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

[songbird_slayer]

She took the offer with a nod and rose. The tiefling gave a hearty pat to her hat to straighten it.

"You know, the Asterisks we already have do possess their appeal. Considering you only have one to take care of, perhaps two, that ought to be less footwork all around. Me, however... whew."

[mech_and_mutt]

"Like I said, I've got Magitek Knight as far as it's gonna go. I'm workin' on Paladin in the meantime, but... I dunno how much of it I'm gonna use. Who'd turn down bein' at the seat of a mecha?"

"Oh, and didja see what they had in the Empire? You might wanna get a hold of the Sky Pirates. They seem like they'd be up your alley."

[songbird_slayer]

"What I've got trumps the everliving beans out of any sky pirate." She flipped her hair and grinned.

"Though, I would not mind the outfit of a pirate captain..."

[mech_and_mutt]

Madhuri in the outfit of a pirate captain?... the bone in his mouth tips upwards, but he brings himself back on point to the conversation.

"Well I've got my airship, right? Figure it'd be a waste not to."

"By the way, how's business? I hear you've got Kuja workin' there now..."

[songbird_slayer]

My, my... Red. She couldn't help but smirk. But she nodded, gesturing with a hand.

"Kuja is among my employed, yes. He is every bit of pomp and feathers as I expected him to be employed as he was unemployed. He can put on a hell of a performance though, that's for sure. Those that see him utterly love him."

She turned and smiled at him wryly.

"Many actors are just like Kuja, you see."

[mech_and_mutt]

"...Wait. Really?"

Somehow, Kuja didn't seem like the sort of person who'd follow anyone else's direction. Or even a script anyone else had written.

"If that's true I don't know how you manage it. They know they aren't all in a lead role, right?"

[songbird_slayer]

"Deep down I'm sure they do. The trick is failing to feed the ego too much... let them nibble, but not feast."

She gave the bone a little tap.

"Speaking of dishes, however... isn't there another you ought be speaking to? Surely they must be wondering where you are."

[mech_and_mutt]

Oh no. He knew that tone of voice, and just as much that look Madhuri took on when she was peering right through someone.

Red reached up to bring his bone back into a more... compliant position. "...Who d'ya mean?"

[songbird_slayer]

"Oh, Red... you can't fool a bard." She folded her arms and smirked at him. Why must he play dumb? She had a theory or two about a person or so, but she had her ways of getting to the nitty-gritty.

"I know the look of a man in love, whether the man is aware of it or not."

[mech_and_mutt]

"It's that obvious?!"

His response comes so quickly it nearly cuts off the tail end of her sentence.

"D'you think she notices?!"

[songbird_slayer]

"I... well! Thank you for confirming, my shaggy friend!" She reached up and pressed a finger to his nose.

"I don't know if she notices. But I'm sure when the time is right, both parties will be in the know."

A pause.

"Want me to set you guys up!?"

1/2

[mech_and_mutt]

"Who're you callin' shaggy..."

His face scrunches up at the word, and even moreso when Madhuri reaches in for the poke. But maybe she had a point; however she sometimes acted, Azusa was--

"--WHAT?! NO!!"

A sputter, a bristling of his fur. "No, I mean-- what happened to the whole 'when the time is right' stuff?! You can't just--"

2/2

[mech_and_mutt]

In a rare demonstration of presence-of-mind, Red suddenly stifles his rant. A quick clear of his throat.

"--Besides, it ain't like you even know who it is, right?"

[songbird_slayer]

Madhuri idly looked over her fingernails. "Well, there's letting fate decide things, but in my experience, fate is like an anvil on a leash."

She grinned. "I'm merely putting oil on the floor to help it along a touch. As for who this lucky lady is, I have my guess or three."

[mech_and_mutt]

"Don't tell me your guesses. I'm enjoying the suspense."

A flatly-delivered quip didn't do much to draw the flush from his cheeks, of course.

"Just trust me when I say it's a little bit complicated."

[songbird_slayer]

"Oh, what, 'I'm a wolf and she's not'? Do you know what the Prime Material Plane is like? How overwhelmingly different everyone is in appearance and practice!"

To keep her thoughts flowing, she tread to a table and fetched three pens. Juggling was always a good distraction.

"And if the issue is stray fur in the bedsheets or, heavens forbid, stuck in her teeth there are preventative means...!"

[mech_and_mutt]

"...How would it get in her--

NO! Jeez, that's not it at all!! It's--"

There's a few fumbling seconds of near-silence, before Red just slumps over. Yet somehow, this time, it seems more... saddened than frustrated.

"...She's not the sorta person you could just confess to. I'll bet'cha anything she's heard it all the time.

She's out of my league."

[songbird_slayer]

"A girl is permitted to reject as many people as necessary, but it shouldn't discourage the 101st person from potentially being the 'yes' after 100 others have been told 'no'." She canted her head at him.

"As a woman who is told frequently she is 'out of somebody's league', let me tell you: Confidence is something that is more attractive than any sort of league of physical appearance. What makes you less than her?"