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Warning up front: one main character birthday is likely to be its own update unless I find myself with a surfeit of spoons. Certainly, two in one is out of the question.

What about combining the scenes into "Hazou and Noburi have a joint celebration, because Hazou was too busy with summoner training on his actual birthday, and Noburi got Ideas for the level of party that a double-birthday could justify."?
 
That could be an interesting scene. Noburi being quietly terrified, Keiko passionately advocating for her sister, Kagome annoyed at having to trust someone else, Mari being confident but secretly worried.

Keiko doesn't really need to advocate anything. I feel Hazou would love to reveal FOOM to Ami and receive her help in keeping it secret. Hazou is willing to ally himself with the Akatsuki and Ami is the closest thing to a real ally that the Uplift family has. But he can't force people to be reasonable and emotionally mature.
In short, it depends on Ami to do the very reasonable steps needed to be trusted. Frankly put, considering we're talking about FOOM, Hazou is being extremely reasonable. I'm 75% no other Clan Head in the world would react like Hazou did.
 
I forgot to include Akane in the Uplift Family... I forgot to include Akane in the Uplift Family. I forgot to include Akane in the Uplift Family!

This just woke me up more than my coffee did! I wish I could say that it was because I was sleepy, but it's honestly because Akane hasn't had a lot of screen time (working with Kagome, giving Hazou his space to think, and other very reasonable narrative reasons) and I wasn't even fully awake yet.Now I've made myself sad... Quick, one of our next action plans should involve Akane!

Edit: about to have online classes, but I'm going to binge Akane chapters afterwards.
 
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This just woke me up more than my coffee did! I wish I could say that it was because I was sleepy, but it's honestly because Akane hasn't had a lot of screen time (working with Kagome, giving Hazou his space to think, and other very reasonable narrative reasons) and I wasn't even fully awake yet.Now I've made myself sad... Quick, one of our next action plans should involve Akane!

I'm always ready to vote for "conclude talk with Akane before it becomes a social Kaijuu that makes Hazou miserable", so in case you have my vote.
 
Inoue found Hazou that morning: head on the desk, one list smeared with moisture, quill endlessly repeating the letter p.

This last line broke my heart. Hazou woke up, distracted himself with productivity until he literally passed out from exhaustion, but his Iron Nerve is still repeating the last task. Because Hazou had to lean on it to write legibly --whether from exhaustion or from panicked-trembling --and that hurts.


I somehow never found this on my first run through the story, and now my heart is broken for a very different (although unquestionably better) reason. Seriously good omake, @Radvic!
 
This last line broke my heart. Hazou woke up, distracted himself with productivity until he literally passed out from exhaustion, but his Iron Nerve is still repeating the last task. Because Hazou had to lean on it to write legibly --whether from exhaustion or from panicked-trembling --and that hurts.



I somehow never found this on my first run through the story, and now my heart is broken for a very different (although unquestionably better) reason. Seriously good omake, @Radvic!
Radvic really likes hurting Akane, yeah.
 

Kouta kicked her in the head. Her head snapped over. He followed up with another kick, but overestimated his strength. His kick went through her head, sending chucks of skull and brain matter over her sensei. He froze.

...Welp, I know that this was an Omake, but if we ever have to go back to Isan, I'm going to vote for plans that have us bring an amount of seals that would make even Kagome think it's a bit much. Just in case.
 
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Since the vote is tied and I have no strong feelings I am willing to sell my exclusive vote
 
[x] Action Plan: Objectively the Best Plan So Far

Only just now realized that this cycle was for Thursday with Sunday locked in instead of the other way around.
 
Adhoc vote count started by eaglejarl on Sep 1, 2020 at 2:57 PM, finished with 46 posts and 14 votes.
 
I forgot to include Akane in the Uplift Family... I forgot to include Akane in the Uplift Family. I forgot to include Akane in the Uplift Family!

This just woke me up more than my coffee did! I wish I could say that it was because I was sleepy, but it's honestly because Akane hasn't had a lot of screen time (working with Kagome, giving Hazou his space to think, and other very reasonable narrative reasons) and I wasn't even fully awake yet.Now I've made myself sad... Quick, one of our next action plans should involve Akane!

