February Training

[godsoffortune]

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~

Comments

Shinki Training

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[Reluctance? Taking one for the team? What are those things! When a girl calls, a ninja is obligated to answer!]

It's absolutely no fun to do them on your own -- and a hundred times better doing them in the company of a pretty companion! Consider yourself partnered!

[He tosses back a hand, making his cape snap behind him to punctuate the point.]

[wingedprincess]

Oh wow, that's an excellent flourish! (If only she had a cape so that she could join in. Why doesn't she have a cape? Where can she get one?

The quest for cooler clothing will have to wait though.) Right! Let's work hard together, mister!

[onehandsomeslickninja]

The name's Edge, and I'm at your command, my lady! [Her energy just inspires him, it seems. Or maybe her appreciation. Liking his style is a shortcut to his good graces for sure!]

[wingedprincess]

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.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

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]

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!

[onehandsomeslickninja]

[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!