The Princess of Blades (Naruto/Exalted)
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I have to say, I like reading exalted fics and quests, but when it comes to voting on charms and attributes and whatnot, I pretty much have to abstain. Even if I did understand the exalted system, the large charm trees (and Naruto-translated jutsu and whatever trees) culminate in a huge case of choice overload, made worse by having to plan out tens of actions out of those choices. The social actions are fine - it's the training ones that I'm lost on. So if I do participate in this quest, it won't be for these types of votes :-/
4 weeks before the 3rd Stage.
We do need to grind Chakra Skill though.
And a War Specialty in Small Unit Tactics would not go amiss.
Rushing Panoptic Fusion because it's both a DV booster and boosts our offense; it has Awareness Excellency as a prereq, so we have to take it.
4x Actions in training Shunshin gets us that technique, and allows us to go for Water Walking next week, which helps with grinding Chakra Skill.
[X] PLAN PRECISION
Training(x12 Actions)
-[x] First Awareness Excellency x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Panoptic Fusion Discipline x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Water Walking x4 [Resource: Gai]
Social(x6 Actions)
-[x] I can't believe it's not Genjutsu
-[x] Meeting the Competition x2 (Shikamaru and Dosu)
-[x] A Quick Check-up
-[x] Paying a Visit x2 (Temari and Lee)
We do need to grind Chakra Skill though.
And a War Specialty in Small Unit Tactics would not go amiss.
Rushing Panoptic Fusion because it's both a DV booster and boosts our offense; it has Awareness Excellency as a prereq, so we have to take it.
4x Actions in training Shunshin gets us that technique, and allows us to go for Water Walking next week, which helps with grinding Chakra Skill.
[X] PLAN PRECISION
Training(x12 Actions)
-[x] First Awareness Excellency x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Panoptic Fusion Discipline x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Water Walking x4 [Resource: Gai]
Social(x6 Actions)
-[x] I can't believe it's not Genjutsu
-[x] Meeting the Competition x2 (Shikamaru and Dosu)
-[x] A Quick Check-up
-[x] Paying a Visit x2 (Temari and Lee)
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Generally, I like this. Some questions / thoughts:
How does taking thirteen training actions work? I think I missed something.
Wouldn't water walking be more useful / important? For several reasons:
1) We can train it at hot springs (hopefully), which might net us Jiraya / Naruto interrupt, or otherwise result in a social activity.
2) It sets up further training for wire running. One thing Tenten could do that I would very much like to see is setting up 3d environments with wires for maneuvering and battlefield control.
3) It should generally open up higher chakra control and ninjutsu skills, plus improve tricks like using our legs to throw kunai (there's a trick Sasuke, I think, uses in canon: catch kunai mid flight by sticking it to your foot with chakra, and launch it back)
Visiting Lee: maybe do it together with Sakura? I mean, Lee would like to see her, I think.
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PFD is just straight-up OP, it's in the must-buy list for any Solar combatant. It being Awareness makes it extra enticing to grab.
[X] Plan Yog 1.0
-[x] First Awareness Excellency x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Panoptic Fusion Discipline x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Water Walking x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[X] I can't believe it's not Genjutsu
-[x] Paying a Visit
--[X] Lee
---[X] See if Sakura wants to come too
--[X] Hinata
-[X] A Quick Check-up
-[X] Meeting the competition
--[X] Gaara
--[X] Shikamaru
---[X] Share what you learn about Gaara with him
Ok, something like this. My reasoning:
1) I agree that the awareness jutsu is useful, so ok, why not. Plus, as I understand it, awareness could be helpful in ninja training, where a lot of teaching is done by sparring and by example.
2) I already gave my reason for why Water Walking is a priority above Shunshin (specifically that it should improve chakra control, thus making further use of chakra easier). Speaking of, @Crilltic would specifying training Water Walking in hot springs be allowed?
3) Visiting Lee with Sakura: Lee, even in his own goofy way, liked Sakura. I want to pressure him not to aggravate his injuries, and Sakura being there (and pleading with him not to injure himself further) would help with that; plus Lee+Sakura would make a cure couple
4) Visiting Hinata: might land us some knowledge of what Neji might be training, and we need to apologize on his behalf anyway; he behaved unprofessionally, if nothing else. @Crilltic do I need to specify what I want out of the visit apologizing for Neji's behavior)
5) Competition checkout: Gaara is the most dangerous one, so he's the highest priority, and, having checked him out, we'll have something to barter with Shikamaru.
-[x] First Awareness Excellency x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Panoptic Fusion Discipline x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Water Walking x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[X] I can't believe it's not Genjutsu
-[x] Paying a Visit
--[X] Lee
---[X] See if Sakura wants to come too
--[X] Hinata
-[X] A Quick Check-up
-[X] Meeting the competition
--[X] Gaara
--[X] Shikamaru
---[X] Share what you learn about Gaara with him
Ok, something like this. My reasoning:
1) I agree that the awareness jutsu is useful, so ok, why not. Plus, as I understand it, awareness could be helpful in ninja training, where a lot of teaching is done by sparring and by example.
