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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~
welcome_home: souji (060)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2018-04-30 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She stubbornly wipes at her eyes, as if that will be enough to hide any evidence of it. ]

I'm not crying! I'm okay. Chikusa! You're a hat!

[ That at least gets a giggle out of her, tearful though it might be.

Look at her valiantly trying to change the subject. ]
kokuyoyo: (Tell him next time I'm going to be)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-04-30 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[It sure is. After a moment, Chikusa remembers to add something.]

I don't think there are a lot of people who have hair exactly like his... Even when it's spiky, they don't have hair with more than one color...
purr_ince: (Chat | A real gone guy)

[personal profile] purr_ince 2018-05-01 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
It's fine to be different though.

[A smile tugs at the blond's lips.]

That's a good thing though! As long as no one has been mean or cruel about it you should be fine. You can make friends maybe teach people about yourself.

[Chat nods his head.]

I would never us this for evil. I like helping people not hurting them. My Goddess would likely be extremely displeased if I did bad things with whatever power I have.
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-05-01 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
You're just going to set vultures on Hibiki instead.
all_seeing_eye: (Default)

[personal profile] all_seeing_eye 2018-05-02 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, whatever.

[She drops the finger.]

So what's your name?
revolutionfalcon: (calm command)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-05-02 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
It's not my problem if she's incapable of apologising, but I'm not going to let her insult my shinki.

[Says the person who couldn't give the tiniest amount of damns about most insults directed towards him. Shun has somewhat different standards between treatment of him and treatment of his friends.]
nopixiedust: (sillica) (Forget about socially acceptable.)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-05-02 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh that's- Wendy bursts out laughing, her free hand going up to curl against her mouth.]

That's not dancing! I mean, except sometimes when it is. But I meant give me your hand!
artificialrose: (salamandroid) (I'm not really sure actually.)

[personal profile] artificialrose 2018-05-03 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Why does he feel like he wasn't understood at all...]

When you said 'kind' before... It's like that. Does that help?
unlucky7: (STATUS :: Watching 3)

[personal profile] unlucky7 2018-05-04 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Because we're assigned to a god at the start?

[Spirits, shinki, ayakashi, Ginia tents her fingers together and stares at the angles. Ayakashi are formed from negative emotions, but a shinki can turn into one too. How many of the larger ayakashi in the Near Shore used to be shinki? How many of the wandering spirits are waiting for a god?]

Can you clear something else up for me? Soulless shinki. Lack of a soul aside, does anything else set them apart from other shinki? How are they made?
revolutionfalcon: (not okay with this)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-05-04 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably. There must be some kind of connection made before we get here. [Somehow. Which is just another question to add to the steadily growing pile of them.

And speaking of that pile of questions, Shun grimaces rather obviously at her question about soulless shinki.]


A lot of people would like to know the answer to that, because a "soulless" shinki shouldn't even really be possible if you think about what shinki are. I only had one for about ten days back when I first arrived, so I only really know what everyone else knows about them.
cloak: (say)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-05-06 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Roxas nods in understanding]

Then I'll look for someone like that.
cloak: (Default)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-05-06 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Roxas. [And, he totally knows what to do now, so he asks in return] What's yours?
cloak: (Default)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-05-06 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't, but it is...?

[A puzzling notion indeed. Roxas wonders if Add would know, since he's a god, when dancing involves gestures.

But with the clarification, he doesn't hesitate in holding his hand out for Wendy]


Like that?
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-05-06 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright.

[A glance down towards Roxas' hand.]

....But he won't be able to help your borderline skills. So... try not to set too much on fire...
junkyarddog: (Without thinking)

[personal profile] junkyarddog 2018-05-07 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
He would be a hat, byon. [Ken is reaching out to flick an ear of the hat. He's deeply uncomfortable with Nanako's crying, too, but since Nanako is giggling and trying to act normal, he's trying to do the same so that maybe she'll stop faster.] One time he was a yoyo.

[But the 'trying to ignore the crying' isn't really working for him; he's fidgeting, and after a moment he digs into a pocket and pulls out some gum.] Here! [And he abruptly pushes the half-empty pack into Nanako's hand.] You can have this, byon.

[See? You have candy. That means you'll stop crying, right?

Ken is absolutely the most awkward at comforting crying girls. He tries, bless him.]
abgrund: (空紅く滲んでく)

[personal profile] abgrund 2018-05-07 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ he nods, just once. ]

You.... should go back. [ to his friends. ]
cloak: (Default)

[personal profile] cloak 2018-05-07 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Roxas' posture stiffens with a visible jolt]

I wouldn't want to hurt anyone.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2018-05-07 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Then aim away from people.

[Simple enough, right?]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (It's sad we have to plan out fun)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-05-07 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Did she insult Chinatsu, or are you talking about someone else?
all_seeing_eye: (Default)

[personal profile] all_seeing_eye 2018-05-07 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Futaba. Yog-Sothoth when I'm working. But mostly just Futaba.
welcome_home: (071)

[personal profile] welcome_home 2018-05-08 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ken's actions just make her giggle again, finding it easier to do with both of them trying to reassure her in their own ways. ]

Thank you, Ken. And yeah, I think a hat's really good for him, too. I'm not sure I'd be very good with a yoyo. Return, Chikusa.

[ Because he doesn't need to stay a hat for the moment and now Ken can hear and see him again too.

She glances up at Ken with a shy smile. ]


You're next. Ready?
revolutionfalcon: (about time)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-05-08 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
If she's pissed her off and just assumes she's going to be forgiven, that's basically insulting her.

[It's at minimum not giving her the consideration their supposed "relationship" should deserve.]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (You are the patron saint)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-05-08 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
....Stupidity isn't an insult, Shun.
revolutionfalcon: (dominant)

[personal profile] revolutionfalcon 2018-05-09 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
There's stupidity and then there's thinking you haven't done anything wrong to someone you claim a connection to. If she actually respected Chinatsu she'd step up and ask.

[Shun certainly isn't going to argue against Hibiki being stupid, but there are worse things than stupidity involved as well.]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (This is so stupid.)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2018-05-09 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I meant emotionally stupid. I think sometimes she doesn't know how to deal with people if it's not in the context of something like out of a fairy tale.

Which doesn't make it good, obviously. She's like a dumb little kid. [Wendy likes her, sure, but still.]