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]

[Thomas, buddy.]

Uhhh, no. I know I'm the joker type, but this doesn't really seem like the moment? You okay, man?

[discalibur]

Hmm, Insomnia? What an interesting name to give to a city! What is it like?

[photoshooter]

It's--

[He catches himself, pauses, and then continues, more muted.]

It was a really great city. Always at the cutting edge of technology, full of busy streets and people... the Citadel was beautiful, too. Huge stone architecture like you wouldn't believe.

[...]

I'm not sure how it is there now.

[challengesfate]

Is that so...then, that would mean one's own world was safe, wouldn't it? If the people had the time and desire to see such far away places.

[quadjumps]

Which is why I'm going to figure out how to pilot this goddamn ship back to earth or get someone else to do it instead. I don't care. I'm not dying here.

[quadjumps]

There you go again, rambling about things that don't make any sense. Insomnia's a sleeping disorder.

[kebakeba]

Are you insane?! [ she doesn't want to die in a firey crash from a space ship ramming into earth THANK YOU VERY MUCH ]

[photoshooter]

It's my hometown!

[quadjumps]

What the fuck else do you want me to do?! Let us all rot in the middle of space?!

[kebakeba]

I don't know?! Wait for the space police?! You can't just hijack a space ship!

[stillstands]

[Just. Two people, hanging out and watching a cardboard box smoke intensely.]

About -- [Scraaaambling for those instructions now. It takes a moment for her to read it, but once she has:] ten minutes, it says.

I guess it's the same principle as heating something up in a microwave, or on a stove top so that seems right?

[stillstands]

[... It's... fairly normal for her, but she's not about to talk about that out loud.]

Well, we need food... and it's something to do, at least.

[She stacks a small tower of beef... themed? packs in front of her, and only looks back up when Thomas speaks again.]

Mm. It looks like army style rations, fried dried and packaged food. Stuff that lasts.

[stillstands]

[She was being guarded by someone? She can help but give Luna a quick glance over. She definitely looks like someone important...]

Then, no. I don't think his name was on the list. But there could be more people arriving?

[...?] Not Earth?

[in4apounding]

No, I haven't!

[Wait.]

...Are you from another planet? And no I didn't hit my head!

[stillstands]

[Miki stands back, waiting for Lucina to finish reading over the rules - and she can see the exact moment that Rule 7 is read. Her face probably did something similar when she first read it, it seems almost... impossible?]

Right. [She doesn't look away, but does folds her arms around her herself a little tightly. There's... nothing wrong with Lucina's statement - it's entirely reasonable and actually a little reassuring to hear her say she wouldn't dream of killing to escape. But words are words, and she's missing something very important.] But you wouldn't be the only one who needs to return home, and fast.

Don't just... [How does she put it?] dismiss it because you wouldn't do it personally. Desperation can do extreme things to a person. I don't want to hurt anyone either, but how can either of us speak for everyone else here?

[andjerry]

[all right he's losing it a little here; he isn't going to acknowledge it]

Sorry... You've really never seen a bear? [maybe this will anchor him] They're massive, big brown shaggy things that eat whatever they can find. If you stay out of their way, they won't bother you, but not everyone tries to do that.

[andjerry]

Like Stanford Prison. That's... I don't think it's a good sign.

[stillstands]

Why would they need to monitor our vitals...?

[Not because... ?

yup. She sure is looking up those rules again and that infamous rule 7...]

This?

[in4apounding]

Oh no. ...I guess if only one kingdom had access to Dust, things would get really bad too. Most of it comes out of Atlas, but it can be mined in a LOT of different places on Remnant.

[stillstands]

[she's not!! going to argue that, but...]

That's all there is, ice cream wise. I can look for something else? [if you're THAT anti-freeze dried anything.]

[stillstands]

[...

... ... that...! Was a sudden change...?]

Oh, uh--

[That's nice of her? If a little out of the blue.]

-- What's a huntress?

[in4apounding]

Oh no, that's terrible! ...You definitely LOOK alive.

[Ha, dead people coming back. Ridiculous, right.]

[She is, however, giving Luna a tiny poke on the shoulder, just to confirm she's solid.]

[in4apounding]

It's absolutely sensational!

[Have you looked out the windows yet. Have you.]

...I mean besides the part where we've been kidnapped. But we've been kidnapped to someplace very pretty, at least!

[andjerry]

[and he just. slumps. a full kitchen stocked with preserved camping food? it's like catching up with a mirage in the desert.]

So we... we're going to be here for a while. [he has to keep it together, she's a child]

Are you going to be all right?

[in4apounding]

Maybe? You don't need- um, books or staffs to use a Semblance, though. Some people can focus it around their weapons, I guess? Or augment it with Dust.

...That's, um. Crystals we use as a power source. For pretty much everything.