- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
You should've went meta. Consider such excellent plan names as "An Excellent Plan Name", or "I Have No Spoons And I Must Planmake", or "The Name of This Plan", or "Your Ad Here", or "A String of Letters Representing the Unique Identificator of This List of Instructions", or "Do We Really Need Clever Plan Names? Discuss", or "The Best Plan; All Other Plans are for Losers", or "To Be Quite Honest I'm Running Out of Ideas", or "I Hope You See My Point".
My goto in such troubling times was to make "a plan" e.g.Its a pile of meme phrases that don't necessarily mean anything when bundled together like that, so the meaning is left as an exercise to the reader. A similar version would be "Action Plan: YOUTHSUIT Pretty Damn ^_^" or something. Its a meme juxtaposition.
(I also didn't have the spoons to come up with something appropriate and/or remotely clever for a name, and so I put down whatever was being shouted through my apartment at the time. Runner ups:
Action Plan: Acquiesce the Acquiescent
Action Plan: Dan Gheesling, Winner of Big Brother Season 10, is an IRL Social Spec
[Decently humorous supercut video of that season that someone was watching in my living room]
Etc.)
[X] a plan
Let's do our best to gain political support in Leaf's clans, and keep the ball rolling on the Pangolin mission. This plan is focused on us founding our clan.
Contingencies:
- Elaborate more on the most promising inovations and ideas
- Invisible Ink Seals : Hazou likely can draw seals out of invisible ink. This may let us keep the advantage of certain seals like skywalkers for a little longer past when enemies capture our seals
- Propulsion Seals : We have some ideas on how to make seals that can be used to propel boats, carts, or airships and to turn cranks. This could be helpful for logistical purpose, civilian transportation, agriculture, and industry
- Potential methods for doing this are: Modified Macerators, Force seals, Explosive seals, loops with storage seals releasing and storing weights activated by tripwires
- Tell Jiraiya that the Iron Nerve is Uchiha derived. We don't know if that will be an issue. We've been told that People with activated sharingans will be able to tell by looking at our eyes.
- As a miscellaneous item related to the upcoming Capybara Scroll mission, Hazou notes to Jiraiya that he remembers a strange turn of phrase a Hinago ninja used - "the serpent is in the details". The HInago Medical Facility is where the deal is going down, and the Hydra Medical Foundation is another medical group that is in Tea (where the Capybara scroll presumably disappeared from) that uses a mythical snake in their name and has odd turns of phrase related to that. Two medical groups with some strange snake related themes? Maybe a coincidence, but they could also be code signal phrases, and it could indicate a connection. Ask if Jiraiya managed to investigate the Hydra Foundation, and if there's anything he's able to share about it if he did.
- Ask Kei if she'd like our help with directed questions from an external perspective to help investigate her options. If she would like it ask : with all else equal, would she prefer to be in the J-clan or the Nara clan?
- If Kei prefers to be a Nara:
- Would she prefer to be adopted or married?
- Ask J: is marriage to Shikamaru on the table?
- Ask J: is adoption by Shikaku on the table?
- Could the clans share Keiko? Maybe have Mari and Shikaku both adapt her?
- Perhaps a betrothal instead of immediate marriage or adaption?
- If Kei prefers to be in Jiraiya's clan:
- Ask J: Is "Nara Keiko" Shikaku's final offer, or do we have room to renegotiate here? If there's room to renegotiate, what might he accept instead?
- Prepare speech outlines for use when Jiraiya shows us off to people
- Loyalty speech
- Civilian prosperity speech
- Useful invention speech
- Non-lethality speech
- Read Books
- Provide Jiraiya a more complete list of our ideas, categorized by how long it will take us to research them.
- Immediately Viable (Disclaimer: These are ideas which could be implemented immediately or near immediately, and likely make decent bargaining chips)
- Macerator Variations (Disclaimer : All of these are just other things we could put into the misterators to get a bevy of other effects.)
- Smoke Bomb : Fill with ash or talc, mostly annoying.
- Scent Bomb : Fill with scented oils or other similar materials.
- Border patrols and other similar groups given these could tag a more powerful enemy and run, allowing more powerful teams with good noses to find them more easily.
- Crowd Control : Fill with pepper or other skin irritants.
- No idea how much you deal with civilians non-lethally, but this will be useful to keep any unruly post-war populations in line without killing them and causing further unrest.
- Poison Bomb : Fill with poison.
- You've got mednin, researchers, and the Yamanaka. They've got to have poisons that would work well when turned into a mist.
- Flashbang : Fill with small amount of soft, white-hot metal.
- Probably a bit difficult to get right, but it should fill the air with a large pile of glowing dust that is very bright for a tiny moment before it cools off.
- Non-lethal, though it might cause minor blisters.
- Medicinal Use (Non-Combat) : Use to grind and mix medicinal ingredients.
- Probably good for creating standardized repeatable doses of medicines, as well as generally making them easier to absorb.
