Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
You do not rifle through a sealmaster's seal loadout if you wish to live.
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 open voting
You do not rifle through a sealmaster's seal loadout if you wish to live.
- Location
- The state of Paranoia
That makes more sense than him trying to open them, but wouldn't that have destroyed our word half too?
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- Yes.
Huh, I misremembered that. Turns out that was Fifi.
Jashin damnit, I shouldn't be making these comments while distracted by laughing at GoT.
Rihaku
The Internet
Hm. If the specific policy in place is a "right of first refusal," a sealmaster clan could easily game that system by holding all seals back in the clan reserve until a moment when the state is relatively low on cash (for example, right after payroll day), then 'bomb' dump all seals at once. Unless the state has enough liquid cash to buy every seal (and still have enough to run govt left over), the government would have to authorize all remaining seals for resale. This is even easier if you coordinate with other sealmasters to do it at the same time, and it's almost impossible to properly define and punish this behavior without seriously invasive violations of clan privilege.
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- The state of Paranoia
So what I'm getting from all this so far is that (very tentatively, subject to whatever QMs decide):
1. If we have a mortgage that is big enough to matter, we can turn it into something useful as well(reverse mortgage, housing for clanless, etc).
2. We are probably making a lot of money from seals (or we will be soon). The actual rank of a sealmaster matters little in the value of his seals, it's all about what seals he's making. Hazō and Kagome can make skywalkers, which are the most expensive/useful seal, and therefore a seal that would count in the area of 'jonin sealmaster' in Rihaku's analysis. Therefore, we have the theoretical output of two jonin sealmasters, moderated by the fact that most of the seals we make are used instead of sold.
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Jonin = Skywalkers and other high level seals. They are expensive, valuable, and require a good amount of sealing skill to be able to learn.
Chunin = This is pretty much anything that is less expensive than jonin seals but more rare than explosives/storage seals. An example would probably be air domes and earth domes.
Genin = Explosives and storage scrolls. Probably alarm seals too. These are easy to learn, and pretty much every sealmaster can make them. There are probably some other weak/easy seals in this category, such as night light seals.
1. If we have a mortgage that is big enough to matter, we can turn it into something useful as well(reverse mortgage, housing for clanless, etc).
2. We are probably making a lot of money from seals (or we will be soon). The actual rank of a sealmaster matters little in the value of his seals, it's all about what seals he's making. Hazō and Kagome can make skywalkers, which are the most expensive/useful seal, and therefore a seal that would count in the area of 'jonin sealmaster' in Rihaku's analysis. Therefore, we have the theoretical output of two jonin sealmasters, moderated by the fact that most of the seals we make are used instead of sold.
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Since what seals are made matters more than rank (Jiraiya's normal explosives were still just explosives, for example), I would guess that the types of seals specified are as such:
Jonin = Skywalkers and other high level seals. They are expensive, valuable, and require a good amount of sealing skill to be able to learn.
Chunin = This is pretty much anything that is less expensive than jonin seals but more rare than explosives/storage seals. An example would probably be air domes and earth domes.
Genin = Explosives and storage scrolls. Probably alarm seals too. These are easy to learn, and pretty much every sealmaster can make them. There are probably some other weak/easy seals in this category, such as night light seals.
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Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
I think we're looking at the mortgage all wrong actually. If we actually have a kajillion dollar mega-estate, we can have Kenta and Naruto tagteam to fix it up in a weekend or two after buying the raw materials. After that, we may as well invite the Shimura clan to come in and rent some of our space, as well as get every competent yet poor clanless ninja out there to move themselves and their families into some of our side houses and work for us on retainer.
I'm sure Nakano, his parents and his 9 siblings who all sleep in the same 1-2 rooms will very much appreciate this.
It's not even adoption, they just live with us now.
- Location
- The state of Paranoia
Don't bother buying the raw materials, just cut down all the chakra trees and use them for building materials.
