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

[righthandstand]

[Oh. Good point. Cats are master acrobats.] I mean, then it's just one or two cats we can distract instead of a hundred.

...Don't look at me, I'm not the ideas guy.

[hatejakku]

It was your idea. [ And couldn't they all just follow him through the window? ]

You know what? Let's try it. If it doesn't work, we can just try something else. Maybe shut the window behind you pretty fast, though.

[ But don't hurt anything! ]

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu stands up tall and pouts.] Hey, I'm gonna do a sick dive, you'll have to shit it after me, 'cause I'm gonna be on the floor.

[Whatever, he pulls the window open and opens the door as wide as he can before walking through. Predictably, the cats follow.]

[hatejakku]

So I'm supposed to shut both- Yeah, okay.

[ This was at least going to be memorable. Finn waits as the cats file out, gently nudging the last one with his shoe before he shuts the door. Right, making his way to the window, please don't slam into him. ]

All right, let's go!

[righthandstand]

[It makes sense to him! The two are a disaster.

Okuyasu calmly walks out into the yard, hoping the cats can't tell that he's deceiving them. When he reaches the pathway, he waits for the herd to gather around and wait for his next move.

Little do they know.

One second later, he disappears. The cats scream in shock until he pops back into existence some thirty feet away and withing running distance of the window, where he makes a mad dash for the small opening he made for himself.

There is no sick graceful dive, but rather he crouches and hooks one leg over the windowsill until he is able to throw himself onto the ground inside.]

Quick!

[hatejakku]

How did you-!?

[ Cats! Cats!

Finn lunges for the window and quickly slams it shut. The cats are still successfully outside, meowing rather loudly. ]

I can't believe that worked... How did you do that?

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu likens it to a horror movie where the monsters are adorable animals. He wipes his face with a sleeve and rolls onto his back to stand up.]

I wasn't practicing Illusionist for a while, So I thought about switchin' back to practice. [He's gotten better at teleportation, seeing that he was pretty close to his goal.]

[hatejakku]

That was amazing! [ Finn makes a note to stop underestimating this guy. He waves at the window. ] And, hey, it worked! Great plan.

[righthandstand]

[He could have teleported into the building, which he had not considered at all. Or teleported away from the cats in the first place. But it works, so there.]

Of course it was! Okuyasu Nijimura doesn't give up! [Even if that would be the safer alternative.]