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

[musicinmysoul]

Her expression shifts to match Madhuri's, the serious look mixed with a noted concern. "I think that's what bothers me most about this. Bahamut is a benevolent deity back home; that may not be a constant in all worlds, but...why? What would stir him to take such action?"

Matilda shakes her head. "I don't like this, but we don't have a choice..."

[songbird_slayer]

"Well, as I've grown to understand it, the rule of gods becoming the amalgamation of those who worship them applies tenfold here. But instead of a paragon of wonder, the Bahamut here is... rage. Fire, and rage."

She sighed.

"Makes me wonder if Bahamut here was ever anything else."

[musicinmysoul]

"I want to believe that...but that might be wishful thinking. What little I've seen of this world's Bahamut associates him with destruction, not the radiance and justice I've come to know."

Despite the briefly somber tone, Tilly smiles and nudges the tiefling.

"Fortunately, I know someone who has experience with this sort of thing."

[songbird_slayer]

"Oho~... well, such radiance and justice will just have to work itself up to snuff and completely stomp this pale shadow of the Platinum Dragon with extreme prejudice. If only I had my tinkering tools...!"

She shot upright from her seat.

"Oh my goodness, I haven't built a single THING since I arrived here! What disservice am I doing to myself and others!?"

[musicinmysoul]

The fox can't help laughing a little in response and wagging her finger.

"For shame, Madhuri; all of that practice and all of those hours training with Gil and Urien gone to waste. Is that any way to thank them for imparting such knowledge~?"

[songbird_slayer]

"I know, right? Okay, okay... I'm going to get my hands on a work space and make up for lost time. I should finish my boots, and maybe build something that can trap and restrain a summoner, maybe interrupt their magic or something..."

She began to pace.

"Maybe something like Zori's Zone of Truth, but in my whip?"

...

"Nah, that's just foolish."

[musicinmysoul]

"...I enjoy your creativity, but a Zone of Truth in a whip is just silly."

She miles and simply shakes her head.

"Why won't we figure it out over tea? If you're wrapped up here, at least; maybe I can introduce you to my chocobo!

I have a chocobo now, apparently. Her name is Mileena."

[songbird_slayer]

"One of those big horse-birds, right? I'd love to meet one up close! ...And tea. Tea is very good right now."

A bard was parched and needed to wet the whistle. Also, a girl needed to pet a soft, fluffy bird.

[musicinmysoul]

The fox silently nods and begins leading the bard outside and away from all of the research going on, over to the chocobo stables. The entire time, she's eager to have her friend by her side again, so that smile is wider than it was when she first stepped into the building.

It holds once Matilda guides Madhuri over to the big yellow bird, who's busy preening her feathers by the time the two show up. She turns to face them as they get closer and puffs her chest out in a prideful gesture.