Vecht
Self-Requested Ban
- Location
- Snarksville, Snarkland
What questions are we asking her?
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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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
What questions are we asking her?
Nolrai
weak to fangs
- Location
- Porltand
Yes, and as a kid I very much did not want more responsibility. But appropriate responsibilities and an environment that had a clue how to actually help me would have been good for me.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
"Well gee I dunno folks... maybe we can do that fun stuff at the proper time in a few months or something after we get our ducks in a row and get all the intel sorted out. I'd also be more down to do this if we get done some of the stuff I wanna do too yknow."
Is that so hard to say instead of the politely worded and lowercase equivalent of
"FUCK NO FUCK THAT LOCAL MAXIMUMS ONLY, THIS IS LOCAL MAX-1 SO ITS DANGEROUS AND ITS GONNA FUCKING KILL US ALLLLLLLLL!!!!"
or otherwise completely drowning out something mildly fun sounding with a bunch of noise and complaints within ten minutes of the amusing idea being proposed?
Let's not kid ourselves. "Let's go do a bank heist!" is obviously completely bare of literally any proper intricacies or cost benefit analysis! There's no need to say it.
You're playing a character that is a magic ninja who can punch through concrete and make pieces of magic paper that allow him to blow things up, punch entire brick walls at people, and fly for gods sake.
I have an idea: lets actively plot to do some really fucking awesome cool shit once in a while instead of spending 100% of the time playing minmax Spreadsheet Simulator (and ocassionally doing something awesome and clever when its an absolute last resort to stave off an otherwise inevitable death.)
Like, goddamn, are you serious?
Sigh.
Yeah yeah plan for tomorrow etc etc
[X] Roomba
inb4 pointless pedantry along the lines of "Hazou can't infuse Skywalkers" , needless cherry picking or a big CCnJ response that entirely misses the point.
Is that so hard to say instead of the politely worded and lowercase equivalent of
"FUCK NO FUCK THAT LOCAL MAXIMUMS ONLY, THIS IS LOCAL MAX-1 SO ITS DANGEROUS AND ITS GONNA FUCKING KILL US ALLLLLLLLL!!!!"
or otherwise completely drowning out something mildly fun sounding with a bunch of noise and complaints within ten minutes of the amusing idea being proposed?
Let's not kid ourselves. "Let's go do a bank heist!" is obviously completely bare of literally any proper intricacies or cost benefit analysis! There's no need to say it.
You're playing a character that is a magic ninja who can punch through concrete and make pieces of magic paper that allow him to blow things up, punch entire brick walls at people, and fly for gods sake.
I have an idea: lets actively plot to do some really fucking awesome cool shit once in a while instead of spending 100% of the time playing minmax Spreadsheet Simulator (and ocassionally doing something awesome and clever when its an absolute last resort to stave off an otherwise inevitable death.)
Like, goddamn, are you serious?
Sigh.
Yeah yeah plan for tomorrow etc etc
[X] Roomba
inb4 pointless pedantry along the lines of "Hazou can't infuse Skywalkers" , needless cherry picking or a big CCnJ response that entirely misses the point.
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- Location
- Liverpool
Added some of the Ami verification stuff from Inferno Vulpix's plan, reworded couple things. Still lots of room to add stuff. Do we want to try to do any merchant interaction in this plan, if we're already doing errands around town anyway (and gives Keiko the ability to be home without us around for a bit)?
- Location
- Yes.
I've honestly been thinking about it...and I'm starting to have second thoughts about doing this. I'm expecting for a war to start up within the next month or two (if we're really lucky) and we're going to be sent out to do stuff. Not frontline stuff, that was part of Jiraiya's promise to us, but if we're put onto the backlines Hiashi and co. are gonna start pointing out the sheerest stupidity of putting a combat focused team away from the fighting. Chakra Reserves doesn't help with this issue. Sealing/Calligraphy (and Medicine/MedNin for Noburi) does, but Keiko is...kinda fucked in this regard. Her alternate speciality is Summoning, which she's used mostly for combat effectiveness. And we don't wanna send her alone to fight. Training Stealth and related infil skills gets us the qualifications to do a whole range of missions that would contribute visibly to the war front without the issue of being on the 'back lines'.
Just my thoughts.
Wait wha....are we talking about the same thing here? To be clear, I have been under the impression that a 'heist' is referring to gathering information regarding the protections around an item(s) of value, and then sneaking in to get said items.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
NB: Stealth is optional in a wide variety of scenarios so long as you aren't literally infiltrating enemy command tents in Leaf gear in the dead of night or what have you.
