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~
kagenonadeshiko: (genuine; at ease)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2018-02-19 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's certainly worse options but working with someone she's familiar with is always a welcome reprieve from trying to continually trying to match step with people she doesn't know too well. It's much easier to relax and be herself.]

How many have you spotted? I've found three so far.

[It hasn't been very long at all since they first started.]
futhark: (sideglance and sidesmirk)

[personal profile] futhark 2018-02-19 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Okay, that makes him freeze as two shots fly past him. Caster turns around to see the dummies, shot right in the heads. He lets a whistle of appreciation for the good shot and starts moving ]

Sure-- Wanna some help with training?

[ He offers while being not helpful at all. Because his idea of helping with training is making it harder for the poor souls.

Without waiting for answers he throws few small stones in the direction of dummies not yet activated by anyone's proximity. Only now they start to come to life- ]


Go get them!
kagenonadeshiko: (friendly; cheerful)

[personal profile] kagenonadeshiko 2018-02-19 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, hello, Wendy-san!

[Ayumu smiles at her friend.]

Not too often! Though I'm more familiar with these kinds of dances than most that I've seen.

[And it is fun, isn't it? Useful, too, but there's something satisfying about being able to learn how to do things just by watching. Or at least, be able to fake it enough that other people think she knows what she's doing.]
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-19 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah.... Four, I think. [He actually knows, but, teenagers.] We could probably find more if we started going into trees and things like that...

....Thanks. For coming to the dinner...

[It's a pretty late thanks, but Chikusa had been busy cooking when she arrived, and had fallen asleep in a way right after that, so there'd been no other time to talk with her.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Watching 3)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[The borderline holds to his attack, but cracks where the two collide. Ginia drops it anyway, sending a line slashing his way and following up with a fresh barrier in front of her.]
sanzohoshi: (Stop it with the monkey emojis.)

[personal profile] sanzohoshi 2018-02-19 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[She laughs a little] I'm sorry, I don't really have a better way of describing it! It's likely your god was told about you by one of Amaterasu's shinki, and will come looking for ou based on that. But it's like... 'Love at first sight'? [Another laugh.] Well, maybe not exactly.

[OH right, real fun] You'll get your shinki name and find out what you'll turn into for your god--That's fun and exciting, right? And you'll have something special--a power--only you can do to help them out that you'll get to discover...

And then you and your partner can start taking on prayers, fighting ayakashi... Things like that!
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Working 3)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's not a guard dog; not yours at least. But a bit of a smile crosses her face as she slips her phone into her pocket and springs into action. Mindful of how much ammo is left in her paintball gun, she slows down the closest dummy with a shot to the chest. She dodges the next one as it swings at her, grabbing its arm and using its own momentum to throw it forward, driving her knee hard into the limb as it falls forward.

As she releases the arm, she dives at the next dummy, drawing her knife and slashing in the same motion. She's fast and brutal with each strike, bits of fabric and straw lining the ground as the dummies lay stunned. Barely sweating, she looks back at him.]
badassfreakingoverlord: (disgruntled)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2018-02-19 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, hold up a minute. [That's not it! That's not allowed to be it!] You never told me YOUR name!
unlucky7: (STATUS :: ...This is a bad idea)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Beauty may mean nothing to Celestia, but Ginia's still going to be a bit awestruck and maybe a tiny bit more shy.]

You're not looking for a shinki, are you?

[Ginia is pretty sure Celestia isn't her god either, but it's worth checking, right?]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Sure)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ginia gives a tight-lipped smile.]

I'm only a shinki. My identity doesn't matter.
kokuyoyo: <user name="tigerparty"> (I woke up with a yoyo in my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-19 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now this is exactly what he wants, especially after what he's learned from Sabimei. Not a spell, exactly, but it still relies on a quick hand. His barrier springs up immediately with a sweep of his fingers, flickering an unnatural blue as it takes the hit cleanly. He's had months of practice, after all.]

