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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Sir Stompy said:
Since I apparently can't make a sin@le post without fuckin@ it up, I'm @onna step out for the duration. See y'all then.
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I second EJ's advice, and would point to my own (very, very recent) slip-up as evidence that you are not the only player in this community capable of mistakes. We're all mortal, and even the best of us will make mistakes. You're fine, and I would impel you to show yourself the same compassion that you would extend to one of us. You deserve courtesy and leniency just as much as one of your friends.

eaglejarl said:
Hazō clutched at his head as a sharp pain hit him between the eyes like a jud[]e's...ow...short-handled-hammer-thin[]y.
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While I have an amount of a ephemeral influence in Hazou's mind, is there any way to instill in him a sudden conscious affection for Snowflake? ;>
 
As novel as the idea of a meta-problem is, I think it would be safer to refrain from posts until this event has ended.

I suspect the other seal failures would have been much more disastrous with rolls as done, so in some ways this is I feel a charity provided to us.

Also avoidance of the use of the Forbidden Letter entirely has proven rather hard without use of bleeps or [-].
 
DO NOT USE THE SEVENTH LETTER OF THE ALPHABET, OR ANY WORD THAT CONTAINS SAID LETTER IN YOUR POSTS

PLEASE SEARCH FOR (Ctrl + F) / (⌘ + F) AND REMOVE ALL INSTANCES OF THE SEVENTH LETTER BEFORE YOU POST

THIS WILL REDUCE XP LOSS​

Pro tips:
  • Don't make commentary about the situation. Half of our XP lost thus far has been from commentary about the situation.
  • Avoid adjectives. Most adjectives use the format [noun] + "in" + [FORBIDDEN WORD].
Also Jashindamnit I was too late to be the first post on the ...uh. Y'all know what I mean.

EDIT: Whoops @EJ I didn't see your post and I'm sorry for that.
 
Inferno Vulpix said:
I confess that I am not entirely sure how much this affects the next detour, but I am content with the current plan that aims for immediate acquisition of ES 40 so that we can craft our first 3D seals posthaste.
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The main problem is that PEA is a premature investment when we could buy Physique for free

It's only like two weeks, if people don't care they don't care, but that's the concern
 
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Best practice su—estions if you must post: copy and paste any posts into a Word processor. Then use the search function of Ctrl + F to search for the forbidden character. Ensure it is searchin- the entire post. Ensure it has no matches. Do not perform any last second edits to your post. Then paste it over into SV.

If for some odd reason this is too cumbersome and you wish for a visual trick, as a final check look at the shapes of your lines. Any time a letter dips below -round level, so to speak (ex. For letters like y, p, or the forbidden character), you should be on -uard. This will not catch the capital version, but those are easier to spot anyway.

Please do not reply to this post. Thanks and be careful!
 
Wait. The 404'd letter is the first letter of the name of the entity that emptied the space the impersonation kits filled! And since that dweller of the dark is a conceptual entity, losin' part of itself must've hurt it! In a way no ordinary tool may!

Everyone, quick! While it's wounded! Remember the hen— hen— henje.

Ah. I see it has its bases covered...
RandomOTP said:
We're all mortal, and even the best of us will make mistakes
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That is an explanation, but not an excuse! It behooves one to reach for perfection forevermore, however unattainable it may seem! To surrender this effort is a fate as awful as death.

Should I ever misstep, may Lord Jashin strike me down upon the very spot!
 
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(I make this post without the use of the function to correct for the forbidden letter, in the spirit of the failure. Also I'm on mobile and it does not like me.)

What happens if we vote in a plan, and have lost too much XP to enact what was a viable plan at time of conception? Because at this rate, that's a real concern.

PEA, as a useful jutsu that's half cost, seems fine for the pyramid. That said, empathy and/sub were my vote. Penmanship 39 before any more advanced Ink Arts seems prudent. I'm ambivalent between ES 40 now or 50 later (I still want LVL 50 eventually, just in case.)
 
Halberdier said:
(I make this post without the use of the function to correct for the forbidden letter, in the spirit of the failure. Also I'm on mobile and it does not like me.)

What happens if we vote in a plan, and have lost too much XP to enact what was a viable plan at time of conception? Because at this rate, that's a real concern.

