- Location
- Yes.
Asuma might trust Isobe in the same way that Hazou trusts Gaku, but that doesn't mean Asuma trusts Gaku. Hazou is...Hazou is Hazou.I could have sworn there was a scene with Asuma talking to us about his "Gaku" and how he trusts him.
Asuma might trust Isobe in the same way that Hazou trusts Gaku, but that doesn't mean Asuma trusts Gaku. Hazou is...Hazou is Hazou.I could have sworn there was a scene with Asuma talking to us about his "Gaku" and how he trusts him.
Brainstorm how to take advantage of this, withoutbreaking the economy.
- Limit output?
- Get proprietary rights to sell Earthshaped products? (that way, in the rare chance that someone else levels ES to 50, they can't sell products)?
OK, I'm all for reflection on personal failings, but I don't agree with Kei sneaking the Consort Proposal (and it doesn't have anything to do with Ritsuo being a fuck anyway). Maybe just get rid of the details here and in the next section, and just have it be "Ritsuo is a vile bigot...but we're tired" or something like that.Ritsuo is a vile bigot...
- Kei was wrong to sneak the Consort Proposal under your nose, but her relationships hurt no one.
- They treat Harumitsu poorly.
- Did refusing to officiate Noburi/Yuno's wedding serve the Will of Fire?
Delete, avoid the faux pas. There is no benefit to doing this IMO.
I'd want to emphasize interactions with these Hagoromo. Something like...Are there more flexible Hagoromo? We want to see their clan as complex and multifaceted.
Economic warfare against Iwa as I have mentioned before.
- You don't want to hurt Leaf's economy (or start a war), but things could be better.
- Leaf could become an economic powerhouse.
Edited accordingly.
Can you swap the word 'short-sighted' for something that is less overtly critical of Asuma's leadership? He knows this puts Leaf down a ninja and he made that decision with that knowledge.
Word count: 294
- High security meeting with Mari, Kei, Snowflake, Noburi.
- (Ideally, offscreen.)
- Explain Earthshaping developments. Present results.
- We're obviously telling Asuma. The question is, how?
- How can we benefit without breaking the economy?
- Limit output?
- Secure Goketsu exclusive rights to sell Earthshaped products? (Prevent others benefitting from levelling to 50.)
- Only sell to the Tower?
- Asuma:
- Optimize beforehand.
- The Hagoromo.
- We think Ritsuo's a vile bigot...but we're tired of the cycle of hatred.
- Ruka:
- Is her punishment mostly about Akane? If so, it's…effectively a death sentence. That seems disproportionate. She didn't kill Akane.
- Ruka hurt Leaf, and by extension, Fire. Let her help Fire: replace exile with long-term till'n'fills.
- Under someone else's leadership - ensure the quality of her work (reference the mednin at Bakuchioka).
- Maybe KEI/clanless nin? Exposure cures hatred.
- ...does he think Ruka can change?
- Reconciliation:
- Our clans need to see each other as full people.
- Reference the evolution of Noburi/Neji's relationship.
- Assign Goketsu-Hagoromo teams long-term till'n'fills requiring cooperation. Neutral third parties (Sarutobi? Inuzaka?) lead.
- Are there more flexible Hagoromo? We want to see their clan as complex and multifaceted.
- On a different note…
- Increase security to EM levels.
- Provide samples, calculations, and projected economic impacts of ES 50.
- We want to profit - no one else would have trained the jutsu like this - but mostly, we want to use this to help the village, without disrupting things overmuch.
- We've learned our lesson: we're coming to him.
- Leaf could become an economic powerhouse.
- We could outcompete Rock's ore production.
- Unlimited gemstones, gold.
- Novel materials.
- Sealing
- Next Minato seal.
- Eschew prep, use SSA, reroll -9/-12.
- Offscreen/misc.
- Track down other nation's scents for Canvass.
- Discreetly float the possibility of a Tower leak to Kei/Mari: if the ambushers targeted Akane, they had intelligence.
