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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Tua said:
E: I suppose it would be bad manners to just vote in a plan that has Hazou quote that speech word for word for next update? :V
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Nonsense! We can make it better!! We shall call it...

[] Action Plan: In Search of a Backbone

I think we should start with the local butcher and work our way out from there?
 
eaglejarl said:
PSA: I'm an idiot, the chapter is gone.

tl;dr The chapter has been deleted and will be replaced with something completely different, and probably much shorter, tomorrow. None of the Gōketsu interactions happened.


Long version: My brain is Swiss cheese. @Velorien and I had some very important events planned that I didn't realize were supposed to have happened this update. They completely contradict what I just wrote, so I can be a jerk and tell my co-author that I just sabotaged him, or I can delete this and put up something new.

I recognize that y'all enjoyed the conversation with Keiko getting shouted at. It didn't happen, because I'm forgetful. I sincerely apologise.

The ISC conversation will remain canon, and Ino still loses to Shino. Again, I apologise.
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Oof, that sucks
 
Tua said:
I suppose it would be bad manners to just vote in a plan that has Hazou quote that speech word for word for next update? :V
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I note that the speech was made in a doomed timeline, and it is no longer possible to recreate its original context. What you do with that information is up to you.

faflec said:
I WENT TO BED AND THIS HAPPENS WHAT THE FUCK AIEEEEEE
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Technically, nothing happened. There was a semblance of something happening, but it turned out not to be.
 
Isn't it obvious?

A second messenger is going to arrive shortly.

They will inform Jiraiya that Ami was drowned in her sleep by an extremely pissed off Hana, who rushed to mete out justice in the name of Hazou's right to marry for love and not for political gain.

Hana's public execution is naturally scheduled for immediately after the finals.
 
QTesseract said:
The federation is just Hazou with a hat, waiting out the last sad few months of existence before he dies of radiation poisoning and humanity passes into the night.
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tbf that's the likely result from us pulling out all the WMD/too lethal weaponry that we have the designs for but never breathed a word about
 
*wakes up*
*Last chapter not cannon?!*
*Still in threadmarks tho*
*what.*
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We need an interlude for Kagome, trying to keep his sanity across the various shifts that keep happening.
I bet he wanted to make a pie for Honoka, but forgot that it happened in the other shift.
That was an embarassing moment for him. Thankfully that too was erased from reality.

Edit: Ah, wait- it's just our Goketsu erased from the chapter. Derp.
 
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ContextBot said:
Chapter 95 , Killbox (@Radvic plan)
33 chapters later:
Chapter 128, Kagome nearly blows up Minami ([S]@Oneiros43[/S] @Cariyaga plan)
33 chapters later:
Chapter 161: Death of a Mist nin and EXPLOSIVE POLITICS??? (@Radvic plan)

yay.
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ContextBot said:
32 chapters later: The ex-canon chapters when the rules changed (I am going with Chapter 160 because that's when we were attacked)
30 chapters later: Chapter 190: Operation Hot, Drunk and Anonymous
31 chapters later: Whatever happens next

Roughly every 30 chapter everything goes to hell.
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Well the Chapters around 220 was Hana attacking Mari and getting kicked out.

We are close to 250 and now @Velorien has PLANS.

Something terrible is about to happen.

FUCK.
 
eaglejarl said:
PSA: I'm an idiot, the chapter is gone.

tl;dr The chapter has been deleted and will be replaced with something completely different, and probably much shorter, tomorrow. None of the Gōketsu interactions happened.


Long version: My brain is Swiss cheese. @Velorien and I had some very important events planned that I didn't realize were supposed to have happened this update. They completely contradict what I just wrote, so I can be a jerk and tell my co-author that I just sabotaged him, or I can delete this and put up something new.

I recognize that y'all enjoyed the conversation with Keiko getting shouted at. It didn't happen, because I'm forgetful. I sincerely apologise.

The ISC conversation will remain canon, and Ino still loses to Shino. Again, I apologise.
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How to avoid having swiss cheese for a brain:

1. Get enough sleep every night. 7-9 hours.* Sleep environment must be dark and cool, like a cave.
2. Exercise!

* Unless you're a mutant who can get by with less sleep. In this case, congratulation.
 
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Kiba said:
How to avoid having swiss cheese for a brain:

1. Get enough sleep every night. 7-9 hours.* Sleep environment must be dark and cool, like a cave.
2. Exercise!

* Unless you're a mutant who can get by with less sleep. In this case, congratulation.
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I appreciate the edit, quite thoughtful of you to keep us mutants in mind!
 
