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They're free in combat, as long as you have some (i.e. 1) chakra in the character. Constant use over the long stretches will cost some sensible amount at the discretion of QMs.
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
Chapter 2a: Hunter/Hunted
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Chapter 2: Hunter/Hunted
Hazō scanned his surroundings as he trudged through the waist-deep water of the swamp.
"3D vision," Shikigami-sensei had explained when they'd asked him for tips. "Forget to look up, and the bats will suck you dry. Forget to look down, and the alligators will tear off your legs. Forget to look to the sides, and the jumping leeches will lunge from the trees and eat your face."
Even so, Hazō felt that he'd made the right choice in convincing his teammates to go scouting within the swamp, rather than to attempt to trade at the nearest town. Wakahisa Noburi, the short, stout boy on his left, never shut up, and if he grated on the villagers' nerves half as much as he did on Hazō's, they'd be chased out with torches and pitchforks. Mori Keiko, the slim, waifish girl on his right, wasn't so bad, but she didn't speak unless spoken to, and that did not suggest highly-developed social skills. Of course, Hazō himself wasn't one to talk, in multiple senses.
The other thing that Shikigami-sensei had emphasised was the need to stay aware of trees and dry ground, because if they couldn't get out of the water at short notice, they were as good as dead. Water walking would help against some things, like the lurker mandibles snapping up out of the mud, but it wouldn't get them far against the water snakes or the razorfish.
Of course, water walking was another of Hazō's weaknesses. It was a technique seemingly designed as a counter to the way he preferred to learn, requiring constant adaptation to a shifting environment, and given all those manual labour D-rank missions, it wasn't like he'd had much opportunity to practise either. In the end, he'd swallowed his pride and asked Mori to help him, but she told him that it would take days at best to get a new skill developed to the level of casual use.
But if there was one thing that cheered him up, it was the awareness that he was now effectively team leader, and the team was following his plan. Mori had never been in the running, of course, and while Wakahisa talked a good game, in the end he had shrunk away from the responsibility. It felt odd to lead others like this, but it wasn't a bad feeling.
The harsh cry of some distant bird brought Hazō's conscious attention back to his surroundings, and he realised to his dismay that Wakahisa was still talking.
"I'm just saying, if we stay here either this place will kill us by attrition, or the Mist hunter-nin will catch up with us, or Leaf will scrape together a patrol with the right skills to come in and hunt us down. The Leaf clans have lived in the Fire Country for centuries, there's no way there isn't one with swamp survival know-how."
"All right," Hazō patiently replied, "so what would you do if you were Shikigami-sensei?"
"I'd negotiate with Leaf, duh. Between the twenty-seven of us, we must have enough valuable information to trade for our safety. We could even offer to—"
"The day I was assigned to this mission, my grandfather came to see me," Mori cut in, in a slightly distant, flat voice that sounded like she was reading from a book. "He was ex-ANBU, and after he congratulated me, he offered me some advice that he said every genin heading into hostile territory ought to know."
The two boys were all ears.
"The most effective means is an exploding tag placed here," she indicated a spot near her solar plexus. "There is little time for pain, and the damage prevents the enemy from dissecting your remains for village secrets. But exploding tags have a time delay, and require activation, so the enemy can stop you. Therefore the most reliable means is to sever the carotid artery with a kunai. If you make a movement like this, you will bypass the thick neck muscles and inflict a deep, broad cut. In the final moments, try to fall so that your body cannot be retrieved before you bleed out.
"If you are captured, do not bother attempting to bite out your tongue. Even if you hit the lingual artery, it heals before you can lose enough blood. The exception is if the torturers have destroyed your ability to write. A genin who cannot speak or write is usually too much trouble to keep interrogating, and they will promptly execute you. If your hands have been kept intact, you should instead—"
Part of Hazō was uncomfortable, while part of him was taking notes since this was valuable information. Wakahisa, on the other hand...
"Mori, stop. Just stop."
"She's right," Hazō said. "Jōnin are valuable enough that they might have room to negotiate, but genin like us would only be a liability to Leaf. We could be spies. We could be saboteurs. We could be bait to make Leaf violate the missing-nin exchange treaties. There is no scenario in which our group surrenders to Leaf and the three of us are left alive."