Can you swap the word 'short-sighted' for something that is less overtly critical of Asuma's leadership? He knows this puts Leaf down a ninja and he made that decision with that knowledge.
I prefer framing it as an initial Goketsu attempt at Hagoromo reconciliation. It dovetails nicely with being tired of the cycle of hate. I (obviously) like the word harsh: effective death for what she did does seem harsh.
I prefer framing it as an initial Goketsu attempt at Hagoromo reconciliation. It dovetails nicely with being tired of the cycle of hate.
What other sides to the Hagoromo are there? We want to interact with these members.
The older Hagoromo are hardcore conservatives who consider all change to be bad since it takes humanity further away from the golden age of the Sage's time. As far as they're concerned, all humanity is sinful, themselves included, but they are amongst the least sinful because they're at least trying to follow the rules, whereas society at large hardly seems to even care what they are. Younger Hagoromo are divided between the orthodox faithful, those enjoying the moral superiority while only paying lip service to the actual ideals, and those earnestly (and quietly) struggling to reconcile teachings from centuries ago with a reality that no longer quite fits, though it's hard for an outsider to tell which is which.
Can we request permission to speak freely before calling Ritsuo a vile bigot?
Can we talk about wanting to have a more open mind about his clan in general at the same time?
I think that requesting that the meeting with Goketsu be put off-screen would be smart as it's a meeting about a meeting (EJ is quite likely writing) and we can see relevant portions in flashbacks.
Clarification: I meant something like, 'we think Ritsuo is a vile bigot who doesn't appreciate Harumitsu and pointlessly scorned our brother, but at the same time, we acknowledge that we just don't know his clan'. Getting that in there right away softens the blow of 'Ritsuo is a vile bigot'.We already do? We mention wanting to see the Hagoromo Clan as "complex and multifaceted." That expresses an open mind about the wider Hagoromo Clan.
I have some other suggestions/additions: they're in my original post and down below for your convenience. It brings the plan to the wordcount limit, so if you were planning on adding another scene, it likely won't be a good fit.
Word count: 294
- High security meeting with Mari, Kei, Snowflake, Noburi.
- (Ideally, offscreen.)
- Explain Earthshaping developments. Present results.
- We're obviously telling Asuma. The question is, how?
- How can we benefit without breaking the economy?
- Limit output?
- Secure Goketsu exclusive rights to sell Earthshaped products? (Prevent others benefitting from levelling to 50.)
- Only sell to the Tower?
- Asuma:
- Optimize beforehand.
- The Hagoromo.
- We think Ritsuo's a vile bigot...but we're tired of the cycle of hatred.
- Ruka:
- Is her punishment mostly about Akane? If so, it's…effectively a death sentence. That seems disproportionate. She didn't kill Akane.
- Ruka hurt Leaf, and by extension, Fire. Let her help Fire: replace exile with long-term till'n'fills.
- Under someone else's leadership - ensure the quality of her work (reference the mednin at Bakuchioka).
- Maybe KEI/clanless nin? Exposure cures hatred.
- ...does he think Ruka can change?
- Reconciliation:
- Our clans need to see each other as full people.
- Reference the evolution of Noburi/Neji's relationship.
- Assign Goketsu-Hagoromo teams long-term till'n'fills requiring cooperation. Neutral third parties (Sarutobi? Inuzaka?) lead.
- Are there more flexible Hagoromo? We want to see their clan as complex and multifaceted.
- On a different note…
- Increase security to EM levels.
- Provide samples, calculations, and projected economic impacts of ES 50.
- We want to profit - no one else would have trained the jutsu like this - but mostly, we want to use this to help the village, without disrupting things overmuch.
- We've learned our lesson: we're coming to him.
- Leaf could become an economic powerhouse.
- We could outcompete Rock's ore production.
- Unlimited gemstones, gold.
- Novel materials.
- Sealing
- Next Minato seal.
- Eschew prep, use SSA, reroll -9/-12.
- Offscreen/misc.
- Track down other nation's scents for Canvass.