2) I already gave my reason for why Water Walking is a priority above Shunshin (specifically that it should improve chakra control, thus making further use of chakra easier). Speaking of, @Crilltic would specifying training Water Walking in hot springs be allowed?
3) Visiting Lee with Sakura: Lee, even in his own goofy way, liked Sakura. I want to pressure him not to aggravate his injuries, and Sakura being there (and pleading with him not to injure himself further) would help with that; plus Lee+Sakura would make a cure couple
4) Visiting Hinata: might land us some knowledge of what Neji might be training, and we need to apologize on his behalf anyway; he behaved unprofessionally, if nothing else. @Crilltic do I need to specify what I want out of the visit apologizing for Neji's behavior)
5) Competition checkout: Gaara is the most dangerous one, so he's the highest priority, and, having checked him out, we'll have something to barter with Shikamaru.
[X] Plan Hard Work 1.0
@Crilltic, I have several question (I apologise if it was asked before):
1. What does "Integrity-Protecting Prana" work against in terms of jutsu? Does Genjutsu counts as shaping, given it affect target directly? Charm states it protects against things that "directly alters her mind, body, spirit or traits".
2. The "Destiny-Manifesting Method" increases shaping attacks difficulty by two. And how much it is worth in narrative terms? How much of resistance it is?
3. Currently Tenten learns charms 'by instinct' with no teacher or instruction. Given that would it be possible for her to come out with her own variation of charms? Not thinking about anything groundbreaking here, nor even anything right now. What I do think about is mostly variation of charms she have access to.
Edit: vote change.
@Crilltic, I have several question (I apologise if it was asked before):
1. What does "Integrity-Protecting Prana" work against in terms of jutsu? Does Genjutsu counts as shaping, given it affect target directly? Charm states it protects against things that "directly alters her mind, body, spirit or traits".
2. The "Destiny-Manifesting Method" increases shaping attacks difficulty by two. And how much it is worth in narrative terms? How much of resistance it is?
3. Currently Tenten learns charms 'by instinct' with no teacher or instruction. Given that would it be possible for her to come out with her own variation of charms? Not thinking about anything groundbreaking here, nor even anything right now. What I do think about is mostly variation of charms she have access to.
Edit: vote change.
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[X] PLAN PRECISION
Misread the rules from mobile apparently.
[X] PLAN PRECISION
This one works for me though.
@uju32
Care to loot the specifier on the hospital visit in Yog's plan?
Another argument for water-walking as opposed to shunshin: this is the first week of training. Upping chakra control first should make learning ninjutsu easier later.
Oh, and @Crilltic another question: What is the limitiation on substitution? Is it mass of the object being substituted with? Distance to it? Shape? Distinctiveness (what I mean, is it simpler to substitute with a solid rock than with a sack filled with grain, if both are the same mass, shape and distance away from you)? And would it be possible to substitute with a you-shaped amount of water to effectively be able to teleport underwater? Mass and shape are similar, the problem is distinguishing the water you are substituting with from all other water.
Oh, and @Crilltic another question: What is the limitiation on substitution? Is it mass of the object being substituted with? Distance to it? Shape? Distinctiveness (what I mean, is it simpler to substitute with a solid rock than with a sack filled with grain, if both are the same mass, shape and distance away from you)? And would it be possible to substitute with a you-shaped amount of water to effectively be able to teleport underwater? Mass and shape are similar, the problem is distinguishing the water you are substituting with from all other water.
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Only if you want to give up the fatigue regen.
No, if you're visiting Hinata then Tenten apologizing for Neji is assumed.
Genjutsu does not count as a shaping effect.
As I've stated before, there aren't a whole lot of shaping effects you're going to have to worry about.
I'm being very stingy with custom charms. Like, you can propose one, but I'm probably going to veto it.
It is a factor of mass (the closer the mass you're substituting is to your mass, the easier it is) and distance (the closer is it is to you, the easier it is). As for substituting raw elements, once Tenten learns how to make elemental clones, those can be used for substitution as well.
What do you mean? I thought that the default action distribution was fatigue neutral?
Great. We should definitely visit Hinata. And take her under our wing. I mean, what is she even doing in melee ranges? The girl has astonishing range with her eyes (more than 10 km after timeskip). She should be over-the-horizon artillery, not a taijutsu fighter!
To clarify, do you mean that to substitute with parts of large objects (Earth, rock, water), Tenten needs to learn how to make clones out of those? If so, yeah, clones definitely should be a priority. And sealless substitution. Because free teleportation within a volume of effect... Yeah, that's powerful.
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Going to the Hot Springs and other actions to that effect decrease the fatigue counter. If she's spending the time there training though, she's not going to get that.
Basically yeah, and we see this all the time with the higher level combatants. "You thought you killed me but it was actually a Doom-I mean mud clone/snakes/waterclone/crows! etc."
