New Job | Magitek Resolution

[melodiesmods]

Hello dear players, two important things in this announcement. Firstly, the Crystal in Jessie's letter will grant a new Job to all characters. It is a special Job that works differently from all others, so be careful if you chose to equip your character with it. Secondly, we are offering a resolution regarding the Magitek Event for those who want one. You can chose to handwave the end of the threads if your team didn't complete it yet and we will give you a summary of what happened depending on your characters' choices. If you'd rather not, we can continue backtagging into infinity.

1/ New Job

BLUE MAGE A new Job born from Jessie's researches. It is a blank Job with no skills and that lacks any stats boosts or decreases, much like the Freelancer Job. But this doesn't mean this Job is useless, quite at the contrary. Rather than progress on a monthly basis, new skills are learnt by fighting monsters. Characters who are hit by certain attacks can then use them again at their heart's content-- So long as they survive and finish off the monster who taught them said attack, of course. Strengths: This Job can be entirely customized. Characters equipping it can learn seven different skills (eight after a year), and if they know what they're doing the skills will be specifically what they need. They may not know how to get specific skills, but they can study to know what monsters are likely to give what skill. Weaknesses: To learn an attack, characters mustn't just be hit by said attack: they must survive it and defeat the monster who cast the attack. It may prove to be problematic with Malboros and Hamsters... It is also possible to learn skills by accident, and they cannot be forgotten. Learning Splash would be a shame.

Geezard	Splash	Moves around and does nothing.
Bomb	Self-Destruct	Self-destructs and dies, but inflicts severe damages (all enemies).
Buer	Off-Guard	Halves the defense of an enemy.
Cactuar	1000 Needles	Inflicts serious damages to an enemy.
Cockatrice	Stone Touch	Has a 50% chance of turning an enemy into stone.
Chimera	Aqua Breath	Casts a mid-water spell on all enemies.
Ettin Snake	Entangle	Weak attack, but 50% chance of paralyzing the enemy.
Gargoyle	Lv. 4 Death	Has a 25% chance of killing all enemies.
Goblin	Goblin Punch	Attack an enemy with a slightly above average attack.
Malboro	Bad Breath	Inflicts Poison, Confuse, Sleep, Silence, Frog, Small (all enemies).
Mandragora	Slow Dance	Halves the speed of an enemy.
Medusa	Roulette	Randomly kills an enemy or an ally.
Mimic	Vanish	Vanish from battle.
Ochu	Ochu Dance	Inflicts the paralysis and confuse ailments (all enemies)
Sahagin	Mighty Guard	Double the speed, magical & physical defenses of all allies.
Seeker Bat	Bite	Bites an enemy with a weak attack.
Skeleton	Magic Hammer	Drains the mental energy of an enemy.
Fire Elemental	Fire Breath	Casts a fire breath on an enemy.
Th. Elemental	Trine	Casts a thunder attack (all enemies).
Tonberry	Karma	Deals to the enemy the double of damages he inflicted you in total.
Touch Me	Frog Song	Turns the enemy into a frog. 50% chance to put them to sleep.
Zombie	Zombie Bite	Makes an enemy weak to healing magic and items.
Wyvern	White Wind	Heals minor wounds (all allies)
Hamster	C'mon Hamsters!	Summons an army of deadly and poisonous hamsters to trample and annihilate all enemies.

As you can see, Blue Mage is a very special Job in that it doesn't level up month after month. Instead, characters have to fight monsters and be hit by certain attacks to learn new skills. You can see how tough the monsters are and where to find them here.

There is no existing list of what monsters give what skills, as it is a brand new Job. Studying in the library however, characters may find enough information about monsters to get an idea as to what skills they are likely to obtain this way. We will not regulate the pace at which skills are learned, but please be realistic: it is unlikely for a character to learn all seven skills in a month two. One or two, maybe three skills a month are much more reasonable. Furthermore, some monsters such as Malboro will require experimented teams to be defeated, while others like Cactuars need to be reached with a ship: getting actual good skills isn't as easy at it looks. Oh and for hamsters: mods have to be notified if ever an attempt to take one down is made. Odds of success are incredibly low.


2/ Magitek Resolution
While a few teams are done or nearly with the Magitek Event, others are not. We offer you to handwave the ending of ongoing threads and give you a summary here about what happened if you'd rather move on from the event. The event has slowed down and it's been long enough that characters may need a resolution for this event. If not, we will keep backtagging the thread.

