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

[arcadianvampire]

Well, that's a start at least. Perhaps having a Prinny Instructor confirm your story might help them accept it.

[That's optimistic, frankly, but it wouldn't stop Val from trying if need be. After all, there was no lie to what they did, and therefore no need to be ashamed or hide it. And if they were otherwise not hostile to Emizel, that meant they weren't going to need a lesson being taught to them.

Still, he listened to the rest of his statement and smiled.]

Hmhmhm. Sounds like that could be quite entertaining. I do love a good fight myself. But if she concerns you, I will not take her lightly, and will be prepared. I have a feeling we will inevitably meet.

Though a little bit of clashing of the gods seems perfectly natural, destroying other gods and shinki is counter-intuitive to discharging our duties. It strikes me as unnecessary to go so far. Wasteful, even.

[trademark_skull]

O-oh I'm sure she's no match against you! ...Not that you're gonna have to go through it alone. If Grell does do anything, she'll have to deal with me too!

[Because, that's just the kind of thing comrades are supposed to do...]

[Unfortunately, Emizel's excitement is a little short lived. He quiets down and looks somewhat worryingly at the ground.]

...Murders do seem pretty common actually.

And it does have some effect on the Heavens, and Human World too.

[arcadianvampire]

Common? Why in Hades... [He hesitated, thinking maybe that was a turn of phrase he would need to change...] ...Why would they do something like that?

From what I've discussed and heard, such a thing seems largely pointless to do. Does every universe suffer from this sort of thing?

[trademark_skull]

There's nothing saying exactly that gods have to get along, just like with anything else. [Their own God acted the same way. And of course, demons are notorious for that.]

...But I'm not exactly sure. It sounds to me like there is a group somewhere trying to overthrow the the Heavens - like Amaterasu's temple and tighter security. They're attacking the old gods, but I doubt they care what happens to us either. It could be related.

[arcadianvampire]

How very irritating. Seems there may be more than one universe in need of some re-education! Remind me when we return to Hades to have Fenrich start looking into this universe. It might have to go on the to-do list, once we've dealt with our own.

[He's acting out a bit, but really, he'll settle down and forget about it soon enough.]

Nevertheless, that will come later. For now, I am certain we will have plenty of work to do around here. Tell me anything else you might think is important or useful.

[trademark_skull]

If we ever do get home soon. I think we might be here for awhile...

[A slight pause.]

We might have to deal with this first.

[Let's hope...there even is a Netherworld still left when they get back. Knowing who's in charge right now.]