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

job development

[einspine]

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!!!"

[keymemory]

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?"

[einspine]

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!"

[keymemory]

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!

[einspine]

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?!"

[keymemory]

“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.

[einspine]

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.

[keymemory]

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.

[einspine]

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.

[keymemory]

“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?”