I can accept your thoughts with Noburi, though I worry that it might not turn up much.
I don't see how this pissed off smaller countries? By our calculations our Red Team One fellows are not harmed by this.
"Buttering up" or "soft blackmail" is essentially the same thing.
I'm explicitly doing absolutely any of this with the large disclaimer:
As far as they're concerned this should come off as a friendly gesture.
If we give them 1/2 of the word halves then it literally doesn't matter how they distribute them mathematically: it won't change our spot in the finals.
I know, right?
Why? There's no plausible way for them to affect our position even if we give them all our word-halves, but there's no possible logical way for them to do anything to us if we give them half of them or less. We'll still have our half; if we have 100 word-halves and each word-half is worth a million points or something, they'll score ~100,000,135 points and we'll still score 100,000,586.
Speaking of which, I've been meaning to write something for that. Thanks for the reminder.
I can't speak for others, but I vote for what I want to read. I like Keiko, Hazou, and Noburi as charachters, but my estimation of our and is such that I suspect I could very quickly come to enjoy a new charachter, or new social dynamics, quite easily. As such, while my enjoyment of the status quo is high, my projected delta enjoyment is much lower, and I am thus proportionately more willing to do things that sound fun largely on a whim (hence my support of Ami shenanigans, succeed or fail, and my precious InaZou backing. You might not feel the same way, but that's where (at least one of us is) coming from.
But you're blue!When we disagree with @eaglejarl he starts seeing red and can't tell us apart
Problem is, his old eyes don't see purple so well anymoreBut you're blue!
No, he used to be blue, before The Incident occured.But you're blue!
Ah, I forgot that I'm immune to metacognitive effects, Nyarlathotep.
Suggestions:
Commission a bound notebook for him with sealing-quality paper.
Write a book detailing his teachings to Hazou.
If I fit anymore then @Velorien might complain about being tired of writing social, and then him and @eaglejarl will swap polarity for a bit and then @faflec hears and I'll hear him screaming across whatever physical distance in atomspace separates us.
I basically don't want to bring this up until Leaf. Is Jiraiya not coming back with us?
Personally I think you could add it to the talk with Downfall. Just tell Shin that we are open to talking to the Kurosawa clan in the future
Why can't we just ask him in the Summoning Realm? Don't we have a check-in at sundown (which is when the Fifth Event ends)?
I'm kinda...no, on this one, since I'm pretty sure us doing this will fuck us for the tournament (read: for getting into the tournament). Is this really necessary?
And thank him for his aid in the most recent Events. *cough*more presents*cough*
Also suggestions: Make Mist-style cuisine (with raw ingredients) + a cookbook; Mist-exclusive woodstuff for carving.
We can talk securely on the Seventh Path, and if it is possible then we want to get on it as fast as we can, since we don't know how long Naruto's got left. We can also directly ask the Toads what they know about summon scroll mechanics and get their opinion on its viability.
