Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
...It's possible I could be misremembering? Let me check.
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Not quite crying, but...
e2: Oh, right, now I remember why I thought she was crying: I was.
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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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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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e2: Oh, right, now I remember why I thought she was crying: I was.
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I can already see the outline of the scene in my head, and it sounds like a great deal of fun. For me.
*screaming in Hazou*
- Location
- Potato land
I'm all for optimizing for QM happiness whenever possible. However, I'd like to respectfully point out that you getting to write the fun scene of Hazou talking to Ami is contingent on us not dying or getting thrown out of Mist before the current event is over with. Just thought I'd point that out.
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- UK
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- He/Him
Well played. Just remember that even QMs can't go against the merciless deity that is simulationism.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
The one that smells like bullshit from a mile away?
- Location
- Under a Rock
Forging bonds with Mist is a good idea. Trying it with our former clans seems wise.
But we are bad at politics. Remember that time we tried politics, and we failed so bad they tried to kill us? Remember how that is the sum total of our political experience?
Politics isn't our strength. Munchkining is our strength.
The positive alliances we have built usually followed a similar pattern. Find someone who is trustworthy and very powerful. Start making one off trades and establishing trust. Eventually offer them the world on a plate, while demanding the moon on a stick. Enjoy our lunar lollipop while they handle any political considerations that arise from our fresh alliance.
Jiraiya and the Pangolins worked this way. Hopefully the Yakuza will too.
This is how we should try to form bonds with Mist.
Are we the Harry Dresden of MfD?
But we are bad at politics. Remember that time we tried politics, and we failed so bad they tried to kill us? Remember how that is the sum total of our political experience?
Politics isn't our strength. Munchkining is our strength.
The positive alliances we have built usually followed a similar pattern. Find someone who is trustworthy and very powerful. Start making one off trades and establishing trust. Eventually offer them the world on a plate, while demanding the moon on a stick. Enjoy our lunar lollipop while they handle any political considerations that arise from our fresh alliance.
Jiraiya and the Pangolins worked this way. Hopefully the Yakuza will too.
This is how we should try to form bonds with Mist.
Are we the Harry Dresden of MfD?
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
We're like book 6 Harry, enough to have a reputation but not to the extent where we show up and even the bigger guys start itching for their guns.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
That is an excellent analogy and makes me hungry.
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Don't worry, if they're all DQed it won't matter.
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Growth mindset.
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- Location
- Potato land
Our global exam strategy, encapsulated in a single phrase.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Also our global politics strategy.
- Location
- Yes.
So does that mean we'll be blowing up Leaf at some point? Because we did join them, and we all know how that's gone for every other place we've joined.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
In a manner of speaking, we already have.
Seriously, they took in missing nin.
- Location
- Yes.
I meant literally. I mean, Shikigami's group got wiped, Liberator Army got wiped, an entire squad of Mountain-nin got wiped...
I know that Minami got killed but that's pretty tame by our standards.
- Location
- Potato land
So, what you're saying is that you want to defect to Rain and join Akatsuki. I could get behind that.
Hmmm... going by our track record... looking at the plan...
1. Put a bunch of ninja from rival villages in a high paranoia situation.
2. Turn it into a literal pressure cooker, the heat making them irritable.
3. Add aerosolized booze to make them drunk, further clouding judgement.
Yup. This has all the makings of an international incident. My money is on a clan heir from Cloud killing another clan heir from Rock, thus sparking a war between the two nations. Not wishing to enter a war in their time of weakness, Mist joins in alliance with Leaf and Sand, with the three nations and their allies declaring themselves neutral in the conflict. Shikaku observes that this is beneficial, as it buys a period of peace for our burgeoning alliance to build up our forces and economies, while Rock and Cloud destroy themselves in another fruitless war. As such, it is all part of Hazou's grand master plan to show that cooperation is superior to conflict, by providing a case study in which the warring nations suffer while the cooperating nations grow.
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For some reason my brain initially interpreted this comment as "in our next character we should defect from Rain to Akatsuki".
I think it would go over well.
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- Yes.
It'd be smarter for their bloodline to be something like Speak with Dead, only with different limitations (must know the person in life, person doesn't have to answer...). That way we could justify getting "Hazou" from a missing-nin who wants to know how he managed to join Leaf.
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- Under a Rock
I think we need to use the wiki more. There are two things that I think would be very valuable:
- An official list of all our lies, secrets, and cover stories.
- A basic checklist to help us evaluate plans
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
It would be cool if we could have somewhere to add stuff to to do in the next plan.
Only if Hazou then munchkins his way into their head on a more permanent basis.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
We should start building profiles of characters and possible countermeasures in an extremely over the top Batmanesque fashion
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
In my sig there is a google doc link with freely edittable character dossiers.
e: If you wanted to transfer that to the wiki, it'd be a good start.
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Vecht
Self-Requested Ban
- Location
- Snarksville, Snarkland
THAT WAS BECAUSE IT WAS HAZOU'S BIRTHDAY AND HE WANTED TO SEE THE SNOW.
And then we left because it was
I keep having to point this out, but it had absolutely nothing to do with anything else.
The fact that we decided to travel to the farthest reaches of uninhabited lands by the most expedient and untraceable methods possible was because we wanted to see exotic locales and we were very concerned about border crossings.
The fact that we invented a new technique to obliterate all traces of evidence from our campsites via aerial bombardment and immediately adopted the practice as S.O.P was because we wanted to improve our OPSEC.
NOTHING ELSE.
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But especially not because of Zabuza.
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