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

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[In something of an irony, Edge's thoughts are running along the same course. She's incredibly pleasant to look at, but it's so easy -- everything's right there on display, often literally, and clearly deliberately. Flirting is fun, but this is more like candy than a sustaining meal.]

[Which is one reason he notices her strength and seems interested in tugging that thread. He doesn't consciously know he isn't used to warrior women...]

No doubt! It's quite a feat to be strong and beautiful both. Are you much of a skilled fighter then?

[appealingdame]

[Eventually, Charlotte will run out of patience and the act will drop, if Edge is lucky. Then he'll see how much meat she's got on her bones.]

Oh, I really don't know! I'm a shinki after all, and I only just got here... [No memories of life as a soldier.] I tried playing with those practice weapons over there a little, but they just didn't feel right!

[Because she didn't find an axe big enough. After her sparring match with Shun, she gets the feeling that she's better with her hands anyway.]

What about you? You look like the kind of guy who knows how to do all sorts of clever things!

[Somehow that almost sounds like an innuendo.]

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Me? I've got tricks for days. [And he's proud of that, of course, though this one may not be entirely unjustified. He isn't a terrible fighter.]

[And speaking of which... well, one thing that had really gotten his interest in a different scenario had been a brief spar. Maybe that could recapture some of the magic here? As nice as she is to look at (and, again, he has to emphasize that it's really nice)... he wants a spark.]

Want to spar a little? That might jog some memories for you!

[appealingdame]

Spar? Oh, well...

[Fighting is fun, she thinks, and good stress relief. But she's gotten a decent idea of her ability from sparring with Shun and she doesn't want to scare anyone. Not yet. Plus, honestly, this guy is kind of boring...]

... I'm not quite sure if I can, today. There's so much to do!

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Hey, what are we here for besides training? And the way I hear it, we're going to be in a lot of fights, what with dark spirit monsters out there who are attacking people and causing chaos. [That part may have been slightly oversold to him. Or maybe he just heard a lot of what he wanted to hear...]

[appealingdame]

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.]

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[Edge folds his arms, the serious topic of their orientation definitely distracting him away from flirtation.] The way it sounded, we could end up in a fight at any time... with innocent lives on the line, if these spirit things really are that dangerous to living people. I don't want anyone getting hurt, but if we're the only ones who can fight them, we have a duty.