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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Veedrac said:
Anyone else getting an extremely anachronistic vibe from this? Don't run in school... ninja candidate? And be sure to bring your paper books!
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Nothing was said about not running. On the other hand, running on the way out of a class is a safety hazard relative to other young ninja that want to get out of a classroom.

Also, printing presses make textbooks significantly easier.

e: Ninjaed in the entireity.
 
faflec said:
So....how do implosion seals work then? They're modified storage seals which work on air only, but if storage seals aren't meant to release their contents upon destruction then implosion seals wouldn't function...
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charlesrwest said:
That doesn't match the rules? They were defined to release on destruction?
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Aabcehmu said:
It seems reasonable to me that the difference between being sliced into pieces by sharp claws and being ripped apart by shockwaves would be enough to prompt potentially difficult to predict variance in how the seals respond to being destroyed.
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Recall that the seals were under his jacket. @faflec , can you use your loremaster powers for good and tell me what happened when Hazō thought about making seals on Keiko's shirt?

Cariyaga said:
Discussion about Shadow Clone farm (@eaglejarl Is this necessary to put in a plan given your a/n at the end?)
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Ask @Velorien

MMKII said:
Remind me what Forged in Fire does mechanically? I dont really grok how TYS points work so this would be good.

Asking because it may be beneficial to sink 20 XP in for that...
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Thousand Yard Stare points are the "I've been there, done that, and had the fear burned right out of me, along with some of my empathy" markers. Ordinarily your TYS points get added to your Intimidation skill, which is part of why Keiko and her 6 TYS points are so terrifying and why, when Jiraiya puts forth the effort, he can make the head of the Inuzuka nearly cower in her chair.

Forged in Fire allows you to reverse the psychology, making it "I've been there, done that, and it's important to me that you never have to."

Forged in Fire
(NB: Originally submitted by Cariyaga. Thanks, amigo!)
XP Cost: 20
Prerequisites:
  • Aspect with the word "Idealist", "Idealistic", et. al in it
  • At least 3 Thousand Yard Stare points
The user has seen some of the worst humanity has to offer and come out with a drive to make things better.
Instead of applying to Intimidation, Thousand Yard Stare applies to Rapport and Empathy.
If the user loses the aspect with "Idealistic" in it, it is QM fiat as to whether they keep this stunt or not.
 
eaglejarl said:
Recall that the seals were under his jacket. @faflec , can you use your loremaster powers for good and tell me what happened when Hazō thought about making seals on Keiko's shirt?


Ask @Velorien


Thousand Yard Stare points are the "I've been there, done that, and had the fear burned right out of me, along with some of my empathy" markers. Ordinarily your TYS points get added to your Intimidation skill, which is part of why Keiko and her 6 TYS points are so terrifying and why, when Jiraiya puts forth the effort, he can make the head of the Inuzuka nearly cower in her chair.

Forged in Fire allows you to reverse the psychology, making it "I've been there, done that, and it's important to me that you never have to."

Forged in Fire
(NB: Originally submitted by Cariyaga. Thanks, amigo!)
XP Cost: 20
Prerequisites:
  • Aspect with the word "Idealist", "Idealistic", et. al in it
  • At least 3 Thousand Yard Stare points
The user has seen some of the worst humanity has to offer and come out with a drive to make things better.
Instead of applying to Intimidation, Thousand Yard Stare applies to Rapport and Empathy.
If the user loses the aspect with "Idealistic" in it, it is QM fiat as to whether they keep this stunt or not.
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Is there a 40xp (or so) version that doesn't lock the user out of using TYS on intimidation?
 
eaglejarl said:
The mindsets of regular TYS vs FIF TYS are explicitly opposed so no, there's no such thing.

(Unless @Velorien and @OliWhail want to overrule me, of course.)
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I like this, though I feel like FiF TYS should annihilate or something

Like someone trying to use 5 FiF TYS points on someone with 3 TYS points should only have 2 actually apply.

Hell, maybe everyone with TYS points should get TYS resistance :V regardless of the type of TYS

#QMheadaches
 
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Mari stopped eating creaky chicken?

Which, by the way, is a real dish. Or, at least, it was. Back when I lived in New York, lo these many moons ago, there was a Chinese place down the street from me named Empire Szechuan Gardens. Creaky chicken was their house specialty, and it was simply heaven on a plate. Unfortunately, ESG went out of business and nowhere else that I've ever found makes it. :(
 
eaglejarl said:
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Mari stopped eating creaky chicken?

Which, by the way, is a real dish. Or, at least, it was. Back when I lived in New York, lo these many moons ago, there was a Chinese place down the street from me named Empire Szechuan Gardens. Creaky chicken was their house specialty, and it was simply heaven on a plate. Unfortunately, ESG went out of business and nowhere else that I've ever found makes it. :(
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Mari stopped eating creaky chicken? This is the first time I heard of it.
 
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eaglejarl said:
Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Mari stopped eating creaky chicken?

Which, by the way, is a real dish. Or, at least, it was. Back when I lived in New York, lo these many moons ago, there was a Chinese place down the street from me named Empire Szechuan Gardens. Creaky chicken was their house specialty, and it was simply heaven on a plate. Unfortunately, ESG went out of business and nowhere else that I've ever found makes it. :(
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This seems to be a NY/NJ thing?

Ive ate at a place that definitely had it in the NY metro area that wasnt in NYC proper a year or so ago. I was surprised to learn at the chapter posting that its a rare thing.
 
She stopped because she finally realized that the creaky chicken needed lubrication and letting it go without was inhumane.

(rimshot)

So why does Kakashi need to spend a week baking cookies, anyway?
 
Im giving serious consideration towards thinking/making up ways of turning "Try to actually bake cookies with Kalashi" into training from hell somehow.

Can we rope Gai into this?
 
I could definitely see 'Cooking with Kagome' being a survival training course in how to live off the land in gourmet style. 'Remember children, there's never a good reason to let good monster gibbets left over from explosive traps go to waste.'
 
MMKII said:
Im giving serious consideration towards thinking/making up ways of turning "Try to actually bake cookies with Kalashi" into training from hell somehow.

Can we rope Gai into this?
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Heh. That is the obvious way to turn it into training from hell, isn't it? Let it slip that Kakashi's spending a whole week baking his legendary chocolate chip cookies, rumored to be the best in all of Leaf, and before you know it Gai will have promised each of his students will bake twice as many cookies while standing on their hands.

Fits nicely with our commitment to wacky training. Do you think pangolins like burnt husks?
 
MMKII said:
Im giving serious consideration towards thinking/making up ways of turning "Try to actually bake cookies with Kalashi" into training from hell somehow.

Can we rope Gai into this?
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I'm going to say NO to this, not because it would be difficult to rope Gai into this, but because Kakashi would respond with a vengeance, son of a Kage be damned.

I don't wanna get Kakashi'd.
 
faflec said:
I'm going to say NO to this, not because it would be difficult to rope Gai into this, but because Kakashi would respond with a vengeance, son of a Kage be damned.

I don't wanna get Kakashi'd.
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We dont even have to try to actually fence him in on it though!
 
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