PEA, as a useful jutsu that's half cost, seems fine for the pyramid. That said, empathy and/sub were my vote. Penmanship 39 before any more advanced Ink Arts seems prudent. I'm ambivalent between ES 40 now or 50 later (I still want LVL 50 eventually, just in case.)
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This is a concern, but IMO the QMs will simply elect to tell us and offer us the choice of a rewritten Train Us Plan. @QMs your opinions?

EDIT: Or to just do the part of the Train Us Plan that we're allowed to do. Bleh, didn't write the other choice.
 
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Who needs that one letter when you can butcher sentences up into the passive voice, twist them into the past perfect tense, and then stitch them jointly —like the speech patterns of Frankenstein's* misunderstood monster?

*That man never finished medical school, and was a deadbeat dad. Dr. Jekyll (for all his flaws) would've done it better.
Halberdier said:
What happens if we vote in a plan, and have lost too much XP to enact what was a viable plan at time of conception? Because at this rate, that's a real concern.
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What normally happens when we lack the XP to enact a voted-upon Stat Improvement Plan? No improvements. I suspect (but do not know) that it would also be the case in this instance. Narratively, I believe that Hazou may have a particularly fruitless Practice Day (the sort where you cannot seem to do even one act correctly), and become quite frustrated as a result.
 
Halberdier said:
What happens if we vote in a plan, and have lost too much XP to enact what was a viable plan at time of conception? Because at this rate, that's a real concern.
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Haven't thought about it, to be honest. My first th- idea would be to kick it back to the players and provide the chance to re-select, the same as we do when we can't finish an action plan. I suspect that's the one we would, er, proceed with. If not, then another option would be to hold it in place until en- sufficient XP has built up to run the plan.


EDIT: Once more, Hazō experiences the bizarre sensation of an enormous other-dimensional individual -- possibly some sort of bird? -- cursing up a storm.
 
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[X] Trainin' Plan Hazou: None

I have become suitably convinced via Discord conversation that the previous Train Hazou Plan would harm our pyramids and the next FOOM step, so have altered my vote appropriately.
eaglejarl said:
Haven't thought about it, to be honest. My first th- idea would be to kick it back to the players and provide the chance to re-select, the same as we do when we can't finish an action plan. I suspect that's the one we would, er, proceed with. If not, then another option would be to hold it in place until en- sufficient XP has built up to run the plan.
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*amused*

We should make it so whenever the QMs say the FORBIDDEN LETTER we receive an XP back. :p
 
SEALINJ FAILURES:

Hazō drifted throujh the Out for an eternal moment, the minor worries of the Paint fallinj away - he lost himself in memories of the Cracked Mirror and Flickerinj Sun. He dreamt of showinj them the peaceful land of D- the seventh Path; to feel safe in the natural world without killinj everythij nearby. He dreamt of evacuatinj entire peoples to that peaceful land.

His thoujhts twisted ajain t9 Ishihara Akane, the half-step Asura that anchored him to the Paint - 'ah, that's not quite correct yet, is it?'

Far below-turqoise-west, Hazō's meat suit finished its first chained substitution to hopefully escape any sealiNG failurres and obviously failed. Hazō noticed a part of his Self-Potential drift off, now fully separate from his control. The pain plateued after a moment, and drifted away slowly. A deep ache formed between Hazō and his Self-Potential.

The last Hazō could remember was ramen with Harumitsu, hours after his infusion demonstration.

Hazō took a moment.

'I'm still capable of thought, and clearly under some sort of time distortion. What would Sensei do here? Potential was only lost when I remembered.... huh.'

Hazō took a moment.

'Information that hurts usually isn't that daNGERouss'

Hazō took a moment. His eyes slowly betrayed his trepidation, even as some distant part of him watched the meatsuit. (It is SO COOL to see the Bloodline in his meatsuit spark in accordance with his Self, even it doesn't help here)

'I failed to correctly infuse a seal.'

Hazō took a moment, meta-physical brows narrowing in concentration.

'I caused a sealiN&&& failure'

Hazō took a moment. Fear turned to annoyance, and a need to double check.

'I'm still capable-- capable of thought, and clearly under some sort of time distortion. What would KaĢØMmme do here?'

Hazō took a moment. He idly flicked his 'eyes' towards his meats- body - as it finally starts his second substitution.

Hazō collected more of himself, and directed his intent.

