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thenearshore2018-04-16 06:59 pm
godsoffortune) wrote in thenearshore2018-04-16 06:59 pm
Entry tags:
- !intro log,
- aymeric de borel | final fantasy xiv,
- ayumu yamazaki | peace maker kurogane,
- chikusa kakimoto | katekyo hitman reborn,
- ebisu | noragami,
- garry | ib,
- ginia | original character,
- hibiki shikyoin | pripara,
- keith | voltron,
- nanako dojima | persona 4,
- shinji ikari | evangelion,
- suzaku kururugi | code geass,
- ω (future) trunks briefs | dragon ball z,
- ω emizel | disgaea 4,
- ω kaden | fire emblem: fates,
- ω kanade amou | senki zesshou symphogear,
- ω mikleo | tales of zestiria,
- ω misaki yata | k,
- ω piccolo | dragon ball z,
- ω qrow branwen | rwby,
- ω son goku | saiyuki,
- ω valvatorez | disgaea 4,
- ω zelda | loz: ocarina of time
April Training
Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: November 6th
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 rear of 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
Shinki Training
Physical Training
Rest and Refreshments
In Summary:
What: Information and Training
When: November 6th
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 rear of 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 a much nicer room than the warehouse where the last set of new gods got their informational speech. It's a smaller meeting room, with tatami floors and a small dais at the front of the room where the speaker stands. 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.
Butterfly spirits are swarming the flower garden to one side of the dojo, fluttering across bright pink late-blooming cosmos. Shinki who want to practice more precise borderline aim can try using them to gently herd the butterflies one way or another, or, if their borderlines aren't quite that good yet, they can try to catch one with a net. Just be careful! It would be a shame to hurt them.
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.
The animated training dummies are missing this week, although the mundane ones are still intact on their stakes; the white-robed shinki who has previously been seen looking after them is wandering among the mundane training dummies, muttering, making notes to himself and swearing under his breath. Anyone who stares at him for too long, god or shinki, newcomer or established, is going to find him marching over and assigning them a task. Measure the air temperature in each square foot of the dojo, determine the exact height of each dummy and the location where it's most likely to be hit by opponents of different heights, hook an accelerometer to someone's sleeve while they smack a dummy around -- there seem to be hundreds of little, fiddly measurements he needs, and he's not taking no for an answer.
Rest and Refreshments
- There are casks of fresh, cold water near the dojo to make sure no one gets dehydrated, and a fresh autumn-themed lunch will be served a little after noon. Rice with mushrooms, salt-grilled fish, roasted sweet potatoes and fresh fruit are on the menu; the shinki will try to accommodate any special dietary requests, and both the new arrivals and more experienced volunteers are welcome to partake.
One of the white-robed shinki has a whole pack of half-grown puppies that she seems to be trying to train. A few have mastered sitting, a few have figured out how to fetch, and all of them are young and excited enough that they're dashing off in all directions at the least provocation. Watch out! Dog incoming! Maybe she needs some help with that?
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
- Play with the dogs
- Spectate if you want
- Have fun~
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[It seems like these puppies are some of the ones that know the sit command so Ayumu keeps to her word and gives them both their reward. She's sharp enough to notice the lack of recognition when he looks at her but continues on nonetheless. Re-introducing herself and filling him in on what she knows about his time here can wait until she's sure he doesn't need medical treatment.]
I know a little bit about patching wounds if you need it.
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[He's got bruises on his bruises and cuts and grazes everywhere else, but nothing's broken and he's not bleeding profusely anymore. He's had worse. He probably should get looked at, but he's not going to die or anything.]
Just kinda tired, y'know? 'n hungry.
[Goku, please.]
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[She smiles, reaching over to the pet one of the puppies. They're really cute. Maybe when the kittens have grown up a bit more, she'll see what Sanzang thinks about getting a dog or two. In the meantime, she goes quiet, watching Goku thoughtfully while he eats. After a bit, she finally speaks.]
