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Custom Fit: Event OOC Post

During the Festival of Light, Ganeshan was approached by an old friend whose research open the path to new Jobs: to be specific, Jobs built upon the powers outworlders once wielded back in their homeworld. Aptly named "Custom Jobs," those new classes will be built by the characters themselves with the help of Curti Center employees. Should you have any question, please ask them here and feel free to use this post to plot!

Custom Jobs are built out of the characters's original powers. Characters who didn't have any powers can build a custom Job if they'd like: it can enable them to make use of technology that wouldn't otherwise work on Vaikuntha, give them back their expertise in certain fields if this was lost and make them closer to how they were back home. As examples, we have made two Custom Jobs: the first one is based upon Sephiroth, who regains powers he once had back home. The second one is based upon Solid Snake, who had no powers back home but regains his skills as a soldier and the use of some of his gadgets. Note that if technology is involved, it'll have to be regained or remade to be used in a Custom Job.

SEPHIROTH The villain of Final Fantasy VII who has made a specialty of killing beloved characters and ruining childhoods since 1997. This Job is a rather selfish Job, offering no utility to party members and focused solely on offensive and self-defense. ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀᴇᴅ ᴡᴇᴀᴘᴏɴ: Long swords ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴍᴏʀ: Leather clothes sᴛʀᴇɴᴛɢʜs: An excellent Job when going for offensive, it offers multiple alternatives and great mobility. ᴡᴇᴀᴋɴᴇssᴇs: The supreme skill, good as it is, can never kill anyone as it is percentage based. The Job is rather lacking in defense, with Wall being its only mean to protect itself. physical power: A magical power: S attack potency: A healing potency: E physical defense: C magical defense: C speed: B
EXP	SKILL	DESCRIPTION
0000	One Winged Angel	Can opt to have a black wing sprout from the character's shoulder, allowing them to hover over the ground. Temporarily allows flight when using Octaslash and Pale Horse. Changes into the Safer form for one turn when casting Supernova.
0050	Shadow Flare	Summons three dark orbs slowly going for a target, each inflicting weak damage if they hit.
0100	Heaven's Light	Strong light attack on a single target.
0200	Wall	Raises own defense by 15% for five turns.
0350	DeSpell	Removes all status buff from a target.
0500	Pale Horse	Medium neutral spell on all targets.
0750	Heartless Angel	Reduces an enemy's health to 1% (50% chance of success).
1000	Octaslash	Attacks the enemy with a flurry of eight sword attack, dealing severe damage to a target.
EXP	JOB BONUS	DESCRIPTION
0000	Reunion	Characters using this Job will always be drawn to each other even if they hate each other.
EXP	MODIFIER SKILL	DESCRIPTION
0500	Black Materia	A black wing sprouts from the character's shoulder, allowing the character to fly.
EXP	MELODY	DESCRIPTION
3000	Supernova	Temporarily traps all enemies in a magically-created pocket dimension simulating the solar system. A meteor is summoned and destroys half of the planets before turning the sun into a Supernova, destroying the remaining planets. Deals damages equal to 95% of the enemies's current health, afflicts the Silence, Confuse and Slow status. The pocket dimension vanishes once the attack over.

