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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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[X] Action Plan: Bracing For Tea
  1. Continue the mission as per previous protocol
    1. Trust our instincts, especially if they start screaming to shove our feet in our mouths
    2. If we have to tell Person A something about Person B that person B doesn't already know Person A knows, clear it with person B.
    3. Follow previous precedent and orders from Minami
      1. Do not reuse Henge, but keep it up when teammates do not make up all of the people who can conceivably see us.
      2. Send regular messages to Jiraiya via the Pangolins. If Akatsuki appears, tell Keiko to delve into Frozen Skein just long enough to come up with a plan to escape without her providing fire support, and then have her reverse summon. Have her report to Jiraiya immediately.
      3. Let Minami decide team composition and how to approach contacts.
      4. If any enemy ninja or action is spotted, report it to Minami immediately unless we have a clear and compelling reason to do otherwise.
    4. Ask around for rumors about Mist and Water Country, but do it with all the subtlety that we can use and still get usable information.
  2. A comedic scene of Hazou digging through his set of nigh infinite storage seals to see everything that we have in there would be appreciated, but if the GMs don't have the bandwidth a summary of his complete inventory would work too.
  3. Ask Keiko whether the pangolin mission failed or was scrapped thanks to the utter domination of the pangolins over the condors, since we apparently failed to do so last time.
  4. We'd like Jiraiya's input on a few things as we send progress reports via pangolins
    1. Most pertinent and time sensitive will be Akane's icemaking abilities and how we can leverage that, but this is dependent on Akane's approval/ whether we had a chat with Akane.
    2. Ask him what he's heard out of Mist and whether a Hana extraction mission is possible.
      1. If it is, is that mission time-sensitive?
    3. Ask the entire team sans Minami if they want to tell Jiraiya what happened. A single veto will result in none of us sending the message.
      1. If approved, inform Jiraiya of what's happened vis a vis our sealmaster and team captain. Jiraiya will be able to read between the lines.
    4. Lastly, leave a note for Mari asking how she's doing, and just touch base with her in general. Sort of like a field trip letter in that you kinda don't mention anything bad on the trip. That can wait for the reports.
  5. Ask Akane whether she'd be okay telling Minami about her ability to create ice, and with selling some ice to merchants.
    1. (definitely not a thinly veiled excuse to hang out with Best Girlfriend, no matter what anyone says and what the rainbow genjutsu indicates)
  6. Talk with Minami. We're aiming to brief her on everything we know, and get some information about the places we're headed.
    1. Brief her on Akane's ability to create ice, and ask whether it'd be a good idea to sell or otherwise use this over the course of our mission.
      1. Only do this if Akane approves
    2. Inform her that we're going to be asking around for rumors of Mist because our mom's there, mostly because our mom means a whole lot to us.
      1. Reassure her that Jiraiya already knows how much we care about mom, and it won't unduly impair our performance on mission.
    3. Ask her whether Jiraiya gave us any information about the other locations we're visiting.
      1. Are there any different customs that we need to be aware of ?
      2. What kind of threats do we need to watch out for? Just because we killed basically every kind of hostile in Fire and Iron doesn't mean we've done the same in Bear.
      3. Is there anything that Jiraiya particularly wants us to pick up as delicacies over there? Our endless pile of storage seals means that we can also trade for stuff.
  7. SCIENCE talk with Kagome
    1. Can we reduce the LBF down to a single seal and only require a chakra pulse to activate?
      1. Can we make the activator seal trigger on proximity detection? Would that be simpler than the single seal LBF?
      2. Can we make a different activator seal that triggers based on the activation of a paired seal? (whoever came up with the ARF, this is all you)
        1. Note: This is different from the LBF because there's no chakra tripwire, and the activation pulse will work in any direction, without requiring the chakra tripwire to be perfectly aligned.
      3. How difficult would such a seal be to infuse?
    2. Can we make seals that activate upon tearing? The idea is like the implosion seals that we've used before.
    3. How dangerous would it be to mount Force Barriers on Fuma Shurikens to act like invisible Wind Release: Vacuum Blade? How much for regular shurikens? What about a set of force barriers, placed to sharpen to an edge or point?
    4. Can we check out the Mountain seals? Have we already? What did they do?
    5. Can we make a scaled up Skywalker Seal with only a single seal and fixed radius Air Dome?
      1. Take an airdome, activate via chakra adhesion, and make it have a fixed radius and one seal only.
    6. Really crazy idea - if we used a bunch of seals to delimit a volume of chakra water very precisely, would it be possible to seal that chakra water? Would we be able to unseal it safely?
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So yeah, this is the last plan with the stuff that happened crossed out. Go wild.
 