Edit: about to have online classes, but I'm going to binge Akane chapters afterwards.

I'm always ready to vote for "conclude talk with Akane before it becomes a social Kaijuu that makes Hazou miserable", so in case you have my vote.

I tried to sell off my vote for that one issue recently, but it didn't work. Would you be willing to join me in offering your vote exclusively for a plan that doesn't leave Akane hanging for another month or something?
 
I'd join in for that, too.
Same here.

Edit1: provided that we include some variation of "Hazou-pilot" with only vague directions for tone/talking points. I'm probably being too cautious, but I'd much rather not pressure the QMs to write anything that they're not comfortable with, or otherwise force them to take the quest in a direction that they're not wholly comfortable with. Collaborative storytelling includes the opinions of the QMs.)

Edit2: Unless the QMs specifically request that the plan to be more detailed, this is the sort of vagueness I'm talking about.

Example Plan, Akane Answered
  • Talk to Akane about Hazou's romantic feelings
    • Hazou-pilot
      • Tone: Hazou's very much aware of the power imbalance mentioned [Mari's advice chapter] and is doing his best to respect that.
      • Points to address: What are Hazou and Akane realistically expecting out of a relationship? What dynamic and shape would a relationship look like?
 
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Model based on Sikh religious tradition of Langar, in which free meals are served to visitors regardless of status, gender, religion, etc.

Community Meal Day:
  • Plan it out with Mari and Gaku
  • Why Community Meal Day Promotes Uplift Ideal(progressivism, unity, egalitarianism)
  • Meals will be cheap, delicious, and nutritious.
  • Goketsu Cafeteria will be open to the public at large:
    • Everyone will be entitled to a free meal regardless of social status, gender, nationality, age etc
    • Cleansing ritual: Wash their hand, feet, face and generally be presentable.
      • Basic attire will be provided who aren't.
    • First come, first serve
    • Charity is welcome; either money or volunteer works in the kitchen
  • Donation:
    • Anonymous or hidden by default
      • There shouldn't be any pressure to donate
  • Logistics
    • To feed 30,000 people within a day, the cafeteria needs to feed 2,000 people every hour, totaling to 15 hours.
      • At the outlay of 40 ryo per meal, spending will be 1,200,000 ryo on food per event
      • Cafeteria will need expansion, ditto for utensils, bowls.
    • Will need to placate angry restaurant owners and food stalls?
      • Goketsu contract out bulk orders and save orders with storage seals.
 
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Model based on Sikh religious tradition of Langar, in which free meals are served to visitors regardless of status, gender, religion, etc.

Community Meal Day:
  • Plan it out with Mari and Gaku
  • Community Meal Day achieves in championing equality and charity aspect of Uplift;
    • Everyone is welcome from peasant to Kage.
    • Binds Konoha together as a community.
  • Meals will be cheap, delicious, and nutritious.
  • Goketsu Cafeteria will be open to the public at large:
    • Everyone will be entitled to a free meal regardless of social status, gender, nationality, age etc
    • Cleansing ritual: They must wash their hand and feet and generally be presentable.
    • First come, first serve
    • Charity is welcome; either money or volunteer works in the kitchen
  • Small scale experiment to work out kinks and problems.
  • Expansion or additional locations will be needed to feed more people:
    • To feed 30,000 people a day, the cafeteria needs to feed 2,000 people every hour.
      • At the outlay of 40 ryo per meal, spending will be 1,200,000 ryo per Community Meal Day
    • Will need to placate angry restaurant owners and food stalls?
      • Goketsu could contract out bulk orders, with storage seals hot meals can be prepped in advance.

I will support this if we make ramen the primary meal offered. I'm not exactly sure how the significance of ramen translates in MfD but in the OG Naruto would subsist on nothing but ramen for weeks when he was very young because apparently the shop owner was the only guy in the village who didn't want the kid to starve to death, so I think it would be a nice reference.
 
I will support this if we make ramen the primary meal offered. I'm not exactly sure how the significance of ramen translates in MfD but in the OG Naruto would subsist on nothing but ramen for weeks when he was very young because apparently the shop owner was the only guy in the village who didn't want the kid to starve to death, so I think it would be a nice reference.

I don't think eating only ramen is exactly healthy.
 
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