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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Radvic said:
Macerator 2.0 (just sawdust): 5
  1. Alternative fog aside from Misterators in case we fight Wakahisa, or just want a vision obscurrant that lasts longer (e.g. to use skywalkers).
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For the same reasons as not bringing oil macerators. Sawdust can be the fuel in a fuel air explosive.

Instead use carefully pre-burnt/pre-heated ash. It's easy to get, crumbles into a lightweight, fine, powder that will suspend in the air for quite a while.

Build a large stone box with air intakes at the bottom and baffles on the top face that keep some smoke from escaping while allowing air to escape. Pile wood in, burn it, mixing things regularly, rinse repeat until there's no more room for fresh logs, let things cool off, and load into macerators.

The ash will have everything flammable burnt out of it, so when finely powdered by the macerator, it's be smoke. Non-explosive smoke that only obsures and doesn't have a significant chance of ending in burning death.
 
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Hana's Hivemind
  • Apocrypha
    • Velorien said:
    She'd been important in the clan, Hazō had gathered by reading between the lines over the years. Perhaps back then, this fire had been going inside her all the time, whereas now it was only a spark that the right wind could temporarily fan. But when it was fanned, nothing could put it out. Hazō wasn't like that—he didn't take one look at a situation and decide how he wanted it to develop and promptly come up with a plan of action and… um.
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    OMAKE: Hana's Hivemind
    ​
    AlbatrossLord: Action Plan: Get Drunk is victorious. You have earned zero XP. Now please do something. I am sick and tired of writing binge-drinking. You used to let me write punching for frigg's sake!

    MadEngineer: Nah, we're good.

    Falfec: Yeah, ever since you killed our favourite NPC this quest hasn't been very fun.

    Yaricaga: We spent out-of-game years raising Hazou... :(

    Ridvac: I still say we should have destroyed the world after they killed Shinji. In fact, we could do it right now! Just pile up some storage seals on the table, and explode the whole stack all at once.

    VerySinisterOne: *QM headache coming on* Look, if we change history so your son survives, will you please vote for something that isn't alcoholism? This was interesting at first, but we now have forty-six updates of "Hana drinks herself half to death" in a row, and I'm starting to feel tempted to just let her liver give out.

    Falfec: Deal.

    AlbatrossLord: Of course, what becomes of your still-living son is very much up in the air... }:>

    Yaricaga: So long as he doesn't start taking over the world and become the final villain, I think we'll be fine.

    OliShark: *changes the QM Docs password again*
     
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  • Apocrypha
    • Velorien said:

    [...]
    "One other thing that might not be obvious: OPSEC covers our pre-Leaf experiences as well. The Liberator fiasco, Cold Stone Killers, Hidden Mountain—Sage's balls, definitely Hidden Mountain—you don't want to give Mist anything that can harm your reputation, and remember that the guys running Mist propaganda are hardcore. As my old counter-interrogation mentor used to say, 'If in doubt, leave it out'. And that goes for all of you.​
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    Maybe we should just save the time and just reroll now. :D

    Velorien said:
    "Great. That brings us smoothly to Noburi."

    Noburi shrugged. "[...]I don't know how to make a Wakahisa [...]"
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    Did Mari not give him The Talk yet? :V
     
    Sigil said:
    If true, why isn't everyone in mist a Wakahisa already? Some kind of material requirement?
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    Maybe you still need to have Wakahisa genes but also need body modifications to express whatever phenotype makes up their bloodline.

    All we'd have to do is see how many civilians are in the Wakahisa clan, if any.
     
    Velorien said:
    Keiko stirred next to him. "It is easy, but unwise, to allow your negative emotions to force you into tunnel vision. I believe there is an angle you are ignoring.
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    Speaking from experience, I see, Keiko.
    Velorien said:
    Goggles are not standard ninja gear, and glass is rare and expensive. You will need to find some other means of protecting your eyes from your interesting payloads.
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    So... I'm guessing we didn't find a telescope?
     
    So does anyone have other ideas for goggles? I mean, slatted ones would work for bright flashes, but less so for stuff like pepper spray.

    e: What about Quartz lenses? Kagome might be able to find some.

    e2: WHere I live I can walk out and find it on the ground, but I know that's not the quality we'd be looking for.
     
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    So... @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail

    *puts on his economist hat* Does the elemental nation have the concept of subsidies?

    e:

    faflec said:
    Snow goggles - Wikipedia

    I think this is as good as we're gonna get without raiding the Kurosawa Clan. They'll work against bright light (since that's their original purpose) and do better-than-nothing against pepper spray due to the thin slit.
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    What about a thin layer of cloth pressed tightly to the face so that you can mostly see through it, instead of/in addition to that? We can test how effective that is. ...hopefully with clones.
     
