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## [RT][FF] "Marked for Death", a Naruto-verse quest (now moved to SV)
* Author: u/eaglejarl *
* URL: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/marked-for-death-a-rational-naruto-quest.24481/#post-4925222
* Score: 31
* Created: 2015-12-10T20:02:13
### Post:
[Link to content](https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/marked-for-death-a-rational-naruto-quest.24481/#post-4925222)
### Comments:
> **u/None** [+9] (2 hours later)
>
> [deleted]
>> **u/None** [+5] (2 hours later)
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>> [removed]
>>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+4] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (2 hours later)
>>>
>>> You didn't see aaanything.
>> **u/eaglejarl** [+3] (2 hours later)
>>
>> > We've got /u/eaglejarl of Team Anko and Induction fame
>>
>> 2YE gets no love? ;>
>>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+2] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (2 hours later)
>>>
>>> Well I've gone and edited it now so you look like a crazy person :>
>>>> **u/eaglejarl** [+5] (2 hours later)
>>>>
>>>> *laugh*
>>>>
>>>> Well, if you insist:
>>>>
>>>> <crazy style="grammar nazi">
>>>> Don't forget your serial commas or [JFK and Stalin](http://www.verbicidemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Oxford-Comma.jpg) will show up.
>>>> </crazy>
>>> **u/Transfuturist** [+2] *Carthago delenda est.* (2 hours later)
>>>
>>> /u/eaglejarl, /u/FuguofAnotherWorld, /u/Velorien, /u/augsphere, is the gender and/or the name of the character up for vote?
>>>> **u/eaglejarl** [+3] (2 hours later)
>>>>
>>>> Sure. Vote for anything you like. We reserve the right to adjudicate / veto, though.
>>>>> **u/Reasonableviking** [+8] (2 hours later)
>>>>>
>>>>> Would you Veto for instance, Charles Barkley of the Village Hidden in the Jam?
>>>>>> **u/None** [+10] (2 hours later)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [removed]
>>>>>>> **u/Reasonableviking** [+6] (2 hours later)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And Augsphere just stopped me from making an insensate rock with Ninjutsu through the character generation rules, this is a tragedy.
>>>>>> **u/Transfuturist** [+3] *Carthago delenda est.* (4 hours later)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This actually made me laugh, instead of breathing slightly stronger than normal. Two thumbs up.
>>>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+1] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (2 hours later)
>>>>
>>>> Sure thing.
> **u/krakonfour** [+8] (2 hours later)
>
> I'm in, whatever the cost, whatever I have to do.
>> **u/None** [+8] (2 hours later)
>>
>> [deleted]
>>> **u/krakonfour** [+7] (3 hours later)
>>>
>>> That's not how contract law works! My comment is.. an invitation to treat?
>>>> **u/None** [+10] (3 hours later)
>>>>
>>>> [deleted]
>>>>> **u/Subrosian_Smithy** [+6] *Nudist Beach* (21 hours later)
>>>>>
>>>>> The world doesn't run on *math*, Neo!
>> **u/krakonfour** [+1] (3 hours later)
>>
>> My SV forum account is Truthquark.
> **u/Airgineer1** [+2] (an hour later)
>
> Looks like it'll be fun! I'll try to participate under the username -Caconym-. I've never done one of these before so I'm going to step back and let others do the character creation first.
>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2] (an hour later)
>>
>> Feel free to post something simple, like this:
>>
>> plan Caconym
>> A close range fighter focused on speed instead of power.
>>
>> You don't need to go crazy with the details.
>>> **u/Transfuturist** [+2] *Carthago delenda est.* (an hour later)
>>>
>>> Doesn't it go like
>>>
>>> [X] A close range fighter focused on speed instead of power.
>>>
>>> I think you need the [X]. And `[X] plan Caconym` is for people adding votes to Caconym's plan, not Caconym himself.
>>>
>>> The chargen rules are open to editing by anyone, so the owner should restrict it to suggestion only.
>>>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+1] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (3 hours later)
>>>>
>>>> It does indeed work like that. And the permissions have been fixed.
> **u/mordorisbad** [+2] (5 hours later)
>
> Can we talk a little bit about how the voting works?
>
> To me it seems like we can vote for as many alternatives as we want. The way to make sure something doesn't happen then is to vote for everything *but* what you want to exclude.
>
> I am also somewhat unsure what is meant by "earlier votes by a user is excluded".
> My assumption is that you only get one post to vote in. Which makes it a good strategy to go back and edit your voting-post later?
>
> It also seems to be the case that simple majority wins.
>
> How will you resolve cases that seem similar or have the potential to be combined? I assume a certain degree of consideration is required by the GMs when deciding winners.
>
> I am most interested in how you will resolve this in regards to stat-distribution. If a complete stat-distribution with fire-affinity gets 4 votes, but a simple vote for earth-affinity(only, no other details) gets 5 what happens?
>
> How will you mix and combine if points are insufficent for both?
> Say earth-attribute 4 by itself gets 5 votes, but the complete distribution, which only has fire-attribute 2, but no points leftover gets 4 votes, how will they be combined, if at all?
>> **u/eaglejarl** [+3] (6 hours later)
>>
>> The only answer I can offer to any of this is "we'll use common sense and try to reflect our best understanding of what people want."
>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+2] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (6 hours later)
>>
>> > I am also somewhat unsure what is meant by "earlier votes by a user is excluded". My assumption is that you only get one post to vote in. Which makes it a good strategy to go back and edit your voting-post later?
>>
>> The voting bot looks back through all of the posts looking for things with an [x] in them. Then is takes the most recent by each person, counts and collates them. Simple majority does indeed win.
