- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Funny you should say that...
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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- Tags
- 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
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Multiple Shadow Clone I don't have any idea how it mechanically works, whether we'll want to push it up through the levels or leave it at level 1 or something, and I'm not going to branch out the build projections for every possible direction we take with MSC. Instead, once we do get MSC I'm likely to re-visit them all and see what to do with them.
Pantokrator's Hammer... yeah, fair cop. I tended to avoid bringing up random new stats, but I think I forgot about that one when it might've helped solve some skill pyramid issues. In the post-MSC rework I'll try to remember to include it.
- Location
- Potato land
Well, we are gifting Ami the dead octocat once we're back in Leaf...
No! Argh! You stop that! We were so close to escaping! Hazou just convinced her they're siblings!
AMI: (gasp) So forbidden...!~
NO! Shut up, Ami!
- Location
- Potato land
I would like to observe that the original Ami date has been one of our most positively impactful ventures throughout this quest. It's the reason KEI exists at all, for one. There's no reason to be afraid @MadScientist.
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Incidentally, if this is an Itachi reference, a truly satisfactory translation is pretty difficult. The word "utsuwa" (the thing he claims to be testing) does literally mean "vessel/container", but the expression means something like "capacity for greatness". If your utsuwa is small, it implies that you are petty and will never amount to anything. If your utsuwa is broad, you have great untapped potential, and could become an influential politician or famous artist or whatever if you put your mind to it. Itachi is wiping out his clan not to test what he can do, but to test what he can become (though the whole thing is a lie anyway).
- Location
- Academy City
- Pronouns
- They
Yeah, but the problem with that is that it's not as recognizable as the quote, which means it works less well for the joke.
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Clearly you were lucky enough not to be introduced to Naruto by ANBU-Aone Subs. Not that I'm not eternally grateful to them for providing Naruto subs in an age where such things were hard to come by, but Itachi's intent to "measure the depth of my container" has stuck with me.
- Location
- Yes.
So that's where Lee got his innuendo from...
- Location
- USA
Itachi.... followed... the spirit of youth...?
- Location
- Yes.
No, Paperclipped, the Spirit of Youth followed Itachi.
Everywhere.
- Location
- Academy City
- Pronouns
- They
Indeed. That's why everyone thinks he's a child prodigy; he learns at a normal rate, but people kept thinking he was a good ten years younger than he was.
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Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Depending on the metaphysics of the universe you could still write J in the afterlife. Though, admittedly, doing so would tell us perhaps more than you're comfortable with about said metaphysics.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Don't mind me, just brainstorming some jutsu/stunt ideas. As always, these are just suggestions and my inexperience with parts of FtD definitely shows at some points so if there's anything you'd like to do with any of these feel free to change them however you need to.
Earth Jutsu: Earth Pillar Jump
Another derivative of Earth Wall, this jutsu allows ninja to bring pillars of stone out of the ground beneath their feet to augment their movement, such as pushing against the user's feet to improve running speed or elevating the user just before they jump.
Casting Speed: Supplemental.
Duration: 1 round.
Effect: Adds 2x EPJ's Aspect Bonus to Athletics rolls made while the technique is up.
Stunt: Defensive Earth Pillars
Requirements: EPJ 20 and no 'Extended Earth Pillars'.
Cost: 50 XP
Effect: Adds 'Reflexive Casting' to Earth Pillar Jump.
Stunt: Extended Earth Pillars
Requirements: EPJ 20 and no 'Defensive Earth Pillars'.
Cost: 50 XP
Effect: Increases duration of Earth Pillar Jump to 'half a minute'.
(So the intention here is that Earth Pillar Jump is a supplementary jutsu that you use when you need to move particularly fast or dodge attacks, but its big flaw is that you have to anticipate needing to use it ahead of time. Thus there are two stunts you can take to solve that problem: you can either gain the ability to cast it off-round whenever you need it, or you can increase the duration so that you can cast it once for most if not all of the fight. Both options have upsides but you can't have both at once.)
Lightning Jutsu: Earth Breaker
The user sends a large surge of lightning chakra through the ground, breaking it and any object or structure on it apart and leaving behind piles of rubble and torn ground.
Casting Speed: Standard
Duration: Instant
Effect: Removes (Effect) levels of Border from the selected zone boundary, to a minimum of 1. The user can also choose to leave the boundary as high as (Effect) Border if it would otherwise have been lower (e.g. if you cast it with Effect 5 then you could reduce a Border 3 down to Border 1 or up to Border 5).
(I don't really know how Borders work in practice but I think the general idea of what the jutsu does can still be made use of if this version is wrong)
Fire Jutsu: Friendly Flame
This jutsu creates small orbs of fire that float around a ninja and protect them from harm by attacking anyone that gets close. A handy support jutsu.
Casting Speed: Standard
Duration: 1 minute
Effect: Creates (Effect) Friendly Flames, each of which is directed towards an allied ninja. The flames do not hurt this ninja but rather stick around until another ninja gets within melee range, at which point they lash out to attack the threat, creating the Aspect [Friendly Flame] and giving the allied ninja a tag on it. You cannot have more than one Friendly Flame per ninja or they will violently cancel each other out.
Lightning Jutsu: Glare of Death
The user looks at someone and laser beams shoot out at them, crossing vast distances in the blink of an eye to electrocute the target.
Casting Speed: Standard
Duration: Instant
Effect: Regular attack jutsu, can be aimed up to two zones away.
