Event || Custom Fit

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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

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?

[righthandstand]

Nothin', I'm messing with the computer 'cause I'm bored.

[He peeks at his current creation and snorts.]

They got a lotta clothes for this thing. [He clicks on the "Accessories" menu and scrolls through the pages of hair decorations (which appear on top of the hat), glasses, and necklaces.]

[modelcivilian]

Oh...

[Huh. There wasn't any rule against doing that...]

It's to make any Job possible. It's really amazing.

[Though, Okuyasu, that outfit you're making is ridiculous.]

[righthandstand]

[That's the point.]

You can stretch out the models to make 'em taller, but check this out.

[He presses the "decrease height" button and turns the figure on the screen into a dwarf wearing a sunhat larger than his body.]

Now he'l never worry about sunburn.

[modelcivilian]

[Well, considering the dinner party...]

[... but not saying anything, Adrien watches the figure shrink... and then laughs before covering his mouth.]

... J-Just the right size.

[righthandstand]

[He snickers while he opens the body slides and messes around with the thickness of his arms and stomach.]

Hey, what's funnier, this? [A round dwarf with arms so beefy they glitch through the rest of the body.] Or this? [A small stick figure?]

[modelcivilian]

[And this was exactly why people stayed on custom character screens forever in video games.]

I can't decide... maybe the second because it looks like the hat will eat him.

[righthandstand]

Monster hat. [He does that. Then has the dwarf open his mouth in surprise.] Shit, now we gotta make the hat its own character. If we add those accessory for eyes, maybe we can get teeth, too...

[A star pin, a heart pin. Beautiful. There's also the option of adding lace around the edges.]

Who's the one we're controllin'? The dude or the hat?

[He opens the naming screen and types in "Hatmancer".]

[modelcivilian]

[Google eyes... the hat needs google eyes. That's all he can think, but there's the star and heart pins already.]

Hm... Maybe it's like Puppetmaster? Or what if the dwarf put the hat on other things and could control them?

[righthandstand]

But then that makes the hat a monster, that's how it works. Dude goes out in the wild to catch a monster hat and keeps it on his head, huh...

[He scrolls through other outfits for the emaciated dwarf: suit and tie, bikini armor, robes.]

Unless it's, like, a machine that controls minds.

[modelcivilian]

[This is getting so ridiculous, he secretly loves it... and could imagine how horrified his father would be.]

Oh, maybe it is like that. I mean, with Magitek, that might be possible.

[righthandstand]

[He rapidly scrolls through the list of outfits, each one appearing on the dwarf for a split second.]

So it's like, an engineer or a mage? 'Cause we gotta pick the worst clothes for that.

[modelcivilian]

I think it's more like an engineer... oh, can you bring up the Magitek Knight armor?

[righthandstand]

[He double clicks on the standard armor.]

This one? But with better colors.

[modelcivilian]

Yeah, that one! Hm... which colors do you think?

[righthandstand]

So it's gotta match with the hat, right? Since it's got the lace, we need somethin' solid, two colors are most.

...Come to think of it, it can clash with the green fabric since we don't give a shit.

[modelcivilian]

Clash? [Well, if they want it to be obnoxious... and he knows what would be complementary if it was the right shade, but that's not the goal.]

... Red.

[righthandstand]

[He selects red for the torso of the armor.]

Hey, you can make the texture all slimy, that's cool.

[modelcivilian]

So a slime texture then, or do you wanna look at the others?