This quest is set within the universe of Naruto, long after the end of the series, but ignoring the events of the Boruto Manga. Of course, because this is Naruto we're talking about, the geopolitics and technology haven't advanced as quickly as they would in the real world. As such, the technology is similar to that of Boruto the Movie, and the villages you know and love are largely the same.
However, the characters will be less familiar, because as much time has passed between the Last and now as passed between the Founding of the Hidden Villages and the Main Series.
Last Quest, you boarded the Five Nations Express in Iwa and were cut off by a very sleepy QM. This Quest, you continue your journey into the Land of Wind, and pick up at a rather awkward dinner.
Levi Morris
>awkward dinner The only cure is obviously puns
Daniel Baker
I don't see the issue.
Heard you prefer puns over Waifus. You're a monster.
Nolan James
You decide that honey attracts more flies than vinegar after all, and greet the two Mist ninja nicely. The Uchiha replies in kind, though quietly, and the Uzumaki greets you in a cold way. Tenburo actually comes to your defense, trying to get his teammates greet you more nicely. Despite his efforts, you get no more than the initial cold shoulders, though you're fine with that. The dinner of braised fish and leeks comes to your table pretty quickly, thereby stopping keeping the awkward silence pretty short. Hakurin and Tenburo seem to strike up a conversation, though you, Jimmaru, Kaya, and Jensho all remain largely silent.
"Your genjutsu work was impressive. No hard feelings. This... IS fish I'm eating, right? You know you're a real knockout come on, say something, you're really hamstringing the mood" You direct at the Uchiha girl across from you, she just gives you a look of confusion and what may be veiled disgust, though Jimmaru is cracking up next to you. Tenburo and Hakurin are still talking about god-knows-what, and Jensho hasn't said a word.
>A) Keep targeting Kaya (60)
>B) Break the ice with Jensho (55)
>C) Join in on Hakurin and Tenburo's discussion
>D) Something else
Leo Butler
>A) Keep targeting Kaya (60)
This is X-com, only 40% chance at missing. Lets take the shot.
Logan Jackson
>A) Keep targeting Kaya (60) Give me puns or give me death.
Kayden Hughes
Roll 1d100's include how you want to keep at it if you want.
Parker Myers
>A) Keep targeting Kaya (60) When you got me with that sharingan I was really seeing red
Gabriel Edwards
Rolled 50 (1d100)
>Puns.
Henry Ross
Three attempts, I really need to clarify that.
Matthew Turner
Rolled 3 (1d100)
I'm trying to make puns but the pressure is too much!
Brandon Phillips
Hold out for a hero with a third roll!
Nolan Barnes
Rolled 14 (1d100)
Looks like we're aching for some punishment
Juan Baker
Rolled 42 (1d100)
>A) Keep targeting Kaya (60) "Look, the awkward silence was killing me. Either meet me halfway or tell me to shut up, but you can't just sit there silently forever."
Kevin Bennett
You people have rolled something like six 99's in this quest, and yet outside of combat you're a complete spaghetti factory. >Writing
Lincoln Robinson
Clearly we only gain friends through kicking the shit outta them.
Liam Carter
I'm actually kind of sick of it.
Dylan Davis
That's it, we're officially three for three at pissing people off with bad puns. We aren't even the one with the head injury. I just know we're going to be involved in some sort of diplomatic incident and cause a world-war by telling bad jokes.
Jayden Roberts
Maybe it's time we gave up on the whole "talking" thing and became the strong, silent type. Honestly, we would have done better so far by just staring at people, totally silent, never blinking.
David Ross
Staring pisses me off more then puns. But I'm not a ninja so..dunno
Jackson Anderson
You decide to keep at it with the girl sitting across from you, after all, you're Kuro Nijiiroh! You beat an ANBU Black-Ops member, you beat a Hyuga in a fist fight! So why does it feel like your feet are buried in six inches of pasta? You say something to her about telling you to shut up, and her inability to just sit there quietly glaring at you. You're clearly making any headway with Kaya, but it seems like your uncanny anti-charms are working on Jensho. Her redheaded teammate has joined Jensho in laughing at your expense, and is elbowing Kaya in the ribs, asking how she can be so stoic in the face of such charismatic failure.
You decide that maybe you should let the meal take it's course, and you all quiet down for a while, until dessert arrives. You spend that time thinking about how you're turning into your sister. This thought scares, you and you absolutely don't want to be "not popular through no fault of your own". Maybe it's been long enough for them to have forgiven your faux pas, maybe not.
>A) Just stay quiet
>B) Talk to Kaya (What do you say?)
>C) Talk to Jensho (What do you say?)
