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

[shiitan]

He stared. Her reaction was just so different from his own; how could he not wonder about it? Unfortunately, that wasn't necessarily a good thing, considering how he usually reacted to people who caught his interest.

Ross pointed at the corner of the tower, and in response to his magic, it wavered and fell with a clatter.

"Oops, it fell over. You lose."

[sing_for_me]

"Wha--how..?!" She was definitely shocked. How did it suddenly fall when it was fine a few seconds ago? Her shoulders slump, feeling a bit dejected. That was such a short victory...and an even shorter game.

[shiitan]

Pff. That reaction was better than he anticipated. Unfortunately for her, Ross was not at all above bugging people he had only just met.

"Want to play again?"

...Oh boy.

[sing_for_me]

That distracted her enough from her attempts at deducing what went wrong. He didn't seem interested at the beginning, so she didn't expect him to want another round.

"..S..sure, I don't mind." She definitely wanted to try again.

After stacking the blocks again, Alex draws her hands back and waits expectantly for him to take a piece.

[shiitan]

Ross could have just used his magic again to cheat, but instead he nudged the block out of place like she had done before. The stack still wobbled, but he didn't flinch like he did last time.

"You let me take the easiest piece again even though I won last time."

Of course, he only saw fit to bring this up after his turn was over.

[sing_for_me]

"I don't..control what piece you get though..?"

It wasn't so much that she let him. There was any number of blocks he could have probably taken. Which was what she did as she poked at another block, tapping it carefully and slowly until she could pull it out of the side.

[shiitan]

"But there's no rule against taking the easiest piece away from the other player and stealing their turn, is there?"

He said that plainly, despite seeing how others were playing the game only moments before. Given what he just said, maybe his sincerity was already in question.

It...also didn't exactly bode well if this was any indication of how he was going to approach the game after he took his own turn.