melodiesofeternity | Event || Custom Fit

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.

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“No, no no… you’ve got to do it.. hey, come back here!” Sora huffed and settled his hands on his hips. He watched the grey cat saunter off as if the feline didn’t hear him whatsoever. Sora lowered his hands from his hips and wandered over toward the desk which had stacks and stacks of nonsensical paperwork. At least they didn’t make any sense to him.

He picked up the pink rock, it was small enough to enclose in his palm, but he fumbled with it between his fingers instead. Simba.. He thought for sure he could be of some use here with these cats—

well, maybe not in the way he had hoped. “Guess I can’t summon as a red mage.. hmm,” but it worked back home, he could use magic, weapons, and summons! He just wanted to give it a go. With recognition of defeat, for now, Sora pocketed his rock and stepped from the desk and back into the center of the room. His eyes scanned the room and counted about three less cats than he did before he focused on the grey cat.

“Alright,” Sora walked over to the closet and opened up the door. “So.. the printer is hungry, the cats are hungry, I’m hungry… we’re all a little hungry!” He snorted before he took a package of new paper to refill the printer.

The grey cat stepped over by him again and weaved between his legs, causing him to softly giggle. With a little help from the potions (thanks to the moogle who helped him out before) Sora was able to be around the abundance of cats without consequence. Well, that was unless they decided to beat him up.

Once the printer was fed, Sora focused on refilling the bowl of cat outside the door of the room. “Mew, mew, chew, chew, for you~you! Mew! Mew!” Sora gave the bag a gentle shake as he sang out to the cats. “Nom, noms, come get your nom noms!” Meanwhile, Nunumu was inside the room on the desk going through the papers and putting them in order. Apparently the moogle knew the pattern to the madness.

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Sora could definitely use some help here. The idea of creating a job intrigued him and he tried his best for learning the mechanics of how to do so, but using the computer and coming up with how to implement what he wanted to accomplish on the screen was something entirely challenging. He understood he could describe some of his powers and skills from back home to this whole concept but coming up with the right words and explanations seemed to be getting in his way.

“I mean, I guess it depends on the enemy but … there’s not any heartless here so exactly how am I meant to come up with something that would work here that worked back in my worlds..” He was more talking to himself, or Nunumu, who was currently reading a magazine.

Sora used his forefingers to push the keys one by one, painfully slowly, as he tried another description for his powers at home. “I mean, Red Mage is the closest that describes what I did.. power wise, but what about combat wise?” He twisted his lips and brought the bottom one in to clench between his teeth.

After another few minutes his typing ceased and he read aloud what he wrote. “The power to restore hearts to their original state prior damage…?” Sora groaned, this was tough! “Bah!” Sora hit the delete key rather animatedly.

“Alright, how about this? The ability to change one’s form to better suit the fight? You know, like …” Oh, right, Nunumu wasn’t there. Sora rolled his eyes. “Like Halloween Town me, Atlantica me… yeah, yeah!” He liked this better. “Alright, lets try this.” Tap, tap, tap—

tap.

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He wasn’t deemed strong enough to go too deep in the mine, but honestly he had to agree. Sora was still relatively new here and he hadn’t gotten himself a lot of exercise in the current jobs he has now so he’s not too skilled or powerful enough in them at the moment to really be convincing. He was, however, deemed worthy enough to be the watch out. So, here he was, near the mouth of the cave keeping an eye out for anything coming up for a small fray.

He was armed with his reaper and a red hat. He still adorned his red jumpsuit (though it’s a little tight) but still functioned as both something familiar and fashionably matched to his adorable new red hat. He felt like a proper red mage now.

Nunumu had a small hat of his own, perched on the right side of his large moogle head. It was tall with a wide white brim and red and white stripes up the top of it. Sora’s own hat looked like a cowboy’s hat, it was red with a white buckle just above the rim of it.

Tidus probably could have gone inside, but he's chosen to wait standby. If the groups really get into trouble, they might need some emergency backup---and he's got the skillset for that. For now, though, he's content to check his equipment, pausing to smile when he spots Sora and his moogle. They match so well...unlike him and Zunne, who refutes such silliness.

"Hey, Sora! So you're the backup too?"

“Hey! Tidus!” He was super happy to see his friend and he picked up the pace until he was next to the blonde. “Yeah! I uh..” He laughed and folded his arms. “I’m not too strong right now, so I’m just the look out!” He gestured to the other then let his arms fall back down to his sides. “What about you, what are you doing out here?”

