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The Far Shore Mods ([personal profile] godsoffortune) wrote in [community profile] thenearshore2018-11-16 07:01 pm

November Training

Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: February 21st, 2017
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 brought into small one-on-one meeting rooms as they appear, with a white-robed shinki offering them an explanation of their current role, the name of the god they will represent or the god they will serve, and directions to the temple that will be their new home.

They are cordially invited to a training session beginning in early afternoon, after they've had the chance to return to their homes, meet their new partners, and have their questions answered.



Morning/On the Road

    New gods and shinki are being packed off to their new temples for the morning to settle in and meet their partners -- this is also a good time to visit with new neighbors or explore the area! What does your new temple look like? Are you headed straight there, or taking the scenic route to get a better sense of your new surroundings? The Western District is still scarred from the aftereffects of a recent volcanic eruption and earthquake, with fissures in some of the roads and burn scars in the wild landscape. The volcanic ash, though, seems to be serving as fertilizer for vast swaths of unfamiliar and colorful wildflowers that line the roads despite the fact that the weather is late-February chilly.


Shinki Training

    A well-appointed dojo has been prepared for newcomers to practice their physical or magical arts. Outside, there are two impromptu target practice areas: one is for long-range weapons, with targets set up against hay bales at the other side of a wide, grassy area and a line drawn for the weapons' wielders to stand behind. The other is for borderlines, and a number of young children wearing short coats marked with Amaterasu's golden chrysanthemum on white are dashing around practicing their own borderlines against scary paper masks tied onto bushes or other haybales. The game seems to require a cutting borderline that will cut the mask without damaging the gardeners' hard work on the bushes.

    Inside the dojo, there's room for several pairs to spar, and weapons are set up all along one wall, everything from polearms to rifles, chakrams to broadswords. They're all meant for practice, with edges dulled or padded to avoid any accidental deaths, but sparring partners will still have to be careful to avoid injury. Although there are many fewer white-robed shinki here than usual, except for the children, there is one adult shinki keeping an eye on things inside the dojo and one keeping an eye on things in the yard. They are willing to answer questions, help with borderlines or teach shinki new spells on request. Comment to the NPC REQUEST form to request a thread with one of them or if you have questions about handwaving an interaction.


Physical Training

    The last vestiges of winter have melted away from most of the Heavens, but one section of the Meeting Hall grounds appears not to have gotten the message. Snow is piled waist or even shoulder high, the trees and bushes show no sign of fresh leaves, and an ornamental pool is frozen as hard as a rock, with the drifting shadows of koi barely visible under the thick ice. It's the perfect opportunity to play in the snow, and many of the shinki children are already taking advantage of it, sliding on the ice or throwing snowballs.

    For those who brave the heavy snow, they may discover an an old woman in the center of the frozen area. She's wearing heavy white makeup and a straw coat, and humming cheerfully as she pounds rice into mochi. Anyone who finds her will be offered freshly made mochi and a cup of warm sake to fortify them for the snowball fights!


Rest and Refreshments

    Gods and shinki who are finished with their training can step into a large room in the Meeting Hall that has been set up with comfortable cushions and low tables. Tea, liquor and a wide variety of savory dishes are available, with the drinks already set out on the tables and the savory dishes set up in chafing dishes on a buffet table along one wall. Guests can help themselves, settle in, chat, and make new friends. There's even a dessert table, well-stocked with plenty of chocolate, most of which seems to be mysteriously heart-shaped.

    After eating, there are a variety of board and card games available for guests to play. From classic games like shogi, go and mahjong to more modern ones like Trivial Pursuit or Pictionary -- or Cards Against Humanity -- there's something for everyone.




In Summary:
  • Get all the information you can handle
  • Veteran new gods and shinki are welcome to volunteer showing the ropes
  • Practice sparring or shinki magic
  • Enjoy a buffet dinner and party games
  • Have fun~
towards_okeanos: (heee)

[personal profile] towards_okeanos 2019-01-09 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Iskandar reads both cards. Then reads them again. Either he doesn't understand this game or ...]

This game supposed to be funny, right?

[The previous round clearly was. This one? Not exactly. No one really can blame him that anything explicitly called 'squirmy' brings to him a mental picture of a mass of writhing tentacles he once battled. And that's certainly not funny, not at all. He shrugs the memory away but it already managed to ruin his mood.
Satya's answer is no better. Are you trying to tell me something, girl?
Maybe it's only his problem but Iskandar really doesn't like being reminded that technically speaking all shinki are dead people.]


Because I'm reading the answers you chose and they are rather ...

[His puts the cards down.]

