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

[thegoofball]

[Makes note to ask.]

Yeah, but this is a lab. People always say "oh, now's not the time for memes!" in labs because they have to figure the problem out, or whatever.

[Can't catch him thinking that way.]

Yeah, Lance. [He grins, widely, and takes that hand to shake it.] Seems just about everyone knows Shiro.

[warpstriking]

They can say that, but memes and shitposting is just how my people get things done. Also stealth puns, if you ask one of my longtime friends.

[He understands, my dude. He lets go after a couple seconds; his grip firm.]

Yeah. Met him our first day here, actually. We were on the same airship after Biggs and Wedge pulled us out of the Rift.

[thegoofball]

Are puns ever stealthy?

[He can't say he hates puns, but...They're always about as obvious as a brick to the face.]

Ugh, so you go to know each other pretty well on the ride back? Makes sense.

[Those airship rides s u c k.]

[warpstriking]

Clearly you haven't met him. He likes to switch "knows" and "nose."

[Word games, Lance. Think about it. Think about all the words in the English language that sounds exactly the same yet means completely different things.]

Yeah. We were both seeking out information, but back then? All we had was that hologram of Biggs and Wedge to go off of. On a several hour long flight.

[They really do. Especially with about eighty people and no other volunteers. RIP them.]

[thegoofball]

Oh, geez. That sounds awful.

[He hates that? He kind of hates that. He's also kind of delighted, but nobody needs to know about that.]

And I thought the flight I had in was bad. How did you not completely lose it?

[Not everyone is as impatient as you are, Lance.]

[warpstriking]

Not nearly as bad as Gladio's cat puns.

[Which were always aimed at him? So, welcome to his world. He hated it so much, but he kind of....missed it, the last couple of months he remembers from home.]

Breaking his brain about the differences in animals of our home worlds, mostly. And promising to keep an eye out for other members of our respective teams. He'd been worried about you guys.

[...Not that he hadn't been worried about his own team too, but still!]

[thegoofball]

You hear one cat pun you hear 'em all.

[And they're pawsitively purrfect.]

What kind of animals do you even have that you'd break Shiro?

[He's...just going to ignore the bit about worry, even though his heart twinges at it. It's...

It's still a lot to think about. To believe.]

[warpstriking]

Yeah. They get pawfully repurritive after a while.

[ ...what? :) ]

Let's see... [He thinks on it a second.] Chocobos, spiracorns - think untamable horses with horns - behemoths... If I mentioned any more, can't remember off the top of my head, but man did he get hung up on the thought of the last one - a massive purple beast with horns and claws the size of a person - and fighting it with blades and magic alone.

[He notices that ignoring thing; he doesn't mention it again for the sake of his brain not imploding.]

1/2

[thegoofball]

[Why did he open this door?]

2/2 FOR ONCE

[thegoofball]

[...whatever, he's going to ignore those awful puns and focus on the weird fucked up animals.]

Sounds a lot like the monsters that are living here.

[After watching the Blade - including Keith - he's not about to knock the power of swords against flesh and bone or even against steel, but that still sounds just a little crazy to him.]

And it sounds a bit like a behemoth would be the final boss in a video game.

it's an all hallow's eve miracle

[warpstriking]

[Aww, and here he was only giving an example of the terrible puns he was subjected to. Sigh. Fine, he'll focus on the weird animals.]

Nah, more like an optional boss. Not nearly as haughty or sentient for that matter.

[...Yeah, he just admitted that. Letting it sink in, now.]

sparkles

[thegoofball]

[Sometimes you just can't go down the dark, lonely road of puns.]

One of those optional bosses that turn up as a regular enemy? I mean, how common are those things?

[Oh my gosh he's a gamer he's sO EXCITED.]

✨✨✨

[warpstriking]

[This saddens the Catmancer Lucian king...]

Thankfully not too common. Otherwise the chocobos of Eos would be extinct instead of endangered. [#SaveTheChocobos] At least they're weak to fire and explosions.

[Gamers unite!!!]

[thegoofball]

[Your crown has no weight here, King.]

Aren't most things weak to fire? I mean, it's pretty deadly stuff.

[Oh my god is there actual weight to all of this elemental magic nonsense?!]

