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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Usernames said:
...How fucking stupid can that girl be?

I be surprise if we see her alive in the future. I be SURPRISE if the village hidden in the waves are still alive in the future. They practically wiped out. Any other village can go finish them off if the leaf doesn't. Remember the Village hidden in the whirlpool?
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What?

bayesclef said:
@OliWhail: nice update. One small typo:
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Nope! I mean go/baduk

eaglejarl said:
I think he meant Go, the board game. Right, @OliWhail ?
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Ye
 
Velorien said:
@eaglejarl has already responded, but permit me to answer your question with a question. Last time, the QMs retconned a disaster into a success based on a misterator-related misunderstanding. What do you think will happen if you force us to retcon a success based on a misterator-related misunderstanding?
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A seriously ripped Future Hazo will materialize just before we throw the Misterator and stop us from doing so. Then he will berate us about waking The Sleeping Evil Gods and stress the point that Misterators don't block LoS, never blocked LoS and that we should stop hiding in tunnels or caves given our track record.

And then he disappears as if he was never there, with the only sign to the contrary being that everyone now has one extra Thousand Yard Stare point.
 
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bayesclef said:
One small typo:
"Yo Geki, looks like we have incom- ZABUZA'S BALLS! WE HAVE INCOMING!" Kurosawa shouted, leaping up from her seat at the table where the pair of proctors were playing go fish.
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eaglejarl said:
I think he meant Go, the board game. Right, @OliWhail ?
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OliWhail said:
Nope! I mean go/baduk
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Kiba said:
I thought 'Go fish' was a joke.
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An earlier draft made my intention more clear, but I assumed that we were all nerdy enough here that it would be understood that I understood what go is.

I understand that Oli was not talking about go fish when he wrote "go"; he was instead referring to the programming language. The proctors were playing [with] Go. I infer that Mist has developed a sufficiently advanced theory of computation and a Kurosawa—a member of a clan with a bloodline that lends itself to sealing—is in on the project, meaning they're inventing modular sealing. Really, this is such an important breakthrough that literally the only logical course of action is to lure the proctors away by inflicting crippling injuries, kill the proctors so their research dies with them, steal the notes, and make a getaway before anyone has a chance to raise the alarm. And since we defeated proctors, who are chuunin, we automatically get promoted. (Although, really, it's a demotion; because you automatically get promoted if you ever defeat someone of that rank, we're really jounin. Jiraiya obviously sandbagged the promotion so he could send jounin to the chuunin exam.)

I hope this resolves any ambiguity over whether "go fish" was a joke.
 
Cariyaga said:
I feel like stealing everyone's s hit will turn out poorly for us but I don't know why I feel this way. Where do you come from, funny little feeling?
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Is it possible you equate the fact that Team Downfall left our gear alone when they knocked out Hazo as them having a more complex reasoning than "don't mess with a sealmaster's shit"?

@eaglejarl @OliWhail @Velorien
Could I get an Omake threadmark here please?
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Chapter 197: Taunts and Battleships
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Although he wouldn't admit it to his clan brother's face, Hazo had studied Noburi closely whenever he was strutting around in his persona of 'Smugley Smuggington, King of Smugton' just in case he ever needed that particular move set for one of his disguises. And it looked like his dedication had paid off when his most recent plan demands included that Hazo provoke their previously defeated fellow genins into attacking them in Round 2.

Fortunately it seemed like most of the examinees were gathered in the mess hall so he would only have to pull this off once. Now just to memorize the locations of the proctors and it was show time.

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What strode in could only be identified as Smugness Personified: Hazo, an easy grin on his face, was strutting to the nearest proctor and with a handful of word halves in his right hand and a banana in his left (he learned early on that eating it during serious conversation was a good way to throw people off balance).

He casually walked up to the nearest proctor and nearly shoved his papers into the proctor's face. "Hey there, my man, remind me again how this bit about the word halves works? I have so many and it really has become a bother carrying them around all the time. They are surprisingly heavy." he announced loudly.

The proctor just glared at him but Hazo was not deterred. "I just have to guess the word, right? And then whichever genin that paper belongs to fails and becomes the huge disgrace they were meant to be, right? Come on, you know how bad my memory is, what with being a 'traitor' and all that. Funny story, we never actually planned to betray Mist, we just forgot the way back home and then decided to just keep going until we found the next nearest Village to join because that turned out to be less awkward."

Still no reaction. How about that. It seemed like being part of a team that can summon building sized pangolins at will could change how people react to you. Still, Hazo was sure this would not last and the proctor's loathing of his traitor status would eventually win over.

