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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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eaglejarl said:
That wasn't a dream.
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Velorien said:
"Kagome," Kei said patiently over the dinner table, "while I generally bow to your superior expertise in regard to the hidden secrets of the shinobi world, I can tell you with confidence that the reason why Cloud has not made the full details of its command structure public is not because the names of its leadership arranged by date of entry into office spell out the secret true name of the Sage of Six Paths by which alone he may be destroyed." (Spurred by boredom, she had consulted a series of Leaf records, and made the necessary logical deductions, but abandoned the endeavour as absurd by the time she reached "NYARL".)

Kagome seethed in an effort to find an effective rejoinder (he would not), and Kei took the opportunity to reach for more of her grilled chicken.

"Ami," Jiraiya asked casually, "did you see that missive from Mori Biwako?"

For some reason, Ami rose from her seat at the question. "I did, sir. It seems the final preparations are complete."

Kei felt a sense of impending doom at those words, as she usually did when they were uttered by Kagome or Hazō.

"Lord Gōketsu, Lady Gōketsu," Ami bowed, "I humbly ask for your permission to formally court your son Hazō."

There was a dull thunk as Kei's chopsticks penetrated to the underside of the table.

"Permission granted," Jiraiya said. "It's not like we didn't see this one coming, and even with your clan head's demands…"

There was something else, about dowries and children, but Kei could not hear a word of it over the loud high-pitched noise in the distance.
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Oh, cool! It turns out Hazou has been betrothed to Ami the whole time. ^_^
 
Velorien said:
I have no reason to believe that, had you and I remained on cordial terms, you would not have proceeded to persecute some other innocent child on some other pretext.
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Bravo.
All the likes in the world. It's a shame how adolescents care so much about gaining the friendship of people like that.
 
faflec said:
Alright everyone, we need to make a fuckton of half-finished Omakes and Omake ideas for the QMs to polish and submit as interludes. THE SPOON GODS DEMAND IT.
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I am rather interested in what's Team Gai doing, especially TenTen. There is also a lot of small interludes that can be done about People we met during our travels and then left behind.

Incomplete list:
  • Poor Jiraiya's spy-woman with her lost husband
  • The guy that leaked to us that yakuza boss, who's ship we drown
  • Anyone from Liberator camp maybe
  • The angry doctor lady, who tutored Noburi
  • ISC-tine would also be nice. They have good chemistry.
Jeez, I really suck at keeping track of names...
 
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TaliesinSkye said:
Yeah, is anyone else worried that Kagome was apparently quoting Lovecraft? I'd hoped that things from the Out weren't literal cthulu. They seemed to have their own rather different aesthetic, for one.
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As far as our own experience goes, the beings in the Out are QMs.

So the real question to be asking here is whether our QMs are secretly lovecraftian horrors.
 
MMKII said:
Didn't you see the notice in the QM docs about it?
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Ah yes, right there in the bit about making sure the players don't realize they're lovecraftian horrors before it's too late. Silly of me to miss it.

More seriously, it would be interesting to read through reports of sealing failures where people saw stuff from the Out and compare them for patterns. See if they all have one theme, or several different themes, or whether different people see different things. Also see if different Things behaved differently in ways that might suggest different goals or ways of thinking.

TarzanNn said:
yakudza boss
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This typo makes me imagine a kudzu yakuza, which is hilarious.
 
TaliesinSkye said:
More seriously, it would be interesting to read through reports of sealing failures where people saw stuff from the Out and compare them for patterns. See if they all have one theme, or several different themes, or whether different people see different things. Also see if different Things behaved differently in ways that might suggest different goals or ways of thinking.
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*screaming in Kagome while hugging Jiraiya*
 
Shadowwarp said:
....a nice suit and a kept appearance? Appearance goes a long way in social interactions
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I feel like that would be more of an aspect you could invoke, depending on the circumstances?

Like if you were some random guy socialing the Hokage in his office for example, the Hokage could probably invoke aspects such as "This is My Turf" or "Top of the Totem Pole." or something, depending on the specifics of the situation.
 
MMKII said:
I feel like that would be more of an aspect you could invoke, depending on the circumstances?

Like if you were some random guy socialing the Hokage in his office for example, the Hokage could probably invoke aspects such as "This is My Turf" or "Top of the Totem Pole." or something, depending on the specifics of the situation.
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You know what, I can see that
 
MMKII said:
@eaglejarl @OliWhail @VelorienWould it be correct to say that the idea of a collectible card game isn't really something present in the EN gaming community?
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HDK. At the very least, he is not personally aware of any such thing.

However, as a general point, it is worth bearing in mind that Hazō is shockingly ignorant by modern standards.

His knowledge of the wider world comes from:

- Being a twelve-year-old boy growing up in a city where you need a permit to enter or leave

- Six years of Academy study with a Yagura-brand curriculum, where all information about the outside world is heavily distorted, and unless you're training to be an infiltration spec, showing undue interest in foreign countries goes on your record

- Above study being with ninja who are chained to a desk because they're not valuable enough to go in the field, and thus have little or no experience outside the Water Country

- Cultural exchange with other villages, which is close to zero because nobody wants dangerous foreign ideas undermining their comfortable dictatorship (Mist being the worst because Yagura is especially xenophobic, and Leaf being the worst to talk to because of their dangerously liberal ideology). Merchants are as good as it gets, and while the authorities overlook merchants praising the quality of their goods because that's what being a merchant is, they're much less likely to overlook those who humanise, or worse, praise, foreign villages and their people.

- A year and a half travelling in the wilderness with only a handful of visits to population centres, typically amounting to a couple of days each

- Akane

- A few months in Leaf

- A few exchanges with fellow Chūnin Exam competitors who had plenty of reason to distrust him and little personal incentive to bond through sharing knowledge The idea of global uplift makes him more than Hashirama-tier crazy, and it's no surprise that everyone in the Chūnin Exam laughed off its mere foundations.
 
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