- Location
- Massholistan
Cool! 2XP to do with as you wish.The bath scene. Didn't turn out as I had planned, but eh. Maybe I'll do another take, now there's a thought
Not before Occult w/Sakura tho ^^
The Princess of Blades (Naruto/Exalted)
- Thread starter Crilltic
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- ?
Appearance, yo
Spend Time with Someone?
- [X] Uzuki Yugao
- [X] Uzuki Yugao
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[x] uju32
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I wonder what people are going to say when Tenten's apperence suddenly jumps up? What will Ino say?Appearance, yo
That she's been taking lessons in carriage, and confidence?
That as a teenager, she's beginning to bloom?
Do remember that Tenten is currently 13-14; think of how many ugly ducklings there are in high school at that age who begin their transformation into swans at about the same time.
How dare you, Neji was always beautiful.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
She will look like Tsunade yet.
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Crow
Falling is a Pleasure. Regardless of its Fate
Imagine loli tsunade but older but without the bazoongas.She will look like Tsunade yet.
- Location
- The Middle of the Howling Wilderness
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
So different from her in about every way.
Anyone have any suggestions for fanart? I got a tenten cosplaying as tsunade idea.
Tenten gobbling down dumplings after training.
Tenten
Posing with a staff.
Trying(and failing) to train Water Walking in a stream.
- Location
- italy bologna
Since this is exalted tenten full anima!!!
- Location
- Massholistan
I'm going to need Tenten in flak vest eventually, but otherwise do whatever you want. I'm just happy people are actually giving me omakes and fanart.
So, hypothetical question. Narutoverse is different from Creation. Integrity Protection Prana converts a local area to Creation motonic physics. Does that include creating least gods of objects within the area if they had none before? Because I am thinking that it would be hard to find a better seal teacher than gods of seals.
That's actually a pretty good idea.
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- Massholistan
I mean, there are a ton of pictures of her in a flak vest from the 4th Shinobi War. Like just an example this one:
But none with a flak vest over her regular clothes, which was what I'm looking for.
You are thinking of Chaos-Repelling Pattern, not IPP. That costs eight motes, lasts for only one hour, and only affects a radius of the character's Essence in yards.
I'd suspect it would take a bit longer than that for a least god to form, and even if it did, and if Tenten knew the language they speak (exclusively Old Realm), there's still the question of how they'd be able to teach her anything. Remember, it wouldn't be a "god of seals", it would be a "least god of this specific seal in front of Tenten."
It is also worth noting that one of the devs stated at one point that part of the reason that least gods were not included in 3E was that people kept misunderstanding what they did/could do, with an example given of someone praying to a least god of a door to find out who was inside the room behind the door. This leads me to believe that least gods are not meant to be capable of this sort of thing.
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Went and found the relevant quote, it was actually from a Q&A thread, with the dev agreeing with the statement:
Source
Also relevant, from that same line of discussion:
Scutarii:
To what extent are the 'fundamental physics' of the world run by 'magic/essence' or controlled by gods?
E.g.: when someone trips over and falls face first into the mud is it 'physics' or is it a series of interactions between a malicious god of shoelaces, the god of falling, the god of mud, the god of splattering, the god of blunt force trauma, the god of nose deformation, the god of swearing, the god of standing up, the god of bystanders laughing etc.?
Could you, theoretically, make a deal with the god of falling to make it so that you can never fall? What happens if the god of falling goes on vacation/gets promoted and not replaced/distracted by his harem of virgin boys/etc.?
Holden:
No offense, but this is the kind of question that, as content designers, we find profoundly uninteresting and not helpful from a world-building and storytelling perspective. (It generally boils down to "The Loom of Fate runs everything," anyway.)
Holden:
I tend to find human drama or the desires that drive petty deities to be more useful ways to burn pagecount than exploring the potential metaphysics of how jar lids get opened in the mythic prehistory of the world, is all.
Lea:
We're not doing the "Least god thaumaturgy runs the laws of physics" thing this edition at least.
Lea:
We don't believe it's to Exalted's advantage to establish a venue where you can always solve problems by finding the right being and beating it up until it solves the problem for you.
