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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Could I have Hazo's opinion on..

1) A rune that 'monopolizes' the Out in a manner such that other seals or runes either do not work or are unreliable.
2) A rune that 'autoactivates' any Seals within an area, with probably highly unpredictable effects.
3) A rune that manipulates the various phenomenon that Sealmasters use to verify seals and do safety checking on, making it functionally impossible to actually verify seals and thus perform research with an area?

4) Modifying an existing Seal such that it immediately activates upon being infused, instead of simply being available later? (example: Explosive tag that immediately explodes on being infused)
5) A hypothetical explosive rune for which the centre of the explosion is not at the rune but is instead (ex) 100 m away in an indicated direction?
 
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Sir Stompy said:
Pinging also @eaglejarl @Paperclipped

Did no time pass while we were doing this or can we vote in retroactive sealing research? I am going to upset if we wasted a week of XP and research time because we had no agency about the escape from Leaf and wanted answers.
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Research happened. Results TBC.

_The_Bomb said:
@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped
When you have the time, could you please summarize Konoha's clan secret laws in as much detail as is practical?

They've been a great source of confusion to me for a long time, and despite spending over an hour quote searching on multiple occasions (and even asking faflec for help!) they still remain a nebulous cloud of ominous importance in my mind. Having a summary (even if many parts of it are PONWOG and subject to change) would be extremely useful for me, especially for the next update.
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I swear this is like the third time we've had this exchange (about clan secret laws specifically) and posted answers. If there are specific things you want to know, then please ask those. Writing an abstract essay is an inefficient use of limited spoons.
 
[X] Let EJ write what he wants. We trust him.

[X] Timeskip to meeting up with Noburi. Follow high level security measures in the meantime. Show Tenten all available jutsu and Sealing loadouts. Let her pick which are most beneficial. She's in, so she's in. No holding back. Yes, even Shadow Clone is on the table.
 
Velorien said:
Hazō paced back and forth anxiously between the weird psychedelic mushroom trees of the Toad forest. Noburi had missed his check-in. Noburi was dead. They never made it out of Leaf. Mari missed the message and Akatsuki made their move early. Akatsuki intercepted the message and interrogated her. Naruto decided he wasn't letting Noburi go and seized him as soon as he came back from the Seventh Path. Itachi had been watching the compound and intercepted them. Leaf's hunter-nin had pursuit capabilities they didn't publicise and caught up with the team. Mari had seen the message, weighed her options, and decided to cut ties rather than leave.
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Thank you for the accumulation, because the first three counterfactuals gave me a heart attack when I read them as events.
Velorien said:
Ah.

"Noburi," Hazō said tentatively, "where do you think I am?"

"Somewhere near Crimson State Island, right?"

"...No," Hazō said. "That was a lie for Akatsuki's benefit."
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The ONE time Hazō successfully lies
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If we have to go around Fire, that's going to take forever.
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Whoo, back to the very first plans with mostly training and through which lands we go!
Velorien said:
slumping against the stalk of a vividly purple mushroom tree.
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Surely one of those can ease the nerves or brush off fatigue. That's something we should dedicate three or four voting cycles to, probably.
Velorien said:
Mari's gone quiet.
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Yikes.
Velorien said:
"But maybe I could have avoided it. If I'd just been smarter, better at research, maybe I could have come up with a superweapon by now, and we could be back in Leaf killing Akatsuki instead of… this."
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Famously-not-affected-by-saviour-syndrome-Kagome: Hey, Hazō, pretty sure you have saviour syndrome. Remember when I told you about it? Yeah that was the good times, we were missing but we c- ah. Right.
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"It's nothing," he said. "I just think… she's cute. Fujisawa, I mean. Easily five stars."
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Has he kept taking notes about girls' looks using a star system all this time?
Velorien said:
Nuken'in Temple
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Heh. Next to the Nuken Inn, where they sell refreshments to drink not just on the go, but on the run
Velorien said:
With her field of view regrettably no longer fully occupied by Tenten, Kei looked around the clearing, a sense of wrongness steadily rising through her body and beginning to curl around her heart.

"Tenten," she asked anxiously, "where is Miyuki?"

The silence, like all Tenten's silences, said everything that needed to be said.
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OOF. That's beautifully written and also OOF.
Velorien said:
"We chose not to be safe."