"...anyway, this half here says '-emy'. Blasphemy? Archenemy? Hmm, no that can't be it. How about "TheGoketsuJustSpankedUsLikeGeninFreshOutOfTheAcademy"? Yeah, that must be it. Can you check and confirm with your half maybe? Because wow, will you look at that, all my word halves say the same thing. How odd!"

"Goketsu Hazo, you will come with me to be confined to your room. Should you for any reason leave said room before one of us proctors fertches you, you and your traitor team will be disqualified and you won't have to worry about any word halves anymore." the proctor finally said.

Hazo made a show of acting surprised at this unfair treatment while surreptiously looking around the room. It seemed like everyone had seen his utter disrespect of his fellow constestants and none were all too happy with him if the shattered food bowls on the table closest to him was any indication. Good.

Still, it would be a terrible idea to actually get disqualified here so he would obey the proctor. He was sure it was just a coincidence that Shikamaru stood up at this point and rudely pushed past him to, presumably, throw his pitch to band up and attack the Goketsu together while everyone was still angry at him. Antagonizing the proctor also had the nice side effect of making sure that they wouldn't stop this collusion from happening (as if there was ever a chance with how we were treated, the bitter part of his mind supplied).

Hazo didn't know many things but he knew one thing: Bananas are even tastier after a job well done, so he peeled it and ate it while following the proctor out of the mess hall.

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Not for the first Hinata wondered if she hit her head too hard during her... graceful dodge of Mori's goo bomb that ended with her faceplanting strategically minimizing her profile on the floor. It was either that or Mist just made ninjas go crazy, one way or another. Not that she would admit it to his face but Goketsu Hazo was pretty unhinged and that had to have come from somewhere.

"-the verdict, Hyuuga?"

Oh, it seemed like Wakahisa Kiri was asking her a question and she managed to let her mind wander. Focus, Hinata!

"Sorry, could you repeat that?" she asked.

"I asked if you could you check with your Byakugan if Hazama really hit something other than some furniture? He seems to think he scored a hit but I couldn't confirm this through my telescope."

Hinata turned on her Byakugan and checked. "He did indeed hit someone but it's not a member of Team Goketsu. Probably one of the other genin they got assigned this round?"
Also, what in the Sage's Afterlife was a 'telescope'? Another weird Mist oddity, she was sure. Better to destroy it sneakily once they were done here to avoid it from spreading to other Nations just in case it was dangerous.

"Hah, told you, Wakahisa! My cheating super senses are only eclipsed by my cheating line of sight ignoring Lightning Pillar technique." said Hazama from up his high chair he was seated on (Hinata remembered him saying that the increased altitude helped with his technique's range, but she figured he just wanted to look important), all the while some genin she didn't recognize was updating an enlarged floor map of a T&I building that nearly every other genin in this "assault" was sitting around - with some of them encouraging Hazama to hit a specific quadrant (cries for "D3" seemed to be really popular for some reason).

Focusing on the map, she figured that it had been written down by memory and - for some odd reason - was divided into 10x10 sectors. So far a lot of it had been marked down as misses but as the available room seemed to decrease, it was only likely that soon they would start to hit more and more of the defending team.
And once that was done, maybe they could finally go back to being ninjas and she could try to earn back at least some measure of respect and bring honor to her clan in the exams proper.

She looked around again. Her teammate Shino was standing as far away from everyone as possible while still technically being part of the group - which to her seemed rather superflous since they were far enough from the Goketsu's building to be safe from any hostile actions anyway - while hugging himself and whispering reassurances into his... coat? What was that about? Kiba was trying (and failing) to hit on Sakamota Shiina whose invisibility jutsu could not - to her chagrin - save her from Kiba's enhanced senses. The only odd bit about this was how closely Akamaru hung to Kiba; now sure, the nindog stayed close to him before as well but something seemed to have changed.

She wondered again if she missed something important during her goo induced naptime strategic rest but both her teammates were adamant not to talk about anything that had happened That Day™. Maybe it had been a mistake to join this assault to begin with but the Goketsu had to be taken down for the good and safety of the Elemental Nations (and only for that; there were absolutely no personal grudges involved, nuh uh): She still didn't even know how they managed to goo bomb Team Asuma from 5 miles away - and only them for some reason - but having experienced the Amazing and Deadly Power of Spontaenous Goo Bombs first hand who was she to question it? Shikamaru even demanded they leave them behind so they could rid the world of the blight was the 'Gooketsu' and she definitely appreciated their dedication to the cause. She would certainly be telling her father about the heroic sacrifices of the Nara, Akimichi and Yamanaka clans once she was back home.

Now if only Hazama could hurry up instead of needlessly showboating...



