INO: Why Hazou, if you want me to control you, you don't need to dress it up as
science...
Damnit Maddie, stop feeding @Dictator4Hire
FINALLY the seeds of the most perfect pairing are taking root.
Don't try to resist, just let it happen and you'll be far happier in the end.
That's an interesting metaphor. I wonder what the MfD food chain would look like. The qms would be the sun, providing the energy from which all other organisms subsist(except some weird volcanic vent bacteria, which in this metaphor might consume AU omake?).
@faflec's screams would be somewhere close to the sun on the food chain, fueling hivemind paranoia, something like algae or zooplankton.
@Radvic is also close to the base, the implications of his physics ideas propagating up to higher levels, maybe something with an essential amino acid that other organisms can't produce themselves.
@Cariyaga is probably symbiotic with a ton of stuff. And then you get to the apex predators like
@Dictator4Hire feeding on
@MadScientist's bait. It tickles me that
@OliWhail doesn't end up being a whale in this metaphor. Forgive any mischaracterizations.
Any allegory that casts me as an apex predator gets my seal of approval. I'd like not to fall into some sort of trap by taking bait, but eh, close enough.
Oh hey, look, a new chapter.
It's been awhile since I've done a chapter reaction...
Meh, fuck it.
HERE
WE
GO
"Some teams might be willing to accept a small amount of collateral damage in the interest of eliminating us from the event," Keiko noted. "The lowest-scoring teams might even choose to sacrifice their own chances in the Exam in order to eliminate high-scoring teams from other villages, thereby enhancing the chances of the other ninja from their own village."
If this isn't a blatant hint from the QM's to cover our asses, I don't know what is.
"Of course," Hazō said, nodding. "Having a lot of money on hand sounds like a good plan regardless.
It warms the cold cockles of my heart to see Hazou taking money making seriously.
It may be a bit of a stretch, but if we could get a portion of our proctor's profits I'd be quite pleased.
Keiko nodded. "Indeed. Giving the money to a merchant to pass on to our client might be a breach of the rules, so we should avoid that. We can, however, use the money to gather information and locate opportunities which we then steer the client to. Ideally ones that would appeal to other clients in the event, thereby cutting them out of particularly lucrative deals."
Or we could go for gold by making our merchant the sole supplier of whatever his product is. We don't have to destroy the opposing merchandise either; we can simply devalue it. For example, if our client sells food of some kind we can throw some stink bombs at other merchants' supplies to make potential buyers prefer our clients' wares. Another option would be to subsidize items or services that complement whatever it is our client will be selling. If he is a furniture salesman we could offer to transport his merchandise for his clients free of charge as a limited time offer. We could go full Billy Mays on Mist's unsuspecting populace with a buy one, get this other item(s) made by ninja, FREE!
Advertising is worthwhile consideration to take into account too, but without more information about what it is our 'client' will be selling it's hard to make actionable plans.
I'm certainly looking forward to it though. I personally enjoy chakra-punking our way to wealth and riches.
Moar plz.
"I hit Kiba with a genjutsu in the bath," Sakura said. "Made him think I was Shino."
"What?! No you didn't!"
She gave him a pitying look. "'What are your thoughts on the event, Kiba? For my own part, I have yet to come up with satisfactory tactics on how to optimize our chances for success.'"
Kiba's mouth was sagging open. "You raging bitch."
Dayum Pinkie, when did you become so... ruthless?
Have you been hanging out with our resident Bird Duke's omake bodyguard?
The pink-haired girl shrugged and leaned over to serve herself some dango from one of the communal take-out boxes. "Ninja. Saw you guys chatting up that proctor while Hinata hung back with her eyes going, figured she was reading something off the proctor, decided to take a chance." She glanced up at Kiba, offering him a mocking grin. "You shouldn't have left Akamaru back in your room to guard your stuff. He's obviously the brains of the pair. As well as the bigger boy." She wiggled her little finger at him; Kiba's shock transformed into horror, than anger. He started to leap up but Aburame caught his shoulder and pressed him back down.
Tsk, Tsk, bitch-in-training. Now this is taking it a bit too far (and that's coming from me). She enjoys antagonizing Kiba far too much for her own good.
I'm kinda looking forward to the inevitable comeuppance once she pisses someone off who isn't constrained by social mores from giving her her just desserts.
"Be calm, Kiba," the bug user said. "She is trying to rile you. Why? Because it allows her to score social points."
SHE KNOWS ABOUT THE FATE POINT SYSTEM
AND SHE IS A RAGING BITCH?!?!
AND SHINO KNOWS ABOUT THE SYSTEM TOO?!?!
At this point the characters might as well talk to us players directly to save us all some time.
"I assume this is why you intercepted me in the hall—to provide a distraction while Sakura interrogated Kiba? I congratulate you. Your queries about my allies' intelligence-gathering capabilities and offer to share information made an excellent cover."
Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd let's not draw anyone's attention to the notion that the ongoing effort to share information could be used as a way to get a leg up on the inevitable competition.
Civility must be so hard to maintain among ninja...
Shrug. "Ninja. Yamanaka, even. Anyway, it's being left up to the individual proctors whether they communicate this to their team or not, but the 'clients' have a major incentive not to screw around: they get to keep the money."
Not just super powers;
super, super powers.
I wonder if our proctor would be amicable to having us making them absolute fuck tons of money, even if it means mostly ignoring their given 'profession'. Establishing a new industry, while daunting, would benefit Mist tremendously and would dramatically improve relations between them and Leaf. We really should ask our new dad if we should go through with something that drastic since it directly affects his plans for foreign policy, but the opportunity is here now. Such an industry shouldn't be
too revolutionary since we don't want to empower Mist without first allying with them, but it could be an overall minor improvement (on a nationwide scale) to an existing industry. Something like more efficient fish processing or streamlined production of lumber for ship building. Something to think about anyway.
Gah, I really,
really need more details before I get too far ahead of myself.
The remainder of this plan will be handled by the inimitable
@Velorien. He will take care of awarding XP and/or FP. There will be no voting until after his update.
Woah the winning plan
still isn't finished yet? We really need to start making smaller, more focused plans. I know I've already said this before, but when we've had multiple updates and the QM's are still working their way through one plan, it's worth repeating.
