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The Princess of Blades (Naruto/Exalted)

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OverReactionGuy said:
Bit chancy for my taste. I do not like the odds of surviving a Jonin opponent long enough to make the golden pillar.
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To be fair, she triggers her anima power reflexively, and that levies a -1 external penalty on enemy attacks, while boosting her own DVs by 2.
Still, a little chancy.
OverReactionGuy said:
There is also the issue of Tenten even noticing the fight in the first place. I think she may be busy being a bit shocked from Garaa giving Dosu a hug. Or even Gaara detecting her which is also just as bad.
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Awareness 5.
Hayate certainly isn't going to be trying to keep quiet.
Nor, I presume, is Tenten, not after watching Dosu get splattered.

If Tenten raises the alarm, Baki, as jounin-in-charge, has to be there to deal with the fallout.
Which means he can't be off skulking and meeting with Kabuto.
Which means Hayate can't run into them.
Crilltic said:
Yeah, Tenten going to be a bit busy with the "Holy fuck Gaara just ripped that guy apart" thing.
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"He came right at me, and I stood my ground. It was self-defense."
:V

Still a better fate than what happened to his teammates.
Poor teenage schmucks.
 
uju32 said:
If Tenten raises the alarm, Baki, as jounin-in-charge, has to be there to deal with the fallout.
Which means he can't be off skulking and meeting with Kabuto.
Which means Hayate can't run into them.
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They were meeting while watching Gaara murder Dosu. They might cut their meeting short, but Hayate would have been observing them already anyway.
 
Yog said:
They were meeting while watching Gaara murder Dosu. They might cut their meeting short, but Hayate would have been observing them already anyway.
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They were meeting, but Hayate wasn't watching them until well after Dosu got blenderized; he was not witness to Gaara getting his murder on.
If the alarm/alert is raised immediately after/during Dosu's demise, either the meeting will never take place, or available forces will be busy with cleanup and containment.
Possibly both.
 
Yog said:
Awareness should be helpful here. It should help us spot creaking panels and other stuff that could generate noise, allow us to maintain a larger distance from Dosu, notice him looking for tails, etc. Do we have an excellency yet? We could really use it here.
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That's Stealth. If we were looking for someone else doing that stuff it would be Awareness.
 
uju32 said:
They were meeting, but Hayate wasn't watching them until well after Dosu got blenderized; he was not witness to Gaara getting his murder on.
If the alarm/alert is raised immediately after/during Dosu's demise, either the meeting will never take place, or available forces will be busy with cleanup and containment.
Possibly both.
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Huh... I didn't know that. In manga it's not really clear (at least to me), was it in anime? And we probably don't want to raise alarm immediately. At least not until Gaara leaves.
ShadowAngelBeta said:
That's Stealth. If we were looking for someone else doing that stuff it would be Awareness.
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Isn't awareness in general increase in senses? Or is it intent-based? Ie if we are just checking the roof for structural integrity, it's awareness / investigation, but if we are doing so for the purpose of not being noticed, it's stealth.
 
Crilltic said:
Well, his teammates aren't dead yet. But yeah, those two...did not go out pleasantly. But then, I guess that's what you get when your boss is Orochimaru :V
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:cry::cry::cry:... I am the only one who think we sholud help dosu?

As orochimaru subordinate He sholud have some info.

And we are a solar!!!! Is our job to salve human from monster!!!
 
giodan said:
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:cry::cry::cry:... I am the only one who think we sholud help dosu?

As orochimaru subordinate He sholud have some info.

And we are a solar!!!! Is our job to salve human from monster!!!
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Dosu is a monster. And no, Solars are not Heroes in the modern sense. They are the old style Heroes, any that acieved something great, whether that be saving a village or massacring one. Whether that be throwing themselves in front of an assassin to save a King or being that assassin themself.

He is a low-ranked genin that was sent out to die against Sasuke with a one-off trick and is trying to kill Gaara despite Orochimaru knowing everything about him. He is worthless as far as information goes.
 
ShadowAngelBeta said:
Dosu is a monster.
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No he isn't.
He's a genin raised in a hard village, who just discovered that his hero was throwing him away as disposable fodder to test a Leaf genin.
Kid's in crisis.

I mean,after Sasuke disabled the rest of his team, the boy traded his scroll for his team and carried them away, not abandoning them to enemies.
And dude hasn't actually threatened or tried to kill members of his team or his family, unlike certain genin I could name in this story who go on to become fan favorites and village heroes.

In normal circumstances he'd have a trusted jounin who would act as a stabilizer; unfortunately, Sound.
I just can't think of any way that Tenten could IC intervene to save his life; she doesn't have any prior warning or knowledge, and he isn't predisposed to listen to her anyway.

Furthermore, I'm not sure it's actually stated that he wanted to kill Gaara.
Beat him, incapacitate him, get him out of the way so he could show up Sasuke, yes.
Kill him? Eh.

