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]

"Because you appear much like a prey animal who awaits the moment the serpent averts her gaze..." She lowered the crystal and twirled it in her hands, tossing it back and forth between hands.

"What exactly do you think I'd do to you?"

[righthandstand]

"I dunno, like..." He moves his hand around. What was a polite way of saying that she will flirt with him? "D-do ya gotta call me your knight and kiss me and everything? That's sounds like you're hittin' on me. Or somethin' like that."

A pause.

"Not that you're not hot!" Wait that was a bad choice of words. "But...yeah?"

[songbird_slayer]

The tossing stopped. "I was showing my appreciation, and it's rather common where I'm from. However... if I knew it would frighten you so, I wouldn't have done it. I'm sorry, dear."

This was new. She'd intimidated before, yes, but never outright frightened. She offered a smile.

"You've a good heart, you know. Very strong. You'll make somebody extremely happy someday. It was never my intention to step into that spot, nor take any opportunities away from that person."

[righthandstand]

"I'm not scared!" Even though no one had ever gotten that close to him before. Someone walked up to him, decided that he was worthy of a kiss, and did so. Maybe that's what families were like, but it was totally new to him.

"Okay, so maybe I am. Is that why you kissed me in the first place?"

[songbird_slayer]

"Okuyasu... you don't kiss someone on the cheek simply to frighten them. That's insensitive to their feelings. As I said before, it was a culture thing, to show appreciation."

She tapped her cheek.

"Don't take this the wrong way, but might... you have inexperience when it comes to interacting with women?"

[righthandstand]

Once she said that, Okuyasu realized that his fears sounded pretty dumb. Why would anyone be afraid of a kiss? Well, if it was from someone like Yukako obviously, but Madhuri wasn't so obviously flirty and aggressive as her. Maybe. There was some reason to be cautious.

He bit his lip and frowned at the wall. "I don't have girlfriend, if that's what you're asking." That sounded way less lame than saying he had no experience.

[songbird_slayer]

Her expression softened. Then, stepping closer to him, she offered him a smile.

"That's all right. Do you know what I've learned, Okuyasu? That means you've only just gotten started in that milestone of your life. You didn't learn to walk, speak and read immediately, now did you?"

She clapped her hands together gleefully. "BUT! That doesn't mean you should wait until you're old and grey, neither. Ergo, I'd like to help you."

[righthandstand]

In that case, Koichi was ahead of him in life. Josuke already has girls flocking to him. Okuyasu was losing ground. Somehow, this woman had decided there was something worth saving within him.

He nodded. "What's your plan?"

In the worst case, she know cute chicks his age.

[songbird_slayer]

"The plan is to figure out why you're having trouble and work from there. Your self-confidence is fine enough, and it isn't about anything you wear... but perhaps you're a little too intense when you put your heart into things, and it can lead a girl to wonder if you'd just hurt them. You know you won't, but this is someone on the outside trying to learn more about you... make sense?"

She smiled. "So let's have me pry just a teeny little bit first: Is there someone here in Vaikuntha that takes your breath away? That makes the heart skip? That person who, when you look at them, the whole world around them seems to just... light up?"

[righthandstand]

A small nod, but... "It's the face. I know I'm not the most handsome guy, but it aint' like I can take off my scars and look like a TV star."

He frowned, adding twenty years to his appearance. There was D. Va, but he hadn't seen her in a while. And she was famous or something. "I'm not gonna have a crush if I can help it. Not gonna set myself for heartbreak, y'know?"

[songbird_slayer]

"The funny thing about emotions is: If you never feel anything so nothing happens, nothing will ever happen. Part of having a heart is having it hurt sometimes."

She shrugged. "Try and guess how many crushes I've had that never panned out, for some reason or another."

[righthandstand]

Okuyasu eyed her with an emotionless expression, an unusual feat for the boy who wears his heart on his sleeve. His problem was that he sped right into intense emotions - happiness, anger, love - when the dam broke down. He's liked cute girls he saw at school, and they all rejected him. Heartbreak at a young age.

"...The last girl I crushed on was a ghost." If that was an indication of his luck.

---

[songbird_slayer]

She wagged her finger at him. "Love is blind, Okuyasu. Nevertheless!"

She clicked her heels together and folded her arms behind her back.

"I'd like to schedule a lesson. It could be a mock date or something to allow me to test your romantic mettle. Then we can work from there."

[righthandstand]

A date. A fake date. A fake date with the woman who kissed him on the cheek. This couldn't be real.

"A what?!" This was the first time anyone asked him out to something other than loitering, studying, or investigating a serial killer's house.

[songbird_slayer]

"IF... you'd like to, of course. I don't think you should give up on opening your heart, Okuyasu. I just think you need a little help and may not have had the opportunity to learn before getting out there in the big wide world! It happens."

She balled a fist of determination.

"You deserve to be happy!"

[righthandstand]

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He deserved to be happy...to have a girlfriend? He wasn't going to be single for the rest of his life? This woman believed in him.

Okuyasu hummed and slouched, looking at the ground. There wasn't anything obviously off about this...

"I'm in. When's the first lesson?"

[songbird_slayer]

"Hmmm... let me tie up a few loose ends in my schedule and I'll give you a jingle over the iMog Slates. I won't leave you hanging, but running a business before a big holiday season demands quite a bit of my attention!"

A thumbs up.

"In the meantime, why don't I give you my contact information just in case? It'll be handy down the line when you have your first date with a lucky girl and you want tickets to a show in Sparks Golsaucia or something similar."

[righthandstand]

He muttered an "oh fuck" of disbelief as he exhaled loudly. This was really it. He patted his back, remembered that he left his slate with Kyo and grunted.

"I'm on the linkshell if you wanna talk." Oh fuck, he might finally learn how to be popular with the ladies? "But, uh, I need a girl before I can plan a date, you know."

[songbird_slayer]

"You will absolutely get there, Okuyasu. Then you can turn the world rosy with her."

Alright, the linkshell. He'll be easy enough to find.

"Until then, keep your chin up. ...And there's nothing wrong with your face."