- Cooking (Non-Combat) : I'm sure the Akimichi will come up with something.
- Poor Man's Yellow Flash applications
- Storage seal attached to a timer, stick a kawarimi target into the seal, and put the seal on a Kunai. Get the target where you need it.
- Can be used to move quickly because you can throw the kunai hard, and the target will be moving at speed. When you swap you're going however fast the target was.
- Put a huge rock in it, now you have a kunai that turns into a large rock moving very fast. Squish.
- The Uchiha, with their famed kinesthetic sense, can probably do some very amusing and useful things with this.
- Try throwing only these and then swap to an explosive kunai when your enemy figures out the pattern.
- Sheeting Yourself : If you're falling and need to slow yourself down, henge into a large thin sheet of cloth. Useful if you're in midair and something unexpected happens.
- Probably should be part of the Leaf standard doctrine for Skywalker and Skytower use. It should definitely be in the first draft of the doctrine.
- Invisible Ink Seals : We can probably make seals off of invisible ink
- This would help with opsec for new seals like skywalkers
- Little Effort Needed (Disclaimer : Require tiny modifications or improvements to seals we already know. Between days and weeks of research.)
- Pressure Triggered Seals : Seals that allow triggering of other seals with small carefully applied pressure.
- Make ones that the Aburame could trigger with their bugs.
- Make seals that civilians can use.
- Some Effort Needed (Disclaimer : Chains of research products, projects probably take weeks to months.)
- Poor Man's Sensor Seals : Provide anyone with shitty chakra sensor powers.
- We expect that we could make chakra detecting seals that buzz quietly.
- When worn on a tight belt should give some indication of chakra use and direction in the nearby environment. (Seals closer to the source would buzz more)
- With 24/7 use, training, and practice, detecting chakra should become second nature.
- Probably not as good as a normal sensor, and probably issues with sensing at range, but it's a lot better than nothing.
- Civilian Usable Storage Seals : Lets civilians use them to transfer goods, and generally allows merchants to be more efficient.
- Storage Seal with tripwire seals on the reverse that trigger storage and release.
- Civvies get more logistics capability, more trade, cheaper luxuries, bigger goods stockpiles.
- Might be worth just giving away the design after a war to help counteract the usual post-war economic slump in losing nations.
- Civilian Usable Macerators : Same as civilian storage, but for macerators that only grind/mix, don't expel with velocity or aerate.
- Same thing with tripwires, set so that they are only useful for extremely fine grinding and mixing.
- Probably useful for a lot of things, if we make more powerful macerators first should allow civilians to powder metals and other interesting materials.
- Likely more efficient extraction of ore from stone, easier and more repeatable experimentation with alloys. Another economic boost, and more metal is probably good all around.
- Significant Effort Needed (Disclaimers : Requires lots of preliminary research, or requires a more skill than we have right now.)
- Airships : Either seal based aircraft, or lighter than air craft that only require sealing for construction and not for operation.
- Likely useful to keep Leaf's superiority after everyone has skywalkers and skytowers. (They will probably leak if we use them a lot, and we should think about how to keep that from being a problem before that happens.)
- Sealing Pantograph : Want to explore methods to maximize the production of seals, start with making multiple duplicates at a time.
- Propulsion Seals : We have some ideas on how to make seals that can be used to power boats, carts, or airships. Might be useful.
- Modified Macerators
- Force seals
- Explosive seals
- loops with automated storage seals using gravity for power
If Jiraiya thinks it a good idea, give substitution permissions to trusted ANBUHazou's General Disposition
*Hazou is earnest, but not energetically so. Does best to remain calm and professional.
*Willing to engage deeply on an intellectual level but understands that own ideas can be radical; will explain them in depth but does not become "preachy"
*Does genuinely believe in Leaf's ideals and is committed to ending the war quickly - and as bloodlessly as possible. Tie back into Yumehara's histories and other books if appropriate, but not in a tryhard or favor-seeking way: Shikaku will see through that in an instant.
*Do not accept any binding commitments, Hazou has to defer to Jiraiya / Mari on those
Likely Convo Topics
*How Nara & J clan can mutually benefit each other - Plenty of ways, Shikaku will likely have thought of more than Hazou. Just be open and honest here.
*Hazou's Ultimate Goals - From a zoomed-out perspective, Hazou's ideals should be relatively compatible or at least not strongly incompatible with those of most ninja. Hazou wants a world with less suffering & destruction and believes this can be achieved through better coordination, incentive alignment, and technological progress (increasing power of the species -> leveraging this power to reduce suffering). However, Hazou is not a hardline / calculating utilitarian nor does he believe blindly in the power of progress. A sealmaster as teacher has taught him caution for the power of technology.
Edit: I also kinda wanted to act like it was Game of Thrones or something and constantly say "a plan does not...." or similar, hopefully ending in "a plan is victorious".
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