Putting the Salt and Ice empire plan into action (probably needs details though, if you want to do this I'd suggest hashing out how exactly to do this with other posters.
Eaglejarl made a post on how to do it that looked good to me. (pasted in Merchants and Politics plan)
Since Naruto's rich we don't really need the money. We'd have to keep Elemental Mastery secret so it doesn't really help convince others of the non-military use of chakra. It helps us get friends with merchants, do you think that only justifies doing it? I'll add something about that for now.
Bring a proposal to Hiashi about the Gōketsu going back to Isan to establish political ties and trade.
There is a risk of us giving Hiashi more info if he doesn't already know about them. But if you find that negligible sure I'll add it.
I swear to Jashin, if we adopt anything less than a 100% Kagome-approved plan we deserve whatever we get. If there are the slightest complaints about the results I absolutely will eat mod infractions in exchange for calling every single one of you out as objectively provable fools. You know I'll do it.
Hopefully Safe Stuff, and Merchants and Politics (below) are alternatives. Both are probably quite rough by plan standards admittedly.
If you and others are really desperate for a last minute plan change from the basement and can't think of what else to do I will remind you all that the following is an option.
[] Action Plan: Wait for one picosecond.
[X] Action Plan: Record scratch
[X] It's Kagomes Preplanned Basement Time Motherfuckers
[X] Action Plan: Merchants and Politics
Try accessing the ANBU's information about the basement.
Ask Hokage for biosealing permission.
- Check all this with the clan and don't do it if there's a good reason not to
- Go to the Merchant Council and tell them that we want to clear some land for them to make money on, in exchange for a 10% finder's fee. If that isn't an option, what canwe do that's within the laws and okay with them? Listen to their ideas, suggest the following, use bribery / appeals to self interest in order to make it go through:
- Become a supplier to all the salt and ice merchants, at a price lower than they are paying now and the same price to everyone
- If we do this, try to provide ice to the person we promised to provide ice to in Hot Springs.
- For free, we will set up and maintain Force Walls for any business that needs to be able to cut things quickly and cleanly. In exchange, we get 5% of that business's gross receipts and 24/7 access to the accounts so we can verify that
- Sealing Storage: Anyone can pay us a subscription fee. In exchange, we will provide and maintain N storage scrolls for them and have a ninja come by M times a day to open/close the item, where N and M depend on subscription level. 50% of the profit from this venture will go to the Merchant Council to be distributed back to any merchants they feel might be hurt by it
- Take whichever plan they accede to and start on it.
Bring a proposal to Hiashi about the Gōketsu going back to Isan to establish political ties and trade.
- This gets us out of the way while he's trying to consolidate power. We probably shouldn't say this out loud, but I feel like it's important to keep in mind and he'll surely realize it too.
- The Gōketsu are the only ones with any experience whatsoever operating in Isan, and have connections there already.
- Keiko is a holy figure in Isan, which will give her a certain amount of political influence, especially amongst the people of Isan. At the very least, their leaders can't refuse to let us in without the people questioning why their leaders won't let in their messiah.
- Clan Gōketsu has a LOT of storage scrolls. We would be happy to use these storage scrolls to bring samples of all the goods that Leaf has to offer for trade. We'll even pay for the samples ourselves. This mostly just means that the Tower doesn't have to spend as many resources on the mission, but that does mean that they can spend that many more resources on other stuff, such as building up Leaf's military power.
- The people of Isan have nutritional deficiencies. Leaf is the biggest breadbasket in the EN (whether that's strictly true or not, it will definitely stroke Hiashi's massive ego). The trade implications are obvious.
- Isan has its own unique sealing tradition. Hazō is a sealmaster, and as such is well suited to working to exploit this opportunity to increase Leaf's power. Even if Hiashi sends someone other than the Gōketsu, he probably won't find another sealmaster who is willing, has as much sealing experience, AND is as mission capable as Hazō.
- There is simply no one in Leaf who is better suited for this mission than the Gōketsu.
Visit Shikamaru and Keiko (or Ino/Chouza if they're unavailable):
1)Give it to me straight, how fucked are we?
2) What are Hiashi's actual beliefs and philosophical views?
3) What would you do in my position? What should I do?