>D) Talk to Jimmaru (What do you say?)
>E) Talk to Tenburo (What do you say?)
>F) Talk to Hakurin (What do you say?)
>G) Something else
Bentley Reed
OH GOD The horrible puns, the bad rapping, contemplating giving up on social interaction completely... WE'RE BECOMING OUR SISTER! IT'S GENETIC!
Connor Rogers
>C) Talk to Jensho (I see you enjoy Corny waves of talking. Is your friend always this stoic and muted?)
I mean.. we end up in the same place our sister is. So atleast... we make money?
James Howard
>G) Leave the table Fuck this entire exercise.
Isaiah Phillips
>>B) Talk to Kaya (What do you say?) >I know I've been putting my foot in my mouth but honestly I was impresed by your skills, how long have you been working on that one?
Jose Sullivan
>>G) Excuse ourselves and book it Time to fade into the distance before we implode from the awkwardness or get punched int he face again.
Grayson Cook
Leaving the table to avoid being punched in the face. Too bad this leads to the possibility of being punched in the face, unlike staying at the table. >Writing
Ryan Rivera
>C) Talk to Jensho (What do you say?)
Seconding this
Leo Gray
>Try to run from problem >Make escape attempt roll >fail Holy fucking shit, what is happening. We still have a few more days on this train too.
Nicholas Cox
If this is to change your vote to B, then it's tied G-B.
Jaxon Diaz
>Still got a few days on this train >a few days >days Someone's going to try to murder us, the only question is who will snap first.
Jace Stewart
>A) Talk to Kaya (I know I've been putting my foot in my mouth but honestly I was impresed by your skills, how long have you been working on that one?)
>B) Leave
Jaxon Flores
>>A) Talk to Kaya (I know I've been putting my foot in my mouth but honestly I was impresed by your skills, how long have you been working on that one?)
Christopher Johnson
>B) Leave
Xavier Brooks
>B) Leave
Adrian Nguyen
>A) Talk to Kaya (I know I've been putting my foot in my mouth but honestly I was impressed by your skills, how long have you been working on that one?)
Ayden Nguyen
Rolled 1 (1d2)
Alright, five minutes is up, rolling a 1d2 to decide which you do.
Blake Sanchez
The dice gods will more Puns. I love this quest.
Brayden Davis
>A wins >Writing
Jayden Powell
There were no puns in that post, it was just a mediocre write-in dialogue.
David Davis
Then think of a better write in. I'm hoping a fucking pun or two get slipped in or something.
Adrian Brooks
You decide that you want to try and salvage this conversation, you won't be Shirou, you won't be the kind of person to leave their sibling on the bathroom floor or ruin their first mission. But first, you need to decide what to say. You look at the girl across the table from you, "I know I've been putting my foot in my mouth but honestly I was impressed by your skills, how long have you been working on your genjutsu?" you say to her, hoping that the Mist genin aren't going to punch you in the nose for a perceived slight.
It appears that she likes talking about genjutsu, and begins talking about the training and development of genjutsu with a dojutsu, especially the sharingan. You're glad that you seem to have overcome your earlier social ineptitude, and are making inroads with the Mist team. After the short conversation over dessert, the other team excuses themselves, leaving your team alone.
>A) Go back to your rooms (skips to the next day)
>B) Talk to one or both of them (Who? What?)
>C) Find someone else (Who?)
>D) Something else
John Butler
>A) Go back to your rooms (skips to the next day) End this hell and start the next one.
Josiah Morales
>D) Something else
There any way we can do some cool train specific training? If not run through exercises ourselves
Michael Turner
>>B) Talk to both of them >Well that went well
Angel Davis
I'm at my pun limit, every time I try to think of one my brain starts burning.
>A) Go back to your rooms (skips to the next day) Someone get murdered already or this is going to be one long as hell train ride.
Christian Carter
>A) Go back to your rooms (skips to the next day) >Ib4 assassin in the bedroom.
Camden Morales
Going back to your room for ______ on the Iwa express. >Writing
Benjamin White
You decide that you're going to bed, end the fresh hell that's been today despite the seemingly high note that it ended on. On your team's way back to the sleeper car you're staying in, Hakurin bumps into someone you guess is from the Hidden Sand, based on their clothing. Despite her apologizes, the ninja reprimands her harshly in a raspy voice. The Suna-nin heads off in the opposite direction from your team.
Looking outside the train, you realize that the inky blackness means you're in the famous tunnel running under the mountain range between the Land of Wind and the Land of Earth. You wake up early the next morning to your sensei poking you in the face repeatedly. You wonder if this is some kind of bizarre dream, but she keeps repeating your name and telling you to get up.
