How about scheduling meetings at their convenience, and suggest group lunch with individuals we want to meet if possible.
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
How about scheduling meetings at their convenience, and suggest group lunch with individuals we want to meet if possible.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Plan Cache. Are there any things in here that should be cut out?
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
Offer this to Akane as well. Also apologize for any emotional weirdness. We took a Stabby Zabby to the brain before the world decided to go to shit and things are pretty fucking nuts at the moment.
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I'm a bit leery of this, since I can easily see this resulting in multiple people showing up at the same time and Hazou going aieeeeeeee. Shikamaru scheduled a specific date and time when he invited Keiko over, I'd imagine Hazou should act the same.
I don't think so? It all looks like stuff that hasn't been done yet.
Reasonable. Would it be appropriate to invite Akane to the Lee sparring session?
Tua
鸡肉面条汤
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- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Don't think I didn't notice this, Mr. QM-Man. <3
Our boy is growing up and improving and avoids accidentally insulting Mari even though the plan called for it.
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- Yes.
I laughed out loud when I read that part of the update.
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
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- USA
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- He/Him
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- Yes.
I'm actually pretty OK with doing this...though I wonder how we'd frame the conversation (as you can tell, I'm shit at doing social conversations).
In any case, @MMKII I'm going to take your like as a "I approve of the thing", so I've added it in. Bit 'meh' on apologizing to Akane, but I don't have any particular reason to not put it right now.
I've also added the Yakuza section you wanted from Discord, @Oneiros.
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Noumero
Omit Needless Words
Here's something I think strange:
If Mari's high confidence in her ability to handle Ami is justified, how come she wasn't able to shed light on her for Jiraiya? Jiraiya's first meeting with Ami was back during the first phase of the Exams, when she hinted at the existence of the AMI. Shortly after that, he returned to Leaf and undoubtedly discussed his Mist experiences with his Mist-born social-specialist elite jounin wife (who was not yet, at the time, broken by Hana). Yet he remained completely confused by Ami when the Tournament came.
Did Mari play a joke on him, confident that Ami wouldn't cause anything worse than a couple headaches? Or is Mari deceiving us now?
Or... Hm. Jiraiya came back on November 21, Hana broke Mari on November 25. I suppose it is plausible, even likely, that Jiraiya just didn't get around to discussing Mist with her during that time window, and then she was in no state to advice him — leaving him completely ignorant of Ami. Very plausible indeed.
No, I am not seriously suggesting that Ami masterminded all of this. Just an interesting observation with my usual ominous framing.
The jounin was Mari in disguise cleaning up Kagome's mess. She had finished her job of deniably killing Minami and didn't want Hazou and Noburi dead.
Mad tinker and general sociopath. I am, however, legally sane- I have a certificate and everything!
I reiterate that the single most valuable seal we could immediately develop would be a form of directional explosive which would activate upon contact or damage in a manner akin to storage seals. Automatic and massively overpowered ablative armor.
@Noumero
To clarify: I'm concerned about leaking the version with the grinding capability. Better variations on that are a potent delivery vector for all sorts of nasty crap, as @Lailoken is likely to tell you repeatedly.
So I want a version that just doesn't have that option period, so it can't be reverse engineered. Otherwise Shikaku's ghost will tsk very disapprovingly at us!!
Why would I repeat myself? The GMs are the only ones who can consistently hear me.
I'd make a joke about the paradox of a field titled "algebraic geometry", but I knew a guy who dared to switch from physical chemistry to chemical physics and his father almost disowned him for joining the Dark Side. I'm not even kidding.
He was previously a jounin. The Grue ate it. Nevertheless, he did spend a decade in the woods with nothing but silence and contemplations of explosives to occupy his mind.
I love him so much!
Mari could politely skin somebody alive and leave them being for forgiveness for straining her clothing...
Waterfall, where the Whirlpool survivors evacuated to.
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Keep in mind Jiraiya broke off from the return party to hunt down Team Bloodrage, which left him suffering from withdrawn symptoms over the Akimichi stimulants he used. Beyond that...HDK.
Remember that Leaf has its own Yakuza who undoubtedly don't want Hyuuga in charge any more than we do.
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Hm...how about this:
This gets the Yakuza discussion rolling, while still bringing up the two possible Yakuza groups as possible targets of alliance.
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- United States
I thought international messages between Hidden Villages without the Kage's permission were basically taboo and only had potential bad outcomes?
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- Yes.
That is an issue working with Mist's Yakuza will have. Ideally we'd be able to...convince...Ami, to bring a message back to Teuchi, and he can have middlemen set up so we can do it properly, without having to go through security at Mist's gates.
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- United States
So the ideal version involves what would probably be viewed as treason and hoping we don't get caught?
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- Yes.
It was the ideal version I had within a minute of thinking of it, sue me. Yes, there are probable improvements, but I haven't the time to think of them. That's what the planning and in-story discussion is for.
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- United States
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as too critical. I agree it makes sense since he's the underworld kingpin we already have a relationship with. I was more thinking that I don't want the QMs to have to avoid accidental treason for us if we can avoid it ourselves.
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I'm not entirely sure it's considered treason, since the Yakuza aren't ninja and...well, most ninja don't really care about civilians all that much. Talk with Ami, maybe could be construed as treason. Though, since Ami's closely related through Keiko, it'll be hard to make the argument if she's around.
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- The Void
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- She/Her
No messages between ninjas is the problem. Civilians can travel and exchange messages. We literally have merchants from mist arriving any day
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- USA
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- He/Him
We won't avoid treason for you. If you get caught committing treason, we will write Hazō's execution.
Note that I am not speaking to whether or not what's being discussed is treason.
Raxner
The most dangerous man in an empty room
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- Israel
I think you mean "threat," not "thread."
Pretty sure that there should be a comma before the word "Noburi."
Your link works fine for me. Weird song, by the way.