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    What about a thin layer of cloth pressed tightly to the face so that you can mostly see through it, instead of/in addition to that? We can test how effective that is. ...hopefully with clones.
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    Or paper. Maybe ice, if we have temperature-controlling seals available to us. I'd suggest DIY glassmaking, but...
     
    Here's everything from the last plan that didn't get done.

    [X] Action Plan: Get good

    Goals:
    • Survive.
    • Prepare for the Chūnin Exams.
    • Misc. things from previous plans.
    Non-Binding Suggestions:
    • Prepare for the Chūnin Exams.
        • Seal research (see if we can work with Kagome or another sealmaster):.
          • Casino Seals.
          • Earth Dome, in combination with Hiding Like a Mole (assuming you can burrow through the dome)
          • Cover gear in banshee slayers to reduce small sounds to increase stealth
        • Ask Keiko if there's anything we can do to help re: Frozen Skein in combat.
          • Use CCnJ.
          • Ask her how her thought processes work with regards to planning.
            • Figuring out the difference might help her develop her abilities as a leader.
        • Work on team coordination under conditions:
          • Mist: Use mist sensing/Living Roots to track enemies (redux).
          • Earbusters/Banshee Slayers: Practice handsigns/gestures.
            • Hand out earmuffs/Banshee Slayers for practice in zero-sound environment (reduced Awareness).
        • Talk to Keiko regarding Pangolins:
          • Ask about getting new summoning contracts.
              • Stealth/infiltration/espionage.
              • Team communication.
              • Genjutsu.
            • [*]seal load out
              1. Explosive tags: 300
                1. Can never have too many explosives. Useful when setting up defenses, for thrown attacks, and for breaking down walls (especially when paired with MEW, Force Wall, and/or Air Domes)
              2. Storage Seals (empty): 10
                1. Never know when you're gonna need to stash a body. Or how many bodies.
              3. Storage Seal (with box of ink & 100s of seal quality paper): 2
                1. Never know when you need more seals
              4. Storage Seals with 3 weeks of food and water (probably ~60 seals total)
              5. Storage Seals with various survival gear e.g. first aid kit, fire-starters, bandages, cooking supplies (probably 1-4)
              6. Storage seals with extra sets of weapons & clothing: 2
              7. PMYF v1 (with body weight logs): 10
                1. Useful for breaking trail if we've got a spare unobserved moment. Also, good starters for Tears of the Gods (yay multitasking!)
              8. Macerator 2.0 (just sawdust): 5
                1. Alternative fog aside from Misterators in case we fight Wakahisa, or just want a vision obscurrant that lasts longer (e.g. to use skywalkers).
              9. Macerator w/ burning log: 5
                1. Useful for a show of force and area denial
              10. Macerator w/ non-lethal poison (where to find?): 5
                1. Super useful in "don't kill your opponent" competitions. Also super useful given we all have gas masks.
              11. Misterator: 10
                1. Useful for fog & Noburi schenanigans
              12. Air Cleaner (Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Purifier): 10
                1. Each seal provides a good amount of clean air. Should be sufficient for combatting poison users
              13. Air Dome (paired seals): 20
                1. Essential for buying time to set up seal preparations while maintaining vision on the outside.
              14. Skywalker: 200
                1. For when we need to fly across the world randomly
              15. Alarm Seal: 10
                1. Useful for setting up basic "find out if someone's coming" traps. Limited in usefulness by our poor mechanical aptitude and stealth, but should be useful somewhat if we use, like, all of them on a small opening.
              16. Earmuff Seal (aka Banshee Slayer) (cancel noise > 135 dB): 4
                1. Should work well when combined with Earbusters. Taking 4 lets us still have them function if we lose a pair for some reason (e.g. hard fought combat)
              17. Earth Dome (pairs): 5
                1. Useful for containing enemies within, or as a last ditch temporary defense (no minimum dome size like Air Domes have)
              18. Goo Bomb (Jiraiya or Kagome made): 40
                1. Obvious Tac Move assist and area denial is obviously helpful
              19. Oxygen Mask (aka Tunneler's Friend): 10
                1. Useful for when we hide in domes and when we fight poison users (we've encountered 2 of them thus far, so seems like a good idea to be prepared)
              20. Silence Mine: 40
                1. Useful for if we have access to an area we will later need to be stealthy at. Though, not terribly useful if they don't stack off each other (if they don't, then probably don't bring any)
              21. Earbuster (150 dB): 5
                1. Useful for disrupting enemy comms and potentially doing some damage via sound.
              22. Implosion Seal: 10
                1. For when we need some good old fashioned building destruction
              23. Implosion Seal (prepped): 10
                1. For when we need some good old fashioned town destruction
              24. Force Wall (pairs): 10
                1. For when we don't care if our traps are lethal, and for when we need to cut stuff/fashion MEW
              25. 5SB (five seals): 5
                1. For when we need to make a defensive position invulnerable e.g. reinforcing MEW defenses, or directing explosives.
              26. LBF(pairs): 20
                1. For when we want to set up traps, alarms, or combos (since triggering a LBF seems like a free action if you've prepped it properly). When combined with other seals should be a god-like devastating combo if we can pop off a defensive air-dome.
              27. Party Trick (red): 2
                1. For silent communication in dark areas (e.g. earth dome)
              28. Party Trick (yellow): 2
                1. For silent communication in dark areas (e.g. earth dome)
              29. Party Trick (green): 2
                1. For silent communication in dark areaa (e.g. earth dome)
              30. Directional Explosives (Circular with a 160 degree angle): 10
                1. For explosive expansion out of air domes and chunking enemies
              31. Directional Explosives (Very Flattened 6 meter elliptical cones): 5
                1. Useful for slicing and dicing large scales of things/people
              32. Directional Explosives (Very Flattened 1 meter cones): 10
                1. Useful for cutting through granite and other materials with a reasonable amount of precision
              33. Skytower kits (5 5SB & 1 Storage Seal): 2
                1. Because if we're stuck on long missions, I want camp to be in the sky
        • Discuss OPSEC with Mari-sensei and Jiraiya.
          • What seals and techniques should we hide (e.g., Skywalkers)?
          • What should we use because it's flashy and likely to impress the judges?
        • Sparring/training:See if we can train with other Genin teams/recently promoted Chūnin.p
            • Sparring.
            • Board games to train strategy (D&D?).
            • Run through scenarios of possible Exam events.
            • Run through hypothetical missions.
            • Team Guy (if Jiraiya-approved).
            • Team Asuma.
            • Other clan kids.
            • Other competing Leaf teams.
            • Recently-promoted Chūnin.
        • Work with other competing Leaf teams.
          • Make alliances when possible, non-aggression pacts if not.
        • Jiraiya and Goo Bombs:
          • Ask if we'll be checked if we can infuse seals we bring.
            • If so, ask if we can bluff by drawing the seal perfectly as proof.
            • If not, ask if Jiraiya can infuse ~40 each Goo Bomb seals that we draw for him.

