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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Oneiros said:
Does anyone have an idea of how much cash we currently have on hand?
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Hazou personally should have (December allowance + November allowance) - (Expenditures over the break and since we got to Mist).

I don't know the comprehensive list of stuff we've spent money on, but off the top of my head most major purchases were:

  • Handful of trips to cafe's /bars.
  • Kagome's birthday presents.
  • Some books.
  • Paid for rushed CHAOS suit creation.
  • Paid for rushed stamp order for Ami.
I don't know how much these folks charged for stuff, but it would be weird to me if we dropped the equivalent of 500$ on every one of them(though the rush orders and the birthday presents might have fit the bill for that).

We also have 500k ryo from the gambling.
 
@Velorien @OliWhail @eaglejarl What features would you guys want in a dice roller for FtD, if I were to create one?

My thoughts on it:
  • GUI-based program.
  • Draws character sheets up from CSV files
    • I learned my lesson from trying to draw directly from google docs back in Augjev. No, callback functions are hell, screw interfacing with the internet.
  • Allows mass update of character sheets (creating local copy of CSVs to installation location) via button that pulls either all or selected CSV files from a given folder (ie download folder if you don't download other CSVs) in order to minimize effort to use.
  • Allows rolling X stat against a target number, or against not-necessarily X from another sheet.
  • Allows various simple modifications to X stat:
    • Pre-set buff loadouts attached to file name
    • Toggleable buffs
    • Multiplication of base-X-value
    • No exponentiation. (actually I would if requested but I'd also be terrified.)
    • X= X + Aspect Bonus as base skill level (eg the way Water Dragon Bullet works)
    • Weapon Value
    • Chakara Reserves/Current Chakra Reserves tracking
    • Others?
  • Cleanly displays results of rolls in number of shifts
  • Other stuff probably
 
eaglejarl said:
Jiraiya's face crumpled just slightly and there was a trace of water in his eyes. "It's funny," he said, swallowing convulsively. "Sensei gave me that speech when I first became his student, and plenty more times over the years. He always said it better, though." He scrubbed at his eyes for a moment. "And I never really, truly understood it until I had to put on his hat."

Mari-sensei lay a hand gently on her husband's arm; everyone else was silent. Even Kagome-sensei stopped eating to watch the Sannin uncomfortably.

Jiraiya smiled softly at Mari-sensei and patted her hand. Then he spread his arms dramatically, hoisting his sake cup with a bold grin. "To you, Sensei!" he called up to the ceiling. "To Sarutobi Hiruzen, a pontificating old man with a stinky pipe and a hat that looks like an upside-down wok! You've had your rest, now get your butt back here or I'll drink all your sake!" He paused expectantly, then shrugged. "More for me, I gue--
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The room twisted. Reality broke. Angles added up to sums that were too high or too low. Red was equal to blue. Up was down. Down was also down. Forwards and backwards were down.

Hazou's hindbrain fought with all it's might not to be sucked into this horrible spiraling abyss of down. Abyss...? Abbess...? There was a... nun... involved? That wasn't right. Right was down.

Hiruzen Sarutobi calmly snatched the glass out out Jiraiya's paralysed hand. He took a sip.

No one in the room moved a muscle, while Sarutobi finished the cup. Save for Kagome, who was twitching violently and holding onto a wad of explosives so hard his knuckles were turning white. And then, as he put the cup down and quirked an eyebrow at his student, the spell was broken.

"DAMMIT, SENSEI!"
 
I sometimes wonder how things would go if the hivemind revolted against the QMs, started posting our own chapters and declaring them to be canon, while declaring the QM's chapters non-canon omake. It wouldn't last a week, but sage would it be an interesting turn of events.
 
MadScientist said:
I sometimes wonder how things would go if the hivemind revolted against the QMs, started posting our own chapters and declaring them to be canon, while declaring the QM's chapters non-canon omake. It wouldn't last a week, but sage would it be an interesting turn of events.
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That sounds like a good way to make everyone very unhappy :p
 
Wrong level of meta. We have Hazou rebel against the gods and start posting his own chapters instead.

e: Alternatively, we get Earl, Valorien, and Oli to do it.
 
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TaliesinSkye said:
I suspect even Jiraiya would be hesitant to let certain resources fall into the lap of his main competitor if he felt the competitor was likely to misuse them for his own personal ends.

Also, knowing about Hidden Mountain is actually a pretty good trump card if the clan ever needs to run for it and have a safe place to go, so that's another good argument for keeping it under wraps for a while, as a backup escape plan.

As for personal accumulation of power being looked at askance, you make a good point. On the other hand, ANBU are literally the Hokage's sworn personal army and nobody finds that terribly worrisome for some reason like I would if I were there. There might be a much higher tolerance for that sort of thing in ninja world than we're accustomed to in a democratic society that is extremely suspicious of personal loyalty and concentration of power because we're anti-dictator in a way that ninja aren't.
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Makes sense, I mean when you think about it Kages are basically benevolent dictatorships backed by the village's clans to legitimize their power like a real world dictator is backed by his military and old oligarchs.
 
