Event || Custom Fit

[eternitymods]

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.

Comments

[garyoutensei]

"Mm," Baiken righted herself, chewing on her pipe briefly before huffing out a trail of sweet smelling smoke.

"Unfortunately, the ruining part already happened in my case. Hopefully your situation goes better...," her words are pretty hollow, no real weight behind them, just sifting through the air like the smoke she'd just exhaled.

[songbird_slayer]

"I would hope so. Of all the worlds I've been in, Vel La Moore's my favorite thus far." She put her chin in her hands. But her arms dropped in the next moment as she realized:

"Ooh, wait a moment, you're here to work on an Asterisk of your own, aren't you?" What a nice, distracting topic.

"I'd like to see what you've got, if I may."

[garyoutensei]

"Would you?" Baiken couldn't help the smirk that pulled at her lips. There was a muffled clicking sound before she rather suddenly lifted her right 'arm', the empty sleeve hiding the origin of the clawed chain that suddenly launched out from it, Baiken aiming it in an attempt to wrap around Madhuri's shoulders and pull her in close.

[songbird_slayer]

The claw caught on her blouse, and Madhuri realized she wasn't exactly wearing super "grippy" combat boots of any sort. The force of the retracting chain pulled her in nice and close, sending the tiefling's mind spinning. It was enough that, regardless of how deeply dangerous Baiken was, that Madhuri was just giggling. Her hat hat regrettably fallen off somewhere near the middle and lay in a heap on the floor.

"Holy guacamole, ask a deadly question...!"

[garyoutensei]

Baiken at least released the claw quickly enough, drawing the chain back into the empty sleeve, her hand moving to Madhuri's shoulder to steady her.

"Akuma no dougu," she spoke calmly. "The Demon Tools, hidden machinery and objects in my empty sleeve that level the play field between myself and the monsters I hunt."

[songbird_slayer]

"Whoa." She'd been to worlds where prosthetics existed, but she'd never heard of people weaponizing rather than simply restoring what had been lost or was never there since birth.

She wanted to see them! She wanted to see how the heck she had them installed. She-

"They don't hurt you to use, do they?"

-Had a feeling she may be speaking to a female Zori. But just in case...

[garyoutensei]

"They hurt. Every time."

But she's long since learned to ignore that pain. It was just background noise to her at this point.

[songbird_slayer]

For Prime's sake, Baiken was Zori with boobs. She pulled her guitar back to her front briefly, applying a touch of her Divine Spellblade with a tap to the wood, scales and fur that made it up.

"Then in compensation for your demonstration..." A simple song followed, perhaps just one part to a song that needed drums, perhaps a few lyrics. But it wasn't the music that she needed to worry about, but its effects: With healing magic applied to them, even if Baiken managed to ignore the pain, the least she could do was mend any superficial injury, any aggravation of an old wound inflicted by demonstrating one of the Demon Tools.

[garyoutensei]

At first, she flinched, not really having expected the gesture. But sure enough, as the tune played, she could feel the background aches settle a bit, like when taking a warm bath... She realized she was still standing... very close to Madhuri as she played, too, making the moment feel just that much more intimate, the sounds only for her ears, which felt like they were burning...

"You didn't need to do that..."

[songbird_slayer]

The melody had continued, quiet, yet no less rich and warm as it was before. She'd begun to sway in her boots, wishing to finish rather than leave something undone... not when it was helping someone.

"Maybe I didn't. Yet here we are."

Then, one last strum to harmonize and let everything trail into silence.

[garyoutensei]

A silence that seemed to linger for too long. It just made Baiken more aware of how warm she felt, how close the other woman was...

"It was a nice song... I should get going, though. So you can get back to work."

[songbird_slayer]

She reached up to tip her hat, offering a smile. There was nothing that needed to be said, no coin to be exchanged. She was an odd bard, maybe, that she'd play for nothing at all but simply to enjoy it.

"Of course. Should you need another of my songs, I'm hard to miss."

[garyoutensei]

"No, you're really not," Baiken let out a small chuckle.

"So maybe I will look you up sometime...," she finally turned her heel to start stepping away, create some space between them, anything to put aside the strange warmth she'd been feeling, something that existed beyond the song.

[songbird_slayer]

"Please do. It's always a pleasure to see you."

She turned as well and began to give the guitar a little tune-up. Perhaps it didn't need it, but it never hurt to keep on top of things when there wasn't a massive death dragon bearing down on you, eh?