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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto 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
Cariyaga
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As an unrelated aside, I'm like 85% sure that Mari doesn't actually give a damn about her civilian family at all because of the side effects of Truth Lost in the Fog.
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And on that cheery note, updating on my priors:
I did not expect Akane to have made such little XP in our absence. I expected her to spend maybe another month in the hospital before she got out, and then would get 2 or 3 XP a day. Given that she made only 72 XP over the approximate four month absence, she likely spent about three, not one, months in the hospital.
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And on that cheery note, updating on my priors:
I did not expect Akane to have made such little XP in our absence. I expected her to spend maybe another month in the hospital before she got out, and then would get 2 or 3 XP a day. Given that she made only 72 XP over the approximate four month absence, she likely spent about three, not one, months in the hospital.
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To find how much the landed ninja will have to run:
The explosion occurs at some y above the ninja, and some x horizontally from the ninja
The distance for survival is S.
The distance needed to run is d.
d = sqrt(S^2 + y^2) - x
in comparison, the airborne ninja needs to only run:
d = S - sqrt(x^2 + y^2)
the distance difference is the sum of:
S - sqrt(S^2 + y^2)
and
sqrt(x^2 + y^2) - x
those with skywalkers benefit more the more vertically inaccurate the throw is
Probably more importantly:
aren't skywalkers made from air domes?
as a last-ditch effort, the skywalking ninja can point their foot towards any explosion/threat
warning: they might break the seal if the damage to the air dome is too high
warning: they might fail entirely if there is sufficient non-air stuff in the range of the air dome
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail Can you explain how Ishihara is supposed to be recommended by the Lord Hokage as a diplomat if she has single-digit Social die?
Cariyaga
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She's good at making friends.
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Jiraiya is remembering the alternative time line where the great rebalancing never happened
HoratioVonBecker
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Alternately, the current system is a poor model of the characters actual social skills. (I'll see if I can fix that.)
Jello_Raptor
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Oh god.
I just realized that, given our QMs, our technique hacking teacher is basically going to be Xvim.
We should start on the shaping exercises now...
I just realized that, given our QMs, our technique hacking teacher is basically going to be Xvim.
We should start on the shaping exercises now...
I would be very much in favour of that.
Cariyaga
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You and me both. Hazou could use some discipline.
...That could have come out better.
...DANGIT.
e: I wonder if we could get an XP discount if we learned all the other elements simultaneously.
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HoratioVonBecker
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Who is Xvim? Wikipedia tells me he's a short-lived Lawful Evil DnD deity who eventually died to fuel his father's Comic Book Death Syndrome. I think that means I'm missing something.
Cariyaga
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Sometimes I think "Man, our QMs have a way with words" and then I realize "what am I saying, they're professional writers, of course they do."
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He is a character from the original fiction Mother of Learning. You can find it on fiction press.
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We have draft answers to all of these and are waiting for everyone to have tuits to read and confirm.
This is part of the draft proposal.
Yes.
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Will you answer sometime in the next week?
HoratioVonBecker
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I tried starting it quite a while ago, but never got past the first section. Boring beginnings, you know? Then again, Twig has something similar for its first chapter, and I enjoy it enormously, so I'll accept that it might be worth another shot.
Is it actually worth my time, or should I get a summary?
Jello_Raptor
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You know, if we're ever going to learn the Rasengan we should see whether it works better as a toroid.
The hairy ball theorem is not our friend if we're trying to get chakra moving at a high speed in a consistent pattern.
The hairy ball theorem is not our friend if we're trying to get chakra moving at a high speed in a consistent pattern.
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The first four chapters are definitely the most boring portion of the story, since they cover Zorian's life before entering the time loop. I think they could've been made more interesting, but are important nonetheless to serve as a contrast to what he does right after the loop starts.
That said, the story does get a lot more interesting basically as soon as the time loop starts, and I haven't felt bored with it since. Zorian's a smart kid, a bit on the paranoid side but it serves him well throughout the story. The story avoids many time-loop pitfalls by leaving Zorian truly vulnerable to mind and soul magic as well as involving the relatively indirect machinations of a malicious time looper to keep it from just being a mindless optimization-fest while retaining the distinctive traits that make time loops enjoyable. Despite being an original setting, the world is highly fleshed out and has consistent rules with plenty of room for all the cool stuff you expect in high fantasy.
I'm a bit biased since I'm a sucker for time loop stories, but this one in particular is especially done well and is one of the best stories I've read.
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Maybe.
I read it for a while and then lost interest when it started wandering.
Summary: In a city that is totally not Waterdeep, Zorian the apprentice mage gets trapped in Groundhog Month after a lich attacks. Zorian spends a few loops going to school and getting better at magic. He investigates the lich attack and finds ways to ameliorate it. He makes friends with a hive of aranea, who are totally not brain spiders. Eventually he strikes out on his own and starts wandering aimlessly around learning new spells and mind magic, which is totally not psionics. That's where I stopped reading.
Xvim was one of Zorian's instructors at magic school. Instead of teaching spells he spent all his time making Zorian do "shaping exercises", which are the equivalent of the leaf-sticking exercise in Naruto. He never explained how to do them, expecting you to figure it out on your own.
Actually, there's a very good reason why he never progressed beyond shaping exercise.
From his perspective, Xvim never had Zorian as a student before.
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Yes, but even when Zorian showed up with the ability to blow the first half-dozen exercises out of the water, Xvim just pulled out more.
Think of it as an admission test to be Xvim's student. Since Zorian was never Xvim's student before, he just keep giving the same test hoping to get rid of lazybutt he doesn't have to teach.
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