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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~
revolutionfalcon: (really?)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-03-27 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
If you're in the habit of owing people you don't trust, I'm not going to stop you. [He says that rather dismissively, since the core of the problem is basically that Shun thinks it's stupid to have any kind of debt to someone like that.

Unfortunately for Chikusa, Shun reacts quickly, and also doesn't need two hands on the spear to hold it up. As soon as Chikusa's leg gets anywhere near the spear, his hand snaps out to grab it.

The nekomata seems decidedly unimpressed with that proceeding, bristling at Chikusa.]


And what do you think you're doing? [It's just going to. Try and hop off the spear and onto Chikusa now.]
disciprined: (feeling pri-chy)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
If you wouldn't mind, pri!

[Mirei has been smiling pretty much constantly, but this one is just for you, Adrien.]

But if we were going to get everyone together it would definitely take a little organizing. So it'd be great to have some help there too, pri!
priforprince: (determine)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-27 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ In Hibiki's defense, she could totally sell a ten-minute horse-riding montage in her home puniverse. And there are doubtlessly audience members here who'd appreciate it too. especially if there were close-ups of her legs.

She herself, however, is indeed connecting the dots in her head.If she doesn't drive both Shores' entertainment to greater and greater heights, even if PriPara's eventual arrival is an inevitability, how long will she have to endure this separation....? Intolerable.

So, then, what is the ultimate entertainment masterstroke? What is the role her heart truly yearns to play....

Hibiki lifts her script and tosses it off to the side without looking. It lands in a cardboard box marked "No," nearly tipping it over. If Ginia looks over quickly enough, she'll see there are tiny dolls of various Far Shore residents in the box already.

She has hit upon

an Idea. ]
disciprined: (Paprika Private Academy Rule #85)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the warning. I intend to watch my step.

[Exploded?

[Gods and monsters, Mirei. This world sounds considerably more dangerous than anything she could even have imagined. It-- is something she is going to have to think about later. There is a lot she still needs to discover, and worrying can wait. It is, if nothing else, proof positive that sometimes one simply has to start talking to strange men...

[The mention of work is more reassuring. Everything worth doing is worth working for. Even if it wasn't Paprika Private Academy Rule 10, Mirei would still believe it entirely.]


Would you be involved in it? You certainly sound knowledgeable.
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Your funeral)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-27 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
I take it the sequel is off?

[Why is there a box of tiny dolls in a "no" box that is so weird and concerning? But at least Hibiki seems to have come to a decision about something, more of her usual energy back.

The door opens as a child shinki peeks back in.

"Um, are you going to stay in here? We need to move some things and your chair is in the way."]
priforprince: (sewa)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-27 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
I was just leaving.

[ She says, as if that were the plan all along. And then she gives a sidelong smile in Ginia's direction. ] It seems the sun's rays are particularly brilliant today.

[ See? She remembered. And now she is taking your advice!

She definitely just thought of something amazing. ]
disciprined: (contempritive)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Hibiki Shikyoin, pri?

[Surely everybody knows Hibiki Shikyoin.

[Correction: Everybody knows of Hibiki Shikyoin. Parademy-Award Winners don't exactly just show up at your school, but there are small pieces of pumice on the beaches of Macroprisia who know of Hibiki Shikyoin.

[Addendum: Everybody form Mirei's world knows of Hibiki Shikyoin.]


You've heard of Hibiki Shikyoin? The film star? Everyone's heard of him - I mean at home, pri! Anyway I've heard of him but I can't say we've met, pri.
disciprined: (Paprika Private Academy Rule #200)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
With what? It's entirely unproductive.
pure_radiantics: (convo] flat smile)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Well, a little strange, but maybe that's just me - as someone who only remembers one name. Maybe it's closer to 50-50?

[That's what she seems to recall across her five months, anyway.]

Oh! Well you might know at least two of them already if you can do that.

[She laughs a little.]

I call them styles or forms just because some people get confused when I saw you can use the same thing - Borderline - both defensively and offensively, as a ranged attack and right up close too.

[She starts by drawing a Borderline of her own: ]

LINE!

[Then looks at him through the barrier.]

For instance, this one's the Wall.
disciprined: (that don't impriss me much)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Here, pri?

[What was Mirei just thinking about several applications?

[None of those would be aided by demonstrating said ability in public and certainly not in front of a man. There is a reason the booths in PriPara include a curtain: changing clothes in public is conduct unbecoming of an idol, entirely unseemly, and a public order offense leading to potential criminal conviction, loss of livelihood, stiff fines and possible custodial sentence.]


Not unless there's somewhere private, pri!
pure_radiantics: (convo] mild surprise)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
W-well, that was what I wanted to know - if you were a shinki like me, then I especially wanted to meet you.

[ Even if he made her nervous. Maybe that was precisely why. ]

We try to stick together around here. Fellow shinki I mean. It's a big scary place when you don't have memories - something not all of the gods can fully understand, or want to understand.

[ She then looks away, taking a deep breath during those seconds, and pulls out one of the pamphlets. ]

That's why my name is in here. I try to make friends with all of the new shinki.
disciprined: (hey babpri)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Hibiki?

[Well... there are lots of people called Hibiki, almost all of whom are way more likely to be here than an actual literal movie star and PriQ Prince of the Year. Mirei thinks nothing more of it.]


Wow, really, pri~? An arcade machine? I'd like to see that, pri!

[Maybe it has more songs from home on it! How awesome would that be?]
pure_radiantics: (moves] reaching out blindly)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, forms...

[She normally reserves that word for the ways that shinki use Borderlines, but she doesn't mind calling it that in front of him.]

Hmm-- okay!

[Kairi is too busy working on mirroring his movements just now to notice his own apprehension. For all she knows, he's just doing his best as a young man who isn't a master yet. By the time she's got the form down, moving in time with him, he's probably able to mask his hesitation and slip-ups.]
pure_radiantics: (convo] huh. interesting.)

Re: Yooou got it!

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's so nice to meet you Ranulf! My name is Kairi.

[ She might be assuming things because of his ears and tail, but she likes him already. ]

And well, I think it's part of the Heavens, I guess...? There was a time a couple of months back where the gods were asked to go meet with other members of their pantheon on the Near Shore who aren't here in the Far Shore, if that makes sense. You are a god, right?

[ She points to the crowd he came from, a little ways off from where she'd been approached as she skirted the fringes of their meeting. ]
handle: (Untitled-39)

[personal profile] handle 2018-03-27 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
... Here, you don't have to answer. [ He'll step beside him then, starting to do what he offered to do. ] Why don't you take a break instead?
handle: (dr43y)

[personal profile] handle 2018-03-27 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ He'll take that hand, but stops - looking to Hibiki. She's definitely trying to move, but it looks like something's stopping her. Was it these kids? Sure, they seemed pretty harmless, but at the same time... That's awfully strange, isn't it?

He looks to Hibiki curiously, with some concern. ]
-- Hibiki?
pure_radiantics: (convo] uhm)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well... I don't know of any right now, but--

[Ah! Next time, yes!]

That's a really great idea, actually! The only other clothes around here are the white robes that Amaterasu's shinki wear, I think... and if you came in your clothes like that, you must be a goddess?

[When Kairi woke up, she was wearing white robes too.]
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[personal profile] declamando 2018-03-27 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Maria can already tell they haven't met when Mirei refers to Hibiki as "he", but she lets her go ahead and explain it regardless.] She's actually one of the gods here. Obviously a god can't get famous here the same as she could in your world, but she's certainly trying.

[That gets a slight laugh from Maria, as if it's a bit quaint. It's still mind-boggling to her that the kind of acting Hibiki favours could get so popular in another world, considering she'd charitably describe it as "a bit exaggerated".]

I'd say you'll run into her here at some point.
pure_radiantics: (convo] worried nervous)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[She takes a few steps back, visibly upset.]

O-oh... I-I'm s-sorry, I-I...

[She's trying not to cry. This again.]

Please c-can you tell me... if you're a s-shinki?

[Because she had to be so much more cautious if so, which she would will herself to do for his sake through her tears if she had to.]
pure_radiantics: (convo] thinking breeze)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
N-no... it's not whether or not you're powerful...

[She pulls back some of her hair in thought.]

A Priest would be on the Near Shore as one of your followers... you can't be your own follower... can you?
disciprined: (hey babpri)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[That sounds a lot less likely than this young woman thinks.

[It's plausible, of course - as Mirei's calculations would have it, there's at least a 75% overlap with what she knows of Hibiki Shikyoin from home. The other 25%, however, is something of a dealbreaker.]


Okay, but... are you sure it's the same Shikyoin-san, pri? Silver hair, green eyes... that one? The one from my world's definitely a guy, pri.
disciprined: (is this primportant?)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-27 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm... I've never tried to exercise in robes before. Wouldn't you trip, pri?

[This place is definitely not as well-organized, or as friendly to newcomers, as Parajuku PriPara. At least Mirei has her coord, though: she certainly wouldn't like trying to find a replacement for that, here.

[At the girl's next words, though, she frowns. That hardly seems fair.]


Yeah, I am... don't shinki get to keep their clothes, pri? Looks like this place needs to be handing out a lot more than exercise gear, pri.
untodeath: (default.)

[personal profile] untodeath 2018-03-27 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Grell's brows shift, her mouth pulling into a lopsided grin. ]

What's this, then?

[ Looking over his posture, she'll prop a hand upon her hip. ]

Teasing you won't be nearly as fun for me, if you make it this easy.

[ An amused breath sounds through her nostrils with a shake of her red tresses. Reseating herself at the table, she gestures to an available chair, opposite of her. ]

Relax.
pure_radiantics: (mems] keyblade)

[personal profile] pure_radiantics 2018-03-27 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[She assumes he must have arrived before today for him to have his armor and already be that good at swinging his sword. She arrived in a white robe and couldn't even realize that keyblades were familiar to her until she had that memory one night about it. So he strikes her as a very competent person, someone that - like Eric - she simply hadn't managed to meet yet in all of her five months.]

Oh wow, a fellow shinki! Well then...

[She laughs a little and holds her keyblade handle up.]

It's called a keyblade. That's part of what I'm trying to figure out, actually - the best way to use it. It doesn't have a sharp edge like a lot of swords, after all.
tadaishi: (c'mon no)

[personal profile] tadaishi 2018-03-27 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
H-hey, what's wrong?

[Oh no, that wasn't the right thing to say. Umm...]

Am I...yeah, I think so. The people in the white robes seem to think so.

[He knows he died, at least.]