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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~
subtract: you lose your mind (I-0081)

[personal profile] subtract 2018-03-31 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Add stops yelling at the kids as soon as he hears that cheerful, obnoxious tone. Of all the people he'd like to see right now, Hakkai is one of the very last on his list. He shoots the other god a glare.]

As if I'd need help from you. Why don't you mind your own business? [No way he'll make himself look like some incompetent idiot in front of Hakkai. He can totally handle this on his own!

Add scoffs, looking down at the nearest of the kids who are still insistently urging him to guess a name. Well, teleportation hasn't worked for him, and the brute force "shove down children until he can break free" answer seems a little too crude to be proud of right now, but he does have one other possible solution... even if it is still kind of annoying. Ugh.]


Alright, alright, fine— but first you have to tell me your names, I can't play your stupid game if I don't know what I'm guessing.

[He steals a glance over at Hakkai while the children excitedly introduce themselves, speaking over eachother and giving way more information than he cares to listen to. Just you watch, Hakkai, he's going to rule at this dumb game for kids.]
untodeath: (kiss mark .)

[personal profile] untodeath 2018-03-31 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Grell certainly will take advantage, but not as he might expect.

Sensing his wariness, she teleports in close - settles her hand over his tensed wrist, as she leans her chest into his. With her lips close enough to catch his in a kiss, she hesitates, gaze rising to meet William's. ]


For the record, I'd rather be buried beside you, than live a life without you in it.
reformedsinner: (Default)

[personal profile] reformedsinner 2018-03-31 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[This... this should be fun.

Hakkai's eyebrows flicker upwards for a moment, and then he glances around, and takes a few steps to the side to find a nice, comfortable ornamental boulder, and sits down on it.

He folds his hands on his knee. When the children are done with their babble of excited introductions, he raises his voice cheerfully.]


I'm afraid we left on a bad note the last time we talked, but I wanted to mention I was impressed by the results of your latest experiment.
subtract: you lose your mind (I-0065)

[personal profile] subtract 2018-03-31 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, that depends on what it is... usually these things come intuitively, so it may be better to simply bring you along for a variety of situations until your ability triggers. Once we know what it is, we can try to trigger it intentionally to see what other uses it might have.

Don't worry about it too much, Roxas. [and now he can go back to being a coat with his own body inside it. Add picks his jacket back up with Dynamo.] Even if your ability is situational, a shinki has more uses than a simple tool. You're far more valuable than you could imagine.

[... more so than Add can even speak of. He falters, emotions surging up his throat, but he forces himself to swallow everything back down. There's so much he wants to say right now, to tell him, to apologize for... but it's impossible. If he says even a little too much, it could kill him. He has to keep acting like they're strangers.

It takes a little longer this time for Add to collect himself. He clears his throat, slipping his jacket back on and decidedly pretending that weird pause never happened. He doesn't look at Roxas when he speaks.]


There's something else I need to do. [a lie. He already found Ain, so his business here is done. He just needs a moment alone to make sure he's not going to do anything embarrassing in public.] I'll come back to pick you up in a little while, so you can do whatever you want until then.
purr_ince: (Adrien | Oh hey there!)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-03-31 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Adrien blinks at the concern but then he smiles warmly.]

Of course. My partner was there and she made sure I didn't get hurt.

[For a mysterious kind of strange guy this dude is okay. So Adrien is tilting his head.]

So what's your name?
death_glare: (jhljhl)

[personal profile] death_glare 2018-03-31 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
How morbidly romantic.

[ And so completely Grell. Though unwise around any other opponent, William allows his wrist to relax. Right now is when both of their shinki are undoubtedly making gagging gestures and wishing their gods would return them to their normal state so they can get away from these two love birds. ]
usedperishsong: (don't be late to ride.)

[personal profile] usedperishsong 2018-03-31 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ The end result of all this is probably Suzaku and Kanade both cushioning the other shinki, Kanade looking rather surprised at this backup from nowhere. The shinki is also surprised, of course....what?

Kanade does her best to try and stand their interloper back up. She's now, like, super curious about Suzaku, but this person first. ]
Sorry 'bout that. The floor's a little touchy, here.
usedperishsong: (don't be late to ride.)

[personal profile] usedperishsong 2018-03-31 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
...You musta been a really good guy.

[ Straightforward and honest to a fault, even, but. A solid dude.

In many ways. ]
royaltyloyalty: (thinking)

[personal profile] royaltyloyalty 2018-03-31 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Just gonna keeeeep backing up, yep. ]

There's no point, is there? I tried to get back to the castle and couldn't, so that's gotta be my top priority.

[ Even if he knows, instinctively, that getting the sutra and then going to Kougaiji would be an even better possibility. ]

Besides, you may be alone, but if you recognize me, then you're a goddess, right? So you've got a shinki hanging around somewhere ready to defend you. That's hardly alone - and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let your lackeys get me a second time.
royaltyloyalty: (inverted)

[personal profile] royaltyloyalty 2018-03-31 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Doku scratches his neck. ]

You know, I'm not sure?

