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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-02-16 06:51 pm

February Training

Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: October 15th
Where: Meeting Hall, 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 the Meeting Hall, 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 traditional reception room within the Meeting Hall for an informational meeting covering the basics of proper god behavior. A minor deity is giving the speech, and none of the white-robed shinki enter. 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 in the white-and-gold of Amaterasu's hosuehold 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 explanation 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.

    A training game has been set up through a section of the Meeting Hall gardens, with little cut-outs of ayakashi hidden in the landscaping, tucked into bushes or taped under bridges. Prize ribbons are being offered for every ten "ayakashi" a shinki (or team) discovers.


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. Several magically animated straw-stuffed training dummies, many of which have been carefully mended and patched with neat black stitching, are set up on the lawn with a white-robed shinki hovering nearby to watch over them. They make good training partners, although anyone who comes too close risks being targeted for a sparring match whether they wanted one or not.

    The pond behind the dojo has had dozens wooden poles sunk in it, spaced a few feet apart, with a bunch of brightly colored ribbons tied around the pole in the very center. Some of the white-robed shinki are practicing scaling the poles and leaping from one to the next, until they get close enough that they can snatch a ribbon from the center pole, and several have fallen in and are being teased by their fellows.


Rest and Refreshments

    Instead of snacks being served at the training session, this week, white-robed shinki with little flags are conducting groups of newcomers and volunteers down to the Tokyo Daijingu shrine and into a street festival currently being held in Tokyo. Traditional dance troupes are performing on street corners, and vendors have every kind of fall street foods, from barbecue to takoyaki, chocolate-dipped bananas and red-bean pancakes. New arrivals will get a white-and-gold envelope with spending money for the fair, although gods and shinki who have had some time to settle in will have to handle their own lunch expenses.




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
  • Go to a festival
  • Spectate if you want
  • Have fun~
wingedprincess: ♡。゚mana (6)

[personal profile] wingedprincess 2018-02-26 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
And I guess I'm commander Tana. (She's not really a commander, but he did plant the idea in her head.)

We're not fighting the real things, are we? Not that I'm afraid, but this would be my first fight.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Smiling)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-26 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even if his response is slow, Ginia still smiles as he signs back. She doesn't mind typing on her phone, but it's nicer signing. It's nice knowing there are people that know sign language, people teaching and willing to learn.

It's honestly some of the best news she's had all day, though at the same time, she's not sure why it makes her feel so... light. Free. Happy.

Mindful of his level, she slows down her signing.]


It is nice you're willing to learn. Thank you.
letteropener: (worried look)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-26 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
It would lead to certain questions. After all, there are many humans here... but a pony shinki would have every reason to believe they should know the one pony god here, which could lead to trouble as they tried to recover memories they ought not to.

[Also, it would be very sad to see one of her subjects dead.]
wingedprincess: ♡。゚mana (you dream to see the world one day)

[personal profile] wingedprincess 2018-02-26 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
They might take an interest in you, and it'd be good to be friends... but I think there's a lot of humans here from different places. I was introduced to a weapon I knew nothing about, but someone else was fairly experienced with it.

(This is probably the smartest observation she's ever made.) I understand though... it'd be painful to have to keep your distance from something vaguely familiar.
onehandsomeslickninja: (down to business)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-02-26 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no, we're just hunting little figures. No need for battle today, unless you want to go challenge a training dummy.

[Though he looks over her speculatively, taking more note of her movements than her form this time.] I don't know about the 'first battle' thing, though. You seem like you've got some skill at least from when you were alive, even if you don't remember it.
wingedprincess: ♡。゚mana (7)

[personal profile] wingedprincess 2018-02-26 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I? (He is spending an awful amount of time looking her over and she notices, giving him a bright smile.)

Experience or not, it would be a bad idea for my first battle to be something live. Hunting inanimate objects though sounds safe... and fun!
roundtablerebel: (2)

[personal profile] roundtablerebel 2018-02-26 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
What? Friends? When the hell did we become friends?!

[ It's clearly too late for Mordred to do anything about it now. ]
wingedprincess: ♡。゚mana (6)

[personal profile] wingedprincess 2018-02-26 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Just now! (Gotta keep up, Mordred.)

Do you not want to be friends? Wait! Don't give an answer just yet.

I'll prove I'm a good ally to have once we're through with this basic training. (There's no way this could possibly go wrong.)
letteropener: (why is fluttershy stoned)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-26 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
More than that, dangerous for the shinki. If you saw somepony you were absolutely certain you should know, could you just avoid that? [At least humans have the advantage of being so common. Why did there seem to be no other worlds of ponies out there?]
wingedprincess: ♡。゚mana (4)

[personal profile] wingedprincess 2018-02-26 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't be able to avoid it myself, but... ha... (The laugh is less of a laugh and more of a downward spiral in tone.) I'm a shinki. It doesn't matter what I would think or say in that situation when it'll never be relevant to me.

I'm sorry that it isn't for you, miss.
roundtablerebel: (3)

[personal profile] roundtablerebel 2018-02-26 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I never agreed to th—!

[ She's about to answer the question in the negative before Tana cuts her off. Dammit, this girl seems even more energetic than her god.

Her proposal, however, isn't entirely without merit. She doesn't believe she needs them but allies are useful sometimes. And if she really can't stand Tana she could always ditch her later, right? Right?

She sighs.]


...Fine then, show me what you've got.

onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-02-26 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's... a little naive, huh? That's a bit strange for a girl who he thinks can fight, but how can he even start to speculate about it? Who knows what her worries are like?]

I'm not sure ayakashi are technically 'alive'? They're spirits, so who knows? [He shrugs slightly. It didn't really matter.] But little dummies of them are foes we can vanquish just fine!
letteropener: (what confidence she can offer)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-26 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Never say never, but let us hope for never. [She smiles gently, eager to soothe the poor girl after this conversation took a depressing tone.] But shinki or god, we are all in this together. As distressing as some of it might be, it's also a chance to make new friends and do some very real good for the people of the Near Shore.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Sad)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-26 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ginia pulls her legs up and wraps her arms around them, chin resting on her knees as she stares off into nothing. Being able to accept failure so easily, it's remarkable, admirable. Because even the thought of failing makes her stomach turn and her back and shoulders tense. Is this how everyone feels? Celestia is so much stronger or is she just more fragile?

Ginia mulls over the thought as she picks up her phone, suddenly hating herself for ruining the mood. Again.]


Sorry.

[Is all she writes, setting the phone face up on the cloud.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: What?)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-26 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh...kay...? Confused, Ginia takes Hibiki's hand and effortlessly swings herself up onto Maxie's back. But once she's up there, she's at a bit of a loss at what to do next. She mimic's Hibiki's posture and squeezes tight with her legs for support and ultimately rests her hands on the god's shoulders.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: What?)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-26 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wait what? Ginia's response comes swift, eyes a bit wide.]

There are others here like me?

[For reasons she can't explain, the news brings a smile to her face.]
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-26 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
....Mm. Sure. My god... is Hestia. So... I guess I should know at least that much.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Attentive)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-26 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[The missing memories has been weighing on Ginia's mind too and she's silently glad she's not the only one. How strange it is to have muscle memory and knowledge but none of the context surrounding it.

At Tana's next question, Ginia quickly hits the internet and pulls up from pictures of bullets from a quick image search. Once Tana's had a chance to look at the pictures, she types up an explanation.]


Because the projectiles are often made of metal or other durable materials, they can do a lot of damage if they hit someone.

I'll help you take a shot.


[Ginia mimics holding the rifle and demonstrates pulling the trigger before giving Tana one last quick look over.]
futhark: (hood; grin)

[personal profile] futhark 2018-02-26 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ An idea that it would be good moment to attack doesn't even cross his mind. They're not enemies, they're all here on the same side after all. A camaraderie no Servant should get used to, but here he is... ]

Very well, Ginia. [ He smiles, and puts his hood up ] Good luck in finding your god then.

[ Most of those he knows give their shinki a free reign, but there is always chance of someone more controlling ]

See you around!
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-26 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[As the server hands over a pair of bananas, exactly as ordered, Wendy hands one up to him.]

It's nothing. You have to get a bit more of a spine. Unless we directly make ourselves known, they'll ignore us like nothing.
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

lmao i'll take your word for it

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-26 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[Distracted from the dancing, Wendy pauses and blinks over at the redhead.]

It's not exactly a secret. My god is into performance, so I end up doing it too. I'm a better dancer than I am a singer, 'tho...

[Singing and dancing? Jeez.]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-26 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
In crowded streets?

[Honestly, she swears. She doesn't deserve this. Neither does Maxie.]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-26 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you're not actually done. [Shaking her head, at least Wendy stops offering the chicken.]

Anyway, it's rich people hospitality. Besides.... They might not know how many people will actually show up, both those of us who've been here a while and new faces. I mean... probably.
usedperishsong: (don't be late to ride.)

[personal profile] usedperishsong 2018-02-26 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Then this should be right up yer alley.

[ Kanade can't say she's particularly interested in performing, but moving her body is always fun. She joins Wendy in imitation of the dancers. ]

Arms go like this?

[ She has it wrong. ]
usedperishsong: (with that i knew)

[personal profile] usedperishsong 2018-02-26 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Then I'll hafta catch up! Line!

[ There is a lot of raw power behind this and....basically no aim. She's just trying to collide with his borderline in the hopes of collapsing it.

Going all-in seems to be the style, over here. ]