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

[quadjumps]

You got any better ideas then, jackass?!

[quadjumps]

[ HELL YES. come on slaine you can do it. just say fuck ]

Oh, come on! You can't tell me you've never sworn before!

[quadjumps]

Sounds like you're talking from experience.

[ is she really that much older than him? maybe she's just seen a lot of shit?? ]

[hellahighwater]

When all you've got to get by is your charming personality, you learn to use it.

[quadjumps]

...So what's your story, anyway? You look like you could be in some kind of rock band.

[hellahighwater]

[ She snorts. ]

No thanks, I'd rather be listening. Just a girl who likes to mosh and bake. What about you? Skinny kid who still looks like he wants to fight the world, that's an interesting combo.

[quadjumps]

I'm a figure skater. Maintaining this figure's ideal for me.

[ it helps him look more graceful on the ice! ]

[stillstands]

[(in a whining voice) I'm tellllliiinnnnggggggg.]

Why would I lie about it? If I was going to give a fake age I'd at least say I was college age.

[photoshooter]

No one would believe you're college age. I guess seventeen's at least plausible.

[quadjumps]

Just fucking choose one!

[ HE'S NOT HAVING IT ]

[stillstands]

[Rude??]

Good, because it's actually my age??

[keepmeinyourheart]

I could try, but my people only ever came to me to heal the darkness inside of them.

[keepmeinyourheart]

A self-help book? [She tilts her head at that.] The Max here, or another Max?

[quadjumps]

You'll have to try when the time comes. I guarantee that someone's going to try something if we don't get out of here soon.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Fiiiiine, fiiiiine.~

[Don't want him to run off or something from frustration.]

Personally I'd say I'm alive since I'm still y'know, here and shit. Able ta do things, talk ta people, and other human things. But hey, whadda ya think? Alive or dead? It can be argued either way, but that's just my take on it.

[photoshooter]

[After a moment, Prompto laughs a little, ducks his head, and rubs his nose.]

Hehheh. Sorry. It's just weird. I'm so used to being the one treated like a kid, it's funny to be on this side of it for once.

[quadjumps]

[ finally. THANK YOU. he's still seething but at least she finally answered the question?! ]

I don't know--alive? You can still be killed, can't you?

[keepmeinyourheart]

[This... Is going to be painful, isn't it?]

Then let's find a place to sit.

[photoshooter]

There's some kind of movie room at the end of the hall. [He points.] It'll probably be quiet there, everyone's supposed to be heading to the cafeteria. Will that work?

[keepmeinyourheart]

Yes, of course.

[Lead the way. She'll be right behind you.]

[photoshooter]

[Here we go, media room. Prompto goes down to the front row and takes a seat near the end, leaving her the corner if she wants it or the seat on his other side if she doesn't need the space an end seat affords her.

He rubs at his palm for a moment, quiet, before he finally starts.]

So the last thing you remember... was hearing that Noct and the rest of us had left for Altissia? So, before the treaty signing?

[Obviously. But he has to check.]

[keepmeinyourheart]

[Just in case he needs some comfort, she takes the seat in his other side. Placing her hands in her lap, she nods with a grim expression.]

My brother caught me trying to leave for Altissia, hence why I was in Insomnia instead.

[photoshooter]

Ravus. Right.

[Aw, man, is he going to have to tell her what the Empire's doing to him, too? Shiva grant him mercy, one thing at a time.]

So, um. The treaty was a trap. Really, they just wanted to get inside so they could take the Crystal.

[keepmeinyourheart]

.... [This doesn't surprise her.] My being there must have been part of that trap.

[keepmeinyourheart]

... I know. I'll do what I can if it comes to that. Let us hope that it doesn't.