Cariyaga said:
@Velorien @OliWhail @eaglejarl What features would you guys want in a dice roller for FtD, if I were to create one?

My thoughts on it:
  • GUI-based program.
  • Draws character sheets up from CSV files
    • I learned my lesson from trying to draw directly from google docs back in Augjev. No, callback functions are hell, screw interfacing with the internet.
  • Allows mass update of character sheets (creating local copy of CSVs to installation location) via button that pulls either all or selected CSV files from a given folder (ie download folder if you don't download other CSVs) in order to minimize effort to use.
  • Allows rolling X stat against a target number, or against not-necessarily X from another sheet.
  • Allows various simple modifications to X stat:
    • Pre-set buff loadouts attached to file name
    • Toggleable buffs
    • Multiplication of base-X-value
    • No exponentiation. (actually I would if requested but I'd also be terrified.)
    • X= X + Aspect Bonus as base skill level (eg the way Water Dragon Bullet works)
    • Weapon Value
    • Chakara Reserves/Current Chakra Reserves tracking
    • Others?
  • Cleanly displays results of rolls in number of shifts
  • Other stuff probably
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Also, do any of you do writing on a non-windows machine?
 
Cariyaga said:
@Velorien @OliWhail @eaglejarl What features would you guys want in a dice roller for FtD, if I were to create one?
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Wow, that's really nice of you. Thank you.

Cariyaga said:
My thoughts on it:
  • GUI-based program.
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GUI isn't essential for me; personally, I live on the CLI.

Cariyaga said:
  • Draws character sheets up from CSV files
    • I learned my lesson from trying to draw directly from google docs back in Augjev. No, callback functions are hell, screw interfacing with the internet.
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Unfortunately, I don't think that works. The main ones that we need to be able to use are Team Uplift's, and those are all on GDocs. We need to keep them synchronized between all of us and also make them read-only available to the player base, so GDocs really is the way to go. There might be a workaround via local editing and then upload to GDocs for a new version? Dunno.


Cariyaga said:
  • Allows mass update of character sheets (creating local copy of CSVs to installation location) via button that pulls either all or selected CSV files from a given folder (ie download folder if you don't download other CSVs) in order to minimize effort to use.
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This would be brilliant. Copying the relevant FP and XP awards to everyone's sheet is irksome.

Cariyaga said:
  • Allows rolling X stat against a target number, or against not-necessarily X from another sheet.
  • Cleanly displays results of rolls in number of shifts
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This isn't essential, but it would sure be handy.

Cariyaga said:
  • Allows various simple modifications to X stat:
    1. Pre-set buff loadouts attached to file name
    2. Toggleable buffs
    3. Multiplication of base-X-value
    4. No exponentiation. (actually I would if requested but I'd also be terrified.)
    5. X= X + Aspect Bonus as base skill level (eg the way Water Dragon Bullet works)
    6. Weapon Value
    7. Chakara Reserves/Current Chakra Reserves tracking
    8. Others?
  • Other stuff probably
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These would be great. 1, 2, &7 would be the biggest wins for me. 4 definitely is not needed.
Cariyaga said:
Also, do any of you do writing on a non-windows machine?
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I write raw HTML in Emacs on Mac, then translate to BBCode via home-grown software.
 
eaglejarl said:
GUI isn't essential for me; personally, I live on the CLI.
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GUI is as much for my benefit as all of yours; it'd probably be more difficult for me to make a good CLI for this, since I don't.
eaglejarl said:
Unfortunately, I don't think that works. The main ones that we need to be able to use are Team Uplift's, and those are all on GDocs. We need to keep them synchronized between all of us and also make them read-only available to the player base, so GDocs really is the way to go. There might be a workaround via local editing and then upload to GDocs for a new version? Dunno.
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It's possible I could learn to interface with gdocs to do this automatically (I tried this before but mentally segfaulted), but the easier method by far is for the end-user (that is to say, you guys) to download (file-> download as -> CSV) the character sheet and then use that file locally. Unless you make rolls significantly more often than during updates, it shouldn't be too much more effort to do that and then hit the mass-import button, and it ought to make conflicts significantly easier than the inconvenience.

...although, actually, hm. Might be able to get the program to download the CSVs for pre-set character sheets (IE, team uplift) automatically and update them that way... still would be local-only, though, with no back propagation of changes.

Having just been given the idea, I realized that it would in fact be possible to just programmatically download the csv files of team uplift and other sheets. It'd do so on every open of the program, so it'd auto-sync with the character sheets.
eaglejarl said:
This would be brilliant. Copying the relevant FP and XP awards to everyone's sheet is irksome.
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That line was referring to pulling the csvs for the program's use from the user's local files, not updating the character sheets on gdocs. That was not within the initial featureset, but having thought about it I may be able to put something together to do that -- at least updating FP and XP -- without too much issue. We'll find out.

e: Also, I have been informed that you should be able to run the program fine using mono. Hopefully that is the case. :p

Not to make any implications that I'm that fast at programming, just doing my due diligence. Don't expect it soon.
 
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