SOLID SNAKE The legend who defeated Big Boss and infiltrated Shadow Moses before being deemed a terrorist. A master at stealth and surviving in the midst of combat. ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀᴇᴅ ᴡᴇᴀᴘᴏɴ: Guns, Grenades ꜰᴀᴠᴏʀᴇᴅ ᴀʀᴍᴏʀ: Sneaking Suits sᴛʀᴇɴᴛɢʜs: This Job is great at survival and taking care of itself. It doesn't boast much of anything in the way of offensive skills, but the infinity bandanna ensures the wielder of the Job will never run out of ammo for its basic attacks. ᴡᴇᴀᴋɴᴇssᴇs: This Job isn't the best for fighting on the frontlines, it is better suited to sneak through the frontlines. If you're spotted (!), better find someplace to wait it out until the enemies get bored. physical power: A magical power: E attack potency: A healing potency: D physical defense: B magical defense: D speed: S
EXP	SKILL	DESCRIPTION
0000	CQC	Remembers the basics of CQC with each level, mastering it once learning the 1000 EXP skill. Close Quarter Combat relying on handheld guns, knives and arms.
0050	Codec	Encrypts voice communication through Mognet thanks to an ear device without using the iMog Slate.
0100	Rations	Eat a military ration, restoring 15% of personal health. A maximum of three rations can be brought into combat.
0200	Sneaking Suit	Dampens footprint noises.
0350	Nikita	Fires a missile that travels at ground level with a low velocity. Can be remote-controlled before exploding for ten seconds.
0500	Solid Eye	Eyepatch allowing to see even in the dark.
0750	Stealth Camo	Turns invisible. Effects remains for two turns or vanishes when hit by an attack.
1000	Bandanna	Passive skill. Automatically replenishes ammo reserves. The gun still has to be reloaded.
EXP	JOB BONUS	DESCRIPTION
0000	Carboard Love	Snakes always find comfort and inner peace when hiding in carboard boxes.
EXP	MODIFIER SKILL	DESCRIPTION
0500	Octo Camo	Clothes turn the color of the background. Effects remains for two turns or vanishes when hit by an attack.
EXP	MELODY	DESCRIPTION
3000	Metal Gear REX	Boards and pilots Metal Gear REX for three turns. Allows use of missiles for powerful large-scale attacks and of the Metal Gear's frame for severe single-target attacks.

For more details and to submit your Custom Jobs, please refer to this page.

To help with the development of Custom Jobs, characters can partake in a number of activities. Those shall not be modded. To get the 100 EXP this month, you have to participate in those activities, by participating in the IC Log where their prompts are listed. Furthermore, please reply with a sign-up to this post.

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So, to make sure I understand this, in the case of characters who's skillset is based around a specific concept, would the baseline skill be that concept and the rest of the skills be building on it?

By that i mean, in Emeralda's case she is a shapeshifter. Would the shapeshifting itself be the starting skill, and then her deathblows that use the shapeshifting (and maybe some of her spells) be her various higher level abilities?

Yes. In this specific case, it could work similarly to Ninja's Parkour skill or Snake's CQC skill in the example: while the skill is listed first, it grows along with EXP and truly works at the best of its ability when the 1000 EXP skill is learnt.

Curious question: now, practically speaking, Sasami with Tsunami is way too overpowered, but there are enough material related to her part of the canon to involve her magical girl persona Pretty Sammy (for instance, the SNES game combined the two). Could I do that here, too?

It depends on whether it is part of the canon source used for her in the game. For example, Thanos from the Marvel Comics or from the Marvel Movies are two different entities when it comes to what powers are available to them. Likewise, the SNES Game and Sasami's current canon might be different things.

Where is the dungeon/what kind of creatures can we expect to run into?

There are mine locations on each of the major continents in Vaikuntha where the needed crystals can be harvested. The monsters that have wandered within are the same varieties that can be found in that region (so you can take some creative liberty with what you encounter).

Weaker (lower star) creatures are found closer to the mines' entrances, but deeper down, where the richest veins of crystals can be found, the monsters are the more powerful species.

More of a for-the-future type question (although it may end up influencing how I frame my job submission, depending), but how would some of the apprenticeship/passing on of Custom Jobs work for abilities that are meant to be highly specialized based on the individual/influenced by the individual who wields them?

I know Personas aren't the only example but they're probably one of the more egregious right now - the form that each Persona takes is supposed to be unique to the person who summons them, and we're talking more than just cosmetic differences. How would that.. play out? If Futaba were to try to teach someone, would she be teaching someone to use her own exact Persona? Or would there be any way the job's appearance/manifestation/etc would change to match the new user?

Edited 2018-09-11 05:09 (UTC)

The appearance of the Persona would change but would have similarities with that of the Master's person, enough that they're different but enough that one can see they're related. The skills, however, would have the same effect.

For characters like Dylas and Yue whose abilities would revolve around unique physiology that no one else has, how would custom jobs work? Like, using a naga's tail to attack isn't something Dylas could teach Monika, for example.