[X] Action Plan: Birthday (Stories)
Word Count: XYZ
Taleswap with the Dogs:
Tell some stories of your adventures as Team Uplift.
Embellish and fudge the details a little without changing the meaning, in the spirit of Dog Clan storytelling.
Possible stories:
Hunt for the Pangolin Scroll, culiminating with the Tapir attack and Keiko's Trial.
Hazou's meeting with Itachi and trip to the Pure Land.
The story of the SiN test and the jumping sealing failure.
Listen to the other stories told. Keep an ear out for pertinent forbidden lore, but otherwise just enjoy yourself and relax.
After the Taleswap, mingle with the Wide River pack. Ask around, do any of them need anything? Are any of them interested in seeing the Human Path, or working with the Summoner?
Be gentle about this, don't make it seem like we're only there to recruit.
Mari's birthday: Make seals that help create a hot tub bubble bath.
Spend a few days determining if we can create the seals before her birthday first.
Misc:
Bakuchioka: Let Noburi heal the village, and tell Asuma/Tsunade what the the assigned medics did(n't) do.
I was under the impression Taleswap was being saved for an interlude? I would like the summons though.
Also, could you include Ami-style training? My suggestion:
Ami-Style training
Stamina
Wear a harness with a rope, have Candoru try to tug you in random directions on your way to the Taleswap.
[X] Action Plan: Mari Had a Little Lamb
Word Count: 297
Mari
Spend a day with Mari running errands (that Hazou doesn't interfere with) like a buddy cop movie
Indulge in her teasing, return banter. Quote funny Icha Icha lines
Ask how she feels about returning to technique hacking. Reiterate that Hazou has no expectations. Hazou wants Mari to do what makes her happy.
If she reacts positively, ask what projects interest her: Uplift jutsu like MEW, Medical Jutsu, therapeutic genjutsu, combat jutsu?
Would she be willing to learn shadow clone (if Asuma approves) to help with this?
Should Hazou learn basic genjutsu? What are good starter techniques?
Asuma
Hidan
Is there any project to beat Hidan that needs our expertise?
Hazou can be used as bait, though he doubts he could fool Hidan in a letter.
Speaking of, should Hazou continue contacting Hidan? Who would Asuma prefer Hidan target next?
Missing Wakahisa
What's their status? Is another expert coming? Can we help?
Mari (if she approves telling Asuma)
Is Asuma willing to allow Mari to learn shadow clone for a non-combat role as a technique hacker? It would make her work safer and more efficient for Leaf. Hazou would like to provide useful jutsu for ANBU use, like our seals. Emphasis: non-combat. If Mari doesn't want to fight, we won't make her.
Bring up shitty medics.
Misc
Ask Haru, Mai, a reasonable medic, a MEW ninja, and estate genin to go to each town in Fire fixing short-term problems, healing, building walls, killing chakra beasts, and finding problematic actors. Use authority as Leaf ninja to adjudicate as necessary. Report back to Leaf as necessary.
Ami-Style Training
Resolve
Ask Mari to do her best to fluster you 1 on 1, no iron nerve or genjutsu, promise one (reasonable) favor for every loss of composure
I like the first two bits but I believe the mission could be viewed as a chore/punishment by the Goketsu who don't know Hazou too well (aka the ones going on the mission). On top of that, 'finding problematic actors' is too broad imo. I think we should do it at a later date and give it more thought/plan space. Perhaps the part with Akane and Mizuki that was left out of today's update could fit in instead?
Okay. What exactly is going on in Leaf? Why do the peasants here seem more cowed and fearful than villagers in places like Iron where the only ninja are missing-nin and foreigners? Or Tea for that matter? Or even villages near the Swamp of Death, which is further away from Leaf but still in Fire? Did we sell Skywalkers to the wrong nation after all?
On a more positive note, I really liked the progression barrage in the second part of the chapter. It was like a mental massage after a day of work.
Lastly, could someone remind me who Mizuki was and what Akane is supposed to do with/about her?
I like the first two bits but I believe the mission could be viewed as a chore/punishment by the Goketsu who don't know Hazou too well (aka the ones going on the mission). On top of that, 'finding problematic actors' is too broad imo. I think we should do it at a later date and give it more thought/plan space. Perhaps the part with Akane and Mizuki that was left out of today's update could fit in instead?
