Marked for Death: A Rational Naruto Quest

[Noumero]

It appears that in the modern world, those three points I mentioned above are unknown outside of the Nara and/or the other four thinker clans, and they want to keep it that way.

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Which never quite made sense to me, to be honest. Why do genin-level clan secrets still exist? I mean:

• Genin are essentially putty in a jounin's hands. They could be easily abducted or seduced or intimidated or tortured until they reveal their every secret, and that's assuming the jounin doesn't have a mind-reading bloodline.
• Newly-minted chuunin are essentially high-end genin. If clan genin are plausibly never sent out on missions without their jounin-sensei, being able to work alone is essentially in a chuunin's work description.
• Thus, any village is one A-rank mission away from knowing all genin-level secrets of any clan in the world.
• Villages are heavily incentivized to have information on other villages' bloodlines, and everything above would be clear to the Kage of any village.
• Once a Kage has information on another's village bloodline, it would arguably make sense to leak it to all other villages, or at least trade it away in exchange for other information or resources. (See: Rasa immediately telling everyone about how the Iron Nerve can let you survive explosions.)
• At that point, all villages except the clan's home one would have information on its bloodline, and it would make little sense not to let its own village have that information as well.
• There doesn't seem to be any gentlemen's agreement not to do that.

And yet prior to meeting us, all Jiraiya knew about the Frozen Skein was "something related to thought patterns", and "the Kurosawa have a good kinesthetic sense" still holds. It's as if, I don't know, Soviet people were born with detailed information about USSR's military hardware, they were frequently sent on lonesome trips into African countries once they turned eighteen, and the world was somehow such that USA didn't know everything they did.

I'm not saying it's necessarily inconsistent, but it's been puzzling me basically the entire time.

 

[ContextBot]

Why do genin-level clan secrets still exist?

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Keiko didn't know much about the origins of her bloodline, worst case scenario would be some comments about her hearing a voice or something. That doesn't really tell most people anything.

And we don't know if the other clans hear voices or have their own unique sense. I have honestly more faith in our GM's than press Copy paste 4 more times.

 

[Emstar]

Why do genin-level clan secrets still exist?

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Spoiler: Fucking ninja

More seriously, the amount of resources these clans must be spending to keep the status quo as is must be astronomical.

E: Its possible that some sort of secrecy compulsion is hardcoded into some of these bloodlines as well. That, or indoctrination on a level that cults could only wish to achieve.

 

[Dictator4Hire]

So our current vote is more like "Who starts training now". Just my opinion on things though.

e: We can still send the message.

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Provided that such training isn't restricted to only people who are definitely going to be summoners I would be more than happy to have all 3 of our choices start immediately. Verifying whether or not it can help address his Out episodes would be worth it for that alone but in addition it could also help to determine whether or not any of our clan members are functionally incapable of being a summoner. Maybe Akane and/or Haru don't have the right mindset to comprehend and/or parse all of the dimensional mathematics involved?

We can always use more information and if there is such a long wait time already we might as well be proactive as our schedule permits.

 

[Noumero]

Keiko didn't know much about the origins of her bloodline, worst case scenario would be some comments about her hearing a voice or something. That doesn't really tell most people anything.

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• She knew that it's connected to an intelligent entity.
• She knew that you could choose how "deep" to go into it, and that going "deeper" carries both benefits (ever-better ability to analyse information) and risk (of not returning).
• She knew that it impairs her ability to make independent plans.
• She knew that it could be used to dull emotions.
• She knew it couldn't be used in combat unless you're really good.
• She knew about Unfettered Brilliance, the Mori's "ultimate technique" that temporarily bumps you up a power level or two but carries high risk of coma.

All of that is very valuable intel.

More seriously, the amount of resources these clans must be spending to keep the status quo as is must be astronomical.

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But they don't. "Spending an astronomical amount of resources" would, at minimum, involve not letting their ninja leave the village without being jounin or having jounin escort. If that happens with any sort of frequency, the information should leak.

