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

[keymemory]

“The games where I win.” Sora bounced on his heels, his hands moved up to pinch at his hips, a proud and cocky smirk to his lips. Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie were pretty much their own trio whereas Sora, Riku, and Kairi were their own. When the six of them got together though, it was a ton of fun and everyone had something to contribute. Sometimes they bickered about the games they did want to play, but in the end they found some sort of resolution that didn’t involve Wakka or Riku muscling their way through the rest of them.

Sora gave Tidus a look over and, once again (and likely not the last time), marveled at how different Tidus really was from the Tidus he knew back home! In fact, not only was Tidus a lot older here, he did look a bit different! As far as personality, however, they seemed pretty even between the both of them and it was really something Sora appreciated, knowing that he had such a good friend in Tidus here as well! As Sora became lost in thought any real hope for a serious answer flew out the window - so to speak.

[zanarkandian]

"You'll have to teach me, then. I'll show you blitz, it'll be a trade!" he answered, his smile still light. Yeah, he was at the top of the blitzball standings, but that didn't mean he couldn't learn something new. Maybe one of those weird card games? It wasn't usually his style, but...

He dug his companion blitzball out of his bag and spun it on his finger, thoughts drifting this way and that. It was so easy to get swept up in everything that he had to relax, let things be for a little while.

"The island where I met Wakka was really...pretty. Clearest ocean I've ever seen. Trees you could get lost in, a river he pushed me in once. You could just look up at the stars and get lost in them. Wish I could've stayed longer."

[keymemory]

Man, Sora thought he was a clever boy there! Tidus was already so congenial, however, that no matter what he said was probably going to get a pleased response! Short of blitz is the worst game ever, that would probably really upset his friend. Of course, Sora didn’t believe that whatsoever.

“How long… were you there?” Sora had gotten out of his thoughts as soon as Tidus started talking about meeting Wakka on an island, he thought of home with that. Yet, he knew Tidus wasn’t talking about his home or about his Wakka. What would it be like if Tidus from home showed up, or Wakka even? Tidus would totally be friends with himself, that thought really comforted Sora for some reason. He grinned up at Tidus. “Hey, .. Tidus, will you tell me all about it?” The more he learned about his friend the more he was actually beginning to be able to separate Tidus from the one he knew.

[zanarkandian]

"Sure! It's a bit of a weird story, though."

He folded himself into a sitting position, sword still within arms' reach just in case.

"I was originally from a huge city called Zanarkand. It's a lot like Sparks Golsaucia, if you've ever been there. My dad was the most famous blitzball player in the city, so we lived a pretty easy life---but then he disappeared one day, when I was seven. That broke Mom's heart, and she died soon after. But one of Dad's weird friends came to look after me, and I tried my hardest to get good at blitzball. I wanted to be better than Dad."

He didn't feel he really needed to get into the specifics of that particular relationship, so he just grinned and scratched the back of his head. "Then a giant monster called Sin attacked. It sucked me up and dropped me in a weird new world, where I met Rikku. She was pretty nice---and then the monster attacked the boat we were on, and I washed up on the island. I woke up to Wakka hitting me in the head with a blitzball."

He laughed at the old memory. "Wakka turned out to be the captain of his own blitzball team, the Besaid Aurochs. They were pretty down on their luck, so when they saw I could play, they wanted me to help them out. I couldn't say no. But Wakka had another job---he was what's called a guardian, someone who protects a summoner while they go on a journey to train to fight that big monster. The summoner was a really cute girl, actually. Her name was Yuna."

Tidus couldn't fight the blush that appeared on his face. "Wakka was gonna lead his team to one more victory before he left to help Yuna on her journey across the world. I ended up going with them. So...I only got two days on the island, but I wish I could go back there."

[keymemory]

He was following along as Tidus told him about himself, some of it they’ve briefly touched on before. He remembered Tidus telling him before about his pops and how he wasn’t going to be as good as him. Or, was it, his pops teased him about it before he disappeared? Either way, the loss of both parents seemed pretty tough to Sora and he felt a bit sad for Tidus at the point. Then, when Riku was mentioned he perked up, until Riku was described as a female with the feminine pronoun and he cocked his head with some thought. He assumed it wasn’t his Riku (obviously) with that added detail. Sora got a big goofy grin on his face as Tidus talked about Yuna, he liked how she was a really cute girl in Tidus’ story! It was really sweet and he thought about Kairi! He’d probably describe her the same!

Ah, Sora caught the blush on Tidus’ face, actually, and he found his own cheeks warm because he thought Tidus was pretty cute when he talked about her! He could tell Yuna meant a lot to Tidus with that!

“You went with Yuna and Wakka to go fight the monster… was it Sin you were going after?” He only assumed because of what he’s gathered thus far from Tidus’ story.