    • Misc. things from previous plans:
      • Get training in social competence, OPSEC, and The Law.
        • Talk with Mari-sensei & Jiraiya, read appropriate books/go to appropriate teachers.
        • Spar with her. We haven't trained together in ages.
        • Go on a picnic.
          • Invite Keiko and Noburi, and ask if some of Akane's friends (in Konoha) would like to come as well.
          • Or maybe go more romantic and have it just be Hazou & Akane.
        • Ask her about the upcoming Chūnin Exams.
          • Make sure she's cleared to know first, obviously.
          • Questions:
            • Is she planning on attending?
            • What team is she going with?
            • Is there anything she or her team might need (basic seals, finding a team...)?
        • Throw Mari a "surprise" party that is carefully telegraphed so as to have no chance of actually being a surprise. As if we'd manage to hide anything from Mari. Heh.
        • Possible presents:
          • Carve a plaque for Mari out of wood or granite: "Welcome to the Desk Corp".
          • Make a bottle of perfume with a chocolate blade inside (reference).
          • Temporary Goo Bomb water bed.
          • Make a garden in the compound composed of flora from each of the places we traveled together before settling in Konoha, representing all the hardships Mari saw us though. Enlist Ino for help. Probably have some Leaf plant as the centerpiece.
        • Talk to Kagome to find out more about Akatsuki and tailed beasts
          • See if he knows anything about it's members.
            • Abilities
            • Names or aliases
            • Any relevant history
          • Any organization or individuals that they work had worked with
        • Have Kei see if the pangolins can identify what summon was used by akatsuki since they have conquered the condors
          • Or if the pangolins have information on any summoner movement
        • If anything seems relevant talk to Mari before going to Jiraiya
     
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    ...we should test to see if Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Purifier works on pepper spray.

    As in, does it eat the particles and keep it from getting in our eyes.
     
    [X] Action Plan: Get good

    I'm in favor of recyling last week(s) plans' left overs since sometimes we cram too much into a plan for a single update so it keeps adding up. That way we also probably don't need the extension.

    (Also, not ashamed to admit that I don't want @eaglejarl to postpone his update because this arc is looking to be very exciting and I want to see all the good stuff as soon as possible. :p)
     
    Yeah, the "rapid bursts" indicates to me that it's discrete, not continuous. Not sure if it's fast enough to stop reflected and/or backblast pepper spray.
     
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