Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

Oneiros · Dec 8, 2019

RandomOTP said:
I don't think that Keiko would be okay with the "anything" part of that. She made the decision to quit trading seals unanimously because what the pangolins were doing with them affronted her on a moral level.

Trying to reopen trade with them in any significant degree would be like crawling back to a used car salesman after storming out of the lot. They'll know that we're desperate, they'll know that they have the higher ground, and they'll use that advantage to demand their special towers back. Something that Keiko would NOT abide by.

of course! Just added a line giving Kei Veto power over any trade deal

RandomOTP said:
Is there such a thing? They're born and bred clan members, raised from diapers with the expectation that they would, one day, take over their clan. They've no doubt received training to go along with that. Informal dress code or not, it'll very likely be formal in attitude.

Like it or not, we're all clan heads now. That'll put some distance between our friendships... but that doesn't mean that those bonds have to die. They'll just have to... well, change, I suppose. As all friendships that live beyond a certain age do.

by informal I just meant a private place where we could hash out a deal before we went to the whole council

Shard · Dec 8, 2019

Mari's plan feels fairly constrained to what I was imagining, that is using Sealing to WMD Rock (Skywalkers and Explosion Seal Bombing).

In real life terms Leaf just got hit by a Nuclear First Strike. That is something which ordinarily calls for a Nuclear Second Strike responce.

roobee · Dec 8, 2019

So to everyone who thinks Maris plan is viable, if it actually works what do you expect Rock to do after they leave and still need land?

ting · Dec 8, 2019

Roomba said:
[X] Dreaming of a Peaceful World

1. Propose the following plan to Mari:
Observations:

Leaf is currently weak militarily.

It has allies, but their commitment is unclear.

Mari's plan has it show more weakness, even if temporarily.

Proposed solution:

Officially blame the attack on Akatsuki, while thanking Rock for their assistance.

Call for a meeting of all major and minor village Kage, with the intent of combating the terrorist threat jointly.

Seconding @Shadowwarp here: provoking Akatsuki has a pretty... dire failure mode. Also I'm not totally convinced that we can actually make the other villages believe it was Akatsuki, that we can make them scared enough to commit to an international coalition, or that an international coalition hunting akatsuki will end well (if we do end up finding them, I think Akatsuki wins that fight).

On the domestic leaf side: everyone else's close families were just murdered by Rock nin. I think now is when calls for international peace will ring the hollowest, especially coming from us who didn't suffer at all.

faflec · Dec 8, 2019

Action Plan: Shitty Plan I'll Make Official Maybe Later

Run everything with the clan first.

Keep improving the estate.
Point out that Jiraiya left a cache in the Swamp of Death; we could use it to help Mari's plan. At worst we'd want to clear it to keep Iwa from using it.
Take some time to chat with Noburi's adoption candidates, feel out how amenable they are to adoption and what they'd want from us.
- Are any of them willing to become auxiliaries, and work closely with the clan for funding and adoption next year?
Try to get Kagome out of the seal sweatshop. We're still willing to get seals churned out, but having to do this away from home is stressing Kagome out.
- Hazou's willing to chip in with scribing if Kagome approves, or he can offer Gouketsu resources as compensation/collateral.
Investigate Jiraiya's Leaf safehouses with Akane/Kagome. Consider visiting stashes near Leaf as well.
Have dinner with Snake. Work with Mari on cultivating her as a resource.
- We want to make Snake a well-placed friend, if not a possible adoption target.
Put Ami's suggestions to practice:
- Carry around a journal to note your feeling and emotions.
- Practice daily with Mari on genjustu.

RandomOTP · Dec 8, 2019

faflec said:
Carry around a journal to note your feeling and emotions.

How can we code this journal, or otherwise ensure its secrets stay that way? Some sort of fuuinjutsu lock on top of a written code? Kagome was once a cryptologist, right? We could ask for his advice while we' re trying to see if he thinks that his students are far enough along to help lighten his load.

ting · Dec 8, 2019

roobee said:
So to everyone who thinks Maris plan is viable, if it actually works what do you expect Rock to do after they leave and still need land?

Well the best case is that Oro's on board and we can leave the bioterrorism to the real experts. In that situation I expect that either the entire strike force/colony is wiped out or maybe Oro gets cleverer/nastier, and sends a slower acting plague back to Rock and the entire village gets taken out. Everyone learns a valuable lesson about nuclear alpha strikes and mutually assured destruction, and NOBODY fucks with Leaf.

