- Location
- USA
These are in the Timeline. Upcoming birthdays are Ino's (late September, less than a month from now in-game) and Mari's (end of October, around two months in-game).
Note: This assumes Hazō averages 10 XP/day.
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 open voting
- Location
- The Void
- Pronouns
- She/Her
We actually won't buy anything for Hazou in that time. People want to go straight to ES 50 and that's not happening for another two months and change. We could buy more sealing with notes XP but we are already capped by calligraphy
- Location
- United States
[X] 6 months
I trust the QMs will have everyone act intelligently and reasonably and any negative circumstances that would plausibly benefit from our input (which does not include "ask Mari then do what she suggests" since I don't really consider that "our" input) will result in the ending of the timeskip.
I think the biggest potential loss is (a) opportunity cost, (b) random things we would have gotten started on had thought of it before the beginning of the timeskip, and (c) the reduced XP gain from various plans - especially ones where the QMs had fun or were written more compactly.
If the QMs will reasonably allow us to predate (b) within reason and without future knowledge as things Hazou got started and tell us the results, and with regard to (c) gave us an above average XP/day rate (above Hazou's average, not a regular ninja) then I have no real qualms about missing out on the potential of (a).
If micromanaging every day of the next 6 months gets us another 200-500 XP (not even factoring in shadow clone training) then there's that loss which would really need to be considered.
I trust the QMs will have everyone act intelligently and reasonably and any negative circumstances that would plausibly benefit from our input (which does not include "ask Mari then do what she suggests" since I don't really consider that "our" input) will result in the ending of the timeskip.
I think the biggest potential loss is (a) opportunity cost, (b) random things we would have gotten started on had thought of it before the beginning of the timeskip, and (c) the reduced XP gain from various plans - especially ones where the QMs had fun or were written more compactly.
If the QMs will reasonably allow us to predate (b) within reason and without future knowledge as things Hazou got started and tell us the results, and with regard to (c) gave us an above average XP/day rate (above Hazou's average, not a regular ninja) then I have no real qualms about missing out on the potential of (a).
If micromanaging every day of the next 6 months gets us another 200-500 XP (not even factoring in shadow clone training) then there's that loss which would really need to be considered.
- Location
- UK
You are probably better off writing 6 months, given that would be a legal vote, so is at less risk of being discarded.
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
[X] 3 months
(And it has immediate benefits to us in that it allows us to explore the deeper caves with full seal support)
My thoughts actually go to that chakra-rich cave in Honey, where our seals were burning out because of the concentrations of ambient mana. If we can ward against that, that's probably a good first step on other faraday seals. Warding against an ambient effect sounds easier than warding against the targeted effects of a Bloodline.
(And it has immediate benefits to us in that it allows us to explore the deeper caves with full seal support)
I'd definitely want to make sure we can safely do Summoning and Reverse Summoning on the other side first, which means once we get the rift open one of my priorities will be to invent diagnostic seals that measure all of the relevant properties Hazou (a fully trained Summoner) knows to be relevant to Summoning. If it all works out, we're basically immune to the path drain effect.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This is just a poll on player preference, not now long the update will last
But yeah it's plausible
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Wait, are you still carrying those around?
- Location
- Book Fort
- Pronouns
- They/Them
If we have them, they're probably chopped up and in storage seals. That'll make the Neck Clans angrier than if we just don't return them.
...we could give them to Orochimaru?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Well, we have to appease Jashin somehow
- Pronouns
- He/Him
We've never needed to chop up bodies to put them in seals before so I don't see why we'd need to start now. Two of them are already beheaded but unless Hazou, in a fit of Jashin worship, decided to carve them up more, that should pretty much be it
- Location
- Book Fort
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Isn't there a weight limit on storage seals?
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
Why again have we not tried to ritually sacrifice our two prisoners? We not often come by chances like this. Was it something about morals? Bah.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Yeah but it's like several hundred pounds (100kg approx 220 lbs). Some bodies might be slightly over it but yknow chakra handwavium
Also most of the dead people are kids
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- Location
- Book Fort
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Oh, in that case yeah. One, maybe two storage seals, no mutilation needed.
- Location
- Fifth Dimension
[X] 6 months
- Location
- Yes.
We don't want to lose Akane. And Kei. And maybe Yuno.
- Location
- Book Fort
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Yuno actually might approve. Satsuko definitely would >:3
- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This was stated in Discord but I'll bring it here:
If major events happen that the players could meaningfully react with, we would cut a timeskip short. For example, "The plan says spend 6 months on this but Dragons are attacking Leaf." Obviously, it's a QM decision what counts as something of import that y'all could interact with, but we do our best to play fair.
As to XP opporunity costs: We usually but not always award at least 1 XP for an update, plus 1 for brevity. Additionally, brevity XP is capped at >=10 days in the update = 10 XP.
The implication of the above is that If you're optimizing for maximal XP then the way to do it is to have the shortest possible time covered in each update. If you can have three updates that all fit within 1 in-universe calendar day then woo-hoo! Those brevity XP are stacking up! On the other hand, if you're optimizing for actually getting things done then you should support longer time periods per update.
If major events happen that the players could meaningfully react with, we would cut a timeskip short. For example, "The plan says spend 6 months on this but Dragons are attacking Leaf." Obviously, it's a QM decision what counts as something of import that y'all could interact with, but we do our best to play fair.
As to XP opporunity costs: We usually but not always award at least 1 XP for an update, plus 1 for brevity. Additionally, brevity XP is capped at >=10 days in the update = 10 XP.
The implication of the above is that If you're optimizing for maximal XP then the way to do it is to have the shortest possible time covered in each update. If you can have three updates that all fit within 1 in-universe calendar day then woo-hoo! Those brevity XP are stacking up! On the other hand, if you're optimizing for actually getting things done then you should support longer time periods per update.