You can hide in plain sight with a good enough disguise, and you don't even have to try to be sneaky.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Don't exaggerate. We have 18 stealth at the highest; if we rolled unlucky, a civilian could easily spot us. And disguises are reliant on a series of stunts.
e: I don't mean extraordinarily unlucky. I could imagine a professional guard civilian having 12 Alertness easily, since it's one of the few skills they can level. Then all we'd need was +/- 6, which is not especially unlikely.
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Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
So buying those stunts seems cheaper than leveling stealth up about a dozen points, and is more of a sound investment long term?
They're also all mostly for CM bonuses or for lowering the amount of time it takes you to get disguised.
Solution: It's a war. Always be disguised.
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- Location
- Kiev, Ukraine
[X] Action Plan: Flight Risk
Threw a few optimisations/proposals in there, see quote
Threw a few optimisations/proposals in there, see quote
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- Location
- Potato land
How serious she is about the marriage offer, to start with. From an OOC point of view, I'd like the meeting to leave us with an understanding of whether the marriage it acceptable to us, as players.
"Hey, do you think that teenage sealmaster wearing nothing but pockets might have been the most famous prince in the world?"
"Couldn't be, this one had a moustache."
"What about the ninjutsu specialist hauling a barrel around?"
"Also moustache."
"The waif riding the building-sized pangolin?"
"Was it a pangolin? I don't think pangolins have moustaches."
"Couldn't be, this one had a moustache."
"What about the ninjutsu specialist hauling a barrel around?"
"Also moustache."
"The waif riding the building-sized pangolin?"
"Was it a pangolin? I don't think pangolins have moustaches."
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
I doubt we'll be sent on the front lines. Didn't Mari make it part of the deal that we be kept away from the worst of it if we joined up with Leaf?
In all likelihood that means that if we do get sent on missions with fighting it'll be missions that we can easily handle with very little chance of an unexpected Jounin killing us.
- Location
- Liverpool
I understand where you're coming from, but we're already seen as having value as a sealcrafter. Improving our sealing makes us better at it, but doesn't change the fact that we're already seen as having value that way. Noburi improving med: sure, though did we ever get a straight answer about what his CP needs to be to learn SC? Keiko's ability to communicate safely with Jiraiya will make her valuable wherever, and her political position makes her less likely to be thrown out on their own.
Though, to me the bigger issue is that being a stealth/infiltration unit with mediocre stealth/infiltration is not a good idea, because infiltrating somewhere risky and getting caught is probably one of the least-safe things to happen here. Increasing CP has combat applications, even if it is just boosting for days.
- Location
- The Void
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Why would we sneak in? Much better to run a confidence game. Stealth is a last resort. We want to gain access to the item so should play into our strengths. Misdirection, deceit, forged documents, bribery, blackmail and other underhanded tactics are what we should use
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
If we actually wanted something in a vault we would blow up the front of the house inconspicuously while having Panache tunnel underground and stick everything in the vault into storage seals in the resulting CHAOS, or (trivial modification to what I've just said that addresses the immediate and obvious objections to the wording of that suggestion as written).
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
[X] Action Plan: Flight Risk
Like this plan fairly well, it's got a good focus on the goals of the update while being concise about it.
Like this plan fairly well, it's got a good focus on the goals of the update while being concise about it.
- Location
- Why would this be required?
I don't know, it's not much of a haul if we're splitting Naruto four ways, five if Kagome gets in on this.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Oh, if you're replicating the Ami investigation we had before I cut it:
We had Akimichi handle the restaurant-to-restaurant Q&A by offering to pay for his expenses. Win-win because Hazou can use the time to prepare for Ami, and probably couldn't eat that much in the first place, while Akimichi totally can and gets to experience a lot of Mist cuisine for free.
- Location
- Kiev, Ukraine
Seconded. Though it could be a good idea to add a line about not telling him the details. Wiithout mentioning it in the plan Hazou can let it slip
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
I just sort of assume Hazou spends a decent amount of his free time every day making explosives at this point.
What else does he do, y'know?
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- Location
- Kiev, Ukraine
I will agree to this only on condition we keep selling to Leaf nins exclusively. With the war on the horizon we can manage to do something less damaging to Leaf than weaponizing it probable enemies
- Location
- Why would this be required?
DAMN IT MAN WE'RE TRYING