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Gardine Shrine: A place to learn!

Takamura Kobayashi

Dangerous Hunter

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Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:43 pm

Garden Shrine: Role Playing training grounds for lower levels

Welcome to the Garden Shrine,
here we will focus on proper grammar and description technique in posting replies to a role playing thread. Your posts will be looked over and critiqued when I have a spare moment. You may ask questions, comment or post concerns in both your post and after looking over your evaluation. This is not a rapid fire post thread, please do not post a second time unless your first post has already been evaluated. I do work, so this may be anywhere from a few hours to a few days depending on if there are people waiting ahead of you.

I encourage you to interact with each other in your posts since the only way you can truly learn is by doing. If no one else is in the thread besides myself at the time, interact with me or the environment.

Instructions/rules:

1. Post an introductory post and wait for my critique. As stated above you may post questions, comments and inquires. I would rather you post them in your actual post so others can benefit from the answer that I give If you really don't wish to ask in front of everyone else, pm me.

2. Interact with others and the environment, but unless in agreement with the other person do not attack.

3. Please don't whine about how I'm taking so long, I'm an adult, I have a life. Get over it. I like putting some effort into my answers so at times it does take a while.

4. Please use the following sites, they will help you greatly.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
http://dictionary.reference.com/

5. Please remember, don't do anything that would get any of us in trouble.

6. After more than five days away with no word, you will be listed as MIA. If you say something, anything, you will be noted as On Leave and your spot will not be taken. After 10 days with no word your spot will be open to others.

7. No Out of Character posting in this thread. If I can't grade it, it shouldn't be here.Warning: if you do not follow the above instructions I do reserve the right to delete or have your posts deleted.

Current students
Here is a list of students and the skill level I judge them to be. The skill levels are as follows: Beginner, Novice, Competent, Advanced. Each level has three steps to it, Low, Med, and High. These rankings are just a reminder to me of what stage you are at and the amount and type of work needed to be done to your posts. You of course won't always stay these levels so I wouldn't worry about them at all. You are listed in the order you started posting.

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 6:45 pm

::At the end of a long winding dirt path, flanked on either side by trees in full bloom with the leaves of summer, sits a moderately sized abbey surrounded by a great stone wall. Known by the locals as 'The Garden Shrine' due to the large field of flowers encompassed by its enclosure, at first glance it seems rather unassuming to the casual observer. Upon closer look a person can tell while appearing rather run down with ivy growing over its sun bleached walls, it is in current use and repair. Practice dummies litter the court yard, animals occupy the barn and people can be seen going about their business, what ever that might be.

As you stand near the entrance, pushing your face against the metal bars that make up a fairly sturdy gate, you note that the shrine stands three stories tall. Just ahead of you is the courtyard, full of weapons racks, practice dummies made of straw to drill on and a makeshift arrow range. Behind that lies the abbey itself, veiled in a beautiful summer ivy. There is a tower to the right, only accessible by the second floor and the arched walk way that leads from the main building. Through the shade of the curved walkway you can just barely make out that fabled field of flowers. To the right there is a small graveyard, a few worn headstones dotting the earth.

A young woman in her early twenties appears before you. She has cool blue eyes and long blond hair. Her face is graced with high cheek bones and a delicate structure. Leaning forward slightly, her hand on the hilt of her sword currently sheathed, she gives you a once look over then pivots to the side, gesturing to the abbey.::

Hopefully you have found what it is exactly you are looking for. What lies ahead of you is a school of discipline and learning. If you do not wish either of these, I strongly suggest you turn back. Knowledge is neither a kind nor patient mistress and neither am I when provoked.

::Quietly she turns away from you, quite the feat considering the amount of armor she has on. You expect a sound akin to tin cans rattling and are rewarded with nothing but the soft whisper of the wind.::

The sleeping quarters are on the second floor, a grand library full of ancient texts on the third. Stair cases are located at either end of the shrine. The kitchen is to the back. Dinner is at 6 prompt. Please do not be late.

::With that she walks off to another part of the chantry, leaving you to explore at your own will. You notice that the gate you had been leaning against is now open. Slowly you push it open and enter the compound.::

Interaction note:
The second floor sleeping quarters as it was put are a row of beds. There are two wash rooms on either of the first two floors and one on the third. Washrooms consist of a small room with a mirror, stand, basin on the stand to put fresh water in and a stack of towels. The third floor is an extensive library with rows of moth eaten books in dusty shelves. The topics of these books range from history to philosophy. Most are very fragile, so pay mind to handle them gently.