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
How does he know about the Final Fantasy LP....
[X] Yes, push ahead with the Microrift rune.
[X] Cancel Microrift rune, but do something else. (Armageddon Initiative)
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
There was once a Kagome, there. Once.
Alright. I'm open to being convinced. Did we already research the microlift rune? I.E: is it in our tool kit? It seems good(?) to have a rune that can open rifts that we can use. So can we use it without testing it? How much is 7-10 days of research worth in opportunity cost? Is that a rune? A quarter of a rune?
I'm leaning on going. I want to see some place new, and meeting new people(?) or some combat sounds fun.
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- Texas
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It's about one cycle 1/6*2 (double track) of a Medium Rune. Or 1 easy Rune.
Plus we'll be tied down for months at the Rift site without a way of generating out own Rifts. We'll need to do all the Rift Rune without leaving. Leaves us vulnerable to attack and tracking.
[X] Training Plan (Noburi): None
Microrift is Easy and will take 6 days. This trip is 5 days to reach the location and 2-5 days to find the rune when we get there based on the results we had at the cave. Once we do that, we're stuck at the site of the rift for the months we research the runes with no chance to see new places, people, or fights because the rift is stationary. If we can make our own rifts we remain mobile.
After looking into how fast we travel such that we would need 5 days to get there, the distance is between 900 and 1,000 miles, which according to some MS Paint inspection of the EN map we use covers the majority of the map from anyplace not already on the edge. From our current location south of O'Uzu, my best guess given Kagome's backstory is the northern edge of Lightning, perhaps the island off its north coast. I frankly have no idea how the fuck any other rifts would be significantly further.
I've been persuaded to stick with the rune and am editing my earlier vote accordingly- this sounds good on paper but I suspect the QMs chose 5 days as an arbitrary time cost without actually nailing down how far we can travel in those 5 days with ninja speed and Noburi and similarly haven't actually chosen locations for the rifts because we haven't committed to going there yet.
FORTHEYOLOZ
Morgana-sama!!!
- Location
- Omega Hell
[X] No, go to one of Kagome's rift-sites.
Yeah. but Kagome is a smart guy in universe telling us there is a better option.
This is as close to the GM screaming at us that you can get in charecter.
The GMs would not metagame like this and Kei is the one with the GM mouthpiece bloodline. This is the GMs accurately simulating Kagome regardless of their own opinions.
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- Book Fort
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Honestly this. There was a time when we'd run any and every seal idea we had by Kagome, just in case... and, in this case, it seems to be a good idea to listen to him.
Kei ❤️❤️❤️
Honestly very reasonable of Kumokougou, should have seen that coming.
Cannai ❤️❤️❤️
This is not actually a real SCP object classification, but I'm getting strong 'Kagome used to work for the Foundation' vibes from this.
Should have asked him about that earlier lmao
Rihaku
The Internet
[X] Cancel Microrift rune, but do something else. (Finish Ninja Radar, use other DoB track for Explosiver, research Banshee Lovers on non-DoB track)
I don't want Kagome to regret teaching Hazou. "If he couldn't be the best seal instructor, at least he could be the safest..."
I don't want Kagome to regret teaching Hazou. "If he couldn't be the best seal instructor, at least he could be the safest..."
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- United States
Oh hey! Haven't seen you in a while.
MS paint tools are hardly the best so this is fairly rough but we have a canonical map of the ENs with a scale given, linked from the OP of the quest. This is roughly where we could go within 5 days of travel. A bunch of shit is offscreen because it either went off the border of the map or the middle of the ocean or both. The options are northernmost Lightning, back to that mountain range in Wind (unlikely), or some random spot in Earth.
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- The Soviet Republic of Canuckistan
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[X] Cancel Microrift rune, but do something else. (write-in)
[X] Cancel Microrift rune, but do something else. (Finish current research)
My updated vote is later in the thread.
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- The Void
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[X] Yes, push ahead with the Microrift rune.
redzonejoe
Vaguely Pastafarian
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- Canada
I have 2 questions before I decide.
1: Does the micro-rift rune path lead into cool stuff like Hazo eventually being able to open rifts to anywhere from anywhere at basically any time?
-Because that's baller as hell and I'm not willing to give that up to paranoia.
2: Would working on existing rifts first to get some experience and understanding make the micro-rift path safer to research?
-Because I don't really care much about the time cost, I'm more concerned with the end result. If it takes a little longer to get there, I'm fine with that. On the other hand, if working with existing rifts actually just closes off the microrift research tree entirely (because why take that risk when we no longer need to?) and prevents Hazo from becoming the undisputed master of both time and space, then I'm less fine with that.
TLDR I want Hazo to be portalmaster, willing to take it slow and safe to get there.
1: Does the micro-rift rune path lead into cool stuff like Hazo eventually being able to open rifts to anywhere from anywhere at basically any time?
-Because that's baller as hell and I'm not willing to give that up to paranoia.
2: Would working on existing rifts first to get some experience and understanding make the micro-rift path safer to research?
-Because I don't really care much about the time cost, I'm more concerned with the end result. If it takes a little longer to get there, I'm fine with that. On the other hand, if working with existing rifts actually just closes off the microrift research tree entirely (because why take that risk when we no longer need to?) and prevents Hazo from becoming the undisputed master of both time and space, then I'm less fine with that.
TLDR I want Hazo to be portalmaster, willing to take it slow and safe to get there.
[X] Training Plan (Noburi): None
[X] No, go to one of Kagome's rift-sites.
[X] Cancel Microrift rune, but do something else. (Finish current research)
I'm fine with doing the rift research now or later, but I really don't think it's necessary to take the risk of making our own rift when we have the option of using one of the sites Kagome knows about. Nor am I willing to tell Kagome, "we don't care about your opinion of the risk, we're doing it anyways because we don't want to spend a week travelling."
[X] No, go to one of Kagome's rift-sites.
[X] Cancel Microrift rune, but do something else. (Finish current research)
I'm fine with doing the rift research now or later, but I really don't think it's necessary to take the risk of making our own rift when we have the option of using one of the sites Kagome knows about. Nor am I willing to tell Kagome, "we don't care about your opinion of the risk, we're doing it anyways because we don't want to spend a week travelling."
1. That's the purpose of the micro-rift rune itself, yeah.
2. I don't think so. Hazo already has rift experience and veterancy doesn't seem to apply infinitely. It does seem like this is going to be a choice between micro-rifts and studying a Kagome rift for at least the medium term.
[X] Cancel Microrift rune, but do something else. (Finish current research)
Not even close, he's pathological about this, and safety in general. Kei is the QM insert character