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]

An experiment? That sounds more like a ridiculous mad scientist thing than a halfway-to-magical-girl thing.

[alchemists]

Being able to determine how energy is used is part of what alchemists do.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

So you're super big on explosions and stuff, right?

[This is Zetta's word association for 'energy'.]

[alchemists]

Explosions aren't part of this, but I have done research on them.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

All right, now we're talking! [What were they talking about? Zetta has quite possibly lost track.] Explosions absolutely should be part of this! I mean, when you're as badass as me, they're pretty hard to avoid.

[alchemists]

I'll make sure to factor that in for the testing.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Hyaaaha ha ha ha! So long, moon!

[That isn't a weird and specific place to go as his first thought, not at all.]

[alchemists]

I won't allow that!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

What -- why are you invested in the moon all of a sudden!? What did it ever do for you? Are you also secretly a werewolf?!

[alchemists]

It's a bit hard to explain but the moon where I'm from has taken damage and was thrown off it's orbit. It was corrected but I would rather not happen again.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Oh come on, I've destroyed this moon like ten times already since I've been here! But it's all been in battle, so it never sticks. Once more won't hurt!

[alchemists]

No means no

[badassfreakingoverlord]

I feel like that doesn't apply to moons... What with them being inanimate and all...

[alchemists]

As the one running the experiments I can cut any explosions.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

That's an unfair abuse of power! [The Overlord starts to huff dramatically -- then pauses, and looks down at Elfnein with a wicked gleam in his eyes.]

Which is pretty evil of you...

[alchemists]

Making sure things are safe is one part of running an experiment, so it doesn't count as evil.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Well -- well making an Overlord be safe is so cruel and beyond the pale that it counts as evil, so pick your poison!

[alchemists]

I don't consider it evil, alchemists are meant to observe so we're somewhat neutral.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Oh yeah? Would you observe puppy-kicking neutrally? [Maybe this is the key to cracking her soul open and frying it up to fiendish taste!]

[alchemists]

I would never sit back and observe that sort of horrible action!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Ah HA! So you're NOT neutral! You only don't interfere in experiments that work the way you want them to! For shame -- a scientist should confront truth even if it's ugly!

[alchemists]

There are rules in place for animal experiments, you can't harm them!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Those rules stand in the way of the objective truth! Sentiment that obscures knowledge! Search your heart, you know it to be true!

[alchemists]

None of that is true.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

--You didn't search your heart at all! I think you barely polled your pancreas! Maybe put out for bids on a consulting contract with the spleen and the small bowel!