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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~
abgrund: (沈メ 底へ 沈メ 深ク)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-21 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ .... okay, but it's not that simple to him. ]

Why....?

[ They're coworkers, that he can understand. But this seems like a step up from that ]
abgrund: (か細い指先は)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-21 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ The main reason is that he's been corrupted by the same thing that Add had inadvertently unleashed. There's quite a lot that he doesn't care about, the void smothering out all emotion ]

Yes...?

[ Is something wrong? ]
abgrund: (震える指先)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-21 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ As long as you're not in pain, he says....

Ain frowns, though it's barely perceptible given the already apparent lack of emotional expression that he's capable of. He doesn't remember why, but - this is something important, he feels. ]


I see...

[ The cloak flutters a little without any breeze. ]

... you are kind, to concern like this.

[ Can't feel pain if you can't feel anything at all. ]
swordofzero: (innocence)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-03-21 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
Loyalty

[He says it automatically before he even thinks about it. Like it is so ingrained into him that he doesn't need to think about it. That's... A new thing he has just learned about himself. Loyalty is definitely more important than personal happiness. It feels right to him even if he has no idea why.]

Do you think otherwise?
swordofzero: (moresadface)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-03-21 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[To observe. He figured he could do that. It didn't sound like something he was incapable of doing, he noted the bitterness in Shun's voice and wondered about it. Did he not like being here?

The second part made him frown slightly. Challenge his god? It sounded... He wasn't sure what he felt about that.]
Are gods not just?
swordofzero: (moresadface)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-03-21 07:53 am (UTC)(link)
Whatever brought them here... [So gods were not in control. They were brought here and sent away back to their normal lives. Did they remember being gods? What a strange thing to happen.]

Do shinki disappear as well?
purr_ince: (Adrien | Uh.. I guess?)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-03-21 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. Most of the new gods are pulled from different places. Same for shinki. No one seems to know how or why.

[Adrien nods.] I assume so? I haven't known any to disappear though but if a god can I'm sure a shinki can.
swordofzero: (determiny)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-03-21 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
That's strange. Surely someone knows. [So shinki perhaps disappeared too. He noted that.]

Have you been here a long time?
purr_ince: (Adrien | I'm listening)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-03-21 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
If they do no one is telling. There are theories but no solid answers.

[There's a shake of his head.] I've been here a month at most I think.
iron59: (14)

[personal profile] iron59 2018-03-21 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
[The look of confusion passes over his face again.]

If it's a fight, you fight to win. If it's not, then who cares? You can't fight angry or you're in trouble already, y'know?

[Not that falling down was always okay outside of a fight, but that didn't automatically mean you had to hit someone for it. Usually, you just hoped no one was about to hit you.

Right?]


Oh. Okay. I might have seen her, but...um.

[He rubs the back of his neck.]

I kinda left as soon a I could, so maybe not?
iron59: (2)

[personal profile] iron59 2018-03-21 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He goes back to his sweeping, and for a moment, it looks as though he's done talking altogether. But then he replies, voice a little hard.]

We have a duty to protect the people who look to us. And I think that means we don't have to kill anyone, just monsters.

[His shoulders slump a little as he cleans, and he drifts to a stop after a moment or two. When he speaks, his voice is soft, and a little sad.]

Not so bad if we don't have to kill anyone, I guess.
lightninglobster: (s. red: this doesn't seem so bad)

[personal profile] lightninglobster 2018-03-21 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Of all the things Ryoma expected of the day--though Ryoma's expectations, were, admittedly, not very high for much of anything since he still wasn't sure what he was doing here and what he was supposed to take from it. The pamphlet had tried, by the gods, but... a google was a mystical artifact beyond mortal kenning.

Before he could attempt another round of frowning at the pamphlet, however, Ryoma was in the path of a loose, giddy loop of children--and he laughed as one of their number called to him, smiling.]


I don't know the rules, I'm afraid.
lightninglobster: (s. tan: this is getting worse)

[personal profile] lightninglobster 2018-03-21 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not strange, at first--Ryoma has a sensation (that he's not thinking too in depth about) that others have referred to his hair as a mane before, and the waterfall of brown locks is indeed an exquisite specimen of the spirit of human possibility... though it was seriously just hair from Ryoma's perspective, but hey. Let a poet have their soul.]

Still?

[The exasperated little huff was more of a general annoyance--for every weed that he removed from his hair, another cropped in its place like some sort of green hydra. He bent over slightly, removing an armored gauntlet so that he could brush his hair out with his fingers and dislodge the offending flora, turning to thank his helpful informant--

That was not a woman.

Ryoma looked up, surprise writ clear on his face... but he'd been raised somewhat polite. Maybe?]


Thank you for letting me know.
redotiertwo: (being real here)

[personal profile] redotiertwo 2018-03-21 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, yeah, I can't tell you if you have anything to complain to your god about or not, that's on you, dude.

[Davesprite's bad enough at that sort of thing with his own god, doing it for someone else's is just asking for disaster as far as he's concerned.]

But I'm pretty sure if you dig real deep you'll find at least one thing to complain about, not even gods are perfect fucking sanctuaries of people.
revolutionfalcon: (explanation)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-03-21 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shun's slowly getting that as the conversation goes on - that offness in this guy's manner reminds him a little of how Zelda and Add had been after the core incident. Even Shun himself had shown a little of that apathy after being exposed to the portals for too long, but he'd at least had a single thing he'd focused himself on and just shed everything else without knowing.

It's hard to know how to react when he never knew the person outside of them being consumed by that apathy, though. He shakes his head slightly.]


Never mind. You'll have to get used to people asking you "why" about things like that, though.

[Because he's found people do it constantly, especially if there's differing feelings involved.]
revolutionfalcon: (not okay with this)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-03-21 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[The subtle bitterness Shun had been expressing before gets pronounced enough to reach his face at that question, eliciting a brief twist of the mouth best described as disgusted.] The old gods will tell you "everything a god does is just". But they're as fallible as anyone else. And almost all of the new gods are human, or at least were mortal until getting shoved into this position. Thinking we're all just is hopelessly naive at best.
priforprince: (smugger)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Why wouldn't I be?

[ There's that slight edge of pride that usually laces her words. Hibiki adjusts herself in her chair, the better to occupy its entirety like a throne in which she has every right to sit. ] Once I make my mind up to do something, it's as good as executed perfectly.

[ Asking her if she's okay. Ridiculous! What quirk of fate could have caused that...?

....why is this script so unsatisfying, arghgghghghghgh... ]
Edited 2018-03-21 13:00 (UTC)
priforprince: (dorothy'd)

1/hibiki

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Were you struck on the head upon your advent here?!

[ Hibiki has her hands over her ears, having had no time to produce her sentence ender cutphones (she had been recovering from the first blow during Mirei's calculation period). Why should Mirei's calculations yield something she already kne---- ]
priforprince: (befuddled)

2/hibiki

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Wait.

PUT THE ENTIRE PUNIVERSE ON HOLD, FOR SHIKYOIN HIBIKI THINKETH.

Grandson? ]
priforprince: (what)

3/hibiki

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Grandson??? ]
priforprince: (chinhand)

4/hibiki (this is all happening in a split second, mind)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ But that would imply, for Mirei retains memories of their home puniverse and therefore is not a shinki...... ]
Edited 2018-03-21 13:16 (UTC)
priforprince: (inhale)

whatever/hibiki

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mirei is divine, but not a Divine Idol..... ]
priforprince: (got dis)

hibiki no/hibiki

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh.

[ A TRIUMPHANT TRUMPET FANFARE PLAYS IN HER HEAD

CONFETTI RAINS FROM ABOVE


no, as an illusion, it just started raining confetti, she doesn't realize she did it, but it's twirling down around them now, a little

very gold and sparkly ]
Edited 2018-03-21 13:20 (UTC)
priforprince: (tilt)

done/hibiki

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-21 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, being recognized even by a defective idol from a backwater PriPara is an honor.

[ Oh, she is going to have fun with this. The Heavens, in their own way, smile upon her after all! They have provided her a rival from PriPara with which to attract that Paradise to her presence!

What's more, it's a rival she can mess with however she chooses! Because Mirei has no recollection of their acquaintance!! Mirei isn't going to try to do friend things with her! Mirei shall dance in the palm of Hibiki's hand for her entire duration as a god!

Not that Shikyoin Hibiki messes with people. Oh no. Merely lords her superior knowledge, as is her right. One must amuse oneself somehow. ]
abgrund: (何を掴もうと伸ばす)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-21 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ From the way Shun says it, it seems to be an inconvenience, but one that's manageable. So he nods. ]

I see....



[ ... really, he's not good at this. Giving long responses thing. Shun might have to keep asking questions if he wants more out of him ]