"There has to be something," Wakahisa insisted. "We could hire ourselves out as black ops, give them ninja with plausible deniability. We need allies if we're going to survive, and we're a group of tough fighters with a lot to offer."
"I was going to be in Logistics & Support," Mori said dully. "It is the Mori speciality. I was assigned to be Sumie-sensei's assistant. I was not expected to enter live combat outside an emergency.
"Then Sumie-sensei died. I watched it happen. She was standing still, looking so peaceful. Then Gorō-sensei put his hand through her chest. I could see the realisation in her eyes as the genjutsu broke, and then they simply went blank and she fell."
Wakahisa moved to put a hand on her shoulder. "Mori, I –"
Mori slapped it away with a quick, sharp movement. Then her eyes seemed to focus.
"Sorry!"
She looked down at the muddy water, and took a few long breaths.
"I am fine. I apologise for distracting you two from the mission. That was foolish. I am fine."
Hazō wanted to be sympathetic, but honestly, they'd all been through the same thing, and the middle of a killer swamp where everything was out to get them was not the best place to get emotional. If he hadn't kept paying attention to the environment, all sorts of things could have gone wrong.
"3D vision," Shikigami-sensei had explained when they'd asked him for tips. "Forget to look up, and the bats will suck you dry. Forget to look down, and the alligators will tear off your legs. Forget to look to the sides, and the jumping leeches will lunge from the trees and eat your face."
Even so, Hazō felt that he'd made the right choice in convincing his teammates to go scouting within the swamp, rather than to attempt to trade at the nearest town. Wakahisa Noburi, the short, stout boy on his left, never shut up, and if he grated on the villagers' nerves half as much as he did on Hazō's, they'd be chased out with torches and pitchforks. Mori Keiko, the slim, waifish girl on his right, wasn't so bad, but she didn't speak unless spoken to, and that did not suggest highly-developed social skills. Of course, Hazō himself wasn't one to talk, in multiple senses.
The other thing that Shikigami-sensei had emphasised was the need to stay aware of trees and dry ground, because if they couldn't get out of the water at short notice, they were as good as dead. Water walking would help against some things, like the lurker mandibles snapping up out of the mud, but it wouldn't get them far against the water snakes or the razorfish.
Of course, water walking was another of Hazō's weaknesses. It was a technique seemingly designed as a counter to the way he preferred to learn, requiring constant adaptation to a shifting environment, and given all those manual labour D-rank missions, it wasn't like he'd had much opportunity to practise either. In the end, he'd swallowed his pride and asked Mori to help him, but she told him that it would take days at best to get a new skill developed to the level of casual use.
But if there was one thing that cheered him up, it was the awareness that he was now effectively team leader, and the team was following his plan. Mori had never been in the running, of course, and while Wakahisa talked a good game, in the end he had shrunk away from the responsibility. It felt odd to lead others like this, but it wasn't a bad feeling.
The harsh cry of some distant bird brought Hazō's conscious attention back to his surroundings, and he realised to his dismay that Wakahisa was still talking.
"I'm just saying, if we stay here either this place will kill us by attrition, or the Mist hunter-nin will catch up with us, or Leaf will scrape together a patrol with the right skills to come in and hunt us down. The Leaf clans have lived in the Fire Country for centuries, there's no way there isn't one with swamp survival know-how."
"All right," Hazō patiently replied, "so what would you do if you were Shikigami-sensei?"
"I'd negotiate with Leaf, duh. Between the twenty-seven of us, we must have enough valuable information to trade for our safety. We could even offer to—"
"The day I was assigned to this mission, my grandfather came to see me," Mori cut in, in a slightly distant, flat voice that sounded like she was reading from a book. "He was ex-ANBU, and after he congratulated me, he offered me some advice that he said every genin heading into hostile territory ought to know."
The two boys were all ears.
