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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Lailoken said:
Dude, absolutely everybody, including the person who was just almost murdered for that exact reason, agreed that Hazou was being incredibly naive and that murdering comrades to protect clan secrets was a perfectly normal if unfortunate necessity. These were ordinary mooks compared to the world's most successful spymaster. This is a universe with ubiquitous scorch squads. J is not a bleeding heart. He is, by necessity and duty, a ruthless monster who at best gets points for being a bit less of a ruthless monster than typical for his position, mostly due to having extraordinary resources with which to afford that luxury. He absolutely would silence a comrade who became even a potential threat through no fault of their own, because people who don't tie up loose ends don't live long enough to become the world's most successful spymaster.
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Like I said, <--- naive. :p
 
Something to consider for the future: Every member of the party should have the other half of the pair of an air dome seal for every other member of the party so that we don't have to panic quite so much in their application.

As an aside, eaglejarl revealed in discord that paired seals, in general, are a match set: this has implications for the use of long-distance paired seals in that we don't have to worry about "interference" from others of the same type of seal.
 
Radvic said:
Oh, @faflec, a potential survivability improvement: re-poison gas. Instead of rushing out and hoping whatever filter we're using works (btw that's *probably* an area extra attention should be given? We could do a couple other things.

1) set up a couple purifiers on the outside of the air dome, then make a second, smaller air dome in a few minutes inside the first one. That way the seals have time to de-poison the room we're in so it's less likely we get the last hit to kill us from the gas. This costs us ~10 minutes (I think that's how long air domes last) but reduces the chances we die to poison.

2) make a couple clones, give them instructions to go and place explosive seals to blow holes where we want holes, retreat to a smaller air dome, and blow up the walls without ever leaving the safety of the smaller air dome, let the building ventilate a bit before going out. Reduces the chance of dying to poison, increases the chance of pasting Minami's body, increases the chance of getting counter-ganked by the Jounin after blowing holes in the bunker before making hell on earth.
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Hm. If I ordered clones to do all the grunt work (set explosives, seal Minami) while we stay inside the barrier, would anyone mind?

Edit: Actually, the smart thing to do would be to put Tunneler's Friend seals with our Purifiers for the air. I'm going to do that.

Edit2: I'm panicking, send help.
 
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The plan.
faflec said:
Well this is awkward. And slightly funny.

@Kurkistan Could you edit that part of your plan to coincide with the list of suggestions?

In the meantime...

[X] Action Plan: Blow this popsicle stand (Speed) EDITED

Our #1 priority is to get out of here ALIVE, and ensure that the skywalkers don't fall into enemy hands.

