Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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- naruto rational 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 open voting
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That's an interesting take considering we have a secret that we desperately don't want other people to find out about that would be crazy useful at large. I personally respect the moxie it takes to suggest this but lack the courage to vote for it
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Several actually, Asuma respected our decryption of Minato's notes as a clan secret. We also can't share the Pangolin stuff without pissing the pangolins off. We already gave away Jiraiya's notes, which tbf several Clans shared secrets in the same contest, namely the Akimichi
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Goketsu Clan Organizational Structure
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- Leader: Hazou
- Responsible for inspiring and directing the clan.
- The leader adds their Presence AB to the organisation's Loyalty score.
- Spymaster: Mari
- Responsible for intelligence gathering and counterespionage.
- The spymaster adds their Deceit AB to the organisation's Intelligence score.
- Administrator: Gaku
- Responsible for managing the clan's internal affairs.
- The administrator adds their Management AB to the organisation's Bureaucracy score.
- Ambassador: Akane
- Responsible for interacting with the common people.
- The ambassador adds their Rapport AB to the organisation's Reputation score.
- Diplomat:
- Responsible for building relationships with other clans and groups of interest.
- The diplomat adds their Empathy AB to the organisation's Influence score.
- General: Yuno
- Responsible for the clan's military readiness.
- The general adds their Intimidation AB to the organisation's Might score.
- Treasurer: Fuyuki (adopt first)
- Responsible for handling the clan's lands and material assets.
- The treasurer adds their Examination AB to the organisation's Wealth score.
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He's a boneless spymaster being trained by Mari at the moment
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Hm. One of the new people? We can have them train up their Examination stat, and have them tested every week by Gaku and Kei?
I'm inclined to say Snowflake, but I worry that will place her in too similar of a role as Kei (thus making her feel like a mere echo of Kei, rather than her own person).
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I would switch these things, not only because of the mechanical benefits (Akane's Rapport AB is 1; her Empathy AB is 3) but because WoG says that Atomu's injuries makes him unrespectable in the eyes of the more traditional clans, which matters less to what I presume are civilians.
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I think that's exactly the point though. It's a political statement
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It also fits the narrative better. The "common" people (civilians, first generation ninja) on the Goketsu estate already go to Akane for not-Hazou-worthy troubleshooting. Akane already plays with KEI genin. And, judging by Ami's and Asuma's comments, it seems like damn near everyone in Leaf likes Akane, or finds it hard not to like Akane.
This may be a case where the mechanics of the quest don't mesh well with the narrative of the story.
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We just need to buy her some socials
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Which... wait, doesn't she have a chunk of XP left after finishing up Resolve? Let's use that.
Edit: Ami, herself, has said that Akane needs a higher deceit score. Let's raise Deceit and Rapport.
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It's certainly a worthy consideration
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Hey, y'all, got some swanky action plans here.
Anybody wanna vote? Or is there anything holding you back from voting, now that Sealing has been pushed to its own vote?
Anybody wanna vote? Or is there anything holding you back from voting, now that Sealing has been pushed to its own vote?
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Ignoring the obvious answers of "Make a Shadow Clone do it!"...adopt Fuyuki and have Kagome and/or Kei train them. Kagome's already teaching him, he's interested in maths stuff, and he's most certainly loyal enough that we can glue him to our flaming wagon.
Alternatively, we find some tax collectors or somesuch that crossed the wrong people for reasons we don't take offense to. Like Eiichi, only more morally upstanding.
They are going to eat Atomu alive. Over a political statement that most people in power will read as either "the Goketsu Clan is so weak that they have to send a crippled mudfoot to negotiate" or "the Goketsu Clan snubs us by sending this mudfoot cripple to speak as though he were our equal".
If you want to send a statement, sure: put him, or Reo, or one of our other ninja, in as Head Treasurer and train them up for it. Don't do it in a way that makes Atomu have to regularly interact with people who see his very presence as an insult/weakness, in a situation where he must convince said people to work with the Goketsu Clan. He will go missing-nin for fear of his sanity.
Don't...not hate this, but is this part of the FOOM path?
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Vote for me to consult the whole plan on it :^)
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I will vote for your plan IFF you get rid of the Neck thing, it's weird that we're even having the conversation with everyone in the clan + the unadopted ninja. I had been under the impression that it was a Team Uplift mission/adventure/catastrophe.
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Shit, that's a really good idea, I'll add it here in a moment!
I want to keep Akane as the Ambassador to maintain the narrative, but I'd be willing to hold off on assigning a Diplomat until we can get someone trained up. We've gone without for a while, we can go without for a little while longer.
In my action plans, I could change "Hey Mari, wanna train Atomu" to "Hey Mari, would Atomu be able to be an effective diplomat and handle the inherent stresses it would bring him, as a ninja who's been permanently injured?"
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Akane is about to hit detour 1 after the resolve bump goes through, Rapport is a decent 20
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That is better, but I would include "Also make sure Atomu himself is willing to subject himself to such horrors that would make him want to sell his life to Orochimaru's Basement".
Seems reasonable, though if we are going to negotiate things we should make sure XYZ is going to do this before we commit to training.
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Requesting Clarification on Tonal Reading: biting sarcasm, or well-intended snark?
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Hmm sure OK. I wondered if any of them were interested in going but I can remove that.
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Updated to reword the Mari segment. Changes in cyan. Word count optimization will begin tomorrow.
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We have the XP to raise deceit or rapport up to 20 now. Is there a good reason not to do in this plan?