Event || Custom Fit

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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

[warpstriking]

Other than waking up in a foreign world far removed from the people I love and have sworn to protect? Nah. Not really.

[He shrugs. Really, he can't control that. Joking and making light of the situation is all he can do.]

Though I'm surprised you'd mention the Lions so readily, considering how Shiro tried to keep them under wraps for so long when we first arrived. [Then again, he also tried to keep under wraps he was of royal blood, and now here he is, dropping a lot of hints.]

[thegoofball]

That's basically your average Friday.

[Jokes! He can do jokes, he is great at ruining serious situations with jokes and diffusing tension. It's part of his role as the team's goofball.]

Guess I don't really see the point. Black and Yellow are already here, so the cat's out of the bag. [He shrugs.] Plus I'm still kind of used to everyone already knowing what Voltron is.

[warpstriking]

I imagine for you guys it is.

[Jokes are great and anyone who says otherwise is a godsdamned liar. Even if most of his are always delivered a bit flatly.]

Fair enough. Kind of hard to hide them when they're bigger than any of the houses nearby.

[thegoofball]

Doubt we're the only ones who feel like that.

[There's a lot of people here! Who have gone through all sorts of crazy things!

And it's okay, Noctis. Deadpan can still be funny. Emphasis on can.]

I know, right? Can't exactly go "No, that's not a giant mecha lion". You'd have to be blind in order to miss them.

[warpstriking]

Maybe not, but don't exactly talk to many space explorers.

[Aaand now he's slightly teasing. ...Slightly. Because holy shit the concept of doing so is so. cool. Do you realize how awesome that is? He can only barely touch the sky with his car, mmkay.]

I dunno. Apparently a bear can convince people it's not a bear with high enough charisma, but that's in a game.

[Nnnoooot gonna touch the blindness thing. For Reasons.]

[thegoofball]

Not even the astronauts from your home?

[He's assuming he's someone important, and he also can't imagine being in a world without space travel. Hell, even this place has some form of space travel, what with how easy it is for them to get two and from the Dream Width.]

Monsters & Mana isn't exactly something you should base your life around, though. I don't think anyone's charismatic enough to pull something of that scale off in real life.

[That's...fair.]

[warpstriking]

None. Sure, a few scientists likely wanted to, but with how frequent attacks were, anything we could get off the ground would likely have been shot out of the sky.

[It's a sad, sad day for the scientists. Though it probably would have saved a lot of lives, considering. Best not to dwell on it.]

Monsters & Mana? [Oh dear.]

[thegoofball]

Oh. [Well, that explains that. It seems a shame, to Lance, not being able to go up to the stars.] Man, that blows. Maybe some day you'll get to more properly explore space, huh?

[He's not sure how, but... It's possible! Maybe not the stars of his home, but there's a lot of stars out there.]

Uh, yeah? It's a game. You know, roll your characters and explore and fight monsters and it's all done with dice? [Oh yes.]

[warpstriking]

Maybe. Only time will tell.

[Who knows? Maybe after the apocalypse his people will have the opportunity. But he got a brief taste of it here and oh, how he wants that for them.]

Sounds a lot like Dungeons and Daemons. Not that I've actually played, mind. My friends were more into mobile games.

[thegoofball]

[Lance believes! Space is out there, just ready to be explored. The apocalypse won't last forever, even if Noctis won't last forever either.]

Could be, though it's hard to say without trying them out. I've played it before myself, and it's pretty fun.

[Who knows! Maybe some day a copy of the rules will come up and they'll be able to play it together, and it'll be great.]

[warpstriking]

[One day, Lance. One day. He has faith in his people.]

Oh? [So not just a video gamer, but a tabletop nerd. Excellent. Make it happen, Lonce. You know you wanna.]

[thegoofball]

[Lance will have faith in them, too.]

Yeah! I played this awesome assassin named Pike. Totally saved the day by getting the final blow on the dragon.

[Only some of that is true.]

[warpstriking]

[Bless.

Noctis raises an eyebrow.] You know, usually it takes a group effort to take down dragons in most games. Assassins are pretty cool, though.

[There's something in that statement that is barely restrained. If he guessed assassin fanboy, he'd be riiight.]

[thegoofball]

[Lance waves a hand.] We had a whole party, sure, but that dragon was no match for me.

[The joy is obvious.]

You really think so? [He is not from a world where Assassin's Creed exists. RIP.]

[warpstriking]

[Frysquint.gif.] One day, remind me to tell you the story about the zu.

[Shhh.]

Yeah. [Granted, he'd likely be a target of at least one kind of assassin, because royalty, but eh. He's gonna die anyway. Why should he care?] Why not? Sneaking into places, taking out a target and leaving those who are innocent alive. What's not to like?

[The killing part, Noct. The killing part.]

[thegoofball]

The who?

[And the what now?]

I mean, yeah, yeah, that's all cool, but you know what's better? Treasure. Running through dungeons. All of that is cool.

[The sneaking just sounds like Keith's day job.]

[warpstriking]

Giant bird that's bigger than a three story building.

[Aka, almost dragon sized.]

And that is basically what my life was back home for like, weeks. Before I woke up on that airship.

[Congrats, Lance. You just described his instead.]

[thegoofball]

Big bird.

[Perhaps TOO big. Far too big.]

What, really? [He whistles, impressed.] Guess that comes with the magic territory.

[That makes sense, to him. That's how it works, right??]

[warpstriking]

[He pulls out his slate, and pulls up a photo of the creature. Wings spread and crying out in rage.]

Yep, big bird. [He smirks, and shrugs.] Not really. I was the only one in my circle of friends with it.

[Naturally, that is. He lent it to them. :) ]

[thegoofball]

[Oh, wow. That bird is even scarier than he was anticipating a giant, alien bird to be.]

Yikes. [A smol one.] Because of the whole...family deal, right?

[Huh.]

You'd think it'd be more than just genetic.

[warpstriking]

[Oh wow, he got a yikes from the space explorer. Note to self: bring up the sabertusk at some point.]

At least it made for good eating later. [A shrug.] And yup. It's more a blessing than genetic, but close enough.

[thegoofball]

[Aliens don't desensitize you as much as you think they would!]

You ate it?! [What!!] You act like it's more of a curse.

[Is he about to taste his own foot?]

[warpstriking]

Yeah? We try not to waste anything we end up killing. Anything else we give to the hunters or a local diner.

[Also Ignis is just that good of a cook! The tenders were great and he'll fight anyone who says otherwise. Thankfully, due to months of practice, he keeps the slight wince mostly hidden. Mostly. He can still hear that bastard's voice saying Such is my blessing, and my curse.]

It's more a duty than anything. One you're born into rather than choose.

[thegoofball]

The bigger something is, the less good it tastes! I'm surprised it'd be edible.

[He thinks? He vaguely remembers Hunk talking shop at him, once or twice, though he...also largely zoned out during those explanations.]

Right. [He presses his lips together, eyebrows knitting with concern. Sure, he didn't have a choice to not become a Paladin, but...

He wasn't born knowing it was a choice he'd never get the chance to refuse. It was just...random happenstance.] Seems like you got the short end of the stick.

[warpstriking]

...You know, Ignis says the same thing, and yet it tasted great.

[Things he also zoned out of in the long run after that very same point was mentioned. Ah well. Reasons he'll never be more than a line cook.]

One could say the same about most royalty. Either in the 'the situation of the kingdom sucks' way or their sanity.

[...Is that a joke? It's probably a joke.]