Emstar
The Shining One
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But is there scene count?
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
But is there scene count?
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It's...talking about doing stuff. I don't want a Noburi scene with Kabuto or anything like that. Just like 2 paragraphs of Hazou suggesting to meet with Kabuto and Noburi saying sure.
Like, this is all taking part in the context of the family meeting, ideally.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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Does it matter if they literally only happen in the same scene if that portion takes up a scene's worth of spoons though?
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Eh? A handful of paragraphs asking to schedule isn't a scene's worth of spoons. The only spoons being burned is to ask if Noburi has the time to schedule the appointment.
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Some bits like scheduling an appointment for Noburi are very off-screenable, and including them in the plan isn't likely to add another scene or half-scene to the final count. There's the chance that Noburi might have something important to say in response to this idea, but in the more likely situation where that's not the case we don't really need more than it being on the books as a thing that happened.
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@Noumero Things I would like to see added to your plan, in order of decreasing 'give-a-fuck-about-it':
- Update the clan on adoption results. Mari should know Akane's said yes, and everyone should know Tenten did not.
- Ask Noburi if can schedule an appointment with Kabuto to test bloodline interactions with SC.
- Ask Keiko if her ceremony could be delayed to allow Ami time to arrive (maybe? kinda iffy on this, we might not need the time).
You didn't address the issue of Mari's mental fitness for the position, though. She's a mess, and she'd have to be at her best to hold together in a shark tank of politics where she doesn't have the raw power to enforce her will if manipulation fails. Unless Kagome suddenly reveals he's been hiding his powah level something fierce and has the might to make up for his lack of social skill, he's no good either.
So the clan is in an excellent position, but lacks a candidate who can actually handle the job. Boy, I dunno, maybe clan Goketsu should adopt Kurenai and support her in taking the hat! Hah-hah-hah-ha.....
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Hmmmm.
Hmmmm.
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Please don't ask questions about events that haven't taken place yet from a retroactive perspective, at least unless you want a forced timeskip to the evening. It's a good occasion for a simple conditional (if Mari's home for dinner, then do this), though, unless @eaglejarl objects.
On the contrary, there's a lot of stuff that can only happen during downtime. How does Hazō know anything about Leaf that hasn't been shown onscreen, for example? How does Hazō maintain his relationships with his family members? Where does he find time to make sure his combat skills don't deteriorate from disuse?
There's also the issue of player agency. Every time Hazō does anything with any impact, there's a risk that it will contradict what the players would have done, leading to frustration for them and thence for the QMs. That's something we have to bear in mind when considering the implications of his own agency as a character.
TaliesinSkye
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It might also be related to the upcoming marriage, that did just get decided after all. In fact...what if she wants someone to practice touch with, so that she can deal with it when she's expected to during the ceremony and marriage? Tenten would absolutely be the only person she would be OK practicing that with. Particularly if ninja marriages have the whole kiss the bride thing.
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I deliberately gave it a certain amount of flexibility so there would be room for at least some of your other retroactive stuff I didn't get to write. The Akane scene takes place shortly after the meeting with Tsunade. The Tenten scene takes place in the late afternoon/early evening. You know the drill as far as messing with the timeline goes.
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Oh dear.
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- Why would this be required?
Seems like the easiest solution would be if XP calculated was based on the parts of the plan actually used in the update onscreen and offscreen, would that work?
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- The Deep Blue Sea
I believe we got some description of this from Mari's POV in one of the interludes.
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Didn't Tsunade blast Akane with KI way back when?
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- The Deep Blue Sea
We see some of it from Mari's POV quite a while ago:
The last of the Senju is The Weight Of The World Uncaring.
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I love that title.
With regard to the cunning Ami plan, there is one thing worth bearing in mind that Hazō will certainly know.
Under ordinary circumstances, inter-village communication doesn't exist below Kage level. Each village is a closed-off city-state eternally paranoid about its secrets making their way to their enemies (this is the main reason hunter-nin exist). Merchants are thoroughly searched at entry and exit for the same reason. The Chūnin Exam is a rare exception, where couriers are allowed so that Kage can communicate with their home villages. No one knows whether the inter-village alliance will change this, and how.
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Jiraiya gave us messages to deliver to Suna proper, does this fall under Kage level because the message was from the Godaime Hokage?
Derp, one more shitty thing to fix.
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Huh interesting how we are in a time without a Kage and as a clan head we are the highest authority in the village
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- Under a Rock
I choose to view this in a positive frame. Things are bad, but it's because virtually everyone is doing virtually everything exactly wrong. If we get them to stop, things should improve rapidly.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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...Maybe she is the sage.
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Counterpoint, we are in a culture that just says 'ninja' when you ask why they defected in a prisoners dilemma.
Like, our valorization of lying and murder is an enormous problem that real world reformers never had to deal with. Day 2 of 'Kagome reforms teaching' someone poisons his candy to send us a message.
Like, our valorization of lying and murder is an enormous problem that real world reformers never had to deal with. Day 2 of 'Kagome reforms teaching' someone poisons his candy to send us a message.
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A Hokage is allowed to send messages to whomever he likes, so if you're functioning as the Hokage's courier, you have latitude. Of course, someone else could just as easily argue that Leaf already has trusted couriers who happen to know the route.