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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Twofold said:
Tea is boxed in from three sides with waters that are teeming with things that will try to murder us. We almost died the first time we crossed from River to Tea and I don't think we would do much better with a repeat performance.
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Noburi might be our secret weapon here, since he can now sense anything in the water with chakra within a 75 m radius. As I outlined upthread, a combination of early warning and explosive seal depth charges might actually make it a low-risk high-XP experience.
 
Christ on a sybian, 13 pages since the update 27 hours ago.

How in Hel's Holy Name is a person supposed to keep up with that?

Also, I've been reading the story-only thread for a month and just got caught up. Hi!
 
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[info][non-story] Chapter 97.1: Information about Rewards and Environment
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    • SO, I was going to actually write this scene, but it turns out a bunch of stuff ate my spoons yesterday. I feel it's more important to get you the information for planning than to delay and write out a nice mini-update.
    • The evening of your third day of house-arrest, you were told Jiraiya would be stopping by. Inoue made Hazou stay in the bedroom with the door just slightly cracked so he could hear what was being said. He was given strict orders not to move, speak, or breathe too loudly while Jiraiya was there.
    • Jiraiya came to your quarters escorted by two ANBU and grilled your team with additional questions regarding their experiences in Iron, Tea, Hot Springs, and the initial mission to Noodle. He also explained that you all would have met with the Hokage again if your group hadn't been turned into political poison, but instead the job got foisted off onto him.
    • Relevant info for immediate planning:
      • Iron has cooled down a lot in the months since the Liberator fiasco - there were periodic sweeps by different nations for a while to hunt down any remnants of the movement, but even those have basically died down by now.
      • Relatedly, he doesn't mind you getting in contact with members of his network that you've previously met, but he's very clear about the fact that you are not to out, hurt, kill, or otherwise molest any of them, and if you do he will find you and express his displeasure by ripping your heads off.
      • Inoue handed over the paralytic sample the team had been holding onto as basically a peace offering.
      • At one point Jiriaya confirmed with Inoue that she wanted the same favor as last time - when asked after the meeting, she explained that she requested false trails to be laid among J's rumor network to put hunter nin off the team's scent after Liberator, and thought it would be helpful to have the same thing be done again given the Hot Springs fiasco and the scene the team made in Sarubetsu.
      • Jiraiya also dropped off Kagome's reward - an additional set of seals and research notes.
      • Jiraiya took Shikamaru's book back, as he was off to debrief with Team Asuma next.
    Info on Kagome's Reward Seals
    • Earth Dome
      • Pair of seals placed in a plane with each other.
      • Forms a dome of chakra-construct granite with the two seals at opposite ends of its diameter, outside the dome. Can be any size up to 10m in diameter, or as small as 60cm (the dome is roughly 30cm thick, so this just produces a solid block of rock). Lasts roughly the same amount of time as chakra-construct MEWs.
      • Removing or destroying the seals will dispel the dome.
      • As with MEW, extends a short distance into the ground and is chakra-adhered to it.
      • Any matter that is too dense (limbs, tree branches, large amounts of water, sufficient numbers of bugs) in the area where the dome would form prevents seal activation.
      • Sufficient force to shatter granite will damage and dispel the dome.
    • Air Dome
      • As Earth Dome, including force needed to break it, except:
        • Made of solidified air and therefore allowing visuals between the inside and outside of the dome.
        • The air is fixed in place relative to the surface of the earth, rather than digging into the earth.
        • The tags demarcate the inner diameter of the dome rather than the outer, resulting in a slightly larger minimum diameter.
    • Goo Bomb
      • Creates a zone of sticky material covering a radius set at creation, up to 3m (a maximum 6m diameter, for those of you keeping track at home).
      • Rolls N dice vs the TacMov of anyone or anything caught in the radius for the purposes of determining whether they take a subsequent TacMov penalty, as with Syrup Trap. N is still being discussed.
     
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    • faflec said:
    That reminds me.

    @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail How are you going to calculate the Earth Release: Living Roots bonus to our Awareness when measuring a Awareness vs. Stealth check, if the bonus correlates inversely to the distance between individuals?
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    I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. If you're wondering how we'll hide the distance from you, we'll probably just add a bunch of question marks in random places.
     
    Dissonance said:
    How in Hel's Holy Name is a person supposed to keep up with that?
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    My trick is that I don't even try to read everything. I just skim most of the stuff and maybe read a post here and there that seem relevant to the questions at hand.

    EDIT: Always prioritize planning. Everything else is secondary, if not completely irrelevant.