>A) Five more minutes....
>B) Get up
>C) Say something to sensei (What?)
>D) Something else
Adam Martinez
>B) Get up
Anthony Sanders
>B) Get up Don't want to be late to the pizza party!
William Howard
>B) Get up
Jordan Turner
>C) Say something to sensei (What?) Something nonsensical that could be misconstrued as lewd.
Parker Morris
this
Easton Gutierrez
Roll to wake up! 1d20!
Jaxson Allen
Rolled 9 (1d20)
W..what the fuck happens if we fail this?
Kevin Mitchell
Rolled 11 (1d20)
John Gonzalez
Rolled 8 (1d20)
Brandon Kelly
Rolled 8 (1d20)
Lincoln Powell
You woke up! >Writing. Sensei would drag you out of bed and you'd be groggy for the meeting.
Carter Clark
Everyone thinks we're actually dead and spend the whole day searching for our killer.
Andrew Campbell
>We gotta keep trying to wake up >Trains on fire for the murder >Other ninja teams are helping >Ninja world war sparks between land of Windand Earth for assassination.
Justin Garcia
>finally wake up >find the murderer, save the day >everything is perfect >still asleep >wake up >do everything again >also a dream >sleep for the whole trip back >keep sleeping when we get home >in a coma for 3 years >wake up in new-neo-konoha hospital >fight in the alien wars >wake up >that was also a dream >It's yesterday >using our knowledge of the future we successfully rap battle V into submission, form a life-long friendship witht he Mist sensei through aquatic puns, and win the heard of the Uchiha girl >also a dream >wake up back in our sister's bathroom
Benjamin Gray
>Wake up final time >Its at the funeral. >Sis actually killed us >Become Zombie Ninja >Have to flee >Build a zombie ninja village >but with future shit.
Jeremiah Turner
Someone's salty about doing well in combat and then having the QM go 'Nah, fuck that, it was a genjutsu.'
Then again, I'm salty too.
Nicholas Gray
You roll over and out of bed, following Hōōmaru-sensei out into the hallway, joining your teammates and sensei. You realize that it's probably only five-thirty or so, and everyone is in their pajamas. You're in a pair of loose pants, Jimmaru is in a t-shirt and boxer shorts, and is holding... something. Hakurin is in a matching green top and pants covered in little Hyuga symbols, you wonder if the Hyuga clan has some kind of gift shop where you get things like that. Hōōmaru-sensei is the only one actually dressed.
You realize why she dragged you out of bed when you head to one of the passengers, and see the other genin teams in a similar state of disarray, though Nemui is notably missing. Each genin team and their sensei are standing, facing a man in a mask. You figure he's an ANBU from Suna, given that his mask is humanoid, some kind of grinning demon. Jimmaru asks sensei if there are any Iwa-nin on the train, and she just shakes her head and shushes him.
The Sand ANBU gives the teams instructions to sweep the train, assigning the Mist team to the first third, the Cloud team to the middle third, and your team to the last third. He says you're looking for an unidentified ninja, possible dressed in a Sand uniform, as well as the missing Cloud genin, describing Nemui. He dismisses you to your missions and says he'll be in the engine car if he's needed.
>A) Get right to the mission
>B) Gear up and get to the mission
>C) Something else
Oliver Cook
>>B) Gear up and get to the mission
Jose Walker
>B) Gear up and get to the mission
Jason Harris
>C) Do a quickie with Hikaru while you're both 'Searching' the bathroom.
Michael Jones
The hell is Hikaru?
Zachary Murphy
>B) Gear up and get to the mission >C) Speak to sensei "So we're meant to sweep the entire train except the engine car, and look for a ninja who may be dressed as a Sand ninja, but who isn't the one that's also in the engine car."
"Does that not sit right with anyone else?"
Ayden Gray
>A) Get right to the mission Fuck it, naked snake time. I'm sure we can find SOMETHING to use as a weapon if a fight breaks out.
Blake Edwards
Getting straight to the mission. >Writing
Matthew Mitchell
You decide that you should gear up and get right to the mission, so you waste no time going back to your room and dressing for the mission as well as gearing up. You emerge from your room about the same time as Hakurin, Jimmaru coming out a few minutes later. None of you have very many weapons or too much gear, considering your previous mission. While searching another sleeper car you get a suspicious feeling, this whole situation is just too weird...
