thenearshore | August Training

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August Training

Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: August 15
Where: Bishamon's temple, the Far Shore
Summary: Training and informational sessions for newly arrived gods and shinki

In anticipation of the latest round of new arrivals, Heaven has partnered with the new gods and shinki to organize a very helpful informational reception.

Gods and shinki arriving at heaven's meeting hall are, should they allow it, guided kindly towards Bishamon's temple. In that vast complex they are brought to a traditional-style dojo. The gods and shinki are free to take their time during this day to learn about the details of their new life from Amaterasu's shinki or from the many veteran new god and shinki volunteers.

God Training

prayers

Shinki Training

informational pamphlets

borderline

Physical Training

Rest and Refreshments

In Summary:

Get all the information you can handle
Veteran new gods and shinki are welcome to volunteer showing the ropes
Get in some training
Don't get dehydrated
Spectate if you want
Have fun~

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If you're worried about some "image", then you might as well just let me throw my dagger at anyone who makes a comment instead of asking to stand guard. [Since he figures the "image" being talked about here is going to be mainly his impression of being intimidating and standoffish. He can still pull that off while making flower crowns.

As he gets to the end of the next flowers woven in and starts to weave the ends of the crown together, he lets out a heavy hiss at the question.] They execute people who use them. I'd keep it around if it was just a threat to me, but I doubt they make a habit of leaving a god's shinki behind in those cases.

[So basically he's mainly looking out for his shinki in this case. With a slight shrug, he goes on.] I'm planning to decay it. It should get rid of it completely enough that anything left of it is going to be unidentifiable and useless.

Hrm. [He starts wracking his brain for an excuse before he realizes that's what he's doing. Really, he... It makes him feel better to be doing something, himself.] You don't have to go that far...

[He takes a breath that may or may not be slightly ragged.] Shun. You said you had things to do— [No, wait... Shun's already said he won't keep it.] ...Don't treat threats to yourself so lightly.

[Leaving the shinki behind, huh...?]

I don't know how your decay works, but...what if it doesn't work?

Call it evasion practice. [It's kind of hard to tell how serious Shun might be about this idea, or if he's just making some kind of extremely deadpan joke.

Since Fubuki seems to have misunderstood his attitude there, Shun shakes his head at the remark.] That's not what I meant. Just that I would've considered the risk worth the potential payoff of more information to get rid of these things if my neck was the only one on the line. I've never taken a threat to myself lightly.

[And thankfully, Shun already has an answer to the other question, though he's fairly certain his decay will work.] Blessed fire. Certain shrines on the Near Shore keep one going, and people used them to get rid of the cursed objects that were going around the other week.

...Not if they don't manage to dodge it, Shun... [They don't have a doctor ready. That's dangerous]

[Fubuki did misunderstand it, but the clarification may not be any better. He doesn't want Shun risking it at all, but that's...unreasonable. He knows that.]

Sounds like you've thought this through...

[Personal risk is unavoidable. That doesn't change just because Fubuki doesn't like it. Still...]

Guess it was pretty dangerous for us to take it in the first place. [And the fact that he'd been the one to verbalize taking it...] We never did find any clues about the controller, too...

It's not a problem if it's aimed somewhere non-fatal. [It's still basically impossible to tell if he's kidding. Though given his training techniques, it's definitely not a stretch to assume he's at least half serious.

There's a slight hum of agreement on the matter of it being dangerous to take in the first place, but Shun doesn't regret it at all, even if he's gotten precious little information.] I gave it to someone with spiritual powers to check, but he said all he could feel on it was the traces of the control spell. Nothing about who or what cast it. And Yukine mentioned an ayakashi has to be named to be controlled, so in theory it has to be a god.

[That idea still doesn't quite sit right with him, though, since it'd be opening the one doing the naming up to impossible amounts of blight.]

Shun...any injury is a "problem." [A problem you could live (ha) with, but...a problem nonetheless.] Unless you know someone who could patch it up right away without leaving a scar...? [Priorities.]

[In different circumstances he might wonder why simply having that mask (when they'd been the ones to take care of the masked ayakashi, to boot) makes it risky, but considering Shun's suspicions toward the flyers way back when, he can hazard a guess.]

And a god who became a shinki? Theoretically. [He knows that it can happen (albeit in reverse, but if it can happen the one way, then it can happen the other, right?), but he never got the details of what abilities were carried over, if any.]

[...As for why that possibility even popped into his head...he's going to not think too hard about that.]

But it makes sense... [Theoretically being a god, that is.] If they hid themselves that well, they might have teleported... [He'd been certain that the masked ayakashi must have been monitored, too, but maybe not...?]

Not one worth complaining about if it's only minor. [At least, that's Shun's general attitude on the matter. This would of course cease being the case the moment it involved any friends of his getting injured, but details.] Nanako could, and she's not the only healer in this place.

