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[X] Training Hazou: SC Suite

[X] Action Plan: It's Always (Aunt) Sunny in Konoha
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Run ideas past the clan where possible.
  • Tsunade​
    • We're gonna pay her a lot of fucking money and get her to talk to us.​
      • Five million is because we support her organization's mission.​
      • Another five million is because we have an outstanding debt from Jiraiya that the Goketsu Clan owes her.​
      • The third five million is to talk.​
        • We want to know what we should do to make our estate less disease-prone.​
        • We want to know how to interact with Orochimaru​
        • We've got leads on some Summoning Scrolls. Can she help us?​
  • Kagome​
    • Get clearance for sealwork - at least blank production, possibly research.​
    • If cleared, begin research into chakdar.​
  • Sanitation​
    • Estate
      • Proclaim Uplift as the Goketsu Clan philosophy.
        • Goal: Give everyone in our clan a reason to go above and beyond for our cause.
        • Main thrust: This world may be a cold, dark, and unforgiving forest, but we will give everything we have to clear a space for all of us, civilian and ninja alike to thrive.
        • We must all give everything we have for this dream of a better world.
    • Team-building
      • Convene a commission to study sanitation improvements.
        • Include local residents, medical experts, and us.
      • Construct the problem.
        • Get every stakeholder (including us) to be able to answer:
          • Why does improving sanitation matter?
          • For whom does improving sanitation matter to?
          • Who needs to care more?
          • What will a place with better sanitation be like?
            • What would be a measurable end-goal look (or smell) like?
      • Deconstruct the problem into solvable root causes, creating a branching diagram.
        • Based on which root problems are more solvable than others, create an initial, limited, and detailed plan of action.
          • The plan should be limited to a week.
          • Execute.
  • Misc:
@Oneiros @huhYeahGoodPoint

If you could please check on the progress of the above in your plans, that'd be dank. Thank.

@eaglejarl (@OliWhail @Velorien)

Does the Loremaster (quoted above) roughly have it on the mark? (Potentially modulo a couple days or so due to the Great Hole Catastrophe or somethin'? )
Folks, don't forget Ami-style training activities, completed with a list of activities that doesn't involve chakra usage to account for Shadow Clone training.
Implemented.
This plan seems too abstract and doesn't progress the skyslider project.
The abstractness is intentional - we as the hivemind are not on the ground level, so our only real contribution is supplying process side innovations. (yes yes we could technically try to force Hazou to come up with toilets/elements of the modern sanitation system on his own but I think this is more likely to work as well as being more sustainable in the long term)

Past that, well, we have to let the guys on the ground work it out because we just don't have that information.

I also personally just want the skyslider team to continue progress - forcing a progress check to tell them that they're wrong seems like it would impart all the wrong lessons to the civilian institute we're beginning to set up.
It'd really suck if the KEI ninja we picked got killed. :p
I mean, one was killed in the Collapse, and Ebisu said all of them or none of them, so...
 
I mean, one was killed in the Collapse, and Ebisu said all of them or none of them, so...

I mean, the Collapse is pretty significant in terms of "extenuating circumstances." I could easily see the rebuilding effort being turned into a Super Training Montage for the survivors. I mean, with the Collapse, compentant ninja are at a premium and what better way for Ebisu to market his skills than to be able to say "see those badasses? I trained them through the Collapse. Even with devoting only a small amount of my time, look how they turned out! Imagine what might've happened if I was able to give them my full attention?" Then there's the whole "gotta turn this raw ore into a valuable tool for the Leaf, who is currently greatly lacking such tools."

Besides. Communities unite and do some pretty great, altruistic things in a time of tragedy/crisis. Imagine that natural tendency, multiplied by Leaf's propaganda machines? People going out of their way and doing unusually charitable things for the overall betterment of the Leaf is probably the norm right now, rather than the exception. I've listened to a lot of stories about the things that happened in America immediately following the 9/11 attacks and it seems that Japan had a similar cultural event following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. Compassion and empathy abound in a rare moment of human solidarity.

To put it mechanically: I imagine the Pragmatism stunt and the Self-Serving Opportunistic stunts are negated for the whole of Leaf for a few months, maybe with some added Compassion, Empathy, Patriotism, Shared Misery stunts.
 
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  • Skysliders
    • Work with engineers to start making prototypes
    • Remind them we want to make gliders not bird like things

This is not a very good skyslider plan. Hazo shouldn't be involved in making prototypes. That's the engineers' job. Instead we should remind them that prototypes are for testing concepts and that we shouldn't spend too much time on a single prototype.

Also, we care about them learning and discovering how flight works. It would be better if Hazo has suggestions at the end of a failed test flight. We need to give them a reason to consider gliders as opposed to flappy bird wings.
 
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This is not a very good skyslider plan. Hazo shouldn't be involved in making prototypes. That's the engineers' job. Instead we should remind them that prototypes are for testing concepts and that we shouldn't spend too much time on a prototype.

