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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I've posted this in the LUD thread, but an interview with Kishimoto says that Naruto was going to be a ramen cooking manga until his editor vetoed it. The fact that protagonist is named after a ramen topping is a legacy of that.
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To be fair, MfD was supposed to be a rational story about ninja founding a new village and doing missions. Then it turned into a story about missing-nin and then into a rom com series. Shit happens.
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Actually, I was on board with the missing-nin story from the very beginning. It was @eaglejarl who was particularly excited about the village story, and then you guys made the decision for us with your choice of Leaf and Mist.
Cariyaga
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I mean, technically we might have managed to survive if we had thrown ourselves at Zabuza's merc-- ahahahah.
Funny joke, that.
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Damn, I forgot to point out that we should point out that Hazou didn't want to leave the swamp but only went along because Keiko and Noburi wanted to. Hazou was never a tool for Mari, they are just partners in crime.
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Cariyaga
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It's something that Hazou is capable of bringing up on his own if it becomes relevant.
I think that, honestly, we need to start trusting Hazou more to come up with arguments for stuff like this.
Spoonfeeding him everything to say in plan format eats a lot of words and probably isn't that fun to write.
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Two years later and I'm still salty about the idea.
Mist to Leaf, fuck my life. Why couldn't we have gone Snow to *insert remote island in the middle of fuckall nowhere*?
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@eaglejarl , @Velorien , @OliWhail , do the Vibrator seals get activated by infusion or by the activation/deactivation of seals?
Cariyaga
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I don't think any seal gets activated by infusion.
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@eaglejarl , @Velorien , @OliWhail
I mean the infusion/activation/deactivation of another seal nearby.
Cariyaga
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Alright. I have no idea what kind of technique it would be... but Hazou's clear weakness is that his chakra reserves are shit. He's got ways to close in (underground, under cover of macerators, etc.), he's got ranged options (macerators), etc., but his staying power is shit.
If Jiraiya could provide anything to help with that, it'd be greeaaaaat.
If Jiraiya could provide anything to help with that, it'd be greeaaaaat.
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Sure, I can do that. Thanks for the idea.
Goddammit, @OliWhail ! How often do I have to tell you not to share your frigging passwords to the QM docs?!
Three years, actually. And yeah, I'm a little sad as well. Still, I like where it ended up.
Cariyaga
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Instead of village-building, we're village-subjorning. Close enough.
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Emstar
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Good point, thanks. That's an easy way to find out.
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The infusion of seals does not appear to register. Activation, or at least some element of the activation process, does.
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Don't look at me, @Velorien was the one who left them as coded messages in the LUD rewrite!!
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That's why I love sensors. Thank you.
Emstar
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HELLO SHIKAKU NARA!
HERE IS A THING I WOULD LIKE TO DO:
Boost the range on these bad boys, and we will have mitigated our anti-skywalker problem. Awesome!
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We have done full contact spars with Keiko in the past, yes? She does not freak out when we hit her in a spar, right? This is not a thing Hazou would expect to happen, if they were matched up in the tournament?
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Are Hazou and Kagome hiding it?
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Considering Keiko has some weird Master plan I want us to have some kind of suprise for her....just saying.