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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-03-16 07:00 pm

March Training

Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: October 25th
Where: Outside the 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 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 what looks like an old, large warehouse behind the Meeting Hall for an informational meeting covering the basics of proper god behavior. Several chairs have been moved in, but they're squeezed together between packed shelves and boxes of old ritual clothing, scrolls and rusty or chipped household goods. 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.

    Back copies of the "From Ama" magazine, including puff pieces about new or rising gods or successful shinki, advice columns for resolving problems between gods and shinki, temple photographs and other articles of interest to gods and shinki, have been brought out in boxes and piled up next to a table holding a few remaining copies of the shinki questionnaire for any new shinki who want to keep one around until they can answer the included questions.

      What is your name?

      What is your god's name?

      How do you see your duties as a shinki?

      What is your favorite part of life with your god?

      What is your least favorite part of life with your god?

      What advice would you like to give your god?

      Do you wish to be assigned to a different god? []Y []N


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 white-robed shinki are still busy cleaning and preparing the Meeting Hall for the big annual meeting of the gods. They'll recruit anyone who looks as though they're not too busy in order to help scrub floors, weed, sweep paths and walkways, and shoo away any unwelcome little spirits that are hiding away in dark corners of the hall. Heavy lifting is good exercise... right?


Rest and Refreshments

    There are casks of fresh, cold water near the dojo to make sure no one gets dehydrated, but for those who've finished working, hot tea and enough seasonal treats are available to make it look as though the Heavens bought out an entire sweet shop. They're being distributed by a few shinki in indigo-blue and plain brown robes with the sleeves tied back, who aren't above teasing the newcomers a bit.

    Young shinki are playing in the nicely manicured garden, trying to catch crayfish at the lake edge, dashing around playing tag and hide-and-seek. Just be careful you don't get caught in the middle of a game of "Kagome"! If you do, you'll really be stuck until you guess someone's name.




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
  • Enjoy a traditional tea
  • Spectate if you want
  • Have fun~
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-19 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...Cheaper than a pistol too. Most of the Far Shore is connected to Japan... and ammo is difficult to get there. So unless you have a route into somewhere like America...

[Well. It's the sensible option, is all he's saying. With that bit of curiosity indulged, he starts to search through his options again.]

welcome_home: (070)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2018-03-19 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She blinks up at him with wide eyes for a moment before giving him a warm smile. ]

Do you need help?
sweetdeath: (my what a big **** you have)

ii.

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2018-03-19 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ooh. Tsuzuki's no good at crayfish catching himself, so he's drawn in just as surely as the kids that the guy with the tail's trying to teach. He stops a step back, craning his neck in fascination to try for a better look.]

Aren't they pretty fast?
welcome_home: souji (060)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2018-03-19 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That gives her pause, because she hasn't been around much lately, even if it hadn't been for that reason. But considering how it might have looked from that point of view hadn't occurred to her either.

Looking apologetic, she suddenly spontaneously lunges at him to throw her arms around his waist and give him a tight hug. ]


I didn't mean to worry you.
sweetdeath: (dreaming of sugarplums)

R&R

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2018-03-19 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course they're edible!

[Don't mind Tsuzuki. He's working his way through a whole decorative box of tea snacks on his own over here. There's powdered sugar everywhere.]

The green ones are the best. Oh! And those pink ones with the dark red flecks! Those are good too.
sweetdeath: (friendship and flowers)

i.

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2018-03-19 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh hey, you missed one!

[Or maybe it's actually "hadn't gotten to it yet," but either way, Tsuzuki's reaching past Ryoma to pluck a dandelion out of its position between the roots of an azalea. He sits back on his heels, grins, and picks the yellow flower off before tossing the leaves and roots into the weed pile.

The flower goes behind his own ear. What? It's a cheerful color.]


I haven't seen you around before. Are you new here?
kokuyoyo: (I don't even know how to be here.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-19 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, okay, they're. They're doing the hugging thing again. Okay. Chikusa wobbles a little with the sudden impact before just... standing there awkwardly.]

[What does he do with his hands]


...Ken will want to see you too. Were you sick?
cloak: (Default)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-03-19 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Roxas doesn't know whether he has conviction, or what that really means to the man he's talking with. But it's something he's ill-equipped to debate. And the subject moves right along to something else, anyhow]

He said his name's Add.

[That, at least, is easy to answer]
iron59: (13)

[personal profile] iron59 2018-03-19 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[A day ago, he'd be heading in the opposite direction as fast as his legs would take him. Today...today, he runs after her. Because even if he doesn't buy the story of magical time travel, he's had a bad day.

Bad week, really. Most of it his own fault.

She's as bad as Beth, marching along like she's on some drill, but he's got the stamina to press after her, and she's only walking, after all. As she pauses, he skids to a halt beside her, almost falling over. He reaches out and grabs her sleeve. It never dawns on him that this isn't the smartest thing he's ever done.]


Hey...!
iron59: (13)

[personal profile] iron59 2018-03-19 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[At the last word, the knife drops from his fingers. Stepping forward, he leans in, almost whispering.]