[But with that threat out of the way, he quickly dismisses it, shooting off another line... and then one right after that, right when it hits. No rest- a real battle won't let there be one]
letteropener: (what confidence she can offer)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-19 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not actively looking for one, no. [Oh dear. She missed hers at the training and introduction? That's troublesome...] But if you need a place to stay until you find yours, my temple is open to you, and there is a shelter for shinki in need that just recently opened as well. And if in the long term you still need a god, well, we can talk then.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Target acquired)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's not a lot of standing still in a real battle either. Ginia moves as the multiple attacks come her way, firing off her own attacks at him. The first two are a straight shot while the second comes in more at an angle.]
badassfreakingoverlord: (hopping mad)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2018-02-19 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
What the -- that's crap! [Zetta's reaction is immediate, irritated, and utterly unfeigned.] Just because someone else tells you that, you don't just go believing it!
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Watching 3)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ginia shrugs. Shinki are here for the service of their gods. Therefore her identity is of no concern to anyone than her god. The idea doesn't bother her, it seems right.

But also, just a little, it feels like a wise bit of self-preservation to not give her name to a self-proclaimed evil Overlord.

So unless he tries to stop her again, she raises a hand goodbye and turns to go.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Standing by)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll find my god.

[The words spill quick from her phone and Ginia's expression hardens just a little. She will find her god, or be found by her god. One or the other. Because the alternate is accepting she wasn't given one and that idea is too much to dwell on. Maybe this is a test put out by her god, to see how well she does on her own.

If the last thought is so, Ginia's not sure if she's doing well or failing miserably.

She swallows, forces a calming inhale.]


Thank you for the offer. Are there a lot of shinki without a god?
Edited 2018-02-19 20:40 (UTC)
badassfreakingoverlord: (adrift in a sea of nothing)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2018-02-19 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if you have to go, I guess I'll enjoy watching you leave.

[He'll take what he can get, he supposes. Man, what a frustrating woman she proved to be. And really, a little depressing. Yeesh.]
kokuyoyo: (Apparently I kept telling people I was)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-19 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[So this is someone who can actually fight right off the bat. It's an observation he stores away in the back of his mind as he make the bare minimum of movement required to avoid the first couple of hits, barred only when he sweeps out his hand for a barrier or counter attack. It's been a while since he's sparred with another shinki who's honestly got an idea of what they're doing.]

[Still, there's another trick to use.... and that's shooting out a borderline that's not an offensive one, but a barrier, right in front of her. If she collides with it, that'd be ideal... not that he's really expecting it.]
letteropener: (raised hoof)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-19 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Shinki often have trouble finding their gods at first. [She answers the question she thinks Ginia really needs answered, not the one she asked.] I'm afraid the Far Shore isn't very organized when it comes to getting the two together.
letteropener: (raised hoof)

[personal profile] letteropener 2018-02-19 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
In very precise quantities. [She nods.] Too much or too little and it's all over. But what really trips me up is accounting for the spread on the cake. I frosted one cake too soon and it got all melty.
blizzardrock: (seven star)

[personal profile] blizzardrock 2018-02-19 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[...He'll take Chikusa's word for it. But practicing at tripping other people seems kind of...]

...Those aren't cutting lines, are they...?

[So saying, he sits down with a sigh.] How did you think of doing that, anyway...
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-19 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
....Oh. That's your problem.

You don't chill.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-02-19 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
They'll live.

[....So is that a 'no' or...]

[At least Chikusa doesn't protest Fubuki coming to sit near him, although he does spare a moment to side eye him.]


Isn't this kind of thing just a natural thought....?
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Smiling)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sparring practice so early on was not what Ginia expected, but it's welcome. Her lines are still weak, but what they lack in present strength, she makes up for in speed and aggression. She studies his movements as they fight, picking up the different ways to use borderline offensively and defensively.

When there's a flash and a sudden barrier in front of her, a grin spreads across her face, catching herself before she can collide. Clever. Her hand drops to her side and she draws and slashes her combat knife across his barrier as a test. She doesn't expect it to do much, but any more information on the nature of barriers is good to know.]
Edited 2018-02-20 05:01 (UTC)
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Coy)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-02-19 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her departure may need some work in the manners department, but at least she has a fantastic backside to admire.

...An evil talking book. Huh. What a strange day this is shaping up to be.]

((OOC: Thank you for the thread! I'll be sure to find more ways to throw Ginia at him because their interaction was a lot of fun!))