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E: Its possible that some sort of secrecy compulsion is hardcoded into some of these bloodlines as well. That, or indoctrination on a level that cults could only wish to achieve.

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Well, yes, "kill yourself immediately if you're captured or about to be" does seem to be common good advice parents give to their children, but if you're a genin and a jounin wants to capture you and has the initiative, there isn't much you could do.

 

[Emstar]

Provided that such training isn't restricted to only people who are definitely going to be summoners I would be more than happy to have all 3 of our choices start immediately.

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I'd rather not, and just have Akane learn Shadow Clone and work with Kagome. Summoner training is full time, and if we have her do that, then teaching her Shadow Clone anytime soon doesn't really make much sense from Asuma's POV, and that's just way more valuable given that the thread is unlikely to say "Fuck whatever Asuma says we can and cannot do and do Megatreason." for quite a long while.

 

[ContextBot]

She knew that it's connected to an intelligent entity.

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She only knew that there is a Mori voice, I doubt she knew what that really meant. Other ninja would maybe think it's like a second mind or something.

She knew that it impairs her ability to make independent plans.

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That is public knowledge.

But I did forgot the combat stuff, so yeah stressing a Mori could kill one, but that can also be boiled down to: "Analyze your situation for better survival/fighting" for outsiders.

My general point is that people unfamiliar with Mori would probably come to different conclusions.

For example from our POV:

Hidan can lick blood and track people like the Blood element guys from Hot springs, does this make him a part of their clan or is it just a simliar ability? He doesn't seem to use blood clones, did he sacrificed them to Jashin?

edit: Also, most of those things were likely explained to Keiko so that she doesn't attempt them alone. They had to tell her or else she might try them without understanding the risks.

Same with Hazou, "How to not kill yourself with the Iron Nerve"

 

[Dictator4Hire]

I'd rather not, and just have Akane learn Shadow Clone and work with Kagome. Summoner training is full time, and if we have her do that, then teaching her Shadow Clone anytime soon doesn't really make much sense from Asuma's POV, and that's just way more valuable given that the thread is unlikely to say "Fuck whatever Asuma says we can and cannot do and do Megatreason." for quite a long while.

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I would imagine it's full time when the student wants to sign their contract as fast as possible. If we have plenty of time before we receive word back from the Dogs we could have each of our chosen clan members devote only a small portion of their time to the training when time is available. If even that is too much though we could have them only learn what Keiko, Noburi, and/or any other summoners (we might be able to ask Tsunade nicely especially since we control the chocolate market now but Oro is a had no obviously) considers to be the very basics of summoning just to see who can and cannot handle it.

 

[RandomOTP]

1. She knew that it's connected to an intelligent entity.
2. She knew that you could choose how "deep" to go into it, and that going "deeper" carries both benefits (ever-better ability to analyse information) and risk (of not returning).
3. She knew that it impairs her ability to make independent plans.
4. She knew that it could be used to dull emotions.
5. She knew it couldn't be used in combat unless you're really good.
6. She knew about Unfettered Brilliance, the Mori's "ultimate technique" that temporarily bumps you up a power level or two but carries high risk of coma.

All of that is very valuable intel.

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I'd argue that most of these are things that Keiko could have learned first hand or by observing her clanmembers. Keiko struggled really hard to earn the approval of her parents, so I think it's likely that she analyzed her Mori bloodline more intently than most genin. After all, she had to compete with Ami and min/maxing her bloodline would've been the quickest way to do that. Between her utter self-loathing, her complete lack of self-regard, and her desperate need for approval, I'd posit that Keiko did a lot of independent experiments with her bloodline and that it's only sheer luck she didn't turn into a vegetable.

(Though, not going to lie, I'd completely forgotten about the combat aspect of the bloodline.)

