Jello_Raptor
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- Left of Center
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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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
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/They
I think by now, most people use "actually" in the way that "literally" historically has been used. Relatedly, "decimate" has likely been lost because a word meaning "to remove one in ten" is... generally not a word that there's much use for anymore?
Also, I think Evenstar was using literally in the sense that you're describing; she's implying that Mari's jutsu actually/literally turns others into herself.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
This sort of situation is where Hazou shines, socially. He's got time to prepare his game plan and his conversational partner is a peer instead of Zabuza or Ami. It's when we're hopelessly outclassed or surprised and on the back foot that Hazou flounders, and Haru didn't pull anything unexpected here so everything went according to keikaku.
- Location
- The state of Paranoia
(Translator's Note: Keikaku means Keiko's Plan)
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Wasn't it longbows that were developed to destroy armour? IIRC infantry-scale guns had nothing special going for them except that they didn't require training the way effective bowmen did.
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
We also didn't threaten him.
- Location
- Yes.
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
Also, it's far more dramatic to use it to mean "reduced to one-tenth"!
Crossbows actually does that first. You load, point and shoot.
- Location
- Pacific standard
Crossbows had the problem of either being really heavy and capable of piercing plate, or light enough for most infantry to use and not capable. Cavalry is/was the best answer to heavy plate for a long time for a reason
- Location
- Kiev, Ukraine
Not longbows, this:
But cavalry is involved in a game of rock-paper-scissors where it beats plate armor but gets devastated by pike/halberdier men. Crossbows blew the game entirely. Guns were a logical extension of crossbows. Moreover, at the end of crossbow era, crossbows were armed with lead bullets.
The problem with heaviness you describe here was more common for early Chinese crossbows that were mostly used as mounted ballistas at fortresses walls. Even light crossbow hit would lead to a serious injury, even if it was not enough to pierce the armor.
The invention and mass usage of crossbows destroyed heavy infantry because they could have been incapacitated by a blow to legs or head even with light variants. Bigger, slower, crossbows didn't gave shit about armor at all. And then came a version of crossbow with winch that allowed to achieve a draw of 500kg in the field.
First guns were lousy enough that they were worse than the best of crossbows of the time. However they were close enough and were recharged almost instantly in comparison to crossbows.
However, armor still persisted for some time after the invention of guns - Spain used cuirasses up to destruction of Great Armade, when guns were already common among all armies of the west world.
What guns actually destroyed is knights. They no longer had an advantage against gunmen, moreover they were easier target since they moved slower. Hence the light cavalry gained an upper hand. And it was waaaay easier to afford a horse and sabre than to buy a full plate armor. This lead to increase in numbers of light cavalry and they were used up to invention of tanks and aviation.
- Location
- Brisbane
Great chapter @eaglejarl ! It was fun, and nice to see Hazou doing well socially and sowing the seeds of uplift.
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
I forgot to do this in all the interesting excitement surrounding the latest update, but I'm going to update it now. Here's the list of currently running tasks as I remember.
- Hazou
- Generally reviewing and approving proposals
- the paperwork, it never fucking ends....
- Local Merchant Empire:
- Sawmills:
- Proposals, awaiting metaphorical groundbreaking. Low amount of revenue, cannot change prices for one year.
- Sawmills:
- Adoption:
- Interviewing Candidates:
- Haru: We got a "I'm considering it," response.
- Noda: We got a "sure" response; not totally sure on what that means for us.
- Aya: Currently unknown-ish.
- Pushing for higher ceiling:
- In-progress?
- Interviewing Candidates:
- Civilian Leadership
- Census project:
- In-progress
- Managing food and other logistics:
- permanently in-progess.
- Ultimate Judge on land
- never ends
- unless...?
- never ends
- Census project:
- Civilian Housing
- House construction:
- 5 days ago:
- 4 residential units, housing 2 comfortably and 4 less so.
- Tent housing for everybody else.
- Present: unknown, but progress has happened TM.
