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

[fatherofsin]

Wouldn't it be entirely fair? We're the lab rats wandering a maze for the cheese, so to speak. Those are the rules. We can either be content with the maze, or find ways to get what we want.

[ratherdoweddings]

You could at least say we're something cuter than rats.

[fatherofsin]

...Rats are perfectly cute, though, to a lot of people. They can be a popular pet.

[ ...This is confusing. ]

[ratherdoweddings]

But most people think they're pests!

[fatherofsin]

They also have a lot of analogous reactions to humans, so depending on what you're researching, they're ideal.

[ratherdoweddings]

You know, I always kind of wondered why scientists used rats to study things. I thought it was just on TV.

[fatherofsin]

Not at all, it's something we do. They give us fast results on things we need fast results with.

[ratherdoweddings]

Just because they act like humans... And everyone always says humans are special and different, when really, we're more like animals than we think. That's actually kind of interesting!

[fatherofsin]

Indeed. Humans are a kind of animal, just a very advanced one.