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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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Can someone appreciate the amount of restraint it took for me not to make this update canon? I could have, you know. I didn't know about the conspiracy @Inferno Vulpix talked about (great job on the coordinating and the OPSEC, indeed!), but I did notice that this wacky idea was voted-in just before the April Fools'. It was obvious that the QMs would take advantage of the timing to use this as the premise for their April Fools' shenanigans, and post a non-canon chapter pretending to be canon as their joke...
... unless I denied that possibility, of course. Unless I made it impossible for such a chapter to pretend to be canon, and therefore to serve as a joke. Unless I made it so that the only way to base a joke on this idea would be to go one level higher, and post a chapter that pretended to be pretend-canon while actually being canon.
And it worked so well the last time, after all...!
But I'd faced some criticism for my actions back then, so I'd opted not to. I'm such a paragon of virtue~
Too soon? (I was not actually considering doing that, to be clear.)
More seriously, great job selling it, @eaglejarl. The appendix with the boring-yet-plausible mechanics changes at the end, to make even a suspicious reader doubt, because surely the QMs wouldn't invent something like this from the whole cloth just for a joke? Great stuff!
... unless I denied that possibility, of course. Unless I made it impossible for such a chapter to pretend to be canon, and therefore to serve as a joke. Unless I made it so that the only way to base a joke on this idea would be to go one level higher, and post a chapter that pretended to be pretend-canon while actually being canon.
And it worked so well the last time, after all...!
But I'd faced some criticism for my actions back then, so I'd opted not to. I'm such a paragon of virtue~
Too soon? (I was not actually considering doing that, to be clear.)
More seriously, great job selling it, @eaglejarl. The appendix with the boring-yet-plausible mechanics changes at the end, to make even a suspicious reader doubt, because surely the QMs wouldn't invent something like this from the whole cloth just for a joke? Great stuff!
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redzonejoe
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So I missed out on the planning that went into this, the discussion presumably off-forum anything else. And I'm not the sharp thinker you mention either.
But I did figure it out. Like, maybe 10h ago? Was impatient about the update, noticed the actual date, and everything came together. Thought about saying something, realized that would be helpful to nobody and kept quiet. Good work ya'll. Had fun.
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I think I was the 'sharp' knife in question. Which is to say, I was 'sharp' enough to figure it out, and dull enough to not realize that I shouldn't say anything. So; butterknife.
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Who is he and what has he done with Kagome-sensei?
I'm imagining a line of Avatars except they're all saying things they'll regret shortly btw
MARI: Did my memory training count as a joke? Did my political training on appearances serve no purpose?
TIMELESS COUNCIL OF HAZŌ: We are one. I am many. Together we are an existence spanning time and space. Also, I still don't really get clothes.
"Oh wait I feel like I just remembered something important. It was me saying "hello" n days ago"
If he becomes aware of this every time he makes a choice that prevents futures (say he picks tuna instead of salmon) this will be a problem
I swear to Jashin if it says "do not mess with time travel" in slightly shaky handwriting, I will... respect you. That would in fact be pretty funny even the second time around.
Oh.
OH.
Nooooooooo
If it's pants-on-head stupid and face-on-fire stupid at the same time, will it burn your pants? We ask the real questions, only in the MfD reaction posts. Not distracting myself from the sadness of thinking of dead Kagome-sensei. Not at all.
Well this is very normal and not scary at all
The shrillings huh (file under "do not ask, just in case")
We did it! A worse thing than anyone else did! Whoops.
Good good we're well on the way to making things cool
Aaaaah yes. That's the good stuff.
What I'm hearing is "we were awesome and were punished for our awesome but we're going to fix it again." Up until "ousting Cannai," Cannai is good dog best friend
Good good good good good
Punching Dragons not exciting enough now? We-the-players really need to up our game. Or get you help for the catastrophe-and-violence addiction. Probably both.
Oooh, by now I was expecting one surprise part of it to be canon and cause the players epic headaches for the coming months. It was a good idea not to do the sucky thing and type in "remember tomorrow is april fools so you better blah blah"
Muahahahaha. After all this information if I can just learn their hair colour or preferred pasta sauce, my plan will be complete and I will be able to pinpoint the coordinates to find-- well, that need not concern you.
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The joke is on you. My exact hair colour has been the subject of heated debate, and my pasta sauce preferences are split perfectly between two options.
As one of the masterminds behind the idea to vote this in on April Fool's, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope it was as fun to write as we thought it would be.
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How do you know we would have got this update, and not one where Hazou is arrested by the time-police and put in the killbox? For the last time, this time.
Do not anger the mighty bird! But appease it with tasty tidbits to write and sometimes it will bless you with free XP.
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@eaglejarl, imagine Naruto's reaction to us informing him that we've made contact with our future self!
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Curses! Foiled again! Well, I'll have to get rid of the piranhas
redzonejoe
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Get rid of?!? No no no, repurpose.
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But what will I feed the ravenous piranhas with? (A different set of piranhas. I have the piranhas for the secret plan that was recently foiled, and the ravenous piranhas)
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Holy shit! We actually got the Fun XP from this on our sheet despite the prank chapter. Thank you @eaglejarl!!
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Per player request, the character name kanji infopost has been updated with Snowflake and Satsuko's names.
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That's the wrong link. I think you meant to go here, instead of to Misa's adoption interview.
Goddamn it, I know you do this and you got me this time.
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Thanks for the correction, and especially for taking the time to find a better link.
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That is hilarious.
Y'all sure fooled me; well done!
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Wikipedia says her namesake is named after Juno, the ancient Roman goddess
Hey guys, sorry for the repeat ping @eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped
Any chance you could rule on this? A little bird told me we're working on RRBs next update.
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...the Roman Goddess of Marriage.
