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

[battered]

[This is turning into way more of a science lesson than he would have imagined out of a fun game... He can't really say he's getting it, exactly, but it's not going to deter him from continuing to play.]

R-right! [As if he understands completely. Ah, well, at least the next piece he picks - a little closer to the top, thinking that maybe ones up higher had less chance of toppling the tower over - is slipped out of the stack with similarly little issue.] Like that!

[alchemists]

Right!

[ Elfnein didn't mean to make this more complex but it's a useful skill to know right? ]

[battered]

[To her credit, it's not a difficult concept, Raichi's just... not strong at thought-heavy work.]

Kaha, it's not too hard...! [Not yet, anyway.] It's kinda fun, trying to keep it from falling over!

[alchemists]

[ Elfnein takes a block that's closer to the middle, a little wiggle on the tower but it stays up. ]

It is a lot of fun, I didn't understand why anyone would like it at first but after testing it out a few times.

[battered]

[It's a game with a lot more finesse than he's used to, so maybe that adds some kind of appeal to it as well.

The next piece he goes for has a little less give than the last few he's tried to pluck out of the stack, leading the upper parts of the tower to sway a little more dangerously than before... but again, the stack remains standing. It's enough to give a sigh of relief over.]

Whoa-! That was close!