Hot Spring incident, the second event attack, and the fourth event clusterfuck.
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
Hot Spring incident, the second event attack, and the fourth event clusterfuck.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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These weren't unavoidably bad situations though. We could have (and did) avoid the first one, and the other two were pretty nonlethal. Granted, Jiraiya would have tore us a new one for the last one, but it could have turned out quite well for all we know.
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It took me a year before he told me about the collection. Just what level of QM doc access do you people enjoy?
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Even Kishimoto considered it too OP to put in his manga.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Aaaaaaaall of it.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
But what is the actual legal position of a chunin when it comes to civilian law enforcement? Like, how far could a chunin go without lying or hiding his actions in any way? And what would a chunin do that is extremely Lawful Neutral and wants to stop civilian crime?
Shouldn't this here have been the update to do so if wanted to use said poisons before the tournament?
Every plan can only give +1 xp for wordcount even if it covers 5 years in 5 words. If we want to go down that route we should make hourly plans with single scenes each. That way our descendants can play a supremely overpowered Hazou, provided that the QMs find decent apprentices to replace them before they too die of old age.
One level above yours.
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- Potato land
Incidentally, how do we feel about the Self-reflection section? It was a bit of an experiment, and I'm curious what everyone thinks. For me, it did exactly what I'd hoped for in practical terms, and I also enjoyed reading the actual scene. In the future, I'd like to provide another scene where the new insight can be used, in the same plan, but this was fine as well.
@Velorien how did you feel about it? Fun to write, would do more in the future, or too inward-facing? Was the plan section for it helpful? Overspecified, underspecified?
@Velorien how did you feel about it? Fun to write, would do more in the future, or too inward-facing? Was the plan section for it helpful? Overspecified, underspecified?
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There's a floating QM 'todo' that just says 'fix seal loadouts, they should be full' which I *think* is referring to the loadout specified in the linked post.
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As @OliWhail said, you're back to full. I'll update the sheets after breakfast.
As @Velorien said, a ninja who is not in Leaf proper could literally kill a civilian, claim that they did so based on their best evaluation of the evidence, and generally be fine. If you have a more specific question I'm happy to try to answer it...?
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Before we die, hopefully.
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I liked it and thought it was well done. It's the kind of thing I periodically write anyway, and the plan section for it was good because it was sufficiently detailed and gave me links. It would have been a pain to write without those. I wouldn't want to see such plan elements too often because it would feel forced, but I have no problem with them as a concept.
Remember how Mother Nana had a ninjutsu combo she was only contracted to teach you half of? This is the other half.Could you tell us the fluff please?
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Oh, it's the rock spike jutsu. Wonder how it works.
Edit: Brief thoughts to avoid double posting..
Wonder if we can use the technique horizontally. It would be really nice if we can hit a wall-walking enemy with the technique.
Hm, had this really funny idea involving us throwing out thin tiles of granite and then using the Rock Spike Technique on said tiles, making them high-velocity spiked nightmares.
Can we grow spikes on spikes?
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QMs: Ten minutes. Ten. Fucking. Minutes.
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Spikeception!
It's that crazy woman! Run away!
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Aaaand, that's worth an XP.
Don't think it's likely to work. Probably limits us to whatever ground we're touching. Also, we're supposed to use the technique with our earth sensing technique.
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- Under a Rock
Most importantly, this combo might be usable underground. HLaM + Living Roots + Rock Spike = Solo floor hack bullshit.
Actually, during the tournament, we want to always surface before using the rock spike. Its too good, we should keep it a secret.
Also, do we know what equipment we are limited to? Because sneaking in two full canteens of Chakra water would be nice. We pay Noburi through the nose, and drink it while we are hidden underneath the floor of the arena.
Incidentally, we absolutely must figure out if the floor can be traversed via HLaM. I recommend sending an earth clone the day before trying to tunnel from outside the arena to just below the surface. Or pay Keiko to use Panashe. The point is don't go in person, the might have laid traps, and it would be embarrassing to get caught.
If it isn't traversable, universal problem solving technique. Blast our way down, blast our way up. Incidentally, we need to practice that sometime. Maybe a 30-60 xp stunt to have blasting your way through the floor and getting underground only take two supplementals and a standard instead of two standards and two supplementals. (activate tag, throw tag, activate jutsu, move down).
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Belated reaction post. Need to get this in before @Velorien posts the next chapter and I look really silly.
I kinda feel for Akane's dad here, and Hazou does hold some blame for how the relationship ended. These accusations are unfair though - Hazou definitely did not throw Akane away once she "stopped being what he wanted". For what it's worth, the decision was unilaterally hers.
In any case, good job on Hazou's part to not argue and stay silent throughout. It was the best of many bad options he had there.
