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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Now is probably a good time to make arrangements with Jiraiya/Hana/Someone else if there are any non-core skills that we think might be more helpful for the tournament than more taijutsu/water whip/ranged. Anyone have any ideas?

Also, we should make that list of things to talk to/ask Hana about.

So far from my post before I've got:
  • Hana can help Hazo accept and feel better about the breakup. (Protagonist mental health is important. Only you can prevent forest fires youthsuit incidents.)
  • She can help us better understand the behind the scenes political situation to whatever degree she's privy to. Reactions to our domination of the most recent exam will probably be interesting. She can also keep an ear out for anyone who might be willing to break the rules to get revenge of a permanent nature on us, and suggest people to watch out for in that respect.
  • Training stuff! There've got to be some interesting uses of the Iron Nerve that we weren't ready for when we left that we're able to make use of now that she can teach. Being a Jonin she probably also knows a variety of other stuff. (Do we know what Hana's specialties are?) She could contribute ideas and tutoring to our training for the tournament if we make it in.
  • She might be able to help Noburi and Keiko with whatever bits she knows about how their families have been. They might appreciate family news, even second hand.
  • We could consider asking whether she has any suggested leads on the Naruto situation. I don't know what the OPSEC situation is with that information, actually. Do the higher ups of Mist know about it already? In any case as an experienced Jonin she probably has her own network contacts that'll be very different from the sources Leaf has access to. We might get lucky and she'll be able to suggest somewhere to look or someone to talk to.
  • We could fill her in on some of the safer stories from our adventures.
  • We could ask if there's anything else she thinks we should know.
  • We should also fill her in on what Leaf is really like, just in case she isn't already aware that Mist is a dystopian hellhole in comparison. I think we'd like to ensure that she winds up in Leaf. (Maybe we should ask Jiraiya about the politics of eventually giving her permanent sanctuary or membership in the clan?)
 
Also biased toward Leaf.

Not sure which is more God-stat: Alertness/Athletics

Alertness boosts initiative and passive detection of traps/ambushes

Athletics allows dodge (but not parry) of all witnessed forms of physical attack.

A person with 1Alertness and 80 Athletics still probably never gets hit (unless there are undodgeable attacks we haven't run into, which Alertness could help us dodge)

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Am still fine with Alertness training - no matter what we want good Alertness, Athletics, Chakra Reserves, and Attack Skill.
 
Adept_Woodwright said:
Also biased toward Leaf.

Not sure which is more God-stat: Alertness/Athletics

Alertness boosts initiative and passive detection of traps/ambushes

Athletics allows dodge (but not parry) of all witnessed forms of physical attack.

A person with 1Alertness and 80 Athletics still probably never gets hit (unless there are undodgeable attacks we haven't run into, which Alertness could help us dodge)

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Am still fine with Alertness training - no matter what we want good Alertness, Athletics, Chakra Reserves, and Attack Skill.
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Alertness is necessary against genjutsu. Person with reasonable awareness and genjutsu wins against the guy with 1 Alertness 80 Athletics.
 
It sounds like alertness is also necessary for being able to dodge sneaky attacks, because you have to notice them first.
 
@eaglejarl

If you are at liberty to disclose this:

We had a suspicion that Ren would help stack the odds in our favor by providing us reliable team mates. Did this happen? We saw one nin Mist, Rock, Sand and one unknown so likely no full squad.

Also, with the new piece of information that Shikamaru was lying about STR, it is now possible that he was also lying about the fact that Ren put people opposed to her in Blue Team 1 like Team Downfall.
 
TaliesinSkye said:
Now is probably a good time to make arrangements with Jiraiya/Hana/Someone else if there are any non-core skills that we think might be more helpful for the tournament than more taijutsu/water whip/ranged. Anyone have any ideas?

Also, we should make that list of things to talk to/ask Hana about.

So far from my post before I've got:
  • Hana can help Hazo accept and feel better about the breakup. (Protagonist mental health is important. Only you can prevent forest fires youthsuit incidents.)
  • She can help us better understand the behind the scenes political situation to whatever degree she's privy to. Reactions to our domination of the most recent exam will probably be interesting. She can also keep an ear out for anyone who might be willing to break the rules to get revenge of a permanent nature on us, and suggest people to watch out for in that respect.
  • Training stuff! There've got to be some interesting uses of the Iron Nerve that we weren't ready for when we left that we're able to make use of now that she can teach. Being a Jonin she probably also knows a variety of other stuff. (Do we know what Hana's specialties are?) She could contribute ideas and tutoring to our training for the tournament if we make it in.
  • She might be able to help Noburi and Keiko with whatever bits she knows about how their families have been. They might appreciate family news, even second hand.
  • We could consider asking whether she has any suggested leads on the Naruto situation. I don't know what the OPSEC situation is with that information, actually. Do the higher ups of Mist know about it already? In any case as an experienced Jonin she probably has her own network contacts that'll be very different from the sources Leaf has access to. We might get lucky and she'll be able to suggest somewhere to look or someone to talk to.
  • We could fill her in on some of the safer stories from our adventures.
  • We could ask if there's anything else she thinks we should know.
  • We should also fill her in on what Leaf is really like, just in case she isn't already aware that Mist is a dystopian hellhole in comparison. I think we'd like to ensure that she winds up in Leaf. (Maybe we should ask Jiraiya about the politics of eventually giving her permanent sanctuary or membership in the clan?)
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Hana specialized in swords, to my knowledge.
 