 

[Shrooms]

[X] Action plan: Talk to Tsunade

Btw, for those who were wondering (in the original Naruto canon at least) the Nara shadow possession is not a bloodline ability, it is a secret technique. Potentially anyone could learn it but it is guarded by the Nara.

 

[Emstar]

I would imagine it's full time when the student wants to sign their contract as fast as possible. If we have plenty of time before we receive word back from the Dogs we could have each of our chosen clan members devote only a small portion of their time to the training when time is available. If even that is too much though we could have them only learn what Keiko, Noburi, and/or any other summoners (we might be able to ask Tsunade nicely especially since we control the chocolate market now but Oro is a had no obviously) considers to be the very basics of summoning just to see who can and cannot handle it.

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The thing is that, examining the candidates:

Hazou-Good
Akane-Good
Haru- Not yet at "We'll give you the only summon scroll we have." trustworthy.

So its down to Hazou or Akane. Now, regardless of which is the better fit for the job, having Akane go do summoning training full time is likely mutually exclusive with her learning and training the shadow clone technique-- it just doesn't make sense to get her to do both with the excuse of "I can use this to help Kagome decode." because either the scroll will be useless while she's doing that, or she wont really be using the SC to help Kagome at all (so why give it to her?). It just doesn't make sense for her to do both and for everyone to be happy about that.

So, if we want Akane to learn SC (and thus be capable of using it for ridiculous training in parallel with Hazou-- getting us a 2 for 1 deal on demigodhood) it sort of has to be Hazou, more or less. Since that option is currently on the table, I'd rather just take it and run instead of trying to do something to alter it that might or might not piss someone off and burn more goodwill. Summon scrolls seem to go to whatever schmuck killed the last summoner or found it in the woods anyway. If we fuck up with the dogs we can probably do a hotswap with the Porcupine scroll too, so I'm not too worried about that aspect.

But that's just my two cents on the matter, take it as you will. /shrugs

 

[Inferno Vulpix]

And yet prior to meeting us, all Jiraiya knew about the Frozen Skein was "something related to thought patterns", and "the Kurosawa have a good kinesthetic sense" still holds.

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This line is very important. Jiraiya upon meeting us had spent years as Leaf's Spymaster, during a time when Leaf and Mist were sworn enemies. It would have been quite literally Jiraiya's job to know every detail he can get his hands on about things like Mist bloodline details. And he had not only a strong intelligence network serving that purpose, but his own S-rank skills in the field, and quite likely the clearance to learn any relevant intel gained by T&I from other missions.

This tells us that those tidbits of information about the Frozen Skein and Iron Nerve are everything Leaf knew about them, after years of Mist being Leaf's top enemy with Jiraiya personally running its spy network. Years of time for a Mori/Kurosawa Genin to be spirited away to T&I by, say, a nigh-omnipotent S-rank Sannin with an extensive spy network, and it hasn't happened (or it has and J was pretending to not know anything incriminating)

(As Noumero said, this isn't an accusation of inconsistency. I fully expect that the QMs either have a consistent model that explains everything I've listed with some factors in play, or what we believe we have observed (i.e. Jiraiya not knowing things) is not the actual truth of the world, or that the QMs haven't much considered the topic but have ample tools to make a consistent model that explains all observations as a natural consequence of various incentives and forces)

 

[Emstar]

This line is very important. Jiraiya upon meeting us had spent years as Leaf's Spymaster, during a time when Leaf and Mist were sworn enemies. It would have been quite literally Jiraiya's job to know every detail he can get his hands on about things like Mist bloodline details. And he had not only a strong intelligence network serving that purpose, but his own S-rank skills in the field, and quite likely the clearance to learn any relevant intel gained by T&I from other missions.

