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

[kokuyoyo]

[...The fish has been left alone... Chikusa starts to drift a little closer. This is a subject matter that concerns him anyway.]

Why? It's safer for a shinki to be used that way anyway...

[arcadianvampire]

That may be the reality here. And it's true that is the purpose Shinki, their duty, much like how mine is now that of one who wields them and creates them. Among other duties.

But the nature of a soul here is much... different, than I am used to. I worked with the souls of the damned for many, many years before I arrived here.

[kokuyoyo]

That's... not a common background...

[To say the least. His head tilts slightly.]

What was that like, then?

[arcadianvampire]

Extremely busy. Sinful souls can't purge themselves, someone has to teach them how to work all of it off as Prinnies, after all. But make no mistake, every rotten soul that ever crossed my path has and will eventually pay their debts to the universe. Reincarnation follows that. A new life, a new chance, a new story. No exceptions, once their debts are paid.

[He cleared his throat after that.]

While souls in my universe will often see hardship or servitude, those souls are only the ones of the sinful. Those deserving of punishment. The Shinki here... so far, that does not appear to be the case. The idea of possibly using a soul of an undeserving individual as a tool or disturbing their rest in the afterlife?

Well, even as a demon, I find that rather... unsettling.

[kokuyoyo]

[Sorry, Valvatorez, you lost him around two sentences into that, and Chikusa's mouth twitches a little. A second later, he reaches up to adjust his glasses.]

Oh.... You deal with those things...

[arcadianvampire]

Prinnies, you mean? Yes. Of course. You know of them, then?

[And he was oblivious to that mouth twitch... whoops.]

[kokuyoyo]

I've been harassed by them...

[For totally innocent reasons and definitely not because he was stealing anything or whatever.]

I think... they tried to interrogate me... or something.

[arcadianvampire]

Harassed? Hmph. Sometimes Prinnies get a little big for their britches. Don't be afraid to put them in their place. They might be demons, but they're the lowest of the low class. I have little doubt Shinki or Gods here should be able to overpower most of them.

...Say, how did you manage to encounter them? If this universe is so different, how do they exist here?

[kokuyoyo]

Mm, yeah. I just... walked past them.

[It wasn't hard so much as it was kind of annoying and bizarre, in the end. At the question, Chikusa tilts his head to the side thoughtfully.]

I think... they were with some annoying red book that can talk.

[arcadianvampire]

A talking red book? ...Doesn't ring a bell, I'm afraid. But I will keep an eye out for that. Perhaps they know something about their connection here.

[As good a start as any, he supposed.]

By the way, what's your name, lad? Though they call me Hades here, you may also call me Valvatorez, if you prefer.

[kokuyoyo]

[Just when he was close enough to maybe make a grab for the fis... Chikusa pauses.]

Ah... Chikusa Kakimoto. I work with Li Tieugai.... But just call him Cho Hakkai.