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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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[X] EJ writes what he wants loosely based on the plans that were put forward with reasonable sanity-checks from relevant individuals
 
[X] EJ writes what he wants loosely based on the plans that were put forward with reasonable sanity-checks from relevant individuals
 
[X] EJ writes what he wants loosely based on the plans that were put forward with reasonable sanity-checks from relevant individuals
 
[X] EJ writes what he wants loosely based on the plans that were put forward with reasonable sanity-checks from relevant individuals
[X] EJ writes what he wants based on the plans that were put forward
 
Adhoc vote count started by eaglejarl on May 7, 2022 at 3:17 PM, finished with 144 posts and 25 votes.
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*looks at results: Eeeeeee!*
 
[X] Assign this vote to the least voted plan in chapter 100, then retroactively update the story from there up to current date.
 
Gev said:
[X] Assign this vote to the least voted plan in chapter 100, then retroactively update the story from there up to current date.
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Unfortunately no surviving records exist of this plan. The second-least-voted action plan for the Chapter 100 cycle is this:
Kiba said:
Resurrecting my action plan for Thursday.

Got rid of the chore stuff, and changed Hazou's focus. Note that this plan doesn't account for Zeppelin and we may need massive change to account for options that opened up.

[X] Action Plan: At Last, Free Time!

Goals:

1. Make sure we're safe
2. Recuperate
3. Research and Train

Altitude:

  • Hazou is focused on training and research, trying to find ways to even the odd.
  • Hazou picked up an interest in all thing mechanical and the working of the natural world.
Methods:
  • If there are free time or downtime and that there aren't more important tasks, Hazou will initiate self-study.
    • Gives us in-character reasons for Hazou to utilize scientific knowledge to assists him with sealing stuff.
    • So Hazou won't be totally ignorant of how the world operate, especially politically and socioeconomically
    • Hazou may make attempt to observe the natural worlds, work out thought experiments, etc. Be the Natural Philosopher to Unlock Cosmic Power!
  • Activities are listed below in term of priority