Cariyaga said:
Alertness is necessary against genjutsu. Person with reasonable awareness and genjutsu wins against the guy with 1 Alertness 80 Athletics.
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Good call, wasn't considering genjutsu. And Mari has shown proficiency in genjutsu can no sell a jonin, trivializing dodges.

TaliesinSkye said:
It sounds like alertness is also necessary for being able to dodge sneaky attacks, because you have to notice them first.
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I think that would fall under the Ambush rules, and count as one fragile tag.
 
I'm of the mind that we should just go back to Leaf. Kagome is worried sick, and if we delay his stress will just be worse. Furthermore, we should take advantage of the senior Leaf trainers for as long as possible.

Most important, we need to be there to see Hiashi's face when he gets the news.
 
@eaglejarl
Minor nitpick:
"You," Keiko said, pointing to a group of Rock ninja two tables away. "You tried to come up under our base. We dropped you in a pit and you woke up in a cell."
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"You," Keiko said, pointing to a group of Rock ninja two tables away. "You tried to ambush us from under your base. We dropped you in a pit and you woke up in a cell."

Enjou said:
What are you talking about? They reliably fell into line when we threatened to hurt them!
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We don't know if Ren had anything to do with this, though.
 
@eaglejarl
Unless I miss my guess, this post covers two days - yet we only got 4 XP. I know a large part of our plan was invalidated - is below-average XP a result of that, an oversight, or pushing off the award for the down day for OliWhail and the afterparty?
 
IIRC (If I recall canon), the first round of the tournament pairings was decided before the 1 month time skip. Is this something that the players will get here too?
 
Radvic said:
Correction: we made the tournament with only having to fight 54 people, rather than 90
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Correction: It would be at most 66. Double counting :p
Cariyaga said:
Obviously we have to stay in Mist at least a couple days for @Roomba to fulfill his accord with @Velorien, and we also need to get Kagome's birthday present.
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Im not staying in Mist for Waifu nonsense that is just going to piss Keiko off.

faflec said:
@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail Regarding training plans, is there any chance we would be allowed to spend the upcoming month's worth of XP before the tournament, since that's a significant number of XP we wouldn't be getting?
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Why wouldnt we be? We cant spend XP as we get it during a training break? Seems odd
 
Hmm.... Are there mechanical benefits to having access to senior Leaf trainers? I assume we could potentially grab more supporting Jutsu if we want, which would be excellent, but I don't know what that would look like.

Ideally: Keiko gets trained in a supplemental action jutsu which provides an aspect tag for Weapons attacks? Noburi gets a jutsu which makes his water whip have a higher weapons rating? Hazou gets a stacking earth armor jutsu?

Alternatively, will we just have higher passive XP gains from spending time training with trainers than we would have doing other things?
 
MMKII said:
Why wouldnt we be? We cant spend XP as we get it during a training break? Seems odd
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eaglejarl said:
Once back in Leaf you will train in the core skills: Alertness, Chakra Reserves, Taijutsu, Water Whip, Ranged Weapons, in whatever order the QMs think is most advantageous. We timeskip all of that and resume at the start of the tournament.
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FMPOV the entire month is (mostly) skipped over and we don't get to know how much XP we get, if any. So...??
 
Radvic said:
Hmm.... Are there mechanical benefits to having access to senior Leaf trainers? I assume we could potentially grab more supporting Jutsu if we want, which would be excellent, but I don't know what that would look like.

Ideally: Keiko gets trained in a supplemental action jutsu which provides an aspect tag for Weapons attacks? Noburi gets a jutsu which makes his water whip have a higher weapons rating? Hazou gets a stacking earth armor jutsu?

Alternatively, will we just have higher passive XP gains from spending time training with trainers than we would have doing other things?
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I think it makes simulatonist sense that with good teacher and trainers, we should get higher passive XP gains.
 
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