This tells us that those tidbits of information about the Frozen Skein and Iron Nerve are everything Leaf knew about them, after years of Mist being Leaf's top enemy with Jiraiya personally running its spy network. Years of time for a Mori/Kurosawa Genin to be spirited away to T&I by, say, a nigh-omnipotent S-rank Sannin with an extensive spy network, and it hasn't happened (or it has and J was pretending to not know anything incriminating)

(As Noumero said, this isn't an accusation of inconsistency. I fully expect that the QMs either have a consistent model that explains everything I've listed with some factors in play, or what we believe we have observed (i.e. Jiraiya not knowing things) is not the actual truth of the world, or that the QMs haven't much considered the topic but have ample tools to make a consistent model that explains all observations as a natural consequence of various incentives and forces)

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This says some interesting things about Nagato. I wonder how he knew that stuff-- capturing some Mori or whoever might have worked if he still has the mental-interrogate ability, but I'm not so sure about that.

 

[Shard]

The Kurosawa ability Jiraiya knew about was also what most Kurosawas know to begin with.

 

[ContextBot]

This says some interesting things about Nagato. I wonder how he knew that stuff-- capturing some Mori or whoever might have worked if he still has the mental-interrogate ability, but I'm not so sure about that.

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Well Isan knows stuff, so there are other ways.

Maybe the Archaeopteryx told Nagato about the secrets of the universe, maybe we should try to find them, instead of poking Shikamaru.

 

[RandomOTP]

This line is very important. Jiraiya upon meeting us had spent years as Leaf's Spymaster, during a time when Leaf and Mist were sworn enemies. It would have been quite literally Jiraiya's job to know every detail he can get his hands on about things like Mist bloodline details. And he had not only a strong intelligence network serving that purpose, but his own S-rank skills in the field, and quite likely the clearance to learn any relevant intel gained by T&I from other missions.

This tells us that those tidbits of information about the Frozen Skein and Iron Nerve are everything Leaf knew about them, after years of Mist being Leaf's top enemy with Jiraiya personally running its spy network. Years of time for a Mori/Kurosawa Genin to be spirited away to T&I by, say, a nigh-omnipotent S-rank Sannin with an extensive spy network, and it hasn't happened (or it has and J was pretending to not know anything incriminating)

(As Noumero said, this isn't an accusation of inconsistency. I fully expect that the QMs either have a consistent model that explains everything I've listed with some factors in play, or what we believe we have observed (i.e. Jiraiya not knowing things) is not the actual truth of the world, or that the QMs haven't much considered the topic but have ample tools to make a consistent model that explains all observations as a natural consequence of various incentives and forces)

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I think that the Mori wouldn't have been that big of a priority. They're mostly advisors and consultants, not frontliners. So I think that Jiraiya's lack of info on the Mori could be down to that. He prioritized other things and dismissed the Mori as "Mist's budget Nara" before focusing on more pressing things.

As for his knowledge on the Iron Nerve? Well, he basically got it right in one. Sure, it's been hinted at that there're more esoteric aspects to the Iron Nerve, but Jiraiya wasn't likely to care about that. His priority was more "how is this combat applicable" and "how do we deal with it?" So reducing the Iron Nerve to kinesthetic sense is really all the Leaf ninja facing the would need to know. Does it matter that a Kurosawa can reproduce a perfect Customer Service Smile after managing it once, when most ninja are more likely to face the fact that the Kurosawa are amazingly aware of their own bodies in combat?

I'd say that Jiraiya probably gathered a mountain of hints about the True Nature of many different things, but ultimately discarded/forgot the ones that were only useful in the academic sense. And we can probably assume he still passed all of those hints along to Hiruzen, but we'll never know what the Third did with them and the Tower's copies are gone. Of course, we're about to give them right back, but that still doesn't include those things that were never written down... Still, on meta-level, this gives the QMs way to introduce a trail of crumbs to some Forbidden Lore.

And suddenly, I fear that Kagome's going to have a very natural heart attack as soon as he's done decrypting all of Jiraiya's notes. We all know how high-strung he is, after all. Perfectly reasonable for a man his age to succumb to years of intense, nearly-constant stress. Nothing suspicious about that at all...