Keiko does not need a journal. Whatever she was writing, it was intended to be a communication.

The conversation with her was impossible, because she is not there.

The question is whether the note she was writing was a farewell, or much more permanent farewell type.
 
Lailoken said:
Keiko does not need a journal. Whatever she was writing, it was intended to be a communication.

The conversation with her was impossible, because she is not there.

The question is whether the note she was writing was a farewell, or much more permanent farewell type.
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Unless Keiko not being there has been in the cards for a while, BirdDuke said she was in fact there, or perhaps the following quote is no longer valid.

eaglejarl said:
Eh, I'm feeling generous. Jiraiya hasn't left yet. As the messenger arrives, the Hokage is running all over the apartment looking for a clean shirt because he spilled some soup on the one he had originally put on. He needs to be out the door in about two minutes, though.

The messenger was met at the door by an ANBU who took delivery of the scroll and gave it to Hazō. Noburi and Keiko do not yet know of its existence.

Keiko and Noburi are awake and around, but not in your room.

I believe those matches were yesterday. The update ends the morning after the proposal letter arrived.
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Kalkin said:
Did we ever ask Mari if she wanted something delivered to anyone in mist?
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She probably wants her dead uncle's bones so she can build a shrine for them to remind herself of what a despicable person she is.

MMKII said:
They will inform Jiraiya that Ami was drowned in her sleep by an extremely pissed off Hana, who rushed to mete out justice in the name of Hazou's right to marry for love and not for political gain.
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REN: Hana, you need to stop.

HANA: Stop what?

REN: Carrying around a bowl of water to drown people in. I think you might have a problem.

HANA: I don't have a problem! I could stop any time I wanted. I just don't want to!

*stacked bowls of water fall down in the background*

REN: *raises eyebrow*

HANA: Those aren't mine! I am... holding them. For a friend.

REN: Fine, whatever. It's not like things could get any worse from here.

HAZOU: *barges in* Mom! I am getting married to Mori Ami, I need you to help me pick out clothes. Do you have tim-- oh, hello Aunt Ren. Didn't see you there. Is now a bad time?

REN: ...

REN: I really hate this family. Also, your marriage is cancelled by virtue of your bride not being able to breathe under water.

HAZOU: *looks at Hana* Moooooom, not again! You need to stop drowning all the women that I like!

HAZOU: ...wait a minute. Hey, Auntie. It occurs to me that you and I don't spend that much time together. How about we get to know each other better over dinner?

HANA: *squints at Ren while pulling out a bowl from under her shirt*

HAZOU: Alternatively, you could just give me the birthday presents you owe me and we could call it even?

REN: Yes, absolutely. I will go out to buy them. Right now. Please excuse me! *shunshins out*
 
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HAZOU: Keiko, we need to talk!

AMI, OROCHIMARU, ZABUZZA, ITACHI, PEIN, OBITO, MADARA, REN, JIRAIYA, SHIN, TEUCHI, MINORI, THE ENTIRE OOTSUTSUKI SPECIES: Sorry, we're not interrupting anything, are we?

VIHH: :facepalm:
 
Even if nothing actually changes significantly in the personal situation of everyone involved, I don't think we could vote that plan in (or else I wouldn't be advocating doing nothing). We can only have Hazou plan to do things; you can't tell yourself "it's to my advantage to get genuinely angry" on account of the word "genuine" being in there. His specific emotions aren't really in our domain, as things with Hana demonstrate.

So yeah. While I'd much prefer to have had that actually happen, it'd be harmful to try and cling to that could-have-been. Take away parts of it, certainly (mentioning that they're an inspiration to the people of Leaf seems to surprise Keiko, for example, and that's helpful for interrupting her internal self-narrative), but don't try to recreate it, because we don't have that power over our unwitting host.
 
Anderein said:
We can only have Hazou plan to do things; you can't tell yourself "it's to my advantage to get genuinely angry" on account of the word "genuine" being in there. His specific emotions aren't really in our domain, as things with Hana demonstrate.
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I don't think this is 100% true, exactly. We can have him think about stuff to get angry, for example. I also think that the "Talk Kagome down from a Skytower." plan had Hazou legitimately tear Kagome a new one, even though his moral argument was absolutely ineffective.
 
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