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Entry tags:
- !intro log,
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January Training
Who: Everyone
What: Information and Training
When: March 24th, 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 (God or Shinki), the name of the god they will represent (Gods) or the god they will serve (Shinki), and directions to the temple that will be their new home, regardless of role. During these initial meetings for Gods, paper and pens are provided as an unsubtle suggestion to take notes on the information they're given. For Shinki, there are stacks of informational pamphlets sitting out on a table inside the room, and which new shinki are offered as they are leaving the Meeting Hall.
Gods and Shinki alike are cordially invited to a training session beginning in early afternoon - several hours later - after they've had the chance to return to their homes, meet their new partners, and have their questions answered.
This time, it is implied that the Training Session will have a different purpose, so it is highly encouraged for ALL new gods and shinki to attend, no matter how long they have been in the Far Shore.
Divine Service
Tempering the Vessel
Shinki Training
Physical Training
Rest and Refreshments
In Summary:
What: Information and Training
When: March 24th, 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 (God or Shinki), the name of the god they will represent (Gods) or the god they will serve (Shinki), and directions to the temple that will be their new home, regardless of role. During these initial meetings for Gods, paper and pens are provided as an unsubtle suggestion to take notes on the information they're given. For Shinki, there are stacks of informational pamphlets sitting out on a table inside the room, and which new shinki are offered as they are leaving the Meeting Hall.
Gods and Shinki alike are cordially invited to a training session beginning in early afternoon - several hours later - after they've had the chance to return to their homes, meet their new partners, and have their questions answered.
This time, it is implied that the Training Session will have a different purpose, so it is highly encouraged for ALL new gods and shinki to attend, no matter how long they have been in the Far Shore.
Divine Service
- New gods are assigned a time to meet with an attendant in white robes with a chrysanthemum on their robes bearing a notepad. Gods can request a changed time slot, but they are not given an option to avoid the appointment entirely. Unless they are bullied into allowing multiple gods in one interview session, they insist on one god per time slot. All meetings take place in private rooms similar to those for New God and New Shinki meetings.
The interview consists of questioning the God's commitment to serving the needs of their followers, the Far Shore, and in turn Amaterasu herself. There is the matter of "A God's Actions Are Always Just" and The Gods' Greatest Secret as well, to see if the God believes these are true and important. Do they espouse these opinions to other Gods? Will they respond to a summons by Amaterasu to defend The Far Shore? (If prodded, the attendant will admit that they are in fact an Old God, despite wearing clothing similar to Amaterasu's shinki. They will claim it an honor to do a favor for Amaterasu during her preparations.)
The second round of questions are about their shinki. What vessel forms do they take, in order starting with Exemplar? How do you use them in combat? What sort of opponents have you faced with your shinki in vessel form - human, ayakashi, or other? Do you have any plans to personally train your shinki for battle ahead? For wielders of multiple shinki, when was the last time you used all of them working together?
They insist that all questions are answered. Afterwards, the God is dismissed.
(An OOC breakdown for you characters IC answers to the God Interview...)
Tempering the Vessel
- Shinki are assigned time slots to meet with the white-robed shinki as well. While their sessions are shorter, the conversations are similar, and likewise held in private meeting rooms.
What is your vessel form? How many battles have you been in while in vessel form and what were your opponents? Do you have any opponents you would resist fighting alongside your God and fellow temple shinki? What have you done to increase your resilience while in vessel form? If you have other shinki at your temple, how often have you fought alongside them in vessel form? What spells do you know? Do you have any plans to further that training?
The shinki are then dismissed after all questions are answered.
(An OOC breakdown for you characters IC answers to the Shinki Interview...)
Shinki Training
- A well-appointed dojo has been prepared for newcomers to practice their physical or magical arts. There are five or six white-robed shinki present, who will willingly answer any questions or instruct newcomers in the use of the borderline. They accompany their answers, or their lessons, with an explanation of what is expected of a shinki and the importance of teamwork with other shinki and with gods.
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. (Shinki characters who are interested in learning more about the borderlines or want to learn new shinki spells or songs may approach any of the training shinki for advice or instruction. Please remember to comment on the Shinki Spells page when your character begins to learn a new spell, excluding the borderline.)
