April Training

[godsoffortune]

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

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~

Comments

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Some guy just wandered through and set them to work! I mean, what the hell?

[alchemists]

Can't you tell them to stop? It shouldn't matter who set them to work as long as they stop.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

So apparently the guy who set them to this is scary beyond all reason? [That's the impression he got anyway...]

[alchemists]

Can you describe them outside of being scary?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

I didn't encounter him, so I don't know. Apparently he left an impression on my loyal battle mooks, though.

[alchemists]

Can they describe the person instead then?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He was a big guy!

Eyes of steel!

Apparently not a book, also, which makes me wonder how they could have confused him for the guy they actually take orders from!

[alchemists]

Eyes of steel and a big guy...

[ Elfnein is trying to think of any gods or shinki that fit that description but she's coming up with blanks. ]

Maybe they were wearing a costume?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

A costume? Why would someone be running around here wearing a costume?

[alchemists]

Halloween was recently?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

While that's true, name one loser wearing a costume after Halloween who's actually intimidating or effective.

[alchemists]

I wouldn't know as I didn't really dress up outside of putting a cape on.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Wait, hold up. You're actually even the right AGE to celebrate. What's with the lack of enthusiasm!?

[alchemists]

Well, Hibiki had me use her party as an audition for her movie. I didn't have much time to prepare...

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Oh. Well, if she was involved, no wonder things were a disaster. Sorry you had to deal with that, kid.

[The power of Hibiki is such that even an evil demon Overlord will feel sympathy for those who have to deal with her.]

[alchemists]

I normally don't mind Hibiki but being thrown into a blind audition isn't fun.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

You know what this situation calls for? Revenge.

[Zetta's commitment to dragging this girl to the path of evil is -- well, not admirable, but definitely present.]

[alchemists]

I don't think so

[badassfreakingoverlord]

No, no! It teaches her a valuable lesson about empathy and crap like that! It'll stop her from doing it to someone else! Also it's fricking hilarious when she freaks out just from trivial stuff.

[alchemists]

As much as I do want to teach her a lesson on certain matters it would be very wrong of me to pull some sort of revenge.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

You'd be saving other people from the same fate! How is that wrong?!

[alchemists]

Doing that means I'm no better then Hibiki.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

No way! You'd be doing it for selfless and pure motives instead of narcissistic egotism! That's a million times better!

[alchemists]

Aren't those kinda the same root cause though?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Absolutely not. [Zetta is just saying that to make her agree. He's honestly not even sure what she's arguing here.] It's totally fine!