"The most effective means is an exploding tag placed here," she indicated a spot near her solar plexus. "There is little time for pain, and the damage prevents the enemy from dissecting your remains for village secrets. But exploding tags have a time delay, and require activation, so the enemy can stop you. Therefore the most reliable means is to sever the carotid artery with a kunai. If you make a movement like this, you will bypass the thick neck muscles and inflict a deep, broad cut. In the final moments, try to fall so that your body cannot be retrieved before you bleed out.
"If you are captured, do not bother attempting to bite out your tongue. Even if you hit the lingual artery, it heals before you can lose enough blood. The exception is if the torturers have destroyed your ability to write. A genin who cannot speak or write is usually too much trouble to keep interrogating, and they will promptly execute you. If your hands have been kept intact, you should instead—"
Part of Hazō was uncomfortable, while part of him was taking notes since this was valuable information. Wakahisa, on the other hand...
"Mori, stop. Just stop."
"She's right," Hazō said. "Jōnin are valuable enough that they might have room to negotiate, but genin like us would only be a liability to Leaf. We could be spies. We could be saboteurs. We could be bait to make Leaf violate the missing-nin exchange treaties. There is no scenario in which our group surrenders to Leaf and the three of us are left alive."
"There has to be something," Wakahisa insisted. "We could hire ourselves out as black ops, give them ninja with plausible deniability. We need allies if we're going to survive, and we're a group of tough fighters with a lot to offer."
"I was going to be in Logistics & Support," Mori said dully. "It is the Mori speciality. I was assigned to be Sumie-sensei's assistant. I was not expected to enter live combat outside an emergency.
"Then Sumie-sensei died. I watched it happen. She was standing still, looking so peaceful. Then Gorō-sensei put his hand through her chest. I could see the realisation in her eyes as the genjutsu broke, and then they simply went blank and she fell."
Wakahisa moved to put a hand on her shoulder. "Mori, I –"
Mori slapped it away with a quick, sharp movement. Then her eyes seemed to focus.
"Sorry!"
She looked down at the muddy water, and took a few long breaths.
"I am fine. I apologise for distracting you two from the mission. That was foolish. I am fine."
Hazō wanted to be sympathetic, but honestly, they'd all been through the same thing, and the middle of a killer swamp where everything was out to get them was not the best place to get emotional. If he hadn't kept paying attention to the environment, all sorts of things could have gone wrong.
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They'd managed to cover a fair amount of ground since then, most of it in silence, and the blank map Shikigami-sensei had given them was slowly filling up. Topographic features, static hazards, natural resources, good sites for fallback positions and hidden caches… Shikigami-sensei would be pleased.
The hunting part was not going so well. There had been some raised ridges with what Wakahisa thought were deer trails, but the team had neither the knowledge nor the materials to set proper snares, and given that the local deer were probably three metres tall and breathed fire, no one wanted to try taking them on in a straight fight. So they had gone back to Plan A, which was to say fishing.
When prompted, Mori had offered some suggestions to improve Hazō's original scheme, such as placing the watcher on top of rather than behind the rock face, because a lot of local creatures would hunt by scent or chakra sense, and so line of sight would be far more valuable to the ninja than to their quarry. Hazō had also asked Shikigami-sensei for safe fishing advice, and ended up making a reinforced fishing rod out of a hefty tree branch, a metal hook and some ninja wire, with tree frogs for bait. Any creature capable of breaking the rod was probably too dangerous to tangle with in the first place, while anything else would be trapped and in pain, and easier to kill.
Or that was the theory. In practice, their catch for the day had amounted to the following:
- One balloon-shaped fish which rapidly extended two-foot-long spikes whenever they got near, even when dead.
- Three water snakes of various sizes, two probably venomous and one constricting.
- Two potentially (but unconfirmedly) edible fish.
- One member of a school of very small piranha-like predators with many teeth and dubious nutritional value.
- A luminous green… thing… which they all agreed had to be inedible.
- A huge eel which was less caught and more choked to death on the fishing rod after tearing the entire thing out of Hazō's hands and swallowing it whole.
They decided to cut their losses at the last one.
