Pulling a @faflec is difficult on mobile, but I can plant the seeds to ease the retrieval by mentioning that they were referenced during Tenten and Keiko's first training where swapping armaments was mentioned as a weapons-specialist's weakness followed by Keiko demanding them in the scene where she moved on to a pet
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
Pulling a @faflec is difficult on mobile, but I can plant the seeds to ease the retrieval by mentioning that they were referenced during Tenten and Keiko's first training where swapping armaments was mentioned as a weapons-specialist's weakness followed by Keiko demanding them in the scene where she moved on to a pet
Emstar
The Shining One
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- Trapped in an extradimensional rift.
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Tenten has storage seals up her sleeves (recall: in Chapter XY, Kagome prohibited this idea because AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) for unsealing weapons that are proprietary of (unknown sealmaster), according to Jiraiya.
CF: Chapter 216, I think.
It's the first or second scene (there's an ANBU one that was particularly unimpressed by the doom glare and one with Jiraiya almost right after), the same one with the chakra pony bit. IIRC it was a grue-tease as well. Or something about chakra chameleons? *shrug*
(The activation energy for clicking through the threadmark index and hunting it down was less than just typing this out.)
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- Book Fort
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1) I miss Jiraiya
2) Not sure what demon you made a deal with to have that good a memory, but can you send them my way?
3) Yeah, it was chapter 216. The way Jiraiya words it implies that Tenten herself made the seal, or perhaps someone did it themselves and gave the rights to the design/notes to her? If it's the former, I could see Gai helping Tenten navigate the legal system to get them copyrighted (or whatever the equivalent would be), or using his status as a jonin to force it through. If it's the latter, I could see Jiraiya doing something like that (maybe as a favor for Gai?). He has countless custom seals, and that one seal would've changed Tenten's entire life (not to mention giving her better chances of survival). And it would answer the question of "why does Jiraiya know that some random genin's seals are copyrighted?" (Well, it's a more interesting answer than "because spymaster," anyway).
(Alright, heading to bed for real-sies.)
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I remember comparing "a country" to other stuff and thinking that it must be too high if we aren't the richest clan. But no clarification came. Is a while ago though.
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- USA
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Understood. Illusion of transparency, I guess -- I thought it was an obviously hyperbolic metaphor, but I guess not.
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- Book Fort
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If it's any consolation, I am (what could generously be described as) oblivious as fuck.
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How in the goddamn do you people remember shit like this, I read that chapter like a WEEK ago and had to look up who that was
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- Yes.
No eating, no drinking, no sleeping. Just MfD.
MfD is love, MfD is life.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I thought it was at first, bit when people took it more seriously and clarification didn't come I thought that at the very least the hyperbole was relatively minor.
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Clearly this just means eaglejarl wants us to do some more economics plots
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- Book Fort
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I mean, narratively speaking, Mari's already subverting Leaf's economy to rely on the Goketsu. And that's not even counting the massive stores of food she's been buying up, in case the Leaf's food production is targeted. Hell, depending on how things are, she might've some something with the salterns (or maybe not, for sheer effect of "I'm not willingly going anywhere near Hazou's insane ideas").Clearly this just means eaglejarl wants us to do some more economics plots
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- France
I'm not very enthusiastic about raising Calligraphy, because as shown in the quote above if we do so then we might suddenly be faced with very reasonably arguments in favor of spending the next million XP raising Shadow Clone up to 50 and then Resolve up to 40 (or vice-versa). Chakra Reserves could rise to 39 and Athletics to 47 without breaking that pyramid either. This would be ideal from a long-term XP gain perspective, but it doesn't sound very fun and doesn't sound it'd help with our short-term strength (thereby incentivizing us to avoid personal risk, etc).
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Calligraphy boost will allow us to artificially level up with more seal research, regardless of what the rest of XP goes towards
We're dead-ended on several projects because Hazou just can't do them safely
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- France
Fair enough. Seal research is generally fun to read, after all.
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FWIW i'm still down to level Taijutsu and CR too before we keep FOOMing
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- Liverpool
Is there a set amount we're willing to divert from FOOMing? I think most people will agree that nothing but what's required of FOOM leaves us behind for a while, but doing doing FOOM is stupid. And FOOM does naturally have diversion points, for the columns if nothing else. So do we want to say allocation of 60% of XP to FOOM feedback, and 40% to other priorities? Akane and Keiko have been sinking everything into the FOOM train it seems (though Keiko has other reasons to prioritize SC, and Akane learned SC last), and the extra XP is starting to get noticeable, I would say.
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- USA
@JustForThis @Inferno Vulpix @FaintlySorcerous @Sentient Tree
Could I convince you to vote for
[] Training Akane: 5 clones (and Yamanaka XP) + SC commitment
instead, for reasons above? Pangolin jutsu doesn't give a mechanical benefit immediately, and banking XP for SC40 means we get there sooner and get to next level of pang jutsu (or w/e) quicker when SC40 gives Akane an additional clone.
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- Liverpool
Clearly this just means eaglejarl wants us to do some more economics plots
I mean, my understanding is that EJ is totally cool with us taking economic action, especially if it's interesting and decisive and could blow up in our faces. It's the meticulous modeling and breaking if said modeling isn't exact and getting caught up in the paperwork and spreadsheets that seem miserable. (Well, miserable for most people. I enjoy that stuff, but as such I never recommend it because I can't properly weigh my own bias).
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Shrug. I'd prefer to just keep ignoring it personally
Hazou is about to make a fortune selling seals tho... Shadow clone is so busted
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- The state of Paranoia
[X] Training Akane: 5 clones (and Yamanaka XP) + SC commitment
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
[X] Training Akane: 5 clones (and Yamanaka XP) + SC commitment
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- The Soviet Republic of Canuckistan
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[X] Training Akane: 5 clones (and Yamanaka XP) + SC commitment
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