 

[Dictator4Hire]

The thing is that, examining the candidates:

Hazou-Good
Akane-Good
Haru- Not yet at "We'll give you the only summon scroll we have." trustworthy.

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Is it really that big of a deal with Haru if we're planning on getting more scrolls in the future anyway?

So its down to Hazou or Akane. Now, regardless of which is the better fit for the job, having Akane go do summoning training full time is likely mutually exclusive with her learning and training the shadow clone technique-- it just doesn't make sense to get her to do both with the excuse of "I can use this to help Kagome decode." because either the scroll will be useless while she's doing that, or she wont really be using the SC to help Kagome at all (so why give it to her?). It just doesn't make sense for her to do both and for everyone to be happy about that.

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This really boils down to how much time each of these tasks (learning Shadow Clone, assisting Kagome finishing up decoding Jiraiya's notes. and learning basic summoning lessons) would take then. Provided that Akane can accomplish all of the tasks before a message could come back from the Dogs I see no reason why we shouldn't do so. I do agree that we should prioritize them in that order though.

So, if we want Akane to learn SC (and thus be capable of using it for ridiculous training in parallel with Hazou-- getting us a 2 for 1 deal on demigodhood) it sort of has to be Hazou, more or less. Since that option is currently on the table, I'd rather just take it and run instead of trying to do something to alter it that might or might not piss someone off and burn more goodwill. Summon scrolls seem to go to whatever schmuck killed the last summoner or found it in the woods anyway. If we fuck up with the dogs we can probably do a hotswap with the Porcupine scroll too, so I'm not too worried about that aspect.

But that's just my two cents on the matter, take it as you will. /shrugs

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Asking the Dogs is more of an attempt to treat them like people instead of as tools like Akane wants us to act. We certainly can act as most known summoners do with regards to their summons but I thought it would be wise to try to follow Akane's wishes for our behavior since the downsides (mostly waiting) aren't that onerous given our current situation IMO.

It might not be optimal in terms of character builds but it would be better for our continued efforts to rebuild our trust with Akane.

It's a matter of opinion first and foremost and my choice also hinges on what kind of time frame we have with our training. No harm in voicing such opinions or speculating.

 

[Emstar]

Well Isan knows stuff, so there are other ways.

Maybe the Archaeopteryx told Nagato about the secrets of the universe, maybe we should try to find them, instead of poking Shikamaru.

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Y'know what? Thats incredibly reasonable. 7P Lore ahoy!

Is it really that big of a deal with Haru if we're planning on getting more scrolls in the future anyway?

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Sort of?

The Porcupine scroll was a gimme. The other leads we have boil down to spending some number of years trying to invent scroll-radar and having a hundred clones dig around in the desert, or going to some random town in Nowhere, Lightning Country and hunting for cold leads and probably getting into a mess of trouble. If it was easy or moderately difficult, someone would have already done it by now.

Asking the Dogs is more of an attempt to treat them like people instead of as tools like Akane wants us to act. We certainly can act as most known summoners do with regards to their summons but I thought it would be wise to try to follow Akane's wishes for our behavior since the downsides (mostly waiting) aren't that onerous given our current situation IMO.

It might not be optimal in terms of character builds but it would be better for our continued efforts to rebuild our trust with Akane.

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I don't think we have to go through all of this or "rebuild our trust with Akane" so much. The second will come naturally over time so long as we dont fuck it up by being uber dumb. For the first, we can just shoot them some letters over the 7P via another Leaf summoner (Asuma, Noburi when hes ready) and do some research here.

Whatever their personalities end up being, I think its unlikely that we wont be able to work with them.

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Actually, we *do* know some:

Dog
Summoner Hatake Kakashi. One for every purpose -- powerful combatant, great tracker, good tunnel fighter, etc. Very loyal, work well in packs, not as stuck up as some of the other clans. Don't tell Kakashi I said any of that or I'll beat you with a fish.

