Cariyaga
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I fear the results if she does try to track and follow us so immediately after this. Others might follow her, and whether or not she finds us it'll be bad, whether for her or for us.
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
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So, maybe Noburi can't get married until he completes his med-nin apprenticeship?
He could be looking to take advantage of the night between the council vote and when we can try to retrieve the scroll, but probably not as a move against us. If anything, he'd be using us as a distraction while he does something else. That something else might be stealing the summoning scroll, though. Not sure how to defend against that. Not really sure why he would do that rather than just teaching one of his clan and doing everything above-board, either, though.
There still could be some last-minute betrayal when Keiko goes to try to get the scroll. She should ask Takahashi about what to expect when she actually goes to the shrine. I'd also like to get details from someone else, to compare, but it's not clear to me that we're supposed to publicly know that this is happening versus being surprised when the council declares we are the prophesied summoners.
I guess the first question is, how does he betray us given this setup? One possibility is that he takes advantage of the ill will that we'll engender with the Kannagi, though I'm not sure how.
He could be looking to take advantage of the night between the council vote and when we can try to retrieve the scroll, but probably not as a move against us. If anything, he'd be using us as a distraction while he does something else. That something else might be stealing the summoning scroll, though. Not sure how to defend against that. Not really sure why he would do that rather than just teaching one of his clan and doing everything above-board, either, though.
There still could be some last-minute betrayal when Keiko goes to try to get the scroll. She should ask Takahashi about what to expect when she actually goes to the shrine. I'd also like to get details from someone else, to compare, but it's not clear to me that we're supposed to publicly know that this is happening versus being surprised when the council declares we are the prophesied summoners.
Cariyaga
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I really like this idea. It has enough hints of truth and is familiar enough culturally to them for it to be understandable. The problem is that they don't actually know that he isn't a full fledged med-nin, and, uh... we've been healing their entire village as a student. I'm not sure they'd appreciate that.
On that note, we need to do everything we can to prepare her. Given her ludicrous weapons skill, give her all of the varieties of explosive tag Kagome's willing to, several storage scrolls (finally!!), and maybe see if Akane can put together some quick-setup traps for storage in them?
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@Sleeps Furiously My worry is that Takahashi will go to the council meeting, and not vote to allow the outsiders (us) to take the trial. Then when we try to take the trial, which is probably near the shrine, the entire village has reason to kill us. The source of my worry is that Takahashi wants us to make up a reason for the training he and Keiko have been doing. Why would he do that: in the next two weeks the deception will be wide open and there's no reason to assume Inoue/Aida will have caught on to the deception before then.
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*gasp* why I never!
Meaning some of the horrible rumors they spread about you are true? *takes note*
Yeah, I think we do. What is our teacher hiding >_>
So he's suggesting Keiko will be ready to try and summon by then. And QMs took care to tone down our XP feed. Yeah, I almost hope elders will try something so we have obstacles to overcome
No no this is really good. If Noburi is so useful to village as is, imagine how much more useful he'd be after becoming proficient by our standards. This is the best idea so far, and it's guaranteed to give Kannagi a pause because it's about a real, tangible benefit. Definitely something to consider.
[X] Training Hazou: Light Sparring
Taijutsu 14e15 [14/21]
Save 7XP
[X] Training Akane: Light Sparring
Taijutsu 15 [15/27]
Save 12XP
Just to get these two up to cap on their primary combat skills in case shit goes down.
Taijutsu 14e15 [14/21]
Save 7XP
[X] Training Akane: Light Sparring
Taijutsu 15 [15/27]
Save 12XP
Just to get these two up to cap on their primary combat skills in case shit goes down.
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Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Let's get our best spin doctors on this one. Focus group, people!
Hmm. Unless something better comes up, I'll go with these. I think we should save Noburi's XP though, since we may be getting back to the Mednin teacher soon.
[X] Training Akane: Light Sparring
[X] Training Hazou: Light Sparring
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[X] Training Hazou: Light Sparring
I'd suggest Akane spend the rest of her XP on Elemental Mastery and/or Hotaru no Jutsu.
Cariyaga
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If we can get enough work in on her Hotaru no Taijutsu style to get a point or two, that would work.
Yeah, from what we can tell it seems like we'll be needing asskicking skills more than social skills for the next bit, otherwise I'd be on that too. Agreed, though.
Can we buy HnJ yet?
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Yeah, we have 3 points in it right now.
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- ?
Better stick to what we know works well, for now. If mass combat happens that die will be more useful too.
SoothingCoffee
Umumumu
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[X] Training Hazou: Light Sparring
[X] Training Akane: Light Sparring
[X] Training Akane: Light Sparring
Yeah but it's greyed out with a max of '??'.
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@MadScientist We got it in the same update as Elemental Mastery.
Given the impending combat 2-3 weeks from now I'm going to push for leveling Hotaru over Elemental Mastery. Here's my thoughts:
Taijutsu 15 [15]
Hotaru no Jutsu 4 [19]
Hotaru no Jutsu 5 [24]
Save 3XP
This gives Akane full use of her Firefly hand while maximizing XP spending.
Edit: Here's the information.
Given the impending combat 2-3 weeks from now I'm going to push for leveling Hotaru over Elemental Mastery. Here's my thoughts:
Taijutsu 15 [15]
Hotaru no Jutsu 4 [19]
Hotaru no Jutsu 5 [24]
Save 3XP
This gives Akane full use of her Firefly hand while maximizing XP spending.
Edit: Here's the information.
I'd be okay with that. I have no real preference between that and Light Sparring.
[X] Training Akane: Float like a Firefly
Taijutsu 15 [15/27]
Hotaru 4 [19/27]
Hotaru 5 [24/27]
Save 3 XP
[X] Training Hazou: Brick Chop
Taijutsu 14e15 [14/21]
MEW 5 [19/21]
Save 2XP
Taijutsu 14e15 [14/21]
MEW 5 [19/21]
Save 2XP
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We shouldn't spend Noburi's though. We should save that for medic levels.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
[X] Training Akane: Float like a Firefly
[X] Training Hazou: Brick Chop
[X] Training Hazou: Brick Chop
Agreed.
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- ?
We don't have a way to train his medical for now, and escaping ninjaville should earn us enough if we feel like visiting his old teacher in Iron. For now survivability is more important.