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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- Pacific standard
Hey so in the rules doc summons don't get xp in the human path, making all training here near worthless. I'm not sure why that idea gets tossed around so much.
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- The Void
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- She/Her
As long as it's peppermint tea in honor of Jashin
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- The state of Paranoia
Alright, that's a good point.
[x] Action Plan: Tending Your Garden
May want to put a subsection underneath this saying something along the lines of 'check with the mednin we have monitoring her'
Hazō isn't exactly an expert in medicine. There's nothing wrong with checking ourselves just because, but if we actually want to know how she's doing we should ask the medic nin.
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- Book Fort
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Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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- She/They
There is presumably some sort of party planned for our return, so I think it would be a good idea for us to have something in the plan for that. Insofar as stuff for that goes: I'm partial to a lot of the stuff in the other plan, and I'm sure @Noumero wouldn't mind terribly if you cannibalize subsets of it.
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- Book Fort
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I was actually just thinking about time-skipping to the next morning, really. Of course, I'm presuming that it's late afternoon, early evening right now. But the actual party strikes me as a little boring to write/read. Standard "woo, we're not dead" dialogue with some jokes thrown Hazou's way and maybe a touch of exasperation held at bay by the relief of not being dead. It might be peaceful, but it strikes me as a little boring, whereas if we timeskip to tomorrow, we can get wholesome peace while getting some meaningful interaction done.
But that said, I'll add it to the list if that's what the hivemind wants. What sounds good for an addition (other than the obvious "thanks for not letting me die!!!" coupled with a deep bow) along those lines?
Edit: not being petty or passive aggressive! Just trying to communicate my thoughts and willingness to compromise! I should probably get to bed soon, to be honest. I'm dead on my feet right now.
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- The state of Paranoia
Looks great!
Forgot about this. I'm more interested in befriend Snake now.
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- Europe
Eh she didn't say that we owe her a favour and she could argue we do. So she is at least entertained enough.
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One Sarutobi assassinated Danzou Shimura on his compound.
Another Sarutobi will assassinate Goketsu Hazou on the same compound.
It's like poetry, it rhymes. Beautiful.
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- Omniverse #1345
There is nothing we can do about that. It isn't so much a loose end as a cord whipping around doing whatever it feels like.
Again, maybe leave Daizen out of it too. We don't know how Hidan will react if he knows we set him free from the infinite death loop.
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I have to disagree with that interpretation,
"Hazou turns it in to save his/Goketsu's life" makes sense, but that's not a no strings attached thing. Also the plan was to run this argument by Mari not make a decision ourselves. So we didn't really vote for this, some players thought we need to give it to him while others didn't.
Obviously just my opinion on things, but why wouldn't we or Hazou keep it if Asuma wouldn't force it from Goketsu? Even if Hazou get's executed Akane or Haru could use it.
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- USA
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- He/Him
Because he was trying to show Asuma that Hazō was a loyal Leaf ninja who should not be executed. I understand that you disagree with our interpretation, but it is what happened.
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- Europe
Fair enough.
Are you excited that Asuma is going to send us on suicide missions from now on? You can writte all the punching you want now!
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- America
[x] Action Plan: The Third Time in Hazou's Entire Life When He is Allowed to Relax
While no one would have voted for it, I'd have preferred the party kill Haru instead of confessing treason. It'd be very easy to cover up, and Haru is an acceptable loss in my opinion. He isn't a power multiplier like a technique hacker or sealmaster would be, he's a melee specialist with personality issues.
Faced with Hazo's execution as the alternative, I'm fairly confident the rest of the party would reluctantly agree to it as well. "Haru was eaten by a giant snake. It was unfortunate, but the snake is dead."
We probably won it with the scroll. Asuma is most likely going to publically announce each clan's submissions, since the contest was held to strengthen Leaf as a whole, and many contributions will be distributed to the whole of Leaf. If winners were announced without showing contributions, clans could argue they deserved to win and try to argue results, and clans could announce what they submitted on their own anyways.
Politically speaking, Asuma could have the Goketsu lose the contest even if they are clear winners in terms of submissions, but that'd look bad for him on several levels. Of course, if we simply lost the contest then that's a shame.
While no one would have voted for it, I'd have preferred the party kill Haru instead of confessing treason. It'd be very easy to cover up, and Haru is an acceptable loss in my opinion. He isn't a power multiplier like a technique hacker or sealmaster would be, he's a melee specialist with personality issues.
Faced with Hazo's execution as the alternative, I'm fairly confident the rest of the party would reluctantly agree to it as well. "Haru was eaten by a giant snake. It was unfortunate, but the snake is dead."
We probably won it with the scroll. Asuma is most likely going to publically announce each clan's submissions, since the contest was held to strengthen Leaf as a whole, and many contributions will be distributed to the whole of Leaf. If winners were announced without showing contributions, clans could argue they deserved to win and try to argue results, and clans could announce what they submitted on their own anyways.
Politically speaking, Asuma could have the Goketsu lose the contest even if they are clear winners in terms of submissions, but that'd look bad for him on several levels. Of course, if we simply lost the contest then that's a shame.
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鸡肉面条汤
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- شوربة الدجاج المعكرونة
Petition to rename this quest to "Forestall the Inevitable: Death by Treason - A Rational Naruto Quest".
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By the way, the section about Haru in the action plans strike me as coming off as somewhat fake. Like in a "Hey, I know you are partly responsible for me nearly getting executed but don't worry, that's what I like about you. Keep up the good work. Sincerely. Also the cake is yummy and definitely not poisoned so eat up." way.
It'd be seriously out of character for Haru not to think that Hazou is full of shit for forgiving him so easily. Even if what he did was what a person loyal to Leaf should have done.
But hey, maybe I am misjudging Haru "I will interpret everything you say in the worst possible way" Goketsu.
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- Yes.
I'm gonna have to second this. We need to have a serious conversation with Haru, have Mari work on him, or have a "Hey, talk later" thing with the intent of a serious conversation later.
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- London
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- He/Him/They/Them
I disagree. The hardest pushback we have ever received from the team on any topic was when we proposed working with Orochimaru, and I think that cold-blooded murder of a team-mate (a family member) for the sake of pushing our own agenda would be viewed by them in exactly the same light.
I think the team would agree for exactly as long as it took to get back to Leaf, and have ANBU arrest us. Likely they would choose to believe that our behaviour was due to Out-corruption, because that is more palatable than admitting that we are just that ruthless, but in any case, I do not think that they would let that stand in any circumstance. Not after Oro, not after Minami, not after Sunset Racer.
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
It occurs to me that Itachi really might have put a genjutsu on us, and that it was just written out to make sure that we see, narratively, just how powerful the Sharingan can be. The QMs might've been like "oh, I have an idea on how to use that player action to further the plot!" Which is more than okay, in my honest opinion.
And how would Keiko publicly treat a Hazou that had been almost doomed via genjutsu? Gently, supportively, but otherwise normally. But Keiko was unusually... expressive. I suppose that could be chalked up to facing a near-death experience and being glad to see us, but it could also be a side effect of Keiko simply not being all that good at lying (to Hazou, or in general). Ami is Ami and we could never tell, I don't think. So... just in case?
And how would Keiko publicly treat a Hazou that had been almost doomed via genjutsu? Gently, supportively, but otherwise normally. But Keiko was unusually... expressive. I suppose that could be chalked up to facing a near-death experience and being glad to see us, but it could also be a side effect of Keiko simply not being all that good at lying (to Hazou, or in general). Ami is Ami and we could never tell, I don't think. So... just in case?
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