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

Okuyasu Nijimura | OTA

[righthandstand]

Hello and Welcome to Monster Factory

[Making his own powers sounds like something for smart people. He's off to the other lab where the powers are made up and the fights don't matter. He starts out attempting to recreate himself with the program, but the result is some sort of uncanny mess of terrible proportions and glitches.

Might as well embrace it.]

Time to fuck this up!

[And put all the sliders to the extremes. It's time to create a monster.]

Cats

[Okuyasu knows better than to bring Stray Cat into a room of normal cats and hope they don't become mortal enemies. He's having fun luring them away with bits of tune, the best bait, and saving Ganeshan's sinuses.

But he has forgotten that the smell of tuna lingers, and when he leaves the break rooms, the cats continue to follow him into the computer lab. And into the hallway. And into the bathroom. They demand food!]

Fighting

[He has the power to look into the future, hell yeah. There's a Golem approaching the mines, hell yeah. Actually, hell no, but hell yeah he can put his new Job to the test!]

You're not gonna land a hit on me!

[He runs at the monster, staff in hand.

And is promptly smacked to the side.]

/battle music

[princeandscholar]

[Orcelito pauses mid-step in the puzzle he was working on and climbs onto the block to get a better view of the mine tunnel. A staff? Against a golem? Please tell him you're joking. No.

He flinches when the attack makes contact and immediately flicks his grimoire open.]

I can buy you time to recover. Freeze!

[One icy blast later, the golem is incased in ice. For now. That cracking sound is not reassuring....]

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu groans as he pushes himself off the floor. He spits without caring if there's blood and uses the staff to stand.]

Lucky shot. I got this.

[He holds his hand out, wobbling as his head recovers from the hit, and casts an explosive Combustion spell. The rock golem trembles in its ice prison, which promptly breaks.]

[princeandscholar]

Golems aren't easily affected by magic. Can you use physical attacks? [Calls your very-helpful Tactician who's trying to cook up something more appropriate from his repertoire of... magic. Oops. Reaching into his pocket for his watch - nope, that would be worse. Finally, with a sigh, Orcelito's contribution is:] Broil!

[And now the rocks making up the golem are sauna-hot.]

Fighting (I'm Frisk and this is Jackass)

[sassafrisk]

Frisk whistles as Okuyasu goes flying, casually leaning to the side to evade him as he sails towards them. Either that guy was a straight up idiot or-- oh, yeah, they vaguely remember him from the Gauntlet. At least the question of "idiot or genius" was answered. Looking at Okuyasu's outfit, Frisk says, "Time Mage, right? I'd recommend keeping your distance with that one. Oh, and cover your mouth." With no further warning, they drop a Smoke Bomb and vanish into the smog, stealthily darting towards the golem.

[righthandstand]

The Gauntlet was a lucky break. Okuyasu's not a great thinker. He wipes his mouth and looks up at Frisk.

"Huh?" Then the world turns gray. Some smoke gets into his mouth and he coughs lying on the floor.

forgive me father for i have sinned

[sassafrisk]

"I warned you about smoke, bro!" Frisk's voice says, coming from somewhere within the fog. A blur appears climbing up the back of the slowly advancing golem, then fades once more. "I told you, dog!" One of their ninjatos jabs through the monster's skull in an invisible Assassinate, sending it reeling. They disappear back into the slowly dissipating smoke. "I told you, man! I told you about smoke!"

Monster Factory ooooh boy

[modelcivilian]

Uuuh, Okuyasu, should you really mess around with it like that?

[Adrien came to have a look - and possibly help - with the new Custom Job classes (maybe even get his own), but from watching what Okuyasu was doing, why was he getting the feeling something might explode... and not in a good way?]

[righthandstand]

[He holds down the right arrow key, increasing the headgear size until the brim stretches past the avatar's shoulders, and twists around on his chair to look at Adrien with a smug look.]

Who's gonna stop me?

[No one, that's who.]

