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Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

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Oneiros said:
[] proto plan: who gets the hat

Debrief with Naruto and Tsunade
  • Review Jiraya's will
    • Have the toad contract signed ASAP
    • Record all seals in Iron nerve
  • Decide if we want Tsunade or Naruto to make a play for the hat
    • Most important thing is keeping it out of Hiashi's hands
    • No matter what
  • Find out if Naruto wants to become clan head of the Goketsu
  • See if Orochimaru left anything about his resources or his organizations
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We may or may not be able to get into Tsunade or Naruto's room. So we need something to fill in that time.
 
eaglejarl said:
Wait. That was her issue: Hating herself because she couldn't handle the responsibility of what she'd done.

"It's all on me, Mari. As your Clan Head, I am ordering you to help, and anything you do at my orders is my responsibility. Not yours. Do you understand?" No, that was wrong. You didn't ask questions when asserting ultimate authority. What was it that Mari-sensei had said to Akane after Akane ran herself to chakra-exhaustion?
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We are getting some killer returns on our empathy investment. Both in terms of practical benefits, and story telling.
 
So in light of the hospital context, I suggest the following progression:
  1. Schedule meetings with Tsunade and Naruto if at all possible
  2. Go talk to Akane and discuss adoption.
  3. <Whatever else we may be doing if the appointment is far away>
  4. Meet with Tsunade and Naruto.
 
Kiba said:
We may or may not be able to get into Tsunade or Naruto's room. So we need something to fill in that time.
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Akane and Shikamaru? Though Shikamaru probably has negative energy reserves for the foreseeable future. Though... Sasuke is the same age and yet has a regent. A civilian one nonetheless. We should find out who the Nara one is, if there is one.
 
QTesseract said:
This isn't for that. He can't draw us into a war like this. What this is for is to make his job of waging the war as hokage easier, if he gets picked. The people this will effect won't be the ones deciding on him as hokage, and the decision of war vs not war is up to the hokage.

I'm also kind of torn. This actually is the best time to strike and remove rock and cloud. If we eliminate those villages leaf is the uncontested superpower. A domination Victory isn't as good as a diplomatic one here, but it's definitely workable.
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That's not very Uplift of you friendo
 
Actually, who would bar us from scheduling a visit with Tsunade and/or Naruto for any reasons other than medical ones?
Legally we currently have no peace time superiors.
I guess Jōnin may be allowed to commandeer us and I don't know what legal authority whoever automatically replaces Shikaku within Leaf military hierarchy has, but otherwise the only thing above us is the clan council and might-makes-right bullying.
 
Oneiros said:
[] proto plan: who gets the hat

  • Schedule a meeting with Naruto and Tsunade
    • Be polite but firm
    • Lord Gōketsu wishes to meet at your earliest convenience
  • Send an invitation to the following ninja
    • Lee
    • TenTen
    • Akane
    • Nakano
      • Gōketsu wishes to discuss your future
      • We would like to formally adopt you into the clan
  • Send a message to the clan heads of ISC.
    • Give sincere condolences
    • Our father died together for an ideal
    • We need to make sure we continue there dream
Debrief with Naruto and Tsunade
  • Review Jiraya's will
    • Have the toad contract signed ASAP
    • Record all seals in Iron nerve
  • Decide if we want Tsunade or Naruto to make a play for the hat
    • Most important thing is keeping it out of Hiashi's hands
    • No matter what
  • Find out if Naruto wants to become clan head of the Goketsu
  • See if Orochimaru left anything about his resources or his organizations
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Expanded a bit
 
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So...I'm thinking that the biggest way we can counter the propoganda !Hiashi's been throwing out is through...being ourselves. We're (former) Mist-nin, and literally everyone who heard Jiraiya's big speech about adopting us and etc. etc. knows it. We should try for a miniature Uplift tour and spend time helping civilians and ninja in Leaf with their <problems and things>, which can go a long way into humanizing Mist as a whole and tilt the balance towards keeping the alliance.

The Rock-Cloud issue is going to be a lot harder, given that we know practically nothing about them; it might be good to link up with whatever anti-war coalition forms and agree to coordinate.
 
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Kiba said:
Grab a copy of the bullshit story while we're on our way.
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Can you add Kiba's suggestion as well?
Also, maybe include asking Tsunade if she has a third option in mind.
And keep Naruto in mind as potentially being the next candidate for Toad Summoner. He definitely has the chakra reserves and reverse summoning would lower the chances of another abduction. Though I have no idea how a Tailed Beast would interact with the Summon Path.
 
Ask Lord Hyuuga to give his testimony of the battle and the preparation in front of the clan council backward.
 
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eaglejarl said:
If you measure the distance from Mist to approximately the 'I' in 'Nagi Island', remembering that you need to islandhop instead of running in a straight line, you'll find that's it's approximately 200 miles, which is about 10 hours of ninja running time.

We actually did the math very carefully, several times. @OliWhail made a chart out of the map with the routes of everyone involved, marked out in standard-sized segments to make it easy to measure. The travel times are really not in dispute, the only things that were subjective was how much time people would need for organization and rest.


It might not have. If that had happened then we would have written the most epic wrapup we could and then decided on our next project.


Welcome! Nice to have you.

Voting is simple. People make plans and you vote for them like so:

[x] The Plan Name

You can vote for as many as you like and your vote is counted for each one.


I get why you're feeling that way, but let me try to change your mind.


Your team got into a fight in Hot Springs. As a result, Mist de facto took over the country, giving them a foothold on the western continent and a stranglehold on trade coming out of the Land of Lightning.

Hazō had the idea for skywalkers, Kagome created them.