Wakahisa sorted the catch to figure out what to take home while Mori kept watch on their surroundings. Hazō went down to extract the hook and ninja wire, and assess the eel for potential edibility. He was just bending down, when…
Wakahisa sorted the catch to figure out what to take home while Mori kept watch on their surroundings. Hazō went down to extract the hook and ninja wire, and assess the eel for potential edibility. He was just bending down, when…
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Chapter 2b: Hunter/Hunted
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- UK
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- He/Him
"Out of the water! Now!"
Hazō sent an immediate burst of chakra into his feet, leaping out to the rock face and barely making it out of the water before the jaws of the monster alligator closed around the space where he'd been.
"Well," he said, adrenaline running through his veins, "I guess we have dinner."
Hazō sent an immediate burst of chakra into his feet, leaping out to the rock face and barely making it out of the water before the jaws of the monster alligator closed around the space where he'd been.
"Well," he said, adrenaline running through his veins, "I guess we have dinner."
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Chapter 2c: Hunter/Hunted
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- UK
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- He/Him
Before the alligator could recover from its failure and make its getaway, Mori and Wakahisa's flurry of kunai struck its enormous face, making it thrash in pain for the few seconds it took for Wakahisa to deploy his Water Whip and asphyxiate it.
After enough strangulation to make sure the crocodile was very definitely dead, plus kunai through both eyes in case it changed its mind, the group was left only with the difficulty of carrying their catch home. The corpse took all three of them to lift, and promised a slow journey. They would have to make good time to make it back to the base before sunset – and sunset meant reduced visibility and vampire bats.
After enough strangulation to make sure the crocodile was very definitely dead, plus kunai through both eyes in case it changed its mind, the group was left only with the difficulty of carrying their catch home. The corpse took all three of them to lift, and promised a slow journey. They would have to make good time to make it back to the base before sunset – and sunset meant reduced visibility and vampire bats.
As the team was cresting a ridge on their way back, Mori stopped them. "I missed it before, but look. Do those fallen trees not look like they could be a concealed shelter?"
"No, they don't," Wakahisa quickly replied. "It's just your imagination. And anyway, we need to hurry. We can report this to the jōnin and they can decide whether to send someone out to investigate."
"We are here to scout and identify threats and objects of interest," Mori said. "That is either a threat or an object of interest, and if it is a threat and we leave it, there may be catastrophic consequences."
Both of them looked to Hazō.
[X] Investigate the shelter (?)
[X] Head back to base
Write-ins accepted.
Voting closes on Saturday the 19th, 9 am Pacific Standard Time
"No, they don't," Wakahisa quickly replied. "It's just your imagination. And anyway, we need to hurry. We can report this to the jōnin and they can decide whether to send someone out to investigate."
"We are here to scout and identify threats and objects of interest," Mori said. "That is either a threat or an object of interest, and if it is a threat and we leave it, there may be catastrophic consequences."
Both of them looked to Hazō.
[X] Investigate the shelter (?)
[X] Head back to base
Write-ins accepted.
Voting closes on Saturday the 19th, 9 am Pacific Standard Time
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Ridiculously Average Guy
I'm you, but stronger
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Oh, can we still make bloodlines? If so:
Star Mirage
The Spirit gets a 6 point attribute spread split between Physical stats. Every stat starts at 1 and is capped out at 7 for creation. Their growth after initial creation is tied to the user's chakra atrributes.
Dexterity is tied to Chakra Control and goes up with every point invested. Chakra Control also controls range (the higher it is, the farther it can go).
Regen is Stamina.
Capacity is strength. Also controls how long the Spirit can stay manifested.
Basically, it makes stands.
Hopefully he can't track us to the swamp but if he does and sees no sign us us being alive, whatever he fids of the dead might convince him we've been gator chow.
So...we should avoid being see:
Staying in the swamp for quite a while, and make sure that anyone that does exit the swamp is suitably disguised and (if this is possible) is suppressing their chakra.
If he didn't plan this, then he should just be really desperate and trying to get us to survive, he might have suggested simply defecting to another village or splitting the group across the elemental countries so he had a better chance to escape.
Mist doesn't seem liable to care either way, just kill him for leaving.