[modelcivilian]

Well, I'm not, but I don't know if having a brim that wide wouldn't be ideal on the battlefield. At least, not unless it's pretty sturdy, right?

[Also, maybe now was the time to stop increasing the headgear size because that's about to be all hat.]

Anyway, what kind of job are you making?

Monster Factory

[topgun_textiles]

[Oh my god this is amazing.]

Dude, slide that one left but the other one right.

[Because nobody would be ready for big-head-tiny-face Okuyasu.]

Wait, can we simulate a bunch of people at once?

[righthandstand]

[There he goes, it's Bighead Small Face McGee. Okuyasu's head falls onto the desk in laughter.]

I hope! [He wipes the tears pouring out.] No, dude, we gotta change the hair to something stupid. Green. [Like Rohan's.]

[topgun_textiles]

[He's basically breathless in laughter, hands on his knees.]

Make it greener! We wanna be a beacon that can be seen for miles!

...Fuck it, he needs an opponent!

[Give him a second to mess with the scanner. Small Face McGee, meet Giant-Arms-and-Legs-Skinny-Body-Tiny-Head Jones, the Worst Kanji ever made.]

monster factory

[thegoofball]

[He has no idea what's happening but he's pretty sure he appreciates the sentiment.]

You're going to make the greatest abomination Vaikuntha's ever seen, huh?

[He wants to witness this.]

[righthandstand]

[A shrug.] Depends on what it lets me get away with. Hey, there's all kinds of hair I can pick from.

[Maybe a buzzcut? Something with a lot of curls?]

I'm making his hair orange. You pick the style.

[thegoofball]

[You have given him so much power.]

What about something like...this?

[There's a rather fetching mullet, before Lance frowns. No, that looks too much like a ginger Keith.]

Mmm, maybe not. Maybe a pompadour would be better.

Kitty Cats!

[hatejakku]

What is going on?

[ This was the third cat he'd found on his way from the restroom. He was trying to collect them so they wouldn't bother the busy people in the lab, but this was getting a little ridiculous.

It was only after he grabbed on that actually begged to pick up, four small kitten in his arms, when he looked up to see Okuyasu. ] Um. Hi?

[ ... Wait, were the cats following him? ]

[righthandstand]

[Two cats are rubbing against his pants and swatting at his hands. Okuyasu finds himself trapped once more by furry friends and looks at Finn.

Help me, his eyes say.]

Hey. Can we lock 'em up in the closet?

[hatejakku]

No. [ That'd be mean! ] Why are they following you around? What happened?

... Maybe we can... move them outside...?

fighting

[garyoutensei]

-She has the most unimpressed look on her face...-

... Need some help there?

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu rolls when he hits the ground, dropping the staff and getting dirt all over his new Job outfit. He pushes himself up and spits.]

No, duh!

[The golem, undeterred by the miserable insect it swatted away, lumbers towards the mine entrance.]

[garyoutensei]

-Baiken shrugged, shaking her head at Okuyasu before turning her attention to the golem, a smirk pulling at her lips. There's a click and twitch of movement beneath the empty sleeve on her right side before something suddenly appears beneath the sleeve, lifting it up to reveal a cannon, which she immediately fires at the golem.-

Cats

[strawberryredgrave]

(Cats demand food and he smells of it. Fortunately, cats don't seem to look at zoras any differently and that saves Dante a lot of trouble. He'd have his hands full if all those adopted cats from the empire kept eyeing him!

While he's spared a lot of that trouble, he can't help notice the mini parade Okuyasu has going on.)

Would you look at that. Looks like you've got a following, kid.

[righthandstand]

[Okuyasu can't forget the other shark dude that's hanging around and talks like a normal person. One of the cats stands on its hind legs and pulls on his loose robes with the tips of its claws.][They weren't easily distracted like dogs. Cats are smart.]

[strawberryredgrave]

(Cats will be cats. There's no stopping that. Still, he's smirking at the sight.)

I'd ask if you need a hand, but you're looking pretty comfortable there.