The Merry Maids of Multiverse

[a_pirate_meant_to_be]

THE INTERDIMENSIONAL TEMP AGENCY MEME

The economy being what it is, one can easily understand the need to find odd jobs to make ends meet on occasion. For those with a particularly daring bent and an open mind -- not to mention the means, accidental or otherwise, to reach the place -- the Interdimensional Temp Agency is there to provide for all of your jobbing needs, whether in this dimension or in another one altogether. Just be sure the job is appropriate to your skill level; it's really bad for their bottom line if their temps get killed, after all.

This meme can be taken one of two ways. The first one is your standard "roll-on-a-table" format, as follows:

GENERIC

1.) Babysitting: Kids? Dogs? Dragon eggs? Could be any of these. Either way, you need to make sure they're safe and fed. Although try not to feed YOURSELF to them.

2.) Office Temp: You know. Filing, typing, phone calls, collecting immortal souls -- wait, how'd THAT job get on there?

3.) Grunt Work: Somebody needs some warehouse workers. Somebody else needs someone to carry all their equipment as they go on a fantastic journey. Guess what you get to do.

4.) Gardening and Agriculture: GREEEEEEEN ACRES IS THE PLACE FOR ME.

5.) Delivery: Is it just me, or is that package ticking?

6.) Surveillance: Watching over things. Or watching out for things. Basic stuff.

7.) Substitutes: You're filling in for some job or another. Teaching? Soul reaping? Who knows, it varies.

8.) Wild Card: Anything I couldn't think of here.

However, there is a second option: Crafting a mission based upon a fandom you're in of your own making. This obviously requires a bit more thought and GMing, but if that's your sort of thing, it can actually be pretty fun. Of course, it could also be pretty basic if you want it to. Whatever works. The following jobs are, for example, what I've got to offer:

CANON SPECIFIC:

1.) GRAVITY FALLS: The mystery shack needs some temp hires to help out with the summer rush. You know, janitorial work, working the registers. ...What, we gotta pay you? Stupid work regulatory rules. And no, that thing in the corner didn't just move, shut up.

2.) TOUHOU PROJECT: How unusual. The shikigami of the house has actually fallen down ill, and needs some help with the basic household chores and shopping. Watch out for danmaku fairies.

3.) CAVE STORY: A witch needs someone to go search for herbs and the like in the Grasstown area. Clearly this is a safe and easy mission that anybody can enjoy. Sucker.

4.) SKYRIM: We've been trying to deliver this package to a Mr. M'aiq for eons, but we can't seem to find him. It's like he never stays in one place for very long for some reason. Maybe you'll have better luck?

5.) ACE ATTORNEY: Gatewater land needs a few more people to don badger costumes for the latest Badger Photo Rally. We REALLY hope somebody doesn't get killed on the premises this time.

6.) MAKE YOUR OWN SCENARIO: In your first reply, put up the details of your mission and run it yourself! Fun for the whole family.

Have fun! It's a little extra work, but sometimes a little break is nice.

Comments

Grunkle Stan | Gravity Falls

[mystery_s_hack]

[What, you thought I was joking? Now get off your lazy bums and paint that glitter on that "unicorn," chop chop!]

Re: Grunkle Stan | Gravity Falls

[number1_kerbal]

So, let me get this straight. You just want me to stand here and pretend to be a little human dressed up as a kerbal for eight hours?

[mystery_s_hack]

Got it in one! Make sure to make weird little alieny noises every so often. Play up the crowd. They'll eat it up like candy!

[number1_kerbal]

... Sounds like a deal! You rescued me from that crash site, so I owe you one anyways.

[mystery_s_hack]

Make sure to concentrate really hard like you're trying to contact the mothership by the way. An impending alien invasion just adds spice to the experience.

[number1_kerbal]

Okay, I'll try and figure out an expression that looks good for that. Something serious I take it?

[mystery_s_hack]

Serious, but with an air of menace. Like "Arrrrgh, you earthlings are all gonna die soon" menace! But in kind of a fakey way, you know? Last thing I need is those darn agents in black running around the joint again.

[trustme]

[Stanford Pines would change the course of technology and physics for the human race. It was an important moment in Earth's history and apparently one that a rather nasty race of time traveling aliens wanted to alter and prevent. The Doctor would have none of that. He didn't think twice before flying the TARDIS to the date and location at risk to personally do what he could to protect Stanford Pines and the moment of his breakthrough.

When he arrived in Gravity Falls though, The Doctor found a scene very different from what he imagined. Stanford's supposed residence and lab was some sort of fictional museum. The man he met when he knocked and asked for Stanford was not the genius of science he expected to say the least. Still, he was determined and volunteered himself as an employee.]

Wendy Corduroy | Gravity Falls

[kindaruledatit]

[Always gotta find some work, right?]

Told ya I'd hit up whoever

[ghost_shield]

[Mostly, he'd just needed someone to help him catch up on his filing. Nothing too bizarre, right? Except there's a few items every so often that seem to be case writeups of... ghost hauntings? What's with this dude?

