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.]

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[quadjumps]

That's the plan.

[ a little smirk on his face, now. ]

Then you'll see me everywhere. There's no way you won't know who I am.

[quadjumps]

That's bullshit. Enemies are enemies; they don't deserve any of my time.

[stillstands]

[Penny's Semblance is being adorable and lovely and also 12 swords.]

... That sounds more like supernatural powers than something that would be classed as a natural ability where I'm from.

People can have the natural ability to train skills, like running fast but not ridiculously so, and not with -[Rose petals?] - rose petals...

[in4apounding]

Developing your Semblance still definitely takes training, and it can always be improved on. But the actual ability is unique, you can't learn to use someone else's specific Semblance.

[Twelve swords. Maybe more. Imagine.]

It's not really supernatural, though, it's genetic.

[dejabrew]

[Bolton leans back on his back foot and crosses his arms, hiding a smile (not well) behind his hand.]

Fresh out of cherry pie to go with it, I'm afraid.

[dejabrew]

One surprise, coming right up.

[He goes over to the espresso machine and hmms thoughtfully over the syrups for a minute, before deciding on chocolate and a hint of creme de menthe. Then the speed with which he steams the milk and pulls the espresso shots is that of years of practice, and finally he tops it off with whipped cream and a sprinkle of chocolate powder.]

Voila!

[dejabrew]

[You must be level 5 social link to unlock his tragic backstory.]

I was... driving home from out of state. Alone. But there was nothing out of the ordinary, no bright Area 51 lights or flying saucers.

[discalibur]

They helped me kill more Worms. That's really all I care about.

[andjerry]

[and he isn't the first person to have been kidnapped that Thomas has met]

To somewhere like this?

[karappo]

[Karamatsu nods, though something about Lucina saying that...it doesn't sit with him well.]

...It does not make sense, though. Why bring such a specific number of us, if not all? It almost would have made more sense just to have only one of us here.

[batfortheprincess]

No, please don't worry about it. I'm not offended and I was the one who said it first.

[The question makes him pause though. How does he explain this stuff uhhh]

Well, statements that may sound too critical or make people uncomfortable are usually avoided. Also, questions that may pry too deeply into someone's background aren't considered acceptable until you know them a little better.

[karappo]

Ah, your father...had something against you making a friend?

[karappo]

[E w]

So...edible, at best?

[God this is going to be a long time.]

[karappo]

[Wow. That's...wow.]

I cannot say that Mars is settled at all back home, at least not as far as I know...we have only made it so far as the moon.

[andjerry]

No. People go into old patterns, though, even in new situations. You with your sorting and inventory, and me with... [this. and he's said too much.]

I'll let you be.

[karappo]

[Oh...that's exciting. He'll know a celebrity!]

Do you think they will create merchandise under your name?

[hellahighwater]

...I have to help my friend with some important stuff. Life-saving stuff.

[karappo]

Very strange. ...you do not think they had some way to make us forget what happened, do you?

[andjerry]

[so earnest it hurts]

You started young.

[and he shifts foot to foot, a step or two closer] You think we're all going to need you to protect us?

[hellahighwater]

Having my own space is pretty nice. [ It's true, there. ] You've got a brother here too, right? How many others?

[theundertaken]

Kidnap victims!

[Shoving the spoon at Prompto!]

[hellahighwater]

There's a lot of peo...ple...

[




what does she do with this ]

Don't...sweat it about all that. The alien stuff. Okay?

[quadjumps]

You're delusional! Go get your head checked or something. I don't have time for this.

[ and he's...walking away...rip ]

[quadjumps]

...So this is more like freedom to you, huh?

[challengesfate]

That I could not say. Perhaps...they want people from our homes to worry for us?

[But oh that's a bad, bad thing in Lucina's case, everyone was separated...no one would know she wasn't in the past. What would Morgan and the others do?]