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Why thank you Shrooms, I must agree entirely.
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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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Have we actually seen Hazou doing this to them? They don't show up onscreen super often sure, but we only have so much screenspace to dedicate and people typically prefer plot stuff or other chars like Ino. I don't think that means Hazou's necessarily acting like they don't have agency. For example we know he goes around the estate every day and talks to the civilians to see what they need even though it doesn't show up onscreen
If they feel ignored despite these offscreen proceedings... have they made any effort to come and talk to Hazou? Shinji did (technically wasn't even adopted yet I think) and Hazou made the time for him. I'd maybe apologize for not seeming approachable, given that they don't feel comfortable coming to Hazou with their qualms, since like, why is he hearing about this thirdhand from Noburi or Mari and not the clanmates themselves?
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You can find SC hours from this formula:
(Resolve) - 11 + 3 (If you have SC 40) + 3 (If you have Resolve 40) + 3 (If you have SC 50, only really applies for Kei.)
So for Hazou, that's 62 - 11 + 3 + 3 = 57 SC hours
Typically clones last 9 hours to maximize training time, so 6 clones for full 9 hours and a short 7th clone would be my approximation
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- The Deep Blue Sea
That's honestly kind of terrifying.
Imagine all the Content(tm) you could consume
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- The Soviet Republic of Canuckistan
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Better?
I'm referring to Hazo's general tendencies. We have a pretty clear two-tier system within the clan, and we've not (AFAIK) spent any time in plans trying to improve relationships with these people.
Eeeeh, I disagree with this approach. The thing to focus on is what was within our control. I agree that we can and should discuss why they haven't come to us so we can address it, but framing this as 'why haven't you talked to us about this' pushes a lot of this back on them instead of taking responsibility for our end (and rejecting blame if they try to heap all of it on us).
These are people who are not firing on all cylinders (they have weird issues which are rooted in emotional stuff) and they need some level of handling.
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- The Void
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Since everyone is posting potential action plans I'll drop mine. Our main questline problems are super complicated. I don't think we can afford to spend more plans where we are not mostly focused on them
[] Action Plan: Irons in the fire
[] Action Plan: Irons in the fire
- Meet with Mari, Kei, Snowflake, Noburi under full OPSEC procedures
- We are rapidly approaching a potential showdown Akatsuki over the rift and we need to start prepping for it
- Mari you're our primary heavy hitter how do you feel you stack up to them
- What seals would help your combat style?
- Noburi you're our secondary heavy hitter
- We want you to go all in on developing new summoning contracts. Spend all the money you need to secure new contracts
- Do everything you can to get the sages and Gamabunta to see you favorably.
- Maybe play up avenging Jiraiya
- If their are any techniques you think you can get let us know
- We're going to be heading out again to get the Squirrel Scroll and more of that weird crystal soon
- Noburi, Kei and Snowflake you need to go on some combat missions to make sure your ready for the trip
- Hazou isn't sure on team composition because he might be stuck doing seal research but he wants everyone to be ready.
- Mari you're our primary heavy hitter how do you feel you stack up to them
- We are rapidly approaching a potential showdown Akatsuki over the rift and we need to start prepping for it
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So I've been looking into the other sealsmiths in the clan and checking to see what they're like. Not entirely sure what they're capable of beyond what's in the Goketsu roster. Shinji and Kazushi might have their hands full because of the Akane seal bank, I think. Not sure if we could pay them to reduce Hazou's backlog at this point.
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I'm sorry, isn't that like 70% of how and why our Chancellor already worked?
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I super agree with and support the sentiment. I do not think the squirrel scroll currently aligns with them, and I think including Kagome in a rift action plan discussion is the least we can do, given recent conversations with him.