If you want to handwave and have a summary, please comment in the Magitek Thread for you and your group. Make sure teammates agree before asking for a resolution.

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NEW JOB QUESTION

[melodiesmods]

MAGITEK EVENT RESOLUTION

[melodiesmods]

Group C Boss Battle: Jenni [Resolution]

[shinrasfinest]

Please can we work out a resolution for this one?

For what it's worth, once Sephiroth manages to find Zelda he'll attempt to break the glass all around in order to find Kobato. After calling out 'get down' or something. Long swords are useful? :-D

[melodiesmods]

The battle against Jenni would have gone through three phases (two if they all survived). The first phase (the one you were at) had breakable mirrors, which allowed for characters to find each other quicker if they broke them. Jenni planned on taking advantages of her illusions to kill your characters one after the other.

At this point, Jenni would have relentlessly tried to kill Kobato with a copy of Zelda's sword. Kobato could have avoided her attacks for a short time, and Sephiroth and Zelda could have saved Kobato if they reached her in time. So in short, Kobato's survival depends on her ability to hold Jenni at bay and Sephiroth/Zelda being fast enough.

> Did Kobato survive or not? What follows depends on whether it's a yes or no.

[kobatonotdobato]

Considering it's Kobato we're talking about here and given she can trip over at any given point... Her survival rate would not be that high. So it would depend on really how quickly the others could get there. If not that fast then unlikely, if pretty quickly then there would be a chance.

I guess if they couldn't get there within five minutes then it would be a no.

[shinrasfinest]

Then I guess it depends on the distance between them/Kobato when the mirrors are all broken between them. Sephiroth will Dragoon-leap the gap if it's workable in order to get there quicker.

Lets be Heroes then and save Kobato?

[melodiesmods]

Kobato is saved.

Attacking the fake Zelda at this point would have disrupted all the illusions and given the heroes a window of opportunity to attack Jenni. If they did attack her, she would have reformed the illusion before they may kill her. If they chose not to attack her, she would have attacked them with a telekinetic attack before reforming the illusion.

Phase 2 of the battle would have involved the same mirror maze, but now with all black mirrors. Kobato and Sephiroth would have been together and Zelda would have been with Jenni, albeit disguised as Sephiroth. Black Mirrors are unbreakable and only one out of ten work. Upon seeing their reflection in one of the working mirror, said reflection would have emerged from the mirror to attack Kobato and Sephiroth. So essentially, they would have had to fight themselves (albeit a much weaker self).

Meanwhile Zelda would have been attacked by the fake Sephiroth (Jenni). Much like Kobato, they would have had to reach Zelda before Jenni can kill her, taking into account this time Jenni uses Sephiroth's weapon to attack, mirrors cannot be broken and both Sephiroth & Kobato are slowed down by mirror illusions. However, with her knowledge of what Jenni did to Kobato earlier, Zelda may be able to escape her more easilly.

> Did Zelda survive or not?

[goddessofthesky]

Zelda wouldn't let her guard down and knowing Sephiroth as she does she knows he wouldn't be insulted by that. She would try to ask him something to see if it was him, concerning their first meeting or something that she knows about him. She would be cautious but not to an insulting degree.

[shinrasfinest]

Sephiroth would have attacked Jenni given the window, knowing Zelda is capable of healing him does wonders for an already large confidence. She's clearly identified herself as an enemy.

Given the illusions/reflections of each other and the unbreakable nature of the mirrors, and (probably) having to defend Kobato it would be down to the mercy of the maze-illusion if they were able to get to Zelda at all.

[melodiesmods]

With the enemies and maze, it would take from six to eight minutes (approximately) for Sephiroth and Kobato to reach Zelda.

Jenni wouldn't answer Zelda's question and would attack her, much like she did with Kobato. It all boils down to whether Zelda can hold on for seven minutes in a duel against Jenni (she will have at the very least to be wounded).

[goddessofthesky]

She can heal herself and probably last 5-7 minutes but when they finally show up she will be very hurt.

[melodiesmods]

Since they all survived there won't be a phase three and upon showing up Jenni will directly confront them all. They will find themselves back into the empty space back when illusions first began and will face Jenni and her two partners, Deweg and Gibbs, albeit these two will only be illusions and half-less powerful than they should be. Jenni will attack mostly with telekinetic attacks and will focus on Sephiroth, while the illusions will use a gunblade (Deweg) and daggers (Gibbs) to attack, but they'll easilly be defeated.

