This is stuff internally. I guess we could get some political things done if necessary.
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
This is stuff internally. I guess we could get some political things done if necessary.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Excellent Ami chapter, @Velorien, and somehow I think we're finally leaning how to stay on our own two feet around her (when she's not trying to keep us off-balance, that is).
And I noticed this line as an interesting implication Forbidden Lore-wise:
I feel like next plan should explicitly put some of Ami's suggestions into practice.
And I noticed this line as an interesting implication Forbidden Lore-wise:
I feel like next plan should explicitly put some of Ami's suggestions into practice.
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
[X] Good Mourning Major Clans
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Clear these ideas with the clan.
Here's a telegraphic-ish plan; I'll see how far ahead of my schoolwork I get today to flesh this out, but in broad terms the goal of this plan is:
A) convince Goketsu to let us do the mourning thing (we've had some pretty good success with that)
B) continue Goketsu projects and start the Goketsu University project
C) show up in person for Shikamaru and Yamanaka and Hinata and Hagoromo and Amori and generally everyone
D) ask what we can do for each other.
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Clear these ideas with the clan.
- Goketsu
- Convince the clan to let us go mourn with other clans personally.
- Hazou's usually been good about handling mournings.
- Besides, as a friend, Hazou owes them a visit.
- Estate
- Harden critical locations.
- Continue expanding and improving living space.
- Recruitment
- Top priority is unaffiliated/liason ninja.
- Soft-sell: We have goodies for friends, and obscenely good stuff for trustworthy adoptees.
- Aides
- Look for:
- Loyalty
- Competence.
- Consider searching among civilians.
- Look for:
- Top priority is unaffiliated/liason ninja.
- Establish free Goketsu school.
- General academics track (reading, writing, math)
- Open to everybody, ninja and civilian.
- Hire good civilian teachers for this track.
- Open to everybody, ninja and civilian.
- Basic Ninja Track (basic tai, nin, genjutsu)
- Open to Academy students
- Hire retired and offduty ninja.
- Open to Academy students
- Establish Hazou office hours where he teaches willing ninja.
- Gently encourage other clan members to follow suit.
- General academics track (reading, writing, math)
- Keep making the rounds - get to everybody at least once.
- Continue preparing for Merchant Council ideas like the storage seal bank.
- Begin setting foundations for a chakra beast farm - well away from housing expansion zones.
- Check up on the international merchant network.
- Clans
- Do what we've always done with mourning. It's worked out pretty well.
- Ask what we can do to support each other.
- Try to get some time in with everybody, but the priority list:
- Yamanaka/Nara
- Hyuuga/Akimichi
- Hagoromo/Amori/Kyosho/Aburame
- Petition to allow Kagome to work from home/better working conditions for sealmasters.
- Sealmasters under crushingly stressful situations have a higher risk of seal failure, which the village cannot afford.
- Do what we've always done with mourning. It's worked out pretty well.
- Personal
- Investigate Jiraiya's Leaf safehouses with Akane/Kagome. Consider visiting stashes near Leaf as well.
- Have dinner with Snake. Work with Mari on cultivating her as a resource.
- We want to make Snake a well-placed friend and possible adoption target.
- Practice Calligraphy with the Iron Nerve off.
Here's a telegraphic-ish plan; I'll see how far ahead of my schoolwork I get today to flesh this out, but in broad terms the goal of this plan is:
A) convince Goketsu to let us do the mourning thing (we've had some pretty good success with that)
B) continue Goketsu projects and start the Goketsu University project
C) show up in person for Shikamaru and Yamanaka and Hinata and Hagoromo and Amori and generally everyone
D) ask what we can do for each other.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Mmmmm, I think on Hazou's end it's more along the lines of 'all these observations I've already seen crystallize in my head all at once into a coherent pattern and structure', so I'm not convinced that he'd believe it to be external to him. Plus, he already believes Hana experiences the same thing, and has been experiencing it since before he looked at the Scroll, so it would be quite a stretch to conclude that it's influence from the Out.
Added Ami's suggestions.
- Location
- UK
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- He/Him
You want Hazō to refuse to surrender to something that's more real than him?
- Location
- Potato land
I know that the QMs aren't too excited for explicit fourth wall breaking, but I do feel like we've genuinely maneuvered the quest into a state where he could actually detect our influence IC. @eaglejarl @Velorien @OliWhail you might want to consider a pre-emptive announcement that this won't happen, so as to avoid the kind of disappointment that resulted from our attempts to interact with the grue.
[☓] Action Plan: Becoming a Real Boy
- Refuse to follow this plan.