Also, we care about them learning and discovering how flight works. It would be better if Hazo has suggestions at the end of a failed test flight. We need to give them a reason to consider gliders as opposed to flappy bird wings.
If you'll write something up I'll implement it
 
Random Thought:

Being a spymaster takes a great amount of social prowess. Reading people, understanding their motivations, understanding people, etc. And Jiraiya was also known to be (if not a good man, then at least) a compassionate man. A caring man. You ever wonder if he set people up in his spare time? Kinda wonder how good of a matchmaker he was. How funny would it be if half the ninja relationships in Leaf were the result of Jiraiya introducing to people to each other.
 
Random Thought:

Being a spymaster takes a great amount of social prowess. Reading people, understanding their motivations, understanding people, etc. And Jiraiya was also known to be (if not a good man, then at least) a compassionate man. A caring man. You ever wonder if he set people up in his spare time? Kinda wonder how good of a matchmaker he was. How funny would it be if half the ninja relationships in Leaf were the result of Jiraiya introducing to people to each other.
glances at the heir-to-and-now-clan-head and the clanless genjutsu mistress

Yeah, I wonder sometimes. :p
 
If you'll write something up I'll implement it
Skysliders:
  • Not important to fly - just to glide. Birds of prey can glide for hours on updrafts without flapping, so let's not build a design that flaps.
    • In fact, if gliding is hard, then very few shapes should work. Kites are one, folded up paper is not.
    • Therefore, we should make a thing which doesn't move at all - so we can find a shape that glides and not risk changing it.
  • Small birds can't carry very heavy prey. We want the skyslider to carry heavy things (people), so the glider itself should be light.
    • Don't start with big designs of course - start with little ones and once there are some that work, scale up
    • Are there wood types that are sturdy and light? Make a frame with that, like "bones".
    • Feathers are good, but impractical for big gliders. What is lightweight that can cover a wing? Maybe stretch fabric over the wood frame?
  • Since we want to add weight eventually, keep the handle for throwing the hand-prototypes on the underside - where a weight might hang anyway.

@eaglejarl Does this look like plausible reasoning for Hazou?
I've written something up.
 
Shadow clones unerringly follow the directives of the prime? Why so many issues with the cannibalistic Naruto clone not following orders then?
 
  • Emphasize prototyping as a learning tool.
    • Use scale models for early development.
      • Safer, because we tested a design before strapping a pilot into one.
      • Faster, because we tested more prototypes because they are faster to build.
  • Show up at the next scheduled prototype test.
    • Theorize with engineers about why the prototype succeeded/failed. Build on previous foundations.
    • Suggestions:
      • Cloth fibers seems less labor intensive than feathers.
      • What is flapping for? Do we need to "fly" or just slide?
      • Lightweight wood might means easier to fly.
    • Hammer out two or three designs to build next. Can we speed up prototyping by using common parts for parts that don't change?
 
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@eaglejarl I have so many questions.

How big a risk did Keiko take by making her first Shadow Clone and keeping it up so long?
Did her teacher Naruto assess the risks differently?
Both things to ask her about I guess.

What are the mental exercises that make Clone integration easier?

Which of those thoughts about the life of a Shadow Clone were actually from the clone itself? Does Hazō's unique mind, known to be weirdly fast in crisis situations, contribute to those thoughts?

What made the QMs decide that a Shadow Clone is ultimately obedient? While convenient for us and everyone else, wouldn't Clone obedience being an issue have been an interesting feature and explanation as to why some Leaf jōnin don't use it much?

Was both Hazō an Asuma neglecting to mention that Shadow Clones don't retain Bloodlines supposed to be oversight on their part or brevity of writing on yours?

After training away the headache I don't quite understand what unexpected downsides this jutsu is supposed to be having?

You did your thinking about stuff that flies
What were the results of that?

Lastly, are Kagome and Akane back from their mission? I'd really like to vote for a debriefing scene. Preferably a casual one with Kagome gushing and Akane telling us how the trip to there actually went.
 
Does the Loremaster (quoted above) roughly have it on the mark? (Potentially modulo a couple days or so due to the Great Hole Catastrophe or somethin'? )
Sounds right.

How big a risk did Keiko take by making her first Shadow Clone and keeping it up so long?
Did her teacher Naruto assess the risks differently?
HDK

What are the mental exercises that make Clone integration easier?
The in-universe explanation for "put XP into Resolve."

Which of those thoughts about the life of a Shadow Clone were actually from the clone itself?
Hard to say. The whole point is that that section is a merger of their two minds.

What made the QMs decide that a Shadow Clone is ultimately obedient?
I mean... It wasn't an explicit discussion, but it literally *has* to work that way based on what's been shown both in canon and onscreen in MfD. Clones are constantly created to do unpleasant or dangerous jobs and they never refuse to do them.

