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

[futhark]

So that makes... two left. [ He mutters that mostly to himself. Who would have thought there is a place where they all can trade True Names so easily? ]

Well, isn't that an honor- as a fellow "god" I can tell you most people here don't use those name-titles often. So you can easily cut it down to two names. Speaking of which- [ Since introductions are in order. ]

I'm Cú Chulainn, but here I go mostly as Caster. [ And since Richard is a first Servant he met that is not a shinki that puts them in an interesting position. Caster makes no threats nor he shows hostility, but he's on guard. Just in case. ] Funny, eh?

[fauxcalibur]

That you'd choose to continue to be called by your class name? Maybe a little.

[He's not sure how he'll handle it on his end. Possibly he won't bother with it.]

As far as I know, those of us who have been summoned here aren't in any conflict with each other, so there's no real need to hide who we are. In fact, in most cases it probably doesn't matter all that much. I've introduced myself to people who haven't recognized a single name I used!

[futhark]

[ Oh good, Richard is the reasonable kind of Servant. ]

On that, we can agree. You're my enemy only if you make yourself one. [ Heroic Spirits come and go in all kind of fashions, there is always a risk one would want to continue fighting regardless of Grail being present or not. ]

It's just a small precaution really, secrecy never was my thing. Besides you have to admit "Caster" is a lot easier to pronounce. [ Plus he's got no freaking idea how to explain why he's here as "incarnation of himself". It does get a bit amusing when someone figures his god-title and name are the same though. ] We're in a distant land, after all, different legends are famous here.

[ Have a surprise pat on the back and a joking- ]

Don't you worry, even here someone is bound to recognize your fame!

[fauxcalibur]

It would be quite interesting if someone did! I'm sure we'd have a great deal to talk about. Of course, I'd be more interested in finding certain heroes that I have far more interest in than myself.

[And that...takes a lot.]

I was rather disappointed to be summoned as the only Saber in a war of thirteen Servants, you know, though I never complained about it.

[futhark]

Thirteen- Shit, a Grail War with a double for each class? [ Well no double for Saber, that's the problem here, he should be more empathetic ]

That sounds fun. [ In theory, if you're unlucky, you'll end with the worst master possible in an aimless, boring disaster- or everything will go to hell in three days total, because someone got a dumb idea.

Caster rubs his chin thoughtfully ] You know-- you'll have to tell me more about it sometime. Wouldn't mind knowing how a proper Grail War goes.

[ The one with valiant fights between heroes from across the ages. That's how it was advertised originally ]

[fauxcalibur]

Gladly! I'm disappointed I didn't get to see it through to the end!

[It was barely getting started at the time he left. He didn't even get to meet more than a handful of his fellow Servants. Not to mention the fact that he really only got to have a decent fight with one of them.]

I would have liked to meet a certain friend of the Lancer I fought. He made it sound like it would be such an interesting fight...I don't even know what class he was summoned as.

[futhark]

[ There can be only one™ ]

Lancer, huh? [ His interested piqued, because what's better than heroic gossip? ] Knowing his name could help narrow down the list of potential friends...

[ Their whole life stories are out there, relatively easy to find most of the time. Comes with the fame and legend ]

Mind sharing how your fight went?

[fauxcalibur]

It was quite the battle! He had full command of the earth around him and used it to call forth weapons of great quality! In hindsight, it seems a bit strange that he would be summoned as a Lancer, considering he didn't necessarily seem to favor lances...

[He hadn't really given it any thought at the time. That would have been too much thinking and not enough fighting.]

Anyway, I decided I would try to fight him barehanded just to see if I could, but it wasn't nearly enough to keep up with him. Then I thought I would try fighting with a stick, which worked surprisingly well, though certainly it wouldn't have been enough to defeat him if we were truly fighting to the death. We were both satisfied with the fight, though, and if we hadn't agreed to an alliance, I would be looking forward to fighting him again.

week got crazy, sorry for getting here so late

[futhark]

Seems like you found yourself a worthy opponent and a great ally in one go. [ Battle-forged allies - the best method. ] You're a crazy piece of work too, going at him with just a stick...

[ Respect, really. He likes that kind of crazy. Aaaand he's also just a bit jelly. The only reason he responded the Grail's call was the idea of dueling heroes from different times, and he didn't really get much of that. ]

Grail War alliances are meant to be temporary anyway, right? Even when you topple everyone else, there is still place for only one winner. [ He says it in a genuinely reassuring tone. Pat, pat, you can look forward to fighting him again, bro. You will have to. ]

it's okay!

[fauxcalibur]

Hmm, true, but I'm afraid my Master doesn't seem very interested in attaining the Grail.

[That would require admitting she's a Master at all, which she's also not interested in.]

Though if I'm here rather than there, I may never get that fight anyway. Which only means I'll have to find someone here to test myself against!

[He's nothing if not optimistic.]

I tried challenging the young man assigned to be Satan, but he was very resistant to the idea...

[futhark]

[ He imagines a Servant going to kick Satan's ass - who in this world is probably just some kid plucked out of his relatively normal life - and does not succeed in stifling a laughter. ]

Yeah, that doesn't surprise me! Most people here are quite a peaceful bunch. [ Though there are plenty of warriors among them. Depends on your luck ]

I have no stake in this, but if you want a challenge, I can give you one. [ A good old Servant battle, why not? What would that be though? An all-out? A friendly spar? ]

[fauxcalibur]

I certainly won't turn that down! Especially since I'm free to choose my battles how I will.

[It would be a big N O from Ayaka, but Ayaka isn't here.]

[futhark]

You bet I'm looking forward to that.

[ Shouldn't there be an issue like... Sabers usually having high magic resistance, shit Caster stats, and being stuck as a Caster in the first place? Probably, but... you live only once. ]