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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~
disciprined: (Paprika Private Academy Rule #667)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-29 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Have they said anything about it to you? I doubt I'm any kind of exception.
disciprined: (little pri of sunshine)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-29 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
You know somewhere we can go, pri?

[Mirei squeezes Wendy's hands, she leans forward. There have to be gyms in this world, right? Stages?]

All we need is lots of room to move!
disciprined: (you are prinvited)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-29 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's great, pri!

[Sorry, Adrien: looks like we're going to be friends~!]

They said I had a temple, pri! I haven't really looked round yet but there's gotta be somewhere there that's big enough to have everybody over. I guess it wouldn't be much of a temple otherwise, pri!
disciprined: (prindecisive)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-29 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it's kind of difficult to say, pri? Temples are public places, but here they're people's homes, too...

[WHAT DO. What if it's in this strange God's bedroom?

[Okay, that would be weird. Living room, then?]


I would like to see it, but it'd be kind of rude to just invite myself, pri.
disciprined: (highly inappropriate)

[personal profile] disciprined 2018-03-29 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
It does? But nobody knows this at home, pri!

[It's not like Reona, Mirei thinks. Reona's different. Reona never tried to fool anyone.]

I don't mind that she does it, pri! I just don't like that she's lied about it!
swordofzero: (guys are you even listening?)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-03-29 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
I see [He thought for a moment, he had been given a lot of information so far. That was good. But he couldn't think of any questions, though he might later when he had time to think about everything he had been told.]

I don't think so. Thank you for telling me so much.
swordofzero: (polite and friendly)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-03-29 09:46 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you. [He smiled again] I hope you are right.

[He looks around at all the people again] Are you here to train as well? [He wasn't new, but it seemed there were many people who were not new who were here today. For training he was guessing, or to help clean as the shinki who wore white robes seemed to be dragging everyone they could into help with that]
priforprince: (contemplate)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-29 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah....In view of the training arena.

[ She's going to spectate. Instead of participate. This, too, is Celebrity Life.

Hibiki sends a text to Wendy's phone, which beeps in her pocket (she carries it around to give to Amaterasu, when next she sees the Little Shining Princess. She had promised Wendy she would deliver the phone to that esteemed maiden, but Amaterasu keeps refusing it! Bizarre). So that still...works.

Ah, well. She'll fiddle with the phone later. Away it goes. She's ready to focus now. What are we doing? Or, rather, what are all of you doing that she can supervise? ]
Edited 2018-03-29 13:29 (UTC)
priforprince: (mushroom)

[personal profile] priforprince 2018-03-29 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She had to get in one last one. Hibiki is rubbing her head and wondering how much aspirin they have in the temple when a familiar light flashes behind the curtains. So she truly can PriPara Change.....Her god power? As expected of a Divine Idol.

Or, no. Of the seeds of a Divine Idol. Of a chick complacently nestled within its shell, unused to the harsh blows that will be required to break free into the sky. Should Hibiki, as a fully-fledged swan, support this endeavor? With encouragement, or deliberate conflict....?

Perhaps she'll just do whatever she feels like as the mood takes her. That plan never fails.

Her hand was still at her hairline, so she'll remove it. ]
Are you referring to your sudden apotheosis, or my sentence ender allergy?

[ You weren't clear enough for her Exacting Standards. For shame. ]
abgrund: (帝國交響楽団 - 燃え落ちる誇り -Counter raid Another D- ) (Default)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-29 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's a pause while he considers the question before he shakes his head again. Perhaps he should say something like 'see you around' or an equivalent, like others do; but it didn't seem like something fitting for him.

Instead, he will incline his head, as a (strange) gesture of respect ]
abgrund: (帝國交響楽団 - 燃え落ちる誇り -Counter raid Another D- ) (Default)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-29 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Archer adapts well, it makes for conducive conversation despite Ain's... everything. ]

Yes.

[ He assumes Archer meant the eyes and scythe. ]
abgrund: (油にまみれた骸)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-03-29 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The youth says strange things. I can understand and things like these; Ain is sure that Garry does not actually understand, given his reaction to seeing his broken body - but effort is made, and that is, somehow, what matters.