Lea:
Basically gods do not have absolute power over their purviews, and whether any given god has a specific power over its purview that would be conductive to you forcing it to make its purview behave in the manner you desire or not is contextual and depends on what you want and what the god can do. So, like, maybe a volcano god can stop its volcano from erupting, but a disease god is generally much better at spreading its disease than making its disease not spread, so if you want to cure an epidemic, "Make the god stop spreading the disease" is going to be step one in a multi-step process that involves actually bringing in doctors and such. Or maybe not!
John:
Could also be that the disease is spreading and the spirit isn't the reason.
AliasiSudonomo:
To put it another way, many organizational entities – a company, a gaming group, the United States – have a designated leader. The entity may well exist without the presence or involvement of the leader, but the leader certainly has influence over the entity. By the same token, not everything that happens within or to that entity is the leader's fault, although it may always be the leaders responsibility.
So, the god of a river will prosper as it prospers and decline as it declines, and he can probably cause it to flood or not as people request, but it's not always the river god's fault.
Lea:
An imperfect but useful metaphor. And indeed it is not always possible to e.g. halt institutionalized racism in a police force by beating up the police chief.
To what extent are the 'fundamental physics' of the world run by 'magic/essence' or controlled by gods?
E.g.: when someone trips over and falls face first into the mud is it 'physics' or is it a series of interactions between a malicious god of shoelaces, the god of falling, the god of mud, the god of splattering, the god of blunt force trauma, the god of nose deformation, the god of swearing, the god of standing up, the god of bystanders laughing etc.?
Could you, theoretically, make a deal with the god of falling to make it so that you can never fall? What happens if the god of falling goes on vacation/gets promoted and not replaced/distracted by his harem of virgin boys/etc.?
Holden:
No offense, but this is the kind of question that, as content designers, we find profoundly uninteresting and not helpful from a world-building and storytelling perspective. (It generally boils down to "The Loom of Fate runs everything," anyway.)
Holden:
I tend to find human drama or the desires that drive petty deities to be more useful ways to burn pagecount than exploring the potential metaphysics of how jar lids get opened in the mythic prehistory of the world, is all.
Lea:
We're not doing the "Least god thaumaturgy runs the laws of physics" thing this edition at least.
Lea:
We don't believe it's to Exalted's advantage to establish a venue where you can always solve problems by finding the right being and beating it up until it solves the problem for you.
Lea:
Basically gods do not have absolute power over their purviews, and whether any given god has a specific power over its purview that would be conductive to you forcing it to make its purview behave in the manner you desire or not is contextual and depends on what you want and what the god can do. So, like, maybe a volcano god can stop its volcano from erupting, but a disease god is generally much better at spreading its disease than making its disease not spread, so if you want to cure an epidemic, "Make the god stop spreading the disease" is going to be step one in a multi-step process that involves actually bringing in doctors and such. Or maybe not!
John:
Could also be that the disease is spreading and the spirit isn't the reason.
AliasiSudonomo:
To put it another way, many organizational entities – a company, a gaming group, the United States – have a designated leader. The entity may well exist without the presence or involvement of the leader, but the leader certainly has influence over the entity. By the same token, not everything that happens within or to that entity is the leader's fault, although it may always be the leaders responsibility.
So, the god of a river will prosper as it prospers and decline as it declines, and he can probably cause it to flood or not as people request, but it's not always the river god's fault.
Lea:
An imperfect but useful metaphor. And indeed it is not always possible to e.g. halt institutionalized racism in a police force by beating up the police chief.
Week 3 - Final Moments
- Location
- Massholistan
You were going to die. Your lungs burned in your chest, feeling like they want to claw their way to freedom at the end of your throat with every breath you took. Your throat was dry as the dirt road you were seconds away from collapsing onto, and felt twice as coarse. You had long ago ran out of water, and right now every breath of air, sweet, precious air, felt like torment. Your legs had lost all feeling, only the faint twinge of pain indicative of an oncoming cramp was left to remind you they still existed. Well, besides the monolithic, all-encompassing feeling of exhaustion, but you felt that everywhere so it didn't count.
Worst of all this was entirely your fault.
You're not entirely sure what had possessed you to ask Gai-sensei of all people for tips to improve your exercise routine, but whatever temporary insanity had possessed you was certainly coming home to roost now. You stop jogging, to busy doubling over and trying to keep the contents of your breakfast in your stomach to do much more than take deep breaths.
