Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
"Edo Tensei!"We should just kill everyone. Can't gain points if you're dead.
"Oh shit wha-!"
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 open voting
"Oh shit wha-!"
- Location
- Under a Rock
Honestly, if we manage to knock everyone else unconscious in the first round, it doesn't actually matter if we make it to the tournament. Sure, we won't get a fancy promotion ceremony, but when we finish the day atop a mountain of unconscious Genin, no one is going to remember or care that limp-body-which-we-totally-could-have-killed #46 technically won.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
mmmm do we know that?
Youre entirely correct of course.
I think it's important we don't completely blow up any facility in Round 1, as contrary as that sounds. It will be very useful if our Pangolins have the locations memorized so they can take them out in the prep period during Round 2.
- Location
- Seattle, WA
We really don't have any way to stick them with the -1000 points for failing to simulate?
- Location
- Yes.
Not without lying to a proctor. And I'd rather not do that.
Unless they're stupid, but that's a mistake they do.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Not in Round 1.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
I'm pretty sure. Consider this: if dead people could do things, why do we need Edo Tensei?
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
Theoretically yes, I suppose.
- Location
- Academy City
- Pronouns
- They
Yet! Growth mindset.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Alright, so, (very basic) plan:
Make contingencies for Noumero's list (willing to lose bonus XP on this if necessary)
Round 1: Take out all teams, imprison and moderate consequence all red teams, moderate consequence and KO all blue teams.
Round 2: Figure out a way to either bait the red teams to attack us, or send pangolin out to take them out on their own. 5SB everything up, hide inside? (ALERT: Enemy Agency ignored.)
e:
Man... Noburi's chakra use nerf is REALLY harsh. It's rough.
Make contingencies for Noumero's list (willing to lose bonus XP on this if necessary)
Round 1: Take out all teams, imprison and moderate consequence all red teams, moderate consequence and KO all blue teams.
Round 2: Figure out a way to either bait the red teams to attack us, or send pangolin out to take them out on their own. 5SB everything up, hide inside? (ALERT: Enemy Agency ignored.)
e:
Man... Noburi's chakra use nerf is REALLY harsh. It's rough.
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Noumero
Omit Needless Words
But... death implies loss of agency, by definition. If someone could do something by their own will, they aren't dead. Unless...
Are you proposing to rewrite the very abstract concept of death? That's... quite an ambitious project. I think we'll have to postpone this for a year or two, at least.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Does this plan seem about right to everyone who's mathed it out?
- Location
- Yes.
Almost. We don't want to "imprison" the Red Teams, we want to stick them in a cell. That's it. Make a thing that keeps them from escaping, but no restraining, or no ability to talk. This way Blue Teams don't get points for having Red Teams in a cell, and Red Teams don't get points.Does this plan seem about right to everyone who's mathed it out?
Oh, and also we want Red Teams to turn in documents so Blue Teams lose points.
Only if we can somehow have them turn them in at the last minute. We don't want them gaining points.
Honestly, destruction of documents is sufficient. It denies possible points to both sides.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
It's kind of vague, but by the spirit of the event, our turning it in would be sufficient to lose them points.
Maaaybe? The rules only post says "-75 points if the red team successfully turns in their documents before time runs out (Note that it's possible to score neither the +50 nor the -75)" and it says "their documents" specifically, likely referring to the target documents.
EDIT - and of course, the proctors being asshats that they are, might count it as +75 for the red team.
- Location
- Yes.
Nothing's stopping us from escorting a (chakra-drained, restrained) victim to their appropriate proctor and then back into a cell.
Note: I'm talking about Round 1. Round 2 I have no idea.
Well, it takes time to get them back to the HQ. We don't really want to spend time heading to and from the proctor HQ when we could be rampaging instead.
- Location
- Under a Rock
Is it necessary to give moderate consequences? They get the same penalty for being unconscious. Then again, Noburi probably knows how to give an injury which impairs combat ability but very reliably heals within a few days. Hmm... Chakra exhaustion to moderate consequences? Seems like it should be easy to do.
Actually, just giving them chakra exhaustion should work. 24 hours to heal, and then they have 0 chakra at the start of the next event.
To be honest, my true objection is that I don't like the sort of story it would be if we intentionally hurt already defeated opponents in the one non-war international institution left in the world.
- Location
- US
Considering that Red teams get disproportionately disadvantaged, we can probably pick one person from each red team who we deem is low to middling score to run the documents in. We give up 55 of the 495 points on most of them, and 135 point minimum (time based) to the one we let turn stuff in.
We don't know that Mist won't take the least favorable interpretation, so guard against it where we can.
We don't know that Mist won't take the least favorable interpretation, so guard against it where we can.
- Location
- Yes.
I was thinking more of...after the rampage.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
It is if we want them to take a penalty when we fight them next round. Which we do. I would find moderate chakra consequences to be perfectly acceptable, though.
- Location
- Yes.
Can we tag those in a fight, though?