't we?

How far is the looting and destruction going to go? Will the Clan be left with anything worthwhile at all? Like notes from Orochimaru and Jiraiya? Or jutsu scrolls for jutsu that all of Team Uplift's eligible members already know? Or cash they can use to keep the civilians alive and the businesses running?

Honestly, this whole thing hurts my heart.
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We took all of that with us. Hazou already keeps the notes in the Seventh Path while not in use. So any that aren't checked out right now are lost to the remnants.

Sounds like we took all the Jutsu Scrolls too.

As for cash, we have a couple sealmasters at least to keep the lights on. The rest of the able-bodied clan members can take missions to keep things going too.

It's unfortunate and things will be in dire straights, but I don't expect the clan to dissolve. Could be wrong though. Hopefully Naruto trys to hold things together for us. But it is what it is.
 
eaglejarl said:
Skysliders have the following characteristics:

  • The pilot lies down in a wooden tube that has levers up front and pedals at the back.
  • Numbers:
    • 8:1 glide ratio (about half of what a modern hang glider has), meaning that if you launch from a mile in the air then you can go eight miles before landing. Obviously, you can extend this distance by gaining altitude from a thermal, or by ridge running.
    • 40' wide by 15' long.
    • Weighs about 90 pounds, mostly from the wooden tube that the pilot lies down in.
    • Max speed under optimal conditions of 25-30 mph -- slightly faster than a running ninja. Speed under normal conditions is about 15-20 mph. Going slower than 10-15mph will offend the sky spirits which leads to, as Michiki puts it, rapid terrain approach, lithobraking, and a resulting major enlargement of the airframe's no-launch window.
  • It is possible, although dangerous, to use jutsu while flying as long as weather conditions are calm. You need to place your forearms on the steering levers in order to free your hands to make handseals. This is contraindicated by the design team, although they are a bunch of civilians so they aren't going to tell a ninja that it's incredibly dangerous and stupid. Regardless, using jutsu while flying is like driving with your knee while you use both hands to light a cigarette -- you can do it, but you shouldn't and you definitely shouldn't do it often or when you're under stress.
  • Their performance characteristics (speed, stability, etc) vary somewhat from day to day depending on how grumpy the sky spirits are feeling. [NB: This actually means atmospheric conditions such as temperature, pressure, humidity, wind, etc.]
  • They handle bad weather poorly. If it starts to rain or a major windstorm comes up, you want to get on the ground quickly or else the sky spirits are likely to become offended.
  • They turn like a barge and if you try to turn too fast you will definitely offend the sky spirits.
  • Occasionally the sky spirits get offended for no particular reason
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped did we ever get a version of these that can be put into a storage seal?

They're below the mass limits so all that's left is the total volume, and while they're quite large in area the total volume of the wings should be quite small.

With clever design it seems to me that the wings could be telescoped or folded so as not to exceed volume limitations of the seal, and the hollow tube could be disassembled into a couple sections for storage if necessary.
 
Rafin said:
We're really going to fuck over the Gokētsu remnants as completely as possible, aren't we?

How far is the looting and destruction going to go? Will the Clan be left with anything worthwhile at all? Like notes from Orochimaru and Jiraiya? Or jutsu scrolls for jutsu that all of Team Uplift's eligible members already know? Or cash they can use to keep the civilians alive and the businesses running?

Honestly, this whole thing hurts my heart.
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We'll be back in like 4-5 months and Naruto will be declaring all of us Heroes of the Leaf Imperium or whatever before the whole village.

They'll be fine.
 
faflec said:
ITACHI: Why am I included in the list.

NARUTO: Kumokogo.

ITACHI: Ah.
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Wait, what?

Noumero said:
I don't see why the marginally greater amount of water and chakra around Noburi would greatly improve Kisame's ability to follow him. Humans are full of water and ninja are full of chakra anyway: if he's following anyone, he could be following anyone.
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Doesn't Noburi have multiple Jōnin's worth of chakra in his barrel, though?

