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]

"Well, that's the trick, isn't it? To summon something so large you need a large group. Just as well, to group together risks the entire operation going down when someone finds the rat's nest, so to speak."

She settled into a chair upon straightening it up as well, offering the boy one just the same.

"So, naturally, you spread out and work in small splinter forces. Do summoners work with ley lines? We work from the ley network of Vaikuntha. We find the eidolons, who may know such things, or sources of magic power otherwise."

She opened her arms in a shrug.

"I'm the idea girl back home."

[modelcivilian]

"Hm... I can't say I know much about ley lines here..."

He's also not the one who came up with plans back home... most of the time. Sometimes one just happened to be inspiration, but most of the time, he had too much else to do.

Sitting down in the offered chair, he continud trying to think.

"Have any of the summoners with us uncovered anything?"

[songbird_slayer]

"Think of ley lines like veins in the body, full of pure magic energy. The achieve great magical feats, it's ideal to cast while standing near where two ley lines cross. Summoning something massive like Bahamut...? Absolutely."

She frowned, then shook her head at the question.

"Can't say that I know, but I might need to do a bit of snooping. Someone's got to know where on earth the ley lines meet here."

[modelcivilian]

"Oh..."

That made sense. So the lines in which magic flowed, but... hm, the strongest concentrations would...

"Yeah... right now if we were to guess, you'd probably think about the Crystals naturally or wherever the Eidolons are residing. That's just off the top of my head, but any of the magic-centric Guilds probably have a better idea."

[songbird_slayer]

"Like the summoners themselves, right? The black mages, too, considering they use the same aether as all forms of magic creature. The bonus is that the black mages wouldn't try to eat me like a magic beast would."

She snapped her fingers.

"Perfect. I'll set out... shortly, honestly. I think I've done enough testing for today. I should go check in with Ganeshan and the others, let them know of your interest, too?"

[modelcivilian]

"Right."

He was glad he contributed to some brainstorming. It tends to be few and far between around here, but that was a good thing - just a sign of people being capable themselves.

"Huh? Oh yeah! We should do that."