[ He looks down at it again. ]

It's not one of my clan marks, I know that for sure.

[ He points his free hand - the one with the flame mark - at the bridge of his nose and forehead area. ]
deniles: (Default)

[personal profile] deniles 2018-03-31 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
You have to look harder. Dig through your tail.

[Niles is just being a huge shit and when Kaden realizes it, he'll be much better off.]
deniles: (Default)

[personal profile] deniles 2018-03-31 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say I hadn't seen him, because perhaps I have. I just think needing more details isn't a bad thing in this case.
bussounoshima: (What a brat.)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2018-03-31 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[And Sharak's going to keeeep closing the gap. This is the most fun she's had in months.]

Really? You're the one with your boys on call. [Assuming those soulless shinki are nearby ready to back their boss up.] Don't worry, my shinki know better than to intervene in my fights.

[Celty might be in the area, ready to take down someone messing with her goddess. But she also probably knows that her goddess was likely asking for it and doesn't need the assist.]

As far as I can tell, you're just making excuses to not fight me head on. I didn't take you for a coward, Sha.
royaltyloyalty: (speaking)

[personal profile] royaltyloyalty 2018-03-31 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Coward? Heh, I wonder...

[ He's so, so much worse than a coward. He does stop as she keeps coming towards him, but...

Boys on call? What's she... oh, his own shinki? ]


You've been spying on my shinki, Sanzo? Now who's skulking in the shadows without facing things head on?
bussounoshima: (Isn't that what you're here for?)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2018-03-31 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Aww, he spoiled her game. She does stop before she bumps into him, slightly closer than he's probably comfortable with.]

Still you, tough guy. You're also making assumptions. [She hasn't been spying on anyone, thank you very much, Dokugakuji told her about them himself.]

Would it make you more comfortable if I turned around first? I never meant to frighten you.

[That's a lie, she delights in frightening him.]
deniles: (pic#12037301)

[personal profile] deniles 2018-03-31 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well that is where rough and exciting things happen.

[He'll only be a little bit less subtle than that. But he'll encourage Ryoma to ask people about it.]
deniles: (Default)

[personal profile] deniles 2018-03-31 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
...I think we should.

[He doesn't like sweets... however.]

What should we try today?
royaltyloyalty: (thinking)

[personal profile] royaltyloyalty 2018-03-31 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He grits his teeth.]

You may not believe this, but I don't go around attacking women - from the front or behind - unless I have absolutely no other choice.

[And he's dead serious, wondering if maybe that will come across to her.]

And right now I still have a choice I didn't have before. I can just go back to my temple rather than fight you with that teleport gimmick they gave us. Sloppy work, but that's one place I know how to get to. So tell me what assumptions I'm making, huh?
bussounoshima: (looms)

[personal profile] bussounoshima 2018-03-31 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Sharak's amused expression drops in favour of a scowl at that. Yeah, she was pretty sure that was Dokugakuji's hang up, she knows his story, but that doesn't mean it doesn't piss her off.]

If you're not attacking me because I'm a woman, you can draw your sword right now. As far as you're concerned, I'm no woman at all. Got it?

[She's not particularly invested in fighting Dokugakuji today, not really. That was all for fun. But like hell she's letting him hide behind bullshit chivalry.]

You had a choice before, don't pretend you didn't make it.
junkyarddog: (Who was told what to do by the man)

[personal profile] junkyarddog 2018-03-31 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Ken isn't surprised by Nanako, exactly - he was aware of her and Chikusa approaching on some level, through his senses, especially since they weren't exactly trying to conceal themselves - but the hug from behind catches him off guard, and he cranes his head to look over his shoulder down at her in surprise.

Chikusa's question just confuses him further.]
Hah?
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Attentive)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-31 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Good. Finally. Ginia might have the muscles and tech to make carrying an over-sized upholstered armchair easy, but that doesn't mean it still isn't annoying. She'll set the chair down with care and brush off any dust on it.]

Anything else before I head off?
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Attentive)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-03-31 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[You know what? Since Ginia already offered, she's going to send a text to Hibiki.

...And sent!]


I sent a message asking her, but I don't know when she'll respond.

Did you arrive today or have you been around for awhile?


[With so many people coming and going, it's good to sort out.]
untodeath: (heart .)

[personal profile] untodeath 2018-03-31 06:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Smile twinging wider, the redhead tilts her head, ghosting her lips along his jaw, instead. ]

A love that is second to none, I assure you.
death_glare: (bavewa)

[personal profile] death_glare 2018-03-31 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
I don't doubt any of it.

[ Though, Grell is getting a bit touchy for being out on the training field. A palm is pressed against her chest before it forces her back and away from him. ]

But, let's keep that to our spare time.
death_glare: (yhuol)

[personal profile] death_glare 2018-03-31 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ He'll allow their lips to meet, even giving Grell a teasing bit of tongue. But, it won't last nearly as long as Grell is, undoubtedly, hoping. In fact, right as she's beginning to fully enjoy it, the ponytail that he complemented a minute before is tugged sharply to get her to end the kiss. ]