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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Some ideas of what the 70% fails did:

1) Enjoy normal civilian lives as scribes/administrators/managers due to obviously being educated.
2) Work for the ninja bureaucracy.
3) Go work as guards and mercenaries.
4) Go work as armed troops of landed nobility in the countryside.
 
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@Roomba Is there a reason you use Roman numerals to denote centuries? I mean, sure, I can read them with a 1.5 second delay for mental translation but it does slow me down and I wouldn't be surprised if there's some among us who happen to never have learned them in the first place.

You do you of course, it just surprised me that that would be your instinctive go to way to write them.
 
faflec said:
Hm. @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail The old rules had Genjutsu be its own skill, and each type of Genjutsu (e.g., Demonic Illusion: Death Mirage Jutsu) be a one-point skill that uses the Genjutsu skill for rolling purposes. But the new rules suggest that each specific Genjutsuhas its own skill to level up. Am I correct in assuming that now we are using the new rules as I am interpreting them (each specific Genjutsu needs to be leveled up independently of the others)?
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I believe so. The thinking goes that however jutsu work, that's How Jutsu Work. If each Ninjutsu is its own Skill (rather than a Stunt you can pick up that gets rolled with a modified version of your [Element] or [Ninjutsu] Skill, Genjutsu should work the same way. You could in theory go either way as long as you were consistent, and the existence of the Skill Pyramid means having a wide range of Skills available is beneficial.
 
OliWhail said:
I believe so. The thinking goes that however jutsu work, that's How Jutsu Work. If each Ninjutsu is its own Skill (rather than a Stunt you can pick up that gets rolled with a modified version of your [Element] or [Ninjutsu] Skill, Genjutsu should work the same way. You could in theory go either way as long as you were consistent, and the existence of the Skill Pyramid means having a wide range of Skills available is beneficial.
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Would there be an XP discount for Genjutsu in the same way as there is for elemental ninjutsu?
 
faflec said:
I dunno, would it?
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I suppose it fits the same schema as "Similar pile of techniques that manipulate the same thing" as Elemental Ninjutsu, whereas Non-elemental Ninjutsu is super general. Hmmm.

What's got you on the topic of Genjutsu btw? Post Tourny stuff?
 
MMKII said:
I suppose it fits the same schema as "Similar pile of techniques that manipulate the same thing" as Elemental Ninjutsu, whereas Non-elemental Ninjutsu is super general. Hmmm.

What's got you on the topic of Genjutsu btw? Post Tourny stuff?
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Getting Mari-sensei to teach us.

So she has something to do.

That she can't argue that Hana can do better.
 
MMKII said:
I wanted you to write what you wanted too :p
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Personally, I'll settle for him reading what he writes. :p
OliWhail said:
I believe so. The thinking goes that however jutsu work, that's How Jutsu Work. If each Ninjutsu is its own Skill (rather than a Stunt you can pick up that gets rolled with a modified version of your [Element] or [Ninjutsu] Skill, Genjutsu should work the same way. You could in theory go either way as long as you were consistent, and the existence of the Skill Pyramid means having a wide range of Skills available is beneficial.
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I don't think the skill pyramid is too great of an argument in support of non-stunt ninjutsu. At worst we could take Craft: Underwater Basketweaving. :p
 
Rafin said:
@Roomba Is there a reason you use Roman numerals to denote centuries? I mean, sure, I can read them with a 1.5 second delay for mental translation but it does slow me down and I wouldn't be surprised if there's some among us who happen to never have learned them in the first place.

You do you of course, it just surprised me that that would be your instinctive go to way to write them.
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It's a convention used in some European countries, mine included, and I guess it's one of those things I just subconsciously translate to English without giving it any thought. Being effectively bilingual can be weird at times, I usually have a pretty strong intuition for how things should elegantly be phrased in English, but sometimes I just verbatim translate an idiom and am not even aware of it unless it's explicitly pointed out to me.
 
Vecht said:
I regret to inform you that you have somehow managed to exhaust your entire life's allotment of :p.

Yeah, I didn't know it could happen either.
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Can I sacrifice alternate universe Me's to get more emoji allotments?

Willingly, of course.
 
Vecht said:
I regret to inform you that you have somehow managed to exhaust your entire life's allotment of :p.

Yeah, I didn't know it could happen either.

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Nah, I overflowed it a while ago. Some ship was split down the center and some people ended up traumatized as I broke the world, but it was a worthy sacrifice for additional :p
 
Vecht said:
I regret to inform you that you have somehow managed to exhaust your entire life's allotment of :p.

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That sounds like an awfully un-transhumanist-like and non-munchkinry solution.

Can @Cariyaga copy other people's :p? What if @Cariyaga gets a different account? What if a different person hits "send"? What if we re-draw this emoticon from scratch, would @Cariyaga be able to manually insert it as a picture? What if we edit it so that one pixel is out of place? What if ten pixels are out of place? What if we slightly change its colour? What if it's drawn in a different style? ASCII art? What if @Cariyaga tries to insert not the emoticon itself, but a picture which contains the emoticon (among other things)? If it's a conceptual ban, can @Cariyaga use an emoticon which conveys an infinitesimally different emotion? Can @Cariyaga refer to the emoticon? If yes, how directly? Can @Cariyaga still make the facial expression this emoticon is meant to symbolize?
 
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Cariyaga said:
I can create additional :pangolins if that'd help.
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I'll have my people contact your people.
Noumero said:
That sounds like an awfully un-transhumanist-like and non-munchkinry solution.

Can @Cariyaga copy other people's :p? What if @Cariyaga gets a different account? What if a different person hits "send"? What if we re-draw this emoticon from scratch, would @Cariyaga be able to manually insert it as a picture? What if we edit it so that one pixel is out of place? What if ten pixels are out of place? What if we slightly change its colour? What if it's drawn in a different style? ASCII art? What if @Cariyaga tries to insert not the emoticon itself, but a picture which contains the emoticon (among other things)? If it's a conceptual ban, can @Cariyaga use an emoticon which conveys an infinitesimally different emotion? Can @Cariyaga refer to the emoticon? If yes, how directly? Can @Cariyaga still make the facial expression this emoticon is meant to symbolize?
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Hello citizen. Please report to the Mizukage's office for reconditioning. Thank you.
 
eaglejarl said:
You might have if you voted for my plan. *grumble*
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If it helps, my reason for not voting for you writing whatever you want wasn't that I didn't trust you. It was that if we did that, then this stops being a quest for that update.

And actually, going forward that might not be such a bad idea in low pressure situations. I would be totally fine if most of our Leaf plans read something like: Do specific task X, but other than that the QM writes what they want for the week. I do think that this specific update should have a player plan, but that is because it really wasn't a low pressure situation.
 
Immortal Lurker said:
If it helps, my reason for not voting for you writing whatever you want wasn't that I didn't trust you. It was that if we did that, then this stops being a quest for that update.

And actually, going forward that might not be such a bad idea in low pressure situations. I would be totally fine if most of our Leaf plans read something like: Do specific task X, but other than that the QM writes what they want for the week. I do think that this specific update should have a player plan, but that is because it really wasn't a low pressure situation.
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You make a compelling point, but then again...

eaglejarl said:
Up-bup-bup. The word was 'trust', not 'cautiously go along with after careful evaluation'.
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