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Stormfall (An AU Naruto Quest)

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It's also possible that he hasn't found his 'calling'. Like, we got to special jonin in MfD on the back of Sealing, which we pursued with a burning passion for literal years. Likewise for Noburi and medical jutsu.

If Kobayashi-sensei hasn't found a discipline that drives him to pursue it, he'll probably be happy to arrive at Jonin with the sheer momentum of his combined XP totals.

RandomOTP said:
Assuming we're going off of MfD XP generalities:
  • Graduates at 18 with 1.5k experience (Stormfall special)
  • Assume 54 (approx. "mid 50s," leaning on the lower side)
  • Was able to reach combat-spec chunnin pretty quickly, as per his story, but combat spec mono-focus means it's pretty easy to raise stats quickly. Let's assume avg rate of 3xp/day
  • Assume an average stagnancy of 0.75. Dude's on the older side, so he's lived through some stuff.
  • ((54years-18years)*(3xp/day*364 days))*0.75)+1,500 graduation amount = ~31k experience, assuming stagnancy rules hit right after graduation.
That's a lot of XP, even if we assume an average of 0.5 stagnancy, that's still just over 21k, which is no small amount.
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Consider that some of the math would change if we're switching to arc-based XP rewards. We don't know how much the difference is yet, but it's possible everyone's XP is lower across the board.
 
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Spector29 said:
It's also possible that he hasn't found his 'calling'. Like, we got to special jonin in MfD on the back of Sealing, which we pursued with a burning passion for literal years. Likewise for Noburi and medical jutsu.

If Kobayashi-sensei hasn't found a discipline that drives him to pursue it, he'll probably be happy to arrive at Jonin with the sheer momentum of his combined XP totals.


Consider that some of the math would change if we're switching to arc-based XP rewards. We don't know how much the difference is yet, but it's possible everyone's XP is lower across the board.
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Well, he's a sensei right now, and from what we've seen, he's pretty good at it. It might legitimately be that his passion is taking genin students and guiding them to chunin rank. If that's the case, we can assume some pretty high socials, and maybe a "Knowledge (Pedagogy)" in there, somewhere. Though his capstone and secondaries are still likely combat stats, since you need to be able to keep your students alive to learn the lessons you have to teach.

We know that he was a taijutsu specialist, early on, and that he has some high level water ninjutsu, since he can cast WDB (he taught it to Shion to motivate her). So either he shifted focus into being a ninjutsu specialist, or he used them as pyramid fodder to raise taijutsu and socials.

Though, frankly speaking, "Knowledge (Pedagogy)" doesn't even really need to be a thing. He could just have an Empathy stunt that gives him some sort of boost when serving as a leader/mentor to someone.
 
RandomOTP said:
Assuming we're going off of MfD XP generalities:
  • Graduates at 18 with 1.5k experience (Stormfall special)
  • Assume 54 (approx. "mid 50s," leaning on the lower side)
  • Was able to reach combat-spec chunnin pretty quickly, as per his story, but combat spec mono-focus means it's pretty easy to raise stats quickly. Let's assume avg rate of 3xp/day
  • Assume an average stagnancy of 0.75. Dude's on the older side, so he's lived through some stuff.
  • ((54years-18years)*(3xp/day*364 days))*0.75)+1,500 graduation amount = ~31k experience, assuming stagnancy rules hit right after graduation.
That's a lot of XP, even if we assume an average of 0.5 stagnancy, that's still just over 21k, which is no small amount.
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There is no stagnancy in Stormfall I thought, @Shrooms is that correct?
 
RandomOTP said:
Well, he's a sensei right now, and from what we've seen, he's pretty good at it. It might legitimately be that his passion is taking genin students and guiding them to chunin rank. If that's the case, we can assume some pretty high socials, and maybe a "Knowledge (Pedagogy)" in there, somewhere. Though his capstone and secondaries are still likely combat stats, since you need to be able to keep your students alive to learn the lessons you have to teach.

We know that he was a taijutsu specialist, early on, and that he has some high level water ninjutsu, since he can cast WDB (he taught it to Shion to motivate her). So either he shifted focus into being a ninjutsu specialist, or he used them as pyramid fodder to raise taijutsu and socials.

Though, frankly speaking, "Knowledge (Pedagogy)" doesn't even really need to be a thing. He could just have an Empathy stunt that gives him some sort of boost when serving as a leader/mentor to someone.
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"Knowledge (Pedagogy)" sounds like it could be a prereq to unlocking some baller teaching stunts. What's the benchmark for chunin stats, 50s? It's possible he's got many-multiple chunin-level stats and simply hasn't felt the drive to commit.

