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

[photoshooter]

Whoa, I'm, uh, really not bodyguard material. I guess I can more or less hold my own in a fight by now? But my training was mostly self-defense and I'm not exactly...

[He swings his arms idly, searching for the word.]

...Useful, without a gun.

[newcycle]

Yeah-- anyone from back home should know what bending is.

[so, she's starting to piece together... something. it feels significant to her, but she's not sure how.]

[unhappylittletrees]

Oh yeah, they were fine. He didn't, like, wrap them in foil or anything.

[That'd just be weird.]

[newcycle]

Because of the war?

[Korra asks softly, sympathetically. She's trying to understand, but she's starting to realize that, just like her, sometimes the situation is more complicated than it really, really needs to be.]

[newcycle]

[she's not really heard of ninjas, so she... assumes? that makes sense? But hey, they're all from different places.]

Uh-- sure. I guess you do?

[newcycle]

-ifying junk? What does that mean?

[photoshooter]

[Friendship will definitely save the day and nothing will hurt, ever!]

It did say we had about an hour. Think that's a long enough time to make a search? Like, maybe if we find the reference section there'll be an atlas or something?

[newcycle]

It means I can bend all four elements. Oh, and I'm supposed to bring balance to the world.

[that didn't explain anything Korra, but it's been a long, long time... if ever... that she's had to explain what the Avatar is.]

[newcycle]

[mild confusion registered, because that follows with her next question...]

Espresso? Coffee?

[unhappylittletrees]

[He takes a cup and takes a small sip of it black, not wanting to be rude and immediately go searching for half and half and several sugar packets.]

Wow. [Now the ultimate question: make a dumb reference and possibly embarrass himself in front of a kind of cute older guy or not.] This is, pardon my language, a damn fine cup of coffee. Damn fine.

[#yolo]

[newcycle]

No... just my hair. And my clothes being gone, but that's not unique to anyone else.

[honestly? The orange washes her out a little bit. It's not a good color for her.]

[stillstands]

[She actually does a quick check over - arms are moving okay, legs are functioning. No blood or bruising she wasn't expecting, which is odd for post-assumed-kidnapping.]

I seem okay. Aside from the... computer in my arm.

[She's... trying not to think about that. Trying really hard. It's a little creepy.]

[newcycle]

Trust me, I want to know as badly as anyone. I really need to get home.

[photoshooter]

[Oh. Hm.]

I don't think so. I mean, I'm pretty sure I haven't seen anyone that looks like you since I talked to you earlier.

[playthedamncard]

Please, that would require NASA to actually be funded at an adequate level.

[newcycle]

Yeah!

Hang on.

[well, now? Now she's going to sit, cross legged, on the floor, placing her fists against each other.

She looks like she's concentrating.

And then she glows.

But... it fades really, really quickly.]

[newcycle]

Uh... whichever's easier to understand?

[challengesfate]

An atlus would be as good a place to start as any.

[Ready to rifle through the stacks, Prompto?]

[newcycle]

[ARGH he's one of those people. The kind that get on her nerves.]

I told you, it's waterbending.

[newcycle]

No! Of course not! And I'm not going to kill anyone either, no way.

[challengesfate]

Huh...?

[Is this some kind of magic? Lucina kneels down a bit, watching curiously.]

Did...whatever that was work?

[newcycle]

Hey.

[she places her hand lightly on his shoulder]

I'll make sure we get out of here, somehow.

[immaculacies]

Of course. There's a lot about this situation that I don't like, either. But... I think people who are accustomed to having some way to defend themselves are liable to be even more scared than someone who never had any protection at all. Did I misjudge?

[photoshooter]

Uh, sure, I don't mind. [Max is definitely not from the Empire.] It's kind of a long story, though, if I'm really going from the top.

[stillstands]

[Look at this teamwork.]

Okay, so... [--wait, is it making a hissing noise? Isn't that supposed to happen once the food is in the--

Oh shoot. Hang on, she's scrambling for the cardboard box and trying to open it as neatly as possible because they're going to need that? She thinks?? And pull the pack of food out because that bag is gonna start heating up and smoking real quick.]

Here, quick--I think we should've put this in first!! [She's got the pack!! And boy does that ever look like a really unappealing squashy khaki monstrosity in her hands. Cue mad fumbling to get the pack in the bag??]