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

[swordofzero]

Of course not [He smiled, even though not knowing what he could felt a little strange he was quite enjoying figuring it out.] What have you figured out yourself so far?

[hellishrabbit]

Seems I've got more strength than I know.

[ He's broken a couple of things unintentionally, including bones. ]

And my body seems to remember how to fight. So I'm guessing I used to when I was alive?

[ Kamui walks over till he's across from him, assuming they're going for hand to hand. ]

Ah, and my skin doesn't like the sun.

[ He glances briefly at the umbrella he has leaning against the wall. ] Kind of a pain.

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku looks over at the umbrella as well, didn't like the sun? That was strange. Some kind of illness probably, though he wasn't sure if Shinki could get ill, they were already dead after all. He imagined that had been uncomfortable until he had figured it out.]

That's must have been difficult at first.

/comes in a million years later

[hellishrabbit]

Mm, it's easy enough to overcome, I guess. But I haven't met anyone else with the same problem.

[ That didn't seem fair. Without much of a warning, since Kamui didn't see a point in stopping the conversation, he starts off with a kick towards Suzaku's head. ]

I tried using sunblock, but it didn't do anything. I even used the one with the highest spf level.

no worries

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku dodged the kick, ducking under the leg and twisting to deliver a kick of his own, aimed at Kamui's supporting leg]

Strange. I haven't heard of anything like that before.

[hellishrabbit]

[ Oh, smooth move.

As his kicking leg comes down, he puts more power into it so he can flip around, giving him just a bit of distance from Suzaku as he lands on both feet into a crouching position. ]

Haven't met anyone yet who has. Ah, well. I guess it just means going to beach would be a pain. Not that I've been to one here.

[ From his position, he rushes forward, pulling his arm back to deliver an uppercut towards his chin.]

Have you?

[swordofzero]

[Impressive. Suzaku turns to face him, watching him carefully for any opening now that distance has been created.

Suzaku stepped out of the punch, turning so that he was facing Kamui's arm. He moved his hand, aiming to grip Kamui's arm and pull forward, using his own momentum against him.]

No, I haven't been to the beach. [He guessed it was starting to get a little cold for such things. At least in the Winter Kamui hopefully wouldn't have to worry so much about the sun.]

[hellishrabbit]

[ Kamui lands on his back with a loud thud, feeling the force course through his body. It tingled, but it wasn't as painful as he expected. Somehow, the counter attack just had him smiling more. Even the dodge from his punch was more thrilling than frustrating for Kamui. ]

I hear it's nice.

[ Or so he's heard the living people chatter about as they complain about the change in temperature.

Grabbing Suzaku's forearm, Kamui tugs him forward. It may not be a very graceful technique, but throwing him gives him a few seconds to jump back up on his feet. ]

I like the city more, I think. Lots more to see.

[swordofzero]

[Suzaku hadn't quite expected his throw to work and the pause, the slight moment of worry that he might have actually hurt the other boy, backfired on him as Kamui tugs him forwards. He manages to turn his fall into a roll and stood up, spinning round so that he was still facing Kamui.]

The city is interesting, I went to Tokyo to the cat cafe there. It was very busy.

[He's adopted a defensive stance, ready and watching Kamui to see what he does next.]