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- Yes.
OROCHIMARU:
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
- Thread starter eaglejarl
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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
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
We're starting the count at Sealing 40, when you gain access to the stunt. Also note a slight correction: "made at least 100 infusion rolls with no prep days and some risk of sealing failure".
True, although we're looking at an AB day difference by not prepping. Since we'll be dealing with SSA regardless
- Location
- The Void
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Question: can we use sealing note xp to buy these stunts or just regular xp?
- Location
- USA
These are intended to be research stunts. Wording has been corrected to clarify that this is research only.
Just regular XP.
- Location
- Yes.
Remember when the QMs decided that disguise kits equalled immortality?
Chapter 557: His Name Was Inasa!
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Chapter 557: His Name Was Inasa!
The ragged man ran along the beach, the pounding beat of his footsteps hammering at the doors in his brain with urgent command that they yield up their secrets.
"Faster, grub!" he shouted to thin air. "Yes, Proc..." He trailed off, shaking his head for three steps and frowning for ten.
"Down and do fifty, grub!" he shouted again.
He stopped running and dropped into pushup position. "Yes, Pr..." He shook his head and dipped down and up again in an Academy-perfect pushup. "Ha! Yes, Proctor! Yes, Proctor Inasa!" He started hammering out more pushups.
After ten pushups he stopped in front-leaning rest and started laughing. The laughter swelled until he flopped down on his back.
"Yes, Proctor Inasa!" he said, pointing at the sky. "I'm not Inasa, you stinking grub! What's my name, Joji?! Proctor, that's Joji over there! I'm Jiraiya!"
He rolled up to his knees, grabbed two fistfuls of sand and shook them at the sky. "I AM JIRAIYA! I AM JIRAIYA OF THE SANNIN! FUCK YOU! YOU WILL NOT TAKE ME FROM MYSELF!"
"Student of Hiruzen," he whispered, dropping the sand and looking down at his empty hands. "Born of no man, grew up in the Matron's orphanage where Aunty Kobayashi taught me my letters and told me to journal. Broke Yamato's leg, pissed off Sensei. Burned the Busujima compound to the ground in '36, got the...the..." His hands clenched. "Got the...something. Papers! They were red... No, they were white but they had a red wax seal!" His face split in a grin. "HAH! It was a wax seal! The pages were white! The wax was red! And it wasn't '36, it was '37! I burned out the Busujima in '37!"
He rolled on his back again, kicking his hands and feet in the air like a spastic dying cockroach and cackling madly. "His name was Proctor Inasa! He was a chūnin with a scar on his chin and a missing left earlobe. I studied under him at the Academy and I was a jōnin and he never was! I was his commanding officer in the field!" He lay back, the energy going out of him as he struggled once more. "He came to me, wanted to work for me...during the war? No... Maybe? It was the intelligence division. He wanted into the intelligence division. When I was the head of it." He smiled again. "After the war, then. He wanted to work for me, and I accepted him and bossed him around!"
Still lying on his back, he raised both arms and twisted his fingers through handseals. "Boar, Tiger! That's the Swamp of the Underworld! Ram, Monkey, Horse, Ram! That's the Earth Clone! Dragon, Snake, Ox, Horse, Monkey, Boar, Snake! Lightning Dragon Tornado! Ox, Monkey, Hare, Rat, Boar, Bird, Ox, Horse, Bird, Rat, Tiger, Tiger, Dog, Snake, Ox, Ram, Snake, Boar, Ram, Rat, Yang Water, Monkey, Dragon, Bird, Ox, Horse, Ram, Tiger, Monkey, Hare, Boar, Dragon, Ram, Rat, Ox, Monkey, Bird, Yang Water, Rat, Boar, Bird! Water Dragon Bullet!"
He waved an arm wildly as though smearing paint across the sky. "Woosh! See that, you stupid cloud? You would have been torn apart by my fearsome dragon jutsu, but I'm not giving you any chakra! You can't have my chakra!"
He kipped up to his feet, chiseled abs flexing. The spare flesh had been pared away from his body, leaving nothing but muscle stretching his skin to bursting. His soles were toughened and thick from barefoot living on sand for months or years or decades and his hands were calloused from hard-style taijutsu practice against trees and jury-rigged dummies. He leaned back and thrust both fists at the sky, every line of his body tight.
"I AM JIRAIYA OF THE SANNIN!" he bellowed. "I AM HERE, AND I AM MYSELF, AND YOU! WILL! NOT! HAVE! ME!"
