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
We should invent a seal that stops all phosphorus in a given radius from moving for a few seconds.
Trust me.
Trust me.
Winged_One
Head Engineer of ATHENA
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- Low Earth Orbit
That's involve first finding out that phosphorus is a thing. Much more efficient to make one for water or air.
Hazou knows phosphorus is a thing. He could afford red phosphorus, but not white phosphorus, when we asked about buying some way back in the thread.
Winged_One
Head Engineer of ATHENA
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- Low Earth Orbit
Hm, alright. I am afraid I don't see the implications of such a seal quite yet-mind enlightening me?
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- Yes.
I'm struggling to think of one single biological process that wouldn't be wrecked to hell if you couldn't move phosphorus around. It's super important. Just off the top of my head:
- DNA contains phosphorus, so no cell division.
- RNA contains phosphorus, so no transcription.
- Ribosomes are made of RNA, so no translation.
- A lot of signaling is mainly done by phosphorylating proteins, so stuff involving cells and proteins needing to signal each other goes away.
- ATP is useful because it has phosphorus in it, and as far as I'm aware, every metabolic pathway needs you to dephosphorylate ATP (or some equivalent such as UDP or GTP) at some point. So forget the ability to break down or construct biological molecules.
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Winged_One
Head Engineer of ATHENA
- Location
- Low Earth Orbit
I figured it was something like that. However, won't stopping water be even more effective?
I sort of imagine that water ninjutsu might be able to protect against "stop water" attacks. I could be wrong. But on the other hand, there aren't any phosphorus ninjutsu specialists that we know of.
- Location
- The frozen nethers of America
It would be far more noticeable as well. ceasing the movement of phosphorus is relatively unnoticeable. Ceasing the movement of water is far less so depending on the affected area.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
imagines a "stop water" seal resulting in someone's veins and arteries all being torn open as they step through
Indeed.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I don't
Could someone please explain what this Minori thing is? I'm completely out of the loop, and judging from the comment section I seem to be the only one.
[X] The rest of the world reacts to Clan Goketsu's formation
[X] The Fire Daimyo's cat learns about Lupchanzen.
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- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The players happen to have encountered a statistically anomalous number of characters named Minori over the course of the quest (not all of whom are in fact named Minori). This has led to completely unreasonable and unjustified speculations about a Minori conspiracy.I don't
Could someone please explain what this Minori thing is? I'm completely out of the loop, and judging from the comment section I seem to be the only one.
[X] The rest of the world reacts to Clan Goketsu's formation
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
For a while, you weren't the only one.I don't
Could someone please explain what this Minori thing is? I'm completely out of the loop, and judging from the comment section I seem to be the only one.
[X] The rest of the world reacts to Clan Goketsu's formation
[X] The Fire Daimyo's cat learns about Lupchanzen.
Also, I have to wonder. What the hell is the overall opinion on Clan Goketsu? On the one hand, we have Kagome and his paranoid rants about lupchanzen, but on the other hand somehow we end up way more charismatic in personal visits to other clans than anybody who shares a clan with Kagome should be.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
That's exactly what you'd say if they were justified!
- Location
- The Void
- Pronouns
- She/Her
So I just realized that the new rules that you have to pay extra chakra every hour will basically keep our pangolin military engineer from ever actually making any fortifications or structures. So know she is basically useless outside of a check on our work
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
I'm not sure where you got that impression? I mean, yeah, she'd have to do it pretty fast, but ninjutsu is fast in general.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
I don't
Could someone please explain what this Minori thing is? I'm completely out of the loop, and judging from the comment section I seem to be the only one.
[X] The rest of the world reacts to Clan Goketsu's formation
[X] The Fire Daimyo's cat learns about Lupchanzen.
In addition to the number of Minori's we've met, there were also a few events where some of us accidentally mistook Minami as Minori. So not only does this count as a reference to the so-called Minori Conspiracy, it could also be a reference to one of the many times we've been bad at remembering people's names.
On that note, I feel like I should mention that Chapter 161.1 even now refers to Mist's "Kozo" clan, so it's not just us
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Akatsunami
The Bonetatoist
- Location
- Brazil
Maybe he is a pokemon trainer and is challenging the Gyms. But you know, he is Faflec and wouldn't go for too little, so he is challeging ALL THE GYMS, while screaming.
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Sometimes we do. Sometimes we imply that a loyal and valuable ninja is a traitor based on no evidence, and end up in a kill-box. Or we threaten random civilians in the street. Or we break into a rant at the library.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
"Eccentric" in a word, is what I would bet public opinion of our clan is. Which, honestly, is perfect for us! I mean, both descriptively and for our purposes.
Another successful plan that we didn't know about until it happened.
We're sort of Leaf's version of the Addams family.
MORTICIA: (unpacking FESTER's bags: ) Dynamite?
FESTER: I can explain!
MORTICIA: Oh, Fester. As if we would run out.
MORTICIA: (unpacking FESTER's bags: ) Dynamite?
FESTER: I can explain!
MORTICIA: Oh, Fester. As if we would run out.