I wonder if we could unlock some inspiration for our sensei. Hopefully he doesn't die in the first mission, Kobayashi Maru style.
 
Sir Stompy said:
There is no stagnancy in Stormfall I thought, @Shrooms is that correct?
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Correct

Spector29 said:
I wonder if we could unlock some inspiration for our sensei. Hopefully he doesn't die in the first mission, Kobayashi Maru style.
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May the dice be ever in your favor

faflec said:
I think _The_Bomb was squinting because canon Roshi and Han were Jinchuriki of the Four- and Five-Tails, respectively; not the other way around.
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Hmm I double checked this earlier and somehow still flipped them...
 
Spector29 said:
"Knowledge (Pedagogy)" sounds like it could be a prereq to unlocking some baller teaching stunts. What's the benchmark for chunin stats, 50s? It's possible he's got many-multiple chunin-level stats and simply hasn't felt the drive to commit.

I wonder if we could unlock some inspiration for our sensei. Hopefully he doesn't die in the first mission, Kobayashi Maru style.
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Yeah, I could see things like "students receive (0.5*your XP rate) in bonus XP when you're personally teaching them a skill you that you have >10 levels more than them, or "decrease teaching time for Stunts by [this] amount" or even "students who are learning a stunt directly from you may decrease the XP cost"

A particularly cursed stunt might be something like "you may spend your own XP on behalf of your students, with an amount of inefficiency, up to an X9 amount (meaning they would have to buy to the next AB, but you could get them there).
 
How accurate is our information on him? Is there a chance he's actually like a secret ANBU-equivalent sleeper agent or something? Not that I'm advocating for it, but people have pointed out it's a bit strange, and the ninja's life is built on secrets...

Or he might have some black mark on his record that prevents him from being trusted with jounin status? 🤔Unlikely, that; power seems to excuse pretty much everything.
 
KreenWarrior said:
How accurate is our information on him?
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It's possible the guy is just sandbagging a bit to not get tossed into the meat grinder. If you're hot stuff I imagine they start tasking you with some of those dangerous missions that people rarely come back from...
 
Given Rain's own relative weakness as a "minor village" there may be an attempt to hide the strength of certain ninja to prevent a decapitation strike and/or to create ambiguity around their strength
 
@Shrooms Is it, to our knowledge, possible to create combination-element jutsu without a bloodline? For instance, a jutsu that uses both Wind and Fire chakra in its function (and commensurately requires the capacity to use both) ?

(To be clear, this isn't lava release or whatever, just a Fire-Wind jutsu)
 
Cariyaga said:
@Shrooms Is it, to our knowledge, possible to create combination-element jutsu without a bloodline? For instance, a jutsu that uses both Wind and Fire chakra in its function (and commensurately requires the capacity to use both) ?

(To be clear, this isn't lava release or whatever, just a Fire-Wind jutsu)
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No, as far as you know this is impossible. You have to mold the Elemental chakra one at a time if you don't possess a bloodline to combine them

There might be jutsu designed to be cast one after the other, but that's a bit different from what you describe
 
Shrooms said:
No, as far as you know this is impossible. You have to mold the Elemental chakra one at a time if you don't possess a bloodline to combine them

There might be jutsu designed to be cast one after the other, but that's a bit different from what you describe
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Gotcha, checks out! Thanks.
 
Hmm, I wonder about combination attacks with multiple people working the same jutsu? Probably impossibly difficult to coordinate. Maybe with Kage Bunshin (though I think it's more limited in MFD-verse to reduce training cheese?)
 
KreenWarrior said:
Hmm, I wonder about combination attacks with multiple people working the same jutsu? Probably impossibly difficult to coordinate.
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Hmm, I don't know about the exact same jutsu, but there are definitely ninjutsu that are designed to bolster a teammate's ninjutsu, which in a sense makes them a single technique.

Mechanically, you can always choose to lower your spot in initiative to guarantee you go after a teammate
 
Sir Stompy said:
Based on the lack of stagnancy I think it makes more sense to model him as a 2 XP per day no-hoper who somehow escaped the meat grinder by taking easy missions.
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In the same vein that stagnancy is an inaccurate model, sometimes xp per day is also a bad model based on how this particular setting awards xp.

While he was actively grinding and trying to improve, he actually was getting really good income, but he stopped pushing himself. Easy missions = little to no xp
 
Shrooms said:
In the same vein that stagnancy is an inaccurate model, sometimes xp per day is also a bad model based on how this particular setting awards xp.

While he was actively grinding and trying to improve, he actually was getting really good income, but he stopped pushing himself. Easy missions = little to no xp
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Presumably he gets some amount of XP for pushing himself to train the PCs/keep them safe on missions?
 
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