"Aha. Yes, makes sense."

"I'd suggest being tourists as ourselves basically, at most with cosmetic changes, and then have the job-seeker persona ostensibly be from the same ship, to simplify the lie. The two of us can then pretend to leave when Sarati does. I can do 'new arrival' for a short time while only coming off as a bit shy, and have a wood clone play myself, for the brief times when we'll all three need to be seen together."

"Can you do two clones?"

"Yeah, especially if they don't have enough chakra for jutsu."

"Then might be a good idea to do one of the other me, as well."

"...Good point. Just for until we pretend to leave?"

"Yeah."

"Which gender should our prospective servant be? We can probably change that later, or I can try to do two servants, one of each, though that might get complicated to maintain..."

"I don't think it matters much. I change more often than you do but either way we'll probably be dysphoric there at one point or another."

"Okay, then. Do you have a face in mind?"

"How's this?"

She copies him and smiles, before dropping the transformation. "Works for me."

So: start getting ready?

Yyyyep!

Tetsuma creates two simple, insubstantial clones, then transforms again into the servant character, this time with her improved jutsu. It's tiring, but not badly so. She takes a deep breath, reminds herself of her infiltration lessons, and shifts her posture. 

"I'll switch these to wood clones once we're somewhere outside and secluded. These are pretty much projections under my control; the wood clones will be less creative than me, and worse at plan-making, but they're smart overall. I won't be getting back any memories from them, so we'll have to find time for them to report to me at some point."

"Should they actually do anything much? I'm thinking we should limit their interactions with anyone else to a minimum so it's not too suspicious when we're them."

"The wood clones are me, pretty much. And they can, knowing what questions to ask, pretend to go shopping in different areas and chat with the shopkeepers. Though the you-clone should probably not be chatting with as many people at the inn, or anyone you're likely to come into contact with. Mostly to avoid taxing my acting skills."

"Hmm, would it be very difficult for me to learn this clone jutsu, now that you've developed it?"

"The insubstantial one, sure, especially since you're so good at genjutsu, or a water clone, but water clones aren't advanced and can't go too far from their creators. The advanced clones though are reliant on my wood jutsu, so unless you can copy my bloodline it'd be impossible. "

"...well, perhaps we could test just how accurate the term 'bloodline' is."

"I'm not sure of any wood jutsu you could learn quickly enough to be proper proof of concept - maybe the wood sense, it mostly branches off from meditation."

"May not be useful to see if my magic can cheat that right now, then, if it'd take too long to learn."

"Yeah, though it's something to keep in mind for when we have more time."

"Shoulda thought of that earlier. Oh well. Let's hash this plan out in more detail, shall we?"

So: planning.

Tetsuma's thinking that they should head out at a non-busy time, to minimize the risk of the clones bumping into anyone. Dayo does all the talking, gets a room on the ground floor. She can then replace the simple clones with wood clones. (She's also realized that they need to name the servant character.)

Is the servant character also going to be an offworlder?