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Thanks, Jman.

 

[Dictator4Hire]

Y'know what? Thats incredibly reasonable. 7P Lore ahoy!

Sort of?

The Porcupine scroll was a gimme. The other leads we have boil down to spending some number of years trying to invent scroll-radar and having a hundred clones dig around in the desert, or going to some random town in Nowhere, Lightning Country and hunting for cold leads and probably getting into a mess of trouble. If it was easy or moderately difficult, someone would have already done it by now.


I don't think we have to go through all of this or "rebuild our trust with Akane" so much. The second will come naturally over time so long as we dont fuck it up by being uber dumb. For the first, we can just shoot them some letters over the 7P via another Leaf summoner (Asuma, Noburi when hes ready) and do some research here.

Whatever their personalities end up being, I think its unlikely that we wont be able to work with them.

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Actually, we *do* know some:




Thanks, Jman.

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It all comes down to how we ask Akane and Haru, not whether or not it is actually feasible to get either or both of them their own scrolls. Finding situations where we ask for their opinion on important decisions should be something we actively look for instead of assuming that Akane (and other people, for that matter) will move on in due time. We simply ask them: "Hey, would you be interested in being a summoner? Bear in mind its associated risks and that I may not end up choosing you through no fault of your own, but I wanted to ask your permission first before unilaterally deciding such an important choice for you."

That is all we have to do here initially (preliminary training notwithstanding). It doesn't matter if we are near certain that either of them would accept: it is the interaction and inclusion that matter. Managing our clan is not the same as optimizing the stats of party members in an RPG. If small acts like this were not important we would not have had so much drama during the Chunin exams in the first place. All it would take would be two scenes max and it would help us dramatically with keeping everyone happy.

This is not something we should ignore since it would not only hurt Akane's feelings but also it would further ingrain Haru's beliefs that clan ninja only really help themselves and each other while ninja like him are left with the scraps. I would much rather have Hazou be proactive here rather than having him apologize yet again to either of them for repeating a mistake he promised he wouldn't make again. There is only so much Hazou as a character can do when ultimately his decision making is mostly controlled by us. If we don't change how we interact with the NPCs in MfD through our votes Hazou will eventually reach a glass ceiling for his personal growth and people may leave permanently him because of it.

 

[Emstar]

This is not something we should ignore since it would not only hurt Akane's feelings but also it would further ingrain Haru's beliefs that clan ninja only really help themselves and each other while ninja like him are left with the scraps. I would much rather have Hazou be proactive here rather than having him apologize yet again to either of them for repeating a mistake he promised he wouldn't make again. There is only so much Hazou as a character can do when ultimately his decision making is mostly controlled by us. If we don't change how we interact with the NPCs in MfD through our votes Hazou will eventually reach a glass ceiling for his personal growth and people may leave permanently him because of it

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I feel like we've strayed from the actual discussion quite a bit here.

I don't think anyone in the clan is expecting us to probe them in depth about their feelings on the matter or whether or not they'll be a summoner. This is very much the realm of ninja clan social stuff (whats the closest real life analogue to this situation?).

I fully expect that everyone will be mostly comfortable with whatever decision we make, with the possible exception of Haru who might grumble and roll his eyes at us for a bit for acting according to his expectations.

This is not really a respecting people's agency thing. It's entirely fine to exercise our own agency and say "This choice is mine to make, so I will make this one as it is the one that is the best for the clan, Team Uplift, and our previously agreed upon goals."

Separately from the scroll thing but on this topic:

On a general "things we need to do socially" front, we need to do the following:

1)-3) Stop threatening people.
4) Don't treason.
5) Spend more time doing slice of life stuff in between complex plots.
6) Actually do some strict Uplift plots
7) Stop using Mari/whoever as a crutch for things.
8) Take action to fix concerns (Noburi's barrel stuff, Kagome and the seal sweatshop, etc.) in a timely fashion.

