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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Kiba said:
OK, how many techniques can you count that's being used as an economic technique as opposed to a combat technique, or a spy technique?
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Basically nothing on screen that I can think of, but that doesn't conflict with my point. Doing things like using Earth Wall to make roads or houses for hire is indirect, and also probably tastes to ninja of being too much like being reduced to manual labor. Even so, it wouldn't surprise me if it happened off screen in class D or C missions from time to time.

How many other techniques could be used to literally make money, though? The only thing I can think of is using a genjutsu to make someone think you've paid them, and I bet there are asshole ninja that do that all the time to civilian merchants in other villages.

Perhaps we shall simply disagree, but any jutsu that can literally make gold out of thin air is way too obvious an idea that someone wouldn't have had it.

MMKII said:
Here are the jutsu docs.


Relevant portion:
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Thank you. Hm. What happens when stuff that's low temperature enters the heated area? I think you guys are assuming it instantly takes on the elevated temperature, but I'm going to suggest that might not be the case and the new stuff needs to be heated up over time just like the matter that was originally in the area.

Granted that we are dealing with magic, but a jutsu that sets an absolute temperature in an area that slowly goes higher or lower with time makes much less physical sense than a jutsu that uses energy to add or remove heat from an area gradually.

Edit: And does ambient temperature refer to liquids in the area, or are they a form of object that isn't heated directly and has to be warmed by hot air in the area?
 
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Kiba said:
Why do you think it would be obvious to a ninja?
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Because people lust after gold and jewels and money, and have historically dedicated vast sums of effort to figuring out ways to obtain them. Think about the whole turning lead to gold alchemist thing. Making riches out of thin air without having to work for them is something ninja would absolutely want and spend time thinking of. It is a considerably shorter leap than trying to think of applying powers to do useful things that indirectly obtain wealth.

If that explanation doesn't make the idea clear enough to you then I don't think anything I can say will. I no longer think this conversation is productive and will thank you for dropping it.
 
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So, as far as Hazou's aspects go, how about something necromancy flavored to replace The Hokage is my New Dad? :D
 
OliWhail said:
That was her cover for using a Shaped Charge
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You know guys, we could have a lot more fun than we do shouting absurd made up ninjutsu names and then sneakily using seal effects just to mess with people.

I bet the clan could have a good time brainstorming absurd ideas over dinner some time. That'd be a cute scene, actually.
 
TaliesinSkye said:
You know guys, we could have a lot more fun than we do shouting absurd made up ninjutsu names and then sneakily using seal effects just to mess with people.

I bet the clan could have a good time brainstorming absurd ideas over dinner some time. That'd be a cute scene, actually.
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Sounds like prime Omake material. Now if only I wasn't a shitty writer.
 
[x] Action Plan: Disheartening Lack of All-Consuming Horror

Noumero said:
Put a sign indoors:
  • "Any Ami Mori who got through defenses unassisted to show off (Mari judges) cedes us another favour (–_^)/~~".
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I feel like you could easily drop this part if you need the words and be no worse off.

A sign like this is only going to work if Ami is already inclined to humor us because - and as I previously posted - she could just make up her own sign/note to counter it because why not? It's not like she is obliged to play along nor are there established rules to deal with these things.
 
Tua said:
A sign like this is only going to work if Ami is already inclined to humor us because - and as I previously posted - she could just make up her own sign/note to counter it because why not? It's not like she is obliged to play along nor are there established rules to deal with these things.
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Would Vel Do This To Us?
 
Tua said:
[x] Action Plan: Disheartening Lack of All-Consuming Horror



I feel like you could easily drop this part if you need the words and be no worse off.

A sign like this is only going to work if Ami is already inclined to humor us because - and as I previously posted - she could just make up her own sign/note to counter it because why not? It's not like she is obliged to play along nor are there established rules to deal with these things.
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Of course this completely fails at forcing an unwilling Ami to do us a favour, that's not the point of it.

Picture the scene: Ami has just bypassed our defences for the sake of showing off, what sort of mood is she in? (Playful, she's showing off.) Then she sees a cutesy sign teasing her for being predictable, signed with an emoticon.

Maybe she'll say "well played" and go along with it. Maybe she won't (maybe she's even carrying your "no u" response pre-written on her person). In any case, a favour would be a side benefit, and we're not going to get all defensive if she refuses. The main benefit is that it signals a willingness to engage with her in a friendly non-serious manner.
 
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"Oh, shit," he said, slurring the word just a little. "Remember that bottle she drank from? Antidote. We're breathing poison gas."

Poison gas. He knew something about poison gas. Kagome-sensei had flipped out when he heard that Hazō hadn't… hadn't done something. No, hadn't made something.

Purifier seals.

And because he was Kagome-sensei, he'd immediately handed some out.

Hazō slapped down Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Purifier and poured his chakra into it exactly as if his life depended on it.

He and Noburi thrust their faces into the stream of clean, untainted, close-enough-to air, and though Hazō's mind didn't get any less hazy, it at least stopped getting worse.
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...The poison gas was created from a jutsu, though. Did Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Purifier filter a chakra construct how the fuck aieeeeeeeeeeee
 
faflec said:
...The poison gas was created from a jutsu, though. Did Usamatsu's Glorious Life-Saving Purifier filter a chakra construct how the fuck aieeeeeeeeeeee
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Maybe the technique simply release physical poison from a storage space, or activates an embedded chakra-symbiote which then produces a poison gas, or alters the natural chakra balance of the air causing it to become poisonous and in turn to be filtered by the purifier seal?
 
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