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

[hatejakku]

This whole thing was... a mess. A good mess, a productive mess, but there was just so much going on. He felt his services would be better suited to helping people in the dungeons, but he also had a lot going on, too.

So Finn was checking in on the lab to see if they needed help. He didn't expect the cats... Perhaps placing them around Vaikuntha hadn't been a great idea after all. A lab was hardly a place for animals to hang out in.

Or for loiters, for that matter, which is what he was doing. Maybe he could help with the cat problem. After all, there was an older man looking like he was quite swamped. "Excuse me? I can take them if they're bothering you."

He quickly did the math, adding in the two at his feet, and wondered just how he was planning on doing that.

[regisrex]

Regis looked up, the voice and face registering as familiar though not quite clicking, before his eyes brightened with full recognition - or at least forty-years-outdated recognition, but close enough - and he actually smiled.

"Ah... thank you, but we are rather all right as we are. I think there are plenty of them very eager to get in the way of people who are being currently more productive.

"Good day to you, Finn."

Yes, the greeting was definitely that of someone who knew him. Even if it had only been one proper conversation, they had had brush-ups. The Gauntlet. Leviathan.

[hatejakku]

Ah. Someone like him, then. Finn chuckled and picked up a cat at his feet before replaying the last few words. He tensed, shocked but trying not to be on guard about it. "You know me?"

[regisrex]

"Ah... yes." Regis ducks his head very slightly, his expression both amused and wry. Hold on to the edge of your seat, Finn. "I believe you might remember me as well. I summoned Ultros, inadvertently, in everyone's first encounter with Leviathan."

[hatejakku]

Finn blinked at this man... He did-... There was a resemblance there, but this guy was obviously- "No, you didn't. That was Regis."

Though the words are sure, Finn's uncertain. This place is full of odd things and different people. But- Even so-

[regisrex]

Regis inclines his head. Another greeting, of sorts.

"Indeed. Despite what the rumors were during the Gauntlet, Noctis is not my younger brother - he is, in fact, my son."

Noctis Lucis Caelum. Regis Lucis Caelum.

At least Regis abstains from giving a croak. As far as he can recall, while he was turned into a toad, Finn was dealing with his own trials, and he suspects not all the participants may have seen the footage.

[hatejakku]

(No, yeah, he remembers the frog.)

This couldn't be real. But Finn had no idea how to get proof. What's more, what's worse, he kinda believed him. "How? It's... hardly been a month since I've seen you."

[regisrex]

"Indeed. I seem to have vanished from Vaikuntha and reappeared in the Dream Width a week later, but, to me, decades had passed. I know not how, but that seems hardly new when it comes to that odd space."

Putting it mildly. As Regis was prone to doing.

[hatejakku]

Oh, this again. People vanishing and the Dream Width dropping them back in. That shouldn't be possible. None of it should be possible.

It was like relativity or something. A sudden jolt through time and space. But it still didn't make any sense! Someone smarter from his home should be here instead.

"I-... I'm sorry." What else could he say, really? "Are you settling back in all right?"