Oro looks jealous that he doesn't get called uncle but Kagome does.
Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest
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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
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- Yes.
Serves him right, we offered to call him Snuncle and he refused.
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
Orochimaru: "My nephew isn't completely foolish. It appears I must take a more active roll in his education."
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
Petition to call Orochimaru "Snuncle Warcimes!"
- Pronouns
- He/Him
"Pshah. I don't commit warcrimes. I commit crimes against humanity. There's a difference, nephew. I thought you of all people would recognize that."
"In my defense, Snuncle Crimes Against Humanity doesn't really roll off the tongue."
Unaligned Player
Agony that desires to meet Extinction
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- Adrift between sanity and madness
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- Shrug
This. This I love.
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- Fifth Dimension
Don't we not get xp for that? I feel like we desperately need xp.
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
Leaf seems to have a Stunt that allows you to defend others from Aura with your own Aura. Nice. We should pick that up, when we can.
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- He/Him
I'm not sure we have strong reason to believe that this is a Leaf-exclusive rather than Asuma just being a little biased about his home.
[X] Interlude: Mari and her Genin Students
[X] Let eaglejarl write what he wants, we trust him
[X] Let eaglejarl write what he wants, we trust him
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- United States
I propose we maintain our current focus on Noburi's medical skills. The apprenticeship isn't out of the question, but it very well might be if we stop improving and focus on other things. We actually aren't that far off from being good enough to handle a test of this level of difficulty.
Out Immediate Next Steps Should Be:
- MedKnow 47 -> 50
- MedNin 39 -> 49
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Voting is closed right now. I assume it's a joke... right?
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- Pacific standard
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Aodyssey
The glass will not protecc you
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- Chaldea
What happened to Shizune, Tsunade's canon apprentice/help? I'm slightly surprised there's people better at Med-ninnery than Noburi other than, like Kabuto and Orochimaru. I don't think we'd met any other med-nin specs that's also a character with names.
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- United States
Taking a look at his pyramid (thanks again for that visualizer, @Paperclipped, it's extremely helpful!), here is what I recomendable we do:
- MedKnow 47 -> 50
- Resolve 29 -> 30
- MedNin 39 -> 49
- MedKnow 50 -> 59
- Deceit 19 -> 20
- Examination 5 -> 10
- MedKnow 59 -> 60
- MedNin 59 -> 60
- MedKnow 60 -> 69
- MedNin 60 -> 69
BTW we are only 2969 XP away from doing all this. It's surprisingly close. And in the short term, we are only 579 XP away from MedKnow 50 and MedNin 49. The whole operation is surprisingly cheap considering his pyramid currently looks like this:
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Iris-Iven-Ibis
Interested-Idiot-Immortal
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- You know
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- United States
Also, while I'm at it. Here's what I'd do with Akane's next 1998 XP (approx four and a half months).
That leaves her as:
From there, things aren't quite as clear, but personally I would do something like:
And then simply raise her existing useful skills to their cap.
And from there….
Honestly the best thing is to go all in on chakra reserves. She has to cast some decently pricey buffs to make her Taijutsu hit at Jōnin level, so she needs big reserves. Plus, we now know that it's an essential part of jōnin aura, which she's gonna need now that she's in the jōnin-tier. Also, it'll let her be a truly impressive Summoner once we finally acquire her a scroll.
So, I think the next move should be:
Chakra Reserves 39 -> 50 (4766 XP away)
And then maybe leveling that all the way to 59, if it truly does give us something special. That's 5756 XP away, FYI.
Thoughts?
- Alertness 58 -> 59
- Athletics 50 -> 59
- Alertness 59 -> 69
- Phoenix Rebirth 30 -> 40
- Flame Aura 30 -> 40
- Physique 40 -> 50
That leaves her as:
From there, things aren't quite as clear, but personally I would do something like:
- Chakra Reserves 32 -> 39
- Rapport 10 -> 20
- EDIT Basan's Glide 1 -> 10 (for pyramid)
And then simply raise her existing useful skills to their cap.
- Rapport 20 -> 29
- Empathy 20 -> 29
- Deceit 20 -> 29
- Taijutsu 54 -> 59
- Substitution 23 -> 29
And from there….
Honestly the best thing is to go all in on chakra reserves. She has to cast some decently pricey buffs to make her Taijutsu hit at Jōnin level, so she needs big reserves. Plus, we now know that it's an essential part of jōnin aura, which she's gonna need now that she's in the jōnin-tier. Also, it'll let her be a truly impressive Summoner once we finally acquire her a scroll.
So, I think the next move should be:
Chakra Reserves 39 -> 50 (4766 XP away)
And then maybe leveling that all the way to 59, if it truly does give us something special. That's 5756 XP away, FYI.
Thoughts?
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- United States
Errr.... turns out the pyrmaids don't show you if you're missing any essential blocks (they just stay green).
New Plan:
And then, we're all set to acquire a jōnin-aura.
Now, that's probably enough Presence and definitely enough resolve, but we may need a little more "soul" to actually get the unlock. CR 40 is where newbie jōnin live, after all.
