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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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will408914 said:
Speaking of whom, Jashin he rolled badly on his Stealth roll. Seriously, a civilian thug spotted him. Think that's something we can poke fun at him over?
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Let's not. Aberrant rolls happen, to everyone.

Just wait till you get to Akane spar :₽
Jello_Raptor said:
I'd like to chat with Nobby in the next plan, I actually want to hear what the mission sidequest short restful break was like from his end. It sounds like we'd just hear some thumping and then see Nobby walking out with the dude.
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This I like. Use it to segue the convo into heavy stuff, like sister Keiko.

Do it while Akane is talking to Minami, maybe?

And asking Minami about her own promotion to chuunin is a good idea. It's interesting, and gives her a chance to show off her skills or whatever earned her that rank to begin with.

In short, would vote for a talky plan :D
 
Has any thought been put into storage seals, minus the storage dimension? Just plop the extra space into the current universe instead and let it warp and shear before it destroys itself. It could be silent, extremely potent, and have an almost surgically precise area of effect cutoff.
 
Muer'ci said:
Just wait till you get to Akane spar :₽
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To be fair, Hazou beats her by two points right now, IIRC. That will change in 40 XP, and it'll only get worse from there.

e: Change in Akane's favour that is. Every level of Strength and Stamina she gets for the next while will increase her rolls by 3, and that's exceptionally cheap to raise relative to the costs.
 
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eaglejarl said:
"One carat Earth-country ruby, silver setting, point-seven-five carat peridot complements. Lovely piece. Arrived yesterday; had several offers on it already, actually. Are you interested?"
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At this initial description I feared it would later turn out to be a ring.

Lailoken said:
Has any thought been put into storage seals, minus the storage dimension? Just plop the extra space into the current universe instead and let it warp and shear before it destroys itself. It could be silent, extremely potent, and have an almost surgically precise area of effect cutoff.
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This kind of basic spatial shenanigans is something I've never seen done truly well in fiction, so I support it from kind of a meta standpoint.

That being said, turning a pocket dimension inside-out like that might just be one of the simplest, most direct methods I can think of for bringing the Outside in. So, I don't think Kagome will like your new seal idea. But that never stopped us before!
 
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Lailoken said:
Has any thought been put into storage seals, minus the storage dimension? Just plop the extra space into the current universe instead and let it warp and shear before it destroys itself. It could be silent, extremely potent, and have an almost surgically precise area of effect cutoff.
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This sounds dangerously close to a weaponized sealing failure, which is a no. In no small part because it seems the effect would be difficult to differentiate from an actual sealing failure during research.
 
Kiba said:
Akane, Kagome-sensei, Hazō, Minori, Keiko, and Noburi. I counted six there, not including Keiko's battle summons and Pandā.
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Hey don't look at me, I was just saying that Cariyaga must have been counting one less than the true number because he didn't realise Kagome is secretly a Minori in addition to his other conspiracies (like being Itachi, Zabuza, Orochimaru, a watcher, and a renegade lupchanz, for example).
 
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eaglejarl said:
First, a cheat is a cheat, period. If you literally hand a character a Conflict Ball that's a cheat. It's hackneyed and lazy, but maybe it can lead to an interesting and fair story if you focus on the non-Conflicted people. If you give EVERY character a Conflict Ball and then stack up four or five more "because the author says so" plot devices, you're cheating. That is not a rational or realistic setting, The characters are not human beings that can be empathized with -- they are windup toys, action figures that the author is smashing together to make pretty explosions. It robs the grimdark of any value because it's not actually based on character choices.

As to Taylor and being socially useless -- sure, fine, she was a teenager, not very self-aware, and all her role models used their powers for punching. She can probably get a pass on deciding that punching a few skinheads is a better way to improve the world than preventing millions of deaths from disease and starvation by removing all lice etc from an area + having insects kill the rats and dispose of their bodies + remove all pests from fields, etc. No doubt punching is also better than volunteering to make spidersilk armor for every cop, or half a dozen other high-impact options that I could come up with if I thought about it for five minutes.

So, fine, Taylor gets a pass on all of that. What's everyone else's excuse? (Answer: a stack of narrative cheats.)
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I'd reiterate my point about cheating, but I'd prefer to find something I think you'll accept, so I'll say this: I have some respect for the Orb of Conflict, because so long as it actually has reason to exist in-universe, it's a really interesting narrative tool. I suspect that the reason you kind of hate Worm is because the Conflict Ball you refer to seemed insufficiently justified, and you were really hoping to see why the world was so terrible, darnit.
And I'll concede that, if that's the case. My main stakes in this are trying to get a friend who hates something I like to maybe like it a bit more, because I like sharing things that make me happy when I can, and defending a class of narrative techniques that I think are useful, because being told that something is cheating when I haven't agreed to rules that prohibit it, particularly from a friend, is unpleasant.
(That said, I can see why you'd think it is cheating, if you have a more formal education than I do. I prefer my route for quality, but yours is probably an order of magnitude faster.)
 
HoratioVonBecker said:
I'd reiterate my point about cheating, but I'd prefer to find something I think you'll accept, so I'll say this: I have some respect for the Orb of Conflict, because so long as it actually has reason to exist in-universe, it's a really interesting narrative tool. I suspect that the reason you kind of hate Worm is because the Conflict Ball you refer to seemed insufficiently justified, and you were really hoping to see why the world was so terrible, darnit.
And I'll concede that, if that's the case. My main stakes in this are trying to get a friend who hates something I like to maybe like it a bit more, because I like sharing things that make me happy when I can, and defending a class of narrative techniques that I think are useful, because being told that something is cheating when I haven't agreed to rules that prohibit it, particularly from a friend, is unpleasant.
(That said, I can see why you'd think it is cheating, if you have a more formal education than I do. I prefer my route for quality, but yours is probably an order of magnitude faster.)
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I'll take this to PM since it's a derail from MfD.
 
It looked like Noburi is the only one who did anything inside the warehouse, while the rest of the team guard the warehouse from the outside to prevent any escape?

Did we loot anything in particular? Probably not.
 
Kiba said:
It looked like Noburi is the only one who did anything inside the warehouse, while the rest of the team guard the warehouse from the outside to prevent any escape?

Did we loot anything in particular? Probably not.
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The entire attack was "Noburi drops a misterator and drains all the civilians unconscious in under a second." The rest of you were wherever; it doesn't matter.
 
eaglejarl said:
Hazō looked at Keiko; she raised a very expressive eyebrow. Don't look at me, the eyebrow said. I don't do plan creation and, although I'm onboard with your 'uplift all the civilians' idea, I'm not so invested that I won't make an exception here and there. Such as, just by way of example, killing a random gangster-wannabe who intends to hurt people to increase his own money and power. Especially when killing said wannabe will help a member of Jiraiya's network whom we have every motivation to help because helping his agents improves the chances of making Jiraiya look good, which will make us look good, which will improve our chances of acceptance by the Leaf elders, which will in turn improve the chances of the aforementioned 'uplift all the civilians' plan coming to fruition. Also, the entire point of this mission is, firstly, to find our new clan leader's godson, the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tails without whom our new home village is at serious risk of extinction and, second, to reinforce the position of our new clan-leader-cum-Hokage (or at least not damage it), so helping his agents would be a positive action.

It was a very expressive eyebrow.
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From now on I will be picturing Keiko as the lovechild of Rowan Atkinson and Vetinara.
Nothing can make me take her seriously again.
eaglejarl said:
XP AWARD: 5
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Well, we're down from a 12 xp day, but this is still acceptable.
 
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