This must be terribly confusing for you. And you must be wondering who I am and how I know you when you've never seen me before.
[There's a slight hesitation before she adds:]
God or shinki?
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Huh? Oh, I'm Goku! [That does not answer "god or shinki". Look, he's Goku, that's all that matters.] Wait, you know Hakkai? ... Hakkai has a school?
[That one might answer "god or shinki" a little better.]
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I do. He's a good friend of mine. And yes, he does. Sometimes I help out with the clinic at the school he runs here.
[Ayumu might be leaving out a lot of details about her relationship with Hakkai but she doesn't want to overwhelm Goku too much right away.]
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A clinic like... a doctor's clinic? And a school? Hakkai got a job? [HE'S BEEN GONE FOR LESS THAN AN HOUR, WHAT THE FUCK?] ... Is stuff that expensive here?
[Is he going to have to get a job too... That never works out well.]
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[She's never known Hakkai to not have a job so she tilts her tilts her head a bit. Then it hits her - that's right, the journey.]
The clinic's something like that though there's some who use magic to heal instead of medicine. If you like, I can show you his school and take you to where he lives. But I'm sure he'll show up before long and can do it himself.
[Ayumu picks up a piece of sweet potato to nibble on.]
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[Hakkai will worry if he looks for Goku here and can't find him, after all! Goku takes a few bites of fish.]
Man, Hakkai's real good at teaching but a whole school...
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[Ayumu's perfectly fine with just chatting. Even if Goku wind up loo,king around at everything, she can confirm his presence here for Hakkai the next time she sees him, at the very least.]
He's put a lot of hard work into it. It inspired me to start working on projects to improve the community myself.
[There's a definite hint of pride when she speaks of Hakkai's work at the school.]
My name's Ayumu, by the way. But you can call me 'Ayu-chan' if you want.
[It's what her friends call her, after all. Mostly Sanzang but Lavi, too, sometimes.]
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[Goku's impressed. Hakkai's "responsible member of the community" act must be going over really well! He's probably happy about that. Goku's glad.]
Nice to meet ya, Ayumu! Or, uh, Ayu-chan. [It's been a long time since he called anyone by a nickname like that, but if she wants him to, he won't argue.] Are you an' Hakkai really good friends?
[He only sounds a little doubtful. Hakkai is nice and great and wonderful and Goku loves him. Making new friends isn't really like him, but it's good if it's true!]
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[It's clear to her that Goku doesn't seem aware of just how long Hakkai's been here. But she's trying to ease him into this mad situation as gently as she can. Goku had been there for her when she'd needed a friend; she owes him this much.]
We don't anymore but we're still friends.
[Friends in an awkward situation but still friends.]
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Are you a teacher too, Ayu-chan?
[One of the puppies sneaks back over to sniff Goku's hand. Then it starts licking it, because it can smell food.]
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[What she really means is she teaches ninjutsu, cooking, and homemaking but those are kind of the same thing, right? Ayumu turns her attention to the puppy a briefly, picking up another piece of fish.]
Sit!
[As soon as the puppy obeys, she gives it the fish. Then her gaze shifts back to Goku.]
I only have a couple of pupils. One is very talented. The other... well. Some need to work harder than others, I suppose!
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School stuff can be hard! [He speaks from experience.] Fighting is more fun though, that sounds cool.
[That's what self-defense means, right? The only lessons Goku excelled at.]
But, if you don't teach at the school, where'd you work with Hakkai?
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[She's perfectly happy to step in if she needs to but it'd help to have a sense of what Goku's already learned.]
I'm a decent enough fighter when I need to be but I think I prefer learning myself.
[There's no judgment or chastisement in her tone, though. Different people have different likes, dislikes, strengths, weaknesses... and all of that's okay.]
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[But she looks normal! And nice! He's not sure what he expected shinki to be like, after he had them explained to him, but somehow... Maybe it's just because it's sad to think that Ayumu is actually dead. Even though he's talking to her. So maybe she's not dead. Maybe death is meaningless. Huh.]