Given the state of the pyramid, raising CR to the 40s takes an additional two level thirties, unfortunately. So we'd have to do something like:
It will also give us lots of room for growth on her pyramid, with it ending up as:
New Plan:
- Alertness 58 -> 59
- Athletics 50 -> 59
- Alertness 59 -> 69
- Phoenix Rebirth 30 -> 40
- Flame Aura 30 -> 40
- Presence 10 -> 30
- Basan's Glide 1 -> 30
- Physique 40 -> 50
And then, we're all set to acquire a jōnin-aura.
- Chakra Reserves 32 -> 39
- Presence 30 -> 39
Now, that's probably enough Presence and definitely enough resolve, but we may need a little more "soul" to actually get the unlock. CR 40 is where newbie jōnin live, after all.
Given the state of the pyramid, raising CR to the 40s takes an additional two level thirties, unfortunately. So we'd have to do something like:
- Chakra Reserves 39 -> 40
- Empathy 20 -> 30
- Fireball Inversion 1 -> 30
- Rapport 10 -> 20
- Cooking 1 -> 10
- Firefly 3 -> 10
It will also give us lots of room for growth on her pyramid, with it ending up as:
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- America
Bad news the Hokage is lupchanz'd? Extremely blunt antimemetics? Twice in one chapter with Orochimaru overlooking details from the same event until it was brought to his attention.
Why do we remember and are able to think about the Nagi Island seal: playerbase powers; heard about it secondhand (before effect started hitting?); something powerful working its way downwards to redact what Pain did, starting with the strongest ninja (in Leaf or across the continent).
What if the Great Collapse was aimed or manipulated to make sure the written records of Pain's creation were destroyed.
Noumero
Omit Needless Words
Orochimaru was being so relatable there. I do love my career choices.
(And with this enigmatic comment, I fade back away.)
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
[X] Interlude: Akane and her Genin Team's Big Mission
Great chapter. I liked how the overall brainstorming with Asuma came out. We didn't step into anything we shouldn't have and we learned multiple things from him. For instance, I think we finally got the straightest answer about how jōnin auras work, though said answer is not yet confirmed as correct. It makes sense that the Sarutobi Clan would have some insight into it though, given the masterful control that Hiruzen had over his own. On the other hand, chakra reserves alone doesn't explain why Keiko can already do it a tiny bit while Hazō apparently can't. They both have it at 30.
The reminder if how much institutional knowledge was lost in the Collapse is painful though. That Leaf is still a great power in the EN at all, puts into perspective how much of a superpower it really was under Hiruzen, even if you discount the mere numerical amount of S-rankers and jōnin. In many ways really isn't the place we got adopted into anymore, and not just because we managed to raise the relative social status and standard of living of clanless and civilians.
A bit scary that Tsunade is leaving. Even beyond the Basement mission, Tsunade was an important counterbalance to Orochimaru in Leaf and one of only three S-rank protectors. It means that Leaf proper just became significantly less defended. And that right before the Chūnin Exams.
The Basement mission... Could have gone worse. I don't know what Orochimaru's character sheet looks like, but I assume his intimidation is relatively high on the pyramid and his deceit quite a bit less so.
Great chapter. I liked how the overall brainstorming with Asuma came out. We didn't step into anything we shouldn't have and we learned multiple things from him. For instance, I think we finally got the straightest answer about how jōnin auras work, though said answer is not yet confirmed as correct. It makes sense that the Sarutobi Clan would have some insight into it though, given the masterful control that Hiruzen had over his own. On the other hand, chakra reserves alone doesn't explain why Keiko can already do it a tiny bit while Hazō apparently can't. They both have it at 30.
The reminder if how much institutional knowledge was lost in the Collapse is painful though. That Leaf is still a great power in the EN at all, puts into perspective how much of a superpower it really was under Hiruzen, even if you discount the mere numerical amount of S-rankers and jōnin. In many ways really isn't the place we got adopted into anymore, and not just because we managed to raise the relative social status and standard of living of clanless and civilians.
A bit scary that Tsunade is leaving. Even beyond the Basement mission, Tsunade was an important counterbalance to Orochimaru in Leaf and one of only three S-rank protectors. It means that Leaf proper just became significantly less defended. And that right before the Chūnin Exams.
The Basement mission... Could have gone worse. I don't know what Orochimaru's character sheet looks like, but I assume his intimidation is relatively high on the pyramid and his deceit quite a bit less so.
Is there any chance that Noburi might want to reprioritize his long term goals now?
I never quite managed to follow/remember the math behind FOOM. I assume that in the medium term Resolve can't be increased and SC skill doesn't need to be?
Is this just because it's already a 40? Physique isn't very useful and I'd prefer to raise a good stat. Her fighting style is more or less defunct with the buff update.
We are pyramid limited on raising Resolve more. So we need to level other stats to keep raising Resolve. SC is only effective to raise past 40 when Resolve is 120, which will probably never happen.
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