While convenient for us and everyone else, wouldn't Clone obedience being an issue have been an interesting feature and explanation as to why some Leaf jōnin don't use it much?
Sure, if we were willing to either completely break simulationism or consistency.

Was both Hazō an Asuma neglecting to mention that Shadow Clones don't retain Bloodlines supposed to be oversight on their part or brevity of writing on yours?
Brevity.

After training away the headache I don't quite understand what unexpected downsides this jutsu is supposed to be having
"Be able to reliably roll 22 on your Resolve check" does not remove the disadvantages from the jutsu.

What were the results of [thinking about flying things]?
I don't care. It's a vague bit of fluff that y'all provided no reason or purpose for, so I'm assuming it's just a justification for why Hazō will be coming up with flight-related ideas.

Lastly, are Kagome and Akane back from their mission?
Yes. They have been for a while.
 
I had intended to do the last details of the prior plan, but I don't have the energy. You did your thinking about stuff that flies and you sent Noburi and Yuno off to annihilate chakra beasts in the area, both as a bonding exercise and because it's a useful experiment into the nature of Noburi chakra drain abilities.
What about the Condor Scroll idea?
 
but finding the scroll would be hard since it's probably sitting under some random tree on a continent that is nothing but trees.

It sounds as if great gains would be made if we could spec our "Chakra radar type seals" into something that also detects fuinjutsu of sufficiently large complexity at range.

(C'mon Hivemind. Invent the Summoning Scroll version of the Dragon Radar so that we can get another half-dozen or so of these to use as bargaining chips!)
 
That:
  • Share Enma's intel with the clan.​
    • Relatedly: Condors.
      • If the Scroll's taken, Conjura won't be cooperative because Leaf also houses the Pangolins. It'll be Caldera'd for Pangolin support or lay fallow until Conjura's hunted down (which may take years).
      • However, an elite social-spec might offer to moderate Pangolin aggression or provide resources in exchange for powerful jutsu/summoning contracts.
      • Present the idea to Asuma if Mari would be up to it and thinks Asuma'd agree.
 
It wasn't an explicit discussion, but it literally *has* to work that way based on what's been shown both in canon and onscreen in MfD. Clones are constantly created to do unpleasant or dangerous jobs and they never refuse to do them.
Dangerous jobs can be rationalized by the same thoughts Hazō/Clone Hazō had regarding their own suicide, minus the musing wether it was forced rationalization. As for unpleasant jobs: That would merely require a belief that Clones are inferior beings to originals so ingrained that even your own clone believes it. Top all that off with the original's ability to dispel the clone at will and from any distance and it shouldn't be impossible.

Or to put it differently, most ninja already believe that their lives are worth less than mission failure. Even IRL humans can willingly accept death penalties in various societies. And that's without the (near) certain knowledge that (almost) all that makes you you will live on.

Lastly, I don't actually remember us seeing a Shadow Clone do stuff so truly unpleasant that ninja wouldn't do it on-screen. Most ninja would wade through smelly garbage, resist torture, kill innocent people, endure humiliation, or do boring and tedious tasks if they are required to by a valid superior.

All this is just an argument that not inherently obedient Shadow Clones should be possible without retconning previous work, not that there is any reason to rewrite the current chapter in order to make it so.

Speaking of, how did Hazō's Clone come to the realization that it was ultimately forced to obey? How did that instinct become conscious?

"Be able to reliably roll 22 on your Resolve check" does not remove the disadvantages from the jutsu.
Maybe I am missing something. What is a drawback that using Shadow Clones has, other than costing chakra and causing headaches? Like, imperfect recall of your clone's experiences isn't a drawback compared to no recall of your non-existent clone's experiences.

I don't care. It's a vague bit of fluff that y'all provided no reason or purpose for, so I'm assuming it's just a justification for why Hazō will be coming up with flight-related ideas.
My understanding was that we voted for that to see wether Hazō would notice some sort of consistency in "Wind Spirit" behavior. Not being allowed to insert OOC knowledge directly into Hazō's brain means that any "sudden insights" leading to "inventions" on Hazō's part must ultimately come from the QMs. As long as you don't tell us that Hazō's thinking led to something actionable we can't really act on it. At the same time plausible but wrong actionable thoughts should lead to Hazō at the very least experimenting in that wrong direction later.

But maybe I'm confused, since I neither wrote the plan nor actively participated in that part of it.
@faflec What was the purpose of the "Hazō thinking about air stuff" part of the plan and what did you hope to see because of it?
Yes. They have been for a while.
And did they ever tell Hazō about their mission? If yes, can we still get a scene on it? What would a plan need in order to get that? Or is it just tedious and uninspiring writing that you (the QMs) avoided for good reason and would want to continue to do so? In which case, can we have cliff-notes?
 
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What is a drawback that using Shadow Clones has, other than costing chakra and causing headaches?
If you fuck up the Resolve roll badly enough you die or get a four month long debilitating consequence that will set back all of your major plans because you can't do much of anything with your downgraded stats.
 
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