Physical Training
- While each month the Far Shore attendants try to adapt the physical training to the Near Shore's weather and holidays, the weather is fair and any festive impulses have been subdued. This time, Physical Training encourages pitting a God with one or all of their Shinki against another God with one or all of their Shinki. This is touted as a benefit to the Shinki, so the white-robed shinki make clear that certain Shinki need this training more than others. For example, the ones who answered their Interview questions saying they hadn't spent much time in their vessel form, or fought in many battles, or hadn't fought with their fellow Shinki much - if at all.
There are Old Gods (NPCs - not run by a mod) who can be targeted as opponents, allowing the temple residents to gel as one fighting unit. (OOC: So that your multi-person thread can be limited to as few players as possible, if you choose.)
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. Moreso than other Training Sessions, there is a wide array of international alcoholic options this time. If you've heard of it and you can get drunk by imbibing it, it's probably here in a bottle or glass. Guests can help themselves, settle in, chat, and make new friends.
The Old Gods in particular will begin to regale the crowd at the end of the afternoon with War Stories from the ages past, speaking of their great deeds they performed as prayers for their followers, miracles to convert the unbelieving, powerful ayakashi they fought, and other amazing feats, especially if they involved a shinki at their side - who it was and the form they took. After many Old Gods have spoken, they turn to the New Gods as if in challenge to tell better stories, mocking words exchanged that imply the New Gods could not possibly have done anything so impressive in their short time in the Far Shore.
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
- Answer Interview Questions
- Tell the truth - if you dare - or lie through your teeth... if you dare
- Tell War Stories
- Have fun~
Re: [shinki training]
Very well. I will make an attempt to rein myself in. But don't expect that to mean I'll go easy on you.
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He suspects more than one shinki shares his attitude today.]
My lady, I would be honored to face your power.
[... no anxiety for once. He just needs this so much.]
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[Her first attack is sudden and almost immediate. She summons two spheres of dark power into her fists and flies forward, shooting them at Waver in mid-flight.]
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... and it feels great. (There will be much fussing later over this. THIS PLACE.)]
HN!
[So she has the height advantage, huh? He can work with that - and there, there's the beginnings of the slip into an altered state - as he dashes to the side and out of the way. Let's see how maneuverable and quick to react she is. Waver snaps off borderline after borderline to test her reaction speed and ability to sense danger.
While dodging. It works well enough so far, but there's a certain... lack of grace that more suggests a lack of proper instruction than experience. Waver's reading her moves and trying to break down and analyze her magic with Discerning Eye, and waiting...
To herd Dark Precure right into a barrier and stun her, should he get her to dodge just right. You don't need hand movements and words to cast Borderlines and Waver shows this off for her. It takes work, but Waver's lines are as strong as normally cast.]
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So. This one can cast borderlines without moving. She wasn't even aware that was possible. Her eyes glow a stronger yellow, and she draws on the same instinct she uses to create her force waves...
... And she pulls it off herself. She sends borderlines whipping at Waver like a razor wind, meant to cut him one after the other in succession.]
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[The cutting borderlines smash into a barrier borderline and Waver smiles behind it as he leaves an illusion of himself behind the barrier, and cloaks himself in refracted air and ghosts to a new position, utterly invisible.
Now, Waver, as the more experienced shinki and riding a surge of outright fury that places his considered worth and thus his superiority at the same level as gods, has stronger barriers than Dark Precure. It shatters, but only because Waver allows it. The image shatters with it, like glass.
Waver appears behind her field of vision like a mirage with a feathered fan poised to strike and brings it down like an executioner's blade. With it hammers down pressurized wind, to strike Dark Precure to the ground with a hammer blow of force should it connect.
Begins chanting just after as he readies more borderlines. He thinks that having the high ground superiority should end right about now... it's time to face each other on the ground.]
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... only to be hammered into the ground by the wind. She grunted as she was pressed into the ground, fingers clawing at the dirt as she endeavored to stand.
Waver was definitely the more experienced shinki. But even if she didn't know it, Dark Precure was made for battle. It was in her blood, and her nerves and muscles burned with reflexes honed during every fight with the Precure. Where she had forgotten, her body remembered.
She promised she wouldn't escalate, but she would meet like for like. Her eyes glowed again, as she summoned a wall of invisible force, crushing down all around her - and including the spot where Waver was standing - with strength equal to the wind hammer he had just used.]
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Waver grunts as he's crushed down into a crouch, glowing blue lines like circuits highlighting his visible flesh as Reinforcement magic kicks in to strengthen him. He doesn't stop chanting. Instead, as he incants in Chinese, he attacks again with borderlines, varying the speed, angle, length of the attack patterns, and occasionally hiding a line in the wake of another. He intends to disrupt her concentration and relieve the pressure.
