Didn't zabuza track us to snow?
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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We should ask whether they are using civilians to make the eyeglasses. If not, training civilians to do any part that doesn't require chakra would allow them to hire a lot of people, train them, and greatly increase production once they're fully trained.
I'm now imagining the reaction of Hidden Rock to finding out that Leaf has all of its sealmasters working on some massive three-dimensional sealing array that Rock's best sealmasters can't make heads or tails of.
[X] ACTION PLAN: GENERALS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES
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@Insert made an observation on discord: This stone-shaping jutsu molds stone into a clay-like consistency. Deidara notably uses a pretty similar (but likely unrelated) explosive clay molding jutsu.
Still, it leads to some interesting thoughts. Hazou is the first person since the Sage (that we know of) to have seen a Solid Seal. Not only that, he downloaded the blueprints of one of the most powerful kinds into his brain. So:
1: Hazou can download solid seals and remember them instantly and perfectly with Iron Nerve
2: Hazou can theoretically shape solid seals with this new stoneshaping jutsu
The jutsu is noted to be pretty slow at the moment, but if we level it up there's no telling how it improves. Hazou could possibly shape seals mid-combat at a sufficient level, since he can pull them all from IN memory! This is a viable way for him to make Sealing his main offensive stat, with the Stoneshaping jutsu serving as an equivalent to Calligraphy.
WE MUST INVEST EVERYTHING IN THE DUMP STAT
Still, it leads to some interesting thoughts. Hazou is the first person since the Sage (that we know of) to have seen a Solid Seal. Not only that, he downloaded the blueprints of one of the most powerful kinds into his brain. So:
1: Hazou can download solid seals and remember them instantly and perfectly with Iron Nerve
2: Hazou can theoretically shape solid seals with this new stoneshaping jutsu
The jutsu is noted to be pretty slow at the moment, but if we level it up there's no telling how it improves. Hazou could possibly shape seals mid-combat at a sufficient level, since he can pull them all from IN memory! This is a viable way for him to make Sealing his main offensive stat, with the Stoneshaping jutsu serving as an equivalent to Calligraphy.
WE MUST INVEST EVERYTHING IN THE DUMP STAT
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Can't he already do it with paper seals? I'm all for investing everything in the mystery dump stat, but I'm not seeing the unique benefits in this specifically.
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It is only better if upgrading this jutsu makes it faster than drawing out a seal. Even with IN drawing's too slow to do in a round. Otherwise it's mostly just a novelty or a cool trick. And no as far as I know none of our seals use Sealing as the attack stat. There's goo bombs but I don't think Hazou knows it
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FunkyEntropy
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Since this is a timeskip, maybe consider adding a line for Hazo having a message sent to Tsunade that we've got a lead on a medical jutsu exchange, please meet with us at her convenience? I feel like this is a good opportunity to score points with her and she'd probably be upset if we took our sweet ass time informing her.
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added, but I'm not super stoked by the fact that the offscreen segment has become larger than the actual scenes. This isn't even a matter of delegation, like even if we were to pass this off to Noburi for instance it takes up space to tell him about it. Might just wrap a bunch of it up in "Hazou reports relevant things from last update, clanmates act on information" tbh. It means the QMs can largely just ignore it unless we choose to ask about it later and we don't get punched in the face down the line for "neglecting a plotline".
What do yall think?
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I worry that too much delegation will mean that important things get accomplished purely through NPC agency, or at least without enough player agency, trivialising the achievement and making the quest less meaningful.
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This works for me, let me know what you think.
[X] ACTION PLAN: GENERALS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES
I would say it's important enough that I would swap it in for the debt reduction we ask from Asuma in return for the bison meat. I think we should leave it to his discretion.
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Paper blanks take 5 min to draw, per element. Not possible mid combat. We can do mid combat infusions, but there's no reason to ever do that. Maybe for a seal that was so dangerous to have around we couldn't keep it infused for long periods of time.
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There's word space, it's just a matter of principle I guess.
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Ahh but since we will have freed up our time from boring administration work it allows us to go on adventures! I'm sure we could convince Ami to help us on some of them. Think of the banter that could happen while we play social dominance games while at the same time fighting for our lives
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[x] Hazou: Stonecarving Strategy
[X] ACTION PLAN: GENERALS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES
[X] ACTION PLAN: GENERALS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES
Really sorry for the late response, I was figuring stuff out. The above quote was from Chapter 403 (10/26) and it is currently 11/24. Chances are the Exams have finished by now, though the fact that they were delayed with no precise date chosen may have changed things somewhat.
I know that we aren't actually doing it and are just checking to see if this is a good idea, but it...it kinda leaves a sour taste in my mouth at the idea of us
Why are we involving Sakura's family? She's not a Gouketsu, wasn't one of Noburi's top adoption candidates, and she barely even knows Haru (they met right before the Exams started, around a year ago, and I doubt they spent more than the ~1 month they were on a team together).
Are Summoners supposed to attend, xor is this supposed to be Hazou attending in his position as one of the people who has actually seen the Great Seal/Dragons?
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I mean, some compensation would be nice... but also we kinda caused it so in that regard... yeah, might just cut it.
Not sure how many friends Haru actually has, I was under the impression Sakura was one of them since they teamed together. It's how Akane became his friend after all. I think it's fine personally. If Akane thinks it's unnecessary she doesn't need to do it
I was imagining the Summoners would also be there, but I mostly just included that so we don't vote in Hazou going to this thing and then immediately getting kidnapped by Conjura or whatever
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Getting kidnapped by Conjura sounds like a cool idea, though. There are all kinds of interesting deals we would be able to negotiate given some time alone with her and the excuse of being under duress. Do you think you could perhaps maybe do the opposite of ensuring Cannai is there to protect Hazou?
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Wait a minute. If the summoners come, we'll get to meet the turtle boss. Noburi will get to meet turtle boss. Neji's worst nightmare is about to come true!
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Right, but if we're telling Akane to keep an eye on Haru (in the sense of it being an order) it feels a lot like we're telling her to involve Sakura without providing much of an explanation why. My initial read of your plan involved me thinking we were going to scout her for adoption into the clan. Maybe instead we could write something like "Involve Haru's family/anyone he's still friends with" or something like that?
Fair enough, but maybe we could have that part be "Don't attend unless our safety is guaranteed." or something like that? It's not quite "Cannai is there to protect us", but if Cannai expects shit to not go down chances are things will not go down anyway.
I might also point out that in high-level ninja battles like a theoretical Cannai vs. Conjura battle, much-weaker entities like Hazou would get wrecked just from being in the splash zone, so the best defense in such a scenario is to not be present.
I am disappointed that we're not going to work on the underground garden idea to grow high value crops, but I understand that we're already doing a bunch of things.
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Works for me
That's fine
Yeah but as the giga dog Cannai likely has ridiculous Alertness, it could make or break Hazou getting the chance to reverse summon in time
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When Akane rips you a new one for not punishing someone's fuckup enough.
When Akane escapes any and all responsibility and punishment from allowing the subordinate person she's "working closely with" to fuckup.
I'm just saying, I find it super weird the way the whole Haru thing went down.
When Akane escapes any and all responsibility and punishment from allowing the subordinate person she's "working closely with" to fuckup.
I'm just saying, I find it super weird the way the whole Haru thing went down.
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Conjura has spacetime ninjutsu you stinking stinkerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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HAZOU: Why am I turning into an egg?
CONJURA: Because I killed you back in time, villain!
HAZOU: Huh, okay