- 5 days ago:
- House construction:
- Educational Programs
- Goketsu University
- In progress, probably low on the priority list tbh
- Ebisu's
SixFive- In progress, very little information OOC.
- Goketsu University
- Noburi's Chakra Sources
- Always a minor source of work.
- Goketsu Clinic
- Being organized.
- Kagome's Explosive Reaction to Sweatshops
- DONE
- Merchant Council
- Mari's got em, processing what to do with them.
- Countering Out-based influences
- HALTED due to adverse reaction
- Generally reviewing and approving proposals
- Noburi:
- Summoning Training:
- In-progress
- Goketsu Clinic:
- Unclear
- Secretary search and vetting:
- Just assigned
- Isan - Preparation Phase
- "in-progress" eyebrow waggle
- Summoning Training:
- Akane:
- Adjudicating for Hazou and almost certainly being an unpaid secretary:
- in-progress.
- Adjudicating for Hazou and almost certainly being an unpaid secretary:
- Mari:
- Acting in the Goketsu Clan's best interests:
- in-progress???
- Applying horrifying genjutsu in a safe environment:
- HALTED
- Acting in the Goketsu Clan's best interests:
- Kagome:
- Mass-producing strategically relevant seals from home.
- May be interested in education.
- Keiko*:
May be available for some projects, but Nara are a demanding clan.- Consider her unavailable.
- Akane's Parents:
- Construction business possibly mentioned, unsure of where that went.
- Unresolved:
- Isan - Expedition Phase
- Pre-requisites:
- Marriage/working it out between Noburi and Yuno
- Keiko's cooperation
- Pre-requisites:
- Floating Jutsu Exchange
- Could be executed, could be saved for later. Unknown as of this moment.
- "Shimura" "Estate"
- Tabled in most plans.
- Salt Empire
- Tabled due to lack of free time. May need to prepare for salt crunch soonish.
- Akatsuki Suggestion
- Unsure if this ever went anywhere.
- International Merchant Empire
- Should've arrived almost a month ago. Whatever did happen to those guys?
- The Wild, Goketsu-owned, West
- Tabled until situation stabilizes, I believe.
- Isan - Expedition Phase
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Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
Let's ah... not pretend that Hazou didn't beat the hell out of Zabuza the last time he ran socials against him.
I mean, yeah, he lost the exchange, but that was very much a victory.
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We got him out of the sweatshop few chapters back. He is now working from home.
- Location
- Pacific standard
*pokes thread with a stick* do something terrifying already
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
*Thread rolls onto its back, legs curled up*
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Ok.
We should start a bank and begin [ridiculous finance bullshit].
We should finance a dead pool and artificially inflate things via proxies to throw our enemies off. They won't expect us to live very long because the betting market says so, so none of them will individually care to do anything.
We should go learn BioSealing-- Jiraiya was a scaredy cat for being freaked out by it-- and transform the chakra fox into a combat companion after grafting horrible things to it.
We should invent a horrifyingly complex seal with no obvious purpose at all and send the research notes to the Nara with an overly excited message.
We should make a "Ren Sucks, Hana Rules. Where are my presents?" seal (it is a seal whose blank says that) and mail it to the Mizukage.
- Location
- Pacific standard
Related, what happens when seal masters try to infuse normal writing?
Edit: Once we get shadow clones we should have one dedicated to learning MedKnow and iryonjutsu
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- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
Given that you draw seals in chakra ink, that question sounds about as coherent as "What if you tried to power a pencil-drawn circuit?". If you asked a professional that question I expect you'd get an askance glance and a "you do know how electricity works, right?"
- Location
- Pacific standard
Emstar
The Shining One
- Location
- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
- Pronouns
- She/They
I have rectified what I believe to be some mistakes in the phrasing of your analogy!
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
It's a perfectly **coherent** question. It's just that the equally coherent answer is "Nothing good!"
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
- Location
- United States
The nature of the world is such that a single earth-nature ninja with an appropriate technique, or a sufficient quantity of storage seals, could very easily change the climate and also destroy a nation and its populace.
The world's terrifying enough without us doing anything.