Noumero
Omit Needless Words
[X] Hazou: Stonecarving Strategy
Edit: On that note, I should probably make Hazou aware of the recently-unearthed additional implications of the Karasu notes. Done.
Bah, fine, if no-one likes it, I'll replace it.
Updates:
I suppose we could not. As I said, I have no strong opinion. Done.Do we...do we have to do this? What is the purpose of us discussing something Snow is certianly shy about and/or probably doesn't want to talk about?
Done.There might be a way to frame this as being less adversarial, like maybe asking her if she knows who Scarf Guy is and/or who he works for.
That was my second idea, yes. I suppose I could substitute this in. Does "improve Mari's social life towards a state that'd be considered healthy by Akane's standards, perhaps by ensuring she has true friends outside the Gouketsu" sound good?I'm not certain that spending our token on helping Yuno and Noburi's relationship is the best idea, especially since Akane is already on the task (and we trust her). Ideally we'd spend the favor on something important like helping to fix Mari's relationship with [take your fuckin' pick]...
In order:I feel strongly against doing this, though my reasoning is less coherent. I keep thinking stuff like "he's a clan head and has low opinions of civilians!", "asking other clan heads for advice makes us look weak!", "what is the point of even doing this?", and "wouldn't it be smarter to ask Ino or Shikamaru, who are more goal-symmetrical?".
- We could just not take his advice, if it's bad.
- But he'd specifically offered! In a way that didn't seem like a political play!
- In order to facilitate greater mutual knowledge and familiarity in anticipation of a potential long-term relationship.
- Maybe. Honestly, it's less about actually getting advice and more about strengthening this particular relationship. He's a useful ally, he's amicable, we've been neglecting him, and now we have a neat opportunity for a positive interaction.
Only implies we talked to Cannai about it (so, yes, that part was redundant). No indication we ran it by Kumokogo, and I'm pretty sure none of the passed plans instructed to run it by the Toads and the Pangolins.
Because Hazou being oblivious is extremely annoying and the sooner it can stop, the better. I really don't want a repeat of the Keiko/Tenten incident.Why is this a priority right now? And so many words going towards it as well...
Edit: On that note, I should probably make Hazou aware of the recently-unearthed additional implications of the Karasu notes. Done.
The tone was meant to be a casual inquiry, with the lack of subtlety entirely deliberate, signalling not an inability to be subtle, but a lack of desire to bother for something so minor. Rephrased, in any case.What's the point of asking this? What actionable information would we gain? Is it worth alienating her by showing ourselves as a bumbling idiot with no subtlety? If anything, better ask her if she has any ide who could have done it, instead of accusing her.
It's not creepy! It's just like non-consensually signing someone up for couples therapy to an... evil... therapist.I'm okay with asking for advice, but this is beyond creepy and, because we/Hazou is crap at keeping his mouth shut, Noburi might eventually find out and massively resent us for it.
Bah, fine, if no-one likes it, I'll replace it.
Updates:
[x] Action Plan: The Trick is to Pair the Problems Off and Make Them Solve Each Other
Word count: TBD
- Run Ami's Crusader idea by Kumokogo, if you hadn't already. Ask Noburi and Kei to run it by their Clans' Bosses as well.
- Meet with Snowflake.
- Thoughts:
- While Kei isn't attracted to men, that doesn't mean Snowflake isn't.
- Some time ago, Snowflake asked for your opinion on her appearance, while wearing a ribbon signalling her unmarried status, and proceeded to blush upon your saying she's cute.
- Put this way, the subtext and the implications seems obvious, yet you missed them.
- Resolve to avoid such oversights. Keeping the "outside view" of any situation in mind might help: it wasn't obvious in-context because one thing led to another, but it'd have been clear to any hypothetical external observer.
- Not the best time to discuss her apparent crush, though.
- What's her standing with Mari? Does her view of the situation somehow differ from Kei's?
- What would be an appropriate resolution of this conflict? For her? For Kei, in her estimation?
- Meet with Ami.
- If available, bring her the Summons' responses to her Crusader proposal, to iterate on.
- Any idea who might be responsible for the Scarf Guy?
- So, you'd been advised to delegate more. Except you can't, because half the stuff on your plate is Dragons-related, which only you have the skills and the logistical means to accomplish, while the other half is ensuring there aren't emotional catastrophes in progress, which, again, only you seem to never have.
- How does she control for the emotional realities of human beings? How do her organizations not collapse without micromanagement?
- Medium favour: Improve Mari's social life, towards a state that'd be considered healthy by Akane's standards.
- Perhaps by ensuring she has true friends outside the Gouketsu.
- Background:
- Start working on decrypting the Karasu letters.
- In retrospect, Ami gifting it to you could be seen as Mori-style courtship. Troublesome.
- Schedule a meeting with Sasuke. He'd offered advice on running a Leaf clan.
- Arrange widespread (but covert) search for jutsu that temporarily increase mental fortitude (Resolve).
- Query Kumokogo, Cannai, the Toads and the Pangolins (by proxy).
- Ask Kei to search the Leaf Library, ask Yuno about (non-secret) Isan jutsu.
Okay, this what I'd been talking about on Discord. Most of these are either already delegated, or can't be delegated even in theory, or don't need to be delegated because they aren't consuming much/any resources.
- Our ongoing projects, responsibilities, and goals are:
- Skysliders
- Aqueducts/sewage
- Harumitsu
- Eyeglasses
- Necromancy
- CHAOS suit, reactive armour
- Salterns
- Mini-chuunin exams
- The Great Seal/DRAGONWAR
- Canvass' ancestors
- Managing Dog relations
- Bear/Squirrel/Otter/Kangaroo scrolls
- The clan's finances
- The famine
- Haru
- Asuma's economic council
- Can anyone help with any of that?
- Skysliders, aqueducts, sewage, and other low-level Uplift projects are already mostly handled by Gaku.
- Eyeglasses, the CHAOS suit, the salterns, and Canvass' thing seem to be frozen.
- The economic council, if I'm not misremembering what it is, hasn't demanded any of our time at all yet, and is something Asuma presumably wants Hazou specifically to be on.
- The mini-chuunin exams... didn't they already run their course (@faflec?), and in any case not really our concern beyond funding?
- Harumitsu can't be delegated except to Kagome (and Kagome seems unfairly biased against the poor boy), managing Dog relations can't be delegated either physically or socially, Necromancy is partly delegated to Kagome and partly something that can't be delegated.
- We don't want to be delegating the Dragonwar, maximizing the time for the Dragonwar is why we're doing the delegating in the first place.
- The famine is probably mostly handled, clan finances should be automatically partly delegated to Mari/Kei now that they're back, and Haru is dealt with and/or will be handled by Akane on her own.
We should remember to confront Gaki about any issues he has with our delegation/recent decisions because he seemed slightly upset
I am pretty sure that Gaku was against making restitution to the families of career criminals, specifically. He sounded disapproving, as in disapproving of the specific command, not just generally unhappy about the subject.
Last edited: