Here is the fort plan:
- The Fort:
- Involvement:
- Hazou/Shikamaru are likely involved in building the fortifications.
- Have high-Alertness/engineers (Paneru) help build/check/approve the fort.
- If Pangolins/allied Leaf-nin have jutsu/skills to aid construction, let them help.
- Location: Put the Fort near the edge of the Swamp of Mild Inconvenience.
- Ideally the Fort should be close enough to the edge such that we can retreat to outside the Swamp quickly.
- If possible the Fort should be situated near where we go at the end of the exam.
- Put us on the high ground.
- Foundations: Use ninjutsu to form an Earth floor/walls to form a Fort with 3 walls (triangular).
- Fort should be large enough to comfortably accommodate up to 15 people.
- Minimize chakra usage when building walls. If Practice Brick costs less chakra to form the wall use it instead of MEW.
- Create an entrance/exit point large enough for ONLY one person to enter at a time.
- To avoid spending hours digging through granite, create this passage ahead of time and then use ninjutsu over it.
- Walls need only be strong enough to stay upright under their own power.
- If possible provide space for battlements (ranged fighters).
- Floor must rise up above water level.
- If reasonable, have a small puddle of water leading to outside for Noburi's VD to interact with the outside.
- Place a large cloth over the fort, as a roof.
- Fortifications:
- Apply Five-Seal Barrier to floor, walls, and cloth-roof.
- First apply mud over them so 5SB registers them as separate objects.
- Place central/supporting seals inside the base if at all possible.
- As possible attach a removal mechanism to the central seal if we need to remove a part (e.g., for the Kagome Maneuver).
- Apply Air Dome seal to entrance.
- Apply additional defenses to VD-puddle as applicable.
- Put some simple cover up in case someone somehow gets an explosive into our base. Prepped Air Domes or MEW or something.
- Secret Tunnel:
- Have a Pangolin use Earth Release: Tunnel Excavation for an escape route.
- Other side of the tunnel should be covered up like all hell.
- Apply traps/Alarm seals as in The Perimeter.
- Have a serious discussion with Paneru regarding tunnel integrity and strengthening the tunnel against enemy action (collapse).
- The Perimeter:
- Who: Have our best trap-makers (read: allied ninjas/Pangolins with high Craftsmanship: Trapmaking) make traps.
- Use maneuvers to create Aspects for trap-making (e.g., have high-Awareness allies like Neji/Hinata check traps to make an Aspect).
- Take advantage of circumstance modifiers (e.g., everyone familiarizes themselves with terrain to create "Familiar Terrain" tag).
- Ask what (non-lethal) traps our allies can make, and add them to the list.
- The surroundings:
- Destroy good sources of cover and tall trees (height advantage) with explosive tags.
- Make note of trees/deep water/land for trap placement.
- Making traps:
- Location:
- Spread traps among 3-5 layers around the perimeter of the fort.
- Take advantage of natural hiding spots (e.g., reeds, small trees...).
- Have plans for underwater/underground traps.
- Trap types:
- LBF payloads as claymores/various mechanical traps (as done here).
- Contact/proximity explosive tags to underwater/underground mines.
- Remote-detonation payloads with detonation location inside our base.
- Prep Kagome Maneuvers to the fort walls.
- Other:
- Attach long-term light sources to ninja wire and connect them from the fort to the edge of the trap line. Should lower Stealth in case of ambush at night.
- Carve signs warning other ninjas of the traps and the terms of trading. Place them at the edges of the trap line.
- As possible make shadow sources for Shikamaru's bloodline to use. Let him lead this since it's a clan jutsu and OPSEC stuff.
EDIT Before Posting:
So QMs, a big portion of this plan is based on the idea that it's possible to stretch a cloth over the top of the fort, apply a Five Barrier Seal to it, and make an effectively impassable roof that can't be broken through or set on fire. If this is possible, the fort has the potentially to be turned into a viable turtle shell that can't actually be broken through. If a cloth roof reinforced by 5BS is not possible, please let us know how and we can plan under the considerably different assumption that this is just a set of walls we will be fighting around but the walls will pose only a minor obstacle to ninja jumping over them.
