Conflicted and Stressed

[ninja_coder]

 
Today, I was at Castle Nettobuku for nine hours. Seven of those hours, I spent in meetings to discuss the successes and failures of our most recent campaign, and to plan the upcoming campaign.

One other hour, I spent simply reading scrolls of possible battle plans.

Last night, when I realized that I had to return to the castle this morning, I started drowning my worries in sake. Today, when I got home, I immediately started drowning my accumulated stress in shōchū.

I think I am growing weary of Clan Nettobuku.

I became a ninja to creep across rooftops and kill people, not to spend all my time in meetings. But I left Clan Iwinaga and joined Clan Nettobuku in order to rise in rank and duties.

I am not unaware of the conflicts between these things.

Comments

[jadecat9.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, that is one of the results of climbing the ranks and taking on more duties. Your superiors will expect you to help in the planning of strategy, defense, and offense. Unfortunately, this occurs in meetings.

When I was at my 'highest' rank, citing 15 minions in my department and 5 overseas operatives, I was in meetings a good 6-8 hours a day. And, there were meetings about meetings.

I barely got any of my own scheming & planning done, and some of my day-to-day skills became slightly rusty. :-(

My own superior was in meetings all-day, and required status reports from his underlings so he could turn in his status reports to his superiors.

And, in many large clans, it is the same. My last few positions were of the same ilk because of my duties and responsibilities within the organization.

The only time I do not need to spend so much time in meetings is as simply a warrior amoung many reporting to a superior officer and as a for-hire mercenary entering a clan for a temporary time frame to get work done that none of their own warriors can accomplish.

[roadknight.livejournal.com]

Hi,
Welcome to life as something other than a foot-soldier.

It means you don't always get to go out on the rooftops and skulk about, but it also means you have knowledge and experience that the clan finds valuable and often necessary to impart to the team so that the skulking and sneaking and slaying proceeds successfully and apace.

I think what this means is that as you go up in rank and skill, you should expect to be assigned to more complex missions requiring more than junior ninja skills and equally complex levels of planning.

[roadknight.livejournal.com]

BTW,
In case it wasn't clear in the last message:
Chill out. It'll be okay...

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

To apply a standard Military focus on this. The further up the chain of command you are, the further from the front lines you are stationed.