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

[shadowsthedawn]

His lips curve up into a smile as she agrees. Despite all he's gone through back home, he's never lost his interest in learning all he can about other worlds. And this seems like the perfect opportunity to learn something about this world that effects him and the others as well.

Shifting the cat in his arm up to perch on his shoulder, he holds out a newly freed hand to, carefully, grasp her claw.

"I'm Riku, by the way."

[chatwithdeath]

As cute as the balancing act can be, Naomi can only think about those cat claws digging into Riku's shoulder. If it had been a kitten, it might be different.

Shaking his hand, she nods once.

"I'm Naomi. Well, what do you want to know first?"

[shadowsthedawn]

He's grown used to being pawed at by cats at this point that he barely notices their claws anymore. He's probably got scratches on every part of his body, so what's a few more?

"How do you put the Custom Jobs inside the crystals, for starters?"

[chatwithdeath]

If he's not in any pain from the scratches, she's not going to say anything... though, there might be a Cure spell for him in the future.

"I'd say it's comparable to the same way you might save a computer file to an external drive once they've been developed and tested. However, the transfer is obviously done with magitek to make sure their bound, and the crystals needed to be refined and cut in different ways to contain it."

[shadowsthedawn]

He thinks on that analogy for a moment. While he knows the basics of computers he's never been the most tech savvy, but he does get the idea.

"How can you tell when they need to be cut? Or even what shape to make the crystal?"

[chatwithdeath]

"Fortunately, the computer can hold onto the crafted job for a while, giving us time to prepare the crystals. As for how it's cut, it depends on how the new job is intended to be mainly used."

Turning her head to the crystal she was working with now, she pointed out details of the cut without touching. "This one has been cut for a job handling support magic. If it was offensive magic, the cut would be changed over here."

[shadowsthedawn]

He leans in closer for a better view of the crystal, one hand supporting the cat still perched on his shoulder.

"So each job type correlates to a particular crystal shape? I guess that makes things simpler. What does the shape of the crystal do though? I mean, there has to be a reason why they have to be cut at all?"

[chatwithdeath]

"Yes. There's still some missing components to be added, but Ganeshan oversees that part."

Drawing back and crossing her arms, she leaves the crystal alone to continue the transferal. "The crystal right now only stores the job, but once he finishes with it, it will be able to be accessed and used like any other Asterisk."