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
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I love how our trio tried to use their strongest social traits to try to get things to go their way, and how opposition sometimes landed and sometimes didn't. The back-and-forth vibe made things engaging. The resolution felt to me like "primary goal achieved, political cost incurred and some doors closing, possible new doors opening as a resulting of showcasing Goketsu values". That's also a very engaging feeling to get at the end of a chapter like this.
Fantastic work as always Paper!
Fantastic work as always Paper!
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<jk>How dare he.</jk> We should probably ask our good friend the Condor Summoner about that some day though.
Oh that's going to end on engravings. So packed with symbolism.
This is genius. "I'm slipping it past ya, but from now on the best you can hope for is a claim of being unfit for duty"
Bards of old were believed to hold the power to kill if they insulted you with enough intent. They were known for whispering words to the ways of the world, being supported by deities, and, of course, bearing news of huge import. Hazō has The Speeches, rewrites reality with seals, is maybe-perhaps supported by Jashin, and brought news of the Great Seal.
If this one works, we could dub Hazō the Bard. Jiraiya would be proud.
Oooooooh.
First we're going to set some bait
By their own nasty trap and wait
When they come a-sniffin' we will
Snap the trap and close the gate!
Delay the genocide, save all the Condors,
Delay it for 90 years, and then a bit more!
Always stopping just short of blasphemy as far as Pantsā's concerned, huh.
THE MORI VOICE IS ESCAPING IN BETWEEN WORDS IN HER VOICE AIIIEEEE
Confute confides conflagrations in confabulation between the confident confederates and the conferrers of conformity are confusing, and conflates the members of confluences in this conflict.
But if it helps her not be convicted, I'm convinced these convolutions can help us convene on this: breaks to convention are convenient.
I mean, factually true. I'm the usual mix of annoyed for the heroes and excited for the story that things don't go as smoothly as they could, but this Pangolin is probably not being contrarian for the sake of it. Sense of duty is not a bad thing per se and sticking to it is fine. In most contexts. But I don't think the Seventh Path (or the Human Path really) has good enough sensibilities in the context of "genocide bad." Obviously I'd hate that Pangolin for aiding it (though of course, psychologically speaking, "someone else assumes responsibility and that's how the chain of command works" would make most if not all people agree to participate in horrors) but different world etc. Not that this means we shouldn't try to stop it. We should.
Wait. The gestalt field has a translation for "ministry" but on our Path the word "ministry" was created by Mari out of the verb "minister," is that it?
I love how convoluted this is.
Or I'm overthinking this and they're different words in Elemental-Nationsese anyway that both just happen to translate to "ministry" in both cases.
Noburi is excellent, by which I mean congratulations on writing this, love the drama, love the quick thinking, love the playing on insecurities of a little mammal who's just so out of its depth.
Now the only issue is that Toads are allies of Pangolins.
Is "treason" usually a word in sign talk? or do team Uplift just need that word so often? Anyway, can't help but fear for Kei.
Fine, I'll vote for a plan that asks Ruri for help on that front.
I'm not crying. I'm not.
Weren't they already angry at him personally for the Pantokrator's Eyes-
MWAHAHAHAHA
With respect, it was in the path to get to you, which was only needed because of your incompetence, beakface. With respect, of course. Beakface.
He really said "I will destroy you. Fuck you. Peace ✌️"
Hazō does not flinch, does not hesitate. He is fully prepared to commit treason at a moment's notice. I'm also glad the Gōketsu have a sign for 'treason'. Seems like it would come up a lot.
Uh, what specific oaths did Kei take? Maybe we should have kept better track of this.
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We are so close to being able to give out PCJ without consequences on the 7th path. It's lovely.
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We should probably put some more direct focus on making Kei personally powerful in the near future so she's more challenging to assassinate. RW 59 FS 40 is only a few months away and lets her hit at ~85 without even accounting for MARS debuffs.
But force wall shuriken and any other seals we could give her to bolster her strength would be good so she's more valuable as a Summoner as well.
But force wall shuriken and any other seals we could give her to bolster her strength would be good so she's more valuable as a Summoner as well.
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Does Kei need stunts to use Frozen Skein with other buffs?
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Yes. She currently has the stunt to use it with PKH, which is also her only other RW buff at the moment.
The chapter is actually a mistranslation. More accurately, the exchange went
"Treason (hopeful, inquisitive)?"
"Treason (enthusiastic, imperative)!"
"Treason (hopeful, inquisitive)?"
"Treason (enthusiastic, imperative)!"
Noburi unleashes the power of the barrel
Jashin praise the MfD whales.
As an aside, I enjoy that Noburi canonically never wears a shirt. My man has freed the nipple.
Satsuko would like to know your location.
Neji
Yuno search history.
"dripping" "bare chest" "stethoscope" "strong" "cute" "no pupils arrogant"
Satsuko search history.
"ensr/ysenrrrrrrrrrkw5j6h8%^%^*K%*........................."
"dripping" "bare chest" "stethoscope" "strong" "cute" "
Satsuko search history.
"ensr/ysenrrrrrrrrrkw5j6h8%^%^*K%*...
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Hazō may have been the one to invent the seal-powered search engine, but Yuno was the one to unintentionally invent the government watchlist.
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- The Soviet Republic of Canuckistan
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She's a Goketsu after all.
Meanwhile, in Pantsā Quest…
Kei Wackiness Roll: 4
"Pantokrator fucking damnit!"
Kei Wackiness Roll: 4
"Pantokrator fucking damnit!"
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PANDĀ: Hey, Boss, I have an idea.
(...)
PANTSĀ: Say, Kei, what did your brother get on the last Kei Wackiness Roll in his quest?
KEI: He has a what roll?! [reaches for shuriken]
HAZŌ: [unsummons on pure instinct]
PANTSĀ: That should keep those two out of my scales for a while.
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Now we just need a MfD gacha...
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"You won't believe this! After only 64 pulls, I got a SSR Apologetic Kei!"
"Aw, nuts. I'm on 200, and this is my fifth N Treasonous Hazō. I don't even know what he's doing on the Polycule Limited Banner, considering the lore."
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Man, that Hazou must have gotten up to some shit to be labeled as Treasonous.
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The polycule banner is bait! I know someone who works on their dev team and apparently they're going to introduce an Ami/Mari duo unit soon...
... Which in turn is bait for the Mewramasa Kei alt!
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- USA
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I'm pretty sure they boil down to "we make you give us money in exchange for random stuff that usually isn't what you wanted so you give us more money to try again."
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Ah, yes. "Got-cha" games. I've heard of these