Feedback encouraged, since I'll be posting this more-or-less verbatim once voting opens.
A few questions about this chunk. One: how much do you think immediate treatment is likely to impact the time taken to heal the Moderate? It wouldn't be trivial to be down 6 (4 from -AB to PS and then 2 from the reduced crossover bonus from Sealing) (?) points of PS for a week if we were doing short cycles, but if Noburi can make sure it's healed before our next research roll (and we're doing long enough cycles) then it's less of an issue.
As an option for the two remaining prep days, could I suggest Life Illuminator Rune and/or Target Painter Rune?
Hazou was healed of a Moderate without impacting his research rolls by Nobs this past timeskip.
As a general rule, Consequences heal separately, I see no reason for it to be different in this circumstance.
I actually think Cannai would find this insulting rather than thoughtful. Regardless I would never risk our Best Boi Summoning him against Itachi unless it was part of a mass assualt.
I'll take it into account but there will be other suggestions.
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Have her swear the new oath, *then* release the old one.
If we do hear back about rift runes, and any of them are achievable, those should probably take priority over Mirror Dragon runes.
This section(and the Kunokogo section, really) is pretty lose with wordcount.
Fwiw I do think that asking Snowflake has a better chance of success but I don't think the improvement is worth the inevitable drama when Kei finds out we used her clones' agency to go behind her back for a promise she made to the Nara. For the sake of general Uplift morale and the need to cooperate with Kei I would rather ask Kei directly.
Sure, but a hearty mega doubt about hearing back so soon.
Fair enough. Depending on what you want put in place.
I don't want to deal with the extreme amount of drama this is going to cause. Like nuclear reactor amounts. Oceans of drama. If we ask Snow we ask Kei too, and she's going to say no. So why ask at all.
I am not interested in the boat idea. I am not asking Kei about it. Fork the plan if you want it so badly.
Put on your romcom goggles and ball harder
>Trying to optimize Kei's build
Just never take them off
This seems needlessly untrusting. We didn't force the Arachnids to swear, they agreed to do it because they (I assume we explained?) understand the rationale. They're not going to blurt out a tirade of Akatuski-coercion messages in the few minutes between releasing the first oath and swearing the second, nor are they likely to refuse to reswear after we release them given that they agreed in the first place.
I am not in favour of this. Like, at all. I would love to know what Kei's shadow jutsu do; I do not want either to go behind her back by asking Snowflake (who Kei considers to be a separate person) in order to exploit her crush on us and possibly-lessened attachment to keeping Nara clan secrets, and I also don't want to do the "we're missing-nin now, so surely you can do this thing that is actually genuinely a betrayal of your clan" approach. This feels like it will cause Kei to blow up in our face.
In the unlikely event that we end up with nothing better to spend the wordcount on, can I suggest my Elementary Genetics plan fragment?
It's not likely to give us much, so if we have pretty much anything else to spend the wordcount on that should take priority, but it would be interesting to see.
While I approve of supporting our relationship with Cannai, wouldn't this violate our Seventh Path contact restrictions? Cannai suggested it, so I suppose not, but Kei mentioned restricted meeting points when the team was discussing the original oaths. I'm also a bit worried about running into that E-jounin Leopard who wanted to hunt down Hazō for killing her brother (or whoever), but I suppose if we're just acting as a communicator that might not be too much of an issue. Maybe not something to do too predictably, though; I'm worried about leopards waiting till they see a dog get summoned, then attacking before we reverse summon so that we drop back in the middle of a fight and they skewer us before we can unsummon.
IN FAIRNESS the only reason people even suggested this was because we were straight up told missing nin do not know clan secrets, hence all the stuff we gave to Akatsuki are still considered clan secrets. And now anything we know is still considered secret to the Goketsu, etc. Doesn't change the overall point but legally speaking yea this is actually a valid argument 🗿
I don't think so? We're not asking about the Akatsuki, or Leaf, and the dogs either wouldn't know (since they're not one of Hazou's personal summons, with frequent contact on the 7th Path), or they wouldn't say (as common Summons, their focus would be on the war effort, not about the politics of a foreign nation, on a foreign dimension, of an alien people).
Ooh, not trying to pull one over on Kei. Make that into "ask Kei and Snowflake..."
Also on the list of questions saved for when we have wordcount:
Oh, right, that's a good point actually (not the main thing you were saying, but a thing I'd missed); we don't technically even need to go to the Seventh Path to provide communication. All we need to do is Summon one dog, have them tell us the information the pack wants relayed, then Summon a different dog and tell them; we wouldn't actually have to be on the Seventh at any point. We could do that on non-DoB days, even, if we could afford the chakra for the summoning.
I'm sure Kei cares A LOT about this. Like I'm 100% confident that she'll take this seriously and definitely not care that we're asking her to betray the Nara in spirit as well as law.
I hope I'm just missing something obvious but why are we trying to steal the rift when we don't have anything close to being able to secure it yet?
I'd actually forgotten about the fact that Cannai is constantly contesting the Leopard boss for control of his territory. That seems like a problem. I mean, maybe he can still do that if we summon him, but you're right, even a few minutes away might result in serious losses there.
Use it as a trap to bait the leopard boss :^)