Kei's thoughts ground to a halt. "I beg your pardon?"

"Politics. Homophobia. Akatsuki. The un-Uplifted world," Tenten listed. "I knew your enemies. I knew being with you made them my enemies too. So did Miyuki."

She stepped closer to Kei.

"We could have chosen safer lives. No enemies. No lovers. Just us, alone, until we died."

"So it truly is my fault," Kei concluded. "I drew you into an entire world of danger where you did not belong, all out of my own selfishness."

"We chose," Tenten repeated. "Just like you chose to follow Hazō. I am here because of my own choices. Miyuki isn't, because of hers."
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So efficient. So powerful. Tenten's idiolect is just perfect.

Thank you very much for the chapter, I am now full of conflicting emotions and feelings from the quick succession of them in text
 
[X] Action Plan: You Showed Us Your Heart, Let Us Show You Ours
Words: tbd

  • Wait until Kei and Tenten are done reuniting.
  • Thank Tenten for joining, we're genuinely happy to have her.
  • This is going to be hard, no questions asked. We're going full disclosure. All proprietary seals, jutsu, tricks, and tips are on the table.
  • After Kagome walks you through the safety procedures, take the rest of today to rest and decompress.
  • Tomorrow, we'll go over all the Sealing loadouts we have available, and all of the jutsu we have on tap
    • Full disclosure. Strength of the Storm, Shadow Clone, Cloak of the Wind Gods, everything. Tenten can even pick up a new element, if she'd like.
      • See if Kagome wants to learn/level up Shadow Clone a little bit. It's a complex jutsu, with complex philosophical implications, but potentially lifesaving when it comes to infusing a seal at a distance.
  • Clarify that we're not demanding reciprocity, nor are we trying to socially pressure her to do so. The road ahead is just difficult, and our sharing might make it easier.
  • Sealing Research
    • Tbd
  • Conclude update (and Sealing research) When Noburi and everyone meets up with us.
 
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RandomOTP said:
Yes, even Shadow Clone is on the table.
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If we do this we need to offer it to Kagome.

I'd also (probably?) like to leave this to Kei, or at least chat with her first.

This is largely because I want to make sure that if Tenten has anything good, we get it, but without demanding reciprocity. That's a delicate enough thing that I'd like to let Kei drive as she can probably accomplish it trivially or tell us it's a terrible idea.

Before anyone pooh-poohs the idea, she trained under Gai and probably has some stuff worth knowing, even if it's not useful to us right now.
 
Velorien said:
Research happened. Results TBC.
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The XP is lost then, I take it? That's a shame, since time has passed can we have read sealing notes? All of the last few plans specify reading notes in Hazou's free time. Since we can't FOOM that would have been a significant amount of notes.

[X] Action Plan: Welcome to Uplift
Word Count: 299
  • Today
    • Thank Tenten for leaving Leaf on Kei's word alone. We'll do our best to be worthy of it.
    • Welcome to Team Uplift, Hazou has new seals to scribe for everyone, we'll get you read into to our codes, combat strategies, and capabilities ASAP. If you want any jutsu we have, or seals, just ask. Kei, mind taking point?
      • Suggest Flame Aura (if Tenten doesn't already know it).
    • Sanity check the rest with Kei
    • Head to the bladehorror rift in Iron to take observations with the team, use MS 8 and chakrascope.
    • At check-in, (after swearing them to secrecy) brief the Toad Sages on the situation, show them Naruto's letters. Tell them of Itachi's genjutsu and mind-control capabilities. Ask them to evaluate Noburi for traces of Itachi's influence.
      • If they question why we're getting into this much trouble, show them Jiriaya's letter, he told us to.
      • Instruct Noburi to start setting up the same anti-communications protocols on the Seventh Path as the other Uplift Summoners
      • Tell Noburi's team to meet us at the bladehorror rift
  • Tomorrow
    • SCs work on difficulty checks for the 3 Rift Runes Naruto described, use the observations from the previous day.
      • Prime scribes seals for the team (RRBs, Force Blades, skywalkers etc.)
    • Send Canvass alone to meet with Noburi's team, and detect if they smell abnormal (mind controlled, scent-based trackers etc.) and to sniff around for anyone following them.
      • If she's forcibly dispersed, run.
    • Now that we're missing-nin, Hazou will teach Shadow Clone to anyone who wants it.
    • Next, we're heading to Oro's chakra water cave in Wind, to replicate its effects with Runes for our mission, and Leaf's attack force.
      • Plan: Skywalk to directly above it and dive down. Use a telescope to confirm no human presence.
      • Any other suggestions to get in undetected?
 