They may all sustain some level of injuries, though Sephiroth here will be the most targeted one. They did well enough than no one will die though.

Upon defeating Jenni (she'll be visibly wounded and exhausted), they'll find themselves back at the entrance of the Magitek Research Facility and she will comment than they're "Even more dangerous than Lady Kalki had told her" before vanishing. At this point the lockout will end and all mechas and illusions will disappear, making the facility a much more welcoming place.

They can go back to the control room to find Biggs, Wedge and Jessie. You can ask them question directly in this thread if you'd like to play out the conclusion, or ask your questions here and we'll summarize their answers.

[shinrasfinest]

Ok so I RNG'd 1~10 and came out with a 7 - to gauge some level of injury Sephiroth will have come out with due to the sustained attacks. Mostly deep bruising, semi-deep cuts and more than a few broken light armor plates along with a few slugs from that gunblade that will need to be pulled out to promote healing. All in all, a few bleeders but nothing lethal at all especially if Zelda & Kobato will be healing after the fight is over.

He'll only go back to the control room if encouraged to or if (one of) the other two want to go back there - he's taken enough of a beating already thanks lol. I'm happy to thread something in the Conclusion thread for a bit if you'd like to guys?

Group A Boss Battle Resolution

[umslay]

So Ales will first focus on building shields out of the material in the Artifact room. That might take a round or two, but then he'd give them immediately first to anyone not in the robot's clutches.

[melodiesmods]

The trick with the robot is that not only defeating it is hard and long, but it is self-repairing: it is to say upon being taken down, it'll get back onto its feet within a matter of minutes and pursue the characters. It will target Gaara primarily as it lost its two Jobs, then Luke and Ales, and Saori the less (for the beginning).

Assuming they take it down once, do they:

> Fight it again once it self-repairs?
> Flee?

[headfons]

Luke would...suggest attempting to flee the second it appeared to be coming back. Whether, or not, they DO flee depends on the majority party's decision.

He will be stubborn about this decision, though, for the most part. Gaara doesn't have his Job Classes, and Luke doesn't want to risk anyone dying.

[no_dreams_for_you]

Gaara will back Luke up, as much as he hates retreating from battle. Better to live and fight another day.

[umslay]

You guys have the shields Ales built, right? Because he'll run as well unless everyone forgot to take the things he put effort to into building.

Though in the time it takes to defeat the robot for the first time, would he be able to make one sharp weapon in addition to the two shields?

[melodiesmods]

Ales could make a weapon, but in the allotted time he wouldn't be able to make something that would do enough significant damages to the robot. Upon running away, the machine will pursue them in a matter of minute after it self-repaired. Because the machines has sensors and can easilly smash walls, there is no efficient hiding place in the facility.

Before being caught back by the machine though, they'll encounter Biggs. He'll be tired and wounded due to having faced a hoard of smaller robots, but he may still be of help. Will they:

> Ignore him
> Talk to him and be rude / douche / whatever
> Talk to him and be actually polite

[umslay]

Ales would take the polite route, being glad to see someone they know alive and apparently having the ability to fight against the robots. Also he'd panic a little and say that a giant robot was after them and it's invincible.

[needsteaplz]

Saori will also take the polite route and give him her last potion to get his health back up. She maybe tempted to hold back the robot by herself but she won't do something that reckless just yet. If push comes to shove though, she'll be the main physical damage giver.

[melodiesmods]

Being polite to him, Biggs will explain to them that he believes the robot pursuing them may be an Imperial weapon they brought here in order to study it and hopefully find a way to destroy those wrecking chaos on the battlefield. He'll mention engineers were working on an experimental weapon to fight it before the facility was closed and it still should be somewhere on the second floor.

By the time he's done saying that, the robot will have caught up on them and will attack them all once again. Biggs will help them fight it, and they can chose to:

> All fight it
> Leave Biggs fight it alone and run away
> Split up and have some help Biggs and some run away
> Anything else

[umslay]

If no one is running away, Ales will remain with Biggs since wow! Engineers and a guy who might know the secret to fighting this thing! He'll remain in the back and build something sharp enough to fight the robot.

If it's defeated he'll want to ask Biggs about the history of Magitek and the creation of those robots.

[headfons]

(Okay I KNOW I clicked for notif alerts...)

Luke does still have his shield. Gaara should still have the bag of items? Annnnd...Luke will stay and fight alongside Biggs. He will thank him for the information and the help, too.