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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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That... was a hell of a lot closer of rolls than I was hoping for. Someone is seriously targeting the team!

On the break-in, the trouble is that none of the three on our team have much Cracking talent (as Noburi so painfully demonstrated). Perhaps we could recruit one of the other Leaf team members who does, in return for a favor to be named later?
 
So it looks like there are two obvious points to try and drug him: his 7 AM drink before classes and his 6 PM drink as school ends. The morning slot pretty much guarantees he's caught, though since he's headmaster there's the possibility that he'll be able to pull rank and cover it up. The evening slot is more likely to have him caught in front of other ninja he can't pull rank on and generally spread the incident further, but there's always the risk that he'll just go straight home and nothing will happen.

I think the morning slot is our best bet, and if we can get someone to drop by the school to help catch him drugged we should probably do that. We can't contact our clans, but as Keiko said they can't prove we used the Summon Path to get Jiraiya to ask Hana to meet with Old Lizardbreath, or something similarly compromising for the soon-to-be-drugged headmaster.
 
Inferno Vulpix said:
So it looks like there are two obvious points to try and drug him: his 7 AM drink before classes and his 6 PM drink as school ends. The morning slot pretty much guarantees he's caught, though since he's headmaster there's the possibility that he'll be able to pull rank and cover it up. The evening slot is more likely to have him caught in front of other ninja he can't pull rank on and generally spread the incident further, but there's always the risk that he'll just go straight home and nothing will happen.

I think the morning slot is our best bet, and if we can get someone to drop by the school to help catch him drugged we should probably do that. We can't contact our clans, but as Keiko said they can't prove we used the Summon Path to get Jiraiya to ask Hana to meet with Old Lizardbreath, or something similarly compromising for the soon-to-be-drugged headmaster.
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Lizardbreath will claim poisoning if he's obviously drugged; we need a second source, preferably in his own hand, that indicates that he wanted to try drugs in order for people to believe that this wasn't an attempt to poison/drug him.
 
huhYeahGoodPoint said:
Lizardbreath will claim poisoning if he's obviously drugged; we need a second source, preferably in his own hand, that indicates that he wanted to try drugs in order for people to believe that this wasn't an attempt to poison/drug him.
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I am thinking:

1. Plant a supply of drugs somewhere near his hidden drink supply where it will be uncovered when his office is searched.
2. Some brief scrawl in his handwriting (or as close as Hazou can approximate) about, "the booze isn't doing it for me anymore". Obviously a full written confession would be a mite suspicious, so need to parse this carefully!

The idea would be, slip something in his drink that causes obviously aberrant behavior. When investigators arrive to see what's what, they'll take a look around his office and find the drugs because they're ninjas.

...yeah, we definitely need a cracking expert for this. Are of the the pangolins cracking experts?

I agree, best to target the morning drink. We're on a tight time schedule here, but I don't think it's plausible we're going to be able to pull this off in time for today's evening drink.
 
I'm proud of Kei's enthusiasm for destroying her enemies. The traps were clever, but unfortunately for Team Trap, they've already revealed quite a bit of information about themselves.

  • There is a Crafting: Traps user who does not beat Kei's Alertness.
  • There is a Ranged Weapons user who does not beat Hazou's Taijutsu.
  • They had reason to target us specifically (so likely from Mist).
  • They've done their research on us, and are therefore the type to do research.
  • They've set up a complicated plot to defeat us, and are therefore the type to use complicated plots.
  • They approached from a cautious angle.
  • They expected us to defeat at least some of their traps. Lack of confidence in their own abilities, confidence in ours, or more examples of cautious behaviour.
  • They utilised Stealth, and made it work.

We'd need more data points to say for certain, but the information we have paints a picture of a team who like to plan things out meticulously and attack from the shadows (oh shit is Team Trap Team Letdown?). Probably not good in a straight fight. Probably not good at improvising when things are shaken up into chaos.

We're good at both. Let's do that.


On the topic of drugging Ichigaya, we could send Panashe to do this for us while we protect Karina. It's her jam. Just have her sneak in and put a stash of narcotics hidden at the back of the cabinet, and smear some on his cups so he spikes his drink when he pours himself a glass.
 
We might be able to get some student cooperation in planting drugs on lizard breath.
 