"The same," Tidus shrugged, rolling his shoulder back. "I could go down there, probably, but someone's gotta hang back in case things get really bad. We're here to stop anything nasty from entering...or leaving," he grinned.

"It's still hero work, even if it's tough to sit on the sidelines."

Something in that sentence seemed to sadden him, and he cast his eyes downward. That was a memory he'd rather not associate with Sora, so he gave his head a quick shake. "Liking the job so far?"

“Even better now that you’re here.” Sora bounced on his heels. “I’m glad me and Nunumu won’t have to keep things in order all by ourselves.” Sora turned to Tidus, fully, facing the blond. “You think there’s really scary stuff down there?” Which reminded him of their secret place, not that there was scary stuff in there, just the thought of venturing into a cave was more the point of how he was reminded of the place on the island.

“So, back home, my home.. we had a play island we would row out to, it was smaller, obviously, than the main land and all of us would play there together.. we’d have competitions, races, games, and there was a cave there too. It was our super secret hideout, even though everyone knew about it.”

"It sounds really nice," Tidus said wistfully. His own childhood hadn't been that bad...yeah, Mom left, Dad left, and Auron was grumpy, but he'd had a few friends over the years and a dream to work for. Nothing like the close bond he'd heard about from Sora...but he had that now, and it counted for something.

He thought for a moment, and then a spark seemed to appear in his eye.

"Hey, what kind of games did you play back there?"

“The games where I win.” Sora bounced on his heels, his hands moved up to pinch at his hips, a proud and cocky smirk to his lips. Tidus, Wakka, and Selphie were pretty much their own trio whereas Sora, Riku, and Kairi were their own. When the six of them got together though, it was a ton of fun and everyone had something to contribute. Sometimes they bickered about the games they did want to play, but in the end they found some sort of resolution that didn’t involve Wakka or Riku muscling their way through the rest of them.

Sora gave Tidus a look over and, once again (and likely not the last time), marveled at how different Tidus really was from the Tidus he knew back home! In fact, not only was Tidus a lot older here, he did look a bit different! As far as personality, however, they seemed pretty even between the both of them and it was really something Sora appreciated, knowing that he had such a good friend in Tidus here as well! As Sora became lost in thought any real hope for a serious answer flew out the window - so to speak.

"You'll have to teach me, then. I'll show you blitz, it'll be a trade!" he answered, his smile still light. Yeah, he was at the top of the blitzball standings, but that didn't mean he couldn't learn something new. Maybe one of those weird card games? It wasn't usually his style, but...

He dug his companion blitzball out of his bag and spun it on his finger, thoughts drifting this way and that. It was so easy to get swept up in everything that he had to relax, let things be for a little while.

"The island where I met Wakka was really...pretty. Clearest ocean I've ever seen. Trees you could get lost in, a river he pushed me in once. You could just look up at the stars and get lost in them. Wish I could've stayed longer."

Man, Sora thought he was a clever boy there! Tidus was already so congenial, however, that no matter what he said was probably going to get a pleased response! Short of blitz is the worst game ever, that would probably really upset his friend. Of course, Sora didn’t believe that whatsoever.

“How long… were you there?” Sora had gotten out of his thoughts as soon as Tidus started talking about meeting Wakka on an island, he thought of home with that. Yet, he knew Tidus wasn’t talking about his home or about his Wakka. What would it be like if Tidus from home showed up, or Wakka even? Tidus would totally be friends with himself, that thought really comforted Sora for some reason. He grinned up at Tidus. “Hey, .. Tidus, will you tell me all about it?” The more he learned about his friend the more he was actually beginning to be able to separate Tidus from the one he knew.

"Sure! It's a bit of a weird story, though."

He folded himself into a sitting position, sword still within arms' reach just in case.

"I was originally from a huge city called Zanarkand. It's a lot like Sparks Golsaucia, if you've ever been there. My dad was the most famous blitzball player in the city, so we lived a pretty easy life---but then he disappeared one day, when I was seven. That broke Mom's heart, and she died soon after. But one of Dad's weird friends came to look after me, and I tried my hardest to get good at blitzball. I wanted to be better than Dad."

