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And again, we regenerate chakra over 24 RESTFUL HOURS. I do NOT believe that spending time beaten up and then left unconscious and chakra-drained would be conductive to any sort of "restful" condition.
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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
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
What is more restful than blissful unconsciousness?
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- Yes.
Fuck if I know but if it were the case Hazou wouldn't have had civilian-level chakra hours after being attacked in the last Event.
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I love it
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- Yes.
Actually @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail If a person goes to the medics they're out of the round, but does that mean that their team gets penalized for it? Like, if the person doesn't have any injuries does the scoring act as though that person got Moderate Injuries?
Are you wanting to explain this stick in front of the proctor, who would therefore judge ANY breakage of their legs, arms, etc. as being due to us thinking they betrayed us, because Mist is out to fuck us over?
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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We have Air Domes and 1 Silence Mine left. Maybe?
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Air dome. Cover our mouths. The proctor can go fuck themselves.
I might just have Keiko use her intimidation and scary Pangolin to say there will be consequences to betrayal, and that they will not enjoy them.
Noumero
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Since we've now decided that Katou is the real witch...
Fishing for information, maybe. I think he isn't out to screw us this event specifically, just figure out all our global-picture secrets and bring them to his Kage. Don't give him any seals we don't want reverse-engineered.
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I thought we only decided that Katō was a real witch?
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Hm. If we convinced ninja to surrender instead of fighting (Tags on "Army of Pangolin" [or multiple tags if multiple Pangolin provide an aspect to pass to Kei], "The Sky's on Fire", and "Shock and Awe" makes that entirely possible), could Noburi inflict "gentle" moderate consequences once they were chakra drained to unconsciousness? Ones that'd heal quickly, but not before the next event? Obviously, he wouldn't be able to do so with the Blood Release guy, though, with that healing factor.
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flashes back to PMMM. Good times.
We have two potential traitors. One has a known motive for betrayal (a village mate he'd want to help). The other has unknown motives, but is sneaky enough that they could pull off the deception.
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Oh yeah, and as long as we're checking out shit people've said...
Hah.
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- US
I'm 50/50 let the proctor hear. To be honest, if we are betrayed now we cannot make the tournament without some real witchcraft. It is a stretch to think we can make the tournament with even one serious injury not caused by betrayal (-75 points for Moderate+severe consequence)
Doesn't matter after that if we take another -200/-inf points.
The only plausible known solution then is to go around and serious consequence at least 56 people such that there are only 16 viable candidates.
Word halves might be a source of witchcraft, but as an unknown I can't assign better than 10% odds on it.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
This dude is-
--A LASER GUIDED--
ONE WAY TICKET
To the fuck corridor. The last place we wanna be.
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Jello_Raptor
(Confirmed Jelly)
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- Left of Center
Hmm, can we use that as leverage?
Hey, you fucked over our score. Which is why we're going to have to break this event. You're either in or we drain you and hand you over to the medics.
No actual grudge, but you limited our options enough that we have to take the risk.
No actual grudge, but you limited our options enough that we have to take the risk.
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Unrelatedly, I think offering our team members the same exception for collaborators that we plan to use is the decent thing to do.
We are allied with Team Asuma and we're going to go easy on them. Do the rest of you have similar requests?
(Of course there's the implicit threat of proportional retribution, if you fucked with our plans, both you and these people will get it hard.)
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- The state of Paranoia
Probably been mentioned already, but it's possible that Mini-Hanzo is trying to get us to distrust the other social guy so we don't distrust Mini-Hanzo as much.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
It didn't work, I distrust both of them equally but right now one of them is also useless to us sans cryptography abilities.
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- Yes.
That can be the stick, but I would prefer that we offer it as an alternative to him taking the risk of getting injured. If he dodges the carrot we can take out the stick.
I would also like to do this regarding the Wolf guy, since this will be his carrot, and the "we fuck you if you fuck us" can be the stick.
Also, shouldn't we know the other Wolf guy from Noburi's socialization? @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail ??
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
I do think he is in, though. He didn't lie to us about his chakra reserves or combat capabilities. He isn't going to betray us, either: he is going to be incredibly cooperative and helpful, interrogate all our captives, catch all their lies, keep an eye on Doigama so we don't have to worry about him, stay secretly loyal to us all the way to the end of the second round, and on the whole be the best teammate we've ever had. He'll probably even offer to become our pen pal, like we hoped!
It's just that he'll end up, incidentally, learning a surprising amount of information about our capabilities, our future plans, internal politics of Leaf, the state of our military intelligence, and the principle of skywalker seals.
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SCREAMING IN KAGOME
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
Oh, yes. I wanted to ask you to do this, I'm not very good at screaming. Thank you.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
KATO: "My Deceit score is higher than yours! Also I caused this situation for you and gloated about it to your face not even 48 hours ago. I am also incapable of fighting at all, completely harmless."
DOIGAMA: "If you believe that I have exactly three bridges to sell you. Also I am clearly the only Wolf nin in the exam at the moment, thank you for asking."
HAZOU:...
KEIKO: "Hazou, is something the matter?"
VOICES IN HAZOUS HEAD: feed them to the pangolin once the proctor is out of sight huehuehue
DOIGAMA: "If you believe that I have exactly three bridges to sell you. Also I am clearly the only Wolf nin in the exam at the moment, thank you for asking."
HAZOU:...
KEIKO: "Hazou, is something the matter?"
VOICES IN HAZOUS HEAD: feed them to the pangolin once the proctor is out of sight huehuehue
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Thanks for the feedback @eaglejarl.
The idea I was trying to express is that Pangolin pepper Macerators are difficult to use without causing friendly fire with so many melee combatants, so you need to be deliberate and careful about deploying them.
I'll just change it to "Use them if there's a good opportunity, but don't force it".
I don't think we have enough for pre-emptive carpeting. But yes, if we see enemies, and it looks like more than one can be caught in the area of effect, use them.
Normally, this is best done by Keiko, but inside a building, assault squads will need to do it themselves, including throwing the seals semi-blindly into rooms with likely enemy presence, much like a flashbang.
I'm honestly a bit worried that I'm projecting modern tactics for room clearing too much here and that it won't map cleanly. My only recourse would be to be even less specific and let the team decide on their own.
Whatever target seems easiest to clear. This will usually be the one with the most fighting due to attrition, but I want to leave this to our team's judgement. There are too many possibilities here to plan concretely.
The idea I was trying to express is that Pangolin pepper Macerators are difficult to use without causing friendly fire with so many melee combatants, so you need to be deliberate and careful about deploying them.
I'll just change it to "Use them if there's a good opportunity, but don't force it".
I don't think we have enough for pre-emptive carpeting. But yes, if we see enemies, and it looks like more than one can be caught in the area of effect, use them.
Normally, this is best done by Keiko, but inside a building, assault squads will need to do it themselves, including throwing the seals semi-blindly into rooms with likely enemy presence, much like a flashbang.
I'm honestly a bit worried that I'm projecting modern tactics for room clearing too much here and that it won't map cleanly. My only recourse would be to be even less specific and let the team decide on their own.
Whatever target seems easiest to clear. This will usually be the one with the most fighting due to attrition, but I want to leave this to our team's judgement. There are too many possibilities here to plan concretely.