Ah, ok. I understood that. Ok, then, let's specify a bit:
[X] Plan Yog 1.1
-[x] First Awareness Excellency x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Panoptic Fusion Discipline x4 [Resource: Gai]
-[x] Water Walking x4 [Resource: Gai]
--[X} Spend two of those actions at hot springs training
-[X] I can't believe it's not Genjutsu
-[x] Paying a Visit
--[X] Lee
---[X] See if Sakura wants to come too
--[X] Hinata
-[X] A Quick Check-up
-[X] Meeting the competition
--[X] Gaara
--[X] Shikamaru
---[X] Share what you learn about Gaara with him
Even if not Jiraya, some kunoichi having a bath there might offer some advice.
Not sure what it's meant to achieve though?
In canon(at least in the anime) Lee was visited by Sakura et al multiple times; didn't stop him doing one-handed pushups outside the hospital till he passed out.
As for shipping, I tend to stay away from it.
But even if I wasn't staying clear, hospitalized guy with possibly career-ending injuries is not the right time to do it.
And it's not like Sakura is interested in him that way, since the fact that he literally went to war with the Sound Three for her sake didn't strike any "That's so romantic" chords with her.
Furthermore, we do not have the social skills to play matchmaker.
Appearance 2, Cha3, Man2, Presence 0.
At best we'd be rolling Cha 3 + Stunt 2 for a dice pool of 5 against a girl who has a higher App score than we do, possibly better social stats, and an opposing Intimacy.
The results would be....embarassing.
Admittedly, watching Tenten flail at social-fu and fail miserably might be amusing in it's own right.
Still, does not know enough about Sakura to be throwing her at her teammate.
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Admittedly, in the SD series. Tenten repeatedly tried to help Lee woo Sakura. It went about as well as you'd expectAdmittedly, watching Tenten flail at social-fu and fail miserably might be amusing in it's own right.
Still, does not know enough about Sakura to be throwing her at her teammate.
That's what happens when your only romantic role model is GaiAdmittedly, in the SD series. Tenten repeatedly tried to help Lee woo Sakura. It went about as well as you'd expect
Tenten didn't even see the Neji-Hinata fight.
She fought Temari immediately after Sakura-Ino, and was unconscious for the rest of the match.
And it's not like she's been talking to many people since, so exactly how badly it went is something she's entirely unaware of.
Little timeline snafu here, because Gaara-Lee was the second to last fight in canon, after Tenten-Temari, but occurred earlier here.
Original Timeline:
1)Sasuke v Yoroi Akadoi
2)Shino v Zaku
3)Kankuro v Misumi
4)Sakura v Ino
5)Tenten v Temari
6)Shikamaru v Kin Tsuchi
7)Naruto v Kiba
8) Hinata v Neji
9) Lee v Gaara
10)Choji v Dosu
So which did Gaara v Lee replace?
Because that determines who she has to go gather intel on.
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To be fair to Tenten, she gave pretty decent advice there. It was just Lee being well, Lee.That's what happens when your only romantic role model is Gai
Gaara v. Lee switched with the Tenten v. Temari fight.
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@Crilltic Does IPP protect against Orochimaru's Cursed Seals? I figure those are a bit of a grey area of fuinjutsu and trying to alter the person the Cursed Seal is placed on.
If IPP does protect, maybe we should go for it now. Orochimaru may decide we're valuable enough to be worth marking.
Though, if IPP doesn't protect against the Cursed Seal, it will against the possession technique, and Orochimaru is most vulnerable if this process is interrupted. So if we did want to go that route, it's a way to assassinate Orochimaru.
Assumig we manage to fool him. Big assumption, that.
If IPP does protect, maybe we should go for it now. Orochimaru may decide we're valuable enough to be worth marking.
Though, if IPP doesn't protect against the Cursed Seal, it will against the possession technique, and Orochimaru is most vulnerable if this process is interrupted. So if we did want to go that route, it's a way to assassinate Orochimaru.
Assumig we manage to fool him. Big assumption, that.
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It won't against the cursed seal, but it will negate the Possession Technique. Just like it would prevent Tenten from being used as a sacrifice for the Edo Tensei.
So she's seen everyone else fight besides Dosu.
So intel is not a major issue at the moment, once we get that out of the way.
QUESTION
Does Gai count as a tutor for fuinjutsu? Does training fuinjutsu produce fatigue?
What bonus does he give for Taijutsu? Reduced XP cost? Reduced training time?
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On top of this would it be correct to assume he could tutor us in Athletics too?
Just to keep in mind I mean.
@Crilltic
And one more question:
Or do we only have access to a fraction of our Essence pool?
And one more question:
Is that our current temp Essence?
Or do we only have access to a fraction of our Essence pool?
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No Gai doesn't give a bonus for Fuinjutsu, and yes it does. (Even if it's not physically taxing, staring at seal structures for hours is still mentally taxing).
As for Gai, I should have made that more clear, but yes. He gives a -25% XP cost for training Taijutsu, Athletics and Resistance (rounded down).
The numbers in parentheses are your max Essence pool, numbers outside are what you currently have (the character sheet is current as of the meeting with Sakura, so Tenten hasn't refreshed from her sparring with Gai).
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