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[X] Action Plan: Gold Rush
Word Count: 299
  • Noburi - Buy 1 FP
    • Optimize your approach with Mari, good luck.
  • Ino
    • Meet with her to say goodbye, give her the official line about our mission.
    • Promise to send her weekly letters via the Seventh Path
    • Give her a farewell bouquet. Cast the fertility jutsu on it.
      • Themes - Love through adversity, love everlasting.
  • Depart for the Gold Mine with Kei/Kagome
    • Have Canvass check the team for unusual scents.
    • Travel using skywalkers exclusively.
    • Use dice to randomly break the trail near Leaf a few times.
    • Establish a basic perimeter around the mine before starting extraction.
    • Coordinate with Noburi for chakra. If he's still alive.
    • For each cast of ES, concentrate the gold in the AoE into a small volume of earth.
    • Use Earth Clones to dig up the highly concentrated gold-dirt mixture and store it in baskets.
      • Bring extra shovels, baskets, and storage seals. Draw down the Seal Bank if necessary.
    • Give enough gold to Mari via Noburi that the Clan's liquidity is no longer an issue.
      • Suggest she pay civvie miners to finish purification, and have the Tower mint it into ryo for a fee.
        • We got the gold from the Dogs, obviously.
    • Store the rest in Dog
  • Head for the Skytower Research Base
    • Same procedure as for heading to the gold mine
      • Canvass, skywalkers, dice to randomize the trail a bit, etc.
      • Head for an isolated spot off the coast of Iron in Aisu Bay.
        • Exact location chosen at random
      • Make sure the base is trapped when not in use
        • Let Kagome go wild, skyslicers, proximity explosives, etc.
        • Reverse Summon away from the base, in midair, in a spot chosen at random. Make sure that we can see if anyone has been to the base while we've been on the Seventh Path.
You should know that I was very frustrated when one of the other QMs explained that you were probably going straight out on the mission after the gold mine, considering no such information had been provided in any plan, either to us or to the NPCs, even the plan in which it was apparently supposed to happen.
 
You should know that I was very frustrated when one of the other QMs explained that you were probably going straight out on the mission after the gold mine, considering no such information had been provided in any plan, either to us or to the NPCs, even the plan in which it was apparently supposed to happen.
Yeah that was definitely an oversight. It was originally very clear, but got cut for WC reduction. Sorry!

Hopefully this new version is more clear. It specifically has a whole section about heading for the research base.
 
with weapons of unspeakable destruction in Hazō's hands, and Hazō in the hands of a Hokage fully cognizant of their power. This time, even assassination would not ensure containment, for Orochimaru also possessed the secrets of runecrafting
Kei, what did you do!?


dice to randomize the trail
in a spot chosen at random
Gosh, you *really* want Jashjin to take the wheel, don't you?
How about some good old deterministic pseudorandomness? base our exact destination off the favorite colours of our clanmates, in descending age order(or whatever)
 
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[X] Action Plan: Gold Rush
Word Count: 299
  • Noburi - Buy 1 FP
    • Optimize your approach with Mari, good luck.
  • Ino
    • Meet with her to say goodbye, give her the official line about our mission.
    • Promise to send her weekly letters via the Seventh Path
    • Give her a farewell bouquet. Cast the fertility jutsu on it.
      • Themes - Love through adversity, love everlasting.
  • Depart for the Gold Mine with Kei/Kagome
    • Have Canvass check the team for unusual scents.
    • Travel using skywalkers exclusively.
    • Use dice to randomly break the trail near Leaf a few times.
    • Establish a basic perimeter around the mine before starting extraction.
    • Coordinate with Noburi for chakra. If he's still alive.
    • For each cast of ES, concentrate the gold in the AoE into a small volume of earth.
    • Use Earth Clones to dig up the highly concentrated gold-dirt mixture and store it in baskets.
      • Bring extra shovels, baskets, and storage seals. Draw down the Seal Bank if necessary.
    • Give enough gold to Mari via Noburi that the Clan's liquidity is no longer an issue.
      • Suggest she pay civvie miners to finish purification, and have the Tower mint it into ryo for a fee.
        • We got the gold from the Dogs, obviously.
    • Store the rest in Dog
  • Head for the Skytower Research Base
    • Same procedure as for heading to the gold mine
      • Canvass, skywalkers, dice to randomize the trail a bit, etc.
      • Head for an isolated spot off the coast of Iron in Aisu Bay.
        • Exact location chosen at random
      • Make sure the base is trapped when not in use
        • Let Kagome go wild, skyslicers, proximity explosives, etc.
        • Reverse Summon away from the base, in midair, in a spot chosen at random. Make sure that we can see if anyone has been to the base while we've been on the Seventh Path.
Bet you can chop this down to <200 by not micromanageing things that the characters are better than us at anyways.


