melodiesofeternity | Event || Custom Fit

Who: All
When: September 10th to September 30th
Where: Curti Center and mines around the world
What: Characters assist Ganeshan in developing Custom Jobs.
Warnings/Notes: OOC Post

A. The Lab

As much as Ganeshan requires supplies to create Custom Jobs, he need help at home base. With the large number of potential applicants, outworlders and Curti Center employees are invited to help out in the lab, not only with testing transfer of Jobs to crystals, but in developing the abilities and running safety tests.

Easier said than done when all of these cats aren't roaming throughout the center and claiming everything to be their sitting spot. The interns are trying their best to catherd to little avail.

B. Job Development

The break room contains formal submission papers and pamphlets describing the steps required to develop a Custom Job. Senior employees are available to help characters workshop the abilities, but they mostly want to remain in the break rooms to avoid Ganeshan's constant Job mania. His booming voice is muffled through the doors, interspersed with allergic sneezing.

A room has been prepared for those to practice using their basic job abilities, primarily in making sure they're stable yet not too weak. There is a chance that an improper ability extraction can go wrong and hurt the user, so Ganeshan has group of White Mages are on standby in case things go south.

For those that would rather have all the fun without the work, there is the Ability Simulation and Modeling Room, where characters can design their abilities on the computer and see them play out on the screen before them. There's no limit here, and since Jessie is too busy to keep an eye on everyone, the outfits and visual effects have the potential to get...very, very silly.

C. Heigh-Ho

It's off to work you go. Those crystals won't mine themselves, and anyone strong enough must enter the mine in search of the necessary material. It's tedious, difficult work, and some of these are embedded so deeply in the rock that they might be more trouble than they're worth. Not to mention those gross bugs might not like their homes to be disturbed.

There's also the fact that monsters have a tendency to wander inside and attack, so they'll need some reliable body guards.

There should be more crystals deeper inside, but someone else will have to scout the area...

D. Explore the Dungeon

Which is where this team comes in. All the good stuff is deep in this mine, and reliable navigators are necessary to map out the tunnels without getting lost. There's also the fact that the previous owners of a time long ago didn't want opportunists to take their precious resources and outfitted the rooms with puzzles.

Door Locks are puzzles. Pressure plates activate traps. It's the ultimate test of critical thinking. Some of these don't make sense if you think for too long. Why did they go through all the trouble to program time-based puzzles with falling blocks and symbols? The Pupu are strange. At least the bats here are easy to fight, and the mine cart rides are fun.

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Frisk whistles as Okuyasu goes flying, casually leaning to the side to evade him as he sails towards them. Either that guy was a straight up idiot or-- oh, yeah, they vaguely remember him from the Gauntlet. At least the question of "idiot or genius" was answered. Looking at Okuyasu's outfit, Frisk says, "Time Mage, right? I'd recommend keeping your distance with that one. Oh, and cover your mouth." With no further warning, they drop a Smoke Bomb and vanish into the smog, stealthily darting towards the golem.

The Gauntlet was a lucky break. Okuyasu's not a great thinker. He wipes his mouth and looks up at Frisk.

"Huh?" Then the world turns gray. Some smoke gets into his mouth and he coughs lying on the floor.

"I warned you about smoke, bro!" Frisk's voice says, coming from somewhere within the fog. A blur appears climbing up the back of the slowly advancing golem, then fades once more. "I told you, dog!" One of their ninjatos jabs through the monster's skull in an invisible Assassinate, sending it reeling. They disappear back into the slowly dissipating smoke. "I told you, man! I told you about smoke!"

Edited 2018-09-13 17:26 (UTC)

"What's goin' on? Did that kid hit their head?" He wonders to himself. It's a cool battle speech, but it has to make more sense to worse. Okuyasu shuts his eyes and manages to get up, coughing the entire time.

He can't see shit, but he knows Frisk is somewhere out there. Maybe where he's hearing that voice. He castes Haste, allowing his teammate to get in another attack before Okuyasu is able to fight again.

