That was great, I can't wait to see what else Mari will torment us with!
 
Not a bad attempt but didn't fall for it this time.

It was a bit much, especially with the dice spoiler at the start.

E: Don't take this as a challenge though. :V
 
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FYI: Charlie Mike is NATO codeword for continue mission, possibly fictional.

In case if you're wondering why the heck is my action plan named "Charlie Mike".
 
So I decided to read through all the tasks we've got running, circa Chapter 254: The Gōketsu Merchant Empire's Very First and Tiniest Baby Step.

Some of the tasks have stopped for obvious reasons - namely, the Most Youthful Hokage got elected and thus election related things ground to a halt, and also the Most Youthful Hokage was assasinated and the Hokage Tower destroyed by a dastardly set of very focused earthquakes (my, I've heard interesting things about the pattern of southeast to northwest meteor showers, wasn't one supposed to come very close to the EN).


From this, I'm pulling out a list of running tasks for each clanmember:
  • Hazou
    • Generally reviewing and approving proposals
      • the paperwork, it never fucking ends....
    • Local Merchant Empire:
      • Sawmills:
        • Proposals, awaiting metaphorical groundbreaking. Low amount of revenue, cannot change prices for one year.
    • Adoption:
      • Interviewing Candidates:
        • In-progress in all plans.
      • Pushing for higher ceiling:
        • In-progress in all plans.
    • Civilian Leadership
      • Census project:
        • In-progress
      • Managing food and other logistics:
        • permanently in-progess.
      • Ultimate Judge on land
        • never ends
          • unless...?
    • Civilian Housing
      • House construction:
        • 3.5 days ago:
          • 4 residential units, housing 2 comfortably and 4 less so.
          • Tent housing for everybody else.
        • Present: unknown, but progress has happened TM.
    • Educational Programs
      • Goketsu University
        • In progress, probably low on the priority list tbh
      • Ebisu's SixFive
        • In progress, very little information OOC.
    • Noburi's Chakra Sources
      • Always a minor source of work.
    • Goketsu Clinic
      • Being organized.
    • Kagome's Explosive Reaction to Sweatshops
      • In-progress, though so far, little traction - and little time to observe results.
    • Merchant Council
      • Mari's got em, processing what to do with them.
    • Countering Out-based influences.
  • Noburi:
    • Summoning Training: In progress
    • Goketsu Clinic:
      • Unclear
    • Secretary search and vetting:
      • Just assigned
    • Isan - Preparation Phase
      • "in-progress" eyebrow waggle
  • Akane:
    • Adjudicating for Hazou and almost certainly being an unpaid secretary:
      • in-progress.
  • Mari:
    • Owning the Merchant Council: DONE
    • Acting in the Goketsu Clan's best interests:
      • in-progress???
    • Applying horrifying genjutsu in a safe environment:
      • In-progress.
  • Kagome:
    • SEALING IN A SWEATSHOP
      • oh god oh fuck -
    • May be interested in education, if we can get him out of the sweatshop.
  • Keiko*: May be available for some projects, but Nara are a demanding clan.
    • Consider her unavailable.
  • Akane's Parents:
    • Construction business possibly mentioned, unsure of where that went.
  • Unresolved:
    • Isan - Expedition Phase
      • Pre-requisites:
        • Marriage/working it out between Noburi and Yuno
        • Keiko's cooperation
    • Floating Jutsu Exchange
      • Could be executed, could be saved for later. Unknown as of this moment.
    • "Shimura" "Estate"
      • Tabled in most plans.
    • Salt Empire
      • Tabled due to lack of free time. May need to prepare for salt crunch soonish.
    • Akatsuki Suggestion
      • Unsure if this ever went anywhere.
    • International Merchant Empire
      • Should've arrived almost a month ago. Whatever did happen to those guys?
    • The Wild, Goketsu-owned, West
      • Tabled until situation stabilizes, I believe.
...

thread, perhaps it is time we employ the most effective art known to all humanity:

d e l e g a t i o n
New running list of tasks, as of this update:

(note: I forgot that we put Noburi on Summoning Training, which means I probably forgot other things)