Summary:
  • Make sure you can sufficiently continue.
  • Recover Minami's body.
  • Prep for an escape into the sky with skywalkers. Avoid battle and ground travel as much as possible.
  • Reunite the team ASAP and report to J and team.
Non-Binding Suggestions:
  • While in the house:
    • Dispel
    • Prevent poison/injuries from affecting us:
      • Medical Ninjutsu.
      • Henge into ourselves without poison/injuries from poison.
      • Purifier Seals (+ Tunneler's Friend) for poison/smoke.
        • Slip them under a piece of cloth (from clothes?) and tie around face to breathe.
    • Prevent ourselves from being killed.
      • MEW the doorway the ninja left out of. Chakra-construct MEW should suffice.
      • Consider letting clones do work to seal Minami/prep our escape, while we hide in a barrier.
        • Activate Misterators inside the dome.
        • Create clones (Earth or Water, it doesn't matter). Give them appropriate seals for grunt work.
        • Activate a second Air Dome within the first, such that clones are between the two domes.
        • Clones deactivate the outermost Air Dome.
    • Check for ninjas in/out of the building.
      • Misterators.
      • Living Roots.
    • Put Minami in storage scroll
      • Take her seals off her person first - no need for seal-pocalypse yet
      • We're taking the seals with us, BTW.
    • Prep our escape:
      • Use MEW and directional explosives to sculpt charged blasts for escape purposes
        • Arm multiple blasts in different directions (different walls, the roof...).
      • Reset an Air dome barrier for extra defense when we blow holes in the walls
      • Prepare banshee slayers for use if we need to drop ear busters
      • Make clones for distraction (see below). Give them seals they need
      • Grab any seals we used; don't leave them lying around.
      • Top off Hazou.
    • Blow holes in the walls/roof and initiate leaving sequence. 3-5 holes depending on structural integrity of the house itself.
  • Leaving Sequence:
    • Have Noburi check through the mist for chakra signatures: drain enemies he senses dry.
      • Do this in conjunction with everything else.
    • Send clones out through each opening as distractions:
      • Clones are in pairs, with Henge as necessary to look like us.
      • Use Misterators to provide cover/lay a trail.
      • Suicide with fire-log macerators.
    • Run through the opening farthest away from the enemy.
      • Break for the forest. CHAKRA BOOST
      • Use Skywalkers to stay near the top of the smoke/mist. Don't actually break over cover unless we have to.
      • Throw additional fire-log macerators/Misterators to increase cover.
    • Once in tree cover, move upwards and to the sky.
      • Throw some fire-log macerators for more cover/block pursuit ala Hot Springs.
  • While running through the sky:
    • Get above clouds if possible
    • Don't stop
    • Go towards the meeting place for Akane's group
  • When reporting with Akane's group:
    • Explain everything we did, including our escape methods and Minami's death
    • Suggest immediately sending a report to Jiraiya
    • Accept Akane's leadership (she was Minami's chosen second in command)
Contingencies:
  • Noburi KO's enemy Jonin via Vampiric Dew (while we're escaping):
    • Keep running.
    • Dump more Misterators.
    • Make sure nobody else is in the area. If that's the case:
      • Send clones down to dislocate the Jonin's shoulders/legs/etc. then Skywalk back to catch up with us.
        • Clones should have explosive tags to self-destruct/destroy Skywalkers at the first sign of trouble.
      • Restrain her completely:
        • Re-drain her (at range).
        • Clones tie her up + remove anything that can be used against her.
      • Hazou carries Jonin with constant contact/drain from Noburi.
  • The enemy is gaining on us:
    • Break OPSEC, Skywalk straight up (not too literally).
    • Dodge attacks with...well, Skywalkers.
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Adhoc vote count started by eaglejarl on Jul 22, 2017 at 9:13 AM, finished with 570 posts and 16 votes.
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Omake: The Darkest Timeline​

"Water Element: Eternal Lullaby Technique!"

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A prepared jounin.

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So they didn't know her capabilities. She didn't know theirs either.

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"Houzuki's Mantle!"

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Minami's sword clattered against the floor.

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A prepared enemy. A prepared jounin. She wouldn't have engaged them unless she knew she would win.

Hazou abandoned all thought of conventional combat.

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He forced his brain to work through the growing haze. They needed defenses. Something strong. Something fast to make. Something that didn't let her out of their sight.

Air domes.

"Noburi, you trigger them!"

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"We're breathing poison gas."

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Purifier seals.

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Tunneller's Friend.

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There was still no sound when he looked back up.

Think! How have I killed enemies in the past.

Oh, right. Air domes blocked sound. He knew that.

Can't out punch her, can't explode past the airdome, and we're indoors anyways.

But he could still see the jounin. As he watched, she gave them a leisurely round of applause.

Can't drain her, no mist'll get past the airdome. Indoors stops most of our tricks anyways.

Then, with catlike grace, she stalked over to Minami's body, and dipped a finger in the pool of blood acumulating around her neck.

Wait! Indoors. We've killed a Jounin indoors before.

Hazou watched, entranced, as the Jounin's hand moved slowly across the wall.

Breaking himself from his spell, he looked around the room.

Yeah, it's small enough.

When she was finished, she turned around and blew Hazou a kiss with that same bloodstained hand.

Hazou steeled himself and drew from all his chakra reserves, forming the familiar handseals.

"Doton: Multiple Earth Style Wall!"

The jounin bolted into action as she sprinted towards the door. Chakra granite rose from the ground, lifting everything aside from the airdome like a pedestal. Tables, chairs, Minami, and the jounin were all lifted.

She was going to reach the door!

But her own preparations were her undoing. By the time she reached the door, the lock was covered by granite, and it wouldn't budge. Hazou's view was cut off as granite encompassed everything around them.

"Noburi... a little chakra... please?" Hazou gasped out.

"Right."

Noburi poured Hazou some water which he greedily drank. Relishing the feeling of the foreign chakra filling his coils.

After a few moments had passed, Hazou and Noburi began to strategize.