Oro's kind of the best kind of nuke, because he's so indestructible that if he precommits to destroying the village that attacks leaf, even if your decapitation strike does go off perfectly, you still get wrecked.

If he's NOT on board (and I'd be truly shocked, he should love the opportunity to test something like this out) and we do the poor man's version, it still reminds them that bioterrorism is a thing and we've got the biggest baddest bioterrorist around. We can also just up front tell them that we have a dead man switch that will salt the fields with Oro's best plague if Leaf gets attacked, which should deter an invasion.

Having an S-rank walking war crime on your side is awesome. The best part of all this is that it doesn't need us to convince Oro to actually to take the field (except in the most literal sense).

I wonder if it's worth writing up a plan for that actually..

Kiba · Dec 8, 2019

ting said:
Well the best case is that Oro's on board and we can leave the bioterrorism to the real experts. In that situation I expect that either the entire strike force/colony is wiped out or maybe Oro gets cleverer/nastier, and sends a slower acting plague back to Rock and the entire village gets taken out. Everyone learns a valuable lesson about nuclear alpha strikes and mutually assured destruction, and NOBODY fucks with Leaf.

Oro's kind of the best kind of nuke, because he's so indestructible that if he precommits to destroying the village that attacks leaf, even if your decapitation strike does go off perfectly, you still get wrecked.

If he's NOT on board (and I'd be truly shocked, he should love the opportunity to test something like this out) and we do the poor man's version, it still reminds them that bioterrorism is a thing and we've got the biggest baddest bioterrorist around. We can also just up front tell them that we have a dead man switch that will salt the fields with Oro's best plague if Leaf gets attacked, which should deter an invasion.

Having an S-rank walking war crime on your side is awesome. The best part of all this is that it doesn't need us to convince Oro to actually to take the field (except in the most literal sense).

I wonder if it's worth writing up a plan for that actually..

This will make Tsunade REALLY mad.

faflec said:
Action Plan: Shitty Plan I'll Make Official Maybe Later

Run everything with the clan first.

Keep improving the estate.

Point out that Jiraiya left a cache in the Swamp of Death; we could use it to help Mari's plan. At worst we'd want to clear it to keep Iwa from using it.

Take some time to chat with Noburi's adoption candidates, feel out how amenable they are to adoption and what they'd want from us.

Are any of them willing to become auxiliaries, and work closely with the clan for funding and adoption next year?

Try to get Kagome out of the seal sweatshop. We're still willing to get seals churned out, but having to do this away from home is stressing Kagome out.

Hazou's willing to chip in with scribing if Kagome approves, or he can offer Gouketsu resources as compensation/collateral.

Investigate Jiraiya's Leaf safehouses with Akane/Kagome. Consider visiting stashes near Leaf as well.

Have dinner with Snake. Work with Mari on cultivating her as a resource.

We want to make Snake a well-placed friend, if not a possible adoption target.

Put Ami's suggestions to practice:

Carry around a journal to note your feeling and emotions.

Practice daily with Mari on genjustu.

Snake's dinner should already be finished, since three day shas passed. Also, we left out the school project, and the First Storage Bank. Those are important too as well.

ting · Dec 8, 2019

Please feel free to stick this into any other action plan, since it's fairly short and self-contained (modular). Also: credit to @Shard and @Twinnstars who already referenced nukes and Oro respectively.

@RandomOTP I think this shouldn't trigger your concerns about us having to interact with Oro since this would all be going through Asuma as the Hokage

E: @Kiba good call about Tsunade's reaction. In my head this was a limited scope plague, but added a bullet explicitly getting her buy-in to enforce that from Oro.

Action Module: Leave the Bioterrorism to the real Adults:

The elemental nations were in a stable(ish) state of MAD. Rock just defected so they must be punished otherwise peace is not possible.
Suggest that Leaf may be able to harness Oro's capabilities without asking him to fight in person, and investigate the feasibility of him plaguing the Rock colony or Rock itself according to the appetite of Hokage/clan council.
Ask Tsunade to make sure the plague has limited scope

@Roomba your plan doesn't actually reference how it dovetails with Mari's current bioterrorism plan, so I'll let you figure out how you want to play that, and then if you like it you can add the Oro suggestion there.

@roobee you seem to be against Mari's plan completely so I think this isn't compatible.

