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Twisted Pinwheel

Discussion in 'Questing' started by Chibi-Reaper, Jul 12, 2015.

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  1. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you take me out to dinner. You're paying."
     
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  2. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you take me out to dinner. You're paying."
     
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  3. Linarka

    Linarka I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you take me out to dinner. You're paying."
     
  4. Vox De Harlequin

    Vox De Harlequin Self-Taught Black Magic Initiate

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    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you're buying me dinner."

    How about we don't make it sound like she's expressing romantic interest?
     
  5. Ct613hulu

    Ct613hulu Experienced.

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    Commenting on his "Obvious Ploy" doesn't really make sense. In our earlier meeting with him he never made any offers that would indicate he wanted something from us and this current meeting only entails us running into him. Nothing has yet been said and any offers for cooperation would be coming entirely from our protagonist.
     
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  6. Winged One

    Winged One Not the Simurgh

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    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you're buying me dinner."
     
  7. The Nobody

    The Nobody Why does this line say strange things? Gone for Good

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    I believe that, from all of Kabuto's skills and tricks, the one that Mio will value the most right now would be the ability to not kill all the children.
     
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  8. angelofwhim

    angelofwhim Experienced.

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    [x] Mouth "Help me"

    Is that intestinal virus infectious? Wash ASAP
     
  9. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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    Right. And that's the obvious ploy.

    He established the perfect set up for a trade, gave his background and motivations (unasked for, I may add), and specifically established his qualifications.

    Then he blue-balled us by not following through, well aware of the fact that we were likely to run into him again.

    The whole exchange is set up so that we would be the ones to ask him, to make it seem like it was our idea, when in reality he planted it in our heads.

    Remember, Kabuto is a master manipulator. This whole exchange reeks of manipulation.
     
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  10. mc2rpg

    mc2rpg Versed in the lewd.

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    Dear god people why would you want to learn medical jutsu. It is clearly a path to irrelevancy and mediocrity! Look at this poor bastard, desperate to learn from a child in the academy!

    [X] "Fine I will teach you something cool, but you will owe me a favor."
     
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  11. Irked

    Irked Experienced.

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    getting some basic medic training will probably help us develop more external coils, which is a pretty big game changer, people are only born with so many and they grow with time but we can add quite a few more externally to boost our total capacity and regen.

    This is the sort of thing that heralds the beginning of S class, Sharingan and our ridiculously low cost short range shunshin is just icing on the cake.

    Gai must be ten times the teacher Kakashi is, he showed us a cool technique, gave us a hint on how to do it and we ended up with extra chakra coils and a Shunshin that lets us dominate melee when we get the hang of it.

    by the way Chibi-Reaper do any of the Hyuga's freak out when Mio walks by or they spot her whilst Byakugan is on? having chakra coils outside your body must look pretty freakish to them.

    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you're buying me dinner."

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    Eh i figure Mio would like at least some basic knowledge about it so she can fiddle more with her external coils.
     
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  12. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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    Exhibit A: Kabuto

    Exhibit B: Tsunade

    There are SOOO many cool things to do with medical jutsu, especially when you are an unrepentant sadist willing to turn your knowledge on your opponent. It is an insanely abusable field.

    Plus, if we ever get to super regeneration, we could just spam Izanagi all day. No going blind for us!
     
  13. Winged One

    Winged One Not the Simurgh

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    That's only if you follow Tsunade's rules, though.
     
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  14. Ct613hulu

    Ct613hulu Experienced.

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    A Uchiha with an activated and powerful Sharingan showing signs of becoming a Medic would also likely infuriate the traditional Uchiha. I suspect that this is something Mio would greatly enjoy.
     
  15. Irked

    Irked Experienced.

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    As an aside medic training may eventually lead to us doing something with our mothers eyes down the line, even if it's only replacing our own after something fucked them up.

    Edit: for a bit of crackish hilarity we could end up swapping eyes with Hinata.
     
  16. Briareus the Gardener

    Briareus the Gardener I trust you know where the happy button is?

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    [x] Mouth "Help me"

    Better underestimated for now, and this is very Mio. We can play the bombastic kid with a lonely heart better than we can play some sort of world-wise-but-easily-manipulable wunderkind. The former seems less likely to end with us on Kabuto's operating table within the next week, at least.
     
