Event || Worldwide Tourists

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Who: All New Arrivals and Curti Center Staff
When: April 15th-30th
Where: All over Vaikuntha, starting outside of the airship hanger
What: Ganeshan, the resident Job Expert, will be taking the new arrivals around the the various Guilds so they can collect their chosen Job Asterisks as noted in their applications.
Warnings/Notes: Guild prompts can be found here

Enter the Master

[Each new arrival's iMog buzzes with a message instructing them to gather for a worldwide adventure to obtain the power of Vaikuntha. If they follow the invitation's instructions, they will arrive at outside of the airship hanger on the morning of the 15th, with their meager belongings packed.

An Enterprise-Class airship, the Ragnarok, hovers outside of the Curti Center. There is a flash of light on the top of the ship.]

"WELCOME!"

[A figure, minuscule at this distance, launches itself off of the ship and hurtles toward the ground. As he draws closer to the ground, he starts to flip, landing with a flourish. An armored figure, sans helm, turns his toothy Zora grin to the crowd. With a shimmer, his armor transforms into a white mage's robe, and he sends a rush of wind through the crowd for dramatic effect.]

"I AM GANESHAN, THE JOB MASTER! GYA HA HA HA! TODAY, YOUR LIVES WILL CHANGE FOREVER."

[Ganeshan shimmers again, ruthlessly abusing the Chemist's Modifier skill to once again shift Job Classes so he can lower the airship's loading dock with a wave of his hand.]

"I BELIEVE THAT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HAS THE ABILITY TO MASTER THE JOB CLASSES. SOME OF YOU MAY MASTER MANY, OTHERS WILL PURSUE THE PERFECT MASTERY OF JUST ONE. BUT EITHER WAY, YOU'LL BE INCREDIBLE!"

[Ganeshan gives everyone a big thumbs-up. The out-worlders who are not scared off by this booming speech can feel free to enter the airship and prepare for their ride around the world. Hopefully some of the Curti Center's newest hires can serve as non-crazy less exuberant tour guides for the new arrivals.]

Around the World

[The Ragnarok will be stopping at every major city in Vaikuntha, with the exception of those cut off by the Imperial border closing. Characters can create top levels to respond to the Guild prompts and explore the cities themselves as the ship makes its stops. Each Guild provides information sessions, free food and trinkets for potential applicants, and once you're ready to receive your Asterisk, all you have to do is take some introductory lessons and fill out forms. Characters can receive up to two asterisks. Time to get to know your new world!

Questions for Ganeshan can be directed to the Ganeshan top level post.]

Comments

[promiselisting]

Yeah. Futaba winces a bit herself. That hadn't... yeah that hadn't gone well. She just... hopes she can recover.

"For what it's worth," she taps her toe into the ground, "I think it's okay if you get upset about it? You're... you're already doing a lot better than I would."

A lot better.

[conniemaheswaran]

"I don't know. At least you're not coping through nearly blowing yourself up with mad science experiments," Connie jokes weakly. Okay, maybe she wasn't entirely joking. Or joking at all. She should really learn to be more careful. If she could go three days without a near-fatal accident she count it as a success.

"It's just... I should know better than to bottle this up," she sniffles. "I mean, I--sorta me--fell off an ancient sky arena thousands of feet in the air because of this sorta thing."

[promiselisting]

There's a moment of quiet and then... "Yeah, but you're not shutting yourself away in your room waiting for the world to go away either."

That's... probably as far as she's going to get right now but uh. Seriously Connie, you have not seen her at her worst. Not by a long shot.

"Geez though, a flying arena? Don't ever try to give me the impression your life is normal," she's teasing, gently. Also maybe a kind of invitation to talk about it if she wants? Or just about home in general.

[conniemaheswaran]

Okay. Connie had to admit, she wasn't expecting that, but looking back at her other chats with Futaba, it certainly did fit. But now was obviously not the time or place to pry when she was already dumping a bunch of her baggage on Futaba.

And Connie will gladly take that distraction. Who knows, she might be able to get some more stuff off her chest while she's at it. "Hoo, boy. There's a lot of context behind that. Okay, might as well start with where you might have at least a decent grasp of the situation. Do you watch DBZ at all?"

[promiselisting]

Hers is one of those weird universes that uses knock-off brand names for everything, so that particular name doesn't ring any bells, no. She shakes her head.

Describe it a little though and they may be in business. Or at least she'll have heard of something like it.

Let's just rollback the comments in the other thread. I'll delete on my end.

[conniemaheswaran]

Blank expression. Okay, maybe the translation on the Japanese side is different? "Um... I'd describe it, but it kinda provided the basis for most modern shonen, so it would sound incredibly generic. Oh! I got it! Do you have the 'Over 9000' meme where you're from? Yeah, DBZ is the show that the meme originated from."

[promiselisting]

That... rings a bit more of a bell. Sort of?

"Huh... I've heard of 'Over 9001,'" And of course its- hm, "Actually I think I might know what you're talking about? It's called something a bit different though."

Like... she didn't really watch a lot of it personally? But as Connie had mentioned, it was a basis for so much of the genre it was hard not to have heard of it.

[conniemaheswaran]

Connie breathes a sigh of relief. At least Futaba had some kind of frame of reference for fusion. "So, um, the Gems--including Steven--have this ability that's basically fusion from... that anime slash manga, whatever it's called on your side of the Pacific. Normally Gems can only fuse with other Gems, but since Steven is half-human, he can fuse with humans. We actually, uh, found that out because we were..." Connie looks away, blushing slightly, "practicing for my school dance on the beach when we accidentally fused. Stevonnie--that's us, I know, really creative name, blame Amethyst for that--is exponentially more powerful than either of us and is just... really fun to be as a whole, if that makes sense? So sometimes we train while fused instead of separately. Are you following me so far?"