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Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
...is she talking about us?
Early chakra usage is basically asking for Tsunade to punch us through a wall. At the very least secure her permission.
It's not important right now that we attempt to change things around, just that we're building a school and offering education to everyone. Also, it's not clear if we intend to also educate adults as well. That's why there's night school for adults in my plan. Education needed not only be for children.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Well, I won't say that's a bad idea, but I was more thinking of the other stuff Ami was talking about that wasn't so Forbidden Lore-y, like paying attention to his internal voice and emotions and all that.
- Location
- Europe
No, she threatened Hazou, then tried to understand why Keiko would tell Hazou and concluded that Keiko cares about Hazou.
Her conflict is that Hazou is more real than she is. She is just jealous.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
We've been assigned homework!
Three things immediately jump out to me:
First, Ino's reaction to Keiko during our first stay in Leaf:
Ino, the future Clan Head, needed to be told that, which implies she didn't know who the Mori are on first mention. Probably just the case of her not having sufficient clearance yet...
Second, this piece of worldbuilding, during the adoption discussion between Keiko and Shikaku:
Third:
As we know now, the Nara do have a bloodline, which suggests that the other two do as well. The naive interpretation would be that the Nara just allied themselves with the other two "normal" clans during the Warring Clans era, but if there's something weird going on...
Wild guess: The Yamanaka and the Akimichi are the result of the Nara's experiments at creating bloodlines by connecting them to otherworldly entities (I'll once again remind you of this). Their modes of thinking changed after the transformation; pre-change, they were bloodlineless.
Some of this could be confirmed by researching ancient history, I suspect.
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- Texas
I have a feeling that if we follow Ami's advice to its logical conclusion, this will stop being a quest and instead turn into a story. I'm not sure I would be totally against that, it would really let the authors write what they want.
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- Europe
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- UK
Oh boy oh boy, more TYSPs!
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Jiraiya Seal Suggestion:
Hyperbolic Time Seal: Within the confines of this seal's effects, time passes more quickly inside than out by a factor of X.
Hypobolic Time Seal: Within the confines of this seal's effects, time passes more slowly inside than out by a factor of X. Interestingly, this allows you to see an explosion happen in real time.
Make it happen @eaglejarl @Velorien!
Hyperbolic Time Seal: Within the confines of this seal's effects, time passes more quickly inside than out by a factor of X.
Hypobolic Time Seal: Within the confines of this seal's effects, time passes more slowly inside than out by a factor of X. Interestingly, this allows you to see an explosion happen in real time.
Make it happen @eaglejarl @Velorien!
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Harry took Paper-2 in his trembling hand, and unfolded it.
Paper-2 said in slightly shaky handwriting:
DO NOT MESS WITH TIME
Harry wrote down "DO NOT MESS WITH TIME" on Paper-1 in slightly shaky handwriting, folded it neatly, and resolved not to do any more truly brilliant experiments on Time until he was at least fifteen years old.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
So, we have to wait half-a-year? Okaaay.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Aw, c'mon, temporal acceleration/deceleration within a given space is totally different from messing with time.
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- UK
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- He/Him
At various points half a year ago, Leaf was at peace, the Gōketsu were but a twinkle in Jiraiya's eye, and Hiruzen was about to depart on a mission from which he wouldn't be coming back. Who knows what the world will look like half a year from now?
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
What world?
- Location
- United States
Huh, I'm pretty surprised that Hazou and Ami were able to have an earnest (?) conversation on the nature of their old home and their new one, both in regards to family and village.
Ami seems to have also firmly established that at least she believes this to be a Rock op instead of an Akatsuki one, so that's something new for us to work with.
Surprisingly wholesome update all around @Velorien
Ami seems to have also firmly established that at least she believes this to be a Rock op instead of an Akatsuki one, so that's something new for us to work with.
Surprisingly wholesome update all around @Velorien
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- Potato land
One of the nice things about this chapter is how you can see Hazou making progress in dealing with Ami, and the whole thing is more of a conversation and less her jerking him around.
I kinda feel like Ami's biting off more than she can chew, here. For better or worse, I think Hazou gets Orochimaru on an intuitive level better than she does. Part of it is probably the alternate realities, but Hazou's normal mindset is (uncomfortably) closer to Oro's than it might seem.
I kinda feel like Ami's biting off more than she can chew, here. For better or worse, I think Hazou gets Orochimaru on an intuitive level better than she does. Part of it is probably the alternate realities, but Hazou's normal mindset is (uncomfortably) closer to Oro's than it might seem.