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 open voting
Cariyaga
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Winged_One
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So we are around the 80-th percentile of ninja performance - seems fair to assume other nations did about as well. Good to know. Who are the three highest-scoring teams? It'd be nice to know who is good at combat in Leaf.
[x] Ask Ino about getting hit with her family jutsu, as resistance training for mind invasion.
Why would (possibly) the only telepaths in the world want people to be resistant to telepathy?
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Because they are probably not the only ones who are telepaths. And I imagine it doubles as genjitsu resistance training.
We've not heard of other telepaths. It's probably either Yamanaka-only or sufficiently rare that Yamanaka wouldn't want to proliferate the ability to defend yourself from it.
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Pangolins are telepaths
Cariyaga
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Directed telepathy, not invasive telepathy.
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Ah. I hadn't heard that called "dupes" before; I'm used to the word "ringer" in that spot.
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ehehehehehe I kinda forgot that word
Do we actually need to use macerators for this? Thinking about it again, and Hazou could just carry some strong scent in a bottle and occasionally dump some in the air. Not sure what use of an actual macerator contributes.
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It seems safe to assume that someone else would have figured how to bend chakra to create what is probably one of the most desired abilities for infiltration and information-gathering?
And yet, we're living in a world where the smartest people ever use body-control that A) requires you to connect your shadow to theirs and B) requires you to make any movements you want your victim to make. So there's probably some hidden reason why making sought-after jutsu like telepathy is super-difficult. Otherwise the other clans would have done it. Everyone would have done it.
E: I hate to feed @Dictator4Hire, but if we want telepathy, or training to resist it, we probably need to marry Ino.
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The usual answer for more esoteric abilities seems to be, "It requires a beneficial mutation which is dominant enough to be passed down family lines without excessive in-breeding combined with special jutsu/training designed to take advantage of that mutation."
Could someone else learn Yamanaka mind-body techniques? Perhaps if they spent a lot of time and effort to train you, but it might require Yamanaka genetics to develop them in the first place.
Could someone else learn Yamanaka mind-body techniques? Perhaps if they spent a lot of time and effort to train you, but it might require Yamanaka genetics to develop them in the first place.
Seems a good idea.
I worry this is more of a lack of GM spoons than a need to spend in-game time. After all, Hazou presumably talked to these teams in person to learn their seal counts. I'm sure he 'knows' their names, general appearance, and perhaps some guess at their specialty. It's more that the GMs haven't sat down to invent those details yet.
zap lunch
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Cariyaga
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If, like Hazou, you don't have a "box in your head where the bad thoughts go", but instead, there is screaming in Kagome happening all the time forever, you have perfect defense against mental invasion
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Akane was with you...?
Cariyaga
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I thought we split it up Akane-Noburi-Haru, Keiko-Hazou-Sakura?
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The other teams encountered various people -- instead of going into exact details, just assume that at least one Leaf team encountered a team from each village in the Exam.
High powered teams:
- Lightning:
- Crazy fast Taijutsu
- AOE lightning blasts from the sky
- Genjutsu
- Rock:
- CQC. Shapes earth (sand, dirt, etc) into various weapons, whips, shield, net etc. (Not Gaara)
- Ninjutsu that controls the ground -- earthquakes to knock you off balance, hands that entrap you, etc
- Wind-element ninjutsu. Ridiculously strong attack, shields, etc
OH. Derp. I thought you meant during the swamp event, not during the last update. That one we'll have to get back to you on.
Strategy thoughts on the high-powered teams.
AOE's guy's weakness is that I doubt he's immune to his own lightning blasts. Lock him in place with a Jiraiya goo-bomb and then close to PUNCH range and stay in his face.
Crazy fast taijutsu has several possible strategies. Hit him with explosives mostly.
Genjutsu is almost more dangerous outside combat than inside. Use a pangolin as a "spotter" for reality... if we see Lightning guys around, assume the genjutsu user is casting a genjutsu. Banshee Slayer + Banshee Seal might disrupt his concentration.
CQC - Use seals that must be dodged rather than blocked.
Ninjutsu - Would coating the ground in a force wall work?
Wind-element Ninjutsu - Trap him inside an Air or Earth dome with our taijutsu fighters so he can't summon strong winds without knocking himself around?
AOE's guy's weakness is that I doubt he's immune to his own lightning blasts. Lock him in place with a Jiraiya goo-bomb and then close to PUNCH range and stay in his face.
Crazy fast taijutsu has several possible strategies. Hit him with explosives mostly.
Genjutsu is almost more dangerous outside combat than inside. Use a pangolin as a "spotter" for reality... if we see Lightning guys around, assume the genjutsu user is casting a genjutsu. Banshee Slayer + Banshee Seal might disrupt his concentration.
CQC - Use seals that must be dodged rather than blocked.
Ninjutsu - Would coating the ground in a force wall work?
Wind-element Ninjutsu - Trap him inside an Air or Earth dome with our taijutsu fighters so he can't summon strong winds without knocking himself around?
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That reminds me.
@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail Does the Elemental Wheel exist (i.e., an offensive/defense Wind technique will lose if used against a Fire technique?); and if so would the same effect happen if we used non-chakra based Fire (e.g., stupid box)?
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I honestly don't recall. I've asked in QM chat and we'll let you know.
In other news, I finally had time to sit down and fiddle with character sheets. Everything is set for Hazō, but the equipment is throwing me for a bit of a loop. I'd rather not go back and fiddle through all the updates to figure out exactly what the totals should be for everything, so I've eyeballed it; does this look about right for Hazō?
| Equipment | # |
| Pangolin Gauntlets | 1 |
| Explosive Seals (A) | 80 |
| Explosive Seals (B) | 100 |
| Explosive Seals (C) | 100 |
| Storage Seals (Empty) | 10 |
| Storage Seals (Food) | 3 |
| Storage Seals (Water) | 3 |
| Storage Seals (Camping/Misc.) | 3 |
| Storage Seals (Clothing) | 2 |
| Poor Man's Yellow Flash v1 | 10 |
| Macerators (Sawdust) | 5 |
| Macerators (Burning Log) | 5 |
| Macerators (Pangolin Pepper) | 5 |
| Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Purifiers | 10 |
| Air Dome Seals | 15 |
| Earth Dome Seals | 4 |
| Alarm Seals | 5 |
| Banshee Slayers | 10 |
| Banshee Seals (150dB) | 5 |
| Silence Mines | 5 |
| Party Trick (Red) | |
| Party Trick (Green) | |
| Party Trick (Yellow) | |
| Banshee Fucker (175dB) | 1 |
| Goo Bombs (Kagome) | 8 |
| Goo Bombs (Jiraiya) | 2 |
| Implosion Seals | 10 |
| Force Wall Seals | 10 |
| Lesser Barrier Formation | 10 |
| Five-Seal Barrier | 5 |
| Directional Explosives (Wide-Cone) | 10 |
| Directional Explosives (1m, flat) | 10 |
| Directional Explosives (6m, flat) | 5 |