The XP is lost then, I take it? That's a shame, since time has passed can we have read sealing notes? All of the last few plans specify reading notes in Hazou's free time. Since we can't FOOM that would have been a significant amount of notes.
[X] Action Plan: Welcome to Uplift
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- Uplift
- Thank Tenten for leaving Leaf on Kei's word alone. We'll do our best to be worthy of it.
- Welcome to Team Uplift, Hazou has some new seals he'll need to scribe for everyone, and we'll get you read into to all of our codes/combat strategies ASAP.
- Ask Kei to read her in. We have seals to scribe.
- Scribe seals (RRBs, Force Blades, skywalkers etc.) for everyone for the rest of the day.
- Team meeting once Noburi and co. arrive
- We need to work out a chakra budget for FOOM, explain FOOM to Tenten, Kagome, and Yuno
- Now that we're missing-nin, Hazou will teach Shadow Clone to anyone who wants to learn it.
- Depending on the chakra budget it, it likely makes sense to funnel it all to Hazou so that he can learn Runecrafting faster and research runes in parallel.
- Yuno you'll be in charge of hunting nests of beasts so Noburi can drain them for FOOM, quietly.
- Noburi, can you still keep your apprenticeship with the Toad Sages?
- Next, we're heading to the Oro's chakra cave in Wind, any suggestions for how to get there undetected?
- Research
- Stop by the bladehorror site in Iron for a day or two and take observations with the team, use MS 8 and chakrascope.
- Do prep days with SC on Oro's 3 Rift Runes described by Naruto.
- FOOM as much as the budget permits, read notes with extra blocks.
- Head for the chakra water cave after wrapping up at the bladehorror rift.
I'm broadly skeptical of the FOOM stuff here, from two directions. First, I don't think we're likely to be able to FOOM much at all, even optimistically, once you account for how much chakra we'll need for runecrafting and how much the team will want to keep in reserve for emergencies. Hunting down chakra beasts en masse to drain them feels both insufficient and problematic: I don't think even Yuno can hunt quick enough to source a lot of chakra per day, and leaving a trail of nonlethally-incapacitated-and-only-then-killed chakra beasts sounds ill-advised from an OPSEC perspective (I presume that the kind of fight we'd have Yuno doing would leave different physical evidence than regular kills. If we're doing this in enough volume to meaningfully FOOM, I think we leave way too big a signal to any hunter-nin who happen to be nearby. Unless we hunt aquatic beasts, which should leave no meaningful evidence behind.)
The second is that, unlike runes and the rift, FOOM actually isn't relevant to our mission parameters. It's not
secret anymore, not
our secret, but it's still enough of a secret that we shouldn't share it around without good reason. Kagome in particular, we've covered this before in the SC talks but we really can't outright ignore the fact that he's inherently an OPSEC leak. Sharing Shadow Clone itself is of course fine, there's ample benefit to having such a powerful ninjutsu in more of our team's toolkits, but if FOOM essentially doesn't exist for us (and it doesn't, I believe) then there's no benefit to talking about it other than going full-disclosure on all our secrets just for the sake of it.
I'm open to being convinced that we do actually have enough chakra budget to meaningfully FOOM even without mass-draining land-borne chakra beasts and even after leaving our team with enough chakra for emergencies. Maybe the numbers look better than I think they do, either on the face of it or after we explore how much Noburi can bring in from the oceans. Even if that's true, though, I still remain skeptical about sharing FOOM here. Even if there's ample chakra to go around somehow, raising SC to 30 would take long enough that they essentially don't get to FOOM anyways.
(Unless, of course, you mean by this that we're making Yuno and Tenten core Team Uplift members in that "we hide nothing from each other" way, and that we'd obviously cut them into FOOM even after returning to Leaf, which I can see as a fair perspective, though the Kagome OPSEC connundrum remains a problem.)
In terms of tangible requests, I would like the FOOM angle (not the SC stuff, just the FOOM stuff) scaled down to figuring out how much chakra budget we have. Discuss emergency reserves, ocean chakra farming, and the costs of Hazou's runecrafting. We can figure out after that if anything resembling FOOM is still possible, and talk about whether to share it or not.