Taken advantage of by a diabolical villain? So Haru Yamamoto is the Sage after all?
I'm starting to come around to the @MadScientist camp of this misunderstanding becoming to aggravating to let live.
Sometimes it's easy to forget how our perspective differs from Hazou's. We obviously see that Keiko is doing better and slowly but steadily working her way through her issues. But a lot of this will not be obvious from the outside, not unless you look at the right time and place, as Akane has.
To anyone thinking we can fix Hazou's problems simply by increasing his socials, I present to you: Ishihara Akane, Empathy: 18. Characterization beats stats every time.
Probably not that much, to be honest. She would've helped manage the fallout, certainly, but given her thoughts about Hana, she might've actually made things worse.
"The happiness of those days of constant danger and privation". There you go. She prefers that time, which gave her purpose and a sense of belonging, over being safe with her family in Leaf. I'd have observed that Akane is exactly the kind of person cults prey on, but then I realized that the youth cult got to her way before we met her.
She thinks one of the major issues standing in the way of her happiness as a talent. Honestly, I'm surprised she managed to break up with Hazou, being seen as a useful resource should've fed right into this unhealthy mindset of hers.
Yup, here we go. Should we perhaps talk to the rest of the team, figure out what actually happened, get their support, and confront Tsunade together? Nope. #YOLO
It does run in the family. How the hell is Hazou still alive ~200 chapters in?
While the "a long time from now, after she got better" qualifier here is reassuring in that Hazou doesn't plan to ask Mari about her rape and abuse right now, it's still a bit too adventurous for him. It would help Mari to talk about this with someone, but a socially awkward 14-year-old wouldn't be among my top choices. Pity Neira is so busy.
I'll admit that, as dumb and pointlessly risky and cavalier as this whole approach was, it was also really badass. Akane's got guts. I don't think her dedication comes from a very good place, but it is real dedication.
Kagome is slowly warming up to Jiraiya. Once we set up a little research collaboration for them to bond over, I think convincing him to share the directional explosives won't be that difficult.
I note how Kagome refers to Deidara as "Last of the Dragonlords" here, and nobody bats an eyelid, not even Jiraiya who would actually know who Kagome is talking about. What the fuck?
Yay for character growth!
I kinda feel for Akane's dad here, and Hazou does hold some blame for how the relationship ended. These accusations are unfair though - Hazou definitely did not throw Akane away once she "stopped being what he wanted". For what it's worth, the decision was unilaterally hers.
In any case, good job on Hazou's part to not argue and stay silent throughout. It was the best of many bad options he had there.
Taken advantage of by a diabolical villain? So Haru Yamamoto is the Sage after all?
I'm starting to come around to the @MadScientist camp of this misunderstanding becoming to aggravating to let live.
Sometimes it's easy to forget how our perspective differs from Hazou's. We obviously see that Keiko is doing better and slowly but steadily working her way through her issues. But a lot of this will not be obvious from the outside, not unless you look at the right time and place, as Akane has.
To anyone thinking we can fix Hazou's problems simply by increasing his socials, I present to you: Ishihara Akane, Empathy: 18. Characterization beats stats every time.
Probably not that much, to be honest. She would've helped manage the fallout, certainly, but given her thoughts about Hana, she might've actually made things worse.
"The happiness of those days of constant danger and privation". There you go. She prefers that time, which gave her purpose and a sense of belonging, over being safe with her family in Leaf. I'd have observed that Akane is exactly the kind of person cults prey on, but then I realized that the youth cult got to her way before we met her.
She thinks one of the major issues standing in the way of her happiness as a talent. Honestly, I'm surprised she managed to break up with Hazou, being seen as a useful resource should've fed right into this unhealthy mindset of hers.
Yup, here we go. Should we perhaps talk to the rest of the team, figure out what actually happened, get their support, and confront Tsunade together? Nope. #YOLO
It does run in the family. How the hell is Hazou still alive ~200 chapters in?
While the "a long time from now, after she got better" qualifier here is reassuring in that Hazou doesn't plan to ask Mari about her rape and abuse right now, it's still a bit too adventurous for him. It would help Mari to talk about this with someone, but a socially awkward 14-year-old wouldn't be among my top choices. Pity Neira is so busy.
I'll admit that, as dumb and pointlessly risky and cavalier as this whole approach was, it was also really badass. Akane's got guts. I don't think her dedication comes from a very good place, but it is real dedication.
Kagome is slowly warming up to Jiraiya. Once we set up a little research collaboration for them to bond over, I think convincing him to share the directional explosives won't be that difficult.
I note how Kagome refers to Deidara as "Last of the Dragonlords" here, and nobody bats an eyelid, not even Jiraiya who would actually know who Kagome is talking about. What the fuck?
Yay for character growth!