For Akane specifically, the best thing to do is probably to follow up on last week's (?) chapter and go have that talk with her.

 

[Shrooms]

Since we have so many income streams now, we should ask Asuma if the Goketsu could fund till 'n fills in the other elemental nations, starting with the minor, poorer countries.

A few immediate concerns:
1) Funding enemy missions, thus moving cash to enemy territories. Generally not a good idea to give money to your enemies.
2) Global general scorn for civilians may reflect badly on Leaf's image by wasting resources on them. Could also inversely show off our wealth.
3) This is a very easy target to fuck up Goketsu image for civilians internationally, but so few ninja actually care about civilians they may not even bother.

Now, the benefits:
1) Saving lives. Duh.
2) Create positive sentiment for Leaf village AND Goketsu globally, easily with civilians and potentially with the ninja we hire.
3) Acquire international contacts to be later hired for other jobs.
4) Could bargain with the other ninja villages to get jutsu or raw materials we want. "We'll fund these missions for you and it helps your civilians, give us rocks and mushrooms in exchange"

I'm sure there's more nuance to it, what do you guys think?

 

[Cariyaga]

Since we have so many income streams now, we should ask Asuma if the Goketsu could fund till 'n fills in the other elemental nations, starting with the minor, poorer countries.

A few immediate concerns:
1) Funding enemy missions, thus moving cash to enemy territories. Generally not a good idea to give money to your enemies.
2) Global general scorn for civilians may reflect badly on Leaf's image by wasting resources on them. Could also inversely show off our wealth.
3) This is a very easy target to fuck up Goketsu image for civilians internationally, but so few ninja actually care about civilians they may not even bother.

Now, the benefits:
1) Saving lives. Duh.
2) Create positive sentiment for Leaf village AND Goketsu globally, easily with civilians and potentially with the ninja we hire.
3) Acquire international contacts to be later hired for other jobs.
4) Could bargain with the other ninja villages to get jutsu or raw materials we want. "We'll fund these missions for you and it helps your civilians, give us rocks and mushrooms in exchange"

I'm sure there's more nuance to it, what do you guys think?

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I think I'd rather avoid treason or treason-adjacent suggestions for the near future.

 

[Tua]

4) Don't treason.

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It's telling how this isn't number 1 of the list.

 

[ContextBot]

It's telling how this isn't number 1 of the list.

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Don't worry, we can improve, we aren't even a real missing nin after all:

"I looked into you later, and found out that you weren't even a proper missing-nin. You didn't massacre anyone. You were just some random guy who'd been in the wrong place at the wrong time. I still hated you. I was almost as grateful as I was insulted that you never invited me to your gaming nights.

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(I leave it up to you if improve means more or less treason)

 

[Kiba]

[X] Action Plan: Talk to Tsunade

Check plans with clan where appropriate.

Tsunade

• Sizeable donation(>= 1M ryo) to Tsunade's charity, delivered quietly.
• Send someone appropriate(if not Hazo, then Mari, Noburi, or Akane)
• Schedule a conversation with Tsunade at her convenience.
  • Goketsu Clan does Till'n'FIll missions and is looking into sending volunteer teachers. Would be great to coordinate with doctor's visit.
  • Will teach MEW to Med-nin so that they can do walls as well.
  • Proposal: Develop tool and techniques for civilian doctors
    • Ninja medicine is the most effective in the EN, but unfortunately not available to civilians.
    • Will be harder, but not impossible. Goketsu's contribution to the contest is proof of concept.
  • Did the Hyuga's deal fell to the wayside? We may be able to pick up some or all of what Hiashi promised.
    • If not, how can we aid your effort?
    • If we cannot, we'll be boosting Goketsu finance until this is possible.
  • Advice for Goketsu clinic?

Misc:

• Have words with Akane.
• Accept the latest rendition of the Yasuji deal.

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Replace "date Akane" with a misc section.