- Discreetly float the possibility of a Tower leak to Kei/Mari: if the ambushers targeted Akane, they had intelligence.
[x] Action Plan: Reporting In
- Team Uplift check all, assume in-depth meeting-about-meetings weighing pros and cons of each item (so that doesn't have to be the plan), and follow their advice. Keep secret anything they say we should, etc. etc.
- Asuma
- We're a Sealing SpecJ now, and are requesting the rank to match.
- We've experimented with ES, and our results are:
- That it solves all metal/gemstone/glass shortages forever.
- We think levelling it high enough enables 3D sealing.
- It gave Cannai a weird feeling in his Boss-to-land sense.
- Hagoromo: Don't want to involve them in our schools, possible sabotage, fundamental difference in ideas. Collaboration on Till n Fills preferred, maybe tutoring, like TH for Reo, joint lessons, etc..
- We'd like to request SC for Kagome and Yuno. Kagome, so he can work faster on Dragonwar, Yuno because she's a combat specjonin.
- Idea: R&D missions. You hire a ninja to research something for you as a mission via the tower. That thing is considered non-secret property of the client -- if people other than client/people they designate mod/hack/are-known-to-publically-use it then they're required to pay a fee (like how sealmasters need to pay to sell mods of someone else's seal).
- Generates tax, encourages innovation, doesn't seem to cause significant problems in the process.
- Shino
- Commission a microscope. Hire Aburame glassworkers for R&D mission if applicable.
I'd (personally) rather have it be a "tone: a Goketsu olive branch, making the first move" rather than being explicit with Asuma. He's a sharp guy and he'll catch on. If he says 'lol no I'm all-too-aware that I'm sentencing her to eternal damnation' then we haven't lost anything, and our requesting that he modify a punishment isn't quite an olive branch.What do you think of openly framing it this way. Maybe "As a Goketsu olive branch to the Hagoromo, replace exile with..."
It shows that Hazou is tired and weary of the infighting, and is willing to make the first move towards peace.
16th century microscopes could achieve ~10x. We're in roughly the 13th century but with improved materials, chakra bullshit, etc. I think we can probably skip a few hundred years.Commission a microscope. Hire Aburame glassworkers for R&D mission if applicable.
[x] Action Plan: Earthshaping and the Steps Towards Peace
Words: 286
16th century microscopes could achieve ~10x. We're in roughly the 13th century but with improved materials, chakra bullshit, etc. I think we can probably skip a few hundred years.
It's not immediately obvious to me what we'd do with a 10x microscope. What are you thinking about?
If we do decide to go and work with the tower on this we should make a play to get top tier jutsu. Money doesn't actually do anything so if we can leverage this towards ninja power we should
Would you vote for my plan if I included a "could we sell for jutsu instead of money" under the opsec meeting "how do we not break the economy: suggestions?Hopefully the current plans have something like this in them. We have a golden opportunity here and I would hate to waste it
[X] Action Plan: Reflection (without a mirror)[X] Action Plan: Reflection
Word count: <300
- Ino
- Plan a private date.
- Be there for her. Let her lead - fashion and gossip? Grief and loss?
- Would she be a sounding board for a clan head issue?
- Maintaining OPSEC…
- Explain your conversation with Asuma.
- Will they ever leave you alone?
- They'll always have plausible deniability.
- Would it matter if you stopped?
- How do you break the cycle?
- Discuss Ruka, reconciliation.
- Give her a mirror - corundum shell around reflective metal, jeweled handle.
- Asuma:
- Optimize beforehand with Mari/Kei.
- How can we benefit without breaking the economy?
- Sell only to the Tower?
- Exclusive rights to sell Earthshaped goods?
- Limit output?
- Also discuss Hagoromo etc.
- Request appropriate security for topic.
- Provide samples, calculations, and projected economic impacts of ES 50.
- Highlight unlimited gold/jewels, novel materials, increased ore production/quality.
- We want to profit - our insights/training/time are distinctly Goketsu - but mostly, we want to help Leaf.
- We've learned our lesson: we're coming to him.
