TaliesinSkye
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Maybe the whole being internationally wanted terrorists thing is one of them? Or having agreed not to have a monogamous relationship?
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
Maybe the whole being internationally wanted terrorists thing is one of them? Or having agreed not to have a monogamous relationship?
Cariyaga
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Wait... I'm not actually sure Hazou would have gone negative in points. Given that we DQed about 25% of ninja, and a significant amount further were DQed later... they would not have had the opportunity to vote us, while we'd have the opportunity to vote them nonetheless.
Vecht
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Yes. Yes, I am.
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Uhh. Am I reading this wrong, or does this not imply the rule was added by Mist to screw our team over because Hazou had the lowest score after being 'captured'?
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There is a loophole that I believe we haven't noticed.
DQed ninja are not allowed to gain points. We assumed that meant they weren't allowed to vote.
But voting also makes another player lose points. Its possible that all the DQed players are now negative sum players, causing everyone else to go negative.
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No, it means that the team with the highest score doesn't get the time. "Least-badly-scoring" means highest scoring in this situation. It's just worded differently because everybody did badly.
Emstar
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Its almost certainly anything to do with our actual past and not the false bullshit story concocted after she returned.
See:
I find it extremely likely that we came out to a (very small) net positive here along with many others not DQed. At worst we get a marginal decrease in points. I don't think this will change much other than bumping us down a few places in the rankings, to the point where we may have to try very hard to eliminate everyone next event.
The odds of the 36 people or so we do not have info on also being NOT DQed (there were probably 30-50 of those?) as well as all of them going in on us is marginal.
EDIT: YOU ARE FUCKING SHITTING ME
*HEADDESK*
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@eaglejarl I have to ask, since we got their identities: Did we ever see a (disguised) member of Team Downfall?
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Ah flipped it, cool thanks!
TaliesinSkye
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Perhaps I don't understand. I thought every ninja that got DQed couldn't cause other people to lose points, meaning the more people got DQed the less our worst case point loss could be. Is that not right?
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On the other hand, DQ'd contestants get escorted away from the event. If they didn't know who Hazou was before they got DQ'd then we don't lose points over it. I'll also note that most DQ's seem to have happened in our EM/Tipserator tableflip, which took place after Team Downfall figured out our identity but before lists started flying around, so I doubt most of them knew who we were.
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Don't worry about it. You'll never see it, or the insanely OP 'Telescope Jutsu', again.
Actually, the barbs were attached to tubes of some sort. The plant exsanguinated its target.
*baps you on the nose* Stop that! You did fine. I honestly cannot think of a way that things could realistically have ended up better.
EDIT: Ignore this. I need to not answer questions at almost-midnight. I forgot we'd already ruled that no, DQ'd people do not vote.
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Emstar
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Thats not even true in this case since theres a fucking cheaty eyes Hyuga in the event.
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Quote from event rules:
Full stop.
Emstar
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OR KILL EVERYONE AND END THE CHUNIN EXAMS IN A BLAZE OF HELLFIRE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Easy there, we got out of this one with all of our political capital with the Leaf clan heirs intact. If we retain a good enough position in the rankings to make the tournament after doing well in the last event (it is our specialty, I'm told) then we end up in the best reasonable timeline.
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UNLESS WE ARE ALL KICKED FROM THE EXAMS IN WHICH CASE JIRAIYA WILL LOSE THE HAT AND WE'LL ALL BE FUCKED ANYWAY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
TaliesinSkye
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And if someone can't gain points then they can't vote to cause other people to lose them, is how I'm reading that. Am I wrong?