- Location
- Yes.
It could be, yes. Or it could be that Ikomoto Sō was kidnapped and replaced with an proctor/imposter and is the traitor we've been looking for AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
When I first read the update, it looked like there were two guys from River on our team despite reading elsewhere only one person from River was on our team, but I kinda thought that was either a typo or poor reading comprehension on my part.
- Location
- Yes.
There were, that was a typo IIRC.
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
- Location
- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
That was true but EJ just mixed up Wolf and River and it got fixed.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
I would assume this is a typo...?
We have two people from Fang. Everyone else is a singleton, IIRC.
More Complete Pangolin Summoning Cost
- Location
- Yes.
@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail Any chance we can have a list of contracted Pangolins and their costs added to Keiko's character sheet, or otherwise stickied? For reference:
Contracted Pangolins and their costs:
Contracted Pangolins and their costs:
- Pankurashun: 173CP
- Panjandrum: 168CP
- Pandojuru: 161CP
- Pangaya: 154CP
- Pandamonium: 150CP
- Panchipāma: 105CP
- Panashe: 105CP
- Panta: 64CP
- Paneru: 57CP
- Pandour: 43CP
- Pandā: 15CP
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Vecht
Self-Requested Ban
- Location
- Snarksville, Snarkland
HOLY CRAP WE'RE FIGHTING A SOLITARY UNOPPOSED SUPERINTELLIGENCE ITS WORSE THAN WE COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED AHHHH
...It's ZabuzAI, isn't it?
It doesn't matter if everyone gangs up on us in round 2 if we gave them all moderate consequences in round 1. Especially if dragging them to the medic station DQs them. Just saying.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Im not sure that 3 of us can hold the line against possibly everyone save ISC though.
Maybe if we immediately drain our teammates at the start? But this seems a bit dishonest.
This is what a fuckton of explosives and banshees is for. Literally. The entire purpose of AoE attacks is to deal with large numbers of opponents all at once.
So I'm doing another read of the update.
The sole ninja from River is our temporary teammate, Ikemoto Sō. Note that he may now believe it is impossible to advance to the tournament since he turned in his word half, something he doesn't mention during his introduction.
This seems to indicate that the proctors themselves have trapped each lockbox, meaning that you can expect jonin-level traps if trying to open them without the key. That makes it much more important to actually find the key... the difficulty in getting the box open is not being set by mere genin contestants.
Okay, so I read through up to where we start team introductions, and the only hidden barb I can find is that our target facility is never identified by name or by any other way. We have no way of knowing which T&I facility holds the papers we want, other than that we're supposed to be "approximately a mile" from it.
On the other hand, the proctor claims
All facilities are within about five miles of the gate and are "well separated". So maybe it's not an issue?
You notice the subtle screw-job here? By making us Team 1, they prevent us from seeing who else leaves together or who is on any of the other teams.
Interesting thing about that Scratch Squad. Sky and Rice have only one member each left in the Exam. But Wolf has two people left in the exam. That means that Doigama Emon has someone else from his village out on another team.
Do not fully trust Doigama Emon. I mean, what does he tell us? He's an expert in short-term cons.
Now all of this is public information, so I'd ask him outright who the remaining ninja from his village is and how he feels about them. Let all the rest of the team understand the risk.
@eaglejarl was that it?
Infiltration and capture. That could be useful.
Okay, a meat wall we can use.
Another meat wall.
We should test this story. Just tell them that it'll be easier for Noburi if he can "get a feel" for their chakra now or some excuse, and verify that Kato does indeed have minimal chakra reserves before we actually go into combat.
Another meat wall. Can't think of anything else interesting.
...and yet he didn't bring up the other ninja from Wolf, did he?
The sole ninja from River is our temporary teammate, Ikemoto Sō. Note that he may now believe it is impossible to advance to the tournament since he turned in his word half, something he doesn't mention during his introduction.
This seems to indicate that the proctors themselves have trapped each lockbox, meaning that you can expect jonin-level traps if trying to open them without the key. That makes it much more important to actually find the key... the difficulty in getting the box open is not being set by mere genin contestants.