The remaining action plans with this in it:

[X] Who let the dogs out + bioterrOROrism

Deal with Rock
- The elemental nations were in a stable(ish) state of MAD. Rock just defected so they must be punished otherwise peace is not possible.
- Suggest that Leaf may be able to harness Oro's capabilities without asking him to fight in person, and investigate the feasibility of him plaguing the Rock colony or Rock itself according to the appetite of Hokage/clan council.
Meet with Keiko
- We would like to send a message to the dog clan to negoitiate for there next summoner to be from the Goketsu
- Also while we are at it we will pay pretty much anything to convince the pangolins to let us teach the training jutsu to members outside of the clan
  - Of course we don't want to do anything Keiko would be uncomfortable with. She has veto power
- Thank her for all the help she's given with dealing with our mental state. It has been super helpful
Clan heads
- Have an informal meeting with all the teenage clan heads
- We would like to bring a proposal to the clan council about expanding adoption oppurtunities
  - With the losses Konoha has taken we need more ninja who can perform at a peak level which clan training can provide
  - Plus no one would be taking a tax hit until we got back up to pre-collapse levels
Adoption targets
- Schedule a dinner with each of them
- goal is to get to know them and see how they interact with the clan

[X] Action Plan: Shitty Plan I'll Make Official Maybe Later + BioterrOROrism

Run everything with the clan first.

Dealing with Rock
- The elemental nations were in a stable(ish) state of MAD. Rock just defected so they must be punished otherwise peace is not possible.
- Suggest that Leaf may be able to harness Oro's capabilities without asking him to fight in person, and investigate the feasibility of him plaguing the Rock colony or Rock itself according to the appetite of Hokage/clan council.
Keep improving the estate.
Point out that Jiraiya left a cache in the Swamp of Death; we could use it to help Mari's plan. At worst we'd want to clear it to keep Iwa from using it.
Take some time to chat with Noburi's adoption candidates, feel out how amenable they are to adoption and what they'd want from us.
- Are any of them willing to become auxiliaries, and work closely with the clan for funding and adoption next year?
Try to get Kagome out of the seal sweatshop. We're still willing to get seals churned out, but having to do this away from home is stressing Kagome out.
- Hazou's willing to chip in with scribing if Kagome approves, or he can offer Gouketsu resources as compensation/collateral.
Investigate Jiraiya's Leaf safehouses with Akane/Kagome. Consider visiting stashes near Leaf as well.
Have dinner with Snake. Work with Mari on cultivating her as a resource.
- We want to make Snake a well-placed friend, if not a possible adoption target.
Put Ami's suggestions to practice:
- Carry around a journal to note your feeling and emotions.
- Practice daily with Mari on genjustu

hYGP · Dec 8, 2019

Alright, so after a decent amount of wordcount compression I managed to drop about 120~ words from @Roomba's plan, allowing me to say "we don't need to choose".

[X] Action Plan: Observe Our Political Sausage-Making
Wordcount: 299

Run plans by Mari/clan.

Narrative Hijack
1. Observations:
  1. Leaf is militarily weak, with unreliable allies.
  2. Plan Undesirable has Leaf temporarily show more weakness.
2. Solution:
  1. Officially, blame attack on Akatsuki.
  2. Thank Rock for their assistance.
  3. Call a meeting of all village Kages to combat the terrorist threat.
    1. Appeal to the legacy of previous Kages, who cooperated against Akatsuki before.
    2. In the meeting, push for an inter-village organization to address global problems.
3. Villages attend because:
  1. Mist/Sand want to reaffirm alliances due to vulnerability.
  2. Rock wants to avoid:
    1. Contradicting their current strategy.
    2. Suspicion of Akatsuki collaboration.
  3. Cloud won't want to be left out.
  4. Minor villages want more importance.
4. Desired effects:
  1. Leaf takes the initiative internationally.
  2. Long-term:
    1. Villages use the organization to resolve conflicts before open hostilities.
    2. Frequent and formalized diplomatic contact promotes cooperation and trade.
5. If she can make it happen, she has carte blanche.
Estate
1. Meet adoption candidates:
  1. Evaluate:
    1. Candidate fit.
    2. Willingness to join.
    3. Scope of issues.
  2. Offer cooperation/improvement in living standards.
    1. Haru: Better employment for Dad.
    2. Aya: Access to well-read invididuals (e.g Hazou, Shikamaru, Keiko).
    3. Noda: Dealing with debt, nature of Reality, and alcohol.
2. Continue previous tasks.
  1. Consult Aburame and Inuzuka on chakra beast farming.
Politics
1. Temporary adoption limit increase:
  1. Reasoning:
    1. Due to Leaf's current scarcity of higher-ranked ninja and destruction of academic institutions, Leaf should temporarily use the ancient means of educating ninja: the clan.
  2. Proposal:
    1. Temporarily increase the clan adoption limit to five ninja per year for three years. Evaluate results.
  3. Execution:
    1. Meet allied clans to find the cost of their support.
    2. Meet hostile clans to find points of agreement.
    3. Submit consensus plan to Asuma.
2. Dogs:
  1. Try to convince the Dog Clan to only accept Goketsu summoners ala the Snake attempt.
Implement Ami's suggestions.
1. Note feelings and emotions in journal.
2. Practice daily with Mari on genjutsu.