Anyone who doesn't know what Hazou's about at this point has their head in the sand lol
Also, I chose to use the word "ask" instead of "order" to demonstrate that Hazou is asking for cooperation, not obedience. I could change it to the even more passive "suggest", but the idea here is he wants them to want to do this.
As for the problematic actors thing, it's broad yeah, but I trust Haru's judgement (probably more than I should lol) and if they don't feel equipped to handle something, they can come back and tell us. They're only fixing short-term issues after all.
Finally, I would like to see the Akane/Mizuki thing as its own scene and I don't want to overload Vel with yet another scene. That said, depending on how much of the Asuma section was already addressed in the presumably offscreen debrief, that scene could be taken out entirely or reduced to information at the end of the chapter. If the Asuma section wasn't really addressed though, I would like to do that first. I think finding out our path forward with Hidan is really pressing.
I have been persuaded. I added the line "bring up shitty medics" to the Asuma section. I think Hazoupilot can handle the vitriolic language for me, right? I may change adjectives for them if badmouthing other ninja is frowned upon, but then again, they literally did not do their jobs so...
Hazou already has a history of being distrustful of medic nin (Kabuto), and Asuma had a front row seat for that fiasco, so we should probably tread carefully, especially since most medic nin are currently overworked and overstressed right now --it's partly why Asuma was so thankful for the Goketsu Clinics being established; it lightened the workload.
It occurs to me that for Till n Fills to make walls, we should probably specify that the ninja need to leave space for a gate/door. Ninja might not think of it since they can just treewalk over the walls, and I doubt that the civilians would correct them.
I doubt this would be a common sense check that ninja would fail. Leaf's entire city and her internal Clan Compounds have walls and gates, and that's what the MEW missions are emulating. I doubt that ninja would forget to add gates/doors. I mean, the whole reason most ninja look down on civilians is the fact that they can't do things like treewalk. There's an entire slur for that very reason.
If a ninja doesn't leave enough room for a door/gate, I think it'll be out of maliciousness more than forgetfulness. And that'll have Asuma coming down on them like the hand of God. Not only because a Leaf Ninja flubbed the mission parameters in such an egregious way (If they can't be trusted to complete a D-rank like a Till'n'Fill, then how can they be trusted for higher C or B rank missions?), but also because their actions resulted in a detriment to Leaf's farmland, which hurts her food supply, which hurts her productivity. And that's ignoring the fact that while Asuma may look down upon civilians, he is a believer in the Will of Fire and wants Leaf's civilians to be cared for (which means they're not locked away in their hamlets, unable to farm their lands).
Hazou already has a history of being distrustful of medic nin (Kabuto), and Asuma had a front row seat for that fiasco, so we should probably tread carefully, especially since most medic nin are currently overworked and overstressed right now --it's partly why Asuma was so thankful for the Goketsu Clinics being established; it lightened the workload.
Hazou went back several days in a row after his first outing and presumably brought Noburi with him like he said he was going to, so Hazou would have this information even if we don't, since the chapter only covered his first day there.
Not to mention...does the word of the actual civilians in question mean nothing to you?
Hazou went back several days in a row after his first outing and presumably brought Noburi with him like he said he was going to, so Hazou would have this information even if we don't, since the chapter only covered his first day there.
Not to mention...does the word of the actual civilians in question mean nothing to you?
Hazou went back several days in a row after his first outing and presumably brought Noburi with him like he said he was going to, so Hazou would have this information even if we don't, since the chapter only covered his first day there.
Not to mention...does the word of the actual civilians in question mean nothing to you?
Easy fix. @eaglejarl, @Velorien? When Noburi checked over the victims, did he find that they had been properly treated to the level of professional standards that Tsunade expects from her medic nin?
Hazou went back several days in a row after his first outing and presumably brought Noburi with him like he said he was going to, so Hazou would have this information even if we don't, since the chapter only covered his first day there.
I was thinking of the line "If that's not enough then I'll come back tomorrow and finish it. While we've got the light, let's look for anything quicker." but yeah it doesn't explicitly say he did, my bad.
