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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.
warpstriking: (indignant ☈ it has begun)

[personal profile] warpstriking 2018-11-04 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah? We try not to waste anything we end up killing. Anything else we give to the hunters or a local diner.

[Also Ignis is just that good of a cook! The tenders were great and he'll fight anyone who says otherwise. Thankfully, due to months of practice, he keeps the slight wince mostly hidden. Mostly. He can still hear that bastard's voice saying Such is my blessing, and my curse.]

It's more a duty than anything. One you're born into rather than choose.
thegoofball: (they're back)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-04 07:28 am (UTC)(link)
The bigger something is, the less good it tastes! I'm surprised it'd be edible.

[He thinks? He vaguely remembers Hunk talking shop at him, once or twice, though he...also largely zoned out during those explanations.]

Right. [He presses his lips together, eyebrows knitting with concern. Sure, he didn't have a choice to not become a Paladin, but...

He wasn't born knowing it was a choice he'd never get the chance to refuse. It was just...random happenstance.]
Seems like you got the short end of the stick.
warpstriking: (waiting ☈ can't keep it)

[personal profile] warpstriking 2018-11-04 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
...You know, Ignis says the same thing, and yet it tasted great.

[Things he also zoned out of in the long run after that very same point was mentioned. Ah well. Reasons he'll never be more than a line cook.]

One could say the same about most royalty. Either in the 'the situation of the kingdom sucks' way or their sanity.

[...Is that a joke? It's probably a joke.]
thegoofball: (Farewell)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-04 07:55 am (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[That's wild. He can't really tell Noctis his memories are wrong though - and there's a more important revelation, beside.]

Royalty? [Wait a minute...Waaaaaait a minute.] You're a prince?!

[He has to be a prince, with that attitude.]
warpstriking: (downcast ☈ what can we do?)

[personal profile] warpstriking 2018-11-04 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
King, technically.

[His dad is fucking deeeeeaaaad~ ♫

But no seriously, he shrugs.]
Haven't ascended yet, so you're not wrong either.
thegoofball: (enemies in my sight)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-04 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [Oh.] I'm sorry.

[For your loss goes unsaid, and he hates how it feels...awkward. It's always awkward, knowing you've stepped in it, so Lance isn't going to dwell on it for very long.]

Does your family have one of those big, dorky crowns on it? With like a cross?

[Because asking about jewelry is safer.]
warpstriking: (do we really have to?)

[personal profile] warpstriking 2018-11-04 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks. [And he means it.] He's here, so it's... kind of weird?

[To grieve for him. It's really, really weird.]

No, actually. It's more like a clip on the side of our head that looks like the skeletal dragon wing?
thegoofball: (how kind of you)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-04 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
Weird's...one word for it. [That's. That's really weird.]

That's not much of a crown, dude. That's a barrette.
warpstriking: (amused ☈ the time will come)

[personal profile] warpstriking 2018-11-06 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
What can I say? Apparently this place likes dead people.

[Well, "dead back home" anyway.]

... You know, I bet there's at least one ancestor who'd argue with that, but having seen some of their statues, it's probably the least insulting comment I've heard. They're edgy as hell. But, at least it's less likely to fall off in combat.

[Congrats, Lance. You got a laugh out of him. A+]
thegoofball: (come on)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-07 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
That's...

[Creepy? Yeah. But that makes him think of Shiro, and he presses his lips together in a thin line.

Yeeeeaaah. Better not...go down that road again.]


What if someone tries to rip it off? It has to be a pretty fancy and obvious barrette, if it's replacing a crown. That would hurt.

[He's a champion!]
warpstriking: (isolating ☈ the higher i am)

[personal profile] warpstriking 2018-11-08 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know.

[Please don't go down that road again. That road sucks and he's still staring down it.]

Not really. It's a simple design, because it's not a crown that marks us. [He shrugs, pulling out his device. He pulls up a photo of his old man from just before he left. ...It might also have been his lock screen for a time.]
thegoofball: (a little present)

[personal profile] thegoofball 2018-11-16 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
Blech.

[That's all he's going to say about that road, for now.]

Awww, is that your dad? [The attention span on him is... Not. Great.]