Geez, Kei, I thought it was Tenten you liked, not Lee! :rofl:

Fantastic chapter in spite of its length, @Velorien. Take care of yourself first!
 
huhYeahGoodPoint said:
Would you mind explaining? I'm not entirely sure what you're insinuating here.
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Nothing specific yet, but something to mess with his head considering his unrequited crush on her. Possibly involve his former fiance considering that we're headed for Tea.

Something else came to mind, though. Could we get Akane to freeze the water in his barrel? Prank, yes, but I'm also curious what would happen. He said in Snow that the chakra flow in the solid water felt all stuffed up. Would it prevent the chakra from dissipating even outside of the barrel? Possibly serve as a way to stockpile chakra water? That has a plausible experiment as a cover might make it a more practical prank as well.
 
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Lailoken said:
Nothing specific yet, but something to mess with his head considering his unrequited crush on her. Possibly involve his former fiance considering that we're headed for Tea.

Something else came to mind, though. Could we get Akane to freeze the water in his barrel? Prank, yes, but I'm also curious what would happen. He said in Snow that the chakra flow in the solid water felt all stuffed up. Would it prevent the chakra from dissipating even outside of the barrel? Possibly serve as a way to stockpile chakra water? That has a plausible experiment as a cover might make it a more practical prank as well.
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Bad idea to do as a prank; water expands when it freezes. This could tear a structurally superfluous hole in his barrel. It's worth considering as a chakra storage method though.
 
I know it's kind of silly, but maybe we can help Keiko learn to trust others with physical contact by helping her polish her shuriken? We can do the polishing while she holds it still, or I guess the other way around also works. Or if she's not comfortable with us handling her weaponry, perhaps we can suggest she assist Noburi in cleaning out his barrel (he does need to pay, after all).

Actually, she might be more comfortable working with Minami now that I think about it. They could polish each other's shurikens.
 
Vecht said:
I know it's kind of silly, but maybe we can help Keiko learn to trust others with physical contact by helping her polish her shuriken? We can do the polishing while she holds it still, or I guess the other way around also works. Or if she's not comfortable with us handling her weaponry, perhaps we can suggest she assist Noburi in cleaning out his barrel (he does need to pay, after all).

Actually, she might be more comfortable working with Minami now that I think about it. They could polish each other's shurikens.
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This really seems like something for Mari. She went through something similar with her early seduction limitations due to her trauma and found a way to move past it.

Alternatively, Pandaa (no, not like that). A small, adorable, completely non-threatening non-human who is absolutely devoted to her might be easier to hug. She's already trusted one pangolin to take her for a ride (no, not like that).
 
Actually, what's a fruit/vegetable that Hazou likes but Noburi doesn't, @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail? We need to know for the purposes of ...flavoring his canteen as a way of getting back at him
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reasons
 
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Lailoken said:
He said in Snow that the chakra flow in the solid water felt all stuffed up.
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This actually sounds like a good way to let him practice his abilities with ice. He'll most likely need to invest more xp in VD if there's another tier of ability to be had there, but this might help us figure out if it's worth pursuing at least.
 
Lailoken said:
This really seems like something for Mari. She went through something similar with her early seduction limitations due to her trauma and found a way to move past it.

Alternatively, Pandaa (no, not like that). A small, adorable, completely non-threatening non-human who is absolutely devoted to her might be easier to hug. She's already trusted one pangolin to take her for a ride (no, not like that).
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Actually, she's been shown to be relatively okay with physical contact with Pandaa. It's just filthy humanses that really bother her.

Lailoken said:
Ask Kagome for his spiciest dish.
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No, ask Panjandrum for his least spicy dish.
 
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