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]

[Ohhhhh that's cute. He sees what this is. He keeps a sigh internal and will allow the stroking of his ego.]

Kaiba Seto. Which you should know if you looked at the profiles, Matsuno Karamatsu.

[batfortheprincess]

[Vaguely, Tsurugi's reaction is reminiscent of a certain princess but... surely even Her Highness knew about cafeterias, even if she hadn't used one before??? Hrm. Well, maybe he shouldn't be pondering on that now anyways.]

Yes, that's... one way to look at it. I do not know if they expect us to prepare our own food, however. [because if that's the case, Slaine can say for sure that he'd be pretty useless on that front.]

[lovecolored]

A man of culture, ze.

[ though she's starting to think maybe, like...this guy is kind of pretentious.....HMMMM. her smile gets a bit sardonic. What's this guy's deal? Marisa starts to flick through the profiles on her PIP, looking for his. ]

What sorta music?

[theundertaken]

I mean, Korra didn't argue when I called her a wizard, buuuuuut it doesn't seem like she uses a staff or wand or anything either. She might be more of a...elemental monk or something?

[lmafo]

Hm. Monks are cool, but they're not wizards. Damn, so close.

[discalibur]

Yes, of course!

It must be nice having so many siblings.

[He sound vaguely... wistful.]

[andjerry]

[Thomas is starting to believe no one else on the station has heard of involuntary psychiatric holds]

I didn't think we signed ourselves up- [that shutdown wilts him and he sighs, impatient with himself]

But it probably doesn't matter how we got here.

[theundertaken]

Oh god, of course I wanna see a sword. I went to a renfaire one time, but that's pretty much it. Except for the swords they sell nerds, but those ones aren't really...real swords, right?

...you probably don't know what that meant. But yeah, I wanna see a sword if you...find it. Or something.

[discalibur]

Well, to transform you need a Zecter. In my case, it looks like a robotic scorpion.

They can be a little... picky, so they only work for those they've chosen.

[batfortheprincess]

R-right.

[Slaine has in fact gone to space before and would probably rate those experiences 5/10 collectively but. Maybe he'll just keep that to himself.]

I was just surprised at how well you were taking everything, especially since we still don't know why we were brought here.

[playthedamncard]

[Aaaand immediately less interested.] They have...decision-making capabilities, of a sort? [The God Cards had a bit of power not on the field, if he could admit it, but not even anything like that.]

[andjerry]

Whoever wrote these definitely wants some of us to start on the wrong foot.

You sound like you're handling this well.

[discalibur]

To an extent. I'm not sure exactly how intelligent they are, but I know they select their users themselves.

Some seem less picky than others. I think I heard that the TheBee Zecter has gone through three users.

[No, not the Bee Zecter, the TheBee Zecter.]

[theundertaken]

Prompto fought a god or something?

[batfortheprincess]

...I don't know. [It's too elaborate to be a joke and it's too disorganized to be a prison. Everything about this just felt absurd.]

It would make more sense if we were being kept as hostages or for interrogation, but... it doesn't look as if there would be much to gain from having us kill each other.

[karappo]

Hmm, no, it is not that exactly...it is more that he would probably say that there isn't really anything that makes us special. Beyond being identical, there is not much incredibly remarkable about the six of us, after all.

[He says this very plainly, like it's just...the truth.]

But that is alright! We may not be special, but we are unique in other ways.

[karappo]

I have! I just did not have a chance to get through them all.

[He uh. Got...distracted, looking at his own title for a bit there.]

It is nice to meet you regardless, Kaiba-san.

[karappo]

[Oh, just you wait until you find it, Marisa.]

Love songs, naturally.

[He grins, looking up at the...ceiling, wistfully.]

I play the acoustic guitar and spend much of my time penning the songs that I will one day sing to my true love.

[playthedamncard]

[He's stick to last names with Kara, too, except apparently there are fucking two of them and that's just damned unfortunate.]

Distracted by yourself and the information gathered about you? [And the title. Of course. Yikes.]

[karappo]

Every day is an adventure, that is for sure. My brothers and I were renowned in our ward when we were children...everywhere we went people knew us.

[More like you were infamous. You were little shits.]

Though now we are adults, our charm still remains.

[keepmeinyourheart]

[Frowning, she nods.]

I had just arrived in Insomnia and been assigned a guard. I had been informed that Noctis had already left the city... The plan had been for me to go to Altissia, but the emperor and the chancellor had other ideas.

[playthedamncard]

[...Listen some cards have really fucking stupid names, who is he to really judge?]

And these suits, they're weapons in and of themselves? They have abilities, armor?

[batfortheprincess]

[Right. To be honest he uh. Didn't pay much attention to the PIP aside from it just being there but at Kaiba's words, Slaine pulls lightly at the device.]

...Wasn't there a rule against doing that?

[He doesn't even intend to be rude by saying that but it's kind of the first thing that comes to mind??]

[keepmeinyourheart]

It is... not something that the people of my home wear, but I have seen some similar fashion with the troops, though they wore armor over their uniforms.

[andjerry]

If there are six of you, you probably have to be... what makes you unique?