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    He also explained that you all would have met with the Hokage again if your group hadn't been turned into political poison, but instead the job got foisted off onto him.
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    Hah! Another bullet dodged!

    Pahan said:
    Noburi might be our secret weapon here, since he can now sense anything in the water with chakra within a 75 m radius. As I outlined upthread, a combination of early warning and explosive seal depth charges might actually make it a low-risk high-XP experience.
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    The chakra beasts weren't the actual problem last time. The problem was that none of us knew how to sail. Had there been chakra beasts on top, we would be dead.
     
    OliWhail said:
    Iron has cooled down a lot in the months since the Liberator fiasco - there were periodic sweeps by different nations for a while to hunt down any remnants of the movement, but even those have basically died down by now.

    ...

    At one point Jiriaya confirmed with Inoue that she wanted the same favor as last time - when asked after the meeting, she explained that she requested false trails to be laid among J's rumor network to put hunter nin off the team's scent after Liberator, and thought it would be helpful to have the same thing be done again given the Hot Springs fiasco and the scene the team made in Sarubetsu.
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    Ok, we should go to Iron. Nobody's there, Zabuza is going to get false trails, maybe we can stick Noburi with Hashimoto.

    Hide off, train Stealth (and Medical), then get out. Boom.
     
    Straw poll telling me that we will go to Iron anyway.

    Twofold has objections to going to Iron, but no routes or border nations are particularly convincing to me.

    Tea is the safest option, but it doesn't look like it have good routes for going anywhere except the islands.
     
    Kiba said:
    Straw poll telling me that we will go to Iron anyway.

    Twofold has objections to going to Iron, but no routes or border nations are particularly convincing to me.

    Tea is the safest option, but it doesn't look like it have good routes for going anywhere except the islands.
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    Tea and Iron are the only least dangerous choices IMO. I'd rather go to Tea because it's safer but given the new information Iron is safe enough, gives better options for moving, and gives us the opportunity to do medic training.
     
    faflec said:
    Tea and Iron are the only least dangerous choices IMO. I'd rather go to Tea because it's safer but given the new information Iron is safe enough, gives better options for moving, and gives us the opportunity to do medic training.
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    I am weary of going there for med training and staying there for three weeks or however long it takes for him to get up to sniff, or staying by the same village.
     
    Kiba said:
    I am weary of going there for med training and staying there for three weeks or however long it takes for him to get up to sniff, or staying by the same village.
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    I personally don't think it'll take him 3 weeks. Recall that it took like 3 days for him to get +1 in both Medical Knowledge and Medical Ninjutsu. At that rate it'll take him a week, two max.
     
    I like the idea of getting to a nice safe place, pulling a Black Hunter(iirc, Kagome's old SOP before we met him), and training/learning a bunch.

    In regards to planning (because I actually did skim a bit of the planning from a few days ago), I like the idea of setting goals or plans using Hazo's personality as the impetus for things, with possibly a few exceptions to allow for finer control when necessary.

    (AAAHHHH I can't turn off italics, RIP mobile)

    Example plan: Training.

    Loop: [Gauge how pissed Mari is.]
    If: she seems willing to talk to us,
    ask for training that would help us not fuck up on such a grand scale.
    Else: Train. Make conversation trees, practice techniques, research sealing, anything we can do to generally improve ourself.

    I recommend metacognitive training to recognize when our emotions are guiding us in a dangerous direction, with possible implementation of something similar to a regularly-used genjutsu release (kai?) where Hazo takes a mental step back and tries to simulate the reactions of others based on past actions extrapolated onto what he is about to say in the current moment. This should be done regularly.

    Edit: Thank you, @OliWhail!
     
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    Mobile user here. Use the bbcode editor.
    One time I even edited a skill roll in a Stolen Dreams story post with the tags.
    The tears. The rage. The unicode. Augh.
     
    rkyeun said:
    Mobile user here. Use the bbcode editor.
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    Isn't that supposed to be where you click the formatting you want and it drops in the tags for you, but doesn't change anything as you're typing it until you click preview? Because disabling the TinyMCE Quattro editor in preferences and refreshing doesn't let that happen.

    /shrug. I'll just do the tags manually.

    (Although, that might end up frustrating me enough to learn how to write an android BBCode-insertion-capable keyboard...)
     
    Dissonance said:
    Isn't that supposed to be where you click the formatting you want and it drops in the tags for you, but doesn't change anything as you're typing it until you click preview?
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    No, that's the one with the plain-text-only edit field with no buttons to insert anything at all and you have to type all the tags manually.
     
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