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

[wind_in_my_ears]

And just like that, the second light flips on, only a hair behind the other one, and the large iris slowly begins to shift. There's the sound of rapid ratcheting, and Klonoa wedges past the block back into the room to look as the door very slowly begins to open. A rush of brackish water begins to pour out from the iris, spilling out onto the floor as Klonoa tilts his head.

Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be part of the place's original plans as it peters out, revealing a wide, apparently water-tight passageway ahead of them, sloping upwards into the rest of the dungeon.

Klonoa throws his arms up. "Wahoo! I think we did it!" He exclaims.

[princeandscholar]

"... the second light is on!"

Prescience doesn't pick up anything as the door grinds open, and Orcelito is relieved to be spared monsters to fight or boulders to dodge. Keeping hold of the chain, he braces himself as the brackish water rushes past, not moving from his spot - just in case. Once the draining appears complete, he lets the chain go slack and carefully tests easing off the pressure plate.

"I'd be glad if that was all." He admits with a soft laugh.

[wind_in_my_ears]

Klonoa nods, and takes a few steps closer, looking up at the opened up passageway into a wide upwards-sloping ramp textured to look like... stairs have steadily been destroyed into a wheelchair accessible portion of the dungeon just by poor maintenance and the ravages of time.

"I don't see anything else connected to this room. There could be more farther in, but I think we've done it!" Klonoa says, pretty happy with their overall success!

Late tag, holidays eatted me

[princeandscholar]

With a shimmer, Orcelito switches back to Tactician, pocket watch returned to his coat. Joining Klonoa at the tunnel entrance, he can’t help a nagging thought that the ramp would be awfully accessible for rolling objects of the rocks/logs/spikey ball variety. He directs a light into the passage, hunting for scrapes or markings along the walls.

“Why was it flooded, do you think? Weren’t people supposed to pass through here?”

Re: Late tag, holidays eatted me

[wind_in_my_ears]

Klonoa shakes his head, stepping up through the damp tunnel. Looks like there's definitely more than a few markings up here, but definitely not ones that are easy to pin down as to their source. They look more like.. little holes?

"Hard to tell. To be honest, I'm not sure the water was supposed to be here at all. It seemed pretty brackish.. I mean, what if something inside this place broke?"

[princeandscholar]

Small openings... arrows? He draws up short. If the passage was flooded for a long time, any wood would have rotted away, right? Orcelito considers the shape of the tunnel again. While the aqueducts in his home were built long before he was born, he's seen enough of them to make educated guesses.

“We don't know for certain that the flooding was accidental... or that there isn't more water above us.” This is precisely why the Curti Center ought to have provided maps of the mines! Another thing to put in his report. He scrutinizes the markings a moment longer under the light, then returns his attention to his teammate. “I’ll follow your lead. Let’s stay alert.”