- What should we do?
- Hagoromo:
- We'll never like Ritsuo, but we're tired.
- Destroying Ritsuo's knife helped nobody.
- The plays helped nobody.
- It's always more hate.
- Ruka:
- Is her punishment mostly about Akane? If so, it seems disproportionate.
- It's effectively death. She didn't kill Akane.
- Suggest long-term till'n'fills supervised by KEI/clanless nin. Hatred doesn't withstand exposure.
- Does he think Ruka can change?
- Reconciliation:
- Goketsu/Hagoromo need to see each other as full people.
- Reference the evolution of Noburi/Neji's relationship.
- Assign Goketsu-Hagoromo teams long-term till'n'fills requiring cooperation. Neutral (Sarutobi? Inuzaka?) leaders.
- Are there more flexible Hagoromo? We want to see their clan as complex, multifaceted.
- Sealing Research:
- Next Minato seal/Directional Explosives.
- Eschew prep, use SSA, reroll -9/-12.
- Offscreen/misc.
- Track down other nation's scents for Canvass.
- The ambushers seemingly knew Akane's route: Mari/Kei, was there a leak?
- Test burning sand macerators.
Advance warning: the next few days are going to be work crunch time for me, and it is uncertain what state I'll be in by the time they're over. There is a 50% chance that the update will be Chapter 2β: In Which Hazō Introduces His Team to the Joys of Treason, so I advise not making plans which contain things I'd like but @eaglejarl would dislike if the plan rolls over to him.
[X] Action Plan: Reflection (without a mirror)Plan updates and a second plan. They'll be maintained at roughly parity. @Noumero, @Egg Shavings, @RandomOTP, and maybe @faflec. @Black King I think you were also keen on getting spice/scent samples as well as pursuing Tower leaks. @Iris-Iven-Ibis and @Aodyssey, you also seemed interested in the mirror idea.
[X] Action Plan: Reflection (without a mirror)
Word count: <300
- Ino
- Plan a private date.
- Be there for her. Let her lead - fashion and gossip? Grief and loss?
- Would she be a sounding board for a clan head issue?
- Maintaining OPSEC…
- Explain your conversation with Asuma.
- Will they ever leave you alone?
- They'll always have plausible deniability.
- Would it matter if you stopped?
- How do you break the cycle?
- Discuss Ruka, reconciliation.
- Asuma:
- Optimize beforehand with Mari/Kei.
- How can we benefit without breaking the economy?
- Sell only to the Tower?
- Exclusive rights to sell Earthshaped goods?
- Limit output?
- Request appropriate security for topic.
- Provide samples, calculations, and projected economic impacts of ES 50.
- Highlight unlimited gold/jewels, novel materials, increased ore production/quality.
- We want to profit - our insights/training/time are distinctly Goketsu - but mostly, we want to help Leaf.
- We've learned our lesson: we're coming to him.
- What should we do?
- Hagoromo:
- We'll never like Ritsuo, but we're tired.
- Destroying Ritsuo's knife helped nobody.
- The plays helped nobody.
- It's always more hate.
- Ruka:
- Is her punishment mostly about Akane? If so, it seems disproportionate.
- It's effectively death. She didn't kill Akane.
- Suggest long-term till'n'fills supervised by KEI/clanless nin. Hatred doesn't withstand exposure.
- Does he think Ruka can change?
- Reconciliation:
- Goketsu/Hagoromo need to see each other as full people.
- Reference the evolution of Noburi/Neji's relationship.
- Assign Goketsu-Hagoromo teams long-term till'n'fills requiring cooperation. Neutral (Sarutobi? Inuzaka?) leaders.
- Are there more flexible Hagoromo? We want to see their clan as complex, multifaceted.
- Sealing Research:
- Next Minato seal/Directional Explosives.
- Eschew prep, use SSA, reroll -9/-12.
- Offscreen/misc.
- Track down other nation's scents for Canvass.
- The ambushers seemingly knew Akane's route: Mari/Kei, was there a leak?
- Test burning sand macerators.