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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-04-16 06:59 pm

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

    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~
onehandsomeslickninja: (ha ninja something!)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-11 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
It doesn't have to be a thing or a place or a person -- it can be a principle or a point of personal pride, too! Something you won't back down on, no matter the cost. Even losing your memory, something like that has to have stuck, right?

[Edge has only his own experience to go off of, of course: he has principles and moral which he follows without hesitation. He doesn't have memories of his fellows to compare with, their deeper troubles and moral struggles. Even in life, he was not one to vie with darkness that way.]
swordofzero: (pic#732312)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-13 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Something he wouldn't back down on, no matter the cost.

He felt strongly about a few things, he felt people should be protected. Those who did not wish to fight should not be forced to fight. Both of those things were important, and he nods. Borderlines are protection after all and this technique is all about letting those who need protecting through whilst keeping out those who try and harm them]


Protecting people, that's important.
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-14 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Edge silently swallows his pride.]

Okay. Then envision this. Something's coming after me and is about to eat me. If you don't let me through the Borderline, I'm dead. If you let IT through the Borderline, I'm dead.

[Internally, he bristles at the scenario -- he's already dead for one, and he has a million tricks to avoid being eaten for another! But it's for training, he reminds himself. It's just an imaginary scenario.]
swordofzero: (determination!)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-14 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suzaku nodded at the senario and tried to imagine it in his mind, Edge was trying to escape something that would eat him. He had a borderline and had to let Edge through. Or he would die.

It wasn't that realistic since he had seen Edge fight, also Edge was a shinki he was already dead. But he stepped back with a nod]
Line!

[A borderline sprang up and he focussed. Edge had to get through, it was a matter of life and death.]
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-14 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[To help with the verisimilitude, Edge bolts for the barrier at an abrupt run. Please don't screw this up, Suzaku, he doesn't want to bounce off it!]
swordofzero: (determination!)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-15 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
[The running helps apparantly, a mix of the senario Edge had spelled out for him and the fact that Suzaku isn't sure what happens if someone runs at a borderline. Would it hurt Edge?

He focussed, he had to let Edge through, but stop whatever was chasing him. He had to let Edge through. The surface rippled as Edge reached it and though it would be like Edge had hit water rather than air he would be able to push through.]
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-15 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[No one can say hitting water at a run is exactly pleasant, and Edge stumbles through with one arm flailing for balance before he can come to a stop. But he's through, and that's what counts!]

Ha! That did it!
swordofzero: (aderp derr derp?)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-15 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suzaku reaches out to steady Edge as he pushes through the barrier. It had worked? Suzaku is a little surprised but pleased. It worked and he knows how it is meant to feel now, he can practice. That way if that situation ever happened for real he could do this, protect people.

He smiled]
Thank you, Edge
Edited 2018-05-15 21:06 (UTC)
onehandsomeslickninja: (i got this)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-16 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, you did great! Guess that puts you ahead of me now. [Though Edge, in the same situation, can practice as well.]
swordofzero: (polite and friendly)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-17 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suzaku smiled at him] I only managed it with your help, and you were the one who came up with how to focus yourself.

[Practice is always needed but it is worth it, for a skill such as this.]
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-17 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew that one already. [Edge waves it off. He's arrogant and egotistical, but only for things that count!] The important thing is we got it, though, right?
swordofzero: (polite and friendly)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-17 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Suzaku noddded with another smile, that was indeed the important thing, they had gotten it]

Hopefully next time something like that happens we will be able to help more people.
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-17 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, if I ever remember to put up my Borderline in a fight instead of just wading in. [Maybe this will help him remember.]
swordofzero: (pic#732312)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-18 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
I've never been in a real fight, I hope I remember to put mine up when I do. [Practice until it's natural he guesses.]

I think if you saw a situation where having a borderline but letting some people through it was necessary you would remember.
onehandsomeslickninja: (the cool ninja)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-18 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, we'll sure see. There's never any shortage of fights around here, after all, if you're willing to look.

[And Edge knows he's the "run in and fight" sort, not the 'stay back and protect' sort. Well, gotta keep learning, right?]
swordofzero: (slight smile)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-18 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I'm sure it won't be long. [He might even be awake next time]
onehandsomeslickninja: (i got this)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-18 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh, if that big night fight was any indication... yes, we'll see action again. Your god at all big on fighting the ayakashi?
swordofzero: (slight smile)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-18 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
She likes fighting yes. [He nods, he assumes her love of violence extends to ayakashi] Does yours?

[Edge definitely seems to enjoy fighting]
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-20 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Aaah, he seems kind of indifferent? He knows how, but I don't see him much at any of the big brawls...
swordofzero: (not impressed)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-20 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
I see [But he could fight. Suzaku didn't think there was any problem in people not wishing to fight, but at least he would be able to hold his own if he were attacked]

onehandsomeslickninja: (cold look)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-21 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's disappointing that I can't do anything on my own... It means a lot of the time I'm just dead weight. [Which bothers him profoundly. How many ayakashi had he faced down now that he couldn't handle?]
swordofzero: (not impressed)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-22 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
[That didn't seam right, that someone as skilled as Edge felt like he was useless in a fight.] Well there is something you can do now [The better his borderlines were the more he would be able to help people]
onehandsomeslickninja: (turned away cool)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-22 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Still doesn't kill ayakashi, though. [Which is the only thing that ends a threat.] There's a weaponized version of the Borderline, though, isn't there?
swordofzero: (not impressed)

[personal profile] swordofzero 2018-05-22 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, you can throw a borderline to cut things. [He thought a moment] I don't know if it would kill an ayakashi, it might drive one back though.
onehandsomeslickninja: (eh heh)

[personal profile] onehandsomeslickninja 2018-05-23 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
They're pretty clear -- nothing kills them but Rending. But man, I was running low on strength at the end of the last fight. Another trick in the bag would sure help!

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