>>
>> In cases of a tie the GMs have a few options, such as waiting another half hour and re-counting, gauging the feeling of people in the thread or just picking the one that will make a better story.
>>
>> Fortunately votes are kept separate even if they have similar parts. So, you won't end up with a mangled mish-mash of a character made by slamming two other possible characters into each other.
>>
>> If, later on, you end up in a position where there are 7 people saying go right, and 10 saying go left split into 5 go left and smell the grass with 5 saying go left and kick a rock, it is unlikely that you will end up going right.
>> **u/None** [+1] (6 hours later)
>>
>> It's very simple. No one is going to game quests.
>>
>> As long as that it doesn't happen, it's perfectly fine to do what they do.
> **u/mordorisbad** [+1] (an hour later)
>
> As it stands, everyone with the link to the google document has editing-privileges. I assume this shouldn't be the case?
> **u/IomKg** [+1] (2 hours later)
>
> Just wondering, what are the reasons this is not done here?
>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+2] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (2 hours later)
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>> Essentially the thread system on reddit would have made any arguments or disagreements expand fractally without end in sight.
>>> **u/IomKg** [+1] (2 hours later)
>>>
>>> Am I missing something or is the place its hosted on right now just a simple flat forum?
>>> I was under the impression that similar settings could be set up for threads in reddit as well.. was i wrong or am i missing something about the place its currently hosted?
>>>
>>> *Just so it doesn't sound like I am trying to convince you guys to move here, as these kinds of quests aren't really my thing, i am honestly interested in the reasons..
>>>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+1] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (2 hours later)
>>>>
>>>> Honestly, didn't remember there was the option on reddit. That said, SV would've still come out ahead because it has auto-tally while reddit has both up and down votes, which make for a far more complicated voting system.
>>>>> **u/IomKg** [+1] (3 hours later)
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmm so that voting system is better for quests..
>>>>> Fair enough I suppose, thanks for the responses :)
>> **u/eaglejarl** [+1] (2 hours later)
>>
>> There was a suggestion that reddit's threading structure would be less than ideal, and it was pointed out that other sites have integrated voting systems and dice rollers.
>>> **u/IomKg** [+1] (2 hours later)
>>>
>>> Aren't there dice roll bots in reddit?
>>> And isn't voting basically what is possible for every post here?
>> **u/blazinghand** [+1] *Chaos Undivided* (9 hours later)
>>
>> One of the ways in which forums without upvote/downvote systems work is that it's really really easy to keep track of the order in which posts are made. This is very important for a quest or story like this one.
> **u/Riddle-Tom_Riddle** [+1] (7 hours later)
>
> This looks fun.
>
> I, unfortunately, am too damn tired to parse significantly new things, and am just about to go to bed.
>
> I'll join in the morning, if I remember.
>
> [](/dashiesleep)
>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+2] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (19 hours later)
>>
>> We'd be glad to have you on board.
>>> **u/Riddle-Tom_Riddle** [+1] (20 hours later)
>>>
>>> Ayy, thanks for the reminder! I'll get right on that.
>>>
>>> [](/colgateayyy)
> **u/AmeteurOpinions** [+1] *Finally, everyone was working together.* (a day later)
>
> Hm. I know basically nothing about the *Naruto* universe except what I learned through *Lighting Up The Dark*, *Time Braid*, and *The Waves Arisen*. I do think it would be fun to participate, as a cowardly ninja who would rather be an unpowered civilian, to excuse my lack of knowledge. Is that plausible?
>> **u/krakonfour** [+2] (a day later)
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>> What's happening right now is that a group of people are building one ninja together, then will vote on that character's actions.
>> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+2] *Roll the Dice on Fate* (a day later)
>>
>> The world is AU enough your canon knowledge would be mostly irrelevant anyway, so you're fine.
>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2] (a day later)
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>> That's fine.
>>
>> Pretty much my entire knowledgebase comes from fanfic and the wiki, so if you've read LUTD, TB, and TWA you're probably fine. I haven't had the interest to read the manga. I tried the anime but it drove me so crazy / bored me so much that I stopped around the end of the Wave arc.
> **u/XxChronOblivionxX** [+1] (a day later)
>
> Welp, guess I'm joining in on this. Discussions should be interesting.
>
> Hopefully "Plan Stealth Assassin" ends up winning.
>> **u/eaglejarl** [+3] (a day later)
>>
>> It did. In a landslide.
>>> **u/Transfuturist** [+1] *Carthago delenda est.* (a day later)
>>>
>>> Keep it on the down-low, but my last vote has some background-color elements. I'm trying to be sneaky, like a stealth assassin. :U
>>>
>>> Also, in case you didn't see it, I put the Stealth Assassin into [the character spreadsheet as an example.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s2mL8slpx0G-QlGeiZIwuDZA7fkBoyR0GtGorf-Cpmg/edit?usp=sharing)
>>>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2] (a day later)
>>>>
>>>> > Keep it on the down-low, but my last vote has some background-color elements. I'm trying to be sneaky, like a stealth assassin. :U
>>>>
>>>> Sneaky indeed!
>>>>
>>>> > Also, in case you didn't see it, I put the Stealth Assassin into the character spreadsheet as an example.
>>>>
>>>> "Gender: Rock"???
>>>>> **u/Transfuturist** [+2] *Carthago delenda est.* (a day later)
>>>>>
>>>>> > "Gender: Rock"???
>>>>>
>>>>> [It's a reference.](https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3w9pdw/rtff_marked_for_death_a_narutoverse_quest_now/cxuo35o) Also a placeholder.
>>>>>
>>>>> I mean, are you going to tell me that rocks have a gender?
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