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

[balancingedge]

Keith gave him a look at that. "Have you met us?" he asked, incredulous. Look, he's fully aware of how things tended to be on fire with them in town. How it's only gotten to the 'make Black growl in warning if the college kids get too loud' stage and no farther, he has no idea. It's a small miracle in and of itself. "Because pretty sure most of us are troublemakers."

Along with the whole saving the universe shtick. Most of the team was still in their teenage years, okay.

"Mom and I saved him when he was a pup," Keith began to tell, kneeling down to pet the soft-furred creature. "He'd crash landed on the same creature we were hitching a ride on in a part of space that had weird distortions in space-time. He's rarely left my side since."

He chuckled quietly under his breath, "He may not understand the concept of fetch, but he's great at tackling. With his skills though, I'd be more concerned about him teleporting people to another galaxy."

[chocobosnap]

"Really? I never noticed." Prompto said cheerfully, because he hadn't, at least he hadn't seen that side of them. Just like they probably hadn't seen him and Noctis when they were busy being partners in crime.

"That's cool. You're really nice, aren't you boy?" He reached out to pet Kosmo, if he was allowed by the wolf.

"Teleporting huh? Noct used to be able to do this warping thing, but not here."

[balancingedge]

One day, Prompto. One day you will see their shenanigans and be like "oh". It will all make sense after that. "Probably because the most we've done is have Black scare the college kids." So far, so good. He's just waiting for the pranks to start and eyeing Lance and Pidge in particular.

At least, until he and Shiro start pranking one another. In which case, gooood luck to the rest of their household.

Kosmo leaned into the pets; yes, he was more than allowed to do so. A faint hint of a start of a smile played at the corner of Keith's lips. "Really? Huh." That made one more on the very short list of teleporters: the Black Lion, Druids, Kosmo, and now Noctis.

[chocobosnap]

He snickered slightly at the mental image, uh oh, it was better not to give him ideas that he should grab Noctis and engage in mischief. They were still young enough to get away with shenanigans, thank you very much.

"Black is the coolest lion ever!" He gushed slightly, because Prompto thought so,and his nerves were getting under control the longer they spoke.

"And you're so handsome, what a nice boy." He praised Kosmo, scratching behind those ears and lavishing attention on him.

[balancingedge]

Too late. The images were there. They both knew it and he had a feeling he's going to regret if this somehow managed to come back to him. Somehow. And good luck with that; he can't be much older than they are, from the looks of things.

"I'd say Black and Red are tied, but then the others would call me out on my bias." He smirked, glad to see Prompto loosening up a little. "And careful. All that praise will go to his head."

And the last thing he needed was one stuck up wolf refusing to get off of him in the morning.

[chocobosnap]

He laughed a little. "Well, um I haven't met Red." So he couldn't be an adequate judge of which one was better.

"Never too much praise for cute animals." He grinned.

"We have a lot of chocobos you know." It was amazing too, practically heaven.

He was going to have to mention some mischief to Noctis.

[balancingedge]

"Never know. Might just show up sometime." Black and Yellow had, after all. It was only a matter of time before Red came for Lance and Green for Pidge. He shook his head. Yep. Kosmo's gonna be insufferable for a day or two.

"Really." He blinked. "Dare I ask how many?"

Why did he have a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach? It totally doesn't have a thing to do with what's awaiting him at home or anything.

[chocobosnap]

"That would be cool. Shiro let us go inside the lion and it roared and everything!" He was such a tech geek sometimes.

"Probably not, it's probably more than your thinking, but the babies are super cute and they're getting bigger and they walk around a lot and follow me sometimes which is really really cute."

Prompto was all innocent smiles, no planning going on in his mind, not at all.

[balancingedge]

"Just wait until I get Black flying again," Keith replied with a faint smirk.

"We got about... six cats I think? At our house. We belatedly realized we might have a problem." And that problem was taking turns on who cleans the litter box. "They must really like you."

Because he knew Kosmo would follow him or Shiro anywhere, and might be slowly bonding with Pidge and Lance as well. Maybe he should try teaching him how to play fetch again.

Also if someone thinks they were being completely unassuming in the plotting, sorry. Not happening.