>A) Bring up your inklings to sensei
>B) Ask Hakurin where she got those pajamas, and if they make them for boys
>C) Stay keep searching
>D) Something else
Jose Hernandez
>A) Bring up your inklings to sensei
Jaxson Miller
>A) Bring up your inklings to sensei
Dominic Green
>A) Bring up your inklings to sensei
and to the teammates as well, get their thoughts on this
Michael Morales
Telling sensei, I'll update in a few minutes, still here, but I'm just rustling up some dinner.
Joshua Baker
Fried me up some watermelon. >Writing
Tyler Mitchell
Guess I'm late, but personally I think we've really had our eyes on those pajamas since they're in the same vein as our usual style. I could definitely see us wearing them, we'd really be out of sight!
Luke Miller
Never thought to do that. Sounds pretty great though.
Camden White
You decide that you want to bring up how shady and sketchy this situations with the rest of your team. You pull Hakurin aside and wave Hōōmaru-sensei and Jimmaru over. You comment on how odd this situation is and your teammates agree with you. Hakurin is especially suspicious, considering that you're supposed to search all but one car, and you didn't see either of the alleged Sand ninjas' faces. Hōōmaru-sensei tells you to just keep it quiet and keep searching. You notice that she's being unusually stern, and think that you want your sensei back...
Shaking that idea out of your head you keep searching alongside Hakurin, quietly discussing what's wrong with the whole situation. Using her Byakugan, you're able to search the cars just with a cursory glance. Your team's search takes close to half an hour, and you meet back up to head to the middle section of the train. You head there to meet up with an help the Cloud team if they need it.
When you reach that part of the train, it's darkened and silent.
>A) Go through nonchalantly
>B) Call out to the one of the Cloud Ninja (Which one?)
>C) Something else
Hunter Bailey
>A) Go through nonchalantly
Liam Hernandez
>A) Go through nonchalantly
Brody White
>A
Jaxson Ramirez
You head through that section nonchalantly, until you reach the dining car where you hear a feminine voice hiss at you from behind the bar, "Psst, get out of the open! I'm staking this out!" You decide to join her behind the bar. You wave your team on, and after bit, you wonder why you've been sitting in this position for half an hour, nothing's happening...
>A) What are we doing
>B) Continue the stakeout
>C) Something else
Aiden Williams
>B) Continue the stakeout
Bentley Perez
>Writing Sorry if the thread's a bit off or something, just an off day for me I suppose.
Aaron Campbell
My question is where the fuck did everybody just go?
Noah Howard
Well, I just got back from dinner
Oliver Ward
My question is who the hell whispered to us.
Leo Gonzalez
naaaaaaaaaps
Joseph Butler
Who the hell did we just crouch next to? >Inb4 bs murderer fight happens >Inb4 it turns out we have some light novel bloodline like that one dojutsu that's all about blood, iron and magnetic fields explaining how we can keep up with all the things 90% of the time.
Kayden Brown
You stay with Chuui behind the counter, for almost another hour. You suppose the civilians aren't allowed out of their rooms because of the current situation. But Just waiting in the darkened car seems a bit odd. After another fifteen minutes of waiting, you feel the train shudder a bit and then continue on its way. Every time you try to do anything Chuui just shushes you or pulls you back behind the bar. It's around this time that you feel a very annoyed, very blue presence on the other side of the counter.
Hōōmaru-sensei stares you in the face with quite the annoyed expression when you stand to face her. After a good five-minute grilling of asking where you were, you wheel on the Cloud kunoichi, and ask her what the hell all this was about. "It was too dangerous out there, L-sensei told me to hold the rear." Your palm is going to leave a noticeable mark where it hit your forehead.
You ask Hōōmaru-sensei for a rundown of what happened. She tells you that the Mist team had cornered the unknown assailant, and with your teams help and the help of L and V, the assailant was forced off the train, unfortunately, this leaves his identity a mystery. Luckily Nemui was rescued and is fine, but the Sand ANBU is in critical shape. You know you won't live down missing this fight.
>A) Try to make it up to your team in any way possible
>B) Apologize to sensei so much she'll never want to hear sorry again
>C) Go to your room, maybe you'll avoid embarrassment if you never leave (Shirou would be proud)
>D) Berate Chuui
>E) Something else
Brayden Cook
>A >B Commit sudoku
Christian Jackson
TN: Chuui means caution
Daniel Parker
>C) Go to your room, maybe you'll avoid embarrassment if you never leave (Shirou would be proud) >Retire and become a cook.
Henry Butler
>B) Apologize to sensei so much she'll never want to hear sorry again Tear up a bit so she feels awkward/bad for us
Elijah Lopez
C! No brakes on the socially stunted prodigy shutin train!
Cooper Thomas
The reason the thread's so slow is that nothing's happening but cringe. I can only speak for myself, but it's nearly killed my interest in the quest.