Stunt: Cross-eyed
Requirements: GoD 30.
Cost: 150 XP
Effect: You can use Glare of Death on two enemies simultaneously, provided they are in the same zone as each other, at a 1 AB penalty [Cross-Eyed].
Stunt: Eagle-Eyed
Requirements: GoD 50.
Cost: 300 XP
Effect: You can use Glare of Death up to three zones away, at a 1 AB penalty [Specks in the distance].
(The intent for this jutsu is that it's a fairly decent ranged jutsu, and if you can get it to the higher levels then there are some expensive stunts that take it from fairly decent to pretty strong.)
Earth Jutsu: Earth Pillar Jump
Another derivative of Earth Wall, this jutsu allows ninja to bring pillars of stone out of the ground beneath their feet to augment their movement, such as pushing against the user's feet to improve running speed or elevating the user just before they jump.
Casting Speed: Supplemental.
Duration: 1 round.
Effect: Adds 2x EPJ's Aspect Bonus to Athletics rolls made while the technique is up.
Stunt: Defensive Earth Pillars
Requirements: EPJ 20 and no 'Extended Earth Pillars'.
Cost: 50 XP
Effect: Adds 'Reflexive Casting' to Earth Pillar Jump.
Stunt: Extended Earth Pillars
Requirements: EPJ 20 and no 'Defensive Earth Pillars'.
Cost: 50 XP
Effect: Increases duration of Earth Pillar Jump to 'half a minute'.
(So the intention here is that Earth Pillar Jump is a supplementary jutsu that you use when you need to move particularly fast or dodge attacks, but its big flaw is that you have to anticipate needing to use it ahead of time. Thus there are two stunts you can take to solve that problem: you can either gain the ability to cast it off-round whenever you need it, or you can increase the duration so that you can cast it once for most if not all of the fight. Both options have upsides but you can't have both at once.)
Lightning Jutsu: Earth Breaker
The user sends a large surge of lightning chakra through the ground, breaking it and any object or structure on it apart and leaving behind piles of rubble and torn ground.
Casting Speed: Standard
Duration: Instant
Effect: Removes (Effect) levels of Border from the selected zone boundary, to a minimum of 1. The user can also choose to leave the boundary as high as (Effect) Border if it would otherwise have been lower (e.g. if you cast it with Effect 5 then you could reduce a Border 3 down to Border 1 or up to Border 5).
(I don't really know how Borders work in practice but I think the general idea of what the jutsu does can still be made use of if this version is wrong)
Fire Jutsu: Friendly Flame
This jutsu creates small orbs of fire that float around a ninja and protect them from harm by attacking anyone that gets close. A handy support jutsu.
Casting Speed: Standard
Duration: 1 minute
Effect: Creates (Effect) Friendly Flames, each of which is directed towards an allied ninja. The flames do not hurt this ninja but rather stick around until another ninja gets within melee range, at which point they lash out to attack the threat, creating the Aspect [Friendly Flame] and giving the allied ninja a tag on it. You cannot have more than one Friendly Flame per ninja or they will violently cancel each other out.
Lightning Jutsu: Glare of Death
The user looks at someone and laser beams shoot out at them, crossing vast distances in the blink of an eye to electrocute the target.
Casting Speed: Standard
Duration: Instant
Effect: Regular attack jutsu, can be aimed up to two zones away.
Stunt: Cross-eyed
Requirements: GoD 30.
Cost: 150 XP
Effect: You can use Glare of Death on two enemies simultaneously, provided they are in the same zone as each other, at a 1 AB penalty [Cross-Eyed].
Stunt: Eagle-Eyed
Requirements: GoD 50.
Cost: 300 XP
Effect: You can use Glare of Death up to three zones away, at a 1 AB penalty [Specks in the distance].
(The intent for this jutsu is that it's a fairly decent ranged jutsu, and if you can get it to the higher levels then there are some expensive stunts that take it from fairly decent to pretty strong.)
Tried to optimize for word count.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Can you not mostly replace the contingencies with "Don't be a dummy." or something?
I guess I could.
Hazo's recent behavior left me...perturbed.
I'll tweak it.
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Yes.
And now that you mentioned it, I might be pulling this from nowhere, but I guess the original parameters making the mission highly ranked was that the more dangerous Chakra beasts were concentrated in Swamp but were streaming into the deep woods from there?
Just wondering if the location of the mission was priority. I mean, I guess we could take care of the the ones in the woods as we return to Leaf.
Ill make it more explicit in the plan.
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I had the team exterminate the mission targets.
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- Location
- The state of Paranoia
I just want to mention, this sounds like a really cool idea.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
What exactly does this mean? Basically "think about what happened" or "talk about it with Kagome" or "talk about it with the team"?
Is the intent that you're going to stay in the Swamp for a while?
What does this mean?
Note that it was not a shack. It was a collection of natural features that might or might not have been improved into a hunter's blind.
I meant for Hazo to think about it or postpone the conversation if Kagome and Akane were too tired to talk. His choice. Or whatever you think is better to write.
A week or less. Id like to see if the team can find out why or where beasts might be trickling out from in Swamp or any other changes Leaf might want to know.
I can add time frames to the plan.
Since Naruto complied with the idea of snagging an enemy ninja so quick, I thought that there was a possibility that missing nin or other possible human enemies might be encountered or sneaking away near civilian villiages or near the swamp or the woods.
Hm, I'll ask the others if they're still interested.
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Think we have till sat