You sold them to Leaf in exchange for being accepted into the city, not just as Leaf ninja, but as a brand new clan under the second most important ninja in the city. That is huge. I'd need to check the worldbuilding, but I'm pretty confident that no missing-nin has ever come in from the cold before, so you just set a precedent that:
  • Missing-nin can become citizens again
  • New clans can be formed by a collection of people who are not blood relatives
It cannot be overstated what a big deal these two things are.

1. Until now, a person was stuck in whatever Village they were born in, because no one else would take them. Now, if you're a skilled ninja and you don't like your village, you can leave. Someone else will accept you. Kage suddenly have an incentive to create a society that their ninja enjoy living in.

2. Until now, if you were clanless you were basically screwed. You were locked out of the advantages of the clan system (unless someone deigned to adopt you, but that was uncommon) and there was nothing you could do about it, because you almost certainly didn't have enough ninja in your family to be worthy of the name 'clan'. Now people know that it's possible to get together with unrelated friends and form a clan, and if you have something of enough value to offer you can actually get that clan recognized.

Moving on...

Because they bought skywalkers from you, Leaf felt confident enough in their combat superiority that they decided to bait a trap for Yagura (the head of Mist). Yagura took it, and all of Mist's best ninja got killed. This gave Akatsuki the chance to grab the 3-Tails, which had been one of the few jinchūriki they had no easy way to get hold of, since Yagura rarely left his city. They also got the 9-Tails as a bonus, which was nice.

The death of all their best ninja left Mist in a very precarious position on the international stage and with no clear successor for the Kage's hat. They almost had a civil war and ended up choosing Ren, a decidedly not S-rank ninja who was more of a diplomat than a fighter. They chose her because they thought they could control her. It turned out that her diplomacy skills ended up getting Mist some amazing trade deals that are likely to leave the city richer than before she took the hat.

Fast forward a bit. You captured Goda, the Yakuza banker. Leaf extracted some useful information from him that gave hints about where Akatsuki was and what they had been doing.

At the first part of the Chūnin Exams you pointed Team Bloodrage out to Jiraiya, who likely would not have had cause to interact with them otherwise. He captured them and extracted the location of their handler, who was higher up in Akatsuki's organization. Noburi and Kakashi captured the handler, who had information pointing towards Akatsuki's base. Jiraiya couldn't move on it because after Hiruzen's death and Naruto's capture he didn't have the firepower to take Akatsuki head-on.

At the Chūnin Exams tournament, Hazō stopped Zabuza from blowing the whistle on the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, the knowledge of which could easily have sparked a war.

Everyone then went off and fought the Battle of the Gods, in which a large plurality of the senior ninja in the Elemental Nations died. There are now only a handful of S-rank ninja alive, and most of them are Akatsuki. This reduction in combat power meant that Ami was able to bring forth the conspiracy she'd been working on for years: Uniting the young clanless ninja in the city into a force powerful enough to cause real change in the culture of Mist.


So, now where do things stand? In terms of real-world history, the MfD historical period is similar to that of feudalism. What killed feudalism? The Black Death. The Black Death wiped out something like 50% of the people in Europe. Suddenly there was a labor shortage and therefore serfs had both economic value and bargaining power. There was also a need for technology to help make up for the reduced number of people -- traditional inefficient methods of weaving, farming, etc weren't sustainable anymore, so you saw rapid improvement in looms, tooling, etc. You're seeing something very similar here. The large majority of the world's best ninja just got wiped out. Remember that precedent you set about how missing-nin can be repatriated? With so many ninja wiped out in the BotG, at least some Villages are going to be actively looking for missing-nin to recruit.


All of this because of you and Team Uplift. And that was when you were a random genin running around following orders. Now you're a Clan Head with no Kage to get in your way.

Let the world tremble.
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You know when you say it like that, team Uplift might actually be the greatest missing-nin to ever live. They were a standard, inexperienced genin team who barely survived a combined attack force of two major powers, were able to expand their team while evading the world's greatest hunting nin, ended up being major or minor players to multiple world changing events, revolutionized warfare, and actually joined society back as a clan, the ninja equivalent of nobility.

No matter what happens now I doubt their exploits won't one day cement itself as legend.
 
So....

People we could adopt:

[] Its What Jiraiya Would Have Wanted

(Naruto if he agrees.)
  • Anko
    • You can hang out with Mari 24/7 now.
  • Kabuto
    • Hey, so bloodlines are clan secrets obviously. However, if you join the clan, that solves that little problem and gives you at least one willing test subject and probably another in the form of Noburi. Can you say M A D S C I E N C E?
      • We also have two sealmasters who have expressed interest in Biosealing and Biosealing adjacent areas. How about that huh?
  • Kurenai
    • Hey look, marrying Asuma would be "Clan Politics" now, convenient excuse eh?
  • Akane
    • Obvious.
  • Tenten
    • Obvious
  • Lee
    • Fuck you Keiko we're doing right by Lee. Lee is super duper fucked right now! His patron deity of youth, the person he hitched his star to, his only shining light in the world just died. We're not leaving him alone out in the dark, fuck that shit, he gets an invite to the squad. Lee is cool fuck off Keiko, we'll figure out how to chill him out or keep him outside training 24/7 or something.
  • Extra-Strength Bachelor Squad Nakabro Brouchi
    • Nakano: Come bro with us at this darkest hour.
    • Genda: Here, come join up on this so we can teach you cool magic shit and so you can keep us on the straight and narrow. You'll give us shit if we fuck up and don't think of the civilians right? Good. We need you to keep our head out of our almighty ass.
    • ThirdMcPerson: Fuck you get in the compound on the double.
    • Smiles O'Seducerino: Welcome to the pantheon, our victory afterparties are filled with strippers and booze, its tradition. You will be doing a lot of winning with us, believe me. Invite your civvy girls to our compound, we have magic paper and giant talking animals.
 
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