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

[redotiertwo]

Fair. Most of the ghosts here don't really look like ghosts. [Though they're supposed to be "spirits" instead of ghosts, or whatever. It's all the same to Davesprite.]

Yeah. Haven't remembered any details, but I remember me before this happened complaining to someone I have remembered that my custom game guide was now shit because she decided it should be a dead bird, so.

[Considering the thing had been right in front of him at the time, he can confidently say it was what the thing looked like before he jumped into it later on. Including the sword, which Davesprite tweaks a bit when it's mentioned.]

Yeah, don't freak out, it's fine. [He draws the sword out of himself and spins it in his hand before reinserting it...and then moving another piece out of the tower as an afterthought.]

[tadaishi]

[Too late he's already freaking out a little internally. But the owner of the sword says it's fine and doesn't particularly seem bothered that it's chosen him as a sheath, so that's somewhat reassuring.

Vaguely.]

Uh huh...

[Let's go back to talk ing about Davesprite.

'Spirit' and 'ghost' are pretty much synonymous in many cases; they're almost the same to Tadashi, though ghosts are more transparent.]

A dead bird's a strange choice. For anything, in a game.

[Not that he knows the circumstances of said game. While he's talking, he works on easing another wood block out.]

[redotiertwo]

Yeah, I don't know shit about the game, but the sprites are like custom guides as far as I can tell. Jade got upset that I accidentally killed a bird and turning something into a sprite is a kind of life, so she pretty much threw it in.

[Considering all the excuses his past self had been making about not killing the bird, he absolutely killed the bird, not that he knows how he managed to get a sword right through the middle of it.]

I'm pretty sure nobody would've guessed I was gonna have to jump in later as well, though.