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FaintlySorcerous said:
If we do this we need to offer it to Kagome.

I'd also (probably?) like to leave this to Kei, or at least chat with her first.

This is largely because I want to make sure that if Tenten has anything good, we get it, but without demanding reciprocity. That's a delicate enough thing that I'd like to let Kei drive as she can probably accomplish it trivially or tell us it's a terrible idea.

Before anyone pooh-poohs the idea, she trained under Gai and probably has some stuff worth knowing, even if it's not useful to us right now.
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Updated to include offering SC to Kagome.

Tenten's solid, she won't take offense if we deepthroat our foot. Added a clarifying remark that we're not seeking reciprocity. Should be enough.

Sir Stompy said:
  • Yuno you'll be in charge of hunting beasts so Noburi can drain them for FOOM, but quietly so nobody detects us.
  • Noburi, can you still keep your apprenticeship with the Toad Sages?
  • Next, we're heading to the Oro's chakra cave in Wind, any suggestions for how to get there undetected?
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Do you mean to timeskip until Noburi, Mari, and Yuno join us? They're not with us, yet...

[X] Action Plan: Welcome to Uplift
 
Sir Stompy said:
The XP is lost then, I take it?
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Why would the XP be lost? The post you quoted said research happened. Whenever we get those results, we will just find out the XP rate. Am I missing a detail here?

(And how can we vote on a research plan if we don't know the results from the previous cycles?)
 
Zampano said:
Why would the XP be lost? The post you quoted said research happened. Whenever we get those results, we will just find out the XP rate. Am I missing a detail here?

(And how can we vote on a research plan if we don't know the results from the previous cycles?)
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We usually get 0 XP from interludes, and we voted in interludes, normally interludes don't involve time passing but that did not happen here.

As for the research, I'll estimate how much research we did and plan based on that with a couple conditionals.
 
Velorien said:
This update covered a week. Assuming no delays, the others should join you at some point tomorrow.
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Okay I'm going to plan on 4 no-prep DoB cycles, so 8 days, of which 4 of them would be DoB rest days where we could spend our chakra on reading notes, on those days we would have the capacity to read 19 (SC) + 2 Prime = 21 notes blocks, since 1 DoB consequence can be ignored we can use SC freely.

This is more than 4 instances per remaining note block. I will be obeying the notes rules and capping it at 4 per block of notes, each block of notes gets 4*4 days = 16 blocks read.

Sir Stompy said:
Orochimaru's Sealing notes #5: S:24, B:54, R:22
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11 blocks remaining, so 22 XP gained and these notes are done.
Orochimaru's Sealing notes #5: S:24, B:76, R:0

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Orochimaru's Sealing notes #6: S:0, B:42, R:58
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16 blocks applied, 32 Sealing XP gained
Orochimaru's Sealing notes #6: S:0, B:74, R:26 - 13 blocks left

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Orochimaru's Sealing notes #7: S:0, B:21, R:29
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16 blocks applied, 16 Sealing XP gained
Orochimaru's Sealing notes #7: S:0, B:37, R:13 - 13 blocks left

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Orochimaru's Sealing notes #8: S:0, B:5.5, R:44.5
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16 blocks applied, 16 Sealing XP gained
Orochimaru's Sealing notes #8: S:0, B:21.5, R:28.5 - 29 blocks left.

EDIT: There were 25 Training Blocks of time remaining, I'm inclined to spend those on TH notes, but I am not putting that in this post. Will do in a separate one.
 
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RandomOTP said:
Tenten's solid, she won't take offense if we deepthroat our foot. Added a clarifying remark that we're not seeking reciprocity. Should be enough.
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Kei might. I would really like to avoid introducing social friction where it can possibly be avoided - we're going to go nuts in close quarters and a stressful environment in a few months and unnecessary unhappiness is going to accelerate that.

Kei is objectively the right person to take point on this. We should support her, but she should lead.

We also need to shake Mari and Kagome down for their techniques. Anything they have that could help us - more to the point, Yuno - is going to be critical.
 
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