October Training

[godsoffortune]

Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: September 4th
Where: Meeting Hall, 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.

It seems Bishamon's temple is unavailable this week due to business, although she has generously allowed a number of her shinki to go on with their usual tasks of passing out pamphlets and assisting the newcomers to settle in.

Gods and shinki arriving at heaven's meeting hall are, should they allow it, guided kindly towards a traditional-style dojo and banquet hall towards the back of the meeting hall itself. 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

Newly arrived gods are escorted into a banquet hall for an informational meeting covering the basics of proper god behavior, although the minor deity conducting the meeting is in too much of a rush to take questions afterwards. They are encouraged to discuss the information with each other and ask questions of more experienced gods, as well as instructed to guide their new shinki appropriately.

Shinki Training

Various volunteers are stationed around the dojo, 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 as well as offering a lecture on the basics of what is expected of a shinki and the importance of teamwork with other shinki and with gods. Shinki are encouraged to work together to practice what they've learned and discuss their perspectives.

The garden is available for borderline practice, and a few of the last training's slightly tattered crayon-drawn borderline targets have been brought back out and pinned to bales of straw to make a practice area. One of Amaterasu's shinki is drawing replacements with a large inked calligraphy brush. His targets are simple but elegant, but somehow, before they make it over to the target bales, they're ending up crayon-scribbled into much brighter colors. Maybe it's the child shinki who are in charge of putting them up? They do seem to be giggling a lot, and Amaterasu's artist shinki is looking more and more annoyed...

Physical Training

The dojo is stocked with a wide variety of practice weapons, traditional and modern, to offer some practice opportunity to gods who, for example, find themselves with a sword shinki but are at risk of cutting off their own toes. It's also useful for veteran new gods wishing to train with their current partner shinki.

There's an additional task that the hosts are more than willing to ask for help with. The Meeting Hall seems to be suffering an invasion of cute soot sprites. Although they're harmless little spirits, they leave smears of ash and soot wherever they go, and the shinki are running themselves ragged trying to keep the hardwood floors and white walls clean! They're handing out cleaning rags and flyswatters to squash the soot sprites flat and scrub the resulting smears away -- and, for the softhearted, butterfly nets: although they implore anyone with a net to be sure they let the soot sprites out again far, far away.

Rest and Refreshments

The meeting hall's facilities are less modernized than Bishamon's: there are rainwater barrels set out by the dojo with fresh towels for hardworking gods and shinki to wash their face and hands. The water is ice cold, so it's very refreshing, too-- brr!

By lunchtime, the banquet hall where the gods' informational session was held has been cleaned out and re-set with cushions to sit on around long, low tables. Gods and shinki who come inside for lunch will be served a plain but hearty meal, with soup, rice, fish and pickled vegetables to refresh them for the afternoon's training.

The hall will stay open even after the lunches and tables have been cleared away, so that those who want a quieter space to talk with their new partners can find somewhere in the room. Hopefully the occasional stampede of soot sprites won't be too distracting.

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
• Help catch soot sprite pests
• Spectate if you want
• Have fun~

Comments

[kokuyoyo]

[See, he's.... helping...]

Ah... Probably not with mine. [His tone is way too relaxed to be giving that information.] But... you didn't. So it's fine.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Right. So you'd have been okay just cutting someone down... for your own amusement.

[No mistaking how any hint of casual banter drops out of his voice by the final words, or how the muscles of his arms and shoulders bunch beneath his skin as he tenses them.]

[kokuyoyo]

I think you're mistaken... I don't bother with that kind of thing for amusement.

[If his more than obvious apathy helps or hurts his cause, well, that's to be seen, but Chikusa certainly doesn't see it as a big deal.]

Better to learn it here.... then getting killed during something important.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[The apathy is definitely hurting. Playing games with the lives of others strikes Edge on a deep level he doesn't need memories to find abhorrent.] Better to be killed in training by someone you had no reason to fear?

[He'd have his swords out by now, but as it turns out, he doesn't... happen to have any? That's really inconvenient for a righteous anger, actually.]

[kokuyoyo]

[No swords means Chikusa is definitely not as worried or scared as would probably be preferred.]

Mm. It.... probably wouldn't kill them.

[Probably. Chikusa makes a one shouldered shrug.]

They'd live.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Live. Just probably in no condition to practice any more.

I think you need a real lesson in how to treat other people. [The fire in his eyes and the way he lifts a fist make the nature of that lesson clear.]

[kokuyoyo]

Pass.

[Clearly that's a thing he thinks that he can do as he simply turns to start walking away- although he has the presence of mind not to turn his back, instead keeping an eye on the clearly hotheaded blond.]

[onehandsomeslickninja]

I don't think you understand.

[This is where his body tells him to draw a sword. He's... lacking swords to draw, or knives, or any sort of thing, which isn't handy, but luckily instinct is prepared. Edge lifts his hands, letting his muscle memory tell him how to raise his guard and ready an attack without weapons.]

I'm giving you as much of a choice in this lesson as you give people who are confused about their circumstances a choice not to get hit with a giant Borderline.

[kokuyoyo]

[His steps slow slightly at the challenge, his hands sliding into his pockets for the familiar feel of his yoyos. Despite what his hands are searching for, there's no tension in his face as he sweeps a look over the other's form. No name immediately visible... Unfortunate.]

...I mean, it was mostly you, and you asked for it.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Well. This is mostly for you. And you asked for it.

[With that impeccable logic, Edge lunges forward -- less of an attack, per se, than to see how the other man reacts. He's pretty confident, but he also knows perfectly well he's dealing with the unknown here.]

[kokuyoyo]

[For all that he comes off as a lethargic piece of shit- which is also not untrue at all- Chikusa is fast on his feet.... when he can be assed to be. As it turns out, being attacked is just the kind of motivation he needs.]

[At the lunge, he leaps to the side, away from Edge, and takes out a hand from one of his pockets to reveal a yoyo cradled in it.]

Ah.... So you're useful...

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[Hmph. About how he expected. Oh well -- beating up someone weak for being a bully is a little hypocritical, so avoiding that's no skin off his back.]

And you're --

Huh.

[He hadn't been expecting a yoyo.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Yeah, that's a lot of people's reactions to his weapons.]

[But Chikusa isn't going to complain about the brief surprise, because that lets him snap his wrist out, the yoyo going right for Edge's knees. Best not to let that hit. While it looks like a toy, there's a surprising amount of damage in it, and certainly enough to get him on the ground if it makes impact.]