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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
To be fair, she did so as a direct response to a massive social attack by a jōnin.
But yes. A frank discussion is warranted.
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
But yes. A frank discussion is warranted.
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- [REDACTED]
Nah the "running away when confronted with our peace through MAD arms-dealing plan" happened before that.
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- Yes.
I mean...not really? We can sell seals to the Tower now.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
You're right. I was thinking of her second flight.
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- [REDACTED]
Ehh. Maybe. But also we're going to have to spend an update and in-game time making nice with Keiko so that she can actually run an economic analysis for us.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
If the pay is even half of what it was I will vote for Hazou to eat the Hokage hat.
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- The Void
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- She/Her
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- Potato land
And on a different note @eaglejarl, do you mind a scene taking place in the Goketsu living room immediately after Keiko leaves? I promise not to mess with time.
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- NY
You do realize that if we go on the run from Leaf, that's it, our only viable plan is going to be lighthouse seal research, right? Not to mention that if Keiko stays, she's almost certainly dead, and even if she comes with us Tenten is still certainly dead. Our first and foremost priority right now is not letting Hiashi get his way with the Hat, because if he does, say goodbye to inter-village cooperation, say goodbye to any meaningful expansion of till'n'fills, and quite possibly say goodbye to Leaf and the most influential position we've ever had or are likely to have. Preventing that from happening IS having our priorities straight, no question about it.
Seconded.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
This is why I think we might be able to approach her later with it once things have settled down. Once Keiko isn't feeling the tremendous burden of being responsible for the Pangolin Empire's actions, she might be willing to crunch the numbers and agree that Hazou's plan is the best way to save lives, even if it isn't a utopian kumbaya.
If she doesn't want to be the vehicle for this, then she doesn't have to be. But I feel like there's decent odds that in a month or two she'll be willing to accept the other summoners of Leaf going through with it for the sake of peace on the Seventh Path.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Multiple people, myself included, did anticipate this.
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- NY
[X] Lore Update: Literally all the political information Hazou should have but we don't.
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- Albany
Man, some good writing, it finally made me crystallize in my opinion that Keiko is my least favourite character and therefore, the worst girl. That takes really great writing to make me angry at a character.
In my opinion screw her 100 mental and ethical issues, they obviously are popping up faster than we have the skill to deal with, unless we dedicate all our plans for this month to "make sure we won't step on landmine Keiko again" and her 30-something throwing levels are not worth it anymore.
In my opinion we never did anything to justify her being near breakdown all the time.
Anyone that makes a plan that blatantly does not care that she thinks, ping me and you get my vote. Maybe she'll finally snap and become a background character that we only see when scheming with shika.
In my opinion screw her 100 mental and ethical issues, they obviously are popping up faster than we have the skill to deal with, unless we dedicate all our plans for this month to "make sure we won't step on landmine Keiko again" and her 30-something throwing levels are not worth it anymore.
In my opinion we never did anything to justify her being near breakdown all the time.
Anyone that makes a plan that blatantly does not care that she thinks, ping me and you get my vote. Maybe she'll finally snap and become a background character that we only see when scheming with shika.
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Yeah, but we need her because she's our main link to ISC.
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- [REDACTED]
No in-character way to anticipate, and certainly no way to anticipate she'd just run off instead of helping us work an alternative.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Without speaking to the rest of your post... Yes. This is true. She has been near-breakdown since the very start of the story and remains there.
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- Albany
Shika is smart enough to cooperate regardless, I hope. I really do. Oh god we're gonna die.
This is another bad side of this being a quest and not a story. If this was a story I maybe would hope that she gets over her troubles or something like that. But now I see a Character that has like 12 negative traits and forgot to spend the points on the good ones and that keeps causing problems. And it doesn't seem viable to keep dancing around her anymore.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
@firestorm440
What do you think that adopting the Uchiha's useless civilian clutter bought us?
What matters more is how we are going to feed them now.
What do you think that adopting the Uchiha's useless civilian clutter bought us?
What matters more is how we are going to feed them now.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
She was there since before Swamp. We did adopt and accept her despite it. We are allowed to distance ourselves from her for the sake of self care. But she remains family. Mentally ill family.
[X] Lore Update: Literally all the political information Hazou should have but we don't.
[X] Lore Update: Something fun and low on important info.
Because we need time to process and you need spoons to be able to answer all the questions that keep coming up.
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Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
I don't get this.
Shikamaru's an asshole and he pretty much just sprinkled salt and broken glass in the half-healed wounds inflicted upon us from when Jiraiya hit our agency with Samehada.
In summary, his CCnJ talk was:
SHIKAMARU: You stupid man. I like you, but you're worthless
Just like pretty much every interaction with him that isn't just chilling out.
(Though, its true that Keiko then wrapped our wounds shut (unpleasant particulate matter and all) with the Pangolin Scroll and is currently in the process of tossing us into a volcano because she is categorically incapable of clearly communicating [KEIKO WE HAVE A FUCKING TECHNIQUE FOR THIS YOU MORON] even the most basic of preferences to the rest of the siblings Gouketsu without a childish outburst and taking drastic action that could backfire on a scale of such great magnitude that even Kagome would recognize the danger.)
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- NY
Has that been confirmed as buying us their vote for the Hat?
Speaking of, who do we want to push for getting the hat? Asuma seems like the best compromise candidate ATM.
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Which is all the more annoying if he knows we invented skywalkers, although, to be fair, that is an open question.