actually, I felt inspired. How's this?
[X] Action Plan: Gold Rush
Word Count: 181
  • Noburi - Buy 1 FP
    • Optimize your approach with Mari, good luck.
  • Ino
    • say goodbye, give her the official line about our mission.
    • Promise to send her weekly letters via the Seventh Path
    • Give her a farewell bouquet.
      • Themes - Love through adversity, love everlasting.
  • Depart for the Gold Mine with Kei/Kagome
    • Travel carefully and stealthily.
      • let Kei/Kagome solve the details
    • use Noburi's Chakra refills and ES to pull as much gold out of the mine as possible in a day.
      • Kei/Kagome stand guard
    • Give enough gold to Mari via Noburi that the Clan's liquidity is no longer an issue.
      • We got the gold from Dog, obviously.
    • Store the rest in Dog
      • ask Kei to make plans for responsibly leveraging the whole sum of it.
  • Head off on the research mission
    • Again, travel carefully and leave no trail.
      • Head for an isolated spot off the coast of Iron in Aisu Bay.
      • Explain the mission
      • Have Kagome and Kei go wild on defense/procedure planing.
        • Suggest completely dissembling base when on 7th path, and Reverse Summoning away from above cloud layer
 
more bonus xp? let the experts do their thing?

(also, why leave any permanent base to give any hint to our location?, just disassemble and store everything before we reverse-summon.)
 
more bonus xp? let the experts do their thing?

(also, why leave any permanent base to give any hint to our location?, just disassemble and store everything before we reverse-summon.)
There is no bonus for going below 199. Also I don't like the strategy your edit has of "let the QMs decide everything for us" Kei and Kagome are not more expert at stealth and evasion than Hazou. Hazou has never attempted the gold-mining and could easily attempt something unlikely to work without specifying what we want to attempt. I don't want Kei or Mari to get big ideas with the gold, I want them to turn the minimal amount into ryo and get us out of the hole.

The thing that Kagome is an expert on, trapmaking, my plan defers to him.

As for your base suggestion. It's inconvenient to disassemble and reassemble it every time, representing many hours of effort put into the trap array. If you want to forgo perimeter defenses and just research naked on a skytower, that's a different conversation.
 
I prefer Left-Hand Mutant's version but am unsure how to vote for it.
How's this?
[X] Action Plan: Go Get 'em, Tiger!
Word Count: 181
  • Noburi - Buy 1 FP
    • Optimize your approach with Mari, good luck.
  • Ino
    • say goodbye, give her the official line about our mission.
    • Promise to send her weekly letters via the Seventh Path
    • Give her a farewell bouquet.
      • Themes - Love through adversity, love everlasting.
  • Depart for the Gold Mine with Kei/Kagome
    • Travel carefully and stealthily.
      • let Kei/Kagome solve the details
    • use Noburi's Chakra refills and ES to pull as much gold out of the mine as possible in a day.
      • Kei/Kagome stand guard
    • Give enough gold to Mari via Noburi that the Clan's liquidity is no longer an issue.
      • We got the gold from Dog, obviously.
    • Store the rest in Dog
      • ask Kei to make plans for responsibly leveraging the whole sum of it.
  • Head off on the research mission
    • Again, travel carefully and leave no trail.
      • Head for an isolated spot off the coast of Iron in Aisu Bay.
      • Explain the mission
      • Have Kagome and Kei go wild on defense/procedure planing.
        • Suggest completely dissembling base when on 7th path, and Reverse Summoning away from above cloud layer


This is excellent. +5 XP to a player of your friend's choice.

You may wish to double-check the lyrics, as it sounds to me like "to research things" rather than "and research things".
That'll be Goketsu Hazou, please.

