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- The Deep Blue Sea
FYI, they are interspersed all throughout the compound, not just the exterior walls.
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
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- Potato land
Another lesson there is that we should put our own word halves in the summon realm once we return to the barracks. After all, there's no requirement to carry them around, just "demonstrate access". Yes, it would take a total moron to unseal unknown storage scrolls from an enemy sealmaster's kit, but I bet the 72 candidates remaining contain at least one such moron.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
screeching in bird duke
This would require having Keiko by our side 24/7. If a proctor catches us when she's in the bathroom, or just plain anywhere else other than by our sides, then we fail the first event because we do not have access to our word half.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
I think thats stretching it a bit.
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- Potato land
I don't know how I rate that risk vs the risk of getting word halves stolen in some bullshit manner. It sounds like we're going to be splitting the party, and I don't trust the rules about fighting in the barracks too much. The enemy could discreetly ambush Noburi, steal all of his storage scrolls, and the sift through them in a safe location.
The summon realm provides absolute protection from this.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
You mean the storage scrolls which also include macerators? The macerators that will kill them if they open them?
Yeah, I'm not too worried.
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- Yes.
Alright, if not tunnels, what about new rooms? Would we be allowed to MEW ourselves a room so long it reaches to the other bases to justify punching Blue or Red Teams out?
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Would be a bit too chakra-expensive, methinks.
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- Potato land
Could also just keep the scrolls themselves. If the point is to either deny us the first event, or trade, that works just as well.
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- The Void
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- She/Her
Seems like a decent first idea
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- Europe
We should become her Jonin sensei in a few years, Hiashi is going to regret the day when he tried to oppose us..., uh, I mean Jiraiya of course.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
All you need to do to punch other Reds out is to sufficiently antagonize a group of them beforehand, and do so publicly so that they lose face if they don't respond. Make it clear that we believe most of the others to be beneath us, and that we will destroy them utterly.
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- Under a Rock
The thing is, the Hyuuga already failed to get any status from having a good show at the exams. The only person further humiliation hurts is Hinata. And us, in the long run.
I'm thinking of something like this, in a letter that only the Byakugan can read.
Hyuuga Hinata,
In a very real sense, this entire exam was window dressing for round one of Goketsu vs Hyuuga. Goketsu happened to win. But we are both going to be around for some time, and our loyalties to our clan will surely put us at odds again. Goketsu will not always emerge victorious.
So for our own protection, we would like to establish a precedent, as clan children. Whenever loyalty to our clans forces us to fight, we fight. When one of us wins, we stop. We endeavor to hold nothing against each other, for neither of us has done anything the other would not do in their situation. And we share a toast to Leaf.
Towards this goal, we make the following proposition: attached are two versions of a report we could hand Jiraiya. If you so desire, we will deliver the report that does not belittle your extraordinary achievements in this exam by having them end so ignominiously against a team who spent the last two years specializing in that exact situation.
To counter the leverage this would give us over you, we freely offer this secret: Hazou wet the bed until he was nine years old.
We will be in the old tea shop by the docks at noon, right before we deliver our report. If you wish to make a selection, join us there for a toast to Leaf. If not, we shall toast to Leaf separately.
Goketsu Hazou
Goketsu Keiko
Goketsu Noburi.
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So. While we're advertising ourselves as "future S-rankers", is there anything in particular that we want to do to craft our image?
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Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
Or we could just turn Neji and erode their power base from the inside.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
Yeah why not.
Hmm it depends? How are we trying to play the whole image thing? Spooky Zabuza? Sannin second coming? It depends on the flavour we wanna bring.
Incoporated everyone's feedback...I think I need to make it more coherent...
I think there are wiser ways to achieve similar benefits. Simply treating her with friendly respect, rather than twisting the knife, making it clear to her that we won't kick her when she's down, will encourage reciprocation.
(Unless she is ordered by Hiashi to to whatever is needed to bring us down into the mud, in which case she will not play fair no matter what we do.)
rkyeun
Cabbitus Maximus
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- ◕ ‿‿ ◕
I should point out that one of the major consequences of flipping less thans and greater thans in a (merely three-dimensional) calculus equation is that the affected volume becomes inverted. As in, instead of an explosive seal detonating everything in a fifty yard radius, it detonates everything outside that radius. In the universe. But since seals are ten dimensional or more or something, this might also include the explosion happening indefinitely into the past and future. I believe we have been warned:
Do not intentionally cause sealing mishaps.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
> sealing lets a garbage inequality impact reality
As a mathematician this is the most terrifying thing anyones suggested about sealing
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- how about no
I was thinking of something similar: excavating and then creating an underground panic room to store the documents in in the event of an attack. We wouldn't have the documents in the room to start with because that would interfere with the normal operations of a T&I facility, but having a reliable way to safeguard our documents at a moment's notice is only sensible. To seal the documents away we should have our engineer Pangolin assist us so that as the documents in their secure filling cabinets (or w/e they are stored in) have entered the panic room said panic room then gets covered in literal tons of rocks. Once the event ends and we have to turn the documents back in to the proctors we can simply have Mr. Backhoes-for-Hands dig it out for us.
If we do the tunnel idea too though we will need to ensure a steady air supply. How many air purifier seals do we have? Could someone also do the math on exactly how large of an area we could sustain given, say only half of our supply with the other half as an emergency backup?
This is going to take a lot of math. We should get started now, tbh.