[He knows Hakkai is one as well, he's just not mentioning him because they don't exactly get on swimmingly.

Fubuki's guess makes Shun shake his head.] I've met at least one god who became a shinki, and they don't seem to retain the ability to name things. He's been here a while now, I doubt it wouldn't have come up.

[He hasn't exactly kept in contact with Tsuzuki much, but people tend to blare that sort of thing out across the network.]

Maybe. Or maybe the spell itself directs them without the controller having to be near. It's hard to say with so little information.

[He finally looks back at Shun, because if he thought it through that far...is he being serious??] I...don't think... [...Maybe he could shout a warning to anyone coming into the vicinity instead.]

That narrows it down... [Kind of.]

Was there anything else? [It's not like Fubuki's preparations amount to much, considering he doesn't know techniques for protecting the temple and whatnot, but at the very least, he doesn't want to be surprised. Surprise is the forefront of an ambush...something like that.]

[It does narrow it down, but only slightly. If they start looking outside of their own number, there's probably countless gods in these Heavens. For the moment, Shun sets the thought aside in favour of considering any further useful information.]

Not much. He mentioned it was a "curse", or considered one by most people, and that his god - Yato - was going to be looking into it. And he mentioned that thing we found it hovering around is called a "vent", and it probably led to Yomi. [Which explains the death smell. Shun has no real interest in venturing to the underworld.]

[Ah, the underworld. Of course.]

[...Was it really alright for shinki to be hanging around there...? And he thought the only danger came from the mask itself... (Does that explain why he didn't like looking at the fireflies vent when they were trying to clear it out? Who knows... He was fine with the one the masked ayakashi was hovering over... Best not to think too hard about that, though.)]

A curse to name the ayakashi, or that the ayakashi is cursed...? [He's not sure why he feels the distinction is important, himself. Just that it is, somehow.]

He did say "curse it by naming it" at one point. It could be both, though. [It's kind of hard to say when it seems even the Heavens know very little about these things. And Hitsugaya couldn't exactly expand on that point for him with just access to the mask.

After a moment, Shun just shakes his head.] It might be that we can't get any more information until another one shows up. It sounds like the energy of the mask isn't going to offer much of it.

[So they have that kind of consideration for ayakashi...? He doesn't know whether to feel relieved, or...]

[No matter how you slice it, ayakashi are cursed already, aren't they?]

Too bad we can't ask them directly.

[...]

[Well that sure was a silence that he lapsed into.]

Shun... [He unfolds his arms.] ...When did you learn how to braid flowers?

Not unless we find them, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon. [Even if Yato is looking into it as well, that isn't exactly a lot of power behind the search. And given Yukine's question of who he'd told, Shun is reluctant to divulge too much until he finds out more about the circumstances.

There's a slight shrug at the question that follows, as if it isn't important.] Someone taught me the day I cut those flowers out of my garden and needed to get rid of the excess.

[So only about two weeks after he took Fubuki in, in other words.]

Ah... [No, wait—Shun learned to do it here?]

Huh. [In other words, Shun was having fun? He can't help a little chuckle at that revelation, but he knows from all the other times that Shun gets defensive if Fubuki harps on it, so he turns it into a cough.]

[He does turn around to face Shun again.] Why all the way out here?

[Shun's eyes still narrow a bit at the laugh-turned-cough, since it's not terribly convincing. It's not as if he asked to be taught how to do it, anyway, so he just leaves the subject at that.]

It's quieter out here. And less people come out this far. Most of them are content hovering around the water table.

[Because that's definitely the only thing on the refreshments table.]

Water...? [Er. Since Shun was the one who warned Fubuki about that, he finds it hard to believe that Shun doesn't already know that it's not really a "water" table. On the other hand, people name things after what they use...something like that? He's called the vulture's feeding place various names in his head on some days.]

...I don't know if they're "hovering," exactly... Maybe nerves. Do you remember what it was like when you first got here?

[Shun doesn't bother answering the hanging question, since he figures Fubuki knows what he's talking about regardless. Water table, refreshments table, it's all the same to him.

The subject of Shun's arrival gets a faint snort, though.] When I showed up, there was a school cursed with lethargy and sickness to deal with. We got thrown straight into it, and I've always been an adaptable person.

[School...? Well, the salient point here is that that backfired on Fubuki a bit.]

Well, my point is, everyone has to start somewhere to find a friendly face. Or allies. [...Something like that.]

—Well, anyway, it's a miracle I found you. But I should head back. [He has no objection to people clustering around refreshments, after all. Haha.]

[A faint hum of agreement comes in answer to that first remark, because it is true enough. However, any further reply is stymied a bit by the slightly confused look that creeps onto Shun's face at the mention of it being a miracle to have found him. It's a bit like he's trying to puzzle out what Fubuki even means by that.

Regardless, he's not going to stop him from leaving, so he just nods slightly, picking up another few flowers.] Go ahead.

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