RandomOTP · Dec 8, 2019

I'm okay with @ting's plan, as long as we can find a way to make the diary/journal secure. Hazou's had issues with op sec in the past and has made notable strides in fixing that. I think that it'd be within his character to secure his journal. Maybe a mix of fuuinjutsu and code?

Edit: It doesn't have to be a seal and/or code. I just feel a little weird about poking too many holes without offering a suggestion to fix it.

Cariyaga · Dec 8, 2019

[X] Action plan: Who let the dogs out + Necromancy

Clear with Mari as usual

Meet with Kei
- We would like to send a message to the dog clan to negoitiate for there next summoner to be from the Goketsu, similar to how we did the Snakes.
  - If we're lucky, this will result in Kakashi showing up to claim our new estate. (joke)
- Also while we have her ear, how likely does she think it would be for the Pangolin to give special dispensation to teach their techniques to specific individuals? What would we need to do for them for this?
  - He is, of course, talking about Naruto, but also... Orochimaru in particular showed interest in them. It's not his decision, of course -- it's hers -- but he'd be willing to give up an awful lot to have Orochimaru working on bringing Jiraiya back. Asuma as well, if we can swing that -- building our own S rank, as such.
- Thank her for all the help she's given with dealing with our mental state. It has been super helpful
Clan heads
- Have an informal meeting with all the teenage clan heads
- We would like to bring a proposal to the clan council about expanding adoption oppurtunities
  - With the losses Konoha has taken we need more ninja who can perform at a peak level which clan training can provide
  - Plus no one would be taking a tax hit until we got back up to pre-collapse levels
Adoption targets [doesn't need to be on-screen]
- Schedule a dinner with each of them individually
- Goal is to get to know them and see how they interact with the clan, determine willingness to get along, ask Noda if she'd be willing to wait a year for the adoption to go through if we covered her expenses/debts and helped her recover, etc.
Figure out the whole Shimura estate deal
- Talk to Asuma if he'd be the one to talk to about that, etc.
  - Point out that the estate was not in use and the one we bought before was not, in fact, a legal sale.
  - If Mari suggests it, we can push for getting the state free, otherwise, just ask that our payments toward Orochimaru's estate instead go to the Shimura one.

Kiba · Dec 8, 2019

By blaming Akatsuki, we are not actually planning to do anything, right?

RandomOTP · Dec 8, 2019

Kiba said:
By blaming Akatsuki, we are not actually planning to do anything, right?

Unless I misunderstood --which is entirely possible, I'm a little under the weather right now and thus not operating at 100% --I think the goal is to blame the Sinkhole Incident on the Akatsuki in the hope of uniting the EN under the threat of a greater enemy. Not sure how we'd convince them, let alone if the world's even at a point where that would work. Canon had Naruto's Talk-no-Jutsu going for it, an immense amount of optimism concerning the intent of neighboring countries, and a kind author. We... don't.

Kiba · Dec 8, 2019

RandomOTP said:
Unless I misunderstood --which is entirely possible, I'm a little under the weather right now and thus not operating at 100% --I think the goal is to blame the Sinkhole Incident on the Akatsuki in the hope of uniting the EN under the threat of a greater enemy. Not sure how we'd convince them, let alone if the world's even at a point where that would work. Canon had Naruto's Talk-no-Jutsu going for it, an immense amount of optimism concerning the intent of neighboring countries, and a kind author. We... don't.

I don't care about the blaming.

I care about if we're actually going to send any ninja or effort pursuing Akatsuki. Because a) it's a waste of ninja, b) no solid evidence to pinpoint them as perpetrator of the attack

RandomOTP · Dec 8, 2019

Kiba said:
I don't care about the blaming.

