I can't believe that people are voting for the guaranteed 0 XP plan. Do you guys really have that little faith in our ability to make survivable plans? Last time I saw this sort of un-youthfulness was when we handed our client over to murderers because we were scared of a little fistfight!
@OliWhail Few more things about the plan.
I think the list for Mari needs one of the ideas highlighted as Hazou's recommended course of action. Otherwise we are leaving an important decision to the QMs.
The idea of using Yuno as an ambassador/information gatherer of the village might actually work in her favor even if we don't subvert her to our cause. She would take on an important and risky task that takes patience and doesn't involve excessive amounts of bloodshed. This might be just the thing to make the village accept her (assuming she plays her cards right afterwards).
The meeting with Takahashi is an opportunity for us. He wants us to leave (or at least wanted). We should be able to run both our exit strategy and plan to deal with Yuno through him to see.
Also, we shouldn't put him straight in contact with Jiraya yet. We should talk with Jiraya about how he wants to move regarding this village, there's a chance that finding this village wasn't an actual coincidence. Besides, we ARE his agents; working as intermediaries is almost in our job description.
Here's how I would expand on the Takahashi meeting. You might want to edit this since I wrote it assuming we suggest taking Yuno with us for information exchange. I also tried to make the trading part seem tempting and note how they might get outed even if the villagers (or Takahashi clan...) do kill us.
Meet with Takahashi, get his help and make lay the groundwork for future information exchange.
- Invite him to us
- Make sure he still wants us to leave
- What is actually going on the village politics at the moment?
- Being cagey is prudent, but surely we have more to offer if he tells us what is actually going on
- Does he want us to leave and never hear about us again?
- Why?
- Setup a way to communicate for future trading
- Why they should still trade with us
- There's a chance that the village will be outed in the future
- Since the village unity has taken a big hit, there's a risk of them being outed to outsiders through deserters or splinter groups
- We found them so other might too
- Our boss might have known about the village already
- Or he might have sent someone to tail us OR check on us after we didn't contact him for awhile
- Trading for basic info with us carries less risk than dealing with the big villages
- Our help comes cheap
- Things we want
- Interesting ninjutsu and sealing knowledge
- MAYBE manpower for some projects
- Things we can potentially offer
- Basic information on Elemental Nation
- How the other ninja villages work
- How modern ninjas fight (from Mari)
- Useful ninjutsu
- Modern sealing knowledge (from Kagome)
- Modern accounting and logistics practices (a bit iffy, but didn't Keiko do something like this before the mission?)
- We ARE mercenaries, and not even half as incompetent as we seem
- One way to make the trade easy is to have us take Yuno with us, teach her practical knowledge about the outside world and then bring her back to teach others
- This also helps the village verify some of the things we share with them
- Get his help to leave
- Can he get us out of the village without fuzz?
- How does our current exit plan look?
- Get his help with Yuno
- What are the chances that our chosen course with Yuno will work?
That's probably not a perfect list but it's the best I can do for now. You might want to improve my formatting if you add any of that.
If you decide to incorporate any of these additions, I suggest you copy paste the voters of your plan from the last tally, so that they get pinged. It's good form to make sure that the voters know when you have made big additions.
Anyway, have a vote.
[X] Action Plan: Holy Rapid Deployment, Batman!