So, just a thought, but since every student there hates him, and he plays favorites with the clan students, perhaps we could deceive ourselves into getting a few of the current class of non-clan students to assist us in some fashion? Even if just as a diversion. Pulling a good con is about things being believable, and we should easily be able to make Hazou pass for a prior Mist student who wants to prank the much hated headmaster, and we could probably bribe them somehow (sealing scrolls, candy, whatever).

fictionfan said:
We might be able to get some student cooperation in planting drugs on lizard breath.
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:ninja:
 
Velorien said:
You have done your best to treat the client courteously. She has insisted on the Granny Karina appellation, which you have acceded to (but at least refused to use inside your head because it feels creepy). You have been unable to bring yourself to be flirtatious with her, but have achieved the middle ground of largely hiding how uncomfortable she makes you. You're not sure to what extent she sees through your bluff, but you are at least acting politely. You did remind her of professional standards for client-bodyguard interaction, to which she responded that in her day, when a ninja committed to fulfilling a client's needs for the duration of the mission, they committed to fulfilling all of a client's needs.
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Soooo. Hypothesis formation:

-Proctor really is like that under the henge in daily life?
-It's a general instruction to proctors to treat students this way as part of the test, trying to provoke them into doing something inappropriate?
-Each proctor is issued a cover personality and we rolled this one?
-Proctors have wide discretion, ours decided to troll us?
- ^ Decision might be influenced by personal attitudes? Well, proctor having fun at the expense of 'traitors' > proctor maliciously sabotaging.
- ^ Or might just think it's funny and seizing the opportunity since nobody is in a position to object.
 
Speculation:

Folks have already noted the difficulty of keeping up a Henge literally 24/7. Perhaps we should expect lots of "extended bathroom breaks" and "sleeping behind a sheet" and that sort of thing as the proctor builds in break times when they can drop the henge and recover a little.
 
MadScientist said:
On the topic of drugging Ichigaya, we could send Panashe to do this for us while we protect Karina. It's her jam. Just have her sneak in and put a stash of narcotics hidden at the back of the cabinet, and smear some on his cups so he spikes his drink when he pours himself a glass.
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1. Panashe is a scouting pangolin, not a cracking pangolin. She's good at scouting in a stealthy manner; I have no idea how good she is at break-ins.

2. Really needs one of our team with local knowledge of the academy building and its layout. Detailed descriptions can't substitute for that kind of familiarity.
 
Pranking our hated ex principal should be pretty fun.

Expanding on FictionFan's idea: we plant drugs in his liquor cabinet, disable all but the most basic of traps, and convince an academy student to try and break in. We select a student who positively hates his guts, so that the student turns him in to the authorities. No one involved thinks anything unusual has happened, except for lizard breath, who might know that his traps shouldn't be that easy to disarm.

Disable the traps with Zephyr's reach while henged and under a silence mine. No alarms, nothing can hit us, so unless a trap paints the walls it should be impossible to know we were there. Or just get Panashe to do it, contingent on Panashe being good at cracking.
 
I love how we've somehow ended up in a shadow war against our aunt.

REN: I'mma make the events difficult for you.

HAZOU: Well I'mma make friends with the mob!

REN: Fine! Then I'll set you up with a client that wants to deal drugs!

HAZOU: Well then I guess I'm gonna PLANT DRUGS on my HEADMASTER so YOU HAVE TO LEGALIZE THEM!!1!

REN: ...

HAZOU: ...

SHIKAKU: Called it.
 
Immortal Lurker said:
Pranking our hated ex principal should be pretty fun.

Expanding on FictionFan's idea: we plant drugs in his liquor cabinet, disable all but the most basic of traps, and convince an academy student to try and break in. We select a student who positively hates his guts, so that the student turns him in to the authorities. No one involved thinks anything unusual has happened, except for lizard breath, who might know that his traps shouldn't be that easy to disarm.

Disable the traps with Zephyr's reach while henged and under a silence mine. No alarms, nothing can hit us, so unless a trap paints the walls it should be impossible to know we were there. Or just get Panashe to do it, contingent on Panashe being good at cracking.
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I should point this out because Keiko would have thought of it: using the Transformation Technique may be considered covering up your bandanna, even if the thing you're covering it up with includes an illusion of another bandanna. Whether you want to take that risk or not is up to you.
 
Velorien said:
I should point this out because Keiko would have thought of it: using the Transformation Technique may be considered covering up your bandanna, even if the thing you're covering it up with includes an illusion of another bandanna. Whether you want to take that risk or not is up to you.
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Dangit, I thought for sure that was a loophole. That will make convincing an academy student to help difficult.
 
Velorien said:
I should point this out because Keiko would have thought of it: using the Transformation Technique may be considered covering up your bandanna, even if the thing you're covering it up with includes an illusion of another bandanna. Whether you want to take that risk or not is up to you.
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Urm... why can't we just take the bandanna off for half a second, henge into someone not wearing a bandanna, then put it back on? Presumably you can put on/remove "real" clothes while henged.
 
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Oh god, we're actually doing it. We're absolutely going to die. @Radvic time to dust off your optimized starter builds, we're going to need them for our new character in a couple of updates.

EDIT: Before I forget:
[✕] Check Keiko's ears for Lupchanz
 
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