'What would Sensei do? His maxim fails here, unfortunately.'

Hazō took a moment.

'I've stopped the loss, so just pass the time, huh?'

Hazō took a moment, and if a small smile infiltrated his face it'd be his secret. It's not often one has a perfect reason to dissacociate and soak in delusional fantasies of their paramours, after all.

(Hazō noticed a moment later that he was unkind to himself, and most people would call it a daydream. He decided to work on that later - who knows how much time he'll be here, after all.)
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I had fun with this, and sorry for the forbidden letters y'all, but I needed them for whatever narrative I scratched up. Most of the thought went into Hazō's memetic flowchart, lmk if you can tell me what he's checkinj for

(Couple fun thoujhts. I really like the parallel of Hazō dealinj with a memetic threat that hurts his soul when he remembers wronj, compared to Jiraiya who's facinj a memetic threat that is tryinj to ***eat his ability to remember***. Dad's a couple steps ahead, as always. Also, tryinj to fit in a "Jouketsu: we live in a society" joke in there somehow. I model his mental state jettinj prohressively worse, since he's subjected to ~300 hours of mild mental torture, costs him a couple xp but he's smart and lives.)
 
I'm pretty disappointed to see this. It should have been obvious by inspection that people won't like it if you intentionally fritter away XP, not to mention how it's self-evidently bad for our objectives in the quest, and to make matters worse you didn't even sufficiently screen your post for accidental uses of the forbidden letter.

I mean, I did expect the latter to happen here or there as people make mistakes. It's come up before, it happens, I'm not disappointed about that. But just, this was ill-considered from every lens I can think of. Are we so contrarian by nature that we'll intentionally hinder ourselves if someone shows us the opportunity but tells us not to?
 
Inferno Vulpix said:
I'm pretty disappointed to see this. It should have been obvious by inspection that people won't like it if you intentionally fritter away XP, not to mention how it's self-evidently bad for our objectives in the quest, and to make matters worse you didn't even sufficiently screen your post for accidental uses of the forbidden letter.

I mean, I did expect the latter to happen here or there as people make mistakes. It's come up before, it happens, I'm not disappointed about that. But just, this was ill-considered from every lens I can think of. Are we so contrarian by nature that we'll intentionally hinder ourselves if someone shows us the opportunity but tells us not to?
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And this is only day one. Imajine how exasperatinj this is joinj to be as the week joes on.
 
RandomOTP said:
[x] Action Plan: Like Reasonable Adults

Voted. Would you be willing to add a thing about training Harumitsu and visiting Mareo?
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Kylinger said:
I'm worried Akane mite kill herself with EM tests. Can you please add somethin like this?:
  • Elemental Mastery
    • Jutsu are sometimes danjerous when used incorrectly
    • We are usin' the air conditioner jutsu very incorrectly
    • Therefore, we should be careful
    • I am a sealmaster, careful to me means diacknosably paranoid to anybody else
    • Use SC and test far away from leaf/other precautions as hazo see's fit
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MadScientist said:
My previous plan name had a forbidden letter.

[x] Action Plan: Like Reasonable Adults
  • Mari check all:
  • KEI
    • Hazou offers them a deal:
      • Adopted KEI ninja will not be required to share their jutsu with other members of Hazou's clan, unless deals are made with the KEI leadership on a jutsu-by-jutsu basis.
      • If a KEI jutsu somehow ends up as purely in Hazou's clan, we will teach it back to the KEI.
      • The KEI stop the prevention of our purchase of tickets, and offer us non-raised ticket prices.
  • Necromancy
    • Hazou and his sensei continue their work for as massive a duration as EJ is comfortable with.
  • Offscreen
    • Continue to visit Mareo.
    • Continue to train Harumitsu.
    • Warn Akane that EM is an air-conditioner not a combat jutsu, so our current level of experimentation with it should be considered novel research and afforded safety protocols appropriate for such.
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Done.
 
I write this while rollin' a t-shirt on roller skates and so by it the rule of three I place it under the troll exception.

I say we should test whether xp can become less than 0, or rolls to the variable max. Infinite power! Anti-experience power! Hazou involved? Never happened! Rewite history! Win-win!

eaglejarl said:
Can't we just post whatever if it's inside an eaglejarl quotation anyway?
I'm pretty sure he used all these words at some time in a different order maybe
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