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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-06-16 06:30 pm

June Intro/Training Log

Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: July 26
Where: Bishamon's temple, the Far Shore
Summary: Training and informational sessions for newly arrived gods and shinki



The product of many meetings and recommendations, at last it has taken shape. On this day, in anticipation of the new arrivals who appear in a recognized pattern, Heaven has partnered with the new gods and shinki to organize a very helpful informational reception.

The shinki arriving at heaven's meeting hall are, should they allow it, guided kindly towards Bishamon's temple. And in that vast complex they are brought to a traditional-style dojo.

Here the newly arrived gods are gathered, so finding their partner is more simple. The gods and shinki are free to take their time during this day to learn about the aspects of their new life from Amaterasu's shinki, or from the many veteran new god and shinki volunteers.




Divine Bureaucracy

    Wasn't it the newly revamped Shinki Agency's job to assign shinki this time... They thought it was the original team of Amaterasu's shinki's job this one last time before Shinki Agency took over the responsibility. Needless to say, when the shinki wake up at the Meeting Hall, there's a lot of shouting. Eventually, one of the Shinki Agency representatives herds the new shinki together and instructs them to please all go to Bishamonten's temple for the time being and they will send a runner with the god-shinki assignments as soon as they can.

    New gods and old gods alike will not be notified that there is a mix-up unless they come to Bishamon's temple for Training, until the Shinki Agency can figure out what happened.

    Important addendum: For this round, gods still have a vision of how their shinki died, however they can't make out any details, particularly about who they saw die.
    Once a shinki of the Agency gives the god the name of their shinki, the god is then able to find them by name. Once they give their shinki a vessel name the god will have the full vision of how their shinki died.

    This addition comes in response to some questions and need for clarification. Apologies and thank you for your input.


God Training

    Bishamon herself, as well as Amaterasu's ever-present shinki and any volunteering gods, will be the foremost source of information regarding being a god and what is expected of them, such as prayers. It is encouraged that gods group up together to practice what they've learned and discuss their ideologies.
    Newly arrived gods are still expected to communicate to their shinki the information* they themselves get oriented with when they arrive.


Shinki Training

    Various volunteers are stationed around the building, passing out helpful informational pamphlets. There are many shinki, including Bishamon's and Amaterasu's, who will be more than happy to train in using the borderline and some of the basics of what is expected of a shinki. It is encouraged that shinki group up together to practice what they've learned and discuss their ideologies.
    Bishamon's lead shinki Kazuma offers a lecture to new arrivals that will thoroughly cover some essential points about teamwork with both shinki and other gods.


Physical Training

    The dojo is stocked with a wide variety of practice weapons, traditional and modern. There are volunteers here as well, willing to assist in basic training. (Or even more advanced sparring, depending on the volunteer.) Essential for gods who, for example, find themselves with a sword shinki but are at risk of cutting off their own toes.
    Also useful for veteran new gods wishing to train with their current partner shinki.


Rest and Refreshments

    There is a garden off the dojo that is free to be used for rest and conversation.
    Should anyone wander outside the designated area, some shinki of Bishamon's will attach themselves to them and not leave them be until they return to the dojo.

    There is a refreshments table provided. It is covered with light snacks and various kinds of hydrating drinks. There is a little sitting area set up for people to relax in after they have finished their training or if they're just taking a quick break to cool down. Even hand towels are provided by Bishamon's helpful shinki. The Heavens wants everyone to stay in good condition!




In Summary:
  • New characters are welcome to ask old characters if this mix-up is common (spoilers: it's not)
  • New Shinki: Get all the information you can handle from the pamphlets provided (links above and see FAQ)
  • New Gods: take what information you can from Amaterasu's shinki (see FAQ) while waiting to find out if you've been assigned a shinki
  • Veteran gods and shinki are welcome to volunteer showing the ropes
  • Get in some training
  • Don't get dehydrated
  • Spectate if you want
  • Have fun~
ashestoinnocence: (thoughtful; consideration)

[personal profile] ashestoinnocence 2017-06-19 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
How do you sit on it then?

[Chomp, crunch, swallow. Diana looks down at the cookie platter, picks out one of each kind and puts the rest back. This has absolutely nothing to do with being lectured. Not at all. Diana just decided she didn't want that many cookies after all. It's a completely separate decision.]

It's an oar. There can't be many secrets to sitting on an oar.
Edited 2017-06-19 05:28 (UTC)
genkireaper: (Nothing I can do)

[personal profile] genkireaper 2017-06-19 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ If that's what gets her to make better decisions, then Diana can feel like that was the case all she wanted. ]

I don't know about secrets, but I'm sure through practice you'd figure it out right quick.

[ Apparently she's had enough where she could say that and shrug- both hands free of the oar. ]

Of course, that'd require you being able to manifest one in the first place.
italianmutt: (right-hand)

[personal profile] italianmutt 2017-06-19 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
H-Hey!

