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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
Timeline is confusing.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
I could've sworn I mentioned it, but the section was just taking up too much space - wordcount and conceptual, so as I added in a bunch of stuff to do I took out that bit. We can probably do it later, anyways.
Apologies for the confusion, the phrasings there are a bit of a holdover from the previous versions of the plan, which involved the aforementioned Ami investigation as well as us players (if memory serves) not being sure which matches were happening.
Hazō would benefit a lot from getting the capybara scroll. They could teach him better socials, or even just substitute in for him for social stuff.
Example:
Hazō: "Hey Caprica, did it seem like Noburi was a little awkward when I mentioned that Keiko and Shikamaru were doing well together?"
Caprica: "Why yes, it did. It was probably because he was trying not to give away that Keiko is actually dating Tenten, and has absolutely no romantic interest in Shikamaru, nor he in her."
Hazō:
Now I want to meet the ninjutsu specialist, Capsaicin.
-or the assassin, Dee Capitate.
-or the thief, Caper.
-or the bounty hunter, Captor.
-or the seduction specialist, Captivate.
-or the master strategist, Capricious.
-or the merchant, Capitalist.
-or the chef, Cappuccino.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
The fluff sounds cool as hell though.
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- USA
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Oy! @Velorien is the dark lord, I'm the superawesome bird! Get it right!
A combination of things. Being on the far right edge of the talent curve helps a lot. Being lucky is important -- one bad roll was enough to kill Hiruzen. Defensive jutsu go a long way. Sticking to your strength in mission types and avoiding bad matchups in combat is critical; e.g. Gai should go on combat missions, not social ones. Have a summoning scroll -- it's not a sufficient item and it's maybe not a necessary one, but it really helps.
Game mechanically:
Have a build that denies the enemy as many opportunities to deal damage as possible and allows you to block as many attacks as possible; don't use taijutsu or Melee Weapons because that allows counterattacks, don't use Ranged Weapons because then you can't parry, etc. Be sure you have enough chakra to support boosting and plenty of Substitution. Have an active career (as opposed to lighthousing), use short, focused plans, and choose things that the QMs enjoy writing. (That usually means punching for my updates and socials for @Velorien's.)
Probably more, but that's a good starter list.
What determines the talent curve? Why Hazō doesn't learn as fast as Itachi?
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I guess not spending every spare minute to train would be one of the reasons. And talent should be pre-defined at birth, I guess. Someone's more lucky, someone's less. Gai is a taijutsu monster, but he has to train half of every day just to keep up with Kakashi, who haven't spent even an hour of canon on training. They're on pretty much the same level, but one has to work to achieve this and the other can spend all time with Icha Icha
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
Bad luck? One gets tossed somewhere along the bell curve, and not everyone is Doogie Howser.
On that note, I'd like to reiterate my desire to make Strobelight Seals. The rapidly flashing light makes the wearer painful to look at so as to debuff enemy ranged attacks. Decent defensive seal, even if it wouldn't be super powerful. And more importantly, a flashing light is somethimg that sounds non-horrible to research.
Defenses are important, people!
I am all for expanding our toolkit's versatility, but how would you avoid blinding yourself and allies?
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
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To break this down for Hazou:
[x] Don't use taijutsu/melee: Not only do we have a tajutsu spec but it isn't even optimized as much due to investing points into sealing.
[x] Enough chakra: It's pretty low.
[?] Active career: We don't really have one right now? Mostly just doing whatever Jiraiya tells us to when we aren't busy dealing with Ami.
[✓] Short Plans: We seem to be mostly doing well with those.
[✓] QM Incentives: Sort of? Ami is there but that limits our punching.
tl;dr
Hazou being alive still is kind of amazing and we shouldn't take it for granted.
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- Kiev, Ukraine
Maybe add focusing? more like flashlight, than a bonfire
Yourself: put it in a frame with an angled lip so the light doesn't shine into your face.
Your allies: "Hey, guys! Try not to look directly at each other, okay!"?
(Yes, the ally problem is trickier.)
Should note:
- Hazou can use ring seals to roll Taij at range, disallowing counterattack.
- We're about to level CR to 30 for SC.
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Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
I would rather spend what time we get clearing some stuff out of our current reseaech queue
Strobelights have been on that list for months, they aren't a new thing that I'm just now proposing.
Which other seals in our backlog did you want to prioritise?
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
They aren't on the list I have quasi-memorized, so my b. See:
In general:
1)HEAVY STORAGE SEALS ! Improved variants on storage-type seals we have for bigger payloads.
2)Finish the ESS stuff.
I would be open to experimenting with tweaks to make flashlights/strobelights/flashbangs provided its not going to take a few months or something.
Bigger storage seal, chakdar?
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Start of with finding out what Mountain seals are. Learn to infuse all Kagome seals. Bigger storage seals. Stronger macerators
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
Ranged weapons are OP, actually. Melee anything is kind of bad if you want to live long, unless you have the Infinity+1 Sword or have a cheat that lets you pwn people with punching. We sorta kinda have a grabbag of tricks that should split the difference, though?
Thank god for macerators and those armor jutsu.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
I added strobelight seals to the research queue, but not at the top because stuff like Movable Force Walls and our in-progress projects come first.
Personally, my research priorities are:
To my recollection, Kagome said Movable Forcewalls are Very Difficult. If true, then Forceblades will be more so.
- Finish ESP.
- Defensive Seals (Strobelight, etc.)
- Storage mods (higher capacity storage/macerators, faster macerators, purifiers of various kinds)
- Seal Syntax (LBF, ARS)
To my recollection, Kagome said Movable Forcewalls are Very Difficult. If true, then Forceblades will be more so.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
The list isn't an absolute priority structure per se, more a general ordering according to my opinion that will be re-evaluated when it comes time to discuss the next project. The important part is that they're all there and we don't have to remember them manually.
Also, as I recall figuring out the Mountain seals is a joint Hazou/Kagome/Jiraiya family project (we've already talked to Jiraiya about it) and Kagome was talking about altering the force wall seals themselves to be movable where our focus is on making a frame that can move them (And there's a really big megapost out there that crunches all of the numbers and proves it's possible). If we can get Movable Force Walls working, Force Blades would just have to be a variant of the regular Force Wall with different dimensions, which may or may not be extremely difficult.