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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Ah, now i agree with shroom's interpretation of velorien's severe consequence statement

edit: although i do think the mechanics of social combat are a bit weird. so for evaluating how hostile oro was. probably better to ignore the mechanics and look at the narrative. the narrative is oro intimidated hazou
 
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roobee said:
Ah, now i agree with shroom's interpretation of velorien's severe consequence statement

edit: although i do think the mechanics of social combat are a bit weird. so for evaluating how hostile oro was. probably better to ignore the mechanics and look at the narrative. the narrative is oro intimidated hazou
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The narrative is that somebody else had something Oro wants, and now Oro has it. The stuff in between isn't worth remembering in his mind.
 
Lailoken said:
The narrative is that somebody else had something Oro wants, and now Oro has it. The stuff in between isn't worth remembering in his mind.
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Hard agree - the guy gets wary respect from Kage-level players and has exactly one intensity setting for social relations. Hazō can't stand it and crumbles because he's a lowly chūnin but I wouldn't expect Snuncle to even register the effect he has on him past "no immediately dangerous (to me) response". I wouldn't be surprised to find he is deeply aware and simply doesn't care, or just thinks it's more efficient, but I wouldn't expect it. Information retrieval works better if people are not passed out, and are able to provide information.
 
Lysbeth Succubus said:
Hard agree - the guy gets wary respect from Kage-level players and has exactly one intensity setting for social relations. Hazō can't stand it and crumbles because he's a lowly chūnin but I wouldn't expect Snuncle to even register the effect he has on him past "no immediately dangerous (to me) response". I wouldn't be surprised to find he is deeply aware and simply doesn't care, or just thinks it's more efficient, but I wouldn't expect it. Information retrieval works better if people are not passed out, and are able to provide information.
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... It's kinda spooky how you popped up up right when I said "the whole world can go fuck itself" and seem to be able to read my mind...
 
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Lailoken said:
... It's kinda spooky how you popped up up right when I said "the whole world can go fuck itself" and seem to be able to read my mind...
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And what makes you think I know about the will of the world, hmm? Nobody said I can read your mind, and definitely not through your emotions! In fact I know nothing and have no ideas at all, none at all and this is just a waste of time. Stop asking questions! Do you want to know all my secrets? I don't even have a secret so you can go back with your melty eyes that turn all your mouths into puppets for the voices of monsters!
 
Lysbeth Succubus said:
And what makes you think I know about the will of the world, hmm? Nobody said I can read your mind, and definitely not through your emotions! In fact I know nothing and have no ideas at all, none at all and this is just a waste of time. Stop asking questions! Do you want to know all my secrets? I don't even have a secret so you can go back with your melty eyes that turn all your mouths into puppets for the voices of monsters!
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I legitimately don't know whether I should fall in love and/or be completely terrified.
 
By the way, I was making my way through the omakes and assorted supplemental content and a second read of the whole story despite having work to do I'm procrastinating when a detail caught my eye in the Stunts list - I assume it happened quite a while ago but could anyone with access to their long-term memory tell me why Out-related plot points were phased out, pretty please with cherry on top? My three hypotheses are that it simply wasn't fun to write any more, or that it threatened to take over the story, or that allowing Hazō to trade SAN for power before he made jōnin wasn't such a good idea, but these are only hypotheses on events that may well have happened for wildly different reasons. Having enjoyed these plot points immensely I am now curious, and either I am bad at using Sufficient Velocity or the search function will never let me find any reference to what transpired (lupchanzen are easy to look up... "Out" not so much)
 
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Lysbeth Succubus said:
By the way, I was making my way through the omakes and assorted supplemental content and a second read of the whole story despite having work to do I'm procrastinating when a detail caught my eye in the Stunts list - I assume it happened quite a while ago but could anyone with access to their long-term memory tell me why Out-related plot points were phased out, pretty please with cherry on top? My three hypotheses are that it simply wasn't fun to write any more, or that it threatened to take over the story, or that allowing Hazō to trade SAN for power before he made jōnin wasn't such a good idea, but these are only hypotheses on events that may well have happened for wildly different reasons. Having enjoyed these plot points immensely I am now curious, and either I am bad at using Sufficient Velocity or the search function will never let me find any reference to what transpired (lupchanzen are easy to look up... "Out" not so much)
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Does this have to do with POTO?
 
Lysbeth Succubus said:
I've been waiting so long for someone to say that...
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Shrooms said:
Lailoken: *sees Succubus in the name*

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First, get out of my damned head. Second, I'm probably ridiculously dating myself here in multiple senses, but ASL?


Lysbeth Succubus said:
By the way, I was making my way through the omakes and assorted supplemental content and a second read of the whole story despite having work to do I'm procrastinating when a detail caught my eye in the Stunts list - I assume it happened quite a while ago but could anyone with access to their long-term memory tell me why Out-related plot points were phased out, pretty please with cherry on top? My three hypotheses are that it simply wasn't fun to write any more, or that it threatened to take over the story, or that allowing Hazō to trade SAN for power before he made jōnin wasn't such a good idea, but these are only hypotheses on events that may well have happened for wildly different reasons. Having enjoyed these plot points immensely I am now curious, and either I am bad at using Sufficient Velocity or the search function will never let me find any reference to what transpired (lupchanzen are easy to look up... "Out" not so much)
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Short answer: one GM had a feel for it and another couldn't quite get a grasp on it, so it got dropped as a polite courtesy.
 
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Lysbeth Succubus said:
isn't faflec remembering correctly the default assumption? :)
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Shrooms said:
The joke is, faflec always recalls correctly
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Paperclipped said:
He Recalls Correctly.
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Ugh. I blame this stupid head cold or flu or whatever the heck has been working me over for the last week. The frustrating thing? I didn't get my flu shot this year, not because I'm an anti-vaxxer idiot, but because I never got around to it. Who knew that procrastination could have consequences???

Ugh. Dumbass.
 
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