Cariyaga
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Well, yes. But Akane's the quickest way to break me and, by what others have said, them too, so I figure if anyone's gonna die it's gonna be her because the QMs love to make us suffer. :lol
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
Jello_Raptor
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Honestly, between Akane dying and Noburi dying the difference would mostly be emotional and tonal. Akane would really strike at Hazou's heart while Nobby less so.
Either way we'd do our best to get them back, and we're not stupid. There's going to be a lot of careful research and slow testing to make sure we don't fuck it up either way. That process is likely to be the same no matter who dies.
Hazou, largely by virtue of us driving his subconscious, strongly feels all of the non-eros types of love for Akane and Kagome. Inoue, he respects and trusts deeply, like a parent. He's got a burgeoning kinship with Keiko given how they can relate to each other's methodical mindset. Oh, and he also likes Nobby.
Any of them dying will likely strengthen his conviction to unfuck the world order, and prevent/undo these sorts of personal tragedies, but only Akane and Kagome will completely break him (temporarily, but still).
Edit: The above is my read of the current state of the party, not as an assertion of fact. Even if I've written it as such.
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Storage scroll stresses happen on both storage and retrieval, so we would want to try to get her (or, whoever) in a box first even if we're going to try to hack retrieval before pulling her out.
For real, I think in that case we should have an outright vote on whether or not Hazou will make "try to bring them back" an actual goal or dismiss that from his mind. Each side can make its case (I'm already planning a heartfelt plea for "not descending into the abyss of madness"). We give it the same vote time as between any normal updates. If the bring-them-back vote wins then we accept that research into souls and the barrier between life and death becomes part of his permanent long term goals. If team "no that's crazy" wins then the other side accepts that he's not going to go down that path.
Seems best to settle it cleanly from the beginning.
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Mate, I think you are literally the only person against this.
Edit: In the quest.
I think a lot of posters who post a lot are for it. I'm not sure sure about the posters who mainly show up to log their vote and don't otherwise bother. I'd hope there's a "silent majority" against deliberately diving the PC into that sort of insanity and will show up to steer the ship in another direction.
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Well then your faction would win that vote, wouldn't it?
Does indestructibility prevent decomposition?
It's something we could test out later with vegetable matter, but I wouldn't want to try it for the first time on Akane's brain.
Person who basically only shows up to vote: I'm in favor of "that sort of insanity," which of course I don't believe to be insanity.
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Yes and yes. TPK means Total Party Kill.
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For what it's worth, I'd be a part of the "accept death and move on" faction. I'd probably miss the vote like I have basically every vote for the past 2+ months though.
Mildly related: why are we doing this mission again? For all we know we're risking our lives to sabotage a global peace treaty. There are easier and less evil ways to make money and build contacts.
Also related: my phone battery is below 15% and I'm in a forest, so I'll log back on whenever I find an electric outlet (probs a couple days). I hope we still have a team of six ninjas whenever that is.
Jello_Raptor
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Good to know. Despite the thread going apeshit, take your time.
Also, just note that I'd love to hear the GM reactions to this entire discussion at some point when it's appropriate.
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Jello_Raptor
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Just FYI, I've false-positived on your screaming so much that I'm just going to default to laughing at you. If you're actually in distress and need help, be explicit about it.
Omake: Trolling Not Wisely But Too Well
OMAKE: THE DAY WE LOST OUR TEACHER
Joutarou's sword swiped through Mari's neck and time froze.
Hazou watched every pathway shatter and reform and shatter again, his mind filtering through his library, looking for a way, any way, to make this not be real.
Distantly, he was aware of Keiko screaming.
Lightning surged in his chakra vessels.
Pathways opened up.
None helped.
He squeezed the lightning harder.
Pathways opened up.
Keiko was transforming into ice. Snow swirled around her, a blizzard pouring out of her now empty eye-sockets.
None helped.
He burned the lightning. Compressed it until it grew heavy and dense, and his whole body ached with dull pain perforated by sudden spikes of sharp pain.
Pathways opened up.
None helped.
There had to be a way.
There had to.
His lips moved without his conscious direction, merely an expression of a desperate search function running through his library.
"KAI!"
Mari ruffled his hair.
"It was a prank, bro!"
And then Hazou murdered her.
Joutarou's sword swiped through Mari's neck and time froze.
Hazou watched every pathway shatter and reform and shatter again, his mind filtering through his library, looking for a way, any way, to make this not be real.
Distantly, he was aware of Keiko screaming.
Lightning surged in his chakra vessels.
Pathways opened up.
None helped.
He squeezed the lightning harder.
Pathways opened up.
Keiko was transforming into ice. Snow swirled around her, a blizzard pouring out of her now empty eye-sockets.
None helped.
He burned the lightning. Compressed it until it grew heavy and dense, and his whole body ached with dull pain perforated by sudden spikes of sharp pain.
Pathways opened up.
None helped.
There had to be a way.
There had to.
His lips moved without his conscious direction, merely an expression of a desperate search function running through his library.
"KAI!"
Mari ruffled his hair.
"It was a prank, bro!"
And then Hazou murdered her.
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Just do what I do mate.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Sob incoherently?
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