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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
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I stand corrected. I humbly accept defeat and bow before the Loremaster.
ClownMAN won! Contextboy lost!
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Are you kidding? I think that is an excellent pairing idea. Maybe not quite as good as Akane/Hidan, but we wouldn't want to tread on Yuno's toes.
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Nah.
The actual pairing would be Hazou/Itachi (who is Akane). When do we move to Questionable Questing btw?
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When [CENSORED].
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped
Completely irrelevant at the moment, but I'd like to bring to your attention the question of whether or not a Wakahisa with Sage Mode could inject nature chakra into their opponents.
Considering that Noburi can drain or fill as many people through mist as he wants….
Well, let's just say I eagerly look forward to testing this several IRL years down the line to see if it is possible. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention now, because it is cool.
Completely irrelevant at the moment, but I'd like to bring to your attention the question of whether or not a Wakahisa with Sage Mode could inject nature chakra into their opponents.
Considering that Noburi can drain or fill as many people through mist as he wants….
Well, let's just say I eagerly look forward to testing this several IRL years down the line to see if it is possible. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention now, because it is cool.
He cannot give chakra through mist, also the recipient has to consent. Although I suppose that Chakra Disruption Blast would make a good starting point....
If he ever gets Sage Mode he might be able to petrify people with CDB, although doing it with mist is never going to be realistic IMO.
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I think if he gets sage mode it'll absolutely be worth doing Medical and Ninjutsu Research into being able to petrify people at will from a distance like that.
May not be possible, but yes I agree we should ask him to try.
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"…upon succeeding his Vampiric Death roll against the target's Resolve + ⅓ Chakra Reserves, Noburi shall successfully imbue the target with (Shifts x 10) of Nature Chakra Points. Based on the amount of regular chakra they have remaining, the target will either immediately turn to stone…"
I'd probably make it Physique and CR based I think. Since that's the requirements for Sage Mode. Although truth be told I think it'll depend a lot on the exact mechanics of Sage Mode.
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Dunno how that's gonna work with Noburi since his CR more represents how much chakra he can maintain control over within his barrel at a time rather than a true internal capacity.
OTOH, the CR stat somewhat represents control for everyone, and keeping nature chakra within his barrel may end up working out to be a parallel/analogous process for his slightly different CR stat.
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I was thinking you defend against the VD attack with your resolve and reserves. If you have it in, you're fucked.
We could actually have them do a proper survival roll once it's already in, but I cut off my post to imply that was covered later on without wildly guessing Sage Mode mechanics.
Pinging also @eaglejarl @Velorien
What did Panashe feel like to Noburi? We know that Summons are made of nature chakra (see Otter statue), do Summons feel different to the VD than things with primarily human chakra? He can sense Elements now, and even environmental chakra, so I imagine that nature and human chakra would feel different -- if the difference is detectable at all.
What about Summons with esoteric Eelements like Sun, or Life? Do they feel different than the human-aspected elements? I'm not suggesting he drain said Elements, but simply sensing them would be safe, right? Or is this something he'd want to research first?
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SAVE IT FOR THE CAVE RESEARCH UPDATE AIIIEEEEEEEEE
I'm impaaaatient
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- United States
Couldn't he already sense Elements like he did with Sasha?
Chapter 674: The 'Pool'
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"Cool mission statement, bro," Noburi said. "Very dramatic. How do we do it?"
"Ideally, we deal with that group of otters first. The double thunk plus the statue you discovered sounds like there was a third otter that drained Candoru and got turned to stone from the nature chakra."
"Which I guess answers the question of whether or not summons' chakra envelopes are made of nature chakra," Noburi said, nodding.
"Right. So, we get Candoru back, maybe a couple other summons too, and we send them in ahead. The otters will drain them and get stoned, problem solved."
Kei frowned. "Hazō, have you considered what it might have felt like?"
"What?"
"Under the paradigm that you are modeling, Candoru had all of his chakra ripped out of him in an instant, even including that which is necessary to sustain life—or, on this Path, embodiment. Having Noburi drain me is an uncomfortable experience even when done under controlled circumstances by someone whom I trust. It must have been extremely unpleasant for Candoru. He may not wish to go through it again."
"Huh. Okay, let's find out. If not then I can get one of my other dogs for the job." He bloodied his finger and touched the ground. "Summoning Technique: Candoru!"
His chakra drained away, reaching off in a direction that was neither up nor down, left nor right, forward nor back. It spun, faster and faster, spreading out, until the aetheric tunnel formed between the Human Path and the Seventh Path. Ordinarily it would snap into place instantly and the summon would pour themself down it in answer to his call. This time, the tunnel quested about like a hound seeking a trail. When it finally locked on there was resistance; the tunnel shuddered and shook, struggling to sustain itself even as Hazō poured extra chakra in.
