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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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You know, to prove our chops, it might be worth asking that the reward be something like a genin team being assigned to help out civilian infrastructure in outlying villages for a month.
 
mastigos said:
You know, to prove our chops, it might be worth asking that the reward be something like a genin team being assigned to help out civilian infrastructure in outlying villages for a month.
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I have some reservations about that idea. I worry they'd get killed by a foreign scorch squad excursion, who would then undo all their work. If we want improvements to be sustainable, they need to be in locations that can be defended in real time by overwhelming ninja force.

Which brings up a question: why in't every Leaf jounin given access to Hiraishin? Is it paranoia over opsec, or difficulty in spreading the technique? Because frankly, being able to deploy your force anywhere instantly would be stupidly powerful (I suppose enemy nin would be trained to eliminate the beacons/tags as soon as they entered an area..?)
 
OliWhail said:
why in't every Leaf jounin given access to Hiraishin? Is it paranoia over opsec, or difficulty in spreading the technique? Because frankly, being able to deploy your force anywhere instantly would be stupidly powerful (I suppose enemy nin would be trained to eliminate the beacons/tags as soon as they entered an area..?)
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Canonically the only other ninja besides Minato and Tobirama who could use the Hirashin were the Hokage Guard Platoon who seem to have only been taught a lesser version of the technique. So I'd assume it has something to do with the difficulty of spreading the technique because the Platoon are supposed to be some elite ninjas.
 
I would like for us to get everyone on the team a strong defensive technique ASAP. One of the big things that separates kage-level ninja from their lessers is that they shrug off attacks (through a specialized technique) that would kill an unenhanced jounin: See Kakuzu, Nagato, Konan, Gaara, Naruto, A, Mu (though he does so by just being near-undetectable), etc.
 
Cariyaga said:
Yeah, but the amount of XP it'd take to get to 15 is about as much as it'd take to get said "generic" defensive technique to 10.
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Yes, but we can use Stealth for way more than we can use a generic defensive technique. Generic defensive technique only helps us when we're engaging someone in combat. Stealth helps when we're engaging in combat, infiltrating a place, crossing borders, hiding our camp, etc.
 
OliWhail said:
Which brings up a question: why in't every Leaf jounin given access to Hiraishin? Is it paranoia over opsec, or difficulty in spreading the technique? Because frankly, being able to deploy your force anywhere instantly would be stupidly powerful (I suppose enemy nin would be trained to eliminate the beacons/tags as soon as they entered an area..?)
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Both, I'd expect.

Everyone having Hiraishin would mean everyone has access to the others' ninja villages, and MAD suddenly becomes a very real thing. Except given the volatility of this universe, everyone would die in hilariously short order, and we'd be left with a handful of ninjas and most of the civilians...plus Hidden Mountain :p

Also, Minato invented Hiraishin, and replicating the seals to use the technique is not fun. I'm pretty sure Kagome said copying another sealmaster's work would be like deliberately activating an improperly-made seal.
 
Radvic said:
imb4 everyone but Akane disappears and quest becomes fulfill sensei's dream
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So Akane ends up working for Leaf after a mission that went completely fucking pear-shaped. I mean like REALLY working for Leaf, no "I'm with Hazou-sempai but I'm totally a Leaf-nin, promise!". She ends up Hokage after the Fourth Shinobi World War, that got a ton of Konoha's elite killed. She gets access to all the secret documents (surprise, scorch squads were real!).

She finds out that Leaf had us killed to keep her loyal.

Que shitstorm.
 
faflec said:
So Akane ends up working for Leaf after a mission that went completely fucking pear-shaped. I mean like REALLY working for Leaf, no "I'm with Hazou-sempai but I'm totally a Leaf-nin, promise!". She ends up Hokage after the Fourth Shinobi World War, that got a ton of Konoha's elite killed. She gets access to all the secret documents (surprise, scorch squads were real!).

She finds out that Leaf had us killed to keep her loyal.

Que shitstorm.
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Hey, no breaking the cutie! Not allowed.
 
Cariyaga said:
Hey, no breaking the cutie! Not allowed.
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Oh that's the best part.

See, Akane didn't become Hokage just because she was the strongest post-war survivor. She became Hokage because as she grew she became jaded to the cruelties of ninja life. She started caring less...and less...and less.

All that mattered to her now is Konoha.

So when she finds out the real reason we died....she doesn't care.

They're not Konoha, after all.

She folds up the information, puts it back in its little hole, and continues on her merry way.

All for Konoha.
 
faflec said:
Oh that's the best part.

See, Akane didn't become Hokage just because she was the strongest post-war survivor. She became Hokage because as she grew she became jaded to the cruelties of ninja life. She started caring less...and less...and less.

All that mattered to her now is Konoha.

So when she finds out the real reason we died....she doesn't care.

They're not Konoha, after all.

She folds up the information, puts it back in its little hole, and continues on her merry way.

All for Konoha.
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I'm imagining Heath Ledger's Joker narrating this from behind a GM screen and it's glorious
 
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