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In regards to the Squirrel Scroll the primary reason why it's included is to have a narrative reason why Noburi & Kei would take combat missions. Getting them out of stagnancy is my number one priority. As long as they do that it doesn't matter if we send any team to the eastern continent. I personally do want to go on that adventure but, more for the crystal in Honey then the scroll. We will need more material to get Primeval sealing up and running and that's the surest way to get it fast. The Scroll hunt is a distant third. Only going after it because it is a major power up and we would already be close to it.
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Are they personally responsible for this issue specifically? If not, then no. If so, then cash that responsibility out.
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- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I don't think Ino should participate. The only advantage she brings is traditional Leaf Clan Head experience and social/cultural expertise. Valuable, but less valuable because we are not and don't want to be a traditional Clan and our ninja know and even appreciate that, and Mari, Kei and Noburi have absorbed enough Leaf culture for our purposes in aggregate.
The drawback of including Ino is that we will be unable to talk about individual Clan secrets in a discussion about Clan secrets. That hampers free discussion and even prevents us from sharing the existence and extent of certain Clan secrets with certain Gokētsu ninja that we deem trustworthy enough.
That's not quite true though. FOOM is a thing. That said, we can tell them that we have something for those that legally acquire SC, if Mari thinks it safe to mention.
I don't think I like this one. Sharing with the KEI is too broad. If they insist and their jutsu are worth it we could think about it, but there's no reason to suggest it.
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If we start making black paper MARS, I have no problem sharing them with the rest of the clan so long as they are aware that they cannot leave any survivors if they use them.
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The cost in chakra of including more people in FOOM is so exorbitant that I just don't think this is feasible at all. Fairly possible that adding one or two more people is the maximum chakra we can expect to extract from Leaf
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- United States
The best part of this is that it's everyone. I'm now picturing Honoka and Sasha at a table with scrunched up faces trying to write instructions for the Academy Two.
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- America
It's a real shame we can't turn sealing stats into personal combat power in a way that would let us keep up with combat specs.
I know it can't be allowed because anything that benefits Hazō can benefit others, but the Great Seal has essentially forced us to become a stay at home sealmaster or else the world ends.
What would work is the PoV of a different character specced for combat if we ever want to return to exciting missions outside the village.Akane would've been perfect for that...
I know it can't be allowed because anything that benefits Hazō can benefit others, but the Great Seal has essentially forced us to become a stay at home sealmaster or else the world ends.
What would work is the PoV of a different character specced for combat if we ever want to return to exciting missions outside the village.
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I think that Noburi would have probably done a comparable job. Clan success is a vector quantity, not scalar. Noburi would have pointed us in different directions, but we'd have a similar magnitude.
Will this actually work? I'd expect to be able to see/feel the inked surface, even with difficulty.
And doesn't this stop working as soon as an enemy sealmaster holds it over a lamp?
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- Book Fort
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This is wholesome af. An omake for the omake pile
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@eaglejarl can you think of literally any reason this couldn't have happened canonically? If not, could I beseech you to use your mighty God powers to declare it so?
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- USA
The general vibe of this makes me inarticulably uneasy. Clans are a blend of family and military organization, and I think this leans too far into family territory. A military leader needs to project confidence. That shouldn't mean projecting false confidence, or arrogance, or any other bad "I can never be wrong" sort of thing, but I feel it's important that the people for whose lives we are responsible believe we have reasons for our decisions. Even/especially if they can't see them.
I guess the vibe I'm getting from this is "chummy coworker admits they done goofed and promises to do better" whereas I'm more inclined towards "confident/decisive leader seeks more input and encourages subordinate to provide it".
I actually think Noburi might have done a better job, simply because he could leverage most of the benefits of hivemind/Hazou's creativity without the accidental(?) treason.
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I'm pretty sure we actually have seen Noburi's opinion on how he would've done as Clan Head and he thought he would mostly keep the boat steady and stable, but the Clan would not have become anything particularly significant compared to what it currently is, despite the ups and downs
And I pretty much agree with that analysis. I think he would've done fine, just not exceptional.
And I pretty much agree with that analysis. I think he would've done fine, just not exceptional.