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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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I expect in time rune and WMD will be considered basicaly synonymous. All the more reason to keep runecrafting exclusive. All the more important that Hazo has something in place to deter Orochimaru from making it even more exclusive. (I mean killing Hazo, if that somehow wasn't clear.)

Spreading runecrafting notes far and wide was apparently ruled out by the thread when I wasn't looking or vetoed by Hazopilot and/or the sanity checkers, but what about just passing on runecrafting to a select few? Like Naruto and Kagome. Just enough to make sure that Orochimaru killing Hazo doesn't actually make him the only person with that knowledge, but not enough proliferation so as to make armageddon inevitable (sorry Armageddon initiative club).

It's not an instant bad end, which makes it a good deterrent is all I'm saying, so I don't understand the direction the characters went with it.
 
Well, we *really* need a way to stop Oro from betraying us the second the rift war is over.

Getting Leaf involved might or might not be enough.

I'm open to ideas on how to ensure Leaf joins the party, and on other ways to increase our safety.
 
redzonejoe said:
Spreading runecrafting notes far and wide was apparently ruled out by the thread when I wasn't looking or vetoed by Hazopilot and/or the sanity checkers, but what about just passing on runecrafting to a select few?
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It was a Hazōpilot override. Added the following to the chapter for clarity:

Clarification: The players wanted to use copies of "How to Runecraft 101" as a deadman switch. The QMs discussed this in some detail and decided that Hazōpilot would overrule you and refuse to do it. Being trained by Kagome, whose incredible levels of caution can actually provide a game-mechanical bonus on sealing, and having experienced some bad runic failures, there was simply no way Hazō would be willing to risk the number of failures that would also happen. Also, for clarity, we have not come to consensus on "it is completely impossible to learn runecrafting from a book" but that is definitely the way the conversation is leaning so if we are ever required to make a decision that's probably where it will land.
 
eaglejarl said:
It was a Hazōpilot override. Added the following to the chapter for clarity:

Clarification: The players wanted to use copies of "How to Runecraft 101" as a deadman switch. The QMs discussed this in some detail and decided that Hazōpilot would overrule you and refuse to do it. Being trained by Kagome, whose incredible levels of caution can actually provide a game-mechanical bonus on sealing, and having experienced some bad runic failures, there was simply no way Hazō would be willing to risk the number of failures that would also happen. Also, for clarity, we have not come to consensus on "it is completely impossible to learn runecrafting from a book" but that is definitely the way the conversation is leaning so if we are ever required to make a decision that's probably where it will land.
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I'm kind of getting a similar impression to how Jiraiya's notes on elements made it possible for people to learn them without a tutor. Or, that is to say, that learning elements fell into a difficulty range of "not impossible, but it would take someone extraordinarily good at conveying knowledge to succeed". Jiraiya became known among Leaf sealmasters as the Teacher because he could do this kind of thing.

Framed in that way, it would similarly make quite a lot of sense if learning runecrafting from books is "not impossible in theory, but Hazou isn't anywhere near a good enough teacher to write that textbook".
 
So you're saying Kagome could write a book good enough to learn from without sealing failures... But it would be encoded to hell and back, and Kagome would never agree to write it.
 
is it bad that i am still in favour of destroying the world in case he kills us?, from a player perspective losing team uplift is a game over and the world may as well not exist afterwards. Forcing a win/win or lose/lose scenario is the only way to keep him honest; also considering what orochimaru does, this may as well be considered a mercy kill if oro is the undesputed winner.
 
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"I'll be back. I want to check on his real body," Noburi said. "C'mon, dude." He placed his hand in Gamahebigai's and both man and toad disappeared back to the Seventh Path.
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Before anyone could speak, there was a faint puff of smoke and Noburi appeared.

"Hey," Noburi said, sinking to the ground beside his wife. (She promptly took his arm and firmly looped it around herself, still somehow managing to seem diffident and bashful while doing so.) "What did I miss?"
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From this I gather that nothing unusual or noteworthy happened while Noburi was tending to Gamahebigai.
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The wounds were fresh and had clearly been made with something extremely sharp, perhaps a scalpel. They were shallow, not life-threatening or any risk of permanent damage. Instead, the skin had been flensed away in neat strips.
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So Orochimaru wasn't around when Noburi appeared (that would be noteworthy and unusual) but the wounds were still very fresh. There are all sorts of reasons that this would be the case, ranging from 'the timing just happened to be good' to 'Orochimaru has techniques that keep wounds fresh'. The ones that don't require luck are all...pretty nasty, fundamentally.

This guy is a piece of work. At least it wasn't a tattoo, I suppose.
 
FaintlySorcerous said:
From this I gather that nothing unusual or noteworthy happened while Noburi was tending to Gamahebigai.

So Orochimaru wasn't around when Noburi appeared (that would be noteworthy and unusual) but the wounds were still very fresh. There are all sorts of reasons that this would be the case, ranging from 'the timing just happened to be good' to 'Orochimaru has techniques that keep wounds fresh'. The ones that don't require luck are all...pretty nasty, fundamentally.

This guy is a piece of work. At least it wasn't a tattoo, I suppose.
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Paranoid alternative: Orochimaru was actually there, and interrogated/mindfucked Noburi before sending him back.
 
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