"Uh, what I mean is, you could've stabbed me in the back any number of times, and you haven't, so you're probably not flying squid mind-slaves or Whirlpool revenants or Akatsuki hired killers after me because I know too much, and you gave me a present for my birthday, and I haven't caught you laughing at me behind my back because I'm not good with people, and… and… I tru—no, I… I mean… I suppose I can go on medium alert for a few hours here and there and leave you to keep an eye on things. If you're sure."
-insert screaming in Kagome here-
 
The ANBU escorts, standing respectfully just out of earshot, gazed at Hazō in awe, as at a man ready to lay down his life in the name of love.

You know, I really hope they don't mean that literally.

I swear, if we just challenged Inoichi to a fight to the death over the hand of his daughter I will glare at Inoue so hard.
 
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You know, I really hope they don't mean that literally.

I swear, if we just challenged Inoichi to a fight to the death over the hand of his daughter I will glare at Inoue so hard.
What have you to fear? If he opens the fight with a Yamanaka ninjutsu, he's going to have to deal with the contents of Hazō's mind.

Hazō could become the consort of the current Yamanaka clan leader in a single day.
 
Dammit, Mari!

A core of holly. Interwoven hydrangea and white lily. A scattering of cherry blossoms. Daffodils to round it out. And, at the bottom, a cactus bud from the Wind Country, just starting to flower.

According to the internet...

Holly: Domestic Bliss
Hydrangea: Heartlessness
White Lily: It's Heavenly to be with You
Cherry Blossoms: ??? (probably something romantic)
Daffodil: You're the Only One; The Sun is Always Shining When I'm with You
Cactus: Endurance
 
Does that mean you'd delete your Dark as Silver account in order to abide by the forum rules?
The purpose of the sockpuppet rules is to prevent people from escaping the consequences of misbehavior by jumping to a fresh henge. I mean account. Announcing what you are doing and what account you are, and doing it temporarily and for narrative purposes seems like the kind of use mods are likely to approve of if asked privately, Fairy Queen style.
 
Dammit, Mari!



According to the internet...

Holly: Domestic Bliss
Hydrangea: Heartlessness
White Lily: It's Heavenly to be with You
Cherry Blossoms: ??? (probably something romantic)
Daffodil: You're the Only One; The Sun is Always Shining When I'm with You
Cactus: Endurance
That... is kind of awesome in its own right, and also not the list I was looking at when I wrote the scene. To canonise or not to canonise...
 
Flower arrangement is a lot like horoscopes. Make it vague enough to cover anything then keep looking until you find a list of meanings you like. Optional is fighting everyone who disagrees.
 
Does that mean you'd delete your Dark as Silver account in order to abide by the forum rules?
Nah I'd just deny it.

E: Now that I think about it, there is a precedent. For With this ring, whatshisface the author made an account and made a series of posts under the alias of a villain who can manipulate stories or something.
 
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That seems like a really arbitrary claim, and one that's likely wrong. To paraphrase black hat from xkcd: Fastest-Growing, wouldn't every quest hit this temporarily as soon as it starts?

It could be by number of replies per day or something like that, in which case it doesn't have the issues measuring by percentage does. Of course, that doesn't imply that we're at or close to some kind of limit for number of unique users participating.


That... is kind of awesome in its own right, and also not the list I was looking at when I wrote the scene. To canonise or not to canonise...

Would you be willing to share the list you used with us?
 
[???] Ask Inoue Exactly what those flowers meant
Now that we have delivered the flowers, there's no reason for us not to know.
Strategically, it's important to understand the situation we've gotten ourselves into.
So, we must immediately return to Inoue and ask for a detailed explanation of the meaning of the flowers.


Contingencies:
If we aren't confident we can keep a straight face around Ino after, we may need to avoid eye contact while avoiding being suspicious:
Get to work on that tower prototype so we have an excuse not to look up.
Focus entirely on reading at the library.
Actually, shouldn't Iron Nerve help here? Facial expression #6, everything is normal? I dunno, I wasn't really paying attention.
 
Just out of curiosity, let me try something:

Hey, all lurkers: would you please make one post, either here or on the most recent MfD Reddit thread, stating that you read this? I'm curious how many are out there.

(If you wanted to add more information, that would be great but definitely isn't required. Good options would be why you prefer not to post (too complicated? too fast-moving? something else?) and how you found us in the first place.)

Not sure if you wanted people who have posted a non-zero number of times to reply to this, but my reason is that I don't always follow the thread and when I do, most of the time anything that I think of suggesting that is "objectively true/helpful" is already thought of by the hive mind. And what remains is more subjective things like how to social or other situations with no clear cut answer etc.
 
Just to be safe, we should make this thread extra-dangerous to any intruding Yamanaka. (Why haven't we already done this? Insufficient paranoia.) I'll start:

That looks like a great way to also make the thread dangerous to potential players. Not all of us have seen all those films, you know.

Would you be willing to share the list you used with us?
I would, but now that @Chronocide has proposed it as a plan, I think it would be much more entertaining to have Inoue do it.
 
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