5BS Cloth Roof... Yay or Nay????
Let me try translating the fort plan.
Who is making rolls for the fort
If the QMs need to roll dice or consider Aspects to determine the mechanical strength of the fort, consider that Hazou, Shikamaru, Paneru, are involved and pertinent jutsu/skills may also be tapped from other Leaf genin.
Where is the Fort (listed in priority order)
1. The Fort should be on one of the islands of high ground rather than sitting in swamp water.
2. The Fort should be located near one edge of the exam area, so in the event that an attacking force looks unbeatable, we can flee across the border and forfeit the exam but ensure preserve our lives.
3. If possible, this location should be near the place where genin are expected to go to turn in their seals at the conclusion of the exam.
Physical Fort Construction
1. Fort should be built from MEW and triangular in shape with enough space in center to accommodate 15 people.
2. Fort should have a single narrow point of entrance/exit on ground level. I have no f-ing clue what 'create ahead of time and use ninjutsu over it' is supposed to mean.. I would assume we could just leave one corner of the traingle "open" by not quite having the walls meet there.
3. Roof will initially be open, but will be closed with seals as per plans below.
4. Fort should have a MEW-built floor, extruded at a sharp angle and then collapsed to ground (probably by undermining it to make it fall).
NOTE: I am ignoring request to have water connection to outside, as I believe it to be unfeasible with requirement that fort be on high ground and have stone floor.
5. Assume this is doable with no more than 4 MEW castings (one each wall and one for floor) and possibly less if two or more walls can be produced at once (Jutsu description unclear).
6. Use Noburi to transfer chakra so that Hazou can manage this many castings. Ideally draining wildlife, but if available wildlife insufficient request each Leaf genin contribute a little so that no one is too drained.
7. Place some convenient cover in the interior of the fort (logs, probably) to provide some kind of cover in the event an explosion has to be dodged inside the fort or such.
Seal Reinforcement
1. Apply Five-Seal barrier to Floor and walls.
2. Stretch cloth over top of fort as roof and apply Five Seal Barrier to that. (Test to see if this actually works and can't be easily circumvented by (for example) setting cloth on fire, and if it doesn't then adjust strategies based on open roof that enemies will simply jump over.)
a. If necessary, Fate Point to declare we had a cloth of sufficient size.
3. Have Air Dome seal positioned near entrance, so that it can be put up to block entrance if necessary.
4. Have other Air Dome seals scattered around base for cover if required.
Secret Tunnel???
1. Discuss with Pangolins if it is possible to have a secret escape tunnel, made by leaving gap in floor (probably at one of the fort's three corners).
NOTE: This may be impossible to the level of the water table. This is a swamp! However if the QMs think for some reason the tunnel wouldn't immediately flood....
2. Have a Pangolin use Earth Release: Tunnel Excavation for an escape route. Disguise other end using appropriate rolls. Apply traps as per below.
Mechanical Effect Fort Should Achieve
1. Fort is its own zone.
2. Fort has Aspects:
"Open Challenge"
"Prepared Ground"
3. Fort Zone has Border that is effectively impassable anywhere that is covered by 5 Seal Barrier and is "some appropriate number" for going through narrow entrance if air dome has not been activated.
4. When air dome is activated, it must be broken to enter through interior. So someone would have to stand there, pounding on it, while those inside can do basically nothing to respond because if they're completely sealed in they don't have a good means of shooting out. Then the attacker breaks through the air dome, throws an explosive inside this cramped, small fort, and we all die inside as there is no place to effectively dodge to. Yeah, doesn't sound like a great plan to me either, but it's what the players want. This is how Hazou dies.
Traps
Create multiple zones filled with traps surrounding the fort, as noted above.
BRIEFVOICE COMMENTARY: Note that the biggest issue I see with this is that the fort is likely to take up most of the viable "dry ground" area on whatever high ground island we pick, so I'm not sure how well traps will work when anchored in essentially swamp water. How does that even work? I don't know.
Comments from other players?
