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.

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[toxicodendron_isley]

The Lab

Ivy is familiar and comfortable in a lab, a place she can just ignore the things around her a focus entirely on the task at hand. A place where she can discover and work. With the bonus of granting her access to all sort of learning and information about this new world that she'd not been privy to at the 'welcoming party' of sorts.

While it wasn't quite her field of expertise, she'd never really delved that deeply into geology, being so well versed with a lab setting seemed to translated pretty well regardless of specific fields. Besides, a glimpse into this area of scientific study should certainly help the passive job of 'Geomancer' she'd picked up.

As for the cats? Well, she wouldn't lie, they could be a little bit of a nuisance. But Ivy had worked before with Harley bursting in and out of the lab and practically doing somersaults down the aisles. She can handle a few felines underfoot. (The near constant risk of trip was rather irksome though.)

Luckily, the long legged black cat that dozed beside her designated work station seemed to be keeping the other cats at bay from that particular area of her work. With her low growls, lashing tail and sharp toothed hiss, Ivy found herself pleased she'd allowed Selina to tag along with them.

Althaea, bless her, was doing her best to help, but it had soon become apparent that unless given a clear instruction by Ivy, it would be better for her to simply work at shooing cats away, lest she be more detrimental than progressive to her partners work. Instead the Moggle spend most of her time beaming and staring starry eyes at Dr Isley's confidence as she moved around her setting.

[changelingdude]

"Snack break! Who's hungry dudes? Gotta get your brain's fueled!"

Cutting through the serenity of a humming lab full of purring and playful cats is Beastboy, trotting in with a box of pastries and a bright grin on his face. His Moogle was fluttering behind him with a plastic bag full of fruits.

When he made his way closer to Pam's work station however Selina had seen fit to repel him as well and he let out a yelp jumping back to stay out of the hissing cat's reach.

"Easy! Hey! I came barring gifts."

"Well I mean...none for the cats." Melody pointed out.

[toxicodendron_isley]

Althaea huffed and folded her little arms. "Well maybe be considerate about the fact some people might actually be using their brains to concentrate."

Ivy finishes her sentence before pausing in her note writing to look up and smile. "Manners, Althaea." Her eyes switch to Beastboy. "What's this? Upsetting my cat?"

[changelingdude]

"Not on purpose Ms. Poison Ivy Maam." He answered stiffly, still clearly nervous around the attractive villainess. Maybe if he had his normal powers he wouldn't be so sure she could kill him with one hand but as things stood...

...and yes Melody had pointed out to him Ivy didn't have her usual powers either. It did not help his sense of unease.

"I'm not exactly the brainy sort so I figured like...what can I do to help? Answer? Brain food." He declared holding up his box of jam and cream filled treats.

[toxicodendron_isley]

The woman smirks at Beastboy's clear nervousness while Althaea just rolls her eyes and floats over to inspect the box. "What? No coffee?" The Moogle mocks.

Ivy scratches the top of Selina's head to relax her. "I don't remember pastries being listed as brain food. Which scientific journal or health life magazine did you read that in?"

[changelingdude]

"Uh, the one where they have sugar. And sugar makes you happy. And happy people think better." Beastboy explained with a dopey grin that spread from ear to ear.

As if giving an example he popped one in his mouth and offered a thumbs up.

"See? I'm totally ready to keep going."

[toxicodendron_isley]

"Oh, I see. Glucose and energy, hmm? What about some Omega 3? Not gonna bring us some tuna sandwiches?"

Althaea giggles at Ivy's comment while grabbing herself a treat.

[changelingdude]

"Well the way I see it, if I did? First I'd feel guilty because of the poor fishies."

Melody rolled her eyes here and drifted off to deliver more snacks to other researchers.

"And second, I'm pretty sure all the cats in here would swarm anyone who had a tuna sandwich. then no one would be getting anything done." He tapped his head looking smug.

"Not just a hat rack!"

[toxicodendron_isley]

Ivy too rolls her eyes at the fish comment, then folds her arms smugly. "Oh? So you're admitting that you didn't bring or want to bring anything for our furry companions? How very un-animal loving of you."

She strokes her purring cat. "My poor Selina."

[changelingdude]

"ACK!" Beastboy reeled at the accusation and almost dropped his platter.

"You're right! I should have brought some treats, but like...I only collected enough money for the junk food." He took a knee and made pleading eyes at Selina.

"Forgive me? Or at the very least don't hate me?"

[toxicodendron_isley]

Ivy chuckles as Selina just stares at Beastboy with uncaring, half lidded eyes in the most cat like way.