  17. Sirrocco

    Sirrocco Tiny but ambitious squid

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    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you take me out to dinner. You're paying."

    ...because this is MIO!

    I really just can't see her admitting weakness like that. Also, maybe this is Kabuto's type?

    By the time he was picked up by Orochimaru, he'd hit the "n-tuple agent so many times I don't even know which side I'm on" phase. We might be able to swap him around again.
     
  18. Selias

    Selias Well worn.

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    Wait. Is he lying, or is this an AU factor? Or maybe Danzo had him adopted by one of the lead surgeons as a cover?
     
  19. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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    It's the backstory Orochimaru gave to him and the one he used in canon for the chuunin exams.
     
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  20. Drak4806

    Drak4806 Well worn.

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    I think this is canon
     
  21. prandom

    prandom Definitely Trustworthy

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    [X] Huff in annoyance at his obvious ploy. "Fine, you bastard. Don't you dare think I don't know what your game is, but I'm biting. On my own terms. I give you some badass combat ninjustu and you teach me medical stuff. AND you take me out to dinner. You're paying."
     
  22. EvaUnit01

    EvaUnit01 The man who stands at the top of AAWWEESSOOOMEEE

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    [x] Mouth "Help me"
     
  23. mc2rpg

    mc2rpg Versed in the lewd.

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    Yes! Exhibit A is that kid that is so desperate to learn something useful that he is begging a random child for help. Do you really think that is helping your argument?
     
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  24. HypoSoc

    HypoSoc The mind is such a fragile plaything.

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    Have you not seen canon? Kabuto is insane.

    His fight in the Tsunade retrieval arc is one of my favorites in the whole series.
     
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  25. redaeth

    redaeth Stubborn pedantrist

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    The biggest problem with associating with Kabuto is that he works for Orochimaru; he who would love to get his hands on a set of Sharingan. And Mio's persona-non-Grata among status among the Uchiha makes her a tempting target.
     
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  26. Sirrocco

    Sirrocco Tiny but ambitious squid

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    Yeah... but he wants the eyes in the associated body, and he wasn't being all that motivated about it at this point in the timeline. After all, at this point in the timeline, there were multiple genin teams with sharingan-users in them out and running around outside the city walls. If he'd *really* wanted to grab one, he could have done so. I don't think Kabuto's likely to blow his cover to try to extract us now.
     
  27. mc2rpg

    mc2rpg Versed in the lewd.

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    That's nice. All Mio knows is that he is a failure that has to beg children for help, and that if she knows too much medical jutsu that will be her future.
     
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  28. Sirrocco

    Sirrocco Tiny but ambitious squid

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    So you don't learn *too much*. Too easy! Just learn a bit - enough to piss off the elders, but not enough to get labeled a medic - and then don't admit that we know them to anyoen who might come to unfortunate conclusions.

    Alo, from an OOC perspective, IIRC, our best current plan for surviving the massacre is to use an unscrolled summon to drag ourselves to another plane of existence for an unknown duration. It might be nice to be able to patch ourselves up while there, yah?
     
  29. Chibi-Reaper

    Chibi-Reaper D-Donations plz?

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    Also, not at the front of her mind, but she knows full well that her mom died because the Uchiha clan doesn't trust many medics near the secrets of their eyes and the ones they do aren't generally the best medic-nin. So when she caught sick and the family doc couldn't fix it, she just stayed at home and died instead of going to the hospital.

    Which Mio can understand in a way, having now been here on detention, forced to be an aide, but she probably wouldn't have died if she went to see a really good medic.

    Claaaaan Priiiiiiide...
     
  30. theqwopingone

    theqwopingone Journeyman rationalist wannabe. Gone for Good

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    Just putting this out there: I had some ideas about using our "externals" as a way to harvist power from other things, like waterfalls or the jetstream. Another idea about using them as pistons/springs to help us move faster with less energy loss. Like kangaroos and trap jaw ants
    We should really be looking into better things to give him, like traps and whatnot, because of how he is meant to be limited in how he can fight.
    He can have them once we swap out.
     
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