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 need more cheat codes
too bad a lot of that is going to be locked behind things like Technique Hacking and high-tier Sealing. Not too much to be doing in the short-term, especially while Hazou heals
Kagome could do research for weapons? But maybe Kagome should be devoting all his time to dragonwar research.
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He's doing reactive armor already, I think that's the biggest thing he should be working on that's not related to Necromancy/Dragon stuff
Hazou is limited by his calligraphy (and extremely limited by his consequences)
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We have a researching sealmaster in training? Jinno, whoever?
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I think this is pretty much over their heads. They already save Kagome time by keeping the explosive seal reserves full so Kagome doesn't need to dedicate time to making more
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How does this look for an estimate of the effort to tunnel to the Great Seal? I am very iffy about the length of an "average zone" but it did seem plausible with the way the jutsu is written.
One of them is doing research into a kind of explosive as a baby step.
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The fact that reactive armor is non-trivial enough that Kagome still hasn't finished it and has noted how challenging it is to decrease the timer means we should not be entrusting it to someone who just learned how to seal one of the easiest seals in the setting
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Are we doing anything to hide the fact that every Gouketsu that has chakra to spare is spending it on shadow clones?
Right now, the one taijutsu-spec in a small clan doing the Piccolo self-sparring thing is perhaps not noteworthy, but once theres 9 copies of Kei, and 7 copies of Akane, and 4 of Hazou, and 16 of Mari, and 12 of Haru, and 10 of Atomu and so forth, people are going to catch on that something is weird.
Right now, the one taijutsu-spec in a small clan doing the Piccolo self-sparring thing is perhaps not noteworthy, but once theres 9 copies of Kei, and 7 copies of Akane, and 4 of Hazou, and 16 of Mari, and 12 of Haru, and 10 of Atomu and so forth, people are going to catch on that something is weird.
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There is FOOM OPSEC in place, yes, so there's minimal concerns about a billion clones being spotted. Also remember Shadow Clone is actually a rare jutsu and it's mechanics are not widely known even in Leaf.
That said, FOOM isn't completely invisible. Someone who's paying attention (so like...Ami, but she already knows) would notice the Goketsu get stronger in weird bursts rather than linearly. Plus, anything that is inadvertently revealed through dialogue.
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One of the main strategies we are considering to use for hiding FOOM is to have the first detour be for everyone to max out deceit. That way can just hide all of our skill development.
Another pretty good strategy to hide all the shadow clones is just do training on 7th path
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Could somebody point me to the place where this is defined?
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Toph Beifong would disagree.
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I'd campaigned for something like what's under "OPSEC issues" here several times (dig an underground facility for training, Summoners train on the Seventh Path...), but I don't believe anything like this ever made it into a winning plan. Honestly, I'd expect Mari, Kei, or Ami to have realized how unreservedly bad of an idea it is to do mass training in broad daylight, and to have figured out a way to fix the issue at least somewhat, especially since Kei had pointed it out IC ages ago. But if they didn't... Oh well.
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It's more of a bad idea the more obvious it becomes. Right now, it's Kei at the Nara compound and Hazō and Akane at the Gōketsu compound--and Hazō hasn't done much actual SC training. Beyond that, if you are happy leaving something that could make or break the clan's future to unspecified offscreen NPC agency, more power to you.
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If we don't have any FOOM OPSEC in place, this is something we need to fix ASAP.
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Do we know what exactly happens to SCs in the Seventh Path if the original isn't there? IIRC, we know that active SCs will forcefully disappear if the original is unconscious or asleep so there seems to some ping signal going back and forth, presumably.
We also know that in canon Naruto kept some of his SCs in the Seventh Path while fighting Pein without issue but canon doesn't necessarily mean it works that way in MfD.
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I'm pretty sure I at one point gave a pseudo-official statement to Velorien about our FOOM OPSEC, but right now I'm sleepy and busy and can't afford to go find it.
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The impression i had was that the original would also go to the 7th path for training. We'll see if they can really afford to be gone that long though.
Also, afaik the 7th path does not exist in canon. Mt. Myoboku is just far away rather than another dimension
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