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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2017-12-17 07:07 pm

December Training

Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: September 25th
Where: Bishamon's temple, the Far Shore
Summary: Training and informational sessions for newly arrived gods and shinki



Gods and shinki arriving at heaven's meeting hall are, should they allow it, guided to Bishamon's temple, where a reception area and a traditionally styled dojo and training ground have been made available for the day. 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 Western-styled reception hall within Bishamon's temple 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 shinki volunteers, both in the white-and-gold of Amaterasu's shinki and in Bishamon's red-piped black uniforms, are stationed around the dojo, passing out helpful informational pamphlets. They will be happy to instruct the newcomers in the use of the borderline as well as offering an explanantion 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.

    Someone has brought two overflowing boxes of back issues of From Ama, the Heavenly magazine, which includes profiles of successful shinki and gods, historical tidbits, and the occasional magazine quiz to help shinki determine how well they're currently working with their god or what their greatest strength might be.


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.

    This month, a clever shinki magician has created a dozen straw-stuffed training dummies, some with sword-length sticks and some with polearm-length sticks, that have been enchanted to really fight back. Unfortunately, the spell isn't perfect yet! They're good training partners, but sometimes they might go a little haywire and try to smack passersby.


Rest and Refreshments

    Along with bottled water, there are several large boxes of energy drinks and vitamin drinks in small amber glass bottles, and an array of protein bars and meal bars. One particular shinki in white, a bespectacled twentysomething man, is explaining the health benefits of everything on the table (even the water!) with great enthusiasm to any guest who looks even a little confused. It takes great tact to discourage him.

    Party games have been set up on the lawn near the refreshments table: Twister, Kubb, lawn Jenga, and more.




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
  • Play some games
  • Spectate if you want
  • Have fun~
sonofson: ○ = (0000)

[personal profile] sonofson 2018-01-05 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Test of balance?

[He sits up and looks over to try and get a better look at it.]

I'll give it a try!
ittenbari: (duh)

[personal profile] ittenbari 2018-01-05 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
[The headbutt is what gets him to take a second to consider the situation.]

Hey, what're...

[He squints at the doll and turns it from side to side, finally noticing that something is a little fishy.]

Wait, what's...

[This is definitely unusual.]

WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU?!

[Well, it was a step in the right direction.]
risingdarkness: (Default)

[personal profile] risingdarkness 2018-01-05 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[That gets a one-shouldered shrug. The only possibly new information is that maybe there was a time when this wasn't all a shitshow.]

It's what I'd expect from gods. It's not surprising that this is the sort of crap they spend all their time on.
risingdarkness: (Default)

[personal profile] risingdarkness 2018-01-05 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Says who? I don't remember a single thing that happened before I showed up here, so why should I believe anything they tell me?

[Honestly, he shouldn't trust the food, either, but he's already dead, so it's not like it can kill him.]
risingdarkness: (pout)

[personal profile] risingdarkness 2018-01-05 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Like? Or are you just talking out of your ass.

[Or maybe it's in the pamphlets, for all the good they're doing him.]
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[personal profile] doodlebuginette 2018-01-05 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
I grew up in a bakery. My parents taught me everything I know.

[It seemed safe enough to admit that much because it was Marinette's life and not anyone else's.]

Are there many parties? [She was only asking because of the way she'd worded it.]

I'm looking forward to it!

[And then.]

What about you? Do you know anything about cooking?
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[personal profile] doodlebuginette 2018-01-05 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
I like it.

[She just hadn't been expecting it was all. What she liked most about her own yoyo was the fact that it wasn't the typical weapon. Chat had a staff, and he used that like one would expect. Her yoyo, though? It was more of a tool than anything, but she could use it to immobilize someone or distract them if necessary. She expected it would probably be the same with a normal one.

And the fact that he wasn't answering her question wasn't lost at all on Marinette. But that was okay. He wasn't obligated to give her any answers. As luck would have it, she had managed to hit the same branch. She'd merely smacked it with the yoyo itself, but that was enough for her. For now.]

Thank you for letting me use it.
purr_ince: (Adrien | You got this.)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-01-05 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I don't know how to brew it. I'm pretty sure anyway.

[He brows furrow a bit.]

Maybe I should try some of this stuff you're talking about. Experiencing new stuff is a good thing, right?
purr_ince: (Adrien & Plagg | With a little Help)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-01-05 10:44 am (UTC)(link)
You mean like stuffy and formal?

[Adrien blinks at Ronald in confusion.]

How businesslike are we talking? Do I have fill out forms and talk formal or?
purr_ince: (Adrien & Plagg | With a little Help)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-01-05 10:48 am (UTC)(link)
Right.

[He's not seeming to have a problem with that recovery bit after the initial shock though. Soon Adrien is back to how he'd been before Chikusa broke his line, even if there's a bit of sweat dampening his bangs to his forehead.]

That's good to know, thanks. I'll just keep at it.
purr_ince: (Adrien | You got this.)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-01-05 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
Well, that's good but if I get it I could give it to them right? I don't want that. So I need to understand a little better.

