Author's Note: Chapter 159 was originally two scenes longer than it is in current canon. Included for your amusement are the two additional scenes. They are not canon to Marked for Death, meaning they don't count and nothing in them should be relied upon.
This was originally the second half of Chapter 159 before it got retconned due to lack of simulationism in the 'seals could Cthulhu' idea.
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2025-05-09 20:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 159: Third Options and Where to Find Them
Ninja tended to want a bit more personal space than civilians—being constantly on watch for assassination had that effect on one. Deliberately or not (and Hazō had not the slightest doubt that it was deliberate), the proctors had crowded several hundred teenage ninja Exam entrants ...
2025-04-18 23:00:14 +0000 UTC
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Another chapter by OliWhail. I have macronized it and done a few typographic touch-ups but it is otherwise as originally written.
Chapter 158: Neapolitan Reunions
"Is it really you?" Hazō asked. "Really really?"
Hana loosened her grip. "Check for yourself."
"Kai!" Hazō called out as he dispelled. Nothing changed.
Hana pulled a kunai from a holster at her hip and made a swift cut across the back of one knuckle, holding up the wound for his inspection.
2025-03-31 21:00:07 +0000 UTC
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These are short, so I'm lumping them together.
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Chapter 156.3: Information Gathering
Kurosawa Ren, the Fifth Mizukage of the Village Hidden in the Mist, smiled. There were far too many teeth showing for Hazō's comfort.
"At this point, it is traditional for the host Kage to announce what the events will be," she said, her voice carrying to the back of the crowd with the ease of a trained orator. "This year we're going to try something a little diff...
2025-03-25 00:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Note: This chapter was written by the wonderful OliWhail. It has been macronized, formatted, a couple of typos have been fixed, and the footer section (XP award, voting time, etc) has been stripped. Other than that, it is shown as written.
It's been a while since I posted an MfD chapter here, so a bit of a recap:
The team is at the Chūnin Exams, which are being held in Hazō's original home village of Mist (the Village Hidden in the Mists). When they arrived...
2025-03-18 03:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Note: This chapter was written by the wonderful OliWhail. It has been macronized, formatted, a couple of typos have been fixed, and the footer section (XP award, voting time, etc) has been stripped. Other than that, it is shown as written.
It's been a while since I posted an MfD chapter here, so a bit of a recap:
The team is at the Chūnin Exams, which are being held in Hazō's original home village of Mist (the Village Hidden in the Mists). When they arrived...
2025-03-17 03:13:29 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 53: Bad Jobs
Taylor: I'm going to talk to them. Moose, fade back with stealth, get an ambush ready. Drew, smoke it up. Make it look like it's drifting towards them naturally. Leo, my dear little liar, back me up if I need it.
Calliope: Yah, because you totally should be the one doing the talking instead of me, the one with all the Charisma and lying skills.
Drew: Not now.
Moose: MOOSE DOES NOT LIKE LEAVING YOU GUYS ALONE, BUT OKAY! HE DOES NOT THINK HE'S GOING ...
2024-06-23 03:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi folks! I'm looking for some feedback. Bear with me, this is going to be rambly.
I've been having a lot of trouble writing for the last few months; I'm managing to maintain Marked for Death because I have so much momentum and an established audience, but working on other things has been too hard.
I think maybe I'm getting past that; I got excited earlier today and did some note taking / basic outlining, but I'm not sure what the best thing to work on would be. I have a couple...
2024-05-06 02:27:34 +0000 UTC
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Note: This chapter was written by my illustrious and unfortunately erstwhile co-author OliWhail.
Chapter 156.1: Boys and Blunders
Hazō's eyes were naturally drawn up to his old room in the barracks. A mental picture of the spartan accommodations came easily to mind ("IT BUILDS CHARACTER, YOU UNGRATEFUL MAGGOTS," he recalled hearing far too many times) and he idly hoped they would have been spruced up somewhat for the Exams.
The crowd of Leaf nin — more than a dozen teams ...
2024-04-23 03:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 155: You Can't Go Home Again
Jiraiya paused, clearly weighing whether or not to finish the thought; when he spoke again the words were heavy and slow. "And, of course, I could always have killed you later if I had had to."
The shiver was back in Hazō's spine and it had brought an entire pack of friends.
2024-04-19 03:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 154: Pragmatic Bargains
"Would this be a good time for me to ask everyone's advice?" Keiko asked carefully. "Jiraiya, I feel certain that today, like every day as Hokage, has been stressful for you. I do not wish to—"
Jiraiya smiled and raised a hand to cut her off. "Yes, it's been stressful, but it's fine. It's actually been one ...