There's a way to get to America?
reformedsinner: (ha ha ha!)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-19 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I like edged weapons myself.

[So, there's no need to stop looking at the knives just because Hakkai's over here... he steps up next to Felix and considers the table. Some of them are blunted for practice, but others -- like the throwing knives -- are dangerously keen.]

I'm Cho Hakkai, by the way. Is your sister here, too?
futhark: (92)

[personal profile] futhark 2018-03-19 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh brother... of all the people ]

Ah, that guy. [ How getting a shinki like this will work for Add only time will tell. Someone willing to go with his every idea without question would probably be a scary possibility but- eh, this will be a mess to deal with if or when it happens ] Did he give a good first impression?
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-19 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[....Well, that's a sudden reaction. Chikusa blinks back at him.]

....Didn't anyone explain anything to you....
welcome_home: souji (060)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2018-03-19 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She's still hugging him. It's okay if he doesn't do it back. But she could maybe use a hug right now, even if she's the one giving it. Don't feel bad, Chikusa, Suou never quite knows what to do with these either.

She shakes her head a little. ]


No. I wasn't sick. I was just... [ Sad. Lonely? ] my big brother and Homura disappeared.
reformedsinner: (dot dot)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-19 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
You came here with a gun and no holster? Well, that won't do.

-- they might have one over with the practice weapons.

[He glances over towards the dojo. He hadn't seen one, but there are sometimes firearms among the melee weapons. It only makes sense, as shinki do turn into guns, sometimes, too.]

I'm Cho Hakkai, incidentally. Are you a god or a shinki?
kuroi_taiyo: (90)

[personal profile] kuroi_taiyo 2018-03-19 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you better figure it out before it's gone.

[ Which is when he pointedly eats the orange sweet he grabbed, making a bit of a face as he remembers just how sweet the sweets actually were in this time/world. ]
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-19 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[....Oh.]

[With the extreme awkwardness of someone who has only watched this maneuver on television, Chikusa just... puts his hand on top of her head. Limply. With all the energy of a snail that has been salted to death.]


....Yeah. [That. That sure happens fairly regularly.] Homura... was a friend or your shinki?

[He feels like he remembers seeing someone hanging around Nanako that hasn't been around in a while... but that could mean anything.]
welcome_home: (071)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2018-03-19 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her attention is now on him more than the sweets, head cocked to the side inquisitively. ]

Was it bad?
welcome_home: (064)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2018-03-19 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
My shinki. [ She sniffles, hiding her face against his stomach. ] Well. She was Souji's shinki, but he let me name her, too, because I didn't have one for so long. She was.... she was family.

[ And she was still clinging to the hope that the fact that they'd vanished at the same time meant that somehow, Souji had found a way to take her with him, wherever he'd gone. Back home, maybe? Even if she couldn't see them anymore, the hope that they were still together somewhere, that Homura wasn't alone, made it at least a little better. ]
kokuyoyo: (Apparently I kept telling people I was)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-19 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's fine, that cloth is absorbent. Chikusa stirs a little, however.]

....You need a new shinki.

[Most other people he wouldn't give a fuck about, but Nanako is.... a small child? And she is not, to Chikusa's knowledge, a small child that knows how to poison a man to death or tear out a throat. This wouldn't be as worrying if she was.]

[...Well. It'd be worrying for other people. But not Chikusa.]
kuroi_taiyo: (48)

[personal profile] kuroi_taiyo 2018-03-19 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes I forget how sweet this stuff can be. Everything is a lot saltier or sweeter than my mouth expects.

[ Well, almost everything. ]

That doesn't mean it's bad.
tadaishi: (hehe)

[personal profile] tadaishi 2018-03-19 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[He appreciates the attempt not to laugh, but he also has to admit that he looked funny, sort of pathetic, or possibly both.]

I'm good...and I think my pride will recover eventually. That's what I get for not paying close enough attention, right?
tadaishi: (:/)

[personal profile] tadaishi 2018-03-19 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[So rude.]

This? [Indicating the staff.] I think I can handle it.

[Want to come closer and try saying that?]
futhark: (100)

[personal profile] futhark 2018-03-19 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You've wiped the floor with them, how is that not effort?

[ He finds a spot to lean against and picks a cigarette, then he turns the box towards Lancer offering one. Just in case ]

Satisfied with the training?
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Cautious)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-19 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's a horrible idea and he should know it. Ginia sees him out of the corner of her eye and marks his presence enough, but when he grabs her sleeve, her attention snaps to him. She's sparred with people, patrolled, been around others, but no one's grabbed her out of the blue and her free hand immediately drops toward the knife hidden under the back of her jacket as she pulls the grabbed arm away.

He's a child though--the same one from the shade--and even with her free hand twitching for a knife, a borderline at the forefront of her mind, she holds still just enough to not harm him.

There's no recognition in her eyes as Ginia stares at him, just the startled confusion of an operative-turned-shinki unsure what to do next.]