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

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[warpstriking]

[This saddens the Catmancer Lucian king...]

Thankfully not too common. Otherwise the chocobos of Eos would be extinct instead of endangered. [#SaveTheChocobos] At least they're weak to fire and explosions.

[Gamers unite!!!]

[thegoofball]

[Your crown has no weight here, King.]

Aren't most things weak to fire? I mean, it's pretty deadly stuff.

[Oh my god is there actual weight to all of this elemental magic nonsense?!]

[warpstriking]

[Wow rude. Pls no bully.]

So is ice, and lightning if you get hit by it. Some beasts are just better or worse at dealing with them.

[As someone from a universe where elemental magic nonsense is a thing: YES, YES THERE IS.]

[thegoofball]

[Only bully.]

Okay, but like- you can't be plus or minus deadly. Or, well. [Hm.] That wasn't exactly a thing back home. It was more a "you're dead, you're dead" kind of situation.

[So, you know, this is all still a little game-y to him.]

[warpstriking]

[ r 0 0 d ]

So, what happened to someone inside a body of water if lightning happened to strike? Or if a particular field was suffering a drought, doesn't a fire spread faster?

[He can't believe he's using these examples in particular. It's basic science in his world!!]

It's the same with certain creatures back home, and apparently here too. Fish and aquatic fiends are weaker to electricity in general because of their environment. Heat melts. Water erodes the earth. Things like that. Magic's effects only quicken the process.

[...] I'm so glad Specs isn't around; I'd never hear the end of how I actually listened to my lessons.

[thegoofball]

[blows a kiss]

That's science, though. Water conducts electricity, dry things are more combustible. Magic means that kind of stuff shouldn't matter, though, right? 'Cause it's magic?

[You'd think after Allura and everything Altean he'd roll with things more, but nah.]

What, did you get terrible grades or something?

[warpstriking]

Nah, finished at the top of my class. [He had to; he was the heir apparent to the throne.] Magic theory I could handle. Using it was...

[He rubs the back of his neck as his voice trails off. One would think it wouldn't still be a touchy subject, and yet...yup. Still a thing, despite mastering black mage.]

Yes, and no. Because some monsters tend to be fire. Elementalism in particular still follows the basics, and back home? It affected the environment much the same way. At least, mine did.

[It wasn't supposed to, though.]

[thegoofball]

[That gets a raise of an eyebrows. It's not shocking this guy had magic before showing up here, but it seems weird to it that he's so...

Reticent about it. Isn't it something to gloat about to the non-magical scrubs like Lance?]

Guess it's just hard to wrap my head around because we didn't...really have stuff like this back home. Generally whatever was trying to kill us would kill us regardless of any kind of affiliations we had.

[Because they did have them - he remembers being underwater in Blue, how natural it felt, while Hunk felt sluggish in Yellow. But the Baku was just as deadly and influential over him as it was over Hunk.]

It was all the same level of danger.

[warpstriking]

[Ask him when your social link's a bit higher and maybe he'll answer that. But then, even Shiro doesn't know so h a . . .

Wait wrong game for the social link jokes SHIT.]

Could also be the biology's different between what we've faced. Or that it just gives a different advantage in your universe.

[Different realities are weird, man. He doesn't know.]

[thegoofball]

[NOW YOU FUCKED UP.]

I guess so. It's not crazier than any other explanation there could be, even if that just brings up more questions.

[If the galra showed up, what would they be weak to? Fire? Because they're all furry they're probably used to cold...

Hm.

He'll ask Keith what he thinks, later.]

I feel like I'm never going to remember this stuff.

[warpstriking]

[EH IT STILL COUNTS.]

Well, it wouldn't be the first time magic's done that. That's part of the fun in it, I guess.

[It confounds one of his closest friends, too; s'fiiiine.]

Hm... [He looks at his slate for a second.] Let's see...

[Ah, there it is. Lance [redacted]. He sends him a copy of the elemental strengths and weakness chat he had to memorize because black mage. S i g h.]

[thegoofball]

[DOES IT.]

Magic as an explanation's kiiind of a cop out, though it's all we've got.

[Oh! Master has given Dobby a sock!

Dobby gets to learn, now!]

Oh, hey. Guess this might come in handy.

[Just in case he ever takes up a class that deals in elemental magic...]

[warpstriking]

[IT DOOOO]

Well, we are kinda blocking the door of anyone else wanting to test their skills.

