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

[appealingdame]

I'll clean the floor with you. [Charlotte hisses through gritted teeth.] Do you know how much work I have to do to get these curls right?!

[Because Charlotte doesn't. She literally woke up like this. But still, she has a feeling it took a lot of work to look this good.]

You think I give a crap whether or not you like this stuff? Go drown in it for all I care!

[kuroi_taiyo]

Probably as much as it took to do my hair.

[ Which is longer than he is tall. So it's not like he's being flippant about the guess- it could've actually taken the same amount of effort. Which neither of them would know, because they both woke up looking as fabulous as they had.

He'll tap at her wrist to let go of him, refusing to show as much annoyance to this treatment as she does. Not because he's not annoyed or is trying to mitigate things.

It's because this seems like an easy way to get an amusing reaction. ]

If you tasted this stuff, you'd have tossed it back too. Try it.

[appealingdame]

You think I'm here so I can drink that crap? It's just what's here, idiot.

[The poor shinki who arranged this spread looks so offended. But Charlotte has done her best to avoid any the weird, foreign food herself. It's only purpose is to give her an excuse to approach people, after all. Now, however, she's drenched in it and has her hands clenched into fists at her side. If there weren't so many witnesses, she'd tear out this prick's eyes and stuff them up his-]

You're going to make this up to me, jerk.

[kuroi_taiyo]

[ Those red eyes stared at this brute of a woman as she continued to have some kind of threatening posture and stance in this whole thing. Between the outrage and her body, she had a kind of appeal. So demanding though.

So he pulls out the large silver wand, with the large red gem at the end, out of his top. ]

Make it up to you, huh? Here, take a few steps back as well.

[ Looks and items of enough value to be royalty and potential magic? Surely he could be trusted to actually be making it up to her. If he had even the slightest air of someone trustworthy. ]