Speaking of Jōnin aura, in the quote Yagura seems to have two very distinct ones. Neat.
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
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There were two people in that body, after all.
Huh, maybe he could write Icha Icha.
No, I have the perfect solution.
Ask Pandaa to do it.
Just have Hazo write Boom Boom Paradise, the shonen successor to the Icha Icha series. MC would be the son of Jun and Otoha.
Heck, he could be orphaned, and the villagers distrust him and his mom, because of kitsune legends about tricksters.
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JulieK
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Maybe he could make it a gift from the whole family.
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Incidentally, given the current geopolitical situation, and assuming that rolling a new character wouldn't rewind time, now is actually a really good time for the "Defect and establish a new village" gambit. Villages have a lot fewer resources to chase the defectors down with, and also have strong incentives to accept a vassal village within their borders, for the same reason. It would really screw over any international peace and cooperation efforts, of course, but the chance of the new village getting obliterated seems as low as it's going to get.
Tagging @OliWhail and @eaglejarl so they can benefit from my insight as well. #ShikigamiDidNothingWrong
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I currently out of town visiting friends. I found myself with an hour of free time this morning, so as I ate breakfast, I decided to try and catch up on the quest. When I read this post, and realized, I immediately headed out the door. The place I was staying didn't have wifi, you see. Having gotten a tea at a local shop, I am now on wifi, with the laptop I debated not bringing, just so I can go back to that post, and use the plug-in to give it the "Screaming in Kagome" reaction an unreasonable amount of times. That is all.
(Really though, the shake-out from our orders and Mari's mental state likely will be a giant headache for us, and may be harmful to her. Which is sad. But it will be interesting in a way I quite look forward to.)
JulieK
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I hope we're standing out of kunai range when we ask her.Wasn't there a chapter where Keiko loaned Akane some smut? If I didn't make that up in my head, then we could ask Keiko to use her vast experience to write new Icha Icha. [] What could possible go wrong?
Maybe if publisher advertised for new writers, inviting people to send in submissions anonymously?
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Well that would piss of Hana to no end.
Maybe we should double down on Deception and turn Hazou into a trickster character...instead of a moron...
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Not sure what you are talking about? We're talking about Hazo writing Boom Boom Paradise.
Noumero
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Cool. Are you running any quests at present?
I do think we should do it. Delegate continuing Icha Icha to her, imply that we expect her to hire a civilian author to do that, drop some lines about how she'll surely be able to tell a bad book from a good one.Wasn't there a chapter where Keiko loaned Akane some smut? If I didn't make that up in my head, then we could ask Keiko to use her vast experience to write new Icha Icha. [
We'll need to be very careful to never ask whom exactly she hired, of course.
I think OOC-to-IC time ratios are the most interesting value there. If we're doing a comparative analysis of canon's Chuunin Exams to Marked for Death's, it would be useful to know how much time they took up in-universe. Was there a similar time dilation effect, or not?Meanwhile, in Naruto the manga, the Chuunin Exams Arc covered 82 chapters, starting with the release of Chapter 34 on June 19, 2000, and ending with Chapter 115 on April 1, 2002.
As the first chapter of the manga was released in Weekly Shounen Jump #43, on October 4, 1999, this means that at the time of it's conclusion, the Chuunin Exams Arc represented 71.3% of the published chapters, or 74.8% of the to-date runtime.
I think these numbers speak for themselves...
...(or at least, I can't think of a useful point to make with them
According to Wikipedia and the information provided by you, in reality the manga ran for 5529 days (21.09.1999 to 10.11.2014), of which 651 days belong to the Chuunin Exams (19.06.2000 to 01.04.2002) and 4878 do not.
Going off of to this timeline, in-universe the entire story ran for 1756 days (from 18.01.13 to 10.10.17), and the Exams ran for 31 day (01.07.13 to 01.08.13). However, we must take into account the timeskip, which apparently took "two and a half years", i. e. ~913 days. Subtracting it from the total length of the story, we get 843 days.
Ratios, OOC time / IC time:
- Total: 6.56.
- Exams: 21.00 (sic!).
- Non-Exams: 6.01.
Conclusion 2: DYK.
Cariyaga
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I feel like it'll only be weird if Hazou goes in thinking it'd be weird. It's all about framing.
Like I said before, the chunin exam is basically multiple missions stapled back to back. Each mission represents a puzzle in itself.
First stage was about cheating on test without getting caught(intelligence gathering) and guts.
Second stage was basically our second stage, except with scrolls instead of light seals.
Then there's the preliminaries because people were too successful. This effectively served as the third stage.
Then there's the final.
Our chunin exam in contrast have six stages:
1) Keeping secrets and capturing others
2) Light seals in the Swamp of Death
3) Client protection
4) Espionage
5) Team combat
6) Final
It's a wonder that our chunin exam doesn't somehow last longer than their.
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Sure, but we can just change it to avoid any complication. Akane or other people might have a completely other take on an expensive gift like that. Let's just avoid any dumb drama out of lazyness, why not sell the piece and buy her the Youtsuit plushy? It's more personal and safer anyway.
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Agreed! I demand INTENTIONAL dumb drama.
[
] Give the hairpin to Ino- Ask Akane if she's okay with that
- Make sure an agent of Ino overhears this exchange
Cariyaga
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Because it wasn't our money that was used to buy it?
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I'm pretty sure this is how Ami's favor economy works: you do not ask a person about doing favor for you, Unless you know it will grant you 1+n favors from other people. If same goes for calling in old favors - that's half a village owing you.
... interesting...
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We can give the money back to Kagome and use our own for a new gift?
But we can give Akane the current present if everyone feels that it's fine, just feel like buying something new would be more appropriate, considering the change in their relationship. Previously the change from non-clan to clan was important, next Hazou is going to be her Clan head (or again the heir to Goketsu if Naruto takes over), hopefully we don't make this awkward again.
JulieK
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Kagome would be hurt.
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We can CCNJ with him that we don't feel comfortable using his money when the circumstances that inspired him to give it to us have been invalidated, and then see how he reacts. If he agrees with us, then we give the jewel back (or sell it and return the money, whichever he prefers), and if he says he's still okay with us giving it to Akane, then we can do that.
Kagome would only be hurt if we gave the money back without explaining why, imo, because then it would feel like a rejection of his generosity. I expect he'll be pretty reasonable if we explain that we just don't want to be taking advantage of his generosity after things changed.
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I predict that Kagome will call us a dumbutt, but will understand what we mean.