- Location
- Temporally? Now.
In addition to what faflec posted: iirc, when the team was harvesting ice, Mari had a unspecified lightning jutsu that was apparently "perfect" for harvesting said ice. I suppose it could have been the wire-lightning jutsu that faflec mentioned, but I suppose I always envisioned a lightning sword or something.
On incentivizing the player base to not do Marked for Spreadsheets:
The issue I see is that there are a lot of problems in the MfD world that closely resemble real world issues, either past or present, that the players care about a lot. However, in MfD, unlike in the real world, the player base can have a MASSIVE tangible impact on these issues. As such, it's incredibly cathartic to do so, even though it results in a lot of plans that are "meeting-meeting-plan for a meeting-meeting discussing a plan-plan-more meetings". It's like the ultimate isekai/escapist fantasy thing, complete with actual amazing authors and fantastic characters to round out the solving-problems-that-we-can't-in-real-life thing.
A possible solution towards getting people back on the punching/excitement/meeting new people track would be to say "X is taking care of it in the background".
Something like, "Ami recognizes that Keiko lives in this world, and thus wants the world to be fixed so Keiko lives in a better world". Thus Ami becomes (among all the other things she is) a quest giver, much like the leaf mission desk, except that she comes to us to get us to do things for her or be her instruments for uplift.
The goal being to be able to satisfy the player base that the things that we're kind of bored of doing, but really want to be done, are being done in the background. Allowing us to focus on other things, or only the exciting parts of the boring stuff.
I don't know how well this came across; the Ami thing was just a specific implementation example to a more general solution, assuming that I've correctly understood and described the problem.
So it was indirect. Good to know.
It appears to me that when the brevity xp are against us, they're counted as being part of the base xp for shadow clones (see the 4*(4-2)+1 update), but when they're for us (see the current update) they don't count. If this is the known and intentional way that SCs work, cool. I just wanted to make sure that it was intentional.
Or I'm just messing up reading comprehension somewhere and making a fool of myself. Who knows. Not me.
On the final note for my at-this-point-basically-annual post in this thread, I would like to thank the authors. @eaglejarl, @Velorien, you guys are amazing. This and one other story are by far my favorite works on the internet, possibly ever. I literally think about my week in terms of MfD updates. The writing is phenomenal, and it's amazing to see both myself and others around me in the characters you've written. Thank you for everything you've done, and whenever I stop being a starving student and get a job, you both are getting something on patreon from me.
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. Or rather, there ain't once the Hagoromo have been taken care of.
