Cariyaga
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Yep. Besides, tying the clans of Leaf and Mist together is the way to prevent war.
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
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Team Putdown?
So... I just noticed that Kei has Intimidation 20.
*is very hyped for the Team Downfall/Nega/Downlift/Shin/Putdown meeting*
I think we should adopt stage personas for interacting with enemy genin in general. "Most enthusiastic extrovert ever" is good for Kei, but we could have Hazou as "Intensely shy person who bases their self-worth on the opinions of others" and Noburi as "Neji-caricature turned up to eleven". Mainly to mess with what Team Anti-uplift think they know about us.
*is very hyped for the Team Downfall/Nega/Downlift/Shin/Putdown meeting*
I think we should adopt stage personas for interacting with enemy genin in general. "Most enthusiastic extrovert ever" is good for Kei, but we could have Hazou as "Intensely shy person who bases their self-worth on the opinions of others" and Noburi as "Neji-caricature turned up to eleven". Mainly to mess with what Team Anti-uplift think they know about us.
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Team Letdown
I still think that psychological warfare is the better strat in this situation. If we make the other teams stressquit, and so get to the tournament, then that makes Clan Gouketsu look Powerful and Glorious and Scary and thus puts Jiraiya in a better position. I don't think getting Team Letdown to like us provides as much advantage as dominating the exam.
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Ideally, yes, good. Possible? ....maybe not?
If necessary, she can draw inspiration from young!Anna and from Akane. She doesn't need to be creative, just to behave in a way that, while it doesn't come naturally to her, she should know what it looks like.
That seems about average? I think? Some people will see through it, but...
*sigh* Maybe use her Intimidation 20 and give her a "brutal fucking psycho" persona?
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If Team Letdown is supposed to be "us-if-we-never-left-Mist", I'd presume they would see through it due to having enough Social.
You shouldn't be able to "see through" Kei being terrifying at you. Hmn. Also, we could ask Jiraiya for a couple of Intimidating Aura seals to help her out. I'm sure he can spare ten minutes for something like that.
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Intimidate is defended against via Resolve, which has its first major benchmark at...level 20. So I'm a bit worried about using Intimidate, if only because it's a 50/50 roll, ignoring Fate Points.
Oh really? Yeesh... Okay, scrap that.
Hmmmm... It shouldn't be impossible to pact with some psy-ops/equiv' pangolins, and I still recommend doing that. Kei might be the only summoner in the exam, so that's an advantage she should leverage wherever possible. Especially to bring in teams of specialists to work on ambitious projects like mass-scale psychological warfare.
But we can't just rely on pangolins, so... what if we pulled a Chaos Legion strat, and got everyone to start plotting against each other in a way that makes everything completely fall apart? Hazou's got high Deceit, he could trick people into weaving a gordian knot of conspiracies that everyone gets hopelessly tangled in until no one knows what's going on anymore.
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Did you just work the ideas vs implementation argument into your update? That is hilarious.
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Of course, we could just trick teams into taking each other out. The main benefit of Conspiracy Pileup is that teams eliminate each other while creating an air of paranoia (which for TU is business as usual, but others would find stressful), but just tricking teams into maiming each other might be easier.
Cariyaga
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Hm... good call. Maybe we can turn Mist into the effective equivalent of the EN for missing nin?
Hm... good call. Maybe we can turn Mist into the effective equivalent of the EN for missing nin?
Oh please yes.
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What makes you think that they're not already plotting against each other?
Oh they are. I just want it to become an "every spy for himself, everyone is juggling ten different plots" sort of trainwreck.
I'm uncertain how some of this is supposed to translate into a plan.
We can do if-then modules for Hazou himself on how he should react to potential social situations, but we can't micro-manage Noburi and Keiko that way. At most we could have a very high level coversation, "If people out of our past show up, let's try to X." and even then there's no reason to think they'll follow that suggestion in a tense social encounter.
We can do if-then modules for Hazou himself on how he should react to potential social situations, but we can't micro-manage Noburi and Keiko that way. At most we could have a very high level coversation, "If people out of our past show up, let's try to X." and even then there's no reason to think they'll follow that suggestion in a tense social encounter.
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IIRC we got social training and threw our troubled pasta out into the open... @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail Did Keiko and Noburi mention Anna/Kiri during this time? Or at all, really?
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Cariyaga
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Do you think that Keiko would not handle encountering one of her old friends better if she had a plan for it?