- Location
- Somewhere
I bet the killbox misses Hazō so much 😢
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 Maple Syrup Mountains
Updated the map, finally! See, the big problem is the Cats. The Cats suck. They have a northern coastline, but also somehow 'wrap around' Squirrel, which we know holds a land-bridge on the southern end of the continent. It doesn't help that I can't actually be sure the Cats also fill out that space between Squirrel and Hornet, really the Cats are just rude.
I've sort of shrunk the Cats horizontally to compensate, because otherwise they'd be way too large. Arachnid also got bumped downwards a little, because that makes it easier for the inlet and the Squirrels and the Cat wraparound to make sense. I expect this to require a fair amount of tweaking in the future, but it's good for now.
(Also, the Squirrels are the first clan to make me give up on keeping all the clan names horizontal. Little rodents just don't work if I give them any horizontal space to work with, so they gotta cut into Cat vertically, and that's the only place their name can go).
Really, the main question on my mind now is 'where are the rest of the Clans supposed to go?'. There's still the center-south of the continent, but we've got like six clans left to go at the minimum. It's bizarre.
I've sort of shrunk the Cats horizontally to compensate, because otherwise they'd be way too large. Arachnid also got bumped downwards a little, because that makes it easier for the inlet and the Squirrels and the Cat wraparound to make sense. I expect this to require a fair amount of tweaking in the future, but it's good for now.
(Also, the Squirrels are the first clan to make me give up on keeping all the clan names horizontal. Little rodents just don't work if I give them any horizontal space to work with, so they gotta cut into Cat vertically, and that's the only place their name can go).
Really, the main question on my mind now is 'where are the rest of the Clans supposed to go?'. There's still the center-south of the continent, but we've got like six clans left to go at the minimum. It's bizarre.
Eleventh Draft: so apparently Cat is really tall. Like, 'spans the entire height of the continent' tall. Rude cats. But at least we have a lot clearer picture of the western half of the continent now!
Tenth Draft: The Archaeopteryx island is now shown, a couple new clans listed up top, and we're now tracking how many Dragons are left!
Ninth draft: Dragons! Also, Arachnid-Cat connection.
Eighth draft: Hares are on a northern peninsula, Bears have northern coast, Cats west of Bear. Possible upwards curve of Bear coast (heading straight west is apparently faster than following coastline). Expedition path being tracked.
edit: Seventh draft, after new information on the Dog coastline and existence of a great lake:
edit: Sixth draft, after EJ generously gave out some information on Porcupine/Hyena/Pangolin borders in discord.
edit: Fifth draft, including some tidbits EJ generously gave on discord and the location of the Squirrels that I scrounged up from the Enma chapter.
edit: fourth draft:
edit 2: third draft, now including a location for the Dogs and clip arts of the various clans.
(There weren't any Mara icons anywhere I could find, so I had to take a photo of one and trace it. Still turned out pretty okay)
edit: updated with a second draft after recent loredump.
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Alright, got a sketch done. Still not sure which side of the Otters the Condors are supposed to be, but with other statements about the Capybara and so it'd be very awkward if the Condors touched the Pangolins and Toads and were south of the Otters.
Still a good deal of guesswork on the details, but this is roughly how things fit together.
Also, the Pangolins border a heckton of other clans.
- Location
- Yes.
Hazou does sealing research there all the time.
MrRobot
In doubt there's always the Sun!
Racoon clan would be an interesting one, i suggest get it for Jman when he gets back.
- Location
- Yes.
AKANE: I need to stop saying things.
I suspected earlier, and am now mostly convinced, that the secret found in Akane's mind was Project Necromancy. I think this dialogue makes a lot more sense if this is Asuma subtly telling us in coded language that getting Shikaku out of Naraka should be a priority.
InquiQual
Emanator of Mythus, the Enigmata
- Location
- The Astral Express
A look into Hazō's internal monologue right now ^
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Sounds like only Day 1, Day 2, and Day 7 have time for Hazou to read notes, as he leaves on day 2 and gets back on day 7. I'm assuming Akane studied day 1, 2, and 3, but hasn't returned yet so no day 7.