"Tenten!"
Speaking of insanity.
"It is only the twentieth lap around Konoha! Don't tell me your tired now! I know a student as youthful and hip as you can manage at least 200!"
You definitely don't make the incredibly rude gestures you desperately want to. You're beginning to think Lee isn't the only one going stir-crazy with him in the hospital. You don't have the ability to muster a proper response, so instead you just hold up a hand as you suck in air.
When your heart rate finally returns to something vaguely resembling a normal rhythm you take a deep breath and push yourself up. "Gai-sensei? Can we just walk for a bit? I had something I wanted to talk to you about."
He arches an eyebrow but, by the mercy of whatever higher power may be listening, he stops jogging.
"I just wanted to know how you handle it."
"It?"
"Just, the pain, people getting hurt. With Lee, and Neji, and now Kin too, everyone just seems so screwed up." You take a deep, shuddering breath, letting some of the worry and anxiety you've been feeling for the past couple week flare up. "It's just, it's all happening so fast, and they need my help but I don't know what to do."
Once upon a time you'd have never dreamed of asking your flagrantly emotional sensei on how to handle things like this. Sometimes it seems like the man burst into tears at the drop of a hat, which was as close to the complete opposite of your own attempts to handle your emotions as possible.
That had changed when he'd told you all the story of the Eternal Genin. The story itself had been the usual Gai-sensei fare, extolling the virtues of Hard Work and how it could help you surpass impossible obstacles. Only, it had seemed different from the usual stories. More personal.
So you had done a little research on your own time. The Eternal Genin had been Maito Dai, Gai-sensei's father, the genin team he protected Gai-sensei's own, The Swordsmen, the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, during one of the minor conflicts between Kiri and Konoha after the Third Shinobi War.
You also found out how the story ended.
Gai-sensei was quiet for long time.
"Tenten, you have to remember what your friendship means to people. You do more than you know, giving them support. Continue to do so and your friendship will form the foundation for new, fresh leaves to sprout! The time when a new spring comes and the fresh leaves bud… is the peak of youth!"
At this point you've lost track of all the things Gai-sensei has called "the peak of youth", but the fire in his eyes as he compliments you is heartening. Your team had problems before, your remember when Lee and Neji were first on the team together. You'd managed to get through that, and yeah, it wasn't as bad as now, but you got through it.
Which means you can get through it again.
"Thanks Gai-sen-"
Then he started jogging again.
"Come on Tenten! 189 more laps and we'll be finished warming up!"
Oh right, he's dead to you.
Finished Training:
[Joint-Wounding Attack]
[One Weapon, Two Blows]
[Athletics ●●●○○]
+ 1 XP to Stamina ●●●●○
Your eyes roam the interior, noting the polished wood decor and indefinably expensive looking paintings giving the place an air of understated opulence. You feel acutely underdressed; this place was definitely way outside the budget of a genin. Especially your budget, which left you cooking at home most of the time to save on money.
Definitely more expensive than that place Gai-sensei took us to last time.
You flush a little as you realize the portly lady at the front desk has been examining you with interest while you looked around, and approach her with an awkward smile.
"Excuse me ma'am; I have an appointment with-"
She interrupts with a professional smile. "Tenten, right? She said to keep an eye out for you."
A waiter-waitress, you realize on a closer look- appears in response to some unseen signal.
"Asuna, please show her to private booth 3."
You are led into the back corner of the restaurant and ushered past a heavy red curtain which separated this booth from the rest of the restaurant. A woman sits inside, an array of food already around her as she picks at a small bowl of rice in front of her. She's dressed, well not casually given the unzipped flak vest, but modestly. You make a special note of the tight sleeves that cover the upper parts of her arms.
And most important, long purple hair.
Gai-sensei had a lot to say about ANBU, and being Gai-sensei, that meant you heard a lot about ANBU. You're pretty sure the entire village has heard his opinions on ANBU. He didn't like what the Mask did to the people who wore it. To hear him tell it, you couldn't help but agree. Necessary as the ANBU may be, that didn't mean you had to like it, and you certainly didn't plan on ever joining it.
The women in front of you though just looks tired. She glances up as you enter, and you note the bags under her light brown eyes, with a look that has become distressingly common in the past few weeks. She gives you a slight nod as she picks at the plate of food in front of her and you slide your way into the booth.