Summoning was normally instantaneous, but it was long seconds before Candoru finally puffed into existence, glaring at Hazō.
"No fucking way!" the dog snapped. "I am not going back in there! I don't give a shit what the Alpha told you, I'm not doing it!"
"Candoru, it's fine," Hazō said. "Nothing in there can hurt you. Heck, you even killed one of them in the process of getting popped—turns out, you guys are made of nature chakra on this Path and when the otter drained you it got turned to stone."
"Yeah, and it hurt like a motherfucker! I thought my entire brain was going to explode. I could feel my body unravelling around me, my soul getting yanked out of me and I've been puking ever since I got home. I almost blew off your stupid summons this time but I figured I wanted the chance to tell you what a complete asshole coward you are!"
"...Excuse me?"
"You heard me! You're a fucking asshole and a coward! Sending me on ahead while you cower in the back like a coward. Real summoners fight beside their dogs, they don't hang back and let us take all the risks! That's what Kakashi's old summon, Pakkun, said."
Hazō digested that. It was true that he had always regarded his combat dogs as disposable trap-clearing assets but, in fairness, they couldn't actually be hurt or killed here. As to Candoru...
"Candoru, the reason I've always sent you on ahead is because that's what the Alpha told me to do."
"No, he told you to start off by sending me on ahead until I figured out that I couldn't always win on my own, then to fight beside me. I figured that out after the mine where those worms kept dropping on me and eating through me, so why aren't you fighting beside me?"
"Oh." Rats. There went Hazō's disposable trap detector.
Eh, he could always make a contract with some other dog.
"Fair enough," Hazō said instead of sharing his thoughts. "Anyway, you said you don't want to go back into the cave so I'll let you go. Is there anything that would help with your recovery? If I've got it in my seals then I can pop back with you and drop it off."
Candoru eyed him suspiciously for several seconds. "That's it?"
"What?"
"I call you a coward and say I'm not going to follow your orders and you're just going to take it?"
"I mean...yes? I know I'm not a coward so I'm not bothered if you use that as a way to lash out. As to disobeying my orders...well, I suppose that the Alpha did give me authority over you for purposes of training, but you said that you learned the lesson already. From now on we're partners and I'm not going to be ordering you to do something you don't want to."
"Huh." Candoru seemed flummoxed. "That's decent of you."
"Thank you. So, anything I could supply that would be useful?"
"...I always hear you talking about that willowbark tea stuff. Is it any good?"
"It helps with headaches, yes. Fair warning, it's very bitter and a little sour. What you described sounds maybe like the sick feeling of chakra exhaustion? If so, I've got a tisane of honey and lemon that will go a long way towards settling your stomach, and a sock filled with hot sand that you can put over your neck to help with the muscle aches."
"Oh. Well, that actually sounds...kinda nice."
"Cool, give me a lift back and we can set you up." He nodded to the rest of the family; they nodded back so he allowed the annoyed white dog to carry him back to the Seventh Path.
Minutes later he was back.
"Okay," he said. "Looks like we need a new strategy. Kei, Noburi, Kagome-sensei—what do you think about sending some of your summons ahead of us? Are they likely to react the same way as Candoru did and feel like we should be alongside instead of behind?"
"Panashe is accustomed to serving as a forward scout," Kei said. "The rest of my tessera...yes, I suspect they would be irked by being sent in as sacrificial sardines. When I first ascended to the mantle it might have been different, as they knew that I was young and largely unblooded. Now that I have served as the Summoner for several years and demonstrated my competence on the battlefield they would most likely be less sanguine about the idea. Also, most of them would not fit."
Kagome-sensei shuffled his feet. "I, uh, haven't really made many contracts," he admitted. "I don't really have the kind of reputation with them that would make them want to fight for me."
"The toads aren't going to be happy about the idea either," Noburi said.
"Right. No clones, no summons," Hazō said. "Fine, we do it the hard way." He started riffling through his storage seals, eventually finding the right one and unsealing a chunk of runic substrate that had already been twisted into a blank for the Capacitor rune. "I'll infuse this near the mouth of the cave, see if we can bait the otters to it with some of Minato's chakra-gathering seals. If they like those then they should love this thing; it's way stronger. Hopefully we can draw the otters to the rune with a chain of those things, then we bypass them. We move slowly, we spray misterators in front of us and Noburi drains anything he can sense. If we start getting hit with chakra drain then we back up and throw explosives." He paused, frowning. "I think. Does anyone know whether the cave is solid enough to sustain an explosive tag?"
o-o-o-o
"It's beautiful," Noburi said quietly. Yuno stood next to him, their arms around each other's waists and her head tipped against his as they looked out across the grotto.