EDIT: Altered due to QM info
Hazou: 16 * 1 (Day 7) = 16 XP
4 * 5 = 20 XP
Total: 36 XP
- Orochimaru's Sealing notes #2: S:34, B:122, R:44
- Orochimaru's MedKnow notes #2: S: 0, B: 76, R: 24
- Orochimaru's MedNin Notes #2: S: 0, B: 100, R: 0
- 8 XP
- Orochimaru's MedKnow notes #3: S: 0, B: 10, R: 65
- 13 XP * 75% = 10 XP (rounded up)
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- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If you're going for proper irony value, you may as well include the full exchange.
- Location
- Yes.
Oh Jashindamnit, I forgot the rest of it
MrRobot
In doubt there's always the Sun!
Shikahaku Chilling on being being dead with hsi friends.
A HOLE OPENS IN REALITY AND THE OTHER SIDE THERE'S THAT TROUBLESOME KID LOOKING SLIGHTLY OLDER.
Shikahaku suddenly less chill with being dead.
- Location
- The Soviet Republic of Canuckistan
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Foreshadowing...
Welp, can't win 'em all.
Further evidence for Asuma legitimately trying to mentor us.
So...how would we actually do this? AFAIK the QMs are bored to tears by the things I can think that would accomplish this (trade, otherwise-pointless social events).
Can we ask Ino for advice as an aside in the next few updates and work from what she gives us? Preferably, some plot hooks?
Alternately, we can tell Noburi to get it done. He's already friendly with some jonin so he might have an easier in.
- Location
- USA
Note reading on 1 has already been accounted for after Chapter 561.
Hazou would have had time every day (2-7) to train. Ninja can only run for ~8 hours, the rest was spent at camp. Are you limiting Hazou's clone note-reading to 3x 3-hour blocks intentionally?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
she needs 10s in the med stats first. Also questionable how useful it is since she can only use it on herself but what else are we doin w her
heres a training plan for that purpose, not super attached to it but no one seems to feel strong about her build. should probably ask her what she wants to work on (such as TH perhaps)
[X] Training Kei: What Do You Mean 593?
MedNin: 0 -> 10 (55 XP)
MedKnow: 0 -> 10 (55 XP)
Ranged Weapons: 40 -> 49 (405 XP)
Deceit: 10 -> 15 (65 XP)
13 XP Remaining
- Location
- Book Fort
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Action Plan: How Does the Sin of Genocide Sit on a Heart?
Words: <200
Words: <200
- Sanity check all with Mari
- (Unless Akane exhibits discomfort at Hazou's presence) stay by Akane's side. Clan Head duties, meetings, and the like can all be conducted via Shadow Clone. Those who matter won't mind, and those who will, don't.
- If Akane is discomforted, then perhaps a rotating cast of the other OG Uplift squad?
- Kei
- You've helped Akane before. Please help her again. You have a personal insight into her plight.
- We know what we're asking. It'll be painful for you to discuss. Please help, anyway.
- Privately inform Mari about the estate change. Verbally maintain EM Nuke opsec.
- Misc
- Gaku: Begin inventory about what we would need to move the estate.
- Noburi: Want an apprenticeship with Tsunade? We did a thing. It's already been paid for. We're not allowed to talk about it.
- Kei: What other skills do you want to pick up? Medical? THing? Sealing? Another Element?
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- Pronouns
- He/Him
I'm not sure what this means. Do you mean that Day 1 is the same day as Ch. 561?
EDIT: Okay, you said that outright. Not sure why I didn't get that at first.
You're saying he can read with just prime on the other days? Aight then
- Location
- UK
- Pronouns
- He/Him
What's the rationale behind medicine for Kei?
- Location
- USA
Yes.
I'm saying that he can read with prime for all 6 days, and that every day that he is willing to use shadow clones (I think he can use 5 safely?), he can read with shadow clones if he wants.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
So she can treat her own injuries ig, since she wouldn't want someone else touching her
- Location
- USA
I would say to pick a couple of people (e.g. Shino, Lady Minami, etc.) and develop them more. It's better to be doing a thing with them than to just vote "go make friends with X" or "have tea with Y", because that's mind-numbingly boring.
