According to Jiraiya, Leaf is enlightened enough to only use volunteers for suicide missions... though, with Orochimaru's Funnel being a thing that would take those numbers, that may have changed.
Those are suicide missions for people to "useless" for proper suicide missions, due to being cripples and "skinwastes" and the like. They get cajoled and socially and financially pressured into it, but it still counts as volunteering at the end.
- I don't think we should be telling him about the scrying ritual. It's irrelevant, eats word count, and even without it we'd obviously want to raise Jiraiya.
I disagree. I also don't think we should care all that much about word count. This is the climactic finale for a massive chunk of the narrative of the last few years. The gains of being detailed far outstrip anything that single digit XP gains bring to the table.
- We shouldn't end with "cowardice and ambition are incompatible", because our main motivation here isn't ambition. It's rational self-preservation.
If it was just self preservation, we could have joined Akatsuki a long time ago. And defeating a mortal enemy with flashy techniques is ambitious and uncowardly.
Given recent events, I think that I'd prefer stronger language about what Team Uplift's role in this discussion is supposed to be.
I'd love to get Mari to optimize our language choices and Kei to look through our logic and conditionals to see if it could be improved, but I'm concerned that we're just going to get a long scene where they try to shut us down instead of improving our odds of the plan we're going to execute anyway.
That second bullet point especially seems like it's going to result in a lot of our team telling us we're wrong or misguided.
I think I'll second that. They should know that Hazou has decided on this course of action, even if it is suicide. They are now to optimize his sacrifice.
...Hmm. Is reiterating that Noburi is our heir appropriate? Or will the QMs allow us to "write a will" in post if we die?
@eaglejarl @Velorien @Paperclipped if we die, can we vote on a last will and testament retroactively? Can we do so even if we zeroed out on Fate Points?
These S-rankers will pose just as much of an existential threat to Orochimaru as Hiruzen, Jiraiya, Hashirama, Tobirama, and Minato ideally will all come back.
All of those either tolerated his existence or died long enough ago that they will have to defer to the more modern Leaf leadership when it comes to current geopolitics (and yes, whether Orochimaru lives is a geopolitics issue). Also, every major non-Leaf Kage has wanted Orochimaru dead. Pain has wanted Orochimaru dead. Lo and behold, he still lives. Nukes are a different type of threat than S-Rankers.
Conjura probably shouldn't be involved in the actual fighting, but might be worth including to reduce transit times. If spacetime jutsu can get Tsunade and friends from Leaf to the staging area for the fortress assault faster than Kisame and Itachi can play telephone-tag, that gets us a full strike force AND the element of surprise, best of both worlds.
Fair. As long as Ruri and Tsunade are up to date on Conjura's potential allegiance issues. Which they should already be.
Edit: Also, why not?
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