March Training

[godsoffortune]

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~

Comments

god training

[redotiertwo]

[Davesprite isn't actually a god, but he's in the vicinity of the stuffy hall and has been mistaken for one a few times before, what with his bizarre form. Even by the standards of a part-animal person, a floating, neon orange half-bird with a ghostlike tail and sunglasses is pretty weird.

He appears to be absent-mindedly practicing some kind of specific motion as Ranulf approaches, but when he's spoken to he rolls over, expression deadpan and apparently not too bothered about the interruption.]

I feel like this is gonna be more than a moment, but if you're a newbie with questions, then fire away.

[skybluelaguz]

[ Ranulf almost thought that this man was a laguz, a hawk or a strange heron he's never seen. But he didn't feel the same as a laguz. He had been hoping to fins another brother but it wasn't bad talking to this one. ]

I suppose a question regarding if this was real or not I already know the answer to. But, I do wonder if turning into gods is really just that easy? Are there really so many?

[redotiertwo]

If you want god philosophy you should probably ask a god instead of me, but yeah, there's a shitload of them. All the classic pantheons nobody should rightfully be worshipping anymore are back in action.

[Davesprite's always been a bit questioning as to why there's gods from ancient civilisations among the ones here, but hey, it makes things entertaining, he supposes.]

[skybluelaguz]

Classic pantheons?

[ He tilts his head, his tail flicking sharply at the thought. ]

Are all these gods from one world? And they normally don't get worshiped?

[redotiertwo]

I think we might have like. One or maybe two that are gods from their worlds, but yeah, most of them are just gods from different cultures and times in this one. And most of them were only widely worshipped over a thousand years ago, or closer to two thousand, so I for one would love to know what exactly the fuck is going on there.

[In theory, for the gods to show up as incarnations at all, they would've had to have been getting worshipped by someone prior to the newcomers taking action to gather followers. Maybe it's the worldwide pagan population doing their bit.]

[skybluelaguz]

My, so many gods from just one world... How could they even handle that...we only had one goddess and she did quite a mess of things. Who knew worlds could be so similar, yet so different from each other.

[ He'll leave the philosophical discussion later about why would there be so many gods, and people to worship all of them. ]

I suppose that just makes things more interesting. If everything was the same it would get a bit boring, no?

[redotiertwo]

Like I said, they're pretty fucking spread out time-wise. There's maybe like one or two gods here who I would've expected to still be worshipped these days, and the rest I guess are just anachronic bullshit.

[Davesprite has never been a particularly faithful person, so he doesn't really have any shame in saying he considers this system a little bit bullshit. Or a lot bit bullshit, but that's a conversation for another time.]

Yeah, I don't think this place needs a lot of help making things "more interesting", attacks every other week do that fine.