"Thanks for agreeing to meet me." She gives you a smile, but you can tell her hearts not in it. Not that you wouldn't have trouble mustering a genuine smile if you were in her shoes. She gestures to the arrangement of food in front of her, "Help yourself."
You fumble slightly as you pick some of the food and place it on a nearby place. You're actually starving, since you haven't had a chance to eat since Gai-sensei pulled you away on your little misadventure into the world of extreme physical activity, but you're here for a reason.
One immensely awkward and depressing reason.
"Sooooo..."
Do you tell her you know she is in ANBU?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
What do you tell her about how Hayate died?
[ ] The whole truth, and nothing but - You didn't see much, and if he had last words you didn't hear them. Not likely to provide much closure, but you're also not going to be telling a lie.
[ ] Providing closure, through creative interpretation - Give her something to latch onto, no one else was there when he died, no one else would have to know if you...embellished a little.
[ ] Write-in
I'm not sure when the next update is going to be, the next two weeks are going to be pretty crazy for me since it's finals season and I have like a bajillion papers due. We'll see how things shake out though.
May take the time to go back an edit all my earlier updates for quality like I've always been sorta planning to do.
Worst of all this was entirely your fault.
You're not entirely sure what had possessed you to ask Gai-sensei of all people for tips to improve your exercise routine, but whatever temporary insanity had possessed you was certainly coming home to roost now. You stop jogging, to busy doubling over and trying to keep the contents of your breakfast in your stomach to do much more than take deep breaths.
"Tenten!"
Speaking of insanity.
"It is only the twentieth lap around Konoha! Don't tell me your tired now! I know a student as youthful and hip as you can manage at least 200!"
You definitely don't make the incredibly rude gestures you desperately want to. You're beginning to think Lee isn't the only one going stir-crazy with him in the hospital. You don't have the ability to muster a proper response, so instead you just hold up a hand as you suck in air.
When your heart rate finally returns to something vaguely resembling a normal rhythm you take a deep breath and push yourself up. "Gai-sensei? Can we just walk for a bit? I had something I wanted to talk to you about."
He arches an eyebrow but, by the mercy of whatever higher power may be listening, he stops jogging.
"I just wanted to know how you handle it."
"It?"
"Just, the pain, people getting hurt. With Lee, and Neji, and now Kin too, everyone just seems so screwed up." You take a deep, shuddering breath, letting some of the worry and anxiety you've been feeling for the past couple week flare up. "It's just, it's all happening so fast, and they need my help but I don't know what to do."
Once upon a time you'd have never dreamed of asking your flagrantly emotional sensei on how to handle things like this. Sometimes it seems like the man burst into tears at the drop of a hat, which was as close to the complete opposite of your own attempts to handle your emotions as possible.
That had changed when he'd told you all the story of the Eternal Genin. The story itself had been the usual Gai-sensei fare, extolling the virtues of Hard Work and how it could help you surpass impossible obstacles. Only, it had seemed different from the usual stories. More personal.
So you had done a little research on your own time. The Eternal Genin had been Maito Dai, Gai-sensei's father, the genin team he protected Gai-sensei's own, The Swordsmen, the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, during one of the minor conflicts between Kiri and Konoha after the Third Shinobi War.
You also found out how the story ended.
Gai-sensei was quiet for long time.
"Tenten, you have to remember what your friendship means to people. You do more than you know, giving them support. Continue to do so and your friendship will form the foundation for new, fresh leaves to sprout! The time when a new spring comes and the fresh leaves bud… is the peak of youth!"
At this point you've lost track of all the things Gai-sensei has called "the peak of youth", but the fire in his eyes as he compliments you is heartening. Your team had problems before, your remember when Lee and Neji were first on the team together. You'd managed to get through that, and yeah, it wasn't as bad as now, but you got through it.
Which means you can get through it again.
"Thanks Gai-sen-"
Then he started jogging again.
"Come on Tenten! 189 more laps and we'll be finished warming up!"
Oh right, he's dead to you.
