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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: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-26 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not a kid.

[He's eternally a shitty teenager, thank you very much.]

[Still, that charge is all he needs to react. As Doku charges him, Chikusa waits until the last moment to duck forwards and a little to the side, one long leg striking out to trip the older man up. Why use so much energy when this is the simpler option?]

[Of course if Doku does fall, he's prepared to go after him with his knife, no hesitation about it...]
kokuyoyo: (Woke up with a squirrel in my bed.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-26 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
...You're that kind of person...

[Dangit. He can't win against someone this oblivious.]

...If I did... What would you do?
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-26 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
...Probably... belonging with the ones doing all the work.

[What a waste of perfectly good deadpan. Darnit, Yoon.]
tadaishi: (o.o)

[personal profile] tadaishi 2018-03-26 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Well, that's good to know, if one of them goes haywire.

[He'll probably just flag down one of the shinki attendants if that happens, but it's nice to know that they're still in the testing phase.

Sort of.]


I take it you're not much of a fighter?
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-26 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
...I prefer not to if I can. It's.... troublesome. And exhausting.

[If he can just take care of someone when they're not looking, that's way easier.]

Besides... these happen almost every week. I won't be missing anything.
kokuyoyo: (At which point did I decide that it)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-26 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
...What do you have against the baskets.... It's free food....

[Which, coincidentally, helps a lot with him and Ken putting up with Hakkai. Among other things, like how they don't have weird passive aggressive nonsense with him.]
safecage: (07)

[personal profile] safecage 2018-03-27 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I have no idea what god that is but I'm sure they must be impressive.
safecage: (11)

[personal profile] safecage 2018-03-27 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
You sure about that? No one can really resist free food. It's one of the many wonders of the world.
safecage: (15)

[personal profile] safecage 2018-03-27 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
At least moping for a bit helps!

[ Once Aqua calms down enough things will work out, most likely... ]
safecage: (14)

[personal profile] safecage 2018-03-27 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
I was able to grow flowers instantly and streams of water would dance ~
safecage: (03)

[personal profile] safecage 2018-03-27 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Does no one have common sense here? What kinda god is running the shots here! Even I wasn't this lazy before when I guided the people to the after life!
all_seeing_eye: (Default)

[personal profile] all_seeing_eye 2018-03-27 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno. Usually cloaks like that are hiding something crazy, like a bunch of tentacles or something.
priforprince: (pressure)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-27 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hibiki debates this. Hibiki decides that what she, Shikyon Hibiki, feels like doing is always more important than any other rules that might have been in place about what information is disseminated, and when. Or in general. Any rules in general.

Hibiki hands over her script. ]
Be my guest.

[ It's a very bad movie. ]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Uh-oh)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-27 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
[Ginia's baseline for what's "good" is fairly low given her eclectic experiences with media and easily entertained nature, but as she begins to skim through the script, even she can tell it's... lacking.

Does Hibiki know? What if Hibiki doesn't know? Ginia looks for a diplomatic response as she returns the script.]


It's great they made a sequel, but it seems to lack flair.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-27 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
A child.

[Another pop of something into his mouth. He knows that's going to be so reassuring after all.]
priforprince: (listen)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-27 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
For me, money is eternally of no object.

[ She has apparently forgotten that part right when she arrived on the Far Shore where she hadn't trained to cheat at games of chance, but, eh. The point still does stand, since Phantom Thief Genius stalks the night. ]

Work on your stage presence if you wish for similar fortune.

[ But not the same. You'll never be, well, her. ]
kokuyoyo: (I mean I don't even call it a hangover)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-27 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
....Ah. Right. When people die here, if they come back at all.... They forget about the life they've lived here.

...Unless they're a shinki. In which case they're back to square one.
priforprince: (chouchou)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-27 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
That's impossible.

[ She doesn't sound angry, just sure of herself. And a bit confused. Hibiki pages through the script again herself. ] I've lent my name to this franchise. The quality cannot help but rise as a....

[ The pages flutter shut. Hibiki closes her hand around the script, and thinks hard. Ginia can probably see the light dawning on her face. Could....could that be it? Could she be feeling this malaise

because her soul longs for a grander production? ]
revolutionfalcon: (derisive)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-03-27 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
I don't trust him, so why the hell should I take gifts from him? And he does it on purpose, anyway.

[Considering how Hakkai's first attempt to give him a gift basket went, he definitely knows by now that Shun isn't receptive to any part of that scenario.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Wonder)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-27 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh! What are the chances? Higher than Ginia realizes considering Hibiki's involvement.]

If they're all catchy like that, I think so. I'd love suggestions. There's a person named Hibiki, she had an arcade machine with all sorts of songs on it, that's where I heard Miracle Paradise from.

[Granted, that machine was meant as a gift for Amaterasu. Who knows if the deity accepted it or not and where the arcade machine presently is.]
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-27 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
....do you really think he'd poison it or something...

[Hakkai and Chikusa have a lot in common, but the teen is pretty sure that poisoning people they have minor grudges against isn't one of them.]
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Worried)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-27 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure it'll be a nice movie, but it's a bit slow.

[There's certainly value in slower paced scenes and using time for emotional impact, but a ten minute travel scene may be a bit much for most audiences. Sure, it's a ten-minute scene where everyone can admire Hibiki's excellent horsemanship, but...

Oh. There's that look. There's a realization.

Oh dear.]
revolutionfalcon: (high ground)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-03-27 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
The person he expects me to pass them on to is someone he cares about more than me. But just because it's not poisoned doesn't mean I want anything to do with it.

[So basically, Shun only figured they weren't poisoned in the first place because Hakkai knew Ren was likely to end up with them, and now it's just something that happens every so often that he has to put up with.]
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-27 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
....Wow. That's... petty for no reason.

[Chikusa is almost impressed.]

[Chikusa is also trying to snap one leg up to kick the spear away from him and maybe vault the cat at Shun's face.]
disciprined: (Paprika Private Academy Rule #244)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Personally, I wouldn't classify being here at all as particularly positive.

[There's the catch: it's everything. This whole experience is the catch.]

But liars want their lies to seem at least somewhat believable, and these people aren't even trying to sound rational. These people believe what they're saying. If you're looking for liars, you won't find them here.