Welcome to the Program

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Good Morning, Champions. In the interest of maintaining healthy sleep patterns, a day/night cycle is in effect. Your presence is expected in the cafeteria in exactly one hour.

[The voice comes through not a large speaker, but through the device that's attached to each Champion's arm. Further investigation of the features of the device will reveal a list of profiles, a mini-map, and a list of rules. The hallways are shiny white and silver, with running lights along the floor and lights on the ceiling, and at the junction of the hallways is a sign with a knife and fork icon and an arrow pointing down the hall.

Welcome to the Excellence Program, Champions. Time to get to know your teammates.]

Comments

[almightyconflagration]

[When McBurn comes out of his room he gives a loud yawn and looks around some more. He had figured the outfit was some sort of prank by one of his fellow enforcers or Duvalie since they'd be the only ones able to mess with him without waking him.

However, this ship definitely isn't the one he was on before now. Also, the outfit left much to be desired, especially with the fact that his own clothing is a bit special in that it can actually withstand his abilities.

He'll make his way to the cafeteria soon enough, not because he was told to but because food sounds like a good idea anyhow. But first he'll look around the place trying to figure out what and where it is.]

Definitely not pretentious enough to be the Pantagruel.

[Once he arrives to the cafeteria, one thing he'll try to do after he sits down is see if he can remove the PIP. Since normal strength doesn't seem to work, he eventually tries to burn it off. If someone doesn't try to stop him before that, they'll notice he receives no burns for the effort, but same goes for the PIP. Though one also may be curious about where that fire even came from. Feel free to try and stop him, but there's no reason to be concerned about him setting anything on fire. He obviously knows what he's doing here.]

Seriously? Since when did they make orbal devices capable of withstanding my fire?

[damnfourthemerald]

[Of course fire is going to draw attention. Shadow doesn't think it wise to try and call up any of his attacks on the device, at least not now, in front of everyone, though he has to wonder...]

A curious trick. [Does he mean inflammable PIPs, or the fire? Or...both?]

[almightyconflagration]

[Not like McBurn cares, this just seemed to be a location that was the least likely to have a fire start if something unexpected did happen.]

Which one? The device being fireproof or my ability to will fire into existence?

[damnfourthemerald]

[Touche.]

Most people wouldn't go to the extreme of trying to melt off a device attached to them, but I suppose making something electronic fireproof is a sound idea.

I haven't seen an ability quite like that before. [Someone doesn't remember a certain lilac fire cat. Yay amnesia!]

[almightyconflagration]

Actually I was hoping it would explode or shatter before it melted.

[And seems to not be concerned about this.]

Doubt you have since it's rare even where I come from. No, it's not magic, there's no orbment involved and I'm not hiding matches.

[damnfourthemerald]

Of course it's not magic. [Magic's not real. Says the being that can harness an ancient energy held in ancient stones the source of which seems to be mystical in some fashion. Shhhhh.] How powerful can you make your fire?

[almightyconflagration]

[Hey, magic isn't supposed to exist in his world either, but he knows it does to the right people.]

Beats me. Haven't found a limit yet other than my annoyance in dealing with the results.

[damnfourthemerald]

There's usually a limit. But that could come in handy. Just don't shock yourself trying to break that thing. It at least has some useful information on it, despite its annoying location.

[almightyconflagration]

Let's just say I haven't found that limit yet if one exists outside of being unable to burn things that are fireproof.

[damnfourthemerald]

In a sense, that is a limit. [He even smirks. It's a technicality.] Try not to burn through the walls of the space station and kill us all, though.

[almightyconflagration]

That would depend on the item in question. Fire can be absorbed, but that doesn't seem to be happening here since it would vanish as well.

[damnfourthemerald]

The device, did it nullify your ability entirely, or did you just make it superheated but undamaged? [He's not putting his hands on it to find out thanks.]

[almightyconflagration]

Beats me. I can't feel it and only know what I'm using. I only know it kept burning when nullification would make the flames vanish as surely as blowing out a candle.

[damnfourthemerald]

It might be prudent to test out what kind of fire suppression system this station has. [Which is as close to saying McBurn should maybe set some paper on fire and get doused with an extinguisher or whatever they have, just to find out, you know, for science and all, without actually saying something that sounds that stupid.]

[almightyconflagration]

What you think I'm going to actually set the place on fire or something? Sounds like a pain to me.

[damnfourthemerald]

No, you could literally hold up a flame or cause smoke from anything just to see how the system works. Not try to burn the entire place down.

[almightyconflagration]

Still sounds boring.

[Give him a few days and he'll be bored enough to do it though.]

[misplacedxsheath]

There are numerous ways to render something fireproof. A small-scale forcefield, or perhaps it simply absorbs the energy from the flame and re-purposes it. I'm hardly a scientist, but I am something of an expert in methods of creating objects that can withstand extreme heat.

[He doesn't seem at all confused or concerned by the fire itself...though maybe that has something to do with his own title?]

[almightyconflagration]

Haven't seen that with machines, but I'm no scientist either. It's definitely not absorbing it and most things would show some evidence of being affected by now. A forcefield usually has some visual sign.

[Though it's probably not helping much that his own resistances make it so he can't tell how hot it actually is and he doesn't realize how badly his powers are dampened on top of the device being fireproof.]

[misplacedxsheath]

There are Ether treatments capable of creating a barrier specifically against certain elements. If they were aware two people here would be capable of generating flames, it would obviously be prudent to ensure everything important was proofed against them.

[almightyconflagration]

Ah, we just prefer all, but it only works one time. Unless you're going into magic and then those have keys to break them. Still, not everything seems to be fireproof.