[Confused Adrien is watching her hand peering at well it's just her hand so he's not sure what he's supposed to be seeing here.]

Oh. Oh! That's not good. But it couldn't have been your fault. You must have done your best to help.

[But he's biting his lower lip. His god or goddess would feel anytime he gave himself blight? Well, he'll just have to be extra careful.]

Right. Be open and honest about it. It seems kind of pointless to try and hide something like that. So even if we doing have the blight we should do that? The holy water bath?

[He rubs at his shoulder gently.]

So keep a foot or two between myself and the ayakashi if it's at all possible. Ranged attack - nothing like hand to hand combat. I think I can follow that. I seem to like staffs and swords better than anything at a close hand-to-hand range.
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[personal profile] declamando 2018-01-05 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
I think so. Maybe the animating magic could only work on a limited number of them.

[Maria glances at the one she downed by removing its head. It's still shuffling around a bit, but it's going to have some difficulties until it finds the missing part of itself.] Or maybe the number of them is what's making them go haywire.

[Magic like that usually gets harder the more it's affecting.]
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[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-01-05 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That's it. If that's how you're planning to do it, you'll have to hope your god cares enough to do that.

[They're a minority, but there are definitely gods around here who aren't that considerate. With no idea of who this guy's god is, he can't make a judgement call as to whether or not they'd be willing.]

It's a bit thoughtless, considering they were supposed to stop the need for shinki to rely on their god so heavily for information.
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[personal profile] papillonprincess 2018-01-05 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd be surprised. They used to hold parties here quite often. Though I suspect by the time the next holiday rolls along, we'll be invited to another one.

[ There's a momentary pause when she's asked about cooking, almost like her heart catches in her throat for a moment. Her eyes slide away from the other girl for a moment as she looks to the hairtie in her fingers. ]

...someone I knew... tried to teach me once.

[ There's a small sad smile as she fidgets with the tie. ]

...he... always insisted on eating healthy. And he was very good at it.
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[personal profile] priforprince 2018-01-05 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The doll takes this opportunity to dramatically sag, swooning in Sakon's arms. It has been fairly beaten-up recently, after all. ]
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[personal profile] appealingdame 2018-01-05 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Charlotte pauses in her tracing, suddenly pushing down rather hard on Shizuo's hand with her finger.]

... Wait, so there are actual creeps here too?
appealingdame: (Seriously wtf is wrong with you?)

[personal profile] appealingdame 2018-01-05 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
They don't expect me to leap into that today do they? [She just got here!] I mean... I'm only one little girl, I don't know how much help I can be...

[Give her a break.]
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[personal profile] appealingdame 2018-01-05 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Takes a small step forward.]

I can tell. Your hair is perfect. [Naturally.] What about the other part? ... My Lord Lakshmi.

[Have you got the dough]
Edited 2018-01-05 15:40 (UTC)
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-01-05 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Or Bishamon just didn't want more of her training equipment destroyed than is necessary.

[Who knows. For a moment, he stays quiet, watching the training dummy's plight.]

....I'm.... trying to ask around for who enchanted them this way...
kokuyoyo: (Woke up with a squirrel in my bed.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-01-05 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Good.

....And don't blight your god while you're at it. [Words that apparently need to be said, even if the minute twist of his mouth hints that he's not pleased about it.] That sort of thing... is why strong borderlines are important.
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-01-05 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm. Sure.

[It's interesting to see someone else use it. Not exactly in the same way as he just had, but still a viable enough use. Ignoring the sharpness it apparently has- it takes a certain kind of speed and tension after all- he continues to do idle tricks with what he has in his own hands.]

Do you know how to make one...?
bartenderizing: (I'm gonna figure it out)

[personal profile] bartenderizing 2018-01-05 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He notices that her hand stopped moving, but doesn't seem to react to the sudden pressing. At least he has a sturdy hand, though. She could keep pressing harder and he still wouldn't know. ]

Yeah? I mean, I don't think anyone decides who gets pulled here, so it's not like everyone's good or anything like that. Then there's times that can affect people and make them... worse.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-01-05 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, it's the pamphlets, which Chikusa just stares down at.]

....Can't read?
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[personal profile] kuroi_taiyo 2018-01-05 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Given the shrug, it seems that Judar isn't taking that comment very seriously. It seems he's already figured out some of this magic stuff out, even if it's not the shinki specific kind yet.

No. He found something better to purposefully annoy this shitty teen with in the future. Wait until he figures out how to use it even more. ]
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[personal profile] killsthebuddha 2018-01-05 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There is entirely too much to unpack in the idea that he was remembering something that didn’t happen for the others, even knowing that amnesia ran rampant. It reminds him entirely too much of something Ukoku Sanzo had said about the nature of self and memory.

He’s not going to let him define something like that for him. No, it doesn’t matter, not when they’ve got work to do. He’s quiet longer than he should be before he makes himself say something.
]

We won’t get anywhere trying to figure out what is. [ It’s going to bother him, that much is probably obvious, but he’ll make an effort to shake this off. ] You’ll just have to start taking better notes.

[ He’ll just not say anything to that effect about himself, of course. ]