I care about if we're actually going to send any ninja or effort pursuing Akatsuki. Because a) it's a waste of ninja, b) no solid evidence to pinpoint them as perpetrator of the attack

Yup. I think that, should we go this route, it's more likely that multiple countries will see our weakness and declare war on Leaf, seizing fertile land, enslaving civilians, and probably slaughtering/enslaving the remaining Leaf ninja. Within the decade Leaf will be gone the way of Poland in World War Two.

Oneiros · Dec 8, 2019

[x] Action plan: Who let the dogs out + Necromancy

Ishtar · Dec 8, 2019

[X] Action plan: Who let the dogs out + Necromancy

faflec · Dec 8, 2019

Cariyaga said:
[X] Action plan: Who let the dogs out + Necromancy

Should clear everything with the clan first.

Cariyaga said:
Adoption targets

Schedule a dinner with each of them

goal is to get to know them and see how they interact with the clan

I'd like to suggest that we should gauge their willingness to work with us as...like, a prequel to us adopting them formally. Like a "we're gonna adopt you guys as soon as possible, but due to current limits we're going to pretend we've already done that, minus legal things + we-will-get-murdered-for-showing-you clan secret stuff.

I'd imagine that Noda would be more than willing to wait the year for adoption if we just clear her debts and get her rehabilitated.

Shard · Dec 8, 2019

My personal opinion: We don't have to do anything. Asking Oro for help has all sorts of 'Gone Horribly Right' fail-states. Killing the plan by telling Tsunade for example is just crazy. I would like to remind people that Rock started an undeclared war on Leaf. Destroying their conquering group is actually a remarkably restrained response.

If a country got hit by missile attacks on most/all it's military installations it would be responding with nukes/bombs/soldiers whatever it could be mustering up. On a personal level we and our family could have been killed if we had been in the wrong place.

In other words I am saying talks of peace is crazy.

Kiba · Dec 8, 2019

Shard said:
My personal opinion: We don't have to do anything. Asking Oro for help has all sorts of 'Gone Horribly Right' fail-states. Killing the plan by telling Tsunade for example is just crazy. I would like to remind people that Rock started an undeclared war on Leaf. Destroying their conquering group is actually a remarkably restrained response.

If a country got hit by missile attacks on most/all it's military installations it would be responding with nukes/bombs/soldiers whatever it could be mustering up. On a personal level we and our family could have been killed if we had been in the wrong place.

In other words I am saying talks of peace is crazy.

If we want to get revenge on Rock, we need to do things that's not suicidal. That mean not starting a war with Rock and depleting our manpower further or enlisting Orochimaru's help.

Cariyaga · Dec 8, 2019

faflec said:
Should clear everything with the clan first.

I'd like to suggest that we should gauge their willingness to work with us as...like, a prequel to us adopting them formally. Like a "we're gonna adopt you guys as soon as possible, but due to current limits we're going to pretend we've already done that, minus legal things + we-will-get-murdered-for-showing-you clan secret stuff.

I'd imagine that Noda would be more than willing to wait the year for adoption if we just clear her debts and get her rehabilitated.

Editted the plan. Look good?

Sentient Tree · Dec 8, 2019

roobee said:
So to everyone who thinks Maris plan is viable, if it actually works what do you expect Rock to do after they leave and still need land?

They'll come back and take land that they don't think is crappy, of course.
The Oro plans technically do prevent this, but at the cost of getting Tsunade even more ticked off at us than she'll already be. Also it leaves Cloud as the only major power left. Which means they'll soon start taking over all the other villages.

I believe that just letting Rock rent the land is a much better option, but it does make the Gōketsu look indecisive. Instead, what if Hazō asks Shikamaru to present this as a better option which is less likely to cause massive problems? We can give him a solid argument about why the peaceful way is better for Leaf in this case, Shikamaru and Keiko can optimize it, and Shikamaru or Chōza can present it to the rest of the council and Asuma.

Reasons this is better than biological warfare:

Does anyone really want to have Tsunade find out that they authorized to spread plagues?
No possibility of a plague getting back to us when the Rock nin send someone to spread it to us.
Gives Leaf another source of income.
Prevents Rock from just coming back and taking land that isn't terrible.
- To expand on this point, if I were Rock and I had been forced to rent this terrible land that was overrun with chakra beasts and plagues, I would send some infected ninja to help out more in Leaf. Maybe have them do some trading with infected blankets or something. Then I'd come back once Leaf's population was reduced even further, and forcibly take some land that wasn't terrible.
Gives Rock a reason to deter other villages (aka Cloud) from attacking us.
Doesn't make Cloud the only remaining world power.