[Gokudera's eyes widened when she started fussing over him. He tried to fight off her hands but she was insistent, and before he knew it she had his hair and clothes straightened out. Or, at least, that's what Gokudera assumed she'd been trying to do. He didn't think he looked that bad...at least, not that bad considering how he'd been training hard before he got here.]

I'm not that young! And shouldn't that be the other way around? I'm your shinki and--

[Gokudera cuts off abruptly and blinks, the rest of her sentence finally registering. His eyes shine brightly as he stares at her.]

'Lethellin'? Is that my vessel name?
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[personal profile] oopsiedaisy 2017-06-19 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Your what? OH! That! No no no, it's Elvish for one who is a part of your clan... sort of. Like family.

[She took a few of her flowers and quickly started weaving them together until she made a very pretty crown of them, and happily placed it on his head.]

There we are! Officially part of my clan! Though I suppose it's a very small clan with just the two of us isn't it?

[Didn't seem to dampen her mood on it though. At his question she tilts her head thoughtfully.]

It feels a bit strange giving you a name, don't you already have one?
bartenderizing: (I'm gonna figure it out)

Shinki Training

[personal profile] bartenderizing 2017-06-19 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Those're some set of lungs. Shizuo managed to hear that from a good distance away, despite not paying any attention whatsoever.

So when he decided to walk over and figure out what that was about, the amused look of the 'instructor' said more than enough. It all made sense at this point. Actually, it should've made sense when Shizuo heard that first sentence. Which is why the blond casually went over and shoved the instructing shinki out of the way.

With his foot.

Across the yard and to be someone else's problem. ]


... Asshole.

[ What? Just seeing that expression pissed Shizuo off. Yet now he realizes that this meant he left the blind guy with no one- Ah shit. He should take responsibility for his actions, huh? ]

Ah. Sorry, but I got rid of him. Were you working on the hand or the gesture? I mean, I'm still pretty new at it, but I can try helping.
bartenderizing: (You'll never let me be)

A

[personal profile] bartenderizing 2017-06-19 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ See, he was actually really trying to practice and get better at those borderlines. It wasn't that he was failing at making them, but Shizuo's attempts barely shone through the natural summer light that was blanketing the field. Well, it was more visible than it used to be, but still the most lackluster thing that most people here have seen.

It didn't help that someone kept yelling their 'advice.' Whether it was directly to him or one of the other shinki, he didn't know.

'Don't let me distract you~!'

It didn't matter at this point. Despite the distance they had, Shizuo went to grab one of the chairs that was near him and the other shinki. Without much hesitation, the tall blond chucked it right for the other blond, to crash into the ground right next to him. Both the chair and ground have suffered for this. Everything is a mess, and that might've been a little too close to comfort (though at least Shizuo intended for it to land next to instead of at the guy.) ]


No one asked for your damn advice!
bearpuns: (:C)

[personal profile] bearpuns 2017-06-19 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Teddie immediately brightens with Souji there, but there's some distress. ]

Sensei, what's wrong with Nao-chan?! She doesn't know me...
bearpuns: (:D!)

[personal profile] bearpuns 2017-06-19 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! [ Teddie smiles and grabs some food. ]

What's your name, by the way? I'm Teddie!
bearpuns: (Default)

[personal profile] bearpuns 2017-06-19 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
I know, but I really should be looking for my friends....
bearpuns: (:D!)

I'M EXCITED FOR TEDDIE AND MAKOTO TO BE FRIENDS

[personal profile] bearpuns 2017-06-19 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Pretty girl!!!! How exciting! Teddie just grins to her and nods. ]

I see...Bearhaps, you would like to show me around?
bearpuns: (:D!)

YELLS NANAKO.

[personal profile] bearpuns 2017-06-19 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Teddie knew that voice. He was hoping in some way she was here the most!! Once he spots her, instead of the usual "Nana-chan!" he bows politely. ]

Oh, Detective! I suppose you are investigating some training!
Edited 2017-06-19 10:42 (UTC)
bearpuns: (shock)

[personal profile] bearpuns 2017-06-19 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
Everyone keeps saying that, I'm being beary nice! I just need to find Sensei and the others!
theunluckygirl: (as roses in May)

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She hesitates to tell him that she doesn't think it's terribly common--she doesn't want to get his hopes up, but she doesn't want to give him no hope, either. After all, it's clear that it is possible.]

You might. But I don't think I've heard of any cases of a god becoming a shinki. And... It's not as though we truly die to become shinki anyhow. [In case he's worried about going back home and dying or something] I'm still not sure what it is, but now that I have all my memories back, I... I know I didn't die.

[Not in her world, anyway. Here? She was definitely murdered here. She's still coming to terms with that one.]
theunluckygirl: (Just because of my love to you)

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
The Heavens are usually a bit more organized than this. [That's... Not really a lie. Sort of.]

I wonder what could've happened... [Jennifer looks worriedly towards the main areas where heaven's shinki are finishing up the last of their tasks and assignment hand-outs and shakes her head. Her attention re-focuses on Botan.]

