December Training

[godsoffortune]

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~

Comments

[kuroi_taiyo]

Well that sounds boring.

[ Judar will remember this aversion to the word 'spawn' for the future. Because he's that kind of person. ]

Are you even allowed to change what it is that the god you're acting as is about? If you're gonna be something, you should go all in and do it proper.

Re: Shinki Training

[frankensteins_moe]

[Berserker blinks, mimicking his hand gesture and flicking her hand out. She doesn't have a lot of control, though, and the line sweeps across several of the training dummies instead, slicing them in half.]

...Ah!

[lookingforhead]

Thank you. I made it myself. Well not the helmet.

But you're fine. There's a lot that's weird around here.

You're new here, right? Are you settling in well?

[There's a very conversational way she types in her messages: doing a line, letting it be read, and then adding the next.]

[frankensteins_moe]

[Berserker smiles too, even though he can't see. She hadn't expected someone to work so hard to be able to talk to her. After typing her response, the voice once again speaks.]

Thank you for showing me this. My name is Berserker.

[clothes_make_the_man]

It takes hours to get it to set like this, but the results are well worth it.

[At least he can be comfortable talking about this topic. When he's not being flirted with, anyway.]

...Oh. Ah. Yes, Lakshmi's temple is rather... ostentatious.

[Read: made of solid gold.]

[all_seeing_eye]

Information pamphlets and protein bars are kind of the bare minimum you'd expect. What were they doing before, nothing?

[all_seeing_eye]

Oh yeah, I'm comfortable with that role. No problem there.

[She smiles, pushing up her glasses.]

[all_seeing_eye]

I'm not your average human.

[all_seeing_eye]

Yeah, bewilderment is right. Do you greet everybody like this?

[Futaba knows some weird people, but Hibiki is gunning for first place right now.]

Re: God Training

[all_seeing_eye]

Find a copy and you're on.

[Futaba grins. It is the grin of a seasoned gamer.]

In that case, maybe check out the Elder Tomes series. It's a pretty good mix of open world and story. You can keep busy for hours just grinding side quests, or hit the main plot really hard.

[all_seeing_eye]

Huh... you don't say.

[The gears are turning.]

What else can you tell me about her?

[all_seeing_eye]

I can't make it the way Sojiro does, though.

[Her smile quickly falls away at that.]

[all_seeing_eye]

Wow... a shrine to Yog-Sothoth. I do and don't want to see the kind of place one of those would end up.

[She looks thoughtful for a moment, but then shrugs.]

Sure, let's give it a shot.

[all_seeing_eye]

Lucky me, I guess.

[sigh]

[all_seeing_eye]

Hey, they could have had anyone they wanted as the new Yog-Sothoth, but they picked me. That means they have to deal with the way I'm gonna do this.

[purr_ince]

Sojiro?

[Adrien is going to assume that's a friend of hers maybe? Or family? He's not sure which but he won't pry that's rude. At the loss of her smile though he's perking up.]

Maybe - maybe they have a cook book or something that can help?

[nolittlesecret]

You probably know way more about her than I do, but like she calls herself the Queen of Heaven. Weird thing is, other than a formal letter now and then and the occasional appearance, I don't see her around much. And from the way things are run... seems she might be more a figurehead to me than a true leader. But that's just my feelings on it. Others might be running things around here. Kind of like a parliament.

Re: Shinki Training

[trapperkeeper]

Wow! You got, like, three at once! Great job!

[Except no.]

[priforprince]

Only the deserving.

[ When she wants something from them. ]

[trapperkeeper]

What kinda tea? Did you try just asking if they had any more?

[trapperkeeper]

The free food they had last time was good. And the time before that too.

[Nope, Lann intends to pout about it until he gets hungry enough to not care. That's the mature thing to do.]

[alchemists]

It was a fruit based one, I didn't get the name of it and I haven't been able to track down the indigents at all.

[trapperkeeper]

Hmm, it is tough if you don't know the name. What kind of fruit did it taste like?

[alchemists]

It was very citrus-y

[trapperkeeper]

Citrus, huh? So probably lemon or maybe orange. Was it a black tea?