Finished Training:
[Joint-Wounding Attack]
[One Weapon, Two Blows]
[Athletics ●●●○○]
+ 1 XP to Stamina ●●●●○
~///~
Several hours later, when you'd managed to tear your free time away from Gai-sensei and his legendary commitment to exercise and a cold shower had wiped away the evidence of your temporary insanity you found yourself in an Akimichi owned barbecue house. You blink as you enter, your eyes taking a couple seconds to adjust from the significantly brighter outside. It really is a busy day outside, pity you spent it trying to keep up with a complete maniac. The tingle of a seal maintained chakra barrier washes over your skin, and with it the heat of the exterior drops away.
Your eyes roam the interior, noting the polished wood decor and indefinably expensive looking paintings giving the place an air of understated opulence. You feel acutely underdressed; this place was definitely way outside the budget of a genin. Especially your budget, which left you cooking at home most of the time to save on money.
Definitely more expensive than that place Gai-sensei took us to last time.
You flush a little as you realize the portly lady at the front desk has been examining you with interest while you looked around, and approach her with an awkward smile.
"Excuse me ma'am; I have an appointment with-"
She interrupts with a professional smile. "Tenten, right? She said to keep an eye out for you."
A waiter-waitress, you realize on a closer look- appears in response to some unseen signal.
"Asuna, please show her to private booth 3."
You are led into the back corner of the restaurant and ushered past a heavy red curtain which separated this booth from the rest of the restaurant. A woman sits inside, an array of food already around her as she picks at a small bowl of rice in front of her. She's dressed, well not casually given the unzipped flak vest, but modestly. You make a special note of the tight sleeves that cover the upper parts of her arms.
And most important, long purple hair.
Gai-sensei had a lot to say about ANBU, and being Gai-sensei, that meant you heard a lot about ANBU. You're pretty sure the entire village has heard his opinions on ANBU. He didn't like what the Mask did to the people who wore it. To hear him tell it, you couldn't help but agree. Necessary as the ANBU may be, that didn't mean you had to like it, and you certainly didn't plan on ever joining it.
The women in front of you though just looks tired. She glances up as you enter, and you note the bags under her light brown eyes, with a look that has become distressingly common in the past few weeks. She gives you a slight nod as she picks at the plate of food in front of her and you slide your way into the booth.
"Thanks for agreeing to meet me." She gives you a smile, but you can tell her hearts not in it. Not that you wouldn't have trouble mustering a genuine smile if you were in her shoes. She gestures to the arrangement of food in front of her, "Help yourself."
You fumble slightly as you pick some of the food and place it on a nearby place. You're actually starving, since you haven't had a chance to eat since Gai-sensei pulled you away on your little misadventure into the world of extreme physical activity, but you're here for a reason.
One immensely awkward and depressing reason.
"Sooooo..."
Do you tell her you know she is in ANBU?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
What do you tell her about how Hayate died?
[ ] The whole truth, and nothing but - You didn't see much, and if he had last words you didn't hear them. Not likely to provide much closure, but you're also not going to be telling a lie.
[ ] Providing closure, through creative interpretation - Give her something to latch onto, no one else was there when he died, no one else would have to know if you...embellished a little.
[ ] Write-in
I'm not sure when the next update is going to be, the next two weeks are going to be pretty crazy for me since it's finals season and I have like a bajillion papers due. We'll see how things shake out though.
May take the time to go back an edit all my earlier updates for quality like I've always been sorta planning to do.
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[X] No
[X] The whole truth, and nothing but - You didn't see much, and if he had last words you didn't hear them. Not likely to provide much closure, but you're also not going to be telling a lie.
-[X] Ask if this room is the best place for sensitive information first.
[X] The whole truth, and nothing but - You didn't see much, and if he had last words you didn't hear them. Not likely to provide much closure, but you're also not going to be telling a lie.
-[X] Ask if this room is the best place for sensitive information first.
HymnOfRagnarok
Let's Rock
[X] Yes
[X] The whole truth, and nothing but - You didn't see much, and if he had last words you didn't hear them. Not likely to provide much closure, but you're also not going to be telling a lie.
I like being a straight shooter.
...I swear that's not a pun or innuendo.
[X] The whole truth, and nothing but - You didn't see much, and if he had last words you didn't hear them. Not likely to provide much closure, but you're also not going to be telling a lie.
I like being a straight shooter.
...I swear that's not a pun or innuendo.