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I don't think that's 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
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Why not? We should specialize, not try to handle all kinds of missions internally. The benefit of being in a village is that you don't have to cover everything yourself.
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- The Void
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There are 3 special Jounin or above ninja on this mission already. We are already a huge amount of Leafs resources on this mission. We shouldn't be a bigger drain than we have to
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Hi guys! I've been reading this story for over a year now. Decided to make an account to occasionally post input.
Some thoughts:
Some thoughts:
- We could skywalk above the bridge and lower explosives down with a rope from far up. Might give away that it's Leaf if only we have skywalkers.
- We could skywalk up from below to put explosives underneath the bridge. Need to not get seen, though.
- Could we tunnel through the earth, pop up right under the bridge, and deploy explosives that way? Or will sensory ninjas be too much of a danger?
- We could hire someone to transport a package across the bridge. The package is explosives. Near-zero risk, especially if the transporter dies in the explosion. Ideally we hire an enemy of the Leaf.
- We should probably deploy explosives at night for lower risk of discovery.
- The bridge gets blown up. How will this ever seem like an accident?
- If we target the sides to make new bridges harder to build, it's going to look even less like an accident.
- Time-delayed explosives would be useful, so we can ensure we're far away when it happens.
- Especially if we can disable the explosives in case we get seen during deployment.
- Do we have any seals that can affect gravity to make the bridge collapse? Would seem like an accident.
- Could we put a lot of heavy stuff in a time-delayed storage seal that unseals it right when it's over the bridge, resulting in a collapse from the weight?
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We want to bring enough manpower so that Kagome + Goketsu battle buddy arrive home safely, and ditto for any ninja that get sent along. Leaf cannot afford to keep losing ninja, especially ninja with research capabilities.
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Ah, I missed the part where Snake and Hawk are on it. We don't know their profiles, I guess? If one of them is a scouting/infiltration build that might work? Or we could ask to replace one with a more suitable skillset?
I guess the main question is whether this is 'destroy the bridge and do not be captured at any cost' mission, i.e. if we find four jonin with air combat capability protecting it we're supposed to attempt it anyway, or if there's a go/no-go decision to be made at the site.
If the latter, we have a tradeoff between packing more combat capability so that we can first-strike a guard detail and take them out instantly before demolishing the bridge, or having more intel-gathering capability so we can accurately decide on go/no-go and what approach is the best.
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Here's a simple plan which has at least some of our ideas. Would want some thoughts regarding what should be done while we're gone, and possibly other contingencies.
[X] Action Plan: The Grass Kannabi Bridge
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[X] Action Plan: The Grass Kannabi Bridge
Word Count: 144
- Optimize the mission plan with the clan, then bring it to Asuma.
- Who should we bring?
- Kagome (obviously).
- Hazou and/or Keiko: Optimization (privately: also to keep Kagome calm).
- Snake & Hawk: Physical security.
- Sensory-type ninja: A Hyuga & Aburame would be ideal.
- Hazou's ideas on destroying the bridge:
- Aburame bugs sneak some filled implosion seals to the bridge, then eat them to trigger detonation.
- Tunneling Excavation or Pangolins dig under the bridge and collapse the area (naturally or with explosives).
- Skywalk above the bridge and drop explosives en masse.
- Last resort: Attack from the forest, kill everything in the area, leave no survivors.
- Security:
- Stay hidden: Use the forest to break LOS, prep a Macerator + stupid box if needed to escape.
- Skywalk to break our trail.
- Collect some acid-spewing chakra monsters (acid ants???) on our way, plant them to make the collapse seem more natural.
- Who should we bring?
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Last ~10 chapters was great. Especially 310th, @eaglejarl , that was fantastic and I was caught. Especially after previous "obviously a genjutsu" chapter — was that a planned before (to lower expectations of players), or just a lucky coincidence/using an opportunity?
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Cariyaga
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I *really* don't think that we should be overly concerned about them spotting us using skywalkers. Because frankly, using skywalkers is going to make us significantly less likely to be spotted. That's literally in their statline (or at least it used to be): +20 stealth.
And the thing about it is, Kagome doesn't need to be anywhere near the site to do the booms. He's a sealmaster; just give an aburame stealth spec his bundle of seals, tell them where to place it, and off they go.
e: Also, Akane is ideal to bring. She's the most personally competent in combat and a ray of sunshine that will keep Kagome from going batshit.
And the thing about it is, Kagome doesn't need to be anywhere near the site to do the booms. He's a sealmaster; just give an aburame stealth spec his bundle of seals, tell them where to place it, and off they go.
e: Also, Akane is ideal to bring. She's the most personally competent in combat and a ray of sunshine that will keep Kagome from going batshit.
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The entire aburame bugs thing - is this better than a shadow clone with tunneling jutsu? It's cute, just don't know how stealthy bugs carrying seals can be.
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- Yes.
In the middle of the night, while keeping low to the ground (or up from below the bridge)? Not that big an issue.
Side note: The granite upthrust/pillar that's supporting the bridge could be a key target, and since it's at the bottom of the ravine it'll be easier to access. Hm.
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- Somewhere over the rainbow
I'd argue the granite upthrust is the actual key target; destroy that, and you're never building a bridge on that point again.
Of course, setting a couple forest fires around it to close the path off completely would probably also help.
Cariyaga
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Significantly moreso than a shadow clone, that's for sure. The problem with approaching the site physically or at all on the ground is that'd put us in range of sensory techniques. Bugs are normal.
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Fair enough - if the bugs can operate outside visual range, that seems good. I guess with delivery covered in that fashion, what we'd need to figure out is how to get Kagome a good impression of the structure of the bridge or its supports, so that he can plan the demolition.
Oh, who am I kidding - just send enough explosives so that if it was the most secure bridge ever on most solid foundation, it'd fall. And then double that, to be safe.
There's no requirement that the canyon is still around when we're done, right?
Oh, who am I kidding - just send enough explosives so that if it was the most secure bridge ever on most solid foundation, it'd fall. And then double that, to be safe.
There's no requirement that the canyon is still around when we're done, right?
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KAGOME: There's no requirement that the country be still around, either. *hint hint*
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
Oh my, you're right. Asuma gave us carte blanche. It is finally time.
[х] Armageddon Initiative
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KAGOME: Good point, let's go nuke Rock as well!
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- Pacific standard
@eaglejarl are skywalkers approved? I'm guessing yes because this is supposed to be total stealth. If we don't know we'll/I'll have to write up two different plans depending on 1 line of dialogue from Asuma
I know he said whatever you want within reason, just making sure that's reasonable.
I know he said whatever you want within reason, just making sure that's reasonable.
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Good idea. Wonder how long it'll take to get the chakra megalodon there?
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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ACtually, we can make it look like a chakra beast incident regardless. Just get some deep FIre ones -- so they don't recognize them, maybe they're invasive or whatever -- plop 'em down there, and then blow the thing apart. CHakra beasts do weird shit.Good idea. Wonder how long it'll take to get the chakra megalodon there?
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Hm. There were these acid ants back when we were hunting steelbacks, maybe we can use those as invasive species and degrade the limestone surroundings and have the bridge collapse on itself?
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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Could work, too. Really, it doesn't matter whether the chakra beasts are the ones that actually do it, as long as they look like they did, but if they do, then all the better.