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
Counterpoint: "She's hot."
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Surely gifting them a YOUTHSUIT isn't anything but the purest form of international peace and love, right?
Emstar
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I mean, ninja?
You'd have to be a fool to try to argue as such as one of the Jonin in universe.
Our battles with 13-15 other contestants started immediately once the brackets were announced. If they wanted to win that badly they should have acted similarly or figured out some way to be clever.
@MMKII : You were talking about short-range explosives earlier. This approach can work for them as well. If you sealed 100kg of water/sand/wet sand depending on desired effect range into a storage seal and layered an explosive seal over it most of the blast would be carried by the liquid/solid material. The shock would fall off much more sharply as air resistance slowed the material, but within the area of effect the shock would be much, much higher. Sand or wet sand in particular could flay flesh right from bone at range -1 while not injuring somebody at range 0.
In fact, displaying that would provide a good cover for Hazou's armor jutsu. Full power tag, but the blast was deliberately concentrated in a smaller range and the cover of a body provided much more protection than from an aerial shockwave.
In fact, displaying that would provide a good cover for Hazou's armor jutsu. Full power tag, but the blast was deliberately concentrated in a smaller range and the cover of a body provided much more protection than from an aerial shockwave.
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So you're arguing that it's expected for people to betray ninja from your village in order to secure a promotion? That...that sounds a lot like Yagura-era Mist, where everyone betrays everyone.
Emstar
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This is obviously not a betrayal. Its an out-ninja-ing.
If they are naive enough to think that these matches start when the referee says so ...then maybe they didn't deserve the promotion?
Remember: ninja, not honorable shonen battle monks. Playing fair is for people who have a death wish.
I recommend that we not betray Shikamaru. He's an ally outside of just being from the same village.
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I have no issue with pre-battle mining of the arena, poisoning our enemy beforehand, or anything that involves just us and our opponent. My issue is with involving a foreign ninja.
Let's just spam the firestorm against anybody who doesn't have a good counter. If that counter involves a water affinity using the lake we'll add depth charges to the approach. Chances are that most will just forfeit. Hinata in particular doesn't appear to have a good reply, and it would certainly look nice if she were to forfeit without even a fight instead of pointlessly collecting a new haircut and some ugly scars. If somebody does beat us, we just start providing the same seals to our next favorite contestant.
Emstar
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I hope that no mere mortal has to DM against you in real life.
Well, we don't necessarily have to give her like, an actual dossier on his personality?
HAZOU: Trust me, Shika is a glass cannon. Just run at him and cast the biggest fireball you got. Maybe cover yourself in flames somehow beforehand? Shout about the power of youth with the suit on though, it will be sure to freak him out.
IKEDA: Okay, cool.
HAZOU: No, not cool. You should be going for the opposite of low temperature here!
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WE DO NOT GIVE WMDS TO FOREIGN NINJA
THAT IS AN EASY WAY TO BE INSTA-KILLED
JASHIN FUCKING DAMN IT
THAT IS AN EASY WAY TO BE INSTA-KILLED
JASHIN FUCKING DAMN IT
Emstar
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Where are you getting that idea from?
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Youthsuit probably.
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...were you not there at the time? Damn. Anyway: Youthsuits Are WMDs.
Explosions are orders of magnitude more destructive and long-ranged when carried by an incompressible medium of similar density to the human body. If that lake is a single zone nobody is going to be able to make an athletics roll against a tag going off in it because there is no cover, and the effect when it does hit them will be dramatically worse.
Emstar
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Hmmm.
We can do it without the Youthsuit then.
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It's technically 2 zones: one is the surface of the lake and another is the bottom of the lake. So...I dunno.
If they're on the surface they're half exposed to the stupid barrel's fireball, half exposed to the depth charge's pulping.
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Do we get penalties to taijutsu underwater?
