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

[stillstands]

[When Miki wakes up it's immediately apparently she's not in Kansas Megurigaoka school anymore - everything's so... bright, and clean looking. Almost clinical. And most notably - she's entirely alone in this strange room. and that's enough to send her scrabbling upright in a panic.]

S-Senpai? Hello? [... Her attention is immediately drawn to the device on her arm, and after a couple of moments examining the profiles (people, she's not... the only person here) and then the rules, with a dawning sense of horror, and not a few moments later she's scrambling out of her room, desperate to find someone confirm this isn't real. It just can't be.]

Is anyone here? Hello?

[Later, she can be found in the kitchen. Notably, she seems delighted with the array of food that's available. It's all freeze dried, or boxed for long term use, but there's just so much of it. There are packets, and cardboard boxes sprawled out in front of her and she appears to be taking note of how many types there are and how much stock they have all together. Old habits die hard, apparently.

And finally, Miki will be found in the library after her trek around the station. Books, she knows. Books are familiar and there are even a few titles she recognises. It doesn't take long for her to curl up in a corner of the room with a book - nose deep and determined to give herself just a little time to... be normal. To not be trapped here, in this place - somewhere that she really doesn't think is any better than how things were back home.]

Hallway

[challengesfate]

...Hello?

[Oh hey Miki, there's a woman with blue hair just sort of awkwardly making her way down the hallway. She stops when your door opens, though, and...greets you. With a little wave. Clearly kind of dazed and confused herself.]

You...don't know where this is either?

[stillstands]

[Miki just kinda.... freezes for a moment. This is someone from those profiles, so does that mean... all those people are really here? Or is this some kind of coincidence?

But. The relief is just... overwhelming. Not to be facing this without someone there as well. Maybe it's a horrible thing to think but... ...]

No, I've never seen anything like this place before.

[She pauses, glancing around the hallways - again, so white and clear. Where are they?]

I was hoping someone else would be able to tell me.

[challengesfate]

[Lucina takes a sharp inhale of breath. Okay. So. No one so far knows where this place is or why they're here. Alright. At least...they're all on that same footing.]

I wish I could tell you, myself, but...I don't know, either. I've never even imagined a place like this before...

library

[quadjumps]

[ yuri may be wandering around, but he's also mad. it just so happens that he's in the library when miki is, not really caring that it's a library at all.

he storms inside, stomping on the floor and seriously irritated, and he just

grabs a random book and hauls it all the way across the room??? ]

[stillstands]

[unfortunately for everyone in this room, Miki had stood up to examine the bookshelves again, meaning she's much closer to the door and when it slams open and Yuri hauls a book across the room she

doesn't...

take it so well.

Her hands tighten around the book she's holding, and that fight or flight instinct kicks in like no one's business and... well.

Duck, Yuri. There's a teenaged girl swinging a book at your head.]

[quadjumps]

[ that, is indeed, a book coming for his head.

that is also a book that successfully thwacks him right on his temple. ]

Ow-!

[ oooooh boy here we go ] Hey! What the fuck is your problem, hah?!

Hallway

[in4apounding]

Hello?

[Penny is a lot less certain than usual, having woken up without her weapons. And having woken up, period.]

Um. I think there's lots of people here, but I don't really know who any of them are. Or where 'here' is, sorry.

[stillstands]

O-oh. I see...?

[This feels rather formal, suddenly??]

So we've all just... arrived here? Out of nowhere?

[in4apounding]

Of course not! ...We've obviously all arrived from SOMEWHERE, we just don't know where that is, where we are now, or how we got here.

[Penny.]

...That's not actually any better, is it.

[lmafo]

I'm not a senpai but what up, how you doing?

[stillstands]

[Someone is juMPY today, so apologies at her almost literally jumping, spinning around and stumbling back a few steps to put space between herself and whoever is behind her.

...

Ah...]

No... you're not the senpai I expected to see.

[...]

I've been better.

[lmafo]

[ Eh, she flies under the radar a lot, it's cool. ]

Just a lonely senpai looking for a home and whatever the other thing besides senpai is, like you know, the step down instead of up on the school chain? That's me.

[ Joking tone aside, Roxy frowns. ]

You got kidnapped too, huh?

Kitchen

[karappo]

[Karamatsu hasn't had breakfast yet. Usually he and his brothers would be eating what their mother had prepared for the morning, but...this is definitely a far cry from mom's home cooking. In fact, it doesn't even begin to come close.

He approaches where Miki has set herself up with lots of different types of boxed food while Karamatsu looks on with a hand resting beneath his chin.]

So this is what astronaut food looks like...

[stillstands]

[what is it with people anD SNEaking up ON HER today??

Miki freezes, then takes a whirling step backwards, knocking one of the big MRE boxes off the table and onto the floor in the process.

Boy, this sure got awkward quickly.]

I--ah. [Shoot. She should pick that up. Hold up, she's ducking down to heft the box back up on the table again.]

I guess so? I think some of this might be army style rations, or something close to it though.

[karappo]

Oh-!

[HE WASN'T TRYING TO SNEAK UP ON HER...he was just more curious about the food than anything.]


I see, well...it certainly seems to be well stocked in here.

[Karamatsu clears his throat, reaching up to brush his bangs out of his eyes.]

Do you think this is...all the food we will have, though? Nothing but packages and powders?

Kitchen

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Oh good we have an kitchen here. Thank fuck they're not gonna let us starve to death here at least.

[Hello yes, that is indeed a Zombie that just wandered in the kitchen. Please don't try and stab her with any knives, that'd be very inconvenient.]

[stillstands]

[Well at least she... has a moment to be aware someone's entering the room or boy this, would go really badly. Badder than it's about to go, because when Miki turns around and sees... well.

...? She's not entirely sure what she's seeing. But the stitching is a stand out and the dull tone of the half of this person's skin is familiar enough that she instinctively freezes, and moves slowly and carefully to put the counter between herself and... whatever just entered the room.]

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Oh hey there, you're... uh..

[She read the profiles like a few minutes ago, what were they again...? Zombina snaps her fingers on one hand as she remembers.]

Miki-chan right?

[Too forward? Shit maybe she should went with -san.]

Hallway

[theundertaken]

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

[stillstands]

[Yup. You sure are right there, other person.]

I...

[Hm.]

I think it's a little too early to say.

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.

[stillstands]

[Gold star to Thomas for being, like, the first person not out to startle her today.]

Oh, taking inventory?

[She looks back down at the packets littering the counter.]

Yeah, I thought it was probably a good idea. At least we know we won't go hungry while we're here.

[... and know how much food they have and how much they need to ration before they do go hungry.]

kitchen

[hellahighwater]

[ Chloe's here, to get something to snack on while they wait. ...Or at least see if the food isn't poisoned, and here's this tiny girl who looks like she's probably...is she the fourteen-year-old Prompto mentioned? She's gotta be, she's just little. ]

Hey. Are you...taking inventory? [ What a diligent thing for a kid to do? Overachiever. ...Makes her think she should be doing more but hey, this is Chloe Price, she lives to disappoint. ]

[stillstands]