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

[acapriciousreaper]

Somewhat offhandedly, Kuja remarks. "I'm going to start having to make notecards before long, with all the people I've been meeting lately." A moment of consideration later, and he's pulling his iMog slate out of his sleeve and fiddling with it a moment... And then there's the faint gleam of an Asterisk changing.
"Do hold still, I can't stand seeing people walking around in rags like that." He casts Cure, and for good measure throws in a cleansing spell. That, at least, should take care of the dirt and the cuts. Which he is doing because his sensibilities are being offended and for no other reason. Don't read into it.

[sassafrisk]

"The easiest way to sort out that kind of confusion, at least in my experience, is to keep calling them nicknames until somebody else accidentally reminds you of their actual name. People will think it's an endearing character trait," Frisk quips as Kuja messes with his slate, smirking.

When he fixes their outfit, they raise an eyebrow. "Thanks. Actually, this reminds me..." they frown, looking at their hoodie, "I never really got the whole 'ninja uniform' thing. I mean, if you're trying to be stealthy and stuff, what's the point of wearing neon colors and stuff? But at the same time, my work outfit," they point to their generic grey hoodie, jeans, and sneakers, "is kinda, well... drab. If you don't mind me asking, do you have any tips on how to improve it without sacrificing its ability to not be incredibly ostentatious and eye-catching?"

[acapriciousreaper]

Ah. Fashion, something Kuja is actually qualified to speak about. "Ah, well, when it comes to selecting an outfit you have to take into account what you're trying to accomplish with it. I never understood how some people thought all black was supposed to be stealthy; only in an unlit basement at midnight is all black actually effective camouflage. See, what you actually want is irregular patterns that break up your human silhouette, and also you want to tailor your outfit to your environs. See, in a cavern like this drab grey isn't going to work terribly well because the surrounding rock is all manner of colors ranging from rust to russet and that's just not going to work, I'm afraid. Of course, that's only if you're wanting to blend into inanimate surroundings. In public situations, camouflage is just as much a matter of outlook as it is outfit. If you sit around in a hooded cloak in a public place of course you're going to attract attention, but if you, say, appear as an ordinary street urchin playing with other children on the street, nobody will give you so much as a second glance until, I expect, it's too late."