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Jiraiya has long been aware that one does not look directly at the bust of Tsunade.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rational 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
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Oh, that's what it is! It's the face of a man struggling not to look down, under pain of brutal death.
There is a bit of that, yeah. Unfortunately, Rock Lee/Guy exist. This means that in theory, almost any combat problem should be solvable just by buffing Taijutsu and Tactical Movement forever. I'm hoping we don't do this, as I can't handle any more bowl cuts in my life after seeing those images and I think the bowl cuts are a prerequisite for Taijutsu specialization.
Also, I personally think most of the fun in naruto as a setting is the crazy ninja magic. As soon as branching out won't immediately get us murdered, I am in favor of picking up some techniques.
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Here endeth the voting.
Plan Constant Vigilance and Movement! is the winner by an exceedingly long way.
Plan Constant Vigilance and Movement! is the winner by an exceedingly long way.
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Point of order: This is not canon, @Velorien and I are better writers than Kishimoto, and thou should maketh not such assumptions.
Chapter 12, Part 3: Train your brain!
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Chapter 12, Part 3: Train Your Brain
"I suspected Mori would be the first to figure it out," Inoue-sensei commented in a tone of weary amusement. "No, scratch that. I knew in advance, as an unmistakable, rock-hard fact, that Mori would be the first to figure it out, which by the way is something you boys should take some time to reflect on."
Hazō and Wakahisa exchanged pained glances. After several seconds' silence, Hazō, conscious of his responsibilities as sort-of team leader (and, more to the point, aware that Wakahisa was a coward), decided to bite the kunai.
"Figure what out, Inoue-sensei?"
"I told you ages ago that my elements were Water, Lightning and Wind, kids. You wouldn't think it's a hard combination to remember—it's got 'storm' written all over it. Which would have been a totally badass nickname, incidentally, but sadly for me, Captain Ayanami got there first. Though, then again, 'Heartbreaker' has it beat for subtlety.
"Anyway," she flicked her hands as if dismissing the train of thought, "given this fact, why in the name of the Mizukage's embarrassing mess of a haircut did you just smile and nod when I told you I knew Earth and Fire techniques?"
Wakahisa finally found his tongue. "But why would you—"
"Because I was afraid that, in defiance of all probability, Shikigami's little insurrection had taught you nothing. When a superior tells you something, you listen, but you engage your brain as well, and you do the work to check if it matches what you already know. Sometimes, they're just testing you. Sometimes, they've got something wrong, and if you don't tell them, you've screwed over your entire team. And sometimes, your superior's sending you on a suicide mission, and if you don't pick up on the little clues in time, there won't be enough left of you to feed the sharks. Kids, I appreciate the trust, really, I do, but you've got to know when to be good little soldiers and when to think for yourselves.
"We're not a genin training team here. We're partners in crime. And if you trust me to be right all of the time, you won't be there to catch me when I fall."
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Yup. That was more an in-character piece of clarification than anything else. The full update will be up in 24 hours, give or take.
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Well, you were getting a full-scale update a day early, including a badass fight scene and a dramatic revelation about what really happened to the samurai arts. But then @eaglejarl abused Early Modern English so badly in his last post that it paralysed my brain's writing neurons.
Not sure if you are messing with us or not. In case of not, i had hoped that the Samurai arts would be a more long term plotpoint. Finding out the truth about them already would probably have felt a bit cheap.
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I'm sorry, but have you met us? 156 pages in, and you're just now figuring this out?
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Ah, sneaky of you. I guess that this is an indication that there will be mistakes that Inoue makes in the future, and we will need to point them out. Though I'm not really sure what kind of protocol would help us catch those mistakes. Having some encyclopedia made about what we know of each character and location?
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Was also referring to the stuff that you've only answered in the thread, but I did know about this. Also, was the timeline one intended to be viewable? Because it says I don't have access permission.
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I'm really glad to hear that. Point gratefully taken. I will wield this divine QM revelation as a sword against all who oppose the glorious path of ninjutsu. I didn't want to wear green spandex anyway.
Aw, damn it. I did actually spot this because I remembered us discussing how we would acquire earth techniques. I thought you were being nice (...wait.
) and giving us an easy method to learn a simple earth technique. I figured her list must have been techniques she was willing to teach rather than ones she could use; "admit to having" I thought referred to what she would be willing to share with 3 immature genin. I assumed then that you must be able to teach techniques not of your element if you understand the theory behind it, otherwise the list wouldn't make sense. Turns out the list wasn't actually meant to make sense.All those assumptions came simultaneously with no real examination. I do notice the contradictions, but I'm really quite bad at promoting them to conscious attention. I'm too quick to smooth them over. I need to work on my CONSTANT VIGILANCE
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In our defense we're running on gamer-universe and doesn't seem to be that difficult to get levels in non-affinity jutsu. It would take, like 4XP to actually get a point in non-elemental affinity and get 1 point in a jutsu. I just though Inoue was unskilled in her non-affinities.
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Ah. I read it as Inoue knowing them, but them being outside her specialty. I guess that's not how it works. Also, if Inoue criticizing us is threadmarked, shouldn't the post it is based on also be threadmarked?
On storing knowledge about the universe, I think we want to collect knowledge, and note where it comes from. This is a little different to the question and answer format we have in the document @eaglejarl made. I suppose we could add a table or something to the end of it if we wanted. In the meantime, I've made a new document here which we could use to track information. If people want to use it, I'll add more (and so should you). Do note any document of this nature will get very unwieldy very fast, so a higher tech solution would be preferable (though more effort than I'm willing to invest at the moment).
On storing knowledge about the universe, I think we want to collect knowledge, and note where it comes from. This is a little different to the question and answer format we have in the document @eaglejarl made. I suppose we could add a table or something to the end of it if we wanted. In the meantime, I've made a new document here which we could use to track information. If people want to use it, I'll add more (and so should you). Do note any document of this nature will get very unwieldy very fast, so a higher tech solution would be preferable (though more effort than I'm willing to invest at the moment).
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The timeline doc that I linked has had its sharing settings fixed; you should now be able to view it without needing to ask permission, and I've edited the link from the original post. Sorry for the glitch.
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Alright, hold up.
Something occured to me a little bit ago, and I searched the entire Story Only thread, and all the google docs, and I didn't find any mention of Inoue's elements besides this most recent update. Did I miss it? Was it in an unmarked thread post or something? If it isn't, Inoue is doing a very sneaky test on us to see if we realize that she did not, in fact, tell us that. Or was this Inoue chastising Hazou, and not us for missing an inconsistency in her character details?
It's really hard to tell with these twisty GM's.
Something occured to me a little bit ago, and I searched the entire Story Only thread, and all the google docs, and I didn't find any mention of Inoue's elements besides this most recent update. Did I miss it? Was it in an unmarked thread post or something? If it isn't, Inoue is doing a very sneaky test on us to see if we realize that she did not, in fact, tell us that. Or was this Inoue chastising Hazou, and not us for missing an inconsistency in her character details?
It's really hard to tell with these twisty GM's.
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I quoted it like 2 pages ago, lol.