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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Evenstar said:
Okay, possible. However, I also have a notably larger value for the size of a Cho. When in the Tokugawa period is this circa?
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We discussed this at one point (see prior comment about how I made this mistake), but I don't remember the number. What was the size of a Cho in this era? It was something like double?
 
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eaglejarl said:
I ran a reverse raffle. All the sealmasters in Leaf got put in the hat and each was given a number of "Not it!" tickets equal to their skill level. Keep picking names and throwing out tickets until you get someone with no tickets left.

It's not a perfect system and there are arguments to be made against it, but it's good enough that I'm using it for this one instance. In future we might do something different.
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That's actually pretty great, even if it's not what you choose to use in the future.

I think I might steal that mechanic for something or another.
 
eaglejarl said:
I ran a reverse raffle. All the sealmasters in Leaf got put in the hat and each was given a number of "Not it!" tickets equal to their skill level. Keep picking names and throwing out tickets until you get someone with no tickets left.

It's not a perfect system and there are arguments to be made against it, but it's good enough that I'm using it for this one instance. In future we might do something different.
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It sounds like a decent system, except you could add modifiers based on what the sealmaster's doing. Perhaps multiply the number of tickets by the type of activity they're doing, in relation to a baseline of 'infusing seals they're familiar with'. That could make it so that a Jounin doing sealing research at their limit is on par or greater than the risk taken by a Genin doing gruntwork.
 
MMKII said:
Speaking of terrible segues--

Howdy folks, I just found a nice quest that y'all might be interested in!

Legacy of the Goddess: A Rational Zelda Quest




by @Vecht and @Radvic -- two fairly familiar faces in this thread. :)
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Yay! More GMs to torture!



eaglejarl said:
Me: [*sits down to write*] Okay, let's roll for that sealing failure. I'm feeling generous, so I'll give them even odds on positive or negative...1-50 is negative, 51-100 is positive, the closer to the extreme the stronger the result.

Dice: 4

Me: Uh...
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Nobody blames you for the hivemind's mistakes, and anybody who says otherwise is a liar.

(As long as Kagome survives)



eaglejarl said:
Correct. This represents an aggregate roll for all seals made by all Leaf sealmasters since the Team first came to the village. The odds of the failure happening to either Kagome or Hazō are too small for meaningful consideration. It's not happening to them, although it will definitely affect them.
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Oh dear, did one of the Hyuuga custom medical seals eat Hiashi? Such a shame...




MadScientist said:
KAGOME: There used to be a technique called substitution that was one of the basic two techniques taught in every academy--
NOBURI: You mean the basic one?
MARI: A reactive-teleport technique would be an S-rank defence that every combat spec would be after. It would be hoarded by the clan that invented it.

KAGOME: There used to be a technique called clone that was taught in every academy.
NOBURI: You mean the basic zero?
MARI: Sounds like fake news but okay.

KAGOME: ffs
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Oh no, I get it now. This whole universe is humanity decaying into pre-history humanity...



Roomba said:
Man, this is going to be surprising for story-only readers.
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faflec.reaction

Edit: Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turned out to be Mari's giving over of that storage scroll to the civilian that caused this?
 
firestorm440 said:
With a sincerity such that skepticism would be deeply insulting: No.
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The SCP foundation is a fictional organisation for the containment of anomalous entities and objects. Anomalies are ranked as follows:

  • Neutralised: It used to be an anomaly, but now it's not.
  • Safe: If you put it in a box and leave it alone nothing bad will happen.
  • Euclid: If you put it in a box it will break out unless you actively maintain the box.
  • Keter: If you put it in a box it's going to break out no matter how well you try to keep it in there.
  • Apollyon: You have no hope of ever getting this thing in a box.
  • Thaumiel: You can use this as a box for something else.
 
MadScientist said:
The SCP foundation is a fictional organisation for the containment of anomalous entities and objects. Anomalies are ranked as follows:

  • Neutralised: It used to be an anomaly, but now it's not.
  • Safe: If you put it in a box and leave it alone nothing bad will happen.
  • Euclid: If you put it in a box it will break out unless you actively maintain the box.
  • Keter: If you put it in a box it's going to break out no matter how well you try to keep it in there.
  • Apollyon: You have no hope of ever getting this thing in a box.
  • Thaumiel: You can use this as a box for something else.
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Apollyon: And said thing is guaranteed to cause the end of the world when it gets around to it.

(It isn't just that it cannot be contained, but that it's continued existence is going to cause untold destruction, to people, life, objects, reality, causality, etc.)

Note that in this classification Kagome's story about the Gaki would probably be a Keter anomaly. Maybe Euclid, if you could figure out a way to block the rift. (There is in fact a similar SCP to a Gaki, who is contained purely because he is kept entertained by being given victims to torture and is too lazy to bother leaving.)

Grue would likely be considered Apollyon. At least until they figured out how to reproduce what happened to Kagome to let him remember. Even then it probably still would be, since it could eat concepts letting them contain other anomalies.
 
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eaglejarl said:
All the sealmasters in Leaf got put in the hat and each was given a number of "Not it!" tickets equal to their skill level. Keep picking names and throwing out tickets until you get someone with no tickets left.
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So... there's a QM list of all sealmasters in Leaf and their corresponding skill levels. Who has the password to the QM docs? We need that info.

Though there will probably be fewer after this update.

MadScientist said:
fictional
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I see you've been given enough antimemetics.
 
Twinnstars said:
*pokes thread* cmon do something funny, maybe invent a wmd
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Drop secure and heavily weighted forcewall frames from a few miles up in the air. Depending on how the forcewall effect negates force, the air rushing into the forcewall will potentially just keep compiling on until it blows the frame to bits from the pressure.

Depending on the specific tolerances, that could be a good 'un or something you can cleverly engineer into a WMD /WMD delivery system (forcewall cube or something with ordinance rigged to blow on the interior).

(Credits to @Solonarv for most of that IIRC)
 
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@eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail there was a query from you for hm to invent Seals that Jiraiya left for us. We submited some designs but, unless I missed some important update, you haven't provide any comments on them and didn't tell whether you have enough ideas to pick from.

So what's up with them? Do you need more? Did you liked those you've seen? Should we keep inventing them?
 
By the way, when did we actually make moveable forcewalls? I thought that was something we've been planning on researching
 
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