godsoffortune: (sakura)
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~
nopixiedust: (insovereign) (I'll always be here to give you)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-27 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
You could have fooled me. You seem like you've really practiced a lot.

[Clearly, she has to catch up.]

I don't know these kind of dances much at all, although I think Hibiki would like me to know about them. She's really into the classical refined stuff.
artificialrose: (daydreamgalleries) (The landlord called GOOD NEWS!)

[personal profile] artificialrose 2018-02-27 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine. I mostly come to these things to help out anyway. I know that when I had just arrived, it really helped me out.

[And, well, pay it forward, right?]
priforprince: (cutest)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-02-27 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Any title you bestow me is the greatest honor.

[ Hibiki smirks. She has been crowned the Ultimate Prince, she has been appointed Mister Handsome Universe World Prince of the Year by the Queen of the Paltic States. Far as she's concerned, that's more than enough to count.

Save: ]
But I'd also like to hear you call me "Hibiki". You can do that, right?

[ She winks. The air around them glimmers, twinkling with light and sparkles. ]
priforprince: (nose)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-02-27 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
He's fine.

[ Look how very fine Maxie is. In fact, Maxie looks.....used to this.

What sorts of places did Hibiki ride this horse back home. ]
priforprince: (lording)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-02-27 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki smirks. And closes her eyes. Really, the contact was all she needed....

To teleport the two of them right in front of the shop, horse and all.

Maxie looks around, startled, realizes what's happened, and lowers his head. Hibiki is satisfied. ]


Divinity possesses endless supplies of elegant methods of transportation.

[ No, that was. That was pretty much the only one, right there. Unless "teleporting, plus horse" is different from "teleporting, minus horse".

And why shouldn't it be? ]
blizzardrock: (call of the haunted)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2018-02-27 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
...Chikusa. Don't kill.

[It lacks conviction, even to his own ears. One of these days...he's not going to be able to say it at all.]

...Killing generates guilt. It’ll affect your god.
bylight: (mooglepalooza001)

[personal profile] bylight 2018-02-27 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Tana, should she be worried? Then again, Lightning has done that a few times in her past. Even the best can be taken in and have very decent conversations with bad guys.]

From what they taught us gods at the meeting, ayakashi can be pretty much any shape, but it's obvious what they are. Nothing like us.

[Or most of the other people here unless it's something close to that talking book she was speaking with earlier. That could have been an ayakashi were it not a demon lord trapped in paper...]

Do you know how to use your phone? They should have given you one.
revolutionfalcon: (derisive)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-02-27 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[The running her mouth isn't particularly impressing Shun, but at least she's asking about rules upfront, unlike other people who often end up complaining about him doing something they consider below the belt halfway through the spar. With that in consideration, he'll at least respond to the question.]

My only limit is no lasting injuries, since it's a spar. There's not much point fighting against someone if there's no risk at all to it.

[Even if that risk might just be a bruised jaw or a bloody nose. Regardless, considering she's being so hasty about it, Shun holds his naginata ready, since he wouldn't put it past her to just charge him as soon as the rules are established.]
revolutionfalcon: (placid)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-02-27 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Since she seems more comfortable continuing to sign back and forth, Shun figures he'll reserve the talking for another time. It's an opportunity to practice it, anyway, since he's only really been doing it with Lavi so far. Celty always seems fine using her phone, and Eric hasn't withdrawn badly enough to resort to it rather than speech yet.

It is easier to read her signs this way, and when Shun replies, he focuses more on trying to pin down which ones he needs a little faster rather than being too hasty about the signs themselves.]


Thought it might be useful. Like signalling. [That, and he'd in part jumped in after Eric expressed interest to make sure he had an interpreter. Not that he'd admit that.]
revolutionfalcon: (derisive)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-02-27 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just trying to figure out where the hell they kept herding people to. [It was a hard thing not to notice, considering how regularly people were disappearing with the white-robed shinki.

Shun looks a bit dismissive at the idea of "rich people hospitality".]
They should be doing it some other time, then. Not while people are going to be busy elsewhere.
letteropener: (fond smile)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-27 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Never apologize for asking questions. How else would you ever learn?

[Experience, of course. And mistakes, and failures. Celestia knows perfectly well she owes her current state to all the mistakes she made along the way... but also, her willingness to learn.]
letteropener: (excited)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-27 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Hestia? A god of cooking? Or perhaps of cake? [She doesn't actually think that's possible, but it's good to dream!]
sweetdeath: (honest smile)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2018-02-27 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty much. Hey, don't worry about it, though.

[The line moves forward another few spaces, as two people head off with their snacks, and Tsuzuki steps briskly along before anyone can step into the space without noticing their presence.]

As weird things about being a shinki go, that's not so bad.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-27 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
...Of Hearth.

[Celestia seems smart enough, so he won't bother to clarify what a 'hearth' is.]
kokuyoyo: <user name="tigerparty"> (I woke up with a yoyo in my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-27 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[A slow, slow blink.]

...I won't feel guilt. I never have.

[This is perhaps not entirely true... but those memories are a little more fuzzy than anything, beyond Ken.]
boneofsword: (Impressive)

[personal profile] boneofsword 2018-02-27 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Archer is surprised with her applause, although he masks it with a smirk.]

Why, thank you. It's good to meet other snipers here.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-27 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...You can use any shrine to go inbetween the Shores. So.... keep in mind where the nearest are.
alchemists: (No fighting)

[personal profile] alchemists 2018-02-27 05:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright... though this doesn't make me worry any less.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: That so?)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-27 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Know potential allies, know potential enemies, always watch your back. No harm appreciating a sharp eye and steady hand either way.]

Likewise. How are you with a bow?

[She lightly inclines her head back toward the helper shinki passing out bows and quivers. He is named "Archer" after all.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Surprised)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-27 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. Oh! Ginia also looks around, blinking at the sudden change in scenery before hurriedly sliding off Maxine's back.]

Is that your special ability?

[She quickly asks through her phone. Then again, hadn't Caster also teleported when they were sparring? Or was he just that fast?]
raygunner: (sour cherry)

[personal profile] raygunner 2018-02-27 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems to be octopus placed in batter and cooked.
boneofsword: (hidden weapon)

[personal profile] boneofsword 2018-02-27 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[So she wants to see how good he is with a bow too. After all, it's in his name.]

I'm decent enough. [Archer says and goes to grab bow and quiver. He's not going for arrow-splitting accuracy this time, just for hitting the exact center of the paint splatter.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Watching)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-27 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Modest too. Ginia watches the arrow fly and pierce the paint splatters. Damn. She'll incline her head in respect as a question mulls on her mind. Hesitating, Ginia's fingers lightly tap her phone before she swallows her pride.]

Is it hard learning archery?
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-27 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
As long as they get the money anyway, I don't see what the big deal is...

[Then again, Chikusa doesn't see the big deal with casual theft, so maybe he should be ignored on this matter. Stopping at one stall that's been set up, Davesprite will get to see various little cookie-like things wrapped up in small bags and on display for people to pick up.]
shiitan: (🔥 28)

[personal profile] shiitan 2018-02-27 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, let's see, the things I'm objecting about... [He tilted his head and crossed his arms as if he was in deep thought.] I don't want to be someone's shinki, my last god used me to murder someone, I keep getting put in my vessel form against my will...

[He said it so casually that it wouldn't be strange for someone to wonder if he was just making up excuses.]