It'll be like something from the "Kinder Dice" Interlude, except we'll be the Jiraiya to Harumitsu's Hazou.
Is there some way that we can do this that is minimally unfun for you? Or some other kind of long term political/economic move that you would prefer? Because doing politics, making friends, and cementing trade deals are what is most fun for me.
Well I see us getting tons of bloodline secrets, generations of sealing research notes, another Jounin in Hana who will be able to help us, huge increase in seal production, a second example of how to seal research he bijoū, expanding summoner trade network to a second market, more friendly essies, control of the water yakuza and about 300 more ninja to integrate.
I agree this is a possibility.
I agree this is a possibility.
Given that she's not setting foot in Leaf, meaning that we're going to have minimal interaction with her, I'm not sure exactly how much help she'd be but I agree that she'd be helpful.
I disagree - the Kurosawa already know that they can churn out seals like nobody's business, but choose not to. This implies that there's a good reason that they aren't doing this. Economist, $50 bill on the ground, etc.
Wait, from the Kurosawa? Did a Kurosawa sealmaster seal the jinchuuriki of Mist?
One Summoner in Mist could probably do fairly well by offering unique goods. They'd need to pay us a cut because it's our network, so I'm not worried about them defecting, and we have so many scrolls I think that a second market is unlikely. I don't know what it would do to village-to-village trade - either it would be great or disastrous. Let's ask Shika first, and see if maybe, this time, we've found a situation ('instant transportation of goods and information between Leaf and Mist, who are increasingly becoming more than allies of convenience') but I agree that there are benefits here.
...in the Kurosawa? Who?
...from the Kurosawa? How?
...from the Kurosawa? 300? Integrate into what?
Nahh I plan to convince the Mizukage to share with us after we become good friends.
Nope just going make friend with the Angel without mercy and the Mizukage
As one of my opening moves plan on making a deal with them that will eventually turn them into loyal minions
It's an ideological thing. The Kurosawa's motto is 'By Darkness Unmoved' which Hazou once described as meaning 'they hold the line'. It's baked into the Kurosawa ideology that they should be out there on the front lines fighting the battles directly rather than staying in a support role, no matter how good they may be at that support role.
I mean I would expect them to do a similar amount of work that Leaf seal masters have to do. So def not sweatshop levels
It might be worth noting that I personally consider 'we thought about it and decided it would be a depressing way to live' a good reason.
Just a note I don't want them to become seal masters. I want them to draw like 100 seals a week that Hazō would infuse. That's only 8 hours so not a huge demand on their time
Most people attempting to draw seals would flub it up a thousand times before they can get it done well. Kurosawa are unique in that they can seal-copy, making the process of 'consistently drawing the seal correctly' much shorter.
Yeah, they may not look kindly upon Hazou selling so many seals in Leaf, or how the Goketsu give away seals like they're nothing.
We've proposed that idea before (on discord, I think?), The QMs said that having chakra was necessary for one to study sealing --and theory itself wouldn't be enough.
You can't get jutsu or do ninjutsu training without having a chakra system. It's a chicken and egg issue.
A Wakihisa could maybe pull a "For It Is In Passing That We Achieve Immortality".
That seems slightly less difficult than getting them to all do sealing, but at the same time if they weren't against it almost as much as they are against sealing they would already be doing this and Mist would be inundated with seals.
Yeah, It's not really complicated either. We Know Hanzo is an ambitious kid who want to be the next Mizukage. We also know that the clan elders want to make him a figurehead. So we use him as a wedge to move the Kurosawa. We would be offering him the ability to have a huge back channel revenue source that the elders couldn't track. He has his loyal minions draw seals that Kagome or Hazou can infuse. No paper trail or meeting to be spied upon. Hanzo gets a bigger warchest to maneuver and we increase seal production. We then also cut a deal with whomever is the Kurosawa's current seal master. We have notes from the sannin that we can barter for whatever we want. That gives us two partners in the Kurosawa in powerful positions. At the same time we get Hana on board with Hanzo as a real leader. Convince her to act as Hanzo's Mari. We go and snag the squirrel scroll and give that to Hanna with a promise to give it to him in say 5 years.
I don't have the numbers in front of me but I'm confident that the Kurosawa aren't even close to 300 ninja. I'm reasonably sure they're closer to a couple dozen.
Note that in general non-sealmasters cannot accurately draw blanks. I'm not sure it's been explicitly discussed between the QMs but I'm confident this extends to the Kurosawa.
Yeah misremembered what we estimated average clan size to be back in the day. Think the number wound up being about 100 nin per clan. With the losses Mist has taken and slightly lower starting number then Leaf makes since that there clans where a little smaller
For the non sealmaster not being able to draw seals we would need to train them up in calligraphy first. This is a lot less of a time and XP investment compared to actually learning sealling (Plus reduce the risk to the Kurosawa of dying to a seal failure by a ton). We would also have to spend time verifying the blanks which takes a while but is still doable.
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Sounds like it might work. I expect this to give us only around 1-10 Kurosawa scribing seals though, as they'll have to hide what they're doing. If it comes out that Hanzō is making his supporters scribe seals, the elders will use that to paint him as a traitor to the clan's way of life and potentially remove him from power. So it's a huge gamble for him. We'll have to make sure to make it worth his while, and reduce chances of him being caught as much as possible.