He inclines his head, an unnatural fluidity in his hair ]


Shinki.

[ His lack of memory may explain his strange manner, for no one has told him about the inappropriateness of his form yet. ]</small. You...?
sweetdeath: (roguish grin)

[personal profile] sweetdeath 2018-03-29 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Pies and bread are more Western stuff. Good stuff, though, I like your choices.

-- what's "be-orc" mean? Byork. Beee... york.

[He's pretty sure he's still pronouncing it wrong. What language is that, even?]
reformedsinner: (from the wreckage)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-29 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Picking fights with strangers won't help you feel any more at home.

[He's still smiling.]
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-29 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
...I guess... it's not far from here. Just to the south....

...Well. I've seen what I've wanted to here.

[Which is to say, what new gods have arrived and that he should keep an eye out for. There are still some things he'd like to check up on the library again, to test his luck. So, pushing away from the wall, he starts to shuffle off to the exit. If Mirei wants to follow, well, he's not in any particular rush.]
reformedsinner: (slasher smile)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-29 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you expect me to bring it up before I saw you for the first time? -- If you've been back for ten days, though, your absence was not nearly so long as I thought it was.

[He shrugs easily.]

We haven't been working together all that closely. Ah... though I should tell you. Gojyo's here, and a shinki. He remembers a few things from his life, but not much, and he's been upset lately. Be cautious what you say to him.
kokuyoyo: (And the cops are back.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-29 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
....Are... you trying to one up them...?

[That's.... That's definitely a new one. Chikusa blinks a few times in bewilderment.]
nopixiedust: (sillica) (Forget about socially acceptable.)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-03-29 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the spirit!

[Whatever makes her god stop being needlessly dramatic over kids playing a game. Honestly, Wendy worries where she would be without her.]

So do you know the name of the person behind you?
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (He signed me a blank check)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-03-29 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
You could be bribing them into attacking people you don't like. [Once close enough, she settles herself down onto the ground.] You'd probably like that.
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-03-29 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Only that long.... And yet- ]

Too much keeps happening even in only that long...

[It definitely feels like an entirely new life.... although the amnesia probably didn't help.]
skybluelaguz: (Clever)

[personal profile] skybluelaguz 2018-03-29 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Caster and Archer, hm? I just might take you up on that offer then. It'd be nice to have some normal food.

[ But before that even happens his ears twitch, forgetting something. ]

My name is Ranulf by the way, apologies for not introducing myself sooner.
boneofsword: (nothing but a mask)

[personal profile] boneofsword 2018-03-29 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Archer means more than that; it's clear that whatever Ain went through changed him whole. He doesn't specify, though.]

It's intriguing. Does it cause you any discomfort?
skybluelaguz: (Clever)

[personal profile] skybluelaguz 2018-03-29 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, is that so? I suppose even with all the different worlds out there, there is sure to be some others like that out there. Perhaps the term laguz and beorc are merely for my world.

[ Which will make this all the more confusing for everyone here. ]

And here I've been explaining things about my world without introducing myself. My name is Ranulf. Thank you for taking those treats away.
skybluelaguz: (Sigh)

[personal profile] skybluelaguz 2018-03-29 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel you. Even knowing now that things work out, I want to go back and see it with my own eyes.

[ He closes his eyes and sighs. ]

But at least the energy here is a lot more balanced.

[ If he had to feel no chaos unless he was fighting he might've gone crazy.

He listens to her continue and six months? Although that was quite some time, it didn't feel like too long being stuck here. Though for a beorc that would be a lot longer. ]


You can get new powers here too? And I know what you mean, with so many gods and goddesses around, it's hard not to wonder if there are any like the one we have.
skybluelaguz: (Smile)

[personal profile] skybluelaguz 2018-03-29 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, where I come from, people like you are called beorc. It means 'children of wisdom'. While someone like me is known as laguz, which means 'children of strength'.

[ He tilts his head as she speaks, listening intently. ]

At least there are some nice people here. And hopefully not too many power hungry gods. One out of control goddess is more than I can handle. It is quite a different kind of place to my home as well.