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

[nopixiedust]

I guess. Vultures probably only eat rotting meat, huh, so you can't give them food from here.

[Hey, it never hurts to care about the local watch birds.]

[revolutionfalcon]

They'll eat other kinds of meat, but I'd need a ridiculous amount of anything from here to feed all of them. [This is why he usually just tosses them some amount of carcass he got from a butcher. It's easier.]

[nopixiedust]

You don't think it could just count as a treat? That would take down on the amount you would need a little bit.

[revolutionfalcon]

There's still around two dozen of them. [It might reduce the amount a little bit, but feeding that many animals is a significant undertaking regardless of how little each of them might be getting.]

[nopixiedust]

So is the problem the price of getting all that meat, or carrying it...?

[revolutionfalcon]

Carrying it. Too many of my followers like giving money offerings. [Add a job on top, and he's almost got more money than he knows what to do with despite buying food for five people and twenty-some vultures. It helps that he doesn't have to buy anything else but food, and also doesn't tend to go for frivolities.]

[nopixiedust]

[Cheerfully, she raises one hand.]

I'll help! I've already finished the kinds of things that I want to do today, so I have time to help carry some meat around.

[Maybe that will endear her to the vultures, too.... To make up for how much they hate Hibiki.]

[revolutionfalcon]

I never said I'd do it right now. I need to finish training. [Taking a small break from that sort of thing is fine, but taking a large one isn't a great idea, to his knowledge.

Also, it feels a bit too much like she's trying to rope him into it at this point.]

[nopixiedust]

Well, whenever you're ready. It's not like I have anything better to do right now.

[It's training day, after all. She clears up her schedule for that.]

[revolutionfalcon]

There's plenty of better things to be doing than hanging around here. [Shun turns away, starting to head back out of the crowd.]

I'm going back to the dojo. [Now that he's not going to be distracted by where the hell all the people keep getting whisked off to.]