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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~
artificialrose: (salamandroid) (Fuck. Sleeping in my sister's room)

[personal profile] artificialrose 2018-03-20 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Once he gets caught up in his own panic, it's sure hard to knock Garry out of it, and he hastily sets down his bucket before raising his hands up uncertainly. Should he? get closer?? is that alright???]

Your legs-! [oh no] Your arms! Are you okay!?
cloak: (thought)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-03-20 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Picking on a one-year-old, what a bully.

But no one would accuse Roxas of yielding easily, and so he continues patiently trying to extricate the cords from her grip]


It's what I'm here to do, right? So I don't have to like it.

[It's not an argument, but rather, a flat statement]
cloak: (thought)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-03-20 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Roxas plants a hand over his chest.

He'd noticed the silence by now, although he doesn't have a hole in his chest like Ain]


I don't know if that's a problem for me.
abgrund: (燃えて崩れる希望と共に)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-20 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ ..... why is this human panicking? Is there a problem?

Ain glances at himself for a few seconds: ]


.... I'm fine.......?
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-03-20 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[She's bullied worse. Don't test her, young man! Whenever he gets one hand off, she just tries to squirm it right back.]

Did you know that shinki can get named by more than one god?
abgrund: (帝國交響楽団 - 燃え落ちる誇り -Counter raid Another D- ) (Default)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-20 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ain takes an observing position this time, floating to stand behind Roxas and the dummy he's chosen to try and unleash hell on. If anything, he can try to learn something.

How does one learn abilities, anyway? ]
abgrund: (か細い指先は)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-20 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ The shinki glances down at his own body with a slow blink. ]

I did....

[ Is something wrong? ]
deniles: (pic#12167854)

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[personal profile] deniles 2018-03-20 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
[gross. happiness. He shakes his head for a moment before starting to move closer to him. His feet are quiet. And he has, amazingly, avoided running into any chore giving people.

So when he gets up behind Kaden, he waits until he's bent over in half...]


There's something on your tail.
abgrund: (帝國交響楽団 - 燃え落ちる誇り -Counter raid Another D- ) (Default)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-20 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ain stands in place for a while, eyeing his mochi; but he notices as soon as Roxas leaves his side and notes what he's picking up.

He trails after the younger boy a few moments later. ]


Do you... want anything?
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-20 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
....Well. That's a biological mystery, I guess.... but it still doesn't take awy the fact that you'd probably die...

Unless you want to electrocute yourself and find out for certain.
reformedsinner: (closer look)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[It's hard to tell his reaction, with his face lost in the shadows of that hood. He had been silent for a moment, though, as though considering what Hakkai'd said.

Perhaps it was the idea of a shinki becoming a god that disturbed him. Hakkai dismisses his own curiosity -- if Roxas isn't going to pursue the subject, he doesn't need to dwell on it -- and forges ahead.]


That's a part of it, certainly. When I cast it, I found it easiest to focus on the idea of "rejection" -- of separating myself from whatever I was casting the borderline against.

Some people seem to find that, if they think about enemies or attacks, other powers of theirs get involved when they cast the borderline.

[Those sparks don't look quite like a failed borderline, close up. Are they electrical?]
cloak: (Default)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-03-20 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's in that folded paper they handed out.

[The hand-prying battle rages on]

What's it matter if they can?
reformedsinner: (apologies)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-20 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
-- in that case, please excuse my rudeness!

[He bows, manufacturing a realistically embarrassed chuckle.]

There's a strange energy around you, and I was concerned that something had happened.

Ah... then I suppose I should say, it's a pleasure to meet you, shouldn't I? I'm Cho Hakkai.
abgrund: (油にまみれた骸)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-20 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ This person doesn't run away, nor exhibit any sort of fear. It's surprising, a curiosity that he tucks away in his memory.

Still, it solves the problem of having to deal with rumours later... ]


... Ain.

[ He has a longer name, but for some reason he doesn't want to think about it anymore. ]

You... are not afraid.....?
reformedsinner: (from the wreckage)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Should I be? [Hakkai considers the other man for a long moment, gaze sweeping up and down over black-glittering, unraveled limbs.

He's seen worse. At least there's no gore involved with whatever it is that's happened to Ain; and the energy, while worrying, doesn't seem to be an active threat.]


I'm not human myself.
cloak: (thought)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-03-20 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
So it's sort of like an instinct, this stuff?

[Another wave of his hand, another jolt of electricity springing into empty air. It's something, sure, but not something that seems especially useful, small as it is.

Just a Thunder spell. Just a thing he has no name for]


I don't think I understand...rejecting something. How do you reject it without fighting it?

[If thoughts like that were counter-intuitive, how does someone separate those concepts?]

That is a life he no longer recalls]
abgrund: (か細い指先は)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-20 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ That's also a good question. Maybe there's another reason as to why others are fleeing from him. ]

I see.....

[ If it's Hakkai is fine with it, then there's no problem. However, the silence trails on for a little longer - he doesn't have much else to say, merely regarding the other man with a blank stare. ]
foxrightsactivist: (I see you!)

[personal profile] foxrightsactivist 2018-03-20 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Whether she has shinki or not, that agreement for water is at least something. Besides, if she does have shinki, they're not here to help. And if she's a fellow shinki, her god clearly isn't here to help, either.

He can clarify whether she's a god or not later, though.]


Water. Right! Stay right here, and I'll be right back!

[And with that, Kaden runs off toward the area where he'd seen the robed shinki earlier, tail bobbing behind him as he disappears around a corner. It isn't long before he reappears, either, cradling a cup of water in his hands as if it's a precious, life-saving medicine.]

Here you go! I made sure not to spill it.
nopixiedust: (insovereign) (Nope I went the fuck home like)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-03-20 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[Good thing no one will stop them if they know what's good for them.]

Then it means that you have a choice! Besides, gods disappear here all the time- mine did less than a month in!

This is a business relationship! So that means you can get something new if it doesn't work as you want it to!
cloak: (say)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-03-20 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Can you die when you're already dead?

[He'd know the answer to that, if only he remembered Monad]
handle: starswirl (probably just got scolded by gramps)

[personal profile] handle 2018-03-20 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Not really. [ PLEASE DON'T GIVE HIM GRIEF HE'S PURE AND INNOCENT... ]

But, I can offer you help if you need it.
artificialrose: (salamandroid) (Oh shit I just realized the ropes are)

[personal profile] artificialrose 2018-03-20 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
Your- [Garry gestures futilely for a couple of seconds, struggling to find the words.] Your arms and legs, they're...

Don't they hurt? Or- feel strange? They're... not all there!
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-20 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[Welp, that's an immediate answer with no hesitation.]

...Worse than that, sometimes.
reformedsinner: (elementary my dear dragon)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-20 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a surprisingly philosophical question, and Hakkai blinks, one hand going to his chin.]

Yes, your other powers may respond instinctively.

Can you think of things that are not welcome, but that are not opponents? For instance-- something disgusting. This might be easier if I showed you an ayakashi.

[Whatever else might be said for the creatures, they were undeniably disgusting.]
foxrightsactivist: (no one cares helen)

[personal profile] foxrightsactivist 2018-03-20 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[That causes him to pause, and for a moment he looks back toward the main area. The last few days?]

Cleaning has been going on for that long and this place still isn't done? Do they just never clean it or something?

[Really. With all the weeds he'd seen around, it's like no one takes care of this place.]