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]

[Studded leader vest is a go.]

So the tat's right on his chest, so when he rips his shirt off, everyone gets to see the cupcake.

[There's a cute picture of the dessert with a smiley face.]

With shades!

[thegoofball]

Yeah, the shades make it more than just cute. It makes it cool.

[And a pair of matching shades appear on Yamada.]

He really resonates with that cupcake.

[righthandstand]

It's the representation of his soul or somethin'.

[Okuyasu hums to himself and quickly moves the cursor in a giant circle.]

Got any other ideas before we let him loose?

[thegoofball]

[Hmm.]

I think Yamada's good to go. Unless...

[Don't mind him reaching over.]

Do you think he needs a mustache? Or a beard?

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu rolls the chair to the side.]

Hell yea he does. So he's an older dude. He's probably got, like, a long beard or mustache to show how old and wise he is while he beats down the young punks.

[thegoofball]

Not long enough to cover up his cupcake, though. But definitely pretty long.

[He fiddles, and Yamada now has a rather fetching beard that goes to his collarbone.]

I think he's perfect now.

[righthandstand]

Just a bit.

[He drags the sides of the beard and curl them upwards. Freshly waxed.]

Gotta look good before the fight.

[thegoofball]

[Yamada is a style icon. He's so beautiful.

Lance feels so proud.]

Definitely perfect, now.

So who's he going to fight?

[righthandstand]

The most boring guy in the ring...[He saves the model and opens up a new character.] or his arch-nemesis, the Ruthless Dragon!

[He brings up a long-haired lean man and removes all of his clothing apart from a loincloth.]

He wants to fight in the nude, but since that's against the rules, he wants to make a statement. Like, what's the point of clothes but to hide who you really are? You know how he can show what he feels?

[thegoofball]

[It's getting better and better.]

I wasn't even aware there was a loincloth option in this thing.

[He's in awe of the Ruthless Dragon, though.]

Gotta admit, though, you have to admire a man who's not afraid to let it all out there.

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu equips Season 5 Samurai Jack with a katana and watches the model whip it around.]

He's a dick, that's why he sneaks weapons into the ring. [He's also a boring dude, so he gets no special stats.]

Pick the scene and I'm gonna play as Yamada!

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[thegoofball]

Eh, you gotta admire a man who hates all the rules. [He steeples his fingers under his chin.]

Well, it's gotta be the final confrontation. This is it, winner takes all, so...Let's go with something classic. Just a simple ring, but with the highest stakes possible.

[righthandstand]

The final round for the 50 million yen prize. [Okuyasu selects the stage, and the two fights teleport onto opposite ends of the screen.

Shit, he never tried to learn the controls, so he resorts to button mashing. Yamada bends forward to breathe fire, throws some punches, and stomps on the ground, summoning demonic hands from the ground that slap and the air above.]

[thegoofball]

Perfect.

[He can do this. Him and the Dragon got this.]

Dude.

[The Ruthless Dragon dashes forward, swinging his sword. Lance, at least, looked at the controls and has an approximate idea of what he's doing.]

[righthandstand]

[Oh shit, oh fuck, Lance is the fighting game expert! The most important button in any game is the jump command, and it has to be one of the buttons. Unfortunately, they're on a keyboard. Fortunately, the space button looks big and important. Okuyasu presses it with his thumb just in time to jump over the Ruthless Dragon's attack and land behind him.]

Yeah! Yamada lives another day!

[And now he turns around oh god time to throw punches at his enemy's back!]

[thegoofball]

[You might know how to jump, but the Ruthless Dragon knows how to do something even better.]

Not so fast!

[He knows how to block. He did take a hit because he had to turn around, but just the one.]

It's going to take more than some button-mashing to get through my defense!

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu slams his hand onto the keyboard, making Yamada do a little dance before pressing each button individually. That's a punch, that's a kick, pressing both at the same time does some special attack. Where's the demon hands button?]

Then I'll have to find a weakness in your defense!

[By damaging the ground! But it glows for some reason. Oh well, he'll figure out what that move is eventually.]