melodiesofeternity | Event || Custom Fit

Event || Custom Fit

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.]

[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.]

[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.

[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.]

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.]

[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.

[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.]

[He can only afford to piss off one of those types of guys.]

Eh, they'll probably do better at it than I would.

[Which is fine. The hanging comment, though...]

Maybe not so literally? I don't think the cats or lions would appreciate that.

[And that just wasn't funny.]

[Sorry, what was that? He's already adding your name to the (very short) list of people to teach.]

You never know until you try. Besides, not like there's that long of a list.

[It's legit just one right now. So there!]

And hey, they wind up in high places on their own. Their reel problem is getting down after.

Is it just the one guy?

[Poor Noct. Nobody wants to be a cat, this time.]

Cats always land on their feet. But fine, fine, you can hang out anywhere you want. Just don't scratch the paint job on Red.

[What with all your throwing sharp objects about. Red deserves to be treated like a king.]

Yeah. Only brought it up to him, and my other friends are more interested in getting theirs back, so.

[Sad Price is Right sounds here.]

Now, why the hell would I warp to a Lion like that? [He likes them!]

You could market it, though I think most people are in the same boat.

[That's why he's here, anyways. He wants to get Red and get Red up and running so it's not just sitting around in the desert with Black and Yellow.]

I don't know your life! I don't know what kind of things you'd warp to or why!

I could, but I'd rather give it to people I trust. It's a family thing.

[That and, well, keeping people from burning. Wheeeeeee.]

Enemy combatants, cliff faces, up buildings [And thus regretting his life choices] and non-sentient aircraft.

[Does a list help? He hopes it helps.]

Makes sense, I get it.

[If Shiro burns you're dead to him.]

Wait, wait. Enemy combatants?

[His voice pitches high at the end, as he looks at Noctis in bafflement.]

[He's making sure none of the Ring powers are involved!]

My people were at war back home. [he shrugs.] ...There's also monsters, enemies, wildlife that's gotten to the point they have to be put down because they're endangering their environment.

[Good!!]

Oh. [That makes a lot more sense, than if he was just picking some scrub off the street and deciding they were an enemy.] And now you've got to deal with all of this. Must be rough.

[He says, like he wasn't also fighting a war at home.]

Other than waking up in a foreign world far removed from the people I love and have sworn to protect? Nah. Not really.

[He shrugs. Really, he can't control that. Joking and making light of the situation is all he can do.]

Though I'm surprised you'd mention the Lions so readily, considering how Shiro tried to keep them under wraps for so long when we first arrived. [Then again, he also tried to keep under wraps he was of royal blood, and now here he is, dropping a lot of hints.]

That's basically your average Friday.

[Jokes! He can do jokes, he is great at ruining serious situations with jokes and diffusing tension. It's part of his role as the team's goofball.]

Guess I don't really see the point. Black and Yellow are already here, so the cat's out of the bag. [He shrugs.] Plus I'm still kind of used to everyone already knowing what Voltron is.

I imagine for you guys it is.

[Jokes are great and anyone who says otherwise is a godsdamned liar. Even if most of his are always delivered a bit flatly.]

Fair enough. Kind of hard to hide them when they're bigger than any of the houses nearby.

Doubt we're the only ones who feel like that.

[There's a lot of people here! Who have gone through all sorts of crazy things!

And it's okay, Noctis. Deadpan can still be funny. Emphasis on can.]

I know, right? Can't exactly go "No, that's not a giant mecha lion". You'd have to be blind in order to miss them.

Maybe not, but don't exactly talk to many space explorers.

[Aaand now he's slightly teasing. ...Slightly. Because holy shit the concept of doing so is so. cool. Do you realize how awesome that is? He can only barely touch the sky with his car, mmkay.]

I dunno. Apparently a bear can convince people it's not a bear with high enough charisma, but that's in a game.

[Nnnoooot gonna touch the blindness thing. For Reasons.]

Not even the astronauts from your home?

[He's assuming he's someone important, and he also can't imagine being in a world without space travel. Hell, even this place has some form of space travel, what with how easy it is for them to get two and from the Dream Width.]

Monsters & Mana isn't exactly something you should base your life around, though. I don't think anyone's charismatic enough to pull something of that scale off in real life.

[That's...fair.]

None. Sure, a few scientists likely wanted to, but with how frequent attacks were, anything we could get off the ground would likely have been shot out of the sky.

[It's a sad, sad day for the scientists. Though it probably would have saved a lot of lives, considering. Best not to dwell on it.]

Monsters & Mana? [Oh dear.]

Oh. [Well, that explains that. It seems a shame, to Lance, not being able to go up to the stars.] Man, that blows. Maybe some day you'll get to more properly explore space, huh?

[He's not sure how, but... It's possible! Maybe not the stars of his home, but there's a lot of stars out there.]

Uh, yeah? It's a game. You know, roll your characters and explore and fight monsters and it's all done with dice? [Oh yes.]

Maybe. Only time will tell.

[Who knows? Maybe after the apocalypse his people will have the opportunity. But he got a brief taste of it here and oh, how he wants that for them.]

Sounds a lot like Dungeons and Daemons. Not that I've actually played, mind. My friends were more into mobile games.

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