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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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[X] Training Keiko: FOOM + Alertness
[X] Hazou becomes the adult in the room, somehow

I think Haru and the yaks fits nicely here - I cut enough words to fit it and stopped after it was obvious there was a fair bit of fat on the plan.

Shrooms said:
[X] Hazou becomes the adult in the room, somehow
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  • Defuse the ticking timebomb that is Goketsu
    • Involve Noburi and Akane, and sanity check with them
    • Speak to each person everyone one at a time
  • Mari
    • We know you didn't intentionally provoke Kei. We've already also discussed your past at length already.
      • Simultaneously, However, Hazou also thinks Kei's position is understandable, if not wholly rational.
      • Eventually, the two of you will need to discuss...many things.
        • For now, please be courteous and give her the space she needs.
    • If there's anything Mari feels like talking about, we're always here we'll always hear her out. We want to support Mari if she needs it.
  • Kei
    • Hazou has expressed his thoughts on the conflict when Kei first mentioned it, but it's worth going over again.
    • Hazou's is glad that Kei has become more comfortable with sharing her feelings. It's absolutely progress.
    • Hazou's is supportive of Kei's desire for accountability, but doesn't does not necessarily condone vengeance.
      • (Tone: Not patronizing, genuine questions) We've asked before: What is Kei's objective? To make Mari experience similar suffering she inflicted on others? To ensure she is remorseful? What would a world where Kei is satisfied with Mari look like? What would their relationship look like?
        • Think on what you want, so it can be discussed from there.
  • Yuno
    • Sorry about banishment. We know that feel.
      • We found a new home. We hope it becomes that for you, too. You're our family now.
    • However, Hazou is also clan head, and has to operate with everyone in mind.
      • We don't want to patronize your beliefs. However, Kei prefers treatment as a peer, not an idol. Can you see her that way?
      • We don't harm each other. Mistakes aren't worth hurting someone you love, or someone who's loved by someone you love. Loving someone means helping them move past mistakes, not hurting them for it.
  • Haru
    • Please stop murdering Yaks - Asuma noticed.
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FaintlySorcerous said:
Is there a good way to communicate 'make all this happen but only write the two scenes which are the most fun'?

In fewer words.

Or just throw 'offscreen' in there.
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Yes, ask which scenes he'd enjoy the most and then leave them in the plan, and strip the other two out.

I believe that Velorien in particular said something or another vaguely threatening about the next time we give him four scenes in a plan...
 
[X] Hazou becomes the adult in the room, somehow

Oh no, so many scenes. I suppose these are the fires that need defusing...

[X] Training Noburi: Star of the Show
[X] Training Noburi: I Will Be the Next Tsunade
[X] Training Keiko: FOOM + Rocket Jump!
[X] Training Akane: FOOM + Rocket Jump!
 
[X] Hazou becomes the adult in the room, somehow
[X] Training Noburi: Star of the Show
[X] Training Noburi: I Will Be the Next Tsunade
[X] Training Keiko: FOOM + Rocket Jump!
[X] Training Akane: FOOM + Rocket Jump!
 
Adhoc vote count started by Velorien on Jul 7, 2021 at 7:14 AM, finished with 204 posts and 19 votes.
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@Paperclipped, @Lord Marshal, I'm afraid you were just too late.

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Velorien said:
Adhoc vote count started by Velorien on Jul 7, 2021 at 7:14 AM, finished with 204 posts and 19 votes.
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Voting is closed.

@Paperclipped, @Lord Marshal, I'm afraid you were just too late.

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I reacted as Funny, but that's only because I don't have the Screaming In Kagome attachment.
 
Lampshade said:
That sounds amazing, all aboard the accountability train, starting with the person that intentionally destabilized the team for personal catharsis in the middle of a mission that was critical for the clan's future x)
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I mean, this is a mission she was required to undertake with someone she arguably sees as an abuser (and arguably with some justice), so this is an extremely shallow view of the situation imo

Not that she's 100% in the right or anything, but c'mon
 
Shrooms said:
I mean, this is a mission she was required to undertake with someone she arguably sees as an abuser
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She could have stood her ground and refused Mari as an escort, then. Instead, she only dredged up personal history when she was losing an argument about the mission objective and wasn't about to get what she wanted . . . that doesn't pass my basic bullshit test :/
 
