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]

[ That's certainly got him backing up as the other kind of shield once against protects him from the attack and shatters once again. Which seems to be wearing him out as much as it's knocking him back. Pretty soon he's going to end up against a wall or something.

The placement did get him off his feet this time, though it's got the one with the shinki name on it laid flat on the ground. ]

It already looks like you do. The hell's your deal; something against bare feet?

[ Oh yeah, he noticed where you were aiming. ]

[kokuyoyo]

[Close but no cigar. That shield is definitely interesting. He'll have to keep it in mind if he ever gets into a more serious fight with this guy. It's the most troublesome sort of thing to go against with his regular needles...]

[Another line, followed swiftly by a second one. Maybe that will work?]

Bare feet make an easy target. Especially for Far Shore denizens....

[Not a lie, considering ayakashi.]

[kuroi_taiyo]

[ Like the previous times, the shield game up and shattered against the first line as the second hits and gets the newly arrived shinki off and onto his side. Groaning in pain, he's slowly moving to get back up.

However, one shitty teen gets to see the what's on the heel of the other shitty teen. ]

Sounds like a good excuse to be a dick to people.

[ If this were towards other people and not him, you'd be pretty cool in his book. Definitely someone to contact to cause up some fun. Right now he's thinking of ways to get revenge. ]

[kokuyoyo]

That too.

[Points for honesty...?]

[Still, that's exactly what he needed to see, and Chikusa stops the borderline attacks. Alright, what would be best? The last time he tricked someone (""tricked""), he used Bind.... Ah.]

[With his hand still pointed at Judar, Chikusa comes to a decision.]

...A lesson on magic... there are more spells than borderlines.

[And he casts Silence.]

[kuroi_taiyo]

[ Well, whatever he ends up saying is completely muted, and he realizes it just after the first word. Oh, you bastard...

His grip tightens on the wand as it's raised a little more, though his eyes are fixated on those stupid glasses and that weird tattoo on his face. He just needed something as revenge. To which some ideas and commands come to mind, and while the gem on the wand glows for a bit, there's nothing that seems to happen.

Until about a cup's worth of ice cold water drops down onto Chikusa's head.

He'd exclaim his surprise at it working, and actually does so quite proudly, even if it was silence. ]

[kokuyoyo]

[It's questionable news how much protection against water the average beanie is, although Chikusa jolts slightly from surprise. Some of the water certainly splashes against his glasses, and Chikusa makes the very faintest hints of a face as he slides them off of his face. Great, now he's going to have to clean them...]

[But while he does-]

It's been extended to an hour now.

[Was he going to do that anyway? Can he do that? Who knows!]

[kuroi_taiyo]

[ 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. ]

[kokuyoyo]

[This whole mess is just going to escalate. Again.]

[Silence ends up being an hour and fifteen minutes.]

[kuroi_taiyo]

[ Just wait until next time, Chikusa. Just. Wait. He's continuing to look smug due to the promise of how that future will go. At least as it stands in his head.

He's on the fast track for learning this stuff, given his god was a shinki that also knew these spells that you're using on him.

Given the large groan from his stomach, however, it seems that Judar has to go first to get some food. Because someone had him go through a bunch of his own energy. ]