Author's Note: Voting remains closed. I'm going to write the plan for chapter 558, which should be out tomorrow as normal, but this kept knocking on my brain.
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Unaligned Player
Agony that desires to meet Extinction
- Location
- Adrift between sanity and madness
- Pronouns
- Shrug
First off: YES!
Second off: I guess Hazo won't really be mentally affected by death if we follow him.
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NARAKA PATH: Forget your memories of life. Become one with the forest of eternal slumber.
HAZOU, WITH JONIN RESOLVE: No.
HAZOU, WITH JONIN RESOLVE: No.
- Location
- Yes.
Keep in mind that Jiraiya was Hiruzen's student, but the person who responded to Jiraiya after he broke Yamato's leg was Tobirama; Hiruzen didn't even find out about this until Jiraiya told him years later (if he actually did say that; his diary isn't clear). Thus three options exist here:
- Jiraiya is misremembering who told him off and/or who Sensei was.
- Jiraiya isn't connecting these two things together and is thinking of them as two separate events despite making them in the same sentence.
- Jiraiya did consider Tobirama to be his Sensei-sensei in addition to Hiruzen.
- Location
- Canada
I know this is rather unlikely if we assume the size of the Nakara Path to be anywhere near that of the Human or Summon Paths, but it could be an interesting interaction if Jiraiya eventually came across some signal fires.
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If only there were some way for a sealmaster to get to the afterlife in order to make the necessary seal...
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- Bronx
Yes, I see, but I'm somewhat fond of Harumitsu
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- Canada
So I thought I would call this out before I forgot to mention it, as no one seems to have specifically brought it up yet and it's relevant to what eaglejarl just commented:
This statement implies two things:
This statement implies two things:
- The afterlife doesn't naturally drain chakra, there are creatures living in the afterlife that drain chakra
- Jiraiya still has chakra
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Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
Wouldn't that problem still have to be solved by opening the Rift? I don't think we've got a way to access other planes unless we want to try downloading the Summoning Scroll again. Unless we confirmed dead people have whatever they had on them when they were alive?
If that's the case, I have some uncomfortable ideas about an extension of the Final Gift program.
- Location
- Canada
Jiraiya was described as wearing the tattered remains of his battle uniform during Hazo's vision quest. Daizen was naked, but there's a decent chance he'd also fallen into the sea of acid at least once and lost his clothing prior to us first seeing him in the afterlife.
Unfortunately, we have no guarantee that the chakra in chakra ink (is chakra ink a thing here, or is it just 'high quality' ink? I might be remembering another fic) will not get sucked away in the afterlife.
We might also need to try a variety of murder-methods in the hope that at least one brings the clothing and delivery along with the soul. The explanation could be something crazy like "explosions work because they 'kill' the clothing along with the person," after all.
Yeah, that'd do it. We probably don't want to give Orochimaru any information on what we're trying to do, however, and we might not be able to rely on his patients as messengers after he's through with them.
Edit: Maybe we could give Final Gift volunteers our message before they walk to their doom, and hope they remember it following their ordeal and don't come out the other side with brain damage?
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- Location
- UK
Eventually:
K: Oh no, I accidentally transported my entire sealing research base through the rift intact!!
N: I figured out how to give anyone my bloodline but you can only use it to draw chakra from other paths and also it's lethal to install... I'm going to have to keep working on that.
H: Oh wow, look at that, MEW is creating walls made of paper and vials of seal-quality ink now. How inconvenient!
EJ: Just go already!!!
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Spector29
It Only Gets Worse From Here
If we just entirely dispense with ethical considerations, I wonder if we could bioseal a malformed seal onto someone and set it to activate shortly after they die, immediately cremate the body, and hope the afterlife version of them has the bad seal and the resulting seal failure causes another Rift?
There'd be no way to guarantee the Rift opened anywhere useful, though...might just be best if we tattooed a cypher only Jiraiya knows and set them off to try and find a beach?
I'm sure regular throat-slitting works to bring the equipment along if indeed the equipment goes along unchanged.
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- The Maple Syrup Mountains
We have chakra ink, yeah. It's high-quality ink that gets infused with chakra in a small ritual every sealmaster knows how to do.
Honestly, if we didn't need Hazou for the Dragonwar, I'd be kinda amenable to sending him to the other side of the portal so he and Kagome can open it from both sides. Unfortunately, there's no guarantee it works and if it doesn't then we might lose the Dragonwar and consequently all of reality.