[Which is fine, really. Considering he was waiting for his skin to heal all the way before stepping out; which it now has so he won't get yelled at too badly by the healers.

Also yay learning!]

They gave me that when I picked up black mage... Along with this little guy.

[...

It's a doll.

In the shape of a tonberry.

What is his life.]

[thegoofball]

[HMMMM.]

There's plenty of space to get around us! Probably.

[Look. It's a lab. They're probably used to this.]

Is black mage the emo version of white mage?

[Oh no, that doll is adorable? Lance can't hold back his awwww at it.]

[warpstriking]

White magic is more healing and light magic. Black is elemental magic.

...It was the closest to what my family has back home, though for some reason the doll was the only thing I could channel magic through.

[He says as said doll sways its little lantern a little.]

At least this little guy's been the source of a few good pranks. Once convinced some guy that it was haunted after he waved a leaf of lettuce in front of my face.

[thegoofball]

So it's emo. Gotcha.

[Fire's pretty goth.]

That's a little weird, but at least it's a cute doll and not something creepy like a puck.

[It's so cute... Lance almost regrets not picking up black mage, but he feels more at home being able to support his team in a more literal sense.]

Sounds like he deserved it. I mean, who does that?

[Why lettuce?]

[warpstriking]

Goth. Pretty sure the emo ones are the dark knights, with all that edge.

[He smirks faintly. What do you think is the first spell you learn as a mage of the black, Lance?]

I'd be careful if I were you. If you met a real one, anyway. They're slow, but man do their stabs hurt.

[...Not that he knows that from experience or anything, nooooo.]

Beats me. Though he certainly did panic when it suddenly caught fire.

[thegoofball]

Well, I haven't met a dark knight yet so I'd have to take your word for it. If they're edgy then you're probably right.

[Why didn't Keith take up dark knight? It sounds right up his alley.]

How many have stabbed you?

[Bullshit it's not from experience.]

And let me guess - that's how he figured it was haunted, because it was totally the doll that set it on fire?

[warpstriking]

The first wave of arrivals this year got a grand tour of all the guilds. They gave demonstrations and I'm still surprised that they didn't cut themselves with all that edginess, and my entire family history reads like a gothic soap opera.

[At least he's self-aware. Blame Shiro.]

...Two, but only because I didn't warp out fast enough.

[IT might be more than two. And to answer that question, there's just a mischievous glint in his eyes.]

[thegoofball]

[Damn. He almost wishes he could meet one, just to see how edgy they are in person. He'll settle for not knowing for now at least.]

Yikes. What's your family even like, asides magical?

[Warp out...?]

You mean like the [he makes a throwing gesture] you were doing? Is that what you mean by warping out?

[He sees what's been done, and he appreciates it.]

[warpstriking]

[One day. One day he'll meet a dark knight. It's almost guaranteed at some point. They're the magic-defense tank.]

Oh, just a long line of people blessed with power and sworn to protect the future of our world. And an uncle removed so many times it's ridiculous.

...And yeah, that's what's called a warp-strike.

[thegoofball]

[And he will remember this, and he will try not to laugh at them.]

Okay, yeah, that already sounds pretty soap opera-y. [Especially the uncle bit.]

The warp-striking seems pretty cool, at least? Not that it probably makes up for the whole...protecting the future thing.

[Not like he really...asked to be a protector of the universe, either, but at least he wasn't born expecting to do anything great with his life.]

[warpstriking]

Told ya.

[He won't say anything more about it, either. Instead he crosses his arms, curious.]

Oh? Well, it's been weird not being able to do this for....six? Seven months now? [s h r u g.] Surprised I still got it.

[...It's probably telling that he's avoiding talking about it, isn't it.]

[thegoofball]

[Oh, it is INCREDIBLY telling, but while Lance wants to press, he's not going to, because he'd like to not piss off the guy who throws swords.]

I almost wish I could do that, but maybe it's better that I can't.

[But geez, that long without being able to? He'd never considered what it's like being someone who had magic before who showed up here and it seems like they're getting a way worse deal.]

Still looks like you've got the hang of it to me.

[warpstriking]

[Wheeeee and thanks for considering it's a Bad Idea (tm) to piss off the guy whose combat style involves throwing sharp objects.]

Well, technically we can have an apprentice when the Job's done... though I already promised to teach someone first.

[He shrugs.] Well, I definitely can still hang around at least.

[...

Yes, he went there. With puns.]