If not... well... that's what the thing he's casting is for. He has a backup plan. Or two.]
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In doing so, her well of force dissipates. That will free Waver, she knows that. She has to be ready for anything...]
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It's a very simple kind of Bounded Field at first as Waver darts away chanting... seemingly unaffected. One meant to immobilize as the magical density inside the field increases. He's also weaving a mana drain option into it should it be required, but for now, this is all it'll appear to be. A simple trap closing.
Waver readies more borderlines to attack and counter with and keeps his distance, fan ready. What will you do now, Dark Precure?]
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A light flashes from her brooch, as her Dark Tact appears in her hands. She doesn't remember the attack's activation chant, nor does she remembers its name. But she remembers that it is her ability, her power.
And so, the Dark Power Fortissimo flares from her tact, and coalesces around her. A sphere of red and blackness, a welling up of pure darkness and destructive energy. An affront to life, goodness, and very being, the power of entropy. The same power born from a force that once sought to transform the world into endless desert.
It pushes against Waver's field. She would not loose it upon him, but this attack was made to destroy. And by detonating it like a bomb without turning it on a target, she hopes to cancel out whatever he's doing to her.
In any case, the Fortissimo erupts into an explosion, contained within the vicinity of the field.]
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Waver dives behind the nearest cover he can find, screaming the activation for the real trap in frantic Chinese and putting a barrier in front of himself. It comes just in time, even if it can't prevent all the damage.]
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
[Mana slams into him - thanks for the meal! - as his cover is smashed into and hits his barrier, smashing though and knocking him flying while still chanting. Waver hits the ground hard, Servant durability coming in handy, though he'll certainly have bruises, but doesn't stop his incantation even if he's gasping for breath as he hauls himself to his feet.
The field remains, vice like. And now there's a new layer. Each magical attack will be absorbed into the field and into Waver. Now this is passive and dependent on what she does; Waver is not actively draining Dark Precure. That's the next step if this gets worse. Servants are energy vampires, after all, and Waver is no exception. He sees no reason why he shouldn't get a meal to be ready for the upcoming conflict but he won't actively take from her unless he has no other choice.]
I told you the gardeners are out for heads!
It's time you yield.
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But instead of answering his taunt, she looks instead at her hand, and... clenches it into a fist. She could do all of that?
She looked back at Waver.]
Yes... I think I am done. I have gained new insight to my abilities.
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... but at least he's not going to snap and kill someone any more, so the fight did its job of stress relief.]
That's good. I don't think the land would have appreciated much more of us. And our gods would have been attracted.
I'm done as well.
[Taunt? Try agreement! Keep the bloody destruction in reasonable amounts he said! Trying to blow him to Kingdom Come was NOT REASONABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waver'll slowly ease the field now to nothingness.]
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... My apologies if my final attack seemed excessive. I have no other abilities that affect a wide area, save for the power of my eyes... and it didn't seem suited.
I do not think it would have killed you, but. I felt as though I should say something.
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Also it'd got attention, again not good.]
I would have no problems with that if it were an outright battle or if we had agreed to a spar without limits. Those are reasonable situations for that kind of force. We agreed to a spar with destructive limits... but well...
Next time. Apology accepted.
[Something tells him this is probably unusual and he better not be an ass and encourage this apologizing business.
Also, the ways his mana reserves are churning now as purification takes place, he should never drain her attacks directly into him again. Just use that energy to reinforce the shield.]
To be honest, the spar helped me quite a bit myself.
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[At the very least, she's willing to hold herself accountable.]
But. I am glad we both got something out of it.
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[We are people, not weapons, and I for one am not drinking the Kool-Aid telling me that my purpose is to serve.
Humanity? Yes. Iskandar? Yes. Gods? Hell no.
In the important things, I am my own master.
The old Zen koan goes 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.' Why? To embrace your own true Buddha nature. Waver kills the assumption that Gods and anyone else get to tell him what he is and what his nature is, despite the vessel he's been shoved in (thanks, Saber).
He is his own God, even as he serves Iskandar. He may not be allowed his memories, but he can listen to his own self. And ultimate responsibility for his actions falls to him and him alone.]
So next time. You're an excellent opponent.
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Very well. You are an excellent opponent as well. May we achieve absolute victory together one day.
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[He may have just netted himself an ally. Good. More reason to try to keep a lid on his own crankiness.]
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[And with a nod, she turns and takes her leave.]