Orisha91 said:
Almost forgot, @eaglejarl @Velorien What color are Mari's eyes?
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Velorien said:
A deep and ominous green.
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eaglejarl said:
Far behind the sun-yellow eyes of one red-headed ninja watching from the sidelines of Yuno's massacre there was a copy of that room. The chairs around the hearth were filled, each with a slightly different version of that same red-headed ninja. Had there been an observer present who was not a member of the Council of Mari, they might have noticed that the membership of the circle was not fixed. Women faded in and out, the details of their clothing and hair and manner shifting subtly as a new presence replaced them in their seat. Sometimes the chairs and couches moved slightly, making room for new furniture and its occupant to fade into existence. Sometimes the chairs and couched moved slightly, closing ranks when existing furniture and its occupant faded out of existence.
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Damn, she changed fast.
 
Lampshade said:
She could have stood her ground and refused Mari as an escort
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But it's as you said: this was a mission critical to the survival of the clan. In the moment, would Kei of all people be brave enough to say, "Actually Mr. Hokage who very much is already frustrated by us, I don't want to bring the most competent social jonin in Leaf with us." Sure, we would understand the sentiment of "There's complex history there" but when it comes to traumatized ninja the sentiment among the general population is very much "suck it up and do your job". Which is presumably what Kei tried/was doing. During the mission, Mari happened to say something very triggering and everything Kei had been repressing because of the status quo of trying to ignore your pain came rushing out. People are understandably a lot less rational when exposed to their triggers, so being like "But is it optimal to have a panic attack right now?" is not a very productive way of discussing the situation, imo.

Lampshade said:
Instead, she only dredged up personal history when she was losing an argument about the mission objective and wasn't about to get what she wanted . . .
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Note that "what she wanted" is "people not living under Yagura 2", not like "getting the last piece of chocolate" or something. I'm also not sure she was "losing the argument", because the discussion was about preferences, not "who is right". Mari preferred to get a guaranteed win, Kei preferred trying harder to remove a tyrant. Which, by the way, succeeded. With Mari's help, no less.

Lampshade said:
that doesn't pass my basic bullshit test :/
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What does this test indicate, exactly? That Kei is lying about something or that she's being manipulative or what?
 
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    • eaglejarl said:
    PSA: Good news, bad news, and worse news about the Great Seal.

    With the healing of Hazō's Medium consequences, his bloodline access has been restored and he has a clear picture of the Great Seal available to him. He waited several days to start looking at it and even then only very carefully, mentally 'looking away' before really taking in the entire thing. There were some minor issues at first but it's been a couple of weeks and he's now comfortable mentally 'examining' the seal as much as he likes. That's the good news.

    The bad news is that he now realizes that, unlike every other seal he has ever seen, the Great Seal is three dimensional. The Iron Nerve stored the relative heights of each segment, the overall layout, and even the texture of the surface, suggesting that all of those factors were important.

    The worse news is that no one that either Hazō or Kagome have ever heard of has so much as mentioned the idea of a 3D seal. It's possible it's even against some of the standard lore, meaning that lore is wrong. That means there is no precedent for how such a seal interacts with the Iron Nerve. Hazō doesn't know if there are important factors that the Iron Nerve didn't store, or if some of the ones that it did store are actually not important.

    One more tiny bit of good news: The Iron Nerve did in fact store parts of the seal that were occluded from the angle Hazō was looking at, so he's fairly sure that his mental image includes the entire thing.
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    Ok, so we have a backup on a nonstandard format that partially fried the drive and the read speed is quite low and reading may damage it. Fortunately we can do distributed computing thanks to cloud providers. As in, use some Cloud ninja as chakra batteries with a Nob power adapter to enable multiple Haz shadow VMs to run in paralell. Just make sure to load each data page into memory (during Ram seal, of course) before instantiating each VM, as the license for the Iron Nerve Drive is single-user and cannot be employed by the VMs.

    GFS (great frozen skein) computation acceleration is still only available for low data rates due to the wireless means of connection. For faster throughput, it may be possible to employ a Yamanaka adapter.

    Under no circumstance try to physically connect the Haz to the GFS. The ports can dock and have dense data lines, but cannot sustain prolonged use and have a significant downtime, aside from the high likelihood of firmware corruption on both units. The Haz should only be directly connected to approved GF units, not to be confused with the GFS.
     
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