Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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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
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[X] A Simple BLAM
Cariyaga
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Intentionally so!
Honestly, as much as we meme about it, we can trust the QMs to make good faith interpretations of our votes, and this vote is basically "Hazou relaxes with his mom. Write what scenes you wish." Incidentally -- I don't think it's a bad idea to give the QMs free reign with scenes now and then.
I think here I was using rational to mean realistic, in the sense that this is "rational Naruto". In the real world, a lieutenant does NOT deliver cookies as wry teasing to a 5 star general whom he doesnt know. I wouldn't send cookies to my company's VP even if he made a joke about cookies in a conversation we had once. In canon Naruto this kind of random spunk is endearing, but in a "rational" take on the setting, I'd expect it to come across as socially awkward and annoying (similarly to how our request to spar Asuma went).
Personally I think Hazou is already pretty eccentric by his society's standards and if we want to be taken seriously in those aspects that we care about more, we should try not to compound that with extra craziness.
Vecht
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Really? Damn. I bought mine a bottle of Kraken as a joke and got a raise and a promotion.
E:
But seriously, countersignalling is a thing too.
I agree the cookies thing is pretty inane and not even particularly effective on that front, but it's really, incredibly minor, and tbh my greatest gripe with our decisions throughout the quest is that we are way too serious about insignificant details, and not nearly serious enough about the things that actually matter.
...It's almost like those things are hard and we know that and want to be serious about serious things, but are afraid of failure, and so all of that seriousness gets transferred to affecting ridiculously minor optimizations.
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[X] A Very Simple Plan... with cookies
Yeah, definitely depends on how well you know the VP! There are directors whom I'd happily Smirnoff Ice, but as far as I know Hazou's only real interaction with Kakashi was asking to hang out and Kakashi telling Hazou he's busy. I think you're right that this isn't that big a deal; we might seem weird and mildly annoying but at least we're not demanding his time; worst case he'll be a bit bemused or annoyed. It seems like a running thread in our interactions this last update was "Hazou presuming he's important enough to take people's time when he should know better" and I'd like to avoid that, but you've convinced me that this doesn't make that meaningfully worse.
Also while I'm on the topic... I'm totally team lean on mom for emotional support if we want because he absolutely is important enough to her enough to be worth her time and attention!
Vecht
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Yeah, I'd have liked to improve on that front. I think the concern was brought up a time or two and was even addressed in some version of the Plan, but my silly inanity vote won out somehow and I failed to adequately channel the hivemind in edits. Sorry.
(Not all of us can be as awesome as @faflec)
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[X] A Simple BLAM... with cookies
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- Introduce Hana to the clan.
- When asked about missing clan members, remember OPSEC and let Mari handle it.
- Try to steer her interactions with Mari-sensei to safe waters, like plans for Game Night
- Hey, look, it's
a distractionKagome-sensei! Gently introduce two of our beloved family members. Encourage them to swap stories, if necessary, while baking OPSEC cookies for when we find Kakashi. - Catch up with Mom. Tell her about our adventures, details redacted or edited as necessary for OPSEC.
- If mom's not too tired, confide in her about girl problems
A Very Secret Mission
- Hazō's got a sense of a huge thing potentially going down.
- He proceed to draw skywalker seals this evening. Then implosion seals. Then whatever he deemed potentially useful in a battle.
- Ask Kagome to assist. Remember OPSEC.
- He proceed to draw skywalker seals this evening. Then implosion seals. Then whatever he deemed potentially useful in a battle.
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ftfy
tbh I don't even know anymore but it's too late to turn back now. just go with it
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Since the new accepted venue for influencing Hazou thoughts is posting your own thoughts, I have a whole graveyard's worth of bones to pick with this. Particularly the Exams.
Forget the "Some" part. Focus on how only Keiko gets mentioned. Noburi should be getting mad respect. These are just the accomplishments that I remember:
- He schooled team bloodrage so thoroughly it probably got Naruto rescued.
- Covered for us in the Yakuza meetings.
- Saved our sorry ass when we were unconscious in a tunnel.
- He thought of the OPSEC idea of going out on the water.
- That crazy trick defusing the stack of explosion seals
- As I will never tire of mentioning, he rolled a 78. He could have literally fought the entire 9 ninja team blindfolded.
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Emstar
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Keiko gets ALL the ratings.
How many likes for our Boy in Blue?
That Monster of a Med-nin.
The Jolly Jutsu Juggernaut!
The TITAN of TEAMWORK!!
N O B U R I
Emstar
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I think instead of venting or talking about specific things, we can probably just tell Mom about the highlights of everything (good and bad).
Hana-pilot should be able to take it from there, I think.
I think instead of venting or talking about specific things, we can probably just tell Mom about the highlights of everything (good and bad).
Hana-pilot should be able to take it from there, I think.
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Emstar
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Its more for privacy than for any sort of security measure.
E: Goddamnit that stupid ": P " again...
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Cariyaga
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I also think that privacy is unnecessary unless Hana explicitly requests it.Its more for privacy than for any sort of security measure.
E: Goddamnit that stupid ": P " again...
There's a lot of shit that Hazō cannot tell mom about. Can we stow it for the time being until we get Mari and Jiraiya to help with opsec?
Emstar
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I don't think it's simple as "don't spill any secret"?
I should fix that in my plan TBH. I totally see flaws.
Emstar
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How many times would you like the word OPSEC to show up before you are satisfied the child will not blurt any obvious and important secrets out?
Despite me having "Use FP to resist compels" in bold as the topmost bulletpoint, and the secondmost being a bolded statement on OPSEC preservation, you seem unconvinced.
I am >99% certain that there are no risks as is, even before I wasted a few words on adding "OPSEC" in a few more times. I'm not going to not have the kid talk to his mother because we think there is an epsilon chance he'll let slip some mildly important secret.
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Emstar
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Maybe, maybe not!
They are a vital plan component, I'm afraid. Indispensable.