[changelingdude]

"So...that's a yes then? We cool? Yeah we cool."

He's on his feet again as fast as he'd taken a knee.

"So have you made any progress on whatever it is they're doing to unlock our real powers? I wanna try shapeshifting into a moogle soon as I get mine back!"

[toxicodendron_isley]

Ivy takes the time to look between Melody and Althaea before raising her eyebrow at Beastboy questioningly. "Can you do that? Or better question, should you do that?"

Afterall, aren't they a indigenous culture in this world? Wouldn't that be a form of appropriation? Like blackface?

[changelingdude]

"Honestly? I have no idea." He answered with a shrug. "But Melody said she was cool with it."

"What I said was not to just throw Kupo around willy nilly because you were using it wrong." Melody corrected "As for you turning into a moogle I don't care as long as you don't embarrass me."

"You and I both know that's already gonna happen. What do you think Althaea?"

[toxicodendron_isley]

"I think you're a dork and won't be surprised if you end up being beaten up by the first group of Moogles you try to talk to." Althaea smiled.

Ivy shrugs. "Well, I guess that's up to the Moggles you talk to then."

[changelingdude]

His ears wilted at that but he still had half a smile.

"Alright well I mean...it doesn't have to be moogles. I'll go take some polls or something before I get the thing off the ground. The important thing would just be to get to be able to like...fly and swim underwater and smash stuff. I mean I almost got my butt kicked by a treasure chest with teeth last month! I gotta up my game."

He still seemed to be treating it like it was just a video game come to life to which Melody sighed.

"It was a mimic and I tried to warn you but noooo you get that look in your eyes and it's like having a big red button that says "do not push" in front of you. I don't know how I'm supposed to keep you alive."

[toxicodendron_isley]

"Sounds to me like for a hero someone needs to learn to keep his hands off other peoples things." She reached over a flicked his wilting ear.

"Fheh!" Althaea agreed with a mouth stuffed with confectionery as she nodded vigorously. "Fheth!"

[changelingdude]

He yelped at the ear flick and leaned back cheeks red as he rubbed the stinging sensation.

"Hey now, it wasn't stealing! It was sitting in the middle of a forest! Who would leave a chest in the middle of a forest? No one. But that sort of thing happens all the time in video games so that's not theft right? Right?"

"In this case no because it tried to eat you. But if you were in town yeah probably?"

[toxicodendron_isley]

She gives a little snort of a amusement at his reaction.

"Wait, I'm confused. If you thought it was like a game, wouldn't you think something would be guarding it if it's just sat in the middle of a forest?" Ivy is looking at him like he's dense.

[changelingdude]

"Pfft. Of course! But i didn't expect the treasure to be the thing guarding the treasure!" He explained poorly before trying to explain.

"I keep going out there looking for baddies to fight so I can level up right? Wait...do you play video games?" The idea of Poison Ivy sitting down with a gamestation for a round of Mega Monkeys is almost enough to make him laugh. Harley Quinn sure, everyone knew she loved online gaming. But Ivy?

[toxicodendron_isley]

"You have trouble focusing on one subject, don't you petal?"

[changelingdude]

"Guy like me's always changing! Just gotta go with the flow!"

He paused and then groaned.

"See I keep forgetting I can't shapeshift to make lines like that cool or funny. I was thinking of turning into like a dog, then a bird, then a lama. The lama always gets a smile." He explained wiggling his ears a little.

"Plus if I stop talking I'm afraid you'll send me away and I wanna be friends!"

[toxicodendron_isley]

Ivy rolls her eyes and attempts to go back to doing something productive while holding this conversation.

"Okay, one, I feel like no amount of shapeshifting is going to make your lines funny and definitely not cool."

Althaea snickers, sitting down upon the desk as she eats to watch Ivy speak.

"And two, why in the name of The Green do you want to be friends?"

[changelingdude]

"Well I mean...we are from the same world more or less. So that's kind of important isn't it?"

Not particularly but he already knew he was grasping at straws here.

"And besides, you're a plant lady. I'm an animal dude. We should be friends! I mean we both dig nature in our own ways. You literally in some cases...because gardening."

He was hoping at least she wasn't as much of a man hater as her reputation hinted at. That would make befriending her a lot harder and since she was all he had from his world it felt important. He felt responsible for her in a weird way.

[toxicodendron_isley]

"Is it?" Pam appears skeptical at that.

She groans and rubs her temple at the joke.

"You'd really have been better off trying to make friends with Harley."