I'm willing to believe he planted this, but I think it would be out of desire to be a kage.
Star Mirage
Stats:
The Spirit gets a 6 point attribute spread split between Physical stats. Every stat starts at 1 and is capped out at 7 for creation. Their growth after initial creation is tied to the user's chakra atrributes.
Dexterity is tied to Chakra Control and goes up with every point invested. Chakra Control also controls range (the higher it is, the farther it can go).
Regen is Stamina.
Capacity is strength. Also controls how long the Spirit can stay manifested.
Basically, it makes stands.
He needs to track us down for one.
Hopefully he can't track us to the swamp but if he does and sees no sign us us being alive, whatever he fids of the dead might convince him we've been gator chow.
So...we should avoid being see:
Staying in the swamp for quite a while, and make sure that anyone that does exit the swamp is suitably disguised and (if this is possible) is suppressing their chakra.
Depends on how prepped he is for this. If he's working with someone else I expect us to quickly end up swallowed by another hidden village. If he just wanted to defect and start his own village, then he should have a very well thought out plan of action for our future.
If he didn't plan this, then he should just be really desperate and trying to get us to survive, he might have suggested simply defecting to another village or splitting the group across the elemental countries so he had a better chance to escape.
Mist doesn't seem liable to care either way, just kill him for leaving.
If he talks us into joining with Fire later then, yeah, I would believe he was allied.
I'm willing to believe he planted this, but I think it would be out of desire to be a kage.
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Nope, that closed with teammate character creation a day and a half ago or so.
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I'm gonna wait for the answer to Icehawk's question, but if we are pretty far away, my plan goes like this:
[X] - Plan Double Back
Keep moving toward the camp, with Alligator, until you are about 100m away from the fallen trees. Then, Hazou goes into stealth and carefully sneaks back to the fallen trees to covertly look for any hint of being a lived-in shelter. Waka and Mori stand at the ready for any sound that indicates that Hazou in trouble, as Hazou will scream if he is attacked, and they will run as fast as they can to his aid. If he sees any such sign of life, he very carefully sneaks back to his team, they tie the alligator corpse up to keep it intact, and run back to the camp to alert the Jonin. If there are no detectable signs of life, they go back with the Alligator corpse, taking care to be extra alert.
Of course, we run this by Mori, to see if there's something that would completely kill us if there's an enemy shinobi in that shelter.
[X] - Plan Double Back
Keep moving toward the camp, with Alligator, until you are about 100m away from the fallen trees. Then, Hazou goes into stealth and carefully sneaks back to the fallen trees to covertly look for any hint of being a lived-in shelter. Waka and Mori stand at the ready for any sound that indicates that Hazou in trouble, as Hazou will scream if he is attacked, and they will run as fast as they can to his aid. If he sees any such sign of life, he very carefully sneaks back to his team, they tie the alligator corpse up to keep it intact, and run back to the camp to alert the Jonin. If there are no detectable signs of life, they go back with the Alligator corpse, taking care to be extra alert.
Of course, we run this by Mori, to see if there's something that would completely kill us if there's an enemy shinobi in that shelter.
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- USA
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- He/They
You mean like the enemy shinobi? Or something else? Because I'm sure if we've stumbled upon another ninja who has survived longer than 12 hours in the swamp, they can probably take us.
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Without gator, two hours. It took longer to get here, but now you have familiarity with the area. With gator, at least twice as long. That thing weighs more than all of you put together (though conversely, that's a lot of meat).
For your delectation, the current character sheets for the three characters:
Kurosawa Hazō
Wakahisa Noburi
Mori Keiko
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@Icehawk78 The hypothetical "enemy shinobi" did let us go by without incident on the way there. And I'd presume that us going back would also go untested. And if the shinobi does detect Hazou, he raises the alarm and his team rushes to back him up. They either fight or try to escape.