XP AWARD: 5. +0 for the quality of the plan since you guys didn't even bother to vote one in, tsk, tsk. +5 for brevity for the same reason.

FP AWARD: +2 for our new protagonist Hinata, +1 for Hazo because it amuses me.

Author's Notes: This was a terrible "plan" but I suppose we made Hazama too strong. Oh well, sucks to be you.

You are currently outside your own T&I building (on the opposite side of the one facing the enemy genin) since Keiko decided that staying inside was paramount to suicide. And she is right, you know? Should have never trusted a Nara to begin with but you did.

What do you do?

Voting ends 5 minutes after this post is up.
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Do you see what I see, oh hivemind of yore?

Hinatas assistance, next round is no more!

Time to lay ALL the traps

Time to ambush ALL the ninja
 
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Immortal Lurker said:
No Hinata makes this much easier. Pikachu is now a serious threat, instead of a respond-immediately-or-lose threat.
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They also cant insta-avoid our traps, so we can actually take a feasible amount out with those. Likewise for any Pangolin ambush.

We still likely need to take out Pikachu and Siege ninja guy asap, but these are no longer extraordinarily difficult tasks, merely challenging.
 
It was my understanding that half a dozen misterators going off in the same place would block LoS, but we didn't have enough alcohol to make more than one tipserator (and therefore couldn't block LoS with what we had available that update).
 
@MadScientist this was my understanding as well (also its not like we had a big pile of actions to set off multiple, at once, covertly).

Regardless, maybe we should let sleeping dogs lie on this one.

I think fireballs and explosions will block LOS just fine for most of our purposes
 
MMKII said:
I think fireballs and explosions will block LOS just fine for most of our purposes
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I know there is zero chance of it actually happening but wouldn't it be hilarious if Shikamaru detonated an explosive above the crowd the moment LoS was gone and then yelled "We are under attack, quick get into the mansion T&I building!"?
And boom, stampede right into our traps.

Dunno why, but just loving that piece of retcon humor.
 
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MadScientist said:
Would wood-ash macerators block LoS (with one macerator's worth), do you think?
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Youd have to ask Radvic but Id doubt it would be as effective as youd want with the current spread and density of the output.

If we can do the same area of dispersal with material thats an order of magnitude denser (i.e need to increase our storage seal capacity by 10x), that would probably do the trick, I think?
 
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Don't need to block line of sight if we just destroy everyone's ability to see. *taps temple*

Let's blind everyone with pangopepper macerators.
 
MMKII said:
Youd have to ask Radvic but Id doubt it would be as effective as youd want with the current spread and density of the output.

If we can do the same area of dispersal with material thats an order of magnitude denser (i.e need to increase our storage seal capacity by 10x), that would probably do the trick, I think?
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My understanding is that Misterators will pretty much never actually block line of sight due to the way water in the air works. Most likely is that you'll get a haze similar to what happens at rock concerts from fog generators, which might block line of sight if the Misterator covers an area approximately equal to the size of a concert hall and you're trying to look all the way through it. See my writeup on the subject here. I believe that if you saturate the air with enough misterators, you'll just get rain, as there's no underlying weather patterns or chemical schenanigans keeping the water from coalescing.

If you *want* to block sight with a macerator, your best bet is probably to throw a bunch of dirt into it, and fire it upwards between you and your target. This should make a pillar of dirt which should block line of sight fairly handily for a few seconds. It will, of course, fall back down, but so long as the dirt isn't ground up too much, it should block line of sight. Of course, if you wind up grinding up the dirt too much, you'll just get a haze again, which doesn't block line of sight. Basically, you'll have to decide when loading the macerator if you want "blocks line of sight for a few seconds" or "creates a polution haze which doesn't go away, but only minimally blocks line of sight." Of course, if we make enough dirt macerators, we could replicate the effects of a haboob, which would block line of sight handily (though we may need to add certain wind elements in addition to just using Macerators).

TL;DR -- misterators are not going to block line of sight, no matter how you stack them. Macerators with the right dirt / rocks in them will block line of sight for a few seconds. Macerators with too soft dirt in them will just make a haze which makes sight kind of hard but sticks around for a while (probably enough for a condition which acts as an aspect tag against ninja for a minute or two).
 
@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail

Unless I'm looking at the wrong version of the rules (very possible) or missing something (also possible), there's no indication that Hiding Like a Mole has a sustain cost option (I've seen it referred to in the past hat you could spend one chakra per extra minute it's running).

Is this intended, and if not, is sustain cost like that common to most jutsu? IE could you spend 1 chakra per extra minute of echolocation or Living Roots being active?
 
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