2024-04-18 03:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 153: Kagome versus the Seventh Path
"Akatsuki, you say," Kagome said thoughtfully. "Well, what I know is—"
He paused so as not to be interrupted by that weird gurgling screech that came from the bowels of the mansion every fifteen minutes between four and five pm. The Gōketsu Clan had long since decided that it must be malfunctioning pipes, and silently agreed that there was no need to go and investigate further.
"Akatsuki is a society of summoners," Kagome contin...
2024-04-16 03:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I got commissioned to write a piece about w
2023-11-24 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Explanation, written for people with no context: I co-author a Naruto fanfic quest called Marked for Death. The events relevant to this short story go like this:
- Gōketsu Hazō is an extremely competent sealmaster (i.e. person who makes seals, which are paper-and-ink magic items)
- Ha...
2023-11-20 02:00:03 +0000 UTC
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One of the Marked for Death players commissioned me to write psychological horror. It took far too many attempts, but I finally came up with something I'm relatively pleased with.
2023-10-18 02:00:02 +0000 UTC
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My apologies everyone, I'm a doofus. I went and posted this directly to SV, announced it, and then realized that I should have sent it to earlybirds first. Because of the mistake I'm sending this to all patrons at the same time. I'll be sure not to do that with the upcoming chapter 50, and there there will be another Marked for Death archive coming out shortly, complete with commentary. That one will do the correct thing and go to earlybirds for 24 hours before going t...
2023-07-30 14:17:25 +0000 UTC
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This update is going to be broken into a few chunks because otherwise it would be excessively large.
2023-07-27 19:00:00 +0000 UTC
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This went out to earlybirds yesterday and is go
2023-07-20 13:37:02 +0000 UTC
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As people hopefully know, I currently run two quests, Marked for Death and Dungeon Crawler You! DCY is my light and fluffy narrativist quest where there is (almost) no crunch and I can do Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny stuff if I want to. Despite that, I do actually have character sheets for the main characters. I've been holding off on releasing those sheets but this feels like a good time. Behold!
2023-07-18 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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As people hopefully know, I currently run two quests, Marked for Death and Dungeon Crawler You! DCY is my light and fluffy narrativist quest where there is (almost) no crunch and I can do Rule of Cool and Rule of Funny stuff if I want to. Despite that, I do actually have character sheets for the main characters. I've been holding off on releasing those sheets but this feels like a good time. Behold!
2023-07-17 14:04:10 +0000 UTC
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A blast from the past, back when Hazō's Alertness was competitive with that of his cohort. :>
2023-06-27 05:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Greetings, all! Attached is a zip file containing all of Dungeon Crawler You! from chapter 0 to chapter 45 (the most recent and currently unpublished one). I'm including the zip file link but not pasting the text into this post because at 23,677 lines and 1.8M of text it would absolutely melt my browser.
Enjoy.
2023-06-08 07:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Badassery! Combat! The kids being awesome! Huzzah!
2023-01-23 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Commentary and non-commentary versions attached. ch152 goes out to earlybirds tomorrow and all patrons the day after
2023-01-21 19:36:29 +0000 UTC
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This short story might only make sense to Marked for Death players, so if it isn't clear then please let me know.
It's the first half of a commission from Noumero, who wanted some psychological horror. It provides the answer to a question that multiple players have asked: how did someone as politically idiotic as Ritsuo end up the head of a major clan like the Hagoromo?
Let me know what you think.
2022-12-15 22:59:59 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 150, in various formats. I've added a new 'spoiler' tag to the HTML in the commentary. It seems like it didn't come through in the PDF version of the commentary and I'm not sure if it works in all ebook readers. Let me know if it's an issue.
2022-11-22 04:00:00 +0000 UTC
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"Dungeon Crawler You" (aka DCY) is my new quest that runs in the same multiverse as Dungeon Crawler Carl (DCC) and my fanfic of it, Dungeon Crawler Katia (DCK). As with all quests, I publish a chapter and then the readers get to vote on what the main characters should do next.
As of July 1, 2022, chapters 1-3 of DCY are up on SufficientVelocity at https://forums.sufficient...
2022-07-01 16:16:35 +0000 UTC
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The Discord user NotAGazpacho commissioned me to write a piece about Ma and Pa Toad offering relationship counseling to Yuno and Noburi. I would have canonized it except that Noburi doesn't have enough chakra to summon both of them and that was a requirement of the commission. I hope you enjoy.
2022-06-09 17:00:00 +0000 UTC
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The final installment (unless someone hires me to make more, although I'll be charging a lot more next time because this was exhausting) of the Fourth Hokage's bad poetry.
2022-05-30 13:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Remember, it's supposed to be bad. :>
2022-05-28 13:00:06 +0000 UTC
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