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

[playthedamncard]

Would your brother be fit to rule?

[playthedamncard]

I am a man of science. Not a magician. I've seen what people have claimed to be magic. Whether it exists or not, whether it's real or not, is of no consequence to me and my future. I have no use for that kind of hocus pocus.

[photoshooter]

Then there's your evidence of alternate dimensions right there, because magic is so, uh, evident on Eos that saying it doesn't exist is like saying the sky isn't blue or up is the same as down.

...

The sky is blue where you come from, right?

[stillstands]

[Earth wonders that itself sometimes. Probably.]

... Perspectives are weird. Actually speaking to a deity, or seeing one take a human form or even just appear in those bigger forms is much scarier and weirder to me than just the concept of something. What we're used to plays a big part in this.

[playthedamncard]

Sometimes. [Kaiba, don't be a troll.]

Where does your magic come from?

[hellahighwater]

...Like, professionally?

[hellahighwater]

...Another Max. My Max.

[photoshooter]

It's not my magic. Like I said, only the Kings of Lucis and the Oracles of Tenebrae have it. It's a bloodline thing. And I think originally they got it from the Draconian, along with the Crystal.

[hellahighwater]

...Don't hang around dye-fiends too much?

[hellahighwater]

Ugghh, you're such an easy target, this is actually kind of sad.

[stillstands]

[Someone's gotta be mature and responsible and not throw random French into sentences.]

You could heat on the stove top as well, if you wanted. So I guess there's a fire hazard there, but... no more so than usual.

[stillstands]

[Eek.]

Okay, um. Stay there, I'm going to check the women's showers!

[Annnnd there she goes. She is going to have a good look around those showers because DECENCY AND PRIVACY and all that.

When she comes back, she looks a little more relaxed but maaaaaybe not 100%]

I couldn't see any, at least.

[stillstands]

I'm not going to just leave it. [Unintentionally holding that makeshift pack with a little more force now.]

I'll worry about what I want, thank you.

[stillstands]

[H m p h.]

You look kind of like you'd be the baby of the bunch, though.

[One last jab for the road, nbd.]

[challengesfate]

"Dye-fiends"...?

[challengesfate]

Y-Your brother is here as well?

[Oh no, oh no, does everyone have family here? Is that possible?]

[hellahighwater]

Hair dye?

[playthedamncard]

The Oracles. Does that include Nox Fleuret? She seemed to indicate her powers came from the gods of your world. [His tone is skeptical at best.]

[challengesfate]

Oh! Oh...no, that's not something that's...I think it used to be a common practice for older noble women, but, there hasn't been time for that in years.

[photoshooter]

Well, yeah. The Draconian's one of the Six. ...Six gods, I mean. The Hexatheon.

[Don't call her just Nox Fleuret like that, it's disrespectful, young man.]

It's Lady Lunafreya's job to talk to them when we need them and to heal people.

[photoshooter]

I'm not the youngest by that much!

[keepmeinyourheart]

[Remains... that way?]

Lucina... pray tell, one cannot change the past. How do you mean to save her?

[keepmeinyourheart]

....... I know. Shiva has been dead for some time now, since she was in Niflheim. [Gentiana is a High Messenger of the Astrals, after all. Word kinda got back to her.] I am not surprised they would go to such lengths to ensure Noctis never received the powers he is meant to have. Though I am glad to hear he forged covenants with them.

[keepmeinyourheart]

No, it is usually something only the upper class and royalty engage in.

[challengesfate]

[Not with that attitude they can't]

I...before waking here, just before...my friends and I had traveled through time. And I know it worked, because...I met them. My father, my mother, my aunt...they were right in front of me, alive again. They still don't know what's coming, but...if I can go home, I know I can change their fates.