I think "to research" is a singer error, as it's not in any the drafts.
Not sure what the convention is: do I leave up the intended lyrics, or transcribe what was actually sung?
 
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[X] Action Plan: Gold Rush
Word Count: 299
  • Noburi - Buy 1 FP
    • Optimize your approach with Mari, good luck.
  • Ino
    • Meet with her to say goodbye, give her the official line about our mission.
    • Promise to send her weekly letters via the Seventh Path
    • Give her a farewell bouquet. Cast the fertility jutsu on it.
      • Themes - Love through adversity, love everlasting.
  • Depart for the Gold Mine with Kei/Kagome
    • Have Canvass check the team for unusual scents.
    • Travel using skywalkers exclusively.
    • Use dice to randomly break the trail near Leaf a few times.
    • Establish a basic perimeter around the mine before starting extraction.
    • Coordinate with Noburi for chakra. If he's still alive.
    • For each cast of ES, concentrate the gold in the AoE into a small volume of earth.
    • Use Earth Clones to dig up the highly concentrated gold-dirt mixture and store it in baskets.
      • Bring extra shovels, baskets, and storage seals. Draw down the Seal Bank if necessary.
    • Give enough gold to Mari via Noburi that the Clan's liquidity is no longer an issue.
      • Suggest she pay civvie miners to finish purification, and have the Tower mint it into ryo for a fee.
        • We got the gold from the Dogs, obviously.
    • Store the rest in Dog
  • Head for the Skytower Research Base
    • Same procedure as for heading to the gold mine
      • Canvass, skywalkers, dice to randomize the trail a bit, etc.
      • Head for an isolated spot off the coast of Iron in Aisu Bay.
        • Exact location chosen at random
      • Make sure the base is trapped when not in use
        • Let Kagome go wild, skyslicers, proximity explosives, etc.
        • Reverse Summon away from the base, in midair, in a spot chosen at random. Make sure that we can see if anyone has been to the base while we've been on the Seventh Path.

Why are we heading towards Aisu Bay? I can be convinced of a plan that doesn't head for the magic Oasis first, but I do want to make sure the designation has purpose.

But, as a pre-emptive sign of goodwill and apology for not voting for your last plan until right before, after giving input:
[X] Action Plan: Gold Rush
 
Why are we heading towards Aisu Bay? I can be convinced of a plan that doesn't head for the magic Oasis first, but I do want to make sure the designation has purpose.
It's a random spot in the middle of nowhere. We'll be moving around a lot. So next cycle we could easily be halfway around the EN.

I don't plan to go for the oasis until it's time to unstagnate combat. Since there is almost no benefit to visiting it when we have access to Noburi.
 
Good for Noburi. 'Fuck this, I pick option three' isn't the Goketsu motto ('the right seal at the right time', 'explosives solve every problem', 'pretty damn far', and others are in contention) is a proud part of our reputation and it's wonderful to see him embody that particular tradition.

I expect Tsunade will turn up some interesting bloodline knowledge that we can put to good use. If Sage Mode Noburi coincidentally happens to be a better medic, then so be it.

...Tsunade almost certainly has Sage Mode, right? Her reserves and physique must be through the roof. Maybe not having Slug Ma and Pa is limiting? I wonder if Noburi will be able to pull the necessary chakra in any better by dint of his bloodline.
 
...Tsunade almost certainly has Sage Mode, right? Her reserves and physique must be through the roof. Maybe not having Slug Ma and Pa is limiting? I wonder if Noburi will be able to pull the necessary chakra in any better by dint of his bloodline
I think it is very likely that she does not. The Toad Sages seem to be the only ones on the Seventh Path who know it.

Oro might have figured it out, but his willingness to tell Hazou about it is decent evidence against it.
 
For Jashin's sake, are they seals or not? I feel like we keep getting contradictory information about this.
My current understanding is that they're a highly specialized thing involving multiple domains and that Noburi is using terminology imprecisely and/or incorrectly because he isn't a seal guy. I don't take his statements at face value.
 
Oh no. Tsunadae is gonna spend Noburi's xp stockpile on raising mednin to be his capstone, and completely fuck up his pyramid.

Should we emergency buy water whip and/or chakra+physique before Tsunadae spends the stockpile?
 
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