Shadowwarp · Dec 8, 2019

Oneiros said:
We would like to send a message to the dog clan to negoitiate for there next sum

I like this and it has my full support

Oneiros said:
Also while we are at it we will pay pretty much anything to convince the pangolins to let us teach the training jutsu to members outside of the clan

Of course we don't want to do anything Kei would be uncomfortable with. She has veto power

Thank her for all the help she's given with dealing with our mental state. It has been super helpful

This I'm completely against, our clan secrets is what gives a clan an edge against all other forces in and out of the village, secrets are a shinobi's greatest weapon. So the idea of giving away our clan's only real secret jutsu(that we we're explicitly told not to even modify, let alone teach others) boggles my mind. I get the idea that it's meant to help in the possible future war effort but none of the jutsu we can give are real gamechangers to the war effort because by the time anyone trained them to bs levels we'd be well into(hell maybe even after) the war, giving us little short term gain but a big longterm loss.

I especially do not see how we could possibly convince Keiko to go along with this, since we all know what the Pangolins would want in exchange for doing the one thing they told us not to do with their secret jutsu. I really wish people would give up on this idea.

Oneiros said:
Clan heads

Have an informal meeting with all the teenage clan heads

We would like to bring a proposal to the clan council about expanding adoption oppurtunities

With the losses Konoha has taken we need more ninja who can perform at a peak level which clan training can provide

Plus no one would be taking a tax hit until we got back up to pre-collapse levels

I'm fine with the idea of temporary extra slots but why the informal meeting, why not just bring it up to a clan council meeting and give our case there?

hYGP · Dec 8, 2019

huhYeahGoodPoint said:
Alright, so after a decent amount of wordcount compression I managed to drop about 120~ words from @Roomba's plan, allowing me to say "we don't need to choose".

[X] Action Plan: Observe Our Political Sausage-Making
Wordcount: 299

Run the plan by Mari/clan where appropriate.

Narrative Hijack

Observations:

Leaf is currently weak militarily, with unreliable allies.

The plan has Leaf temporarily show more weakness.

Solution:

Officially blame the attack on Akatsuki.

Thank Rock for their assistance.

Call a meeting of all village Kages to combat the terrorist threat.

Appeal to the legacy of previous Kages, who cooperated against Akatsuki before.
In the meeting, push for an inter-village organization to address global problems.

Desired effects:

Leaf takes the initiative internationally.

Villages attend because:

Mist/Sand want to reaffirm alliances due to vulnerability.

Rock wants to avoid:

Contradicting their current strategy.

Suspicion of Akatsuki collaboration.

Cloud won't want to be left out.

Minor villages want to be more important.

Long-term effects:

Villages will use the organization to resolve conflicts before open hostilities.

More frequent and formalized diplomatic contact will promote cooperation and trade.

If she thinks it can be done, she has carte blanche to make it happen.

Estate

Meet the three adoption candidates and evaluate:

Candidate fit.

Their willingness to join us.

Continue previous tasks.

Consult Aburame and Inuzuka for assistance with chakra beast farm.

Leaf politics

Temporary adoption limit increase:

Reasoning:

Due to Leaf's current scarcity of higher-ranked ninja and destruction of academic institutions, Leaf should use the ancient means of educating ninja: the clan.

Proposal:

Temporarily increase the clan adoption limit to five ninja per year for three years. Evaluate the results.

Execution:

Meet with allied clans to see what their support would cost.

Meet with hostile clans to find points of agreement.

Submit plan to Asuma with clan support.

Dog Scroll:

See if we can somehow convince the Dog Clan to only accept Goketsu summoners.

Implement Ami's suggestions.

Carry around a journal to note your feelings and emotions.

Practice daily with Mari on genjustu.

So I accidentally hit post before I was done editing, but here's the highlights of my plan:

Implement's Roomba's Narrative Hijack plan
Meets our three adoption candidates and evaluates fit
Consults Aburame and Inuzuka for chakra beast farm help.
Does politicking for temporary clan adoption increase.
Tries getting the Dog Clan to only accept Goketsu Summoners
Implements Ami's suggestions.

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