A lot of the obvious near-term stuff doesn't apply if demons are around, since it'd be building or agriculture, but if we're doing a slow roll-out that'd be a good stop-gap. And there's transportation related stuff, and medicine, and maybe there'll be some good synthesis points.

 

Thanks.

Demons can't be around everywhere. For example, Fairyland. Although they won't need transportation or medicine in particular unless they want to settle even farther-flung reaches of their world with the benefit of outright teleportation.

Once I finish the resurrection technique with Tobirama I might ask for more reading about your world.

There's lots of it. Billions and billions of people writing tons of stuff and demons throw enough obsessively completionist curators that nothing falls through the cracks.

I wonder if word about this world has gotten out.

Not very loudly, but it's likely some of Mrindeh's friends and pen pals know, they just haven't happened to alert any gossips or journalists yet.

What kind of fallout's likely from people finding out?

Everybody can kiss their informational security wrt demons goodbye, I probably start getting lots of mail and so does Mrindeh. If you summon more demons you don't have as much of a job getting them up to speed.

We've been keeping most confidential stuff to just speaking for our group. I find I don't care as much as I could about the shinobi in general keeping informational security, though I'm not motivated to do a ton of in-depth spying. The mail thing sounds like it might be a pain. Should we summon more demons?

I don't see a specific call for it but you can if you want, I guess? I recommend not summoning randoms, that doesn't usually get you the friendliest ones.

I don't think we have a strong reason unless we want to try spying on the entire continent, which would be silly and would also probably require me to summon a lot more undead to sort all that.

What would the undead be for spywise?

They're familiar with shinobi customs and somewhat politics, they don't have to sleep, and I'm assuming demons can conjure things faster than someone could read or examine all of it. Some separately have skill sets amenable to spying.

Makes sense. Daeva don't have to sleep either, of course.

Yeah. We might want to ever try to intensely spy on the Akatsuki, though. Naruto said they're trying to capture the jinchuuriki.

I can do 'complete works' given a name or pseudonym.

Known Akatsuki members or associates, current:

Uchiha Obito. Pein of Hidden Rain. Uchiha Itachi. Hoshigaki Kisame. Deidara of Hidden Rock. Sasori of the Red Sand. Hidan of the Land of Hot Springs. Kakuzu of Hidden Waterfall. 

Known members, past:

Juuzou Biwa. Orochimaru of the Sannin. 

It would be nice to skip anything like a personal diary entry or letter to Grandma if you run across same but I have the funniest sense that they aren't the journaling and Grandma-corresponding type.

Shinobi usually don't journal. Too much risk someone will get it.

I'll skip personal stuff, though.

Might also get Naruto to help with this, for volume handling. Orochimaru's written a ridiculous amount.

And so he can make someone else read Itachi's complete works.

He has volume handled but has some unclear reading-related issue, I have guesses but I'm not a shrink and he hasn't wanted to try any stuff that would differentiate it.

I might talk to him about the meds thing, if you think it'll help with his focus problems.

It could! I mean, he might not like them, or might metabolize them weirdly, or they might not work for him, and I'm still not a shrink, but people do take meds for similar problems and find them helpful.

I guess. I don't like drugs but I don't think Naruto cares.

It's perfectly legitimate to be suspicious of mind-altering substances; I go for caffeine but avoid alcohol, say. I mean, I could drink without getting drunk, I can nope drug reactions, but I never developed a taste for it since it tastes real bad if you aren't after the drug reaction.

Yeah. One thing I want to focus on with Orochimaru's works is the curse seal he put on me and removing it. I have it under control now, but it's still unpleasant.