Please, be at ease, Miss Botan. I won't be disappointed, I promise-- I... [She pauses a moment, unsure how to best say what she wants to say here.] I hope I'll be a suitable god. If at any time you're too... disappointed in me, you're welcome to ask to be released at any time. I won't hold you captive here.
theunluckygirl: (I would like to shame you)

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
I remember everything from home... [She looks to Kija and then flinches when she hears the raised voices. WHile she'd love to continue talking about the weirdness that is suddenly returning to the world of the living--and knowing now that it's impossible for her to have died the way she did to begin with to become a shinki--that yelling is sort of.

Distracting.
]

What...on Earth...?
theunluckygirl: Bricks light brown, (Grass is green)

this is fine

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Jennifer spares the girl a glance and then, quite abruptly, does a full double-take.]

Di... Diana...? [Her voice is faint with shock, and she's not sure if Diana's lack of recognition is because she's a shinki or because of Jennifer being all grown up now-- either is possible, but given that Diana was dead

(and she was dead, good and truly, because Jennifer had seen, the image would never truly leave her head)

Jennifer had a feeling she knew which side of the coin Diana fell.

It helps to that looking at her strikes her with that memory; seeing the aftermath had been bad enough, but seeing it... Jennifer takes a stumbling step back and place a hand on the table to steady herself, one hand going to her mouth in mute horror. Meg. Eleanor. Diana.

It's all she can do to hold in a sob. She can't tell, can't say anything, knows it instinctively, but god what a terrible first impression. Jennifer sinks to her knees, numbly beginning to pick up the pamphlets that had fallen to the ground when she stumbled, trying to her her numb tongue to work and form some kind of excuse.
]

...Dizzy... All of a sudden... [Damn. Damn. Why was this happening? Had she made the Heavens angry, somehow? Was this a form of revenge, or was it some attempt at redemption and healing? Jennifer couldn't be sure, glancing to Diana nervously]
theunluckygirl: (Once we are both dead.)

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
[She sees him coming out of the corner of her eye, so it isn't his appearance that startles her so much as being addressed. But her gaze had been shifting her attention to him anyhow, so when he says her name her eyes widen a little in surprise anyhow.

And then she relaxes, somewhat, her smile relieved
] Mr. Souji. It's nice to see a familiar face. [One that wasn't her old god or his associates, anyhow.]
theunluckygirl: (Just because of my love to you)

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Jennifer's body goes very, very still, which should be the clue he needs to understand that, despite anything else she might say, the answer is yes.

Her fingers close around the clean napkins numbly and her eyes shift about anxiously again.
]

I... I don't think he'd kill me... [That didn't answer the immediate question-- But then, in a way, maybe it sort of does.] Perhaps just scare me, a little.
theunluckygirl: (Is it the same for you too?)

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
I would rather not burden anyone with my stupid troubles.

[She shakes her head] When I was a shinki, I did my best... But I was terribly weak-willed. It's just a bit... odd, now, to feel so different from then. I don't think he'd like who I am now.

[A little less likely to be cowed, a little more stubborn and willing to stand up for herself.

She doesn't seem to realize that her words have managed to paint more unflattering pictures of her old god.
]
theunluckygirl: Bricks light brown, (Grass is green)

[personal profile] theunluckygirl 2017-06-19 11:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Still looking distressed, Jennifer takes the napkins without even thinking much about it]

Th-thank you. I'm sorry. I don't know what's gotten into me. [That's a lie, but her laugh is nervous and high] This is all...too much... [The whole situation is overwhelming from top to bottom.]
thevanguard: Fight (026)

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-06-19 11:57 am (UTC)(link)
Heh.

[ Well, that sounds promising. Yata just grins back at him. ]

Sounds good to me. Hopefully, you can keep up.

[ And with that, he launches himself forward with a fast swing at the other guy's midsection, testing him. ]
thevanguard: Happy Attitude (043)

[personal profile] thevanguard 2017-06-19 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Heh.

[ Yata gives a low chuckle, arms crossed over his chest as he regards the other guy with a crooked grin. ]

I didn't want to interrupt. You looked pretty immersed.
welcome_home: (058)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2017-06-19 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ But you're cold!! That's no good, you could get sick.

Still, his answer has her blinking at him in confusion for a moment as she tries to make sense of that. Although considering there are so many people here who can use fire... ]


Is it magic? Is that why you're cold?
welcome_home: (001)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2017-06-19 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She hums thoughtfully but ultimately just nods, accepting that answer for what it was.

Although the question he returns to her has her whole face lighting up in excitement. ]
Oh! I forgot to tell you! I found it! I've been practicing lots! D'ya want to see?
welcome_home: (007)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2017-06-19 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmmm. A couple of months now? I think? [ She squints, trying to remember. ] A while.

And yeah! But that was a long time ago. Although people still pray to her now sometimes, even if the place is different.