  1. [*]The team do an After Action Report on the Konoha clusterfuck and the Arikada mission.
    • Hazou will do his report first before asking the team.
    • Everyone will take their own notes individually, with their own perspective to maximize information available. OOC: Avoid false memories and bias.
    • In particular, some of the things that the hivemind/Hazou noticed:
      • We need to work on OPSEC, hard.
        • Entire team sans Inoue got caught by ninja patrol in Sarubetsu.
        • Bloodline secrets revealed by hyper-intelligent "doctor" in Sarubetsu.
        • Hazou & Noburi not noticing Kabuto's manipulations at first.
        • Hazou freaked out in the library and gave away Iron Nerve secrets.
      • Social Mistakes
        • Being really forward with the Sandaime regarding Akane. Like, we sidelined the meeting with "Is Akane OK?" when Sarutobi told us to report.
        • Yelling/assaulting Asuma.
        • Disrespecting/fucking up with Jiraiya.
      • Manipulation
        • The Hokage and his "grandfather" face.
        • Kabuto manipulating us in the first and last meeting.
        • Jiraiya having us socialize with our social peers to make "friends". (social ties for further control)
        • Nara and his interest in our methods.
        • Ino flirting with Hazou.
        • Lee's "YOUTHNESS" and seeming less intelligent than he actually is.
        • Jutsu trainers controlling us by making us afraid of her weird persona.
        • Auntie and her "calm down" attitude.
        • The "showing off" of Konoha and the "wow Konoha is super-awesome/rich/cultured" attitude it conveys.
        • Jiraiya made Akane a leaf-nin without her permission, therefore tying the team further with Leaf.
    • In a team meeting, combine and collate details, talk about how the missions go, what they did wrong or right, how they can do better, etc.
      • Hazou will ask Inoue-sensei for political training
      • Hazou will learn proper manners when speaking to people in positions of power.
        • Make use of Iron Nerve to do proper faces for certain circumstances.
      • Be more willing to communicate with the team instead of assuming that it's not necessary.
    [*]Discuss the Intel Checklist.
    • The checklist is woefully inadequate. It needs to be beefed up, either by the Hivemind or by his teammates.
    • Biggest flaw of the checklist is that it entirely ignored the civilian equation, especially politics.
    • Discuss whether or not it can or should be executed for Iron, and if so, how.
    [*]Start on training plans.
    • If Noburi goes into Yuni to study medicine:
      • Express concern of Hashimoto's location being compromised by Mist Intelligence, unless this is already addressed.
      • Hazo still support Noburi's desire to study medicine, but he is worried for Noburi and the rest of the team's safety by going to a known location.
      • If the team decide to go for it anyway, prep a security plan with the team. An additional member of the team may be needed in-town to watch Hashimoto's location while Noburi train.
      • Be careful not to step on the toes of any agents of Jiraiya who may be residing in Yuni. Usually, this means reporting any suspicious persons, and letting Mari handle it.
      • Ask Noburi how to earn Hashimoto's favor and make her less annoyed with us. Offer to help with that. Some options:
        • Cash
        • Macerator seal
        • Information
      • Discuss with Noburi how to disguise the barrel and avoid suspicion
    [*]Ask Keiko if she want to discuss Pangolin with Hazou and/or team:
    • Use Clear Communication no Justu
    • Maybe discuss pangolins with Pandaa too; would mean summoning him.
    • Broach the importance of finding summons to help defend the team, especially military oriented pangolins.
    • Ask what kind of rewards that her allies would like that the team and/or Hazou could help with.
      • Ants
      • Spices
      • Work of Arts
      • Books
      • Exotic weapons
    [*]Technique Testing
    • Try to make MEWs underwater. See what happen.
    • Brainstorm with the team about making creative use of their existing techniques.
    [*]Hazou will work with sealing for Kagome.
    • Offer to make a seal research facility if he hadn't already.
    • Discuss Kagome's sealing ideas.
    • OVERIDE with a winning sealing project with greater than 4 votes. Otherwise, continue below.
      • Discuss the highest priority projects first: Skywalker Seal and the Zeppelin project.
        • Discuss which one is more feasible, the seals required, etc.
        • Demonstrate hot air balloons(do it for the team as well!)
      • Explain the importance of flight for stealth and safety in border crossing and travel
      • Discuss other low-priority sealing project ideas.
        • Macerator 2.0
        • Skyhoppers
        • Goo Bomb
        • Silence Mine
        • Banshee Slayer
        • Alarm Seal
      • Do research on the big projects sorted by difficulty of project.
      • If there are some time, do smaller priority projects as well.
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in contrast to the winning plan, which was this:
faflec said:
[X] Action Plan: Lemons to Lemonade
  • Finish our two day's punishment duty.
  • Finish the After-Action Report.
    • Do it when Inoue-sensei calls us for it.
      • OPSEC mistakes:
        • Entire team sans Inoue got caught by ninja patrol in Sarubetsu.
        • Bloodline secrets revealed by hyper-intelligent "doctor" in Sarubetsu.
        • Hazou & Noburi not noticing Kabuto's manipulations at first.
        • Hazou freaked out in the library and gave away Iron Nerve secrets.
      • Social mistakes:
        • Interrupting Sarutobi's orders to report with "Is Akane OK?".
        • Yelling/assaulting Asuma.
        • Disrespecting/fucking up with Jiraiya.
      • Manipulation:
        • The Hokage and his "grandfatherly" face.
        • Kabuto manipulating us in the first and last meeting.
        • Jiraiya having us socialize with our social peers to make "friends". (social ties for further control)
        • Nara and his interest in our methods.
        • Ino flirting with Hazou.
        • Lee "flirting" with us and seeming less intelligent than he actually is.
        • Jutsu trainers controlling us by making us afraid of her weird persona.
        • Auntie and her "calm down" attitude.
        • The "showing off" of Konoha and the "wow Konoha is super-awesome/rich/cultured" attitude it conveys.
      • Get political training from Inoue-sensei.
      • Learn proper manners when speaking to people in positions of power.
        • Hazou specifically: Use Iron Nerve and make a "stoic non-talker" face. Master use of face when in duress.
      • Be more willing to communicate with the team (our Kabuto fuckup was, in part, due to Hazou talking with Inoue only).
      • Work on recognizing manipulation attempts:
        • Figure out people's goals (e.g., Kabuto is a bloodline researcher; he wants to learn more about bloodlines).
        • Ask yourself "How does this person's actions further their goals?" (e.g., Kabuto is offering Noburi medical tutulage; he wants to endear himself to us so we share our bloodline secrets).
  • Noburi and Medic Training:
    • Ask Inoue-sensei if it's at all likely hunter-nin are in Yuni and/or if they're looking for us given our history with Iron.
      • Do NOT suggest Noburi should not go. Suggest that we should be extra cautious.
    • If Noburi thinks he should go to Yuni:
      • Bring up Noburi disguising his barrel as a travel sack or appropriate covering.
      • Suggest Noburi obfuscate his movement through clever Henge use:
        • Noburi + Inoue go to Hashimoto's.
        • When Noburi leaves, Inoue creates a Water Clone Henge'd as Noburi.
        • Inoue & clone leave.
        • Repeat when Noburi leaves (at a set time?).
      • Ask Noburi what things Hashimoto might want (ryo, Macerators...) and offer to help with getting these things.
  • Keiko and Pangolins:
    • Broach the subject with her. Use Clear Communication no Jutsu.
    • Suggest that she contract a military combat team.
    • Offer to help get her things pangolins would like (ants, artwork, spices, weapons/seals?) as tribute when speaking with potential contracts.
      • Do the same thing with Panchipaama.
  • Kagome and sealing projects:
    • If not already done, offer to build a sealing research place.
    • Major Projects: Skywalker seals and Zeppelins
      • Skywalker Seals.
        • Point out the absurd value of flight in the EN.
        • Point out we already have the seals necessary (5SB + LBF); they just need modifications.
          • 1SB: Modified 5SB such that only the central seal is necessary + the seal requires no set up time (automatic on/off).
          • Ping seal: Modified LBFsuch that seals are activated via chakra pulse instead of the disturbance of a beam of chakra.
      • Zeppelins.
    • Minor Projects:
    • Sealingtech Research Projects:
    • Ask his opinions of these projects (ask the team, too!).
      • Focus on major projects if viable. Sort based on ease of creation (e.g., if Skywalker seals take less time, work on those).
      • If neither is viable (or as time permits) work on minor projects or sealingtech research projects. Again, work on the viable project that is easiest to produce.
  • Ask the team if there are any projects they've thought of & want to work on:
    • Do this when we talk about our sealing projects.
    • Ask if they can think of any creative applications of things we already have or could easily get
      • Especially things that would give us advantages in a fight, or things that might increase our survival chances.
      • Kagome talked about seal projects back in Tea...
  • Other things:
    • Get our supplies back up to speed.
      • Ask Kagome about combining PMYF with stupid boxes (so we can throw the boxes instead of having to rely on the activate + run method).
      • Ask Noburi if any nearby wild herbs/plants can be used for medicinal purposes. Reference the book we bought in Konoha.
    • Jutsu experiments:
      • Try casting MEW underwater. Maybe we can make eventual underwater bases.
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Obscene plan lengths aside, they both have a lot in common and would both have likely led to the invention of Skywalkers and the rest of the story henceforth. So, uh... there might not actually be much of a difference.
 