Okay, so I read through up to where we start team introductions, and the only hidden barb I can find is that our target facility is never identified by name or by any other way. We have no way of knowing which T&I facility holds the papers we want, other than that we're supposed to be "approximately a mile" from it.
On the other hand, the proctor claims
All facilities are within about five miles of the gate and are "well separated". So maybe it's not an issue?
You notice the subtle screw-job here? By making us Team 1, they prevent us from seeing who else leaves together or who is on any of the other teams.
Interesting thing about that Scratch Squad. Sky and Rice have only one member each left in the Exam. But Wolf has two people left in the exam. That means that Doigama Emon has someone else from his village out on another team.
Do not fully trust Doigama Emon. I mean, what does he tell us? He's an expert in short-term cons.
Now all of this is public information, so I'd ask him outright who the remaining ninja from his village is and how he feels about them. Let all the rest of the team understand the risk.
@eaglejarl was that it?
Infiltration and capture. That could be useful.
Okay, a meat wall we can use.
Another meat wall.
We should test this story. Just tell them that it'll be easier for Noburi if he can "get a feel" for their chakra now or some excuse, and verify that Kato does indeed have minimal chakra reserves before we actually go into combat.
Another meat wall. Can't think of anything else interesting.
...and yet he didn't bring up the other ninja from Wolf, did he?
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Do we have confirmation this'll be nonlethal though?
If the kid gloves were off and we were allowed lethal force this one would absolutely be in the bag.
Class A explosives aren't lethal IIRC. Also Goo Bombs are never lethal.
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
- Location
- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Maybe he turned in a word half? The proctor would probably still use 'your word half' over 'one of your word halves'?
E: Removed the incorrect stuff.
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- Location
- Yes.
Katō Yūto is from Sky, though.
Incorrect. The duo is from Fang, not Wolf. I'll quote.
From 4th Event Wrap-Up:
Folks, I really think this is what eaglejarl was hinting at. We have an expert at short term cons who has an incentive to help out at least one other person in this Event. And remember Mist wants to fuck us. The other Wolfie could be his blood brother or something.
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- Location
- Under a Rock
Paranoia framework:
Alternatively, we can sort by target rather than source.
Things we care about:
- Direct threats
- PvP
- Other teams
- Our red team
- That proctor
- Those people we can't see
- PvE
- Fort locations
- Things in the area we have to protect
- PvP
- OPSEC
- Past failures bearing fruit
- Fresh mistakes
- Rules
- Are our positive points assured?
- Are we more likely to get negative points?
- Bad assumptions
- Social
- Outside context
- Is snake uncle coming for us?
- Is leaf under attack?
Alternatively, we can sort by target rather than source.
Things we care about:
- Survival
- Status
- Secrets
- Relationships
- Allies
- Winning the exams
- Scoring in this event
- Rampage
- Our documents
- The rest of team red
- The proctors
- Round 2
- Scoring in other events
- Retroactive misterator DQ?
- Getting to the tournament
- Scoring in this event
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You can ask....
I was apparently miscalibrated on the power of your explosives. I'll talk to the others about it but I would guess that no, Keiko cannot throw that far. Not sure about the pangolins.
WIDTTY?
@faflec Ikomoto was a typo. Should have been Ikemoto. Will fix.
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
- Location
- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Yeah, I edited my post but I was too late.
This bit just threw me off so I thought they were both infiltrators from the same Village:
Actually, I changed my mind on what we should do about Doigama Emon.
Have Noburi chakra drain him right now, hide him in some bushes, and retrieve/revive him right before the end of the first period so we get no 'unconscious team member' penalty. He'll so grateful, getting all of the benefit and doing none of the work.
Have Noburi chakra drain him right now, hide him in some bushes, and retrieve/revive him right before the end of the first period so we get no 'unconscious team member' penalty. He'll so grateful, getting all of the benefit and doing none of the work.
- Location
- Denmark
Now that I think about it... I made that mistake as well, and given his professed profession, I'm suddenly quite suspicious of him.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
WWDTTY?
- Location
- [REDACTED]
@eaglejarl
Is the very bad thing that we were missing more relevant to this upcoming plan, or the plan for the second event?
Is the very bad thing that we were missing more relevant to this upcoming plan, or the plan for the second event?