From this, I'm pulling out a list of running tasks for each clanmember:
  • Hazou
    • Generally reviewing and approving proposals
      • the paperwork, it never fucking ends....
    • Local Merchant Empire:
      • Sawmills:
        • Proposals, awaiting metaphorical groundbreaking. Low amount of revenue, cannot change prices for one year.
    • Adoption:
      • Interviewing Candidates:
        • In-progress in all plans, IIRC.
      • Pushing for higher ceiling:
        • Some plans.
    • Civilian Leadership
      • Census project:
        • In-progress
      • Managing food and other logistics:
        • permanently in-progess.
      • Ultimate Judge on land
        • never ends
          • unless...?
    • Civilian Housing
      • House construction:
        • 3 days ago:
          • 4 residential units, housing 2 comfortably and 4 less so.
          • Tent housing for everybody else.
        • Present: unknown, but progress has happened TM.
    • Educational Programs
      • Goketsu University
        • In progress, probably low on the priority list tbh
      • Ebisu's SixFive
        • In progress, very little information OOC.
    • Noburi's Chakra Sources
      • Always a minor source of work.
    • Goketsu Clinic
      • Being organized.
    • Kagome's Explosive Reaction to Sweatshops
      • In-progress, though so far, little traction - and little time to observe results.
    • Merchant Council
      • Mari's got em, processing what to do with them.
    • Countering Out-based influences
  • Noburi:
    • Summoning Training:
      • In-progress
    • Goketsu Clinic:
      • Unclear
    • Secretary search and vetting:
      • Just assigned
    • Isan - Preparation Phase
      • "in-progress" eyebrow waggle
  • Akane:
    • Adjudicating for Hazou and almost certainly being an unpaid secretary:
      • in-progress.
  • Mari:
    • Acting in the Goketsu Clan's best interests:
      • in-progress???
    • Applying horrifying genjutsu in a safe environment:
      • in-progress
  • Kagome:
    • SEALING IN A SWEATSHOP
      • oh god oh fuck -
    • May be interested in education, if we can get him out of the sweatshop.
  • Keiko*: May be available for some projects, but Nara are a demanding clan.
    • Consider her unavailable.
  • Akane's Parents:
    • Construction business possibly mentioned, unsure of where that went.
  • Unresolved:
    • Isan - Expedition Phase
      • Pre-requisites:
        • Marriage/working it out between Noburi and Yuno
        • Keiko's cooperation
    • Floating Jutsu Exchange
      • Could be executed, could be saved for later. Unknown as of this moment.
    • "Shimura" "Estate"
      • Tabled in most plans.
    • Salt Empire
      • Tabled due to lack of free time. May need to prepare for salt crunch soonish.
    • Akatsuki Suggestion
      • Unsure if this ever went anywhere.
    • International Merchant Empire
      • Should've arrived almost a month ago. Whatever did happen to those guys?
    • The Wild, Goketsu-owned, West
      • Tabled until situation stabilizes, I believe.
 
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XP Awards and Where to Find Them:

ChapterAwardHazouKeikoNoburiAkane
Chapter 270: Clan Meeting #1, continued1+11Missing11
Chapter 271: Disaster Relief and the Ownership of Souls5+1MissingMissingMissingMissing
Chapter 272: Binding Alliances4+1MissingMissingMissingMissing
Chapter 275: Yet More Talking1MissingMissingMissingMissing
Chapter 276: Slanderous Tokens3MissingMissingMissingMissing
Chapter 277: The Election30+131313131
Chapter 278: Assuming Control44444
Chapter 279: The Basement55Missing55
Chapter 280: Consistent Characterisation22Missing22
Chapter 281: Brain-Eating Monstrosities and the Taste of Blood00MissingMissingMissing
Chapter 282: Travel the World, Meet Interesting Creatures...44Missing44
Chapter 283: ...And Kill Them44Missing44
Chapter 285: Futures Bright and Dark55Missing55
Chapter 286: Long Held Plans...Achieved?TBD11Missing?1111
Chapter 288: Save Your Family. No Excuses.44Missing?44
Chapter 289: Stickball, Salt, Surprise!818137?37?81
Chapter 290: Akane's Birthday9+110101010
Chapter 291: New Powers Rising12+113131313
Chapter 292: Blah Blah Probably Treason Blah3+14444
Chapter 293: Ominous Foreshadowing44444
Chapter 294: Housing Projects00000
Chapter 295: The Master Returns33333
Chapter 296: Brushing Against the Beyond-1-1-100
Chapter 297: Refracted Darkness??MissingMissingMissing
Chapter 298: Regrouping1+12222
Chapter 299: A Threatening Plan00000
Chapter 300: The Hole SolutionTBD+11111
Chapter 301: Pieces in Play3+14444
Chapter 302: Recovery9+110101010
Chapter 304: Mixed News4+15Missing55
Chapter 306: Unfair Advantages5+16666
Chapter 307: Shadows on the Wall of the Cave2+57777
Chapter 308: Uplift Begins. Also, Bioterrorism13+114141414
Green means it all squares away, orange means I'm unsure and you should probably check it out, and red means I'm pretty sure something's wrong.


I'll make a link to this in the post you already threadmarked.
 
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I'm a bit confused.

Is Mari the first person to ever think of using biological warfare? Has nobody ever had the idea to slip contaminated materials in merchant shipments going to other countries or other stuff like that and had to develop countermeasures? Is Rock not going to be suspicious at all?

They might not have germ theory but they are going to understand transmission vectors and sterilization procedures. Someone like Orichimaru would have tested ways of deliberately infecting people and ways to avoid to being infected.
The shinobi world has legends of what happens when mortals attempt to exploit powers beyond their comprehension. They say that after what they saw in the lifeless hidden village of the Mōdoku poison users, the Haijin burned the place to the ground without a second thought, and then had priests perform a grand purification ritual over the ashes. But even then, you could still hear wailing at night, begging for a mercy killing that can never come to the already dead. So if you're ever camping in the wilderness, and in the middle of the night you hear a voice filled with pure agony, and it's pleading for the salvation of death, you might be in the middle of that lost village. Nobody knows what killed the Mōdoku, and nobody knows if it's still there. If you value your life, forget your gear and run.
Uhh. @eaglejarl, @Velorien, @OliWhail, what colour are Mari's eyes currently?
"Hazō, I think the Out must be messing with your memory. Look at me. My eyes are pale brown. See how they shade slightly into red, setting off my hair? How could you not remember that? Now stay right there while I go get Kagome. We're going to have to do a full examination."
 
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