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

Hallway

[theundertaken]

Oh, uh - hey. [His tone with a young, scared girl is a little more cautious.] I'm here. You okay?

[lovecolored]

[ eyebrow raise ]

Well, yeah. It took a few months of prep time and we needed a lotta outside help. People in the Outside World can do it just fine though, right?

[ a sigh ]

Lame.

[theundertaken]

[Max wanders in, clearly still exploring, and stops to watch the coffee guy work for a second or two. He's in a jumpsuit, so even though he's making himself at home, he's probably also been kidnapped, right?]

....man, I'm trying to come up with a good Starbucks pun, but Starbucks by itself is kinda already space-themed.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Nah. They probably are gonna ignore us 'till we all gather in the cafeteria in an hour.

[Zombina grins though.]

Doesn't mean that we can't trash the place or make ourselves huge annoyances until then!

[VIVA LA RESISTANCE! OR SOMESHIT!]

Seriously though, if I see a scratch on any of my 11 babies, then there's gonna be serious trouble. I'll consider letting ya have first shot though. Hat thievery is serious business.

[She's a considerate zombie like that.]

[challengesfate]

A "hella" meltd-

[Chloe, you of all people should know that if you tell someone not to do something, it exponentially increases the chances of them doing the thing - and guess who's slowly turning to look out the window, her eyes widening as she takes in the endless expanse of stars.]

...Wh...why does the sky take up so much of that window...?

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Eh, not for me at least! I don't really do the whole embarrassment thing though. But have you see the titles they gave some of the people here? Like....

[Let her pick an random one here....]

Champion Waste of Space?

[Heh. Space.]

The Profiles

[theundertaken]

Someone asking for a Mexican?

[now you've done it]

[newcycle]

[she frowns and well-- she still has her coffee. There's water in there.

She starts to bend the water out, at least.]

If you hold still, I can heal it.

[challengesfate]

Oh...so, it makes tea?

[Coffee is not a plentiful commodity in post-apocalyptic wasteland JRPG land.]

[andjerry]

[Korra seems like 5150s are an unfamiliar concept, but also like she could ruin his day if he accidentally implies she's crazy. He picks out his words gingerly, gaze back and forth from her eyes to his shoes.]

Back home, if your family's worried about you and thinks you're going to hurt someone, or if you get into trouble... they can send you somewhere like this. They aren't always right about it, [he makes sure to follow up] but I suppose that doesn't matter once you're already there.

[newcycle]

No, something called 'espresso.'

Though I could really, really go for some tea right now...

[challengesfate]

Perhaps. But I would not know what this Kingsglaive is likely to wear.

[What is a Lucis anyway]

My name is Lucina. What is yours.

[theundertaken]

Oh yeah? [Let him just immediately start fucking with that, flipping through until he finds himself.] ......ehhhhh, most of mine's right. I'm super fucking unemployed right now though. This is really creepy, actually.

[theundertaken]

Not even to visit? We get a lot of tourists.

[But yeah, okay.]

We're also where they launch the space shuttles, so I guess I'm sorta in proximity to space stuff? But not in any real way. Like, I'm not really a candidate for alien abduction, probably.

[newcycle]

[honestly... maybe she should pull up those profiles. They've come up enough, and she's not getting anywhere with an SOS signal.

So, she does that]

Champion... wow that's a long champion title.

[challengesfate]

[Yeah she's just. Going to stop looking at this freakish device and its blatant lies. We're gonna stop right now.]

It cannot be true - I refuse to believe it could be, it's...[She shakes her head.] There is something incredibly wrong here, abduction aside.

[theundertaken]

Okay, so let's look around. We've got a whole creepy space hallway to explore.

[challengesfate]

[Yeah, we're going pretty far back into technological advances here.]

And where does the electricity come from? Is there a tome in use?

[theundertaken]

Would it?

[discalibur]

...I mean, a little.

[challengesfate]

...Perhaps...the metal? Everything looks metallic, for the most part. Why is that?

[newcycle]

[she looks at him, and honestly? She's a little concerned for him, if that's where his mind is going. But also... he's not wrong about the jacking his day up if necessary]

Well... that may be back home, but I know none of my friends would ever send me here. Not with something so important on the line.

kitchen

[andjerry]

[Thomas's first thought on seeing Miki: oh no she's cute

his second thought: why are there so many young girls and why is he on the same ward as them

his third thought, and the one he acts on: she knows what she's doing, as she's already both inventorying and smiling. He's more careful not to startle her than he was with the young people in the hallways, making a sound announcing himself before opening a cabinet next to hers.]

You're Miki, aren't you? It looks like we had the same priorities.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Bingo! I'm 100% clinically dead with everything it entails!.... Including rigor mortis unfortunately. Rigor mortis is an bitch to deal with in the morning. Be glad ya never have ta deal with it.

[Zombina shrugs and waves her hand dismissively at the next question.]

Eh, I doubt it. Can't kill what's already dead. I may be the world's liveliest corpse, but I'm still a corpse! But I guess if I'm still talkin' and walkin' then I count as alive enough for them. Zombies are also called the living dead for a reason!

[Also the walking dead. Great show. Zombina gives it a 10/10 for the awesome zombie effects.]

[theundertaken]

.....yeah, okay. [This is probably pretty accurate; he has no idea how to get out of literal fucking outer space.] You want some company while you look around?