This might be a bit too ambitious, trying to achieve "check out a potentially dangerous site" and "make it back to the group alive" at the same time with as little risk as possible, also with a potential danger of trying to lug the alligator all the way back if it didn't look like anyone was there. The safest option is to carry the alligator about 100m past, tie it up, then run back to the group, but we wouldn't be able to bring the alligator right away, and the enemy shinobi might pull something in the meantime, and Shikigami might not think it worth it to check it out if we don't have more solid evidence then just "Mori thought that someone could theoretically be there".
This might be a bit too ambitious, trying to achieve "check out a potentially dangerous site" and "make it back to the group alive" at the same time with as little risk as possible, also with a potential danger of trying to lug the alligator all the way back if it didn't look like anyone was there. The safest option is to carry the alligator about 100m past, tie it up, then run back to the group, but we wouldn't be able to bring the alligator right away, and the enemy shinobi might pull something in the meantime, and Shikigami might not think it worth it to check it out if we don't have more solid evidence then just "Mori thought that someone could theoretically be there".
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If there's a ninja there they probably noticed us when we were carrying the alligator, I don't see us doing that very sneakily. It could be a stash, in which case it's probably trapped. Or it could be a nest of chakra-enhanced bees that will eat us alive.
Going solo and checking it out sounds good but only if we don't go too close to the "shelter". If we interact with it we want our teammates close in case of traps or bees. When I say interact, I mean we should start by throwing rocks at it and then gently progress to poking it with a stick.
It's annoying that we are the stealthiest but also the slowest. I hope we will fix this at some point.
Going solo and checking it out sounds good but only if we don't go too close to the "shelter". If we interact with it we want our teammates close in case of traps or bees. When I say interact, I mean we should start by throwing rocks at it and then gently progress to poking it with a stick.
It's annoying that we are the stealthiest but also the slowest. I hope we will fix this at some point.
Mark the maybe-shelter on the map and head back to camp.
Tell Shikigami sensei about it.
If there's a ninja surviving in this swamp we can't take them. Especially not while carrying our alligator.
Best to have jonin support while investigating this.
Tell Shikigami sensei about it.
If there's a ninja surviving in this swamp we can't take them. Especially not while carrying our alligator.
Best to have jonin support while investigating this.
What time is it right now, and what time is sunset? That is, how much extra time do we have to check out this place before we have to head back, assuming there is any extra time?
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- USA
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- He/They
I'm actually inclined to simply leave it be beyond marking the location on our map. Resupplying our camp seems like a much higher priority than "agitating the locals" - my concern is less that there's a ninja in there (who, as you say, left us be coming in, and similarly is likely to leave us be on our way out, and more that the fauna of the area has shown a concerning level of intelligence, so for all we know, there's a sentient spiderbear living in the area who might severely harm us or steal our food.
Given how far out we are, I vote that we
[X] Plan Note and Return
- Mark the location on our map as a point of interest.
- Return to the camp with our food, without disturbing the area.
- Report to Shikigami-sensei when we return.
(Separating this for others to vote on, independent of the overall plan)
[X] Use Vampire Dew as we retreat
- Have Noburu very slightly chakra-drain the area to determine if there's any more potent Chakra sources in that direction (perhaps utilizing rough triangulation to confirm) than in the other surroundings. If so, stop draining immediately and give much wider berth to the area.
@gbear605 We're at least 4 hours or so away from the camp, and we're hurrying just to get back before sunset without stopping.
Given how far out we are, I vote that we
[X] Plan Note and Return
- Mark the location on our map as a point of interest.
- Return to the camp with our food, without disturbing the area.
- Report to Shikigami-sensei when we return.
(Separating this for others to vote on, independent of the overall plan)
[X] Use Vampire Dew as we retreat
- Have Noburu very slightly chakra-drain the area to determine if there's any more potent Chakra sources in that direction (perhaps utilizing rough triangulation to confirm) than in the other surroundings. If so, stop draining immediately and give much wider berth to the area.
@gbear605 We're at least 4 hours or so away from the camp, and we're hurrying just to get back before sunset without stopping.
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[X] Plan Note and Return
-[X] don't try using vampire dew, just get back to camp
-[X] don't try using vampire dew, just get back to camp
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- Europe
Now that I think about it if there's a hostile ninja about they might not have let us go yet. If I was a random swamp dwelling ninja I would make it a point to investigate where these new ninjas are coming from and where are they going.
