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

[kokuyoyo]

[Unfortunate, but enlightening. Chikusa pauses, taking all of this in.]

....Does it have to be black or that kind of green?

[redotiertwo]

Nope, those are just some examples of the wide palette of edgy colours you could be going with. Blood red is probably in this season, or something like that, you know.

[Can't forget the most classic and longstanding of edge colours other than black, after all.]

[kokuyoyo]

[See, now he's really thinking carefully on this.]

....I don't think I care enough about any of those colors.... to purposefully make something of mine them....

[This is probably a lot more thought than gloomdogs require.]

[redotiertwo]

I mean, you can always go nouveau edge and use a bright pastel colour instead yet still make it edgy, like the true edge masters.

[Only the edgiest of artists can make edge out of the otherwise bright and happy.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Now that's a consideration, and Chikusa takes a few more moments to go over that thought in his head.]

....Pastel green?

[redotiertwo]

Pastel green works, most shades of green can put people in mind of something gross anyway.

[Depending on what shade of pastel it is, but hey, evoking weird bodily fluid images is up to Chikusa.]

[kokuyoyo]

....That's... not really the intent...

....This time.

[redotiertwo]

So are you just adapting your khaki greens into a more fursona-appropriate form instead.

[Or something along those lines. Chikusa doesn't exactly wear bright colours.]

[kokuyoyo]

Not really....

[Or, well, that's not intentional.]

I'm just trying... to figure out a favorite color. I guess.

[redotiertwo]

I mean, green is a solid choice, plenty of good shades of green out there waiting for your approval.

[He's definitely not biased due to a certain green-eyed and green-fonted dog person back home.]

[kokuyoyo]

[What, do you mean judging favorite colors off of the dog people in your life isn't a good thing-?]

I guess so. Green and.... gold, maybe. Or something....

[redotiertwo]

Sounds like some fancy elf shit to me. Or maybe some spooky elven dog shit considering what we were just talking about.

[They went from gloomdogs to favourite colours pretty quickly.]

[kokuyoyo]

[Favorite colors are very important when coming up with gloomdogs. Or gloom...birds.... whatever.]

...What, like... Christmas elves....?

[He's not really a fantasy genre person. He thinks.]

[redotiertwo]

No, like high fantasy elves, though they both have the dumb pointed ear stuff going on. Green and gold are classic "fancy one-with-nature guy high on their own farts" colours, though it's usually leaf green and burnished gold or some uptight shit like that.

[Davesprite is much more a fantasy genre person. Or maybe he's just too versed on classic film and book references and he's trying to make Lord of the Rings jokes or something.]

[kokuyoyo]

So then it'd be.... Usually leaf green and gold accents, right...? What about gold with green accents...?

[Is that fancy elf bullshit or no]

[redotiertwo]

That could still be fancy elf bullshit, but it really depends on how you play it, you know, you could always reclaim the colour combo from elfkind.

[Or something along those lines. Davesprite is mostly just rolling with the whole thing at this point.]

[kokuyoyo]

Then.... I'll do that.

[....So apparently he's just going to make a gloomdog or fursona or some damn thing, thanks, Davesprite. In the meanwhile, he glances down at his hand.]

...I'm going to get more food. You....?

[redotiertwo]

[Just as planned. Or something. No part of this conversation was really planned more than about five seconds in advance, but it still counts.]

Gonna take a look around, I guess, it's been a while since we've had a good street fair.

[kokuyoyo]

Then I guess I'll see you around.... Or whatever.

[He has more street food to devour, after all. With that said and his sticks discarded, Chikusa shoves his hands into his pockets and turns away.]