Inferno Vulpix said:
Unfortunately no surviving records exist of this plan. The second-least-voted action plan for the Chapter 100 cycle is this:

in contrast to the winning plan, which was this:

Obscene plan lengths aside, they both have a lot in common and would both have likely led to the invention of Skywalkers and the rest of the story henceforth. So, uh... there might not actually be much of a difference.
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Obviously, the time loop would not be stable otherwise.
 
Inferno Vulpix said:
Unfortunately no surviving records exist of this plan. The second-least-voted action plan for the Chapter 100 cycle is this:

in contrast to the winning plan, which was this:

Obscene plan lengths aside, they both have a lot in common and would both have likely led to the invention of Skywalkers and the rest of the story henceforth. So, uh... there might not actually be much of a difference.
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@eaglejarl & @Velorien thank you so much for getting us to move away from this style of plans. I can't imagine how hard they where for plan makers to write and maintain. Plus it must have been even harder for the two of you to turn these behemoths into chapters
 
Hm. Tad late, but I would have voted for this. Still probably unwise, but uh. Its EJ.

[] EJ writes what he wants loosely based on the plans that were put forward with reasonable sanity-checks from relevant individuals
 
What are the themes of MfD as a story?

Please tag serious answers as such because while the humorous potential of this is kagomic in size (of the explosion) I also want to know what you think
 
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Satsuko said:
What are the themes of MfD as a story?

Please tag serious answers as such because while the humorous potential of this is kagomic in size (of the explosion) I also want to know what you think
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Better a bleeding heart than no heart at all. Let the well-worn injustices of the world bleed your heart forevermore. Do not let rote cruelties numb your heart's compassion. Such idle apathy may shield your heart from the agony of awareness, but it will kill your soul and perpetuate the caustic cycle. Bleed, bleed, bleed. Lift high the sky, and smile under the strain. Because you keep the light alive for just one more day.
 
Ye, witness the butchers of this world! Behold the base indifference of humanity towards its own suffering!

Know that the nature of the world is to Despair, and be enlightened!

Be enlightened, and change the world.
 
Satsuko said:
What are the themes of MfD as a story?

Please tag serious answers as such because while the humorous potential of this is kagomic in size (of the explosion) I also want to know what you think
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don't let your upbringing affect who you are now or what you could be, family is not determined by blood but by actions and actions are best when done for what you belive in.
also is only treason if they catch you and they will only catch you if they don't need you, so make yourselve indispensable.
 
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