I don't think it would be much of a challenge to follow us when we have that alligator to carry. The night is also coming so we don't really have the luxury of time to just set up ambushes/false trails.
How paranoid do we want to be about this?
I don't think it would be much of a challenge to follow us when we have that alligator to carry. The night is also coming so we don't really have the luxury of time to just set up ambushes/false trails.
How paranoid do we want to be about this?
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- USA
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- He/They
A better question, to me:
Assume you are correct, and there is an unknown ninja who plans to follow us back to our base, undetected by us. What action would you suggest we take, given this assumption?
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- USA
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- He/Him
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- He/Him
Trying to investigate could be of great utility to the group, but going straight back would probably lead to the safest possible evening for us. Might bite us personally in the ass later, if it isn't investigated, and our suspicions are correct.
Question: If Waka drains an area with a ninja, could that ninja detect that? And would there be any way that he could figure out we were doing that and know he's there?
Question: If Waka drains an area with a ninja, could that ninja detect that? And would there be any way that he could figure out we were doing that and know he's there?
A better question: Can Wakahisa even drain anything in that copse? Since we have been cresting a ridge when Mori pointed the fallen trees out it is unknown if they are in the swampwater or on dry ground, and Vampiric Dew can only drain if the user touches the same water as the victim. Therefore, if there is no water at the ground of the prospective shelter, Vampiric Dew would not be of use here.
And honestly, if i was a guy or thing hiding out in a Deathswamp i'd try to make sure i am not squatting in stale water for the entire time.
ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Our main mission is to scout. We need to check this out. We don't have the labor to send a special party back every time something is up.
However, we can be smart about it. Circle around, hide, and send in some basic clones to poke around.
If it is nothing, we should build a basic raft and float/pull the gator back. It may not save time, but alternating shifts of who pulls leaves the rest free to deal with issues on the trip back.
However, we can be smart about it. Circle around, hide, and send in some basic clones to poke around.
If it is nothing, we should build a basic raft and float/pull the gator back. It may not save time, but alternating shifts of who pulls leaves the rest free to deal with issues on the trip back.
Seeing as the local fauna, especially at night, has a high chance of killing us, and we're barely getting back on time as it is, there is high risk of going and checking out the possible shelter. Let's look at what the possibilities are if we check it out:
1) It's nothing - it's just some fallen over trees that look like a shelter. This is most likely, because this is rational-Naruto, not plot-driven-Naruto.
2) It's a ninja - we're probably gonna get spotted, even with Stealth, since they're good enough to live in this swamp. They probably have really good stealth-detection stats, so we would be caught
3) It's a spiderbear - same as 2, except potentially less chance of getting spotted.
If we are spotted by either a spiderbear or a ninja, we're dead, since they're good enough to survive out here and we're just three genin.
I think the only way we can safely scout it is if we have some technique that allows us to see there without actually being there, and without being spotted. I don't think just Stealthing over there is enough, since we would still probably be spotted. Therefore, I suggest marking the spot on a map or something like that (memorize location), then head on back.
@ClawClawBite the only clones we have (IIRC) is the Basic Three clone, which just is an illusion, so we can't use it for scouting
1) It's nothing - it's just some fallen over trees that look like a shelter. This is most likely, because this is rational-Naruto, not plot-driven-Naruto.
2) It's a ninja - we're probably gonna get spotted, even with Stealth, since they're good enough to live in this swamp. They probably have really good stealth-detection stats, so we would be caught
3) It's a spiderbear - same as 2, except potentially less chance of getting spotted.
If we are spotted by either a spiderbear or a ninja, we're dead, since they're good enough to survive out here and we're just three genin.
I think the only way we can safely scout it is if we have some technique that allows us to see there without actually being there, and without being spotted. I don't think just Stealthing over there is enough, since we would still probably be spotted. Therefore, I suggest marking the spot on a map or something like that (memorize location), then head on back.
@ClawClawBite the only clones we have (IIRC) is the Basic Three clone, which just is an illusion, so we can't use it for scouting