Velorien said:
The first rendezvous point is near Nuken'in Temple in northern Iron, several kilometres away from the smoking wreck of the Fortress of White Steel, in 7 days. The second is on Kankei, the triangular island southeast of Hot Springs, in 9 days. The third is near Tasogare Village in Tea, between the ruins of Isan and Degarashi Port, in 12 days.
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So Kei picked these destinations without consulting us?

Noumero said:
There was an idea proposed recently about a seal + rune combination in which the rune keys onto the seal, then, if the seal is triggered within the rune's AoE, the rune applies its effect to the seal's vicinity. This allows quick and targeted activation of runes, and greatly bolsters our ninja's power within a prepared area. (Note the "within the rune's AoE" clause: this isn't just the wormhole idea again. The point isn't to apply the rune's effect farther than the rune can project it; rather, it's just a nuanced interface for controlling the rune.)
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I'd be happy if we can pull this off, but I expect a "probably not possible" from the prep day for it.

Rafin said:
How far is the looting and destruction going to go? Will the Clan be left with anything worthwhile at all? Like notes from Orochimaru and Jiraiya? Or jutsu scrolls for jutsu that all of Team Uplift's eligible members already know? Or cash they can use to keep the civilians alive and the businesses running?
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As far as necessary to keep our clan secrets out of Akatsuki's hands. We really don't want them taking or even knowing about our good stuff.

Shrooms said:
NOBURI: I don't!
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JIRAYA: That's cute, kid, but give me back my scroll now.
 
ContextBot said:
Nukenin? Missing-nin temple?
かんけい /関係, Relationship Island? (Did you just watch Inside Out2?)
タそがれ/ 黄昏 Twilight village?

Why is Kei using locations associated with us? On the other hand, those sound like Kei.
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Kankei is a notably triangular island.

MarsIronPI said:
So Kei picked these destinations without consulting us?
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We previously mentioned that the locations were sanity-checked with the rest of the team. It would have made no sense to do otherwise under the circumstances.
 
Velorien said:
We previously mentioned that the locations were sanity-checked with the rest of the team. It would have made no sense to do otherwise under the circumstances.
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But they hadn't been insanity-checked by us! It's very lucky that Kankei's conditions appear conductive to assuaging our latest neuroses and paranoia, but we could've been in real trouble otherwise. Unacceptable Kei behavior.
 
Noumero said:
But they hadn't been insanity-checked by us! It's very lucky that Kankei's conditions appear conductive to assuaging our latest neuroses and paranoia, but we could've been in real trouble otherwise. Unacceptable Kei behavior.
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If you wish to reveal yourselves to Kei and impress upon her the need to consult you before implementing sensitive plans, I won't stop you. The grue might.
 
eaglejarl said:
Nope. The whole point is that the Gōketsu don't want Miyuki reading the letters before the main family is way far away.
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No, I'm pretty sure it's a massive unforced error on Kei's part. She has every reason to believe her and her paramours to be the target of extensive monitoring and probing by the Hyūga.

Velorien said:
"Great," Hazō said. "In that case, can we take Hyūga Neji as well?"

"Sure," Naruto said lightly, "if you can get that asshole out of my village for a while, that'll be a fantastic–wait, what? You want to take along your worst enemy's strongest chūnin on the mission where you plan to give birth to a stack of massive new clan secrets?"

"The Hagoromo are our worst enemy," Hazō corrected him.

"Uh, no. They're just the loudest. When it comes to the actual threat to your clan, it's obviously the Hyūga. Did you miss all the ways they've screwed you and your clan over ever since you became clan head?"
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[X] That one Interlude where the players try to talk to Hazou but instead they try to talk to Kei
_The_Bomb said:
No, I'm pretty sure it's a massive unforced error on Kei's part.
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TBH, I really don't know what people are doing passing plaintext messages around Leaf. It all obviously gets read by random Hyuuga walking around the streets. They should at least transfer them in storage seals.
 
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