"Alright, so we don't know where she is. Our goals are to escape alive, and take Minami's body with us. If MEW killed her, we can take the Jounin's body too. But if we don't see her when the chakra constructs fade, we'll need to assume she's still up and waiting in ambush. Actually..."

"Doton: Living Roots!"

"What do you see Hazou?"

"Uh... probably should have practiced this jutsu. I got nothing." Hazou said awkwardly.

"Worth a shot. What else we got?"

Hazou began frantically pulling out seals.

"Well, ear-busters for one. The moment the dome drops, we should activate the ear-busters and have banshee slayers activated. Also, we're going to need to retrieve Minami's body and bust out without the jounin killing us. Think you can have clones appear outside and activate a larger air dome using Minami's seals?"

"Got it."

"Actually, what if they activate misterators, then put up an airdome so you can drain through it?"

"Nice. I like it."

-x-x-x-​

The granite finally disappeared, revealing a determined Hazou and Noburi, a pulpified Minami and apparently crushed jounin.

Can't be too careful.

"Suiton: Water Clone!"

A pair of Nobui look alikes appeared next to Minami's body. The grabbed misterators, fired them, then activated a larger air dome around Hazou and Noburi.

"Nice!"

Hazou took down the air dome seal and Noburi rushed to the mist.

"Nobody else's chakra is in here."

"Good. Let's check Minami and the attacker's bodies."

"Uh... Hazou? They're pretty mushy. Not sure we'll find anything helpful."

"Always worth a check. Besides, we need to grab Minami's skywalkers, and should at least retrieve the message scroll. Maybe we'll find a clue as to who she was."

After taking Minami's seals and storing her body, Hazou carefully walked towards the Jounin's body. First, he noticed the proportions. The woman must have been under henge. Her body was smaller now, a little shorter. Her hair was also stained red with blood. As he looted through her sleeve for the scroll, a glint caught his attention. Around her neck he saw a twisted and battered iron pendant with three gemstones. The garnet had cracked and looked close to falling out.

With trembling hands, Hazou reached out and picked it up. A battered covering fell off revealing the inscription.

Akage no Ha

"Dispel! Dispel! Dispel!"

Mari's body only blurred as tears ran down Hazou's face.
 
Radvic said:
The real question, of course, is if we can train Living Roots before leaving the air dome :p
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Because our Target should be pretty close (she just closed the door) and Hazou knows more or less where she is in terms of direction, he should get a good bonus and can then tell where she is running (aka does she stay close by or does she run away).
 
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Because our Target should be pretty close (she just closed the door) and Hazou knows more or less where she is in terms of direction, he should get a good bonus and can then tell where she is running (aka does she stay close by or does she run away).
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Well, our living roots provides awareness at level x 500 / distance to target. So, given that we have living roots level 1, this means that we'll be able to tell that someone is within 1 meter of us if they have less than 10 stealth dice.

edit: it seems safe to assume our jounin opponent has at least 40 stealth dice. So, living roots will find her if she's within ~25 centimeters of us when we cast it. Otherwise, we won't see anything.
 
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Radvic said:
Well, our living roots provides awareness at level x 500 / distance to target. So, given that we have living roots level 1, this means that we'll be able to tell that someone is within 1 meter of us if they have less than 10 stealth dice.

edit: it seems safe to assume our jounin opponent has at least 40 stealth dice. So, living roots will find her if she's within ~25 centimeters of us when we cast it. Otherwise, we won't see anything.
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Isn't it (Level x 100 ) / (distance/5) ? And ugh I assumed it's bonus dice not just flat numbers, but that would be too poweful duh.
 
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Isn't it (Level x 100 ) / (distance/5) ? And ugh I assumed it's bonus dice not just flat numbers, but that would be too poweful duh.
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Yep. So, it's not gonna tell us anything since we're level 1. If it were level 20 or something, we'd probably be able to tell if she was waiting outside the building by walking slowly around the perimeter of the inside. But as it is, we'll probably sense Noburi (but not if he tries to hide).
 
Radvic said:
Yep. So, it's not gonna tell us anything since we're level 1. If it were level 20 or something, we'd probably be able to tell if she was waiting outside the building by walking slowly around the perimeter of the inside. But as it is, we'll probably sense Noburi (but not if he tries to hide).
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Well for the future I think we definitely need to start leveling utility Jutsu. We need to have Kei learn whispers on the wind and have Hazō level living roots
 
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