They explained a bit and I think I get it, it's just all really weird. I've never met someone who could turn into a weapon before. It must suck, if you like fighting yourself.
[Can't punch someone if you're a sword or whatever!]
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Fighting here can get pretty frustrating, especially if you're used to working alone. The enemies we fight can only be defeated by a god and a shinki working together. And yes, it is kind of a pain to have rely on someone else to do the punching for you while you can only spectate.
[Ayumu smiles.]
But I've gotten lucky. Both of my gods have been skilled fighters. I don't know if I could handle being wielded by someone who didn't know what they were doing.
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[Being called a god is dumb, but at least he doesn't have to be a shinki. He's much better off doing the fighting, he thinks. Maybe he'll think differently if he ever gets to fight with a shinki himself.]
Fighting with someone else doesn't sound bad though. Hakkai's real strong, so you got lucky with him.
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[Now if only Hakkai could learn to keep his personal life under control and stop stressing out his exemplar so much. At least, Ken seems to be handling things a little better.]
I'm sure you'll manage just fine, though.
[From what Ayumu's seen of him, Goku's good combat instincts. Those go a long way here in her experience.]
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[In Goku's experience. Lately their responsibilities have mostly included "punching stuff" and "making sure Sanzo doesn't die" and they've all been doing really well!]
Yeah, I'm not worried about that stuff. [He just has to fight monsters, right? That's easy.] Hey, I'm really strong too, ya know. If you ever wanna fight with someone, we can!
[Goku, that's indecent.]
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Well, we'll see! If you ever get into trouble and need help, I can try. Maybe. I wouldn't want you to get hurt.
[She's clearly a bit flustered by this development but the sentiment's sincere. Ayumu doesn't want Goku to find himself trapped in a situation where he needs a shinki and doesn't have one. Ayumu takes another bite of sweet potato, chewing thoughtfully.]
I'll tell you what. The people in charge here should have given you a phone. I can give you my number and if you're ever in trouble in a fight, you can call me, 'kay?
[Ayumu, you're not helping.]
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Aw, I'm tough, don't worry about me. [Says the boy currently one big, walking bruise. He's not sure why Ayumu is flustered- maybe she's embarrassed that she needs help to fight?] ... It could just be for fun! Fighting with other people can be a lot more interestin' than fighting on your own.
[You get to make smart ass comments the whole fight. When you do that on your own, you just look like an asshole. Instead of a whole group of assholes. Yeah, Goku has no idea what he's saying. Or maybe he does and Ayumu is the one who doesn't know!]
Ah, yeah, they gave me one... Here, do whatever you want to it!
[Passes the phone over and grins. Score.]
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Fighting for fun doesn't sound bad at all. It's a bit different with gods and shinki though, I think. Well, you'd have to name me for me to able to help you rend anything and the bond's kind of weird. I don't understand it very well but I'm sure Hakkai could explain how it works better.
[She chuckles a bit.]
Magic's not really my area of expertise. But I'd love to spar with you sometime. I don't think I have much experience fighting among allies. I've only ever really done it with my gods and Gojyo.
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Really? I haven't noticed anythin' weird yet! [Because your shinki is soulless, Goku.] I'll ask Hakkai and make sure.
[Or he'll forget and just start naming people whenever it's convenient and rapidly realise the mistake he's made.]
Yeah, I'm no good at that magic stuff either. But sparring is fun! And fighting with Gojyo is fun too, he's really strong! Dumb and annoyin' but strong!
[It's important to include the "stupid kappa" disclaimer every time he compliments Gojyo. Sanzo would never forgive him if he didn't.]
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[Ayumu's pretty fast and can take a lot more than her small, pretty appearance might suggest but in the end, she's hindered by human limitations. Given how many people with special powers are around, it's pretty annoying but she's able to compensate by fostering good will with allies stronger than her.]
What do you think of obstacle courses, Goku? I think they're even more fun than sparring.
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