Rihaku
The Internet
Well, you can pull out money from the reverse mortgage equal to your equity in the property less financing costs, so it would depend on how many months you've held it already. If it's 4 million ryo per month and you've held it for 3 months then you'd have 11.8 million or so (plus the down payment) in cash from the loan, diminishing by 4 million per month until you decide to default. If you've held it half a year, you'd get 23.5 million or so. You can get 80% of a pangolin gold payment x the number of months you've held the estate + the down payment on the estate, assuming an entity liquid enough to finance this loan.
- Location
- USA
Hello, World.
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
reflexive check for invistext
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- Under a Rock
How does an outcast, traitor, son of an heiress and a
clanless, dropped in swamp hopeless and planless,
who ran from this, hunted by Leaf and Mist,
Become poised to guide both, into Uplift?
- Location
- USA
[x] Action Plan: "More Like a Cobweb, Really"
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
I actually have an addon that turns SV invisitext into a black box that displays when you hover over it.
The addon's name is Stylish, which is a more global css-editing addon, and a quick google of something like "Stylish SV invisitext" should get you the relevant module.
Reaaaaly handy when an author makes frequent use of it, pretty convenient for unexpected random usage of it.
I don't see why they'd be selling military seals. That'd just be a needlessly convoluted form of taxation.
Sealing is insanely dangerous to learn even with guidance. It has the single highest fatality rate of any ninja specialty despite sealmasters almost never leaving the village, and that's with ninja normally not being accepted to even begin learning until they are chuunin.
Imagine trying to learn programming, but you have to use your own randomly generated bare-metal language literally nobody knows all the rules to, and the rules keep changing, and if your program doesn't compile correctly you and the next few city blocks get mummified by rabid cabbages.
Did you manage to write a working program? Great! Now every time you want to run it you need to retype the entire thing from memory, and sage help you if your finger ever slips.
Scorch squads and the escalation to open war. It's a crab bucket problem.
Jiraiya seemed pretty complimentary, and child Kagome is portrayed as downright prodigal. I've been assuming he's a high-functioning autistic savant.
-and the interior of a hidden Kagome fortress has fewer distractions than a Swiss patent office.
I don't expect this to be remembered this time either, but pretty much the ideal job for Mari would be running an inn/tavern as a front for a spy network and gossip collection. A tavern needs a brewery, and a winery, and the basement is full of distillation equipment.
I suggested tontines.
Hazou can't make skywalkers. He became the blademonster summoner when he tried. He can only make blanks for Kagome to infuse due to his bloodline.
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- The state of Paranoia
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True, but the blanks double Kagome's output, so it's functionally the same as having two sealmasters who can make them.
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
[x] Action Plan: "More Like a Cobweb, Really"
Dissonance
Luna's Luna
- Location
- Ginnungagap.
- Pronouns
- S/H/T
[x] Action Plan: "More Like a Cobweb, Really"
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
[x] Poll: Let Hazou Listen to Kagome's Forbidden Lore and Duel the Grue Until Economics Make Sense
It's like a hiatus, except instead of interludes the QMs write our attempts to extract actionable forbidden lore out of Kagome and get around the antimeme, all in the course of a single extended conversation. I'm pretty sure we can do it for three OOC weeks, and only take up ~6 IC hours.
@eaglejarl, @Velorien, @OliWhail, would you be fine with it?
It's like a hiatus, except instead of interludes the QMs write our attempts to extract actionable forbidden lore out of Kagome and get around the antimeme, all in the course of a single extended conversation. I'm pretty sure we can do it for three OOC weeks, and only take up ~6 IC hours.
@eaglejarl, @Velorien, @OliWhail, would you be fine with it?
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
What about you, Grue, are you okay with it?
Hey y'all, literally been lurking since near this thread's start, finally able to commit enough resources to start keeping up with the thread between updates!
[x] Action Plan: "More Like a Cobweb, Really"
[x] Poll: Let Hazou Listen to Kagome's Forbidden Lore and Duel the Grue Until Economics Make Sense
[x] Action Plan: "More Like a Cobweb, Really"
[x] Poll: Let Hazou Listen to Kagome's Forbidden Lore and Duel the Grue Until Economics Make Sense