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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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[X] Action Plan: A light touch without portals
[-] Action Plan: A light touch
[-] Action Plan: A Family's Friction

mostly because i think akane is busy working on her training for either going back to the chunin exams or being promoted to jonin soon (also we should ask her about her decision)
 
Eisenhelm said:
[X] Action Plan: A light touch without portals
[-] Action Plan: A light touch
[-] Action Plan: A Family's Friction

mostly because i think akane is busy working on her training for either going back to the chunin exams or being promoted to jonin soon (also we should ask her about her decision)
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I dont think this unvotes fyi you have to edit them I believe.
 
Speaking as the resident sociopath, do not mistake not caring for not understanding. The Ami had a full grasp of everything being proposed for discussion before she acted. At most, she misestimated Hazou's ability and willingness to dance. She considers his response a deficit, and badgering her about it will just make her consider it a boring deficit. The implication that she needs to be sat down and have his perspective explained to her after it has already been made clear could even be considered insulting.


Tua said:
Also, gotta pre-empt the Crazy, as much as we can anyway.

*grumble grumble* Back in my day, NPCs were NPCs and didn't do things on their own until you reached a milestone in plot progression. But now they got this newfangled agency thing and do stuff. As if they are real people. *grumble grumble*

[X] Action Plan: A light touch
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Do we even still need to do anything? At this rate uplift will shortly control Leaf simply because everybody in the city is simultaneously dating Keiko.

I typed that in jest, but I just realized that the civilians already love her so much she has a fan club, she has an apprentice from a founding clan, controls about a third of Leaf's strategic resources through family/clan connections, the clanless third of Leaf ninja worship her, she has the loyalty of the local superweapon, and she's cracking subversive new wells of support.

I'm scared.


MMKII said:
Not necessarily, theres a decent gap between "living around dying white dwarf stars" advanced, and "fight thermodynamics itself with magic scifi" advanced.
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Bah. Computational efficiency increases with decreasing temperature faster than decreasing energy efficiency, so it's infinite before heat death if you do it right.

After that, Gödel proved that there are an infinite number of systems to explore. It's just a matter of translating them into virtual worlds for infinite novelty.
 
Lailoken said:
I typed that in jest, but I just realized that the civilians already love her so much she has a fan club, she has an apprentice from a founding clan, controls about a third of Leaf's strategic resources through family/clan connections, the clanless third of Leaf ninja worship her, she has the loyalty of the local superweapon, and she's cracking subversive new wells of support.

I'm scared.
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Keiko is the main character and Hazou's just the mad genius coming up with insanely awesome gadgets for her to use.
 
Sentient Tree said:
Hey @eaglejarl , I was thinking about that game you said you do, asking people what it would take to accept immortality. Have you tried reversing the question, asking something along the lines of this:

If you were immortal, and you could choose to die at any time, what age would you choose to die?

If so, what did people say? I'm wondering if making immortality opt-out changes peoples' responses.
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I haven't done it that way, but I'll keep it in mind.

Daikloktos said:
As a mostly-story-only reader, I'm still not sure if this incident was a metajoke about Trump's election.

And also.... did Jiraiya kill Minami?!?!?!?
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Oh my Jashin, are we back to this? *grumble, grumble, everyone is so suspicious, grumbly grumbles*

No, Jiraiya did not kill Minami as far as Hazō knows.

Eisenhelm said:
[X] Action Plan: A light touch without portals
[-] Action Plan: A light touch
[-] Action Plan: A Family's Friction

mostly because i think akane is busy working on her training for either going back to the chunin exams or being promoted to jonin soon (also we should ask her about her decision)
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@MMKII already pointed this out, but the [-] thing doesn't unvote. That was a feature of the tallybot that I wrote, but we haven't used it in years. We needed it in the beginning because the SV tally system couldn't handle approval voting, but then they cleaned it up so that it did and poor little CounterBot became obsolete.
 
Anyone else is feeling that our chat whit ami is going to be precarious?