Do we know how the fertility jutsu works? I doubt that it is literally creating new nutrients ex nihilo, because that seems like the kind of thing that the GMs have avoided in this setting. If its pulling nutrients from deeper in the Earth or farther away that seems like it will probably have negative effects in the long-term as we deplete evermore nutrients & need larger amounts of chakra to access the ones that still exist deeper in the earth.
It might be that it just needs to be utilized like another kind of crop rotation, or that proper crop rotation would fix the entire problem, but that seems like the kind of thing we should look into. Nothing in the world is free.
Then again, the fact that it was a former Motoyoshi clan technique might mean it safe, but an increase in temporal and/or spatial scale might invalidate that.
For those of you who have read PGtE this was just giving me serious Praesi ritual induced aridification vibes.
Do we know how the fertility jutsu works? I doubt that it is literally creating new nutrients ex nihilo, because that seems like the kind of thing that the GMs have avoided in this setting. If its pulling nutrients from deeper in the Earth or farther away that seems like it will probably have negative effects in the long-term as we deplete evermore nutrients & need larger amounts of chakra to access the ones that still exist deeper in the earth.
Chakra regularly breaks the law of physics, but in such a way that it should be replicable. Hazo's MEW literally create MEW ex nihilo, as far as we can ascertain. Fertility jutsu probably do create nutrients ex nihilo, but it's a good idea to check.
Chakra regularly breaks the law of physics, but in such a way that it should be replicable. Hazo's MEW literally create MEW ex nihilo, as far as we can ascertain. Fertility jutsu probably do create nutrients ex nihilo, but it's a good idea to check.
Oh yeah you're right. I was thinking about elemental material made by chakra disappearing overtime, but I completely forgot about being able to overcharge jutsu like MEW to make it permanent. Literally the basis of this chapter lmao
EDIT: Oh also I am of the opinion to only tell Asuma about the medic-nin (after confirmation from Noburi). In my mind there are only two scenarios. A) Asuma agrees with us and will report it to Tsunade anyway or B) Asuma disagrees with us which means we're 1. breaking communication discipline that I assume Leaf as a military dictatorship has a sense of 2. We're seen as politicking and going behind Asuma's back which is not the apperance we want to be cultivating right now.
We need to learn how to bend with the wind, because we're not S(ycamore)-rank yet
Oh yeah you're right. I was thinking about elemental material made by chakra disappearing overtime, but I completely forgot about being able to overcharge jutsu like MEW to make it permanent. Literally the basis of this chapter lmao
Do we know how the fertility jutsu works? I doubt that it is literally creating new nutrients ex nihilo, because that seems like the kind of thing that the GMs have avoided in this setting. If its pulling nutrients from deeper in the Earth or farther away that seems like it will probably have negative effects in the long-term as we deplete evermore nutrients & need larger amounts of chakra to access the ones that still exist deeper in the earth.
It might be that it just needs to be utilized like another kind of crop rotation, or that proper crop rotation would fix the entire problem, but that seems like the kind of thing we should look into. Nothing in the world is free.
Then again, the fact that it was a former Motoyoshi clan technique might mean it safe, but an increase in temporal and/or spatial scale might invalidate that.
For those of you who have read PGtE this was just giving me serious Praesi ritual induced aridification vibes.
It might be doing nitrogen fixation. There's so much nitrogen in the air that the difference between that and ex nihilo creation is pretty much academic.
Hazou went back several days in a row after his first outing and presumably brought Noburi with him like he said he was going to, so Hazou would have this information even if we don't, since the chapter only covered his first day there.
Easy fix. @eaglejarl, @Velorien? When Noburi checked over the victims, did he find that they had been properly treated to the level of professional standards that Tsunade expects from her medic nin?
Oh yeah you're right. I was thinking about elemental material made by chakra disappearing overtime, but I completely forgot about being able to overcharge jutsu like MEW to make it permanent. Literally the basis of this chapter lmao
It's actually simpler than that: If it comes out of the ground, it's permanent. If it comes out of anything else, it's not. "The ground" is obviously a fluid term but it will usually align with your intuition. And yes, if a MEW comes out of a MEW comes out of a MEW that was cast on the ground then they are all permanent.