"Thanks!" Frisk shouts, their voice jittery, and they leap out of the fog again. Movements a blur, they slide between the confused golem's legs, neatly sliding their ninjatos in the back of the golem's "knee" in another invisible Assassinate. They take advantage of the extra time afforded to them by Okuyasu to flip backwards into the golem's field of vision as the smoke begins to dissipate, their form still foggy but within easy reach of the monster as they slide into Transience.

"Hey! Dude! Bomb comin' in!" He shouts in preparation for his attack. Time Mage was cool with its time powers, but that exploding thing was cool as hell and was meant to be spammed, wasting his energy quickly but in style.

Okuyasu casts Combustion, and the Golem's head glows for a second before the rocks comprising of his upper body fly in every direction at harmful speeds.

Well. At least Okuyasu's Haste spell ~~last turn~~ a few moments ago was coming in useful now. With Transience still up, Frisk flickers out of the way of the debris, slicing several pieces of rock flying out them into pieces. Sighing, they turn to face Okuyasu, prepared to snark at him for his incompetence... but the dude was actually trying. Probably. Hell, Frisk has often pulled stupider stunts, so they were in no position to lecture Okuyasu. They toss him a hi-potion for the first hit that the golem got in on him, smiling. "Thanks for the assist."

Okuyasu smugly smiles with his hands on his hips. "Ha, ha, ha! That's what they get when they mess with me!" And Frisk, but Okuyasu dealt the killing blow.

He catches the hi-potion with one hand and pops off the cord with a thumb before guzzling it down like a beer.

Frankly, Frisk was rather surprised Okuyasu didn't elect to shotgun the thing. "That was a pretty well-timed Combustion," Frisk says, eyebrow raised. As much as they'd nearly gotten pummeled half to death by rock shards because of the spell, Okuyasu did have a good eye for it. "Might wanna be careful about where you use that spell, though. Especially in enclosed spaces like this."

Okuyasu pops the bottle out of his mouth and exhales, watching the destruction he caused. "Yeah, guess so. But that's what's training's for anyway. You doin' okay?"

Frisk shrugs, gesturing to a few minor bruises and a single deep gash. They were painful, sure, but they could've been much worse, and they definitely weren't worth wasting a potion over. "Eh, I'm good at dodging, and after all of these monster attacks I'm full of enough spite at the things to pull through the shift even if I wasn't. Plus all of this is pretty good practice. I think I'm finally getting close to... learning how to summon a giant hellfrog."

The kid is handling it well. They're tough. Okuyasu considers tossing the bottle against the wall like a badass, but he forgot to test if it was made of glass. If it was plastic, it would bounce off and he'd look like an idiot. So he does the smart thing and holds onto it.

"You can summon a frog? For real?"

Frisk shakes their head, looking equally bewildered. Really, it made no sense at all. Sure, Ninjas had to have some big wham pow move at the end of the skill tree, but... why a frog? (Anime. Anime is why. Frisk somehow knew this deep in their bones.) "Go figure that a class all about stealth and subtlety would have an ultimate skill that's basically just riding around a giant hellfrog breathing fire for a little while."

"It's cool as hell." And that's what was important in magic fights - looking awesome while knocking down a bunch of bad dudes. Subtlety was helpful up to a point. If you were a sneaky assassin, you have to make up for the lack of flair by wearing a memorable outfit.

It seemed that Frisk and Okuyasu were on the opposite ends of the deconstructed/played straight ends of the anime fight spectrum, but, hey, Frisk wasn't going to ruin the guy's fun by pointing out a bright orange assassin wasn't a very good assassin. "Yeah! I mean, a bunch of fire can never really hurt if you're in a tight spot, right?"

Okuyasu's world is the extreme standard that anime is judged on. Frisk would never stand a chance.

"Yeah! Like, if it's not gonna kill 'em right away, you can distract them!"

Event || Custom Fit

Fighting (I'm Frisk and this is Jackass)

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