Sad.
ofnovalue: art by yu gray (pain just like strange rain)

[personal profile] ofnovalue 2019-01-10 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
"May God's protection find you... Aegis!"

[ The incantation was brief, but the effects were immediate, a consuming light flowing from Ovelia, forming from within her and shifting towards her hands, and out towards Irisviel, surrounding her in that same light... ]
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-01-10 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
No because I'm going to be the one to beat you, miss! [He grins happily and picks up another tile, this one is mostly grass but it's pretty and it goes just outside his city.]
hypomeneo: (Oh!)

[personal profile] hypomeneo 2019-01-10 08:25 am (UTC)(link)
Most people shouldn't. Playing with forces like that has consequences very few expect. Thankfully you sound like a person smarter than most.

[Buddy, most people can't even manage the admittance, so, nerd seal of approval again!]
priforprince: (got dis)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-01-10 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oho...

[ FIGHTIN' WORDS FROM THE SMOL. Let her opinion of you settle before you go changing it again! This seesawing is exhausting!

Hibiki draws her next tile. She scrutinizes it.

And smirks. ]
nopixiedust: (insovereign) (Nope I went the fuck home like)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2019-01-10 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think... [Crossing her arms, Wendy taps her feet against the floor a few times. She's never really been one who's cared about spells or magic, but that's more because she's been so busy taking care of Hibiki, and her own Sanctuary. Still, she has some idea.]

I've heard the library has a lot of useful books for that. Ginia is another shinki, and she might know more on it. If nothing else, then I'm sure the guy who runs the school would know some things. I mean, a school is where you go to learn anyway, isn't it?
holygrailed: (welcome her with open arms)

[personal profile] holygrailed 2019-01-10 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh! Irisivel giggles and looks as the light surrounds her. She doesn't feel any different, but she runs toward the sign and the change is apparent. Each step feels free and light, speeding across the ground without any effort. Irisviel laughs, hair streaming behind her as she runs, faster and freer than she's ever been.]

This is wonderful! You're incredible, Ovelia!

[She shouts as she reaches the post, turning around to curtsy at the other shinki.]
fauxcalibur: (smile)

[personal profile] fauxcalibur 2019-01-11 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't go that far! Generally one doesn't become known as "Lionheart" if one relies too much on one's brains.

[Basically he's physically incapable of going this long without namedropping himself.]
ofnovalue: art by harusame (build me a future slendid and graceful)

[personal profile] ofnovalue 2019-01-11 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She can't help a weak smile in the face of that praise, ducking her head. ]

I am glad for your appreciation, milady.
hypomeneo: (I will not sing along.)

[personal profile] hypomeneo 2019-01-12 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[... Those dusty pages of history in his head are rattling fiercely.

Lionheart. 800 years.

... ummm...]


Nice to meet you, your majesty.

Though...

I'm getting the impression you like to be called something else.

[Help him out, man. If it's not going to float up from the void, Waver isn't going to force it... for obvious reasons.]
myblueskies: (smile)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-01-12 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[Romeo is nothing if not exhausting. When Hibiki smirks he leans forward, excited to see what tile she has and where she's going to place it!]
priforprince: (placid)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-01-13 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Let this blow steal away all your hope.

[ Hibiki puts down a village, completing her road - and claims the points.

Now, unless he manages to finish that city of his with the few tiles remaining to them, he cannot possibly best her! ]
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-01-13 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
It won't! [Nothing will ever steal his hope away!

His next tile is a city too but there are still lots of gaps in his walls, this is a problem!]
priforprince: (sharp)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-01-13 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[ Persistent to the last.

Well, she can bide her time. Hibiki builds onto nothing in particular, hoping to set up a good spot for a monastery. She's been counting. There should be one left.

Which tile....which tile....? ]
myblueskies: (smile)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-01-13 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[This tile is mostly just grass again but it looks like Hibiki has been making a whole group of grass tiles with one house in the middle. This one goes just nicely in the corner.

He's not sure houses in grass are important though, so he doesn't put down a person.]
defensivematrix: (reading comprehension)

[personal profile] defensivematrix 2019-01-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Satya blinks in confusion, and tilts her head on a side as her metal finger taps her chin. ]

My apologies, I had a poor hand and went with something that made most sense in the context of the sentence. [ A beat ] So I take morbid jokes are a "no"

[ She probably shouldn't be taking that note aloud, since finding what is funny - and what is not - is part of the strategy of this game. ]
towards_okeanos: (shadow)

[personal profile] towards_okeanos 2019-01-13 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Remember that Grail War I told you about?

[Iskandar has no idea how to approach the subject so that's as good a start as any.]