Orochimaru's dossier had described a 'pool', which any normal person would imagine as something small, perhaps two or three yards across. The water that filled the grotto at the bottom of the cave system was more of a pond or even a small lake—at least eighty or ninety feet wide, perhaps more. It wasn't regularly shaped; the walls wiggled in and out like worms having seizures, creating many side caverns and leaving it unclear what the exact extent of the water might be. There were narrow shelves of rock here and there around the perimeter of the lake, including where the tunnel Team Uplift had arrived through debouched into the grotto. The walls and ceiling were clothed in drapes of moss while here and there the long palmate leaves or reed-like stalks of plants rose from a ledge, or even from under the surface of the glass-smooth waters.
The walls and ceiling were thickly dotted with crystals, some of them the size of a thumb and some of them massive conglomerates as large as a person that dangled like expensive chandeliers. The crystals glowed in a haze of shifting colors, each individual crystal pulsing slowly, its color cycling from hue to hue around the rainbow. The crystals covered the walls of the cavern all the way to the distant (?) floor, their light causing the water to glow and sparkle. The waters were warm, bath temperature, and where they intersected with the cold September air one could see traces of vapor rising and twisting lazily. Taken together, the scene was straight from a fairy story.
"Well, that's definitely going to kill us," Kagome-sensei said calmly.
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It is now about 6pm. This update plus the one before for which XP was not yet awarded covered roughly a day.
Vote time! What to do now?
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Did uhhh the lupchanzen get our teammates between the two updates or something?
That aside, are the chakravores happily munching on the Capacitor rune now? We had no further encounters of note in the cave?
Interesting that his name doesn't start with a 'can'.
I am equal parts amused and concerned about Hazō's callousness here.
MfD in a nutshell.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Remember: while Orochimaru was able to bathe in it perfectly fine, he also did not mention any Otter-shaped chakra drainers in this cave. Conditions may have changed.
I don't know what much we can do here other than "wave around various diagnostic seals and then dip our toe into the water to see if we immediately have a seizure or something", but we should definitely be doing at least that much.
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- Book Fort
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@eaglejarl, @Velorien, @Paperclipped
This action plan assumes that there's some sort of "Prep Day" or "Timeladdering" mechanic with medical research. This is not guaranteed, since there is no such thing with Technique Hacking. Could we get a soft ruling on it, for the sake of this next update?
[x] Action Plan: It's No Beach Episode, But It'll Do
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This action plan assumes that there's some sort of "Prep Day" or "Timeladdering" mechanic with medical research. This is not guaranteed, since there is no such thing with Technique Hacking. Could we get a soft ruling on it, for the sake of this next update?
[x] Action Plan: It's No Beach Episode, But It'll Do
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- Dispel
- Secure the pool, close off any deeper tunnels with MEW. Set up a trap perimeter outside the cave.
- Test if chakra adhesion works on the cave walls.
- (if it does) Use Earthshaping to study the cave with the chakra pool.
- Note any unexpected interactions of Earthshaping with the chakra in the earth away/near/in the pool, and any differences thereof.
- (if it does) Use Earthshaping to study the cave with the chakra pool.
- The research team (Noburi, Hazou, Kagome) using Vampiric Dew, chakrascope, and MS8...
- Timeladder up to "a week," if Noburi's able to do this. (Repeat experiments for data points, controlling variables).
- Examine everyone's chakra system and chakra regeneration, one at a time, before/during/after they step into the pool.
- Noburi goes last, first attempting to discern if it'd be bad for his non-standard chakra system
- Using the same monitoring protocol...
- Make Shadow/Elemental Clones, testing the affect of the pool on them (with the SC's consent).
- Joking: ask Snowflake if she'll help with our experiments
- Summon Seventh Pathians and (voluntarily) test the affect of the pool on them.
- Noburi, can you tell the difference between human and nature chakra here?
- Make Shadow/Elemental Clones, testing the affect of the pool on them (with the SC's consent).
- Does resting in the pool affect chakra regeneration?
- Test if...
- ...Water Whip or Water Clone, made from the pool's water, can propagate the affects of the pool?
- ...using the pool water in Noburi's barrel has any effect.
- ...the affect lingers as a Summoner travels to the Seventh Path.
- Does Noburi think he could replicate the effects of the pool with his bloodline/medical ninjutsu?
- Does Hazou think he can replicate the effects of the pool with Runecrafting or Sealing?
- When not working with the research team, the party should take turns looking for any fungi and plants with medical properties. Orochimaru's dossier should have descriptions.
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