[warpstriking]

[Wow rude. Pls no bully.]

So is ice, and lightning if you get hit by it. Some beasts are just better or worse at dealing with them.

[As someone from a universe where elemental magic nonsense is a thing: YES, YES THERE IS.]

[thegoofball]

[Only bully.]

Okay, but like- you can't be plus or minus deadly. Or, well. [Hm.] That wasn't exactly a thing back home. It was more a "you're dead, you're dead" kind of situation.

[So, you know, this is all still a little game-y to him.]

[warpstriking]

[ r 0 0 d ]

So, what happened to someone inside a body of water if lightning happened to strike? Or if a particular field was suffering a drought, doesn't a fire spread faster?

[He can't believe he's using these examples in particular. It's basic science in his world!!]

It's the same with certain creatures back home, and apparently here too. Fish and aquatic fiends are weaker to electricity in general because of their environment. Heat melts. Water erodes the earth. Things like that. Magic's effects only quicken the process.

[...] I'm so glad Specs isn't around; I'd never hear the end of how I actually listened to my lessons.

[thegoofball]

[blows a kiss]

That's science, though. Water conducts electricity, dry things are more combustible. Magic means that kind of stuff shouldn't matter, though, right? 'Cause it's magic?

[You'd think after Allura and everything Altean he'd roll with things more, but nah.]

What, did you get terrible grades or something?

[warpstriking]

Nah, finished at the top of my class. [He had to; he was the heir apparent to the throne.] Magic theory I could handle. Using it was...

[He rubs the back of his neck as his voice trails off. One would think it wouldn't still be a touchy subject, and yet...yup. Still a thing, despite mastering black mage.]

Yes, and no. Because some monsters tend to be fire. Elementalism in particular still follows the basics, and back home? It affected the environment much the same way. At least, mine did.

[It wasn't supposed to, though.]

[thegoofball]

[That gets a raise of an eyebrows. It's not shocking this guy had magic before showing up here, but it seems weird to it that he's so...

Reticent about it. Isn't it something to gloat about to the non-magical scrubs like Lance?]

Guess it's just hard to wrap my head around because we didn't...really have stuff like this back home. Generally whatever was trying to kill us would kill us regardless of any kind of affiliations we had.

[Because they did have them - he remembers being underwater in Blue, how natural it felt, while Hunk felt sluggish in Yellow. But the Baku was just as deadly and influential over him as it was over Hunk.]

It was all the same level of danger.

[warpstriking]

[Ask him when your social link's a bit higher and maybe he'll answer that. But then, even Shiro doesn't know so h a . . .

Wait wrong game for the social link jokes SHIT.]

Could also be the biology's different between what we've faced. Or that it just gives a different advantage in your universe.

[Different realities are weird, man. He doesn't know.]

[thegoofball]

[NOW YOU FUCKED UP.]

I guess so. It's not crazier than any other explanation there could be, even if that just brings up more questions.

[If the galra showed up, what would they be weak to? Fire? Because they're all furry they're probably used to cold...

Hm.

He'll ask Keith what he thinks, later.]

I feel like I'm never going to remember this stuff.

[warpstriking]

[EH IT STILL COUNTS.]

Well, it wouldn't be the first time magic's done that. That's part of the fun in it, I guess.

[It confounds one of his closest friends, too; s'fiiiine.]

Hm... [He looks at his slate for a second.] Let's see...

[Ah, there it is. Lance [redacted]. He sends him a copy of the elemental strengths and weakness chat he had to memorize because black mage. S i g h.]

[thegoofball]

[DOES IT.]

Magic as an explanation's kiiind of a cop out, though it's all we've got.

[Oh! Master has given Dobby a sock!

Dobby gets to learn, now!]

Oh, hey. Guess this might come in handy.

[Just in case he ever takes up a class that deals in elemental magic...]

[warpstriking]

[IT DOOOO]

Well, we are kinda blocking the door of anyone else wanting to test their skills.

[Which is fine, really. Considering he was waiting for his skin to heal all the way before stepping out; which it now has so he won't get yelled at too badly by the healers.

Also yay learning!]

They gave me that when I picked up black mage... Along with this little guy.

[...

It's a doll.

In the shape of a tonberry.

What is his life.]