My Master was a young mage. He knew nothing of war but in the end, we did get along. Even if we lost. Even if I mourned all the unnecessary bloodshed and suffering this war resulted in. Still, I was content to have met him.

[Content is a wrong word here. There is so much more than that. But Iskandar can't bring himself to speak of it. It seems he won't be able to ever speak of it to Waver. To tell him all the things he wanted to say but there never seemed to be a proper time. The way they are now? It only got worse.
He doesn't feel he can talk about it with Caster either.]


He is here now.

[Iskandar pauses. This is so wrong. So very, unbelievably wrong. Things he would have to hide. The very fact they even knew each other before. To hide things from his people is against his very nature. All the memories he cherishes so much...inaccessible, left unspoken forever. Either this or he risks sending the one so dear to him over the edge to a fate worse than death. And Iskandar would prefer to rip his own heart from his chest then cause something like this to happen.]

And he's my shinki.

[Some things are going to be impossible for him now. Impossible. Him. Him for who nothing was ever impossible. He was the promise of endless possibilities. He's King of Conquerors. Nothing was ever impossible to him.]
priforprince: (hoh)

[personal profile] priforprince 2019-01-14 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
...Oh?

[ There are two tiles left that could complete this. If Hibiki claims it now, Romeo might catch on - and that doubles the chances of him drawing a necessary tile and placing it elsewhere to thwart her. But if she waits until only one piece remains, that risk still exists, and there's no saying he won't attempt a claim.....

She checks the piece she just drew. Unrelated. Fine. She puts it down somewhere else.

What will he draw....? ]
nopixiedust: (sassybird) (He signed me a blank check)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2019-01-14 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Just in case." If he's knew, then it would figure that he hasn't heard of it. Well, Wendy is more than happy to talk about it anyway. It's why she had it established in the first place.

"Gods can arrive here and just immediately have a temple. But us shinki? We're on our own there. If anything happens to our god, or we leave them, or just need some space, then the sanctuary is there for people to stay out for a while." She rolls one shoulder up in a shrug. "It's nothing fancy, but it's better than nothing."
kokuyoyo: (I don't do stupid things anymore.)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2019-01-14 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[...Dammit. He's going to have to be invested here now, because Nanako is involved. This sucks. Chikusa returns to dead eyeing the sky before he sighs.]

...She's my god too.
kokuyoyo: (Please don't place wagers on my)

[personal profile] kokuyoyo 2019-01-14 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Listen. He had to give it a shot. Why be too predictable by constantly attacking a shield that wasn't giving from the front? There's some tensing at the smell of ozone and the threat of crackling electricity, but Chikusa relaxes immediately once he's realized it's not coming towards him. For a moment, he just stars back at the scorch mark to make sure nothing catches on fire.]

[Once he's mostly certain of that, save for stomping on a spare bit of trash once and definitively. Sure, he has a song that could extinguish fire... but also he's not singing.]

[And he's sure as fuck not singing in front of Judar.]


...Because of just something like that... huh....
nopixiedust: (insovereign) (I'll always be here to give you)

[personal profile] nopixiedust 2019-01-14 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I see. Well, I can see why she'd be so popular. But there are things even the Queen can't do, right?

[...Well, let her just move her king out of the way for now.]

Like what knights can do. If I'm remembering right, anyway.
fauxcalibur: (Default)

[personal profile] fauxcalibur 2019-01-14 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll certainly answer to it! There's a man here I quite admire who's chosen to call me by that name, so I've come to like the sound of it a bit.

[Though there are certainly enough other choices to offer, some that he likes more than others.]

I'll answer to my given name, of course, and there are a couple of people who have chosen to call me Richard, but fewer than I expected, if I'm being truthful. Most elect to call me Saber, which is also quite acceptable to me, though requiring of a bit more of an explanation.
myblueskies: (of course!)

[personal profile] myblueskies 2019-01-14 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Romeo grins at her, no idea of all the scheming running through her head. This game is fun and he picks up the tile, another bit of city! With a wall and there is just the perfect gap for it in his huge city picture. He puts it down with a big smile.]
thetopofthefoodchain: (smile)

[personal profile] thetopofthefoodchain 2019-01-14 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
He hopes nothing would happen to Shen Wei but he figures that not even Heaven is a safe place. He had smelled the burning on his way to Shen Wei's temple, mingled in with all the other smells of the place. Something bad had happened here.

"That's a good idea." He turned the card over again. "It sounds like you run something that can really help people."

He also couldn't imagine wanting to leave Shen Wei, but he's only been his shinki a matter of hours. Things could change.