She just has a vision of the world so different and plays at a level so above hazo that anything we could say to her is either obvious or not to her interest. So we may as well just say what we mean and let the scary jounin sort things out. You know, like we did with Mari.

granted, Mari unambiguously likes us and we were a team for two years in almost complete isolation for our bond to grow. So like I said, precarious
 
Eisenhelm said:
Anyone else is feeling that our chat whit ami is going to be precarious?

She just has a vision of the world so different and plays at a level so above hazo that anything we could say to her is either obvious or not to her interest. So we may as well just say what we mean and let the scary jounin sort things out. You know, like we did with Mari.

granted, Mari unambiguously likes us and we were a team for two years in almost complete isolation for our bond to grow. So like I said, precarious
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-Definitely precarious. But Ami showed a level of unprecedented joy when she said "see, he UNDERSTANDS me" which makes me believe that Ami, on some level, wants family. She wants to be understood and accepted, much like we all do.

--Ami, during the chapter where she revealed her true feelings about being Hazou's family, didn't show annoyance or anger. She showed worry ("I don't know how to be a family") and resignation. I'd say that she's scared of the vulnerability, but not inherently repulsed/against by it.

--Even if we frame this as just a business partnership, Hazou's assumptions were off from Ami's assumptions (about the dynamic between them). So they're going to discuss this and align their perspectives.

--Ami's a social spec, but Hazou's not doing too bad, either. Hazou-pilot picked up on Ami's apology message during the Wedding Chapter. Hazou-pilot. He's come a long way from not realizing Akane broke up with him.

--We are being blunt with what we want/mean here. "[This] is what happened. [This] is how we feel about it. [This] is our thoughts about our own feelings. And [this] is why. Your thoughts, Ami?"
 
[X] Action Plan: A light touch
[X] Action Plan: A light touch without portals

I feel like the 'thoughts + disjointed message' structure will work out better than the loose script structure, as it gives Hazou more wiggle room for when Ami throws a curveball.

Neither of the contents of each plan really resonate with me, but I don't have the time to figure out exactly what I do and don't like and offer suggestions on how to improve, so I'm just voting on what intuitively feels like it'll do better.
 
Adhoc vote count started by Velorien on Dec 16, 2020 at 7:21 AM, finished with 129 posts and 17 votes.
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RandomOTP said:
Speaking of, @Velorien, @eaglejarl, @OliWhail? Did Akane ever resume her training with Tsunade?
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She has not resumed medical training, no. Medicine and medical ninjutsu was interesting and she's glad she learned it, but she does not want a career as a medic and neither she nor Tsunade would accept a half-assed study. Tsunade does occasionally have time for a taijutsu lesson or two, and sometimes she'll drag Akane out to a bar and wax on about whatever comes to mind while Akane pays for drinks. These sessions involve a lot of complaining and grumping but occasionally also reveal stories and/or wisdom extracted from the decades-long career of one of the most powerful ninja alive, so it's money well spent.
 
She's probably upset that she doesn't get to see her son growing up. I am sympathetic towards her plight, but she has absolutely created this situation for herself out of nothing but spite, and then proceeded to double-down on that being the right decision, so I can't muster the motivation to prioritize fixing it. She could be an incredible asset for us, but she's gone and made herself a liability instead.

I'd like to eventually reunite her with Hazou on a more permanent basis, but I'm going to need some kind of reassurance that she won't go breaking Mari again at the drop of a hat.
 
Roomba said:
She's probably upset that she doesn't get to see her son growing up. I am sympathetic towards her plight, but she has absolutely created this situation for herself out of nothing but spite, and then proceeded to double-down on that being the right decision, so I can't muster the motivation to prioritize fixing it. She could be an incredible asset for us, but she's gone and made herself a liability instead.

I'd like to eventually reunite her with Hazou on a more permanent basis, but I'm going to need some kind of reassurance that she won't go breaking Mari again at the drop of a hat.
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We should also ask all we can of iron nerve related issues (you know, like pregnancy)
 
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