He's nice, at least, based on the fact he's come in with a cold soda he passes to her.]

Sorry there's so much of it. How's it going so far?

[kindaruledatit]

[Whump! Wendy sets down a stack of files next to her, accidentally sending a gust of dust that blows half the other files off the table she was set up at.]

....Thanks for the soda, dude. [She accepts it graciously, at least, setting it down on some documents that should probably not be used for a coaster.]

Oh, it's going, alright. Lot's of cases here. Weird ones, too.

[ghost_shield]

[He coughs a bit.]

Whoa, careful there. Guess I need to do some dusting around here too.

Yeah, weird is on par for the course, I'm afraid. Any stand out in particular?

[kindaruledatit]

Uhh.... this one? [She waves a paper in the air, not really giving him a chance to see it.]

Something about a ghost haunting a convenience store?

[ghost_shield]

Hmm? There's been a few of those. Happens more often than you think. Anything specific?

[kindaruledatit]

Just some descriptions and junk. I guess it's cool, if you like haunted slushy machines.

[Which she doesn't.]

It's not.... real though, right?

[ghost_shield]

Of course not.

They were actually haunting the hot dog maker.

[kindaruledatit]

...Oh.

What's with that?

[ghost_shield]

An overattachment to artificial fillers and preservatives?

Nicolas Brown | GANGSTA. | OTA

[swordarm]

[Handyman, at your service.]

[mystery_s_hack]

[There's a penny-pressing machine he's standing next to, looking at it in annoyance.]

And I'm tellin' ya, the stupid thing's busted! I need you to get in there and find out why it's actually giving people the dang coin!

Zell Dincht | Final Fantasy VIII | OTA

[zell_dincht]

((ooc: Zell is a mercenary, so that opens up some more options too!))

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

[Looks like SeeDs get bodyguard jobs pretty much anywhere. Even in other dimensions. If this chipper young girl is at all unnerved by this state of affairs, though, she isn't showing it.]

Megas thanks for volunteering for this! We don'ts usually go for bodyguards stuff, but the opening of this department store tonight is megas important, and the Tsuruya family wants to make sure nobody tries anything fishy. Especially when their only daughter is a huge babe, ya know? Hahaha! Don't worry, I bets it'll be pretty boring so you can just enjoy all the party food.

[zell_dincht]

[Guard duty for a department store isn't the ideal type of mission Zell had hoped for, but it was either this, or culling bite bugs that were ruining the crops in Winhill. At least this girl seems pretty nice, and Zell quickly perks up at that last sentence.]

For real?!! What kind o' food is there?!

[life_is_megas_wonderful]

Oh, ya know. Hor d'oeuvres, little wieners on a stick, stuffs like that. The sorta stuff you give people so they can pretend they're not eatings dinner when they're actually eating dinner.

[zell_dincht]

Aw man, this is the best job EVER!!

[He goes on his tiptoes, quickly scanning the area.]

Where's those little wieners ya mentioned?

Sakuya Izayoi | Touhou Project

[elegant_knives]

[all_onis_are_true]

...I must admit that when I placed a request for someone to assist me in investigating rumors of a haunted hospital in a martial capacity, a maid had not been my immediate expectation.

[elegant_knives]

I wouldn't judge on appearance alone. [A sudden movement and a knife appears between two fingers, it is a seven inches long, silver doubled edged knife with thin carvings meant to channel magic.]

My knives, for example, are made to deal with supernatural beings.

Mugen | Samurai Champloo

[infiniteremix]

[purpose_of_the_goggles]

[Sixty easy dollars for a brief two hour psychoneurological study into the minds of people who fight regularly? Easy money! They hadn't mentioned it might involve somebody LITERALLY entering into his brain, though.

...let alone that said person doing the entering was a ten year old boy. Anyway, they're still setting up the equipment, leaving you two some "getting to know each other" time.]

So, uh, is the sword real, or...

Suga Koutarou | Forest of Drizzling Rain

[sugakoutarou]

((ooc: he can do garden work, write english to japanese fluently if you need a translator, and has been a guardian for at least five years so bodyguard work is also an option))

[misery_hates_company]

[Hoo boy, that's a hell of a garden she's got back here. Half the plants don't even look like they come from this PLANET.]

I hope you do a much better job than the LAST pathetic excuse for a gardener they sent me. Last fool damn well nearly killed himself and everybody nearby trying to pull out a mandragora without any form of ear protection! Such a blithering idiot. I trust YOU have more sense, at least?

Jotaro Kujo (sdc) | Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

[theresmora]

[i_just_want_you_to_try]

[Just an ordinary old man here, yep. No physical manifestation of our one true Lord and Creator here, no sirree.]

You're quite the strapping young man, aren't you? Probably get into your share of fistfights. Hmm. I'm guessing you're not much for diplomacy, right?

[theresmora]

[He shrugs, hands in his pockets.]

Depends what kind.

[The talking kind? Not so much. Something more physical? Yeah, he can do that.]