Not that he's a saint; ninja are supposed to kill eventually, and if he had to, I don't think he'd be broken up about it too much.
But consider how he fought Choji.
He's not a psychotic bloodknight.
 
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ShadowAngelBeta said:
Dosu is a monster. And no, Solars are not Heroes in the modern sense. They are the old style Heroes, any that acieved something great, whether that be saving a village or massacring one. Whether that be throwing themselves in front of an assassin to save a King or being that assassin themself.

He is a low-ranked genin that was sent out to die against Sasuke with a one-off trick and is trying to kill Gaara despite Orochimaru knowing everything about him. He is worthless as far as informati on goes.
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...Ok....

Is there is one thing you are wrong.

Dosu is not a monster! He is a professional ninja!!
 
giodan said:
And we are a solar!!!! Is our job to salve human from monster!!!
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Nah, our job is to become Goddess-Queen of Shinobi. Basically canon Kaguya, but successfully. It's not like anybody can be a problem. :V
ShadowAngelBeta said:
Professional ninjas kind of are monsters. Mostly only when they're ordered to be, but... well Itachi is a good example, if extreme one.
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ehhhh. Naruto!Ninja are more or less battle mages with some preference for stealth and acrobatics.
 
ctulhuslp said:
Nah, our job is to become Goddess-Queen of Shinobi. Basically canon Kaguya, but successfully. It's not like anybody can be a problem. :V
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Kaguya was extremely successful though. She ended war and united the world under her! Then she likely got drunk one day and had kids, who she loved until they started sharing chakra with the plebs who likely would use it as another weapon to war with or some such. So she went demon ten-tailed bunny rabbit mode and then got sealed by her kids.

Poor insane moon rabbit. :(
 
uju32 said:
They were meeting, but Hayate wasn't watching them until well after Dosu got blenderized; he was not witness to Gaara getting his murder on.
If the alarm/alert is raised immediately after/during Dosu's demise, either the meeting will never take place, or available forces will be busy with cleanup and containment.
Possibly both.
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In the anime at least, Hayate shows up pretty much immediately after Gaara pulps Dosu. As Baki and Kabuto are discussing whether or not it's okay that Gaara just killed one of the Sound genin.
 
Yog said:
I'm fairly sure that in Exalted if you take body modification far enough, you stop counting as human on a conceptual level.
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Complicated. Lunars' entire thing is shape-shifting, and I'm fairly sure I've heard of a canon Solar who went so far with self-modification that she ended up like some kind of kraken/leviathan thing.

I'm fairly sure it's that as long as the soul is human, that Exaltation will remain. I.E. You have a Hun and a Po and you do not affect either in any way.
 
ShadowAngelBeta said:
Complicated. Lunars' entire thing is shape-shifting, and I'm fairly sure I've heard of a canon Solar who went so far with self-modification that she ended up like some kind of kraken/leviathan thing.

I'm fairly sure it's that as long as the soul is human, that Exaltation will remain. I.E. You have a Hun and a Po and you do not affect either in any way.
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Well, Orochimaru's soul is a giant snake made up of thousands of smaller snakes. Fairly sure that's far enough.
 
Yog said:
I'm fairly sure that in Exalted if you take body modification far enough, you stop counting as human on a conceptual level.
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Soul structure is what defines humans, that is why animal people count. That said solar charms are based around baseline human perfection so you won't get charmtech to support your trans humanism augmentations. Normal stuff won't stop working though.
 
Yog said:
In manga, it goes like this (chapter 91 and forward): Dosu is planning to kill Gaara in his sleep. Gaara, as we know, doesn't sleep. The first time we see the whole scene (page 17 chapter 91) Gaara is sitting atop some sort of giant ornamental fish decoration, and asks Dosu what he wants. Dosu tells him that he came to kill him in his sleep and indicates astonishment that Gaara never sleeps
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oh my god, why is everyone stupid in narto? the dude had to know Gaara was dangerous, hence killing him in his sleep. why the hell did he say he was there to kill him? is it some weird honor thing? why not just lie that he was scoping out the competition? or your know, anything that wouldn't get him into a fight to the death with a stupidly powerful sand manipulator? It might not have helped, but at least maintain some basic fucking op sec.
 
random_npc said:
oh my god, why is everyone stupid in narto? the dude had to know Gaara was dangerous, hence killing him in his sleep. why the hell did he say he was there to kill him? is it some weird honor thing? why not just lie that he was scoping out the competition or something? or your know, anything that wouldn't get into a fight to the death with a stupidly powerful sand manipulator? It might not have helped, but at least maintain some basic fucking op sec.
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He didn't know Gaara's powers went crazy on the night of a full moon, so he assumed his sound was faster than Gaara's sand (which on a normal day it might very well of been). Plus, he was not in a good place after learning his leader sent him and his friends off to get murdered to test some leaf genin.
 
so it's less he was being stupid, and more he was kind of losing it since he found out he had been sent to his death for a really petty reason? ok that explains him, still stealth does seem to be kind of under used. though that might just be a genera convention.
 
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