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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Incidentally, I recently stumbled across the Muhammad Ali vs Antonio Inoki fight and it amused me. Inoki was a heavyweight champion wrestler, Ali was a heavyweight champion boxer. The video is an hour long and the tl;dr is "Both fighters try to get the other into their engagement envelope -- Ali wants Inoki to stand up and fight, Inoki wants Ali to come to the mat and fight. Inoki spends essentially the whole fight lying on his back, crab-crawling around and kicking Ali. Ali tries not to get kicked. The fight is a draw." There were apparently some wonky rules about the fight (one of them being "If Ali grabbed the ropes, Inoki had to let go of him") that turned the whole thing into a farce, but watching it was interesting -- Inoki looked at the tools he had available within the rules and found the best possible strategy for those tools. It wasn't an exciting strategy and I think it would be entirely fair to call it cheap, but it was clever and effective. If the rules had been more liberal things probably would have gone very differently.

I mention this because it somewhat informed my writing of the most recent chapter. Kitty Kat had seen Hazō fight and didn't want to take him on hand-to-hand until he was exhausted and immobilized, so he found a strategy based on denying Hazō the kind of fight he needed.

No real point to this, I just thought I'd share.
 
When in doubt, joke about universal teenage issues such as "Talking to people of the opposite sex." ...?

  • Noburi:
    • We appreciate the hard work done on the crowd.
    • If he still feels down:
      • Give him a massive bear hug.
      • Jokingly: Wanna see us flounder about trying to talk to the Sand Genin?
      • Afterwards, hand him a post-interaction survey.
  • Carefully ask if he wants to meet his family. He mentioned them earlier and Hazou (possibly Keiko too?) would be willing to accompany him to meet them as his support, should he decide to.
 
eaglejarl said:
Incidentally, I recently stumbled across the Muhammad Ali vs Antonio Inoki fight and it amused me. Inoki was a heavyweight champion wrestler, Ali was a heavyweight champion boxer. The video is an hour long and the tl;dr is "Both fighters try to get the other into their engagement envelope -- Ali wants Inoki to stand up and fight, Inoki wants Ali to come to the mat and fight. Inoki spends essentially the whole fight lying on his back, crab-crawling around and kicking Ali. Ali tries not to get kicked. The fight is a draw." There were apparently some wonky rules about the fight (one of them being "If Ali grabbed the ropes, Inoki had to let go of him") that turned the whole thing into a farce, but watching it was interesting -- Inoki looked at the tools he had available within the rules and found the best possible strategy for those tools. It wasn't an exciting strategy and I think it would be entirely fair to call it cheap, but it was clever and effective. If the rules had been more liberal things probably would have gone very differently.

I mention this because it somewhat informed my writing of the most recent chapter. Kitty Kat had seen Hazō fight and didn't want to take him on hand-to-hand until he was exhausted and immobilized, so he found a strategy based on denying Hazō the kind of fight he needed.

No real point to this, I just thought I'd share.
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Unfortunately, he underestimated how crazy sealmasters are.
 
[X] Action Plan: Do Not Summon the OPSEC Gods

@Cariyaga gracias, amigo

Cariyaga said:
I really, truly cannot wait to tell Kagome about that one.
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I KNOW RIGHT!!

GET THIS:

1) We used explosives to aid us in a potentially terrible social situation (what if Hotsprings outs us etc) and to great comedic effect, which played super well with the crowd!

2) We used explosives to blow the living shit out of that guy before giving him the old fashioned RighteousFacePunch

Inferno Vulpix said:
Theoretically, the craziness of sealmasters shouldn't be relevant after Ren banned all exotic seals.

His mistake was not realizing that sealmasters are also insane enough to blow themselves up for a tactical advantage.
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I keep saying we have to get this one out somehow:

Cariyaga said:
HAZOU: Rule 3 is never fight a sealmaster on prepared ground.


HAZOU: Rule 3, Addendum A: Prepared ground is also wherever I happen to be standing.
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Anyone else want to vote for "Don't allude to top secret missions that you shouldn't even know exist but do by dint of circumstance, as a lighthearted joke." ?

(Good Lord, this OPSEC shit is harder than I thought. )
 
MMKII said:
Anyone else want to vote for "Don't allude to top secret missions that you shouldn't even know exist but do by dint of circumstance, as a lighthearted joke." ?

(Good Lord, this OPSEC shit is harder than I thought. )
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That gives Velorien freedom to write whatever they wish. Are we okay with that?
 
Cariyaga said:
No asking Noburi about his S-rank mission in the middle of Mist. Can't vote for that one, sorry.

e: Can't vote for any of them, actually. shrug
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MMKII said:
Anyone else want to vote for "Don't allude to top secret missions that you shouldn't even know exist but do by dint of circumstance, as a lighthearted joke." ?

(Good Lord, this OPSEC shit is harder than I thought. )
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Seriously, we're doing it in private, as a joke, and we don't even know if it's really an S-rank mission because Noburi hadn't told us. It's clear Hazou doesn't actually expect him to say anything, and that the point is to remind Noburi he's a badass far beyond this meager tournament. Jiraiya talked about Hazou not using MEW in front of Komori in the same circumstances, which is a concrete piece of information that could legitimately lead people to the conclusion that we're the Cold Stone Killers. Knowing Noburi went on an important mission helps who and what exactly? We've all gone on an important mission with Minami that would probably be retroactively classified as A-rank at least, and this fact on its own isn't especially useful to anyone.
 
Speaking of Minami, one of these days we should really track down her murderer and teach them why you don't take missions that fuck with Leaf. We could send her parents the head.
 
Roomba said:
Jiraiya talked about Hazou not using MEW in front of Komori in the same circumstances
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I'm sorry, I wasn't aware that Hazou knew
OliWhail said:
Jiraiya grimaced and made a series of handseals. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" An identical Jiraiya sprang into existence next to the original, and the pair ran around double-checking seals and adding more. The clone ran off into the woods.
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That many privacy seals, and shadow clone.
 
[X] Action Plan: Wrapping Up/Setting Up

The paranoia over an obvious IC joke is insane.
Adhoc vote count started by Tua on Jan 2, 2019 at 5:52 AM, finished with 333 posts and 13 votes.
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Roomba said:
Seriously, we're doing it in private, as a joke, and we don't even know if it's really an S-rank mission because Noburi hadn't told us. It's clear Hazou doesn't actually expect him to say anything, and that the point is to remind Noburi he's a badass far beyond this meager tournament. Jiraiya talked about Hazou not using MEW in front of Komori in the same circumstances, which is a concrete piece of information that could legitimately lead people to the conclusion that we're the Cold Stone Killers. Knowing Noburi went on an important mission helps who and what exactly? We've all gone on an important mission with Minami that would probably be retroactively classified as A-rank at least, and this fact on its own isn't especially useful to anyone.
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Tua said:
[X] Action Plan: Wrapping Up/Setting Up

The paranoia over an obvious IC joke is insane.
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Potential secrecy issues aside, "Ask about his S-rank mission." is not really much in the way of a joke though. What is supposed to be said here thats funny?
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Velorien on Jan 2, 2019 at 7:00 AM, finished with 335 posts and 14 votes.
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