He didn't feel he really needed to get into the specifics of that particular relationship, so he just grinned and scratched the back of his head. "Then a giant monster called Sin attacked. It sucked me up and dropped me in a weird new world, where I met Rikku. She was pretty nice---and then the monster attacked the boat we were on, and I washed up on the island. I woke up to Wakka hitting me in the head with a blitzball."

He laughed at the old memory. "Wakka turned out to be the captain of his own blitzball team, the Besaid Aurochs. They were pretty down on their luck, so when they saw I could play, they wanted me to help them out. I couldn't say no. But Wakka had another job---he was what's called a guardian, someone who protects a summoner while they go on a journey to train to fight that big monster. The summoner was a really cute girl, actually. Her name was Yuna."

Tidus couldn't fight the blush that appeared on his face. "Wakka was gonna lead his team to one more victory before he left to help Yuna on her journey across the world. I ended up going with them. So...I only got two days on the island, but I wish I could go back there."

He was following along as Tidus told him about himself, some of it they’ve briefly touched on before. He remembered Tidus telling him before about his pops and how he wasn’t going to be as good as him. Or, was it, his pops teased him about it before he disappeared? Either way, the loss of both parents seemed pretty tough to Sora and he felt a bit sad for Tidus at the point. Then, when Riku was mentioned he perked up, until Riku was described as a female with the feminine pronoun and he cocked his head with some thought. He assumed it wasn’t his Riku (obviously) with that added detail. Sora got a big goofy grin on his face as Tidus talked about Yuna, he liked how she was a really cute girl in Tidus’ story! It was really sweet and he thought about Kairi! He’d probably describe her the same!

Ah, Sora caught the blush on Tidus’ face, actually, and he found his own cheeks warm because he thought Tidus was pretty cute when he talked about her! He could tell Yuna meant a lot to Tidus with that!

“You went with Yuna and Wakka to go fight the monster… was it Sin you were going after?” He only assumed because of what he’s gathered thus far from Tidus’ story.

Oh dear! Seems someone was having a bit of trouble. So much contemplation! It almost brings a tear to his eye socket. If nothing else, Sora clearly seems invested in the situation. So, abandoning his own note-taking, Papyrus saunters up to the lad, grinning wide.

"WOWIE!!! YOU'RE REALLY GETTING INTO IT, AREN'T YOU? NOT THAT IT'S A BAD THING. ON THE CONTRARY, I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, ALWAYS ENCOURAGE DEEP CONTEMPLATION!!!

JUST, ER. NOT TOO DEEP THAT YOU GIVE YOURSELF A HEADACHE." He stops, resting a free hand on his hip. "SO! PERHAPS WHAT YOU NEED IS A SPRINGBOARD. SOMEONE TO GIVE INPUT ON YOUR IDEAS!!!"

Sora turned to Papy with a big grin of his own. "You're right, you ... would be a great somebody to bounce ideas off of!" Sora was thankful for all the help he could get with this job making business. It was actually a lot tougher than he thought. He turned to Papy, leaving the keyboard and computer alone for a minute while he fleshed out his idea to the skeleton. "Okay, so.. in a fight, the power to transform ourself to combat better. For example, if we're fighting a bird or something then we can transform ourselves into a bird and fly up and take them down. Get on the same level.. what do you think?"

Papyrus listened intently, stroking his chin all the while, though it didn't take long for his eye sockets to metaphorically light up. "WOWIE!!! THAT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE! AND, NATURALLY, VERY VERSATILE. THOUGH I IMAGINE YOU'D NEED TO WORK OUT A PROGRESSION. AS WELL AS REASONABLE LIMITS..." After all, jobs did take time to power up, and who knew what asterisks could do?

"STILL, IF YOU COULD PULL IT OFF, I THINK IT'D BE FANTASTIC AND VERY, VERY UNIQUE!"

The feedback Sora received from Papy was enough to bring the brunette to glow. He was even more excited now to create a job where turning into something to benefit one’s environment would be just great! Once again, and likely not for the last time, he thought just how grateful he was for Papy as a friend! “Thanks a lot! I will! Okay… so progression, right.. Hmm.”

He then, of course, thought of cats, because they just so happened to be everywhere. “How about this! First you start off as a small animal, rat, cat or dog, sparrow.. you know, a small bird.. then you get more powerful and eventually you can become like… behemoth-tiger-dog-thing and a phoenix! You know!?” He was absolutely stoked about this, thanks to Papy’s encouragement!

Once again, he listened closely, eyes slightly narrowed, though in more of a concentrated manner than anger. Nodding, he said, "HMM, THAT COULD WORK. SOMETHING LIKE A MOUSE OR A SMALL BIRD, PERHAPS WITH A DOG AS THE NEXT STEP UP? THEN AGAIN, DOGS CAN BE QUITE COMPETENT. OUR ROYAL GUARD IS FULL OF THEM!"

Granted, most of them were appeased by pets. Or sticks. Or petting and sticks. Still! From there... hrmm... Lions? Crocodiles? His frame of reference was limited more to monsters than traditional animals, but surely similar principles could apply.

"OOH! A DRAGON COULD MAKE FOR A VERY POWERFUL FORM, TOO! AND THEY CAN BREATHE FIRE. A TECHNIQUE FOR THE COOLEST OF THE COOL!"

He paused. "OOH! WHAT IF IT WAS A SKELETON DRAGON?!"

“A skeleton dragon?!” Sora’s eyes widened, though he was totally not surprised. Coming from Papy, that is, a skeleton-anything was not far to imagine! Sora licked his lips and then scooted his chair closer to the skeleton before he reached out poke at Papy’s arm. “Hey, you know what would be really great right now?” He moved his hand back to himself and brought both hands down to his lap where he cracked his knuckles. “Some of your fine spaghetti while we hash this out.” He swallowed, his mouth was already salivating.

Papyrus chuckled at Sora's enthusiasm. Such a fan of his cooking! Ah, how could he possibly refuse? Although... He glanced around, eying the equipment around them.

"I'LL HAPPILY OBLIGE, THOUGH WE SHOULD PROBABLY BE CAREFUL NOT TO MAKE TOO BIG OF A MESS. I IMAGINE THEY'LL WANT THIS PLACE CLEAN FOR JOB DEVELOPMENT."

Still, he proceeded to start digging out some essentials- napkins, for one. Some silverware. The spaghetti would come once he figured out proper placements for everything.

Be careful? This is such a silly Papy. “What mess can we make that the cats won’t happily take care of! What we should be worried about is keeping the fur out of your delicious spaghetti!” He glances between the provided items and Papy’s skeleton-face, still, he has questions about how a skeleton has such needs and/or capabilities, but really who is he to question! Really, the only essential question was why weren’t they hanging out more! Nothing like a good friend by your side and a pocket full of delicious spaghetti.

Sora waits anxiously and starts to chat to keep himself busy until he can shove a forkful of pasta in his mouth. “Well, so the skeleton dragon.. I bet they’d be good in fighting in .. dire conditions like fire.. or .. uh, yeah, fire.. what else do bones hold up well against?” Papy, after all, was the expert here.

Okay, this should... hopefully work? He's still skeptical of messes. Ever the clean freak, really, despite... wearing white on a regular basis. But he'll just... eat carefully. The discussion's a welcome distraction from any mess-related stress, anyway.

Just let him pass Sora the plate and utensils. Carefully. Once that's done, he'll find a comfortable place to sit.

"HMM... THE GREAT THING ABOUT BONES IS THAT THEY ARE HARD. AND STRONG, PROVIDED YOU DRINK LOTS OF MILK! THEY DON'T HAVE A PARTICULAR PROBLEM WITH LOW TEMPERATURES, BUT YOU'D PROBABLY WANT TO WATCH OUT FOR ANY BRUTE FORCE ATTACKS."

Not that bones were weak. Far from it! But without muscle and other flesh, there was certainly less padding.

“Hm.” Sora gave an obligatory thoughtful noise as he was two forkfuls in the spaghetti about now. His eyes were trained on his plate and he was quite agreeable to anything, really, about now. So long as he could keep shoveling in that delicious, hot, meal! It’s been a while, it sure has been a long time. Papy almost reminded him of his mom, just a bit. Only with that talk of cleanliness before offering him this hot meal.

He wondered if Papy would like his mom’s cooking, or if they would have long discussions about how to prepare a meal — or, and at best, if they would both make a meal and let Sora be the taste tester for each of the dishes to be the judge! That would be extremely swell in his book, for sure.

“Hn..” He started before his mouth was empty and he swallowed quickly. “You know if there’s any bone-looking beasties around here.. besides you?”

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