What do we intend to do to the top teams? Beat them to a pulp and leave them in a ditch sans their word-half? In my understanding, this only dqs them from the first event, it doesn't eliminate them.
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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I'm okay with doing this if the intent is to play them off each other so they both lose out. Because:
This is the last event and our score just fell like a rock. The game from now on is not just "Get points." if we want to get to the finals, its "Get points, and disqualify almost everybody remaining.". We have 36 hours and an event to do all of this.
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We can spare an hour, and building loyalty with Akane by demonstrating that she's more important to us than any exam is worth it. That's the sort of thing that people remember.
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Tie them up, drain them to KO, and place them such that they can't be recovered before the Event starts/ends. Maybe give them some Consequences?
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Why would we play them off each other? There's sixteen spots, more than enough for both of us
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If they score ~0 points and we score full points it will mostly reverse the shitty third event.
Either we curbstomp out of the gate or we prevent people from getting to the next event in the first place.
Exactly like:
We could drug them as well so it seems like they overslept? Maybe lay down some disinfo so they go to the wrong place?
If we fuck this exam up, Jiraiya is going to be in hot water when he gets back home, likely it will be the case (given the current score distributions) that Hiashi will take the hat. Hiashi will beat around the bush searching for Naruto, so Akatsuki has more time to do their thing. If events proceed unchecked we will lose Naruto and possibly one of the greatest hopes we have of stopping WW4 in whatever form it may take.
So yeah, I disagree with your opinion just a bit.
Edit: I would normally put someones emotional stability over passing some promotion exam thing (especially that of an ally) but there are extreme extenuating circumstances to this. She understands this.
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail Is it possible for Noburi to give someone Chakra Consquences by draining them? Or is that something one has to do themselves?
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We're doing just fine in the exam. Even if we placed last in the next event we'd be in the top 20% or so of the candidates who came to the exam. Whatever happens from here on out it's not a disaster.
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Its likely someone else will tell them or Hinata will lip read it out of someone from the barracks so we may as well just do it ourselves to get some brownie points in, right?
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We have to *smash* the Exams, not *do well* in them. Which generally means we get to the tournament.
Aighty then.
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Better to give it to them for basically nothing in return, to reinforce a sense of cooperation and fair dealing.
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No, not only did we not gain any points last event, we lost 200. Much of our work from the second event is just gone. There are people who actually had massive positive point totals overall so this puts us at a comparative disadvantage of -400 points with respect to them. We just got kicked down the rankings pretty far and just barely squeezed into the next event. If we don't clear this event with flying colors and also eliminate about ~12-18 teams worth of ninja, we're pretty fucked as far as getting to the tournament goes. We can't leave that to chance.
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Oh yeah, just a thought: We are now in a position where the 74 remaining contestants can be slotted with up to 3 failed contestants. I would not be surprised to find that the Fifth Event is (in part) a leadership mission, where we get three candidates with the exact same skillset as ourselves.
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[X] Finding the Fifth
For comforting Akane, remind her how impressive getting this far is in the first place.
For comforting Akane, remind her how impressive getting this far is in the first place.
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Since there are 72 contestants remaining (out of 300 who entered) there are 228 contestants who have been eliminated from the Chunin Exams. Given the likelihood of a leadership mission happening, and given that you could fit 228 contestants into three groups of 72 (with some left over), the chances of a scratch team being assigned to us, from failed contestants, is very likely. Given that Mist hates Team Goketsu for being traitors etc. etc., it would be exactly like them to "coincidentally" assign a team that doesn't actually add to our skillset (they are basically shittier versions of Hazou/Noburi/Keiko).
I think Sakura will get promoted. Akane too. No comment on Haru.
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail How many hours do we have, at minimum? 36 hours and 31 hours have been thrown out, not sure which it is.
Done, kinda. Not sure if it gets the message across.
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My initial thought for trying to preemptively eliminate a few enemy teams:
Bribe the Oyabun to set up a fake event waiting area with fake disguised proctors, put together to be suspiciously deniable (e.g. "there aren't any ninja here, and there's definitely no reason for you to be here in 48 hours") without crossing any lines that would offend the actual proctors. Use a "breach of OPSEC" to "accidentally" let some of the other teams low in the rankings know about it.
If the Oyabun are willing to go for it, it would give them the chance to discreetly get a look at some foreign ninja in a mostly relaxed environment, and there are enough ninja remaining that it should still help Team Uplift even if they only target non-Mist non-Leaf ninja.
Bribe the Oyabun to set up a fake event waiting area with fake disguised proctors, put together to be suspiciously deniable (e.g. "there aren't any ninja here, and there's definitely no reason for you to be here in 48 hours") without crossing any lines that would offend the actual proctors. Use a "breach of OPSEC" to "accidentally" let some of the other teams low in the rankings know about it.
If the Oyabun are willing to go for it, it would give them the chance to discreetly get a look at some foreign ninja in a mostly relaxed environment, and there are enough ninja remaining that it should still help Team Uplift even if they only target non-Mist non-Leaf ninja.
@faflec, I'm generally in favour of your plan but uncomfortable with specifically calling to inflict Severe Consequences - that's saying we're ambushing people and breaking their legs or equivalent, which may be technically tournament legal but certainly isn't in the spirit of international cooperation - maybe limit it to draining their Chakra, drugging them, maybe Moderate Consequences (as they're a fair bit less terrible and heal much faster)?
E: Moderate Consequences still take a week to heal, which is enough to screw them in the next event without taking them out of commission for a whole month+.
E: Moderate Consequences still take a week to heal, which is enough to screw them in the next event without taking them out of commission for a whole month+.
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TaliesinSkye
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Didn't someone say the next event was going to be combat focused? On the other hand I suppose that doesn't necessary exclude leadership as well.