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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- USA
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- He/Him
Hazō was talking about Leaf and Rock. He never said that there has been zero genocide on the Human Path.
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- Pacific standard
Oh my God. Amazing. I need to do a reaction post. Will edit in later
Noumero
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Wait wait wait, what the hell is the vessel doing? It was not instructed to have emotions on the topic! What does it think—
Oh. Oh, Mari told him to do it. Nevermind then. This is a brilliant tactic that I merely lack the context, the vision, to properly appreciate the implications of. In fact, it's probably the only reason the plan is going to work at all. I feel foolish for ever doubting it, and would like to retract my statements above.
Something I've been thinking about lately: how much do culture and religion differ between civilians and ninja, and between the ninja villages and rural hinterlands? e.g. do the Hagoromo lead and define religion for the civilians of Leaf as they do for the ninja? Surely their influence over Fire outside Leaf is much weaker.
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- Temporally? Now.
There's a fantastic excuse from Pantsaa's perspective: letting the dragon's kill off a bunch of other clans. The pangolins are pretty far away from where the dragons are now. So long as the dragons are eventually defeated, every dead clan is a net positive for the pangolins.
Noumero
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Yeah, not even operating by Crocker's Rules, smh.
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
Honestly, if it weren't for the GS being located in Arachnid, I'd say leave the Rats be. Eventually they'll see hundreds of their brothers and sisters sprint into the open maw of the Beautiful Dragon, and then they'll come begging for help.
If it weren't for the innocent casualties in Arachnid, I'd say that we let the Rats suffer the consequences of their own actions.
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Considering how much he hated rock after that, I'm more suprised that it took merely 2 minutes.
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- Europe
Enma, Asuma and Hazou are all at the Conclave. At least Enma should be trust worthy enough.
Orochimaru could be brought again.
And didn't Enma bring a Arachnid with him back?
Either the clans want to listen or they don't.
Sure, but I doubt Pantsaa would send a Condor with low trust away.
But yeah, he might have killed them if he wanted to delay.
Threnodist
occupying Haudenosaunee & Osage land she/her/hers
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- Pittsburgh
Well thats a crock of horseshit coming from us lmao
See, since the Dragons power up with every Clan they eat, this is incredibly stupid. I'm not saying that Pantsaa isn't thinking this, but it is incredibly stupid.
What if the Dragons become so powerful that they can't be stopped by any force on the 7th Path? They're pretty close to that now.
Easy way to check actually, have Ruri Summon her on the Human Path and have a chat with her. Should probably put that in the next plan.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
Really giving into the crab bucket that is MfD, eh?
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- Europe
Hm.
We can try to talk to the crustaceans too.
An adventure for Neji I guess.
Also time to send Mari to take a look at Shinki's place, now that she has SC.
Cariyaga
Handsome Gentleperson
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- United States
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- Europe
Had a summoning scroll:
edit: whoops, it's Shunki.
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Iris-Iven-Ibis
Interested-Idiot-Immortal
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Noumero
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On the matter of potential errors...
Uh, how are they gonna read them? IIRC, Seventh Path translation magics don't work on written text, we've run into this before when asking Kei to look through Pangolin archives or something.
(I really should've caught this myself when copying that section.)
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- Texas
What other things were we supposed to do?
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- The Void
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- She/Her
I'd just want to point out that we in fact have been rushing necromancy. Since Akane's death we've completed 6 seal infusions already.
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- Book Fort
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- They/Them
Joke: You're welcome.
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- Pacific standard
Make it a power move. "Oh. I thought you had a summoner to help you transcribe them into your peoples language, my apologies."
Alternatively, spend a fate point to make it a purely mathematical model and expect them to understand it lmao
The other things Ami asked us to do during the A-day planning chapters. Make preparations to distract Akatsuki, convince Naruto and maybe Tsunade to help us, etc. I don't remember the whole list.
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Hey guys, I've been bashing my head against what I insist is a puzzle at the bottom of chapter 424
@, and I think I found the solution. It's concerning. The text in parenthesis are characters that weren't actually in the final result for whatever reason, but make a lot of sense to be included. Seals and the First Hazou are due to the words being excluded during the chapter, while the 'e' is because I think EJ is human and miscounted, rather than an eldritch horror who actually named a seal on the dragons equivalent to the bijuu 'Tim'. It wasn't a Velorien chapter after all.
The puzzle, if you aren't aware, looks like this.
...@@#$J:LJuw00EW872JHMNQ2 =@#%Y323NDRqlkjgfljl ..2)&wljhlr . J!LāNMΨlJML... LJ@L)&)61#$H JHLWJ#TLHJ 2o342io)()ijh5hl53 ¯w9w h5hl TNōMlJMΨL... @#%Yw00EW8 ...
My solution is as follows. The puzzle is actually beautiful in it's simplicity - the only thing that matters is the number of characters and spaces between elipses. The rest is visual noise to throw you off, with some hints sprinkled throughout.
...424@
tHe brrainnmeea ts shr!eked
"At this point The door w..e bijū (seals) are. (Hazo ),one is Tim(e) .Hazo ,on Come" .muttered he "...bemH" "?me hear you can ,ōz..." ...I'm not ready...
"This point" may be incorrectly included, in which case the message is slightly different but still coherent. Shrug.
So, what the hell does this mean?
Well, one of the theories we still throw around for the cause of the Great Seal degrading was the catastrophe at Nagi Island, where jiinchuriki (and possibly their Bijuu... confirmation here?) were sacrificed in an attempt to develop ninshu and create world peace. So we download the Seal. It talks to us, saying that the Bijuu are a seal on the Door, or sealed *at* the door, which I'm betting the great seal is the primary lock to. Another seal is Time, or Tim. Please not Tim. Then, unfortunately, we reverse summon, breaking ourselves. Hazous first thought is to "remember", which is the most likely word I've come to that Hmeb could be. Hazou makes a chilling comment, that he's not ready, and trails off into unconsciousness. Then we see Tsunade repeatedly rousing Hazou from his black out state.
So because we didn't stick around in the 7th path to digest the seal, the only lore we get from this is that the Biju and Time seal the door, and the rest of the jumbled text is just the first round of Hazou waking up.
Now, some quotes to help make sense of where I came up with this from!
Edit: I've realized that "the door w" akane section is actually unsupported. Figuring that out changes things a lil.
...424f@ tHe brrainnmeea ts shr!eked "At this point ..Are (seals) biju . the one his Time .Hazo ,on Come" .muttered he "...bemH" "?me hear you can ,ōz..." ...I'm not ready for...
@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped Thoughts?
@, and I think I found the solution. It's concerning. The text in parenthesis are characters that weren't actually in the final result for whatever reason, but make a lot of sense to be included. Seals and the First Hazou are due to the words being excluded during the chapter, while the 'e' is because I think EJ is human and miscounted, rather than an eldritch horror who actually named a seal on the dragons equivalent to the bijuu 'Tim'. It wasn't a Velorien chapter after all.The puzzle, if you aren't aware, looks like this.
...@@#$J:LJuw00EW872JHMNQ2 =@#%Y323NDRqlkjgfljl ..2)&wljhlr . J!LāNMΨlJML... LJ@L)&)61#$H JHLWJ#TLHJ 2o342io)()ijh5hl53 ¯w9w h5hl TNōMlJMΨL... @#%Yw00EW8 ...
My solution is as follows. The puzzle is actually beautiful in it's simplicity - the only thing that matters is the number of characters and spaces between elipses. The rest is visual noise to throw you off, with some hints sprinkled throughout.
...424
@tHe brrainnmeea ts shr!eked
"At this point The door w..e bijū (seals) are. (Hazo ),one is Tim(e) .Hazo ,on Come" .muttered he "...bemH" "?me hear you can ,ōz..." ...I'm not ready...
"This point" may be incorrectly included, in which case the message is slightly different but still coherent. Shrug.
So, what the hell does this mean?
Well, one of the theories we still throw around for the cause of the Great Seal degrading was the catastrophe at Nagi Island, where jiinchuriki (and possibly their Bijuu... confirmation here?) were sacrificed in an attempt to develop ninshu and create world peace. So we download the Seal. It talks to us, saying that the Bijuu are a seal on the Door, or sealed *at* the door, which I'm betting the great seal is the primary lock to. Another seal is Time, or Tim. Please not Tim. Then, unfortunately, we reverse summon, breaking ourselves. Hazous first thought is to "remember", which is the most likely word I've come to that Hmeb could be. Hazou makes a chilling comment, that he's not ready, and trails off into unconsciousness. Then we see Tsunade repeatedly rousing Hazou from his black out state.
So because we didn't stick around in the 7th path to digest the seal, the only lore we get from this is that the Biju and Time seal the door, and the rest of the jumbled text is just the first round of Hazou waking up.
Now, some quotes to help make sense of where I came up with this from!
Edit: I've realized that "the door w" akane section is actually unsupported. Figuring that out changes things a lil.
...424f@ tHe brrainnmeea ts shr!eked "At this point ..Are (seals) biju . the one his Time .Hazo ,on Come" .muttered he "...bemH" "?me hear you can ,ōz..." ...I'm not ready for...
tHe brrainnmeea ts shr!eked
"At this point I think the next steps are pretty clear. I—" Stop. "Wait. I want to be careful about my words here. I have ideas for what we should do next. I acknowledge that you are the Empress of the Arachnid Clan. You are physically more powerffful than me and you are in chage here, not me. I don't want to do anything without your approval. I would like to lay these ideas out and ask your approval before doing anyanything because I don't want you to feel as though I'm denigrating your authority. I'd like to run these ideas past you and accept your input. Is that all right?"
"The rightness is throughout all."
@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped Thoughts?
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