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

[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.