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~
priforprince: (mast)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-02-28 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I've invested in rigorous training for that.

[ Maxie looks nonplussed. He's not the one with that issue. The "training" (mostly being subjected to videos and candy-colored cardboard cutouts while carrying the Hibiki doll on his back, as the real Hibiki watched from within a cement-block fortress) had had no effect one way or the other.

None of the possible problems with this situation, in short, have anything to do with the horse. ]
priforprince: (bored)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-02-28 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll show you the supreme choices on this menu.

[ In we go. This particular establishment is going all-in on wanting to seem as stereotypically "French" as possible. Hibiki, however, doesn't seem put off by such blatant attempts at creating a mood. If anything, she looks right at home.

Most of the staff doesn't notice them, but the teenage girl working the front counter sure does: when she sees it's Hibiki, she goes bright red and needs to take deep breaths, a giddy smile fluttering onto her face.

Hibiki has been here before. ]
onehandsomeslickninja: (a little uncertain)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-02-28 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
--That's way too easy!

[Sorry, Wendy -- he's fine! Edge lashes out with one foot, kicking the dummy back to buy himself a moment.]
badassfreakingoverlord: (determined)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2018-02-28 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're not someone's shinki, you're unnamed and defenseless against the ayakashi. That sounds like a bad deal to me. And I don't try to murder my potential subjects, that's bad Overlording. [Now Zetta is just irritated over being prejudged. What kind of sad, pathetic despot does this kid think he is? He's a freaking Overlord!]
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-28 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably... depends on the god. And how much they care about cake.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-28 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
...I pay sometimes.

[Encouraging???]

And when I steal, it's from bigger businesses now anyway...

[Yeah, that's... not so encouraging. But hey. It's something? Chikusa doesn't seem to care either way as he digs through more of his fish, watching Davesprite and his new sugary gain.]
boneofsword: (my chance to redeem)

[personal profile] boneofsword 2018-02-28 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. [Archer nods and first shows her a proper stance, then hands her the bow and offers her corrections and tips. He doesn't mind explaining something in length, even going as far as to explain several aspects of kyūdō.]
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-28 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, he doesn't need to be told twice. As far as he's concerned, he's done enough to potentially make it easier for himself, if someone else's borderline is needed. Having one be shattered... helps, in his opinion.]

[Of course, his opinion is also that he's shuffling off without much of a goodbye, so.]
nopixiedust: (insovereign) (I'll always be here to give you)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-28 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Wendy. So it's... Gin-ee-uh?

[She's going on the phonetic sound, so she sure hopes she's right.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Studying)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-28 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ginia doesn't think much of it as she goes back to waiting for her god and strengthening her borderlines.

And if it occurs to her later they never changed names, well, no matter. They'll probably run into each other again at some point.]
projectsilvergaze: (✧promise I can grow tall)

[personal profile] projectsilvergaze 2018-02-28 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[So she is mute... She lowers her phone and shakes her head no. Her voice is deadpan, with a British accent, and has a slight metallic echo to it.]

I believe that isn't in my data banks. Although I can learn it. How good are you in telepathy?

[As if that's an entirely normal thing to ask a fairly normal human woman.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Watching 3)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-28 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ginia copies his stance and follows his movements and advice, listening attentively to everything. Her back and arms are strong from forgotten years of shooting and fighting, but she's never had to build up grip and pull strength and she feels the tension across her muscles.

And without that strength built up, her first arrow falls short of the target. Damn.]
alchemists: (No fighting)

[personal profile] alchemists 2018-02-28 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hibiki?
bylight: (♠ I chew you up)

[personal profile] bylight 2018-02-28 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Tana wouldn't remember being around non-humans, would she?] I can tell you there's human, non-humans, demons, a horse with wings, and plenty of other creatures that are on our side. Ayakashi are not like them, or us.

[Lightning nods and pulls her own out, pressing a few buttons on it. Time to teach her shinki how to use a phone because from that death flash Tana is clearly not from a technology advanced world.] Your contact info is in mine already. This device is used for phone calls, which is a way to talk to someone when you're apart from each other, or text messages. You type those out and send them to the other person. There should be a icon that looks like a persons silhouette when you tap and swipe the screen. Tap on that and scroll till you see one of my names.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Attentive)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-28 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[The voice is unusual, but who is she to comment on it? After a day of giant talking books, winged unicorns, and princely gods with a purple horse, it's just one more detail for the backdrop of Ginia's new life.]

No experience in telepathy.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Attentive)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-28 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[She nods. Got it in one!]

I arrived today. Shinki.
nopixiedust: (insovereign) (Nope I went the fuck home like)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-28 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel a little more thankful for that beach party now... [It had just been confusing, not life threatening.] Did you like having to do that? Figuring things out while fighting?
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-28 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[She guesses that's the best she can ask for...]

You better keep him safe, then. I've heard all sorts of weird stuff happens during festivals.

[Well, more like only that one time.]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (This is so stupid.)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-28 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Then don't complain when it's hard!

[No sympathy from the small girl]
nopixiedust: (insovereign) (Nope I went the fuck home like)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-02-28 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[A win for her!]

Have you met your god yet? If they're a jerk, let me know. I can help you take care of them.

[She's extremely small, and with no fear.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Smiling)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-28 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[There used to be someone in Ginia's life that was tiny and fearless and if Ginia remembered anything, she might have smiled with some kind of nostalgic fondness.

Pity she doesn't remember anything.

But Wendy's words still bring a small smile. Spirit is appreciated.]


I haven't met them yet. I also hope there won't be any problems, but thank you? I'll remember that.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Observing)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-28 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[One can't be a princely idol without fans! Ginia notices the teenager's reaction, but doesn't consider much else about it as she turns to take in the decor. It's an interesting contrast to the previous scenery.

With her phone already out, Ginia snaps a few pictures.]
blizzardrock: (metal plus)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2018-02-28 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it is possible to tell, though. [But Fubuki’s been doing it weird the entire time, so maybe he isn’t the best person to be saying so.]

[He glances over.] You were kind of out of it when I came over, though. What would you have done if I were an enemy?
blizzardrock: (living dead no yobigoe)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2018-02-28 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[...Well that must make certain things easier.]

[—No, wait. He shouldn’t think like that.]

I suppose that means you’ve never regretted it, either.
kokuyoyo: (Can't believe I ate straight coffee)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-28 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
No. There's never been any reason to. Most people tend to deserve to die anyway.... in my experience.

[Granted, most people he's set out to kill have been criminals, but still...]