Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rational 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
Next arc: Team Uplift and Team 7 go to Wave to investigate Gato Corp.
ZABUZA: Bleurgh, it's me!
And then Zabuza stabs us.
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Netflix and university procrastination, name a more iconic combo.
Emstar
The Shining One
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Noumero
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On a note unrelated to politics, I've been re-reading @MadScientist's old sealing tree post, and...
Modify Implosion Seal to:
Tell your teammates to get close, activate it, and watch everyone else within 20 meters of you just die. Engaging Leaf ninja in taijutsu, or really any form of combat that isn't long-ranged, becomes suicide. This seal doesn't care whether you're a genin, a jounin, or S-rank, it just instakills you — and given its kill radius, you're unlikely to escape even if you notice it's being activated.
We (by which I mean "Kagome" or "Leaf sealing corps") could probably develop them in a few months.
We'll then need to invent sniper rifles of some kind as a counter, to placate Shikaku's ghost, and then we'll be unstoppable: impossible to approach, overwhelming at long-range. Nice synergy with Keiko's summons and Naruto's shadow clones, too, if they're pure chakra constructs.
I think I've found our fastest way to S-rank, and the way to Make Leaf OP Again.
Modify Implosion Seal to:
1. Store meat (or calcium/carbon) instead of air.
2. Not store matter within 2 meters of itself.
2. Not store matter within 2 meters of itself.
Tell your teammates to get close, activate it, and watch everyone else within 20 meters of you just die. Engaging Leaf ninja in taijutsu, or really any form of combat that isn't long-ranged, becomes suicide. This seal doesn't care whether you're a genin, a jounin, or S-rank, it just instakills you — and given its kill radius, you're unlikely to escape even if you notice it's being activated.
We (by which I mean "Kagome" or "Leaf sealing corps") could probably develop them in a few months.
We'll then need to invent sniper rifles of some kind as a counter, to placate Shikaku's ghost, and then we'll be unstoppable: impossible to approach, overwhelming at long-range. Nice synergy with Keiko's summons and Naruto's shadow clones, too, if they're pure chakra constructs.
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Modify it to store water, or liquid matter. Much easier than specifying meatstuff, which could be anything.
It also introduces the obvious weakness of water, which will make everyone hold an absolute fuckton of heavy water to avoid getting fucked by our seals.
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It's great, but it has collateral damage issues. We can't afford to have any allies around when we use this !
Emstar
The Shining One
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Make it so that it does that without the compression effect too.
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laughing in Noburi
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
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Indeed.
Next update will likely involve a Mortal Kombat like tournament where the winner gets to be Hokage because punching > politics.
Ami will also show up and she may or may not enter the tournament as well.
Noumero
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She'll arrange it.
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- Actually pretty lost
I can't think of a reason this wouldn't work - I guess this should be our next Sealing project?
Yesssss. Dessicator Seals wouldn't even take that much modding. Kagome could do this in a week!
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I think you are severely underestimating how long and difficult making people eaters would be. That would be a highly specific modification to a storage seal design which is already complex.
Creating guns seems much more doable with Kagome's directional explosives most of the work is already done.
Evenstar
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If your opponent is crazy enough to grapple you then they're inside the safe zone. Also has some serious friendly-fire potential. Also has potentially unpredictable effects regarding sealing pieces of the environment.
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
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- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Don't storage seals have a hard coded safeguard about storing living matter? Else we'd just see people playing tag and whoever scores the first hit seals up the enemy and wins.
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- Actually pretty lost
We could try and alter the seal from being centered on the seal to removing matter in a cone, in a similar fashion to Kagome's directed explosives? Might take a bit more work, but then it's just as dangerous as anything else that needs aiming - the opponent can dodge, but they'd only be able to dodge in the time it takes you to activate the seal, since there's no travel time for the attack.
EDIT: Hell, strap a directed... (Flesh-implosion? Man-eater? Vore?) seal onto your chest and just don't cross your arms.
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I believe the Hivemind is *explicitly* suggesting a research project to get around this, because they want to see the more *interesting* segments of the Sealing Mishap table.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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Just seal water?
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- Potato land
Is that actually a "living things" limitation, or a "things with chakra" one? Presumably, most living things in MfD-verse will have some level of residual chakra, which would make more sense for the very hacky discipline of Sealing than the incredibly complex and arbitrary condition of "not living". A berry is technically "living", and we have no issue putting those in storage scrolls.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if implosion seals only affect a contiguous volume of air - that is, if you put a solid container in range, the air inside the container will be unaffected - which would make extracting water from human bodies incompatible with the seal's basic mechanism of operation.
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I mean, if the air inside your lungs are continguous with the air outside, this theory holds; I think, however, Kagome stated that it sucks the air out of your lungs too.
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In that case, if we could make it a directed implosion instead of centred on the user it could still work as a close-mid ranged weapon?
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like macerators but even more fucking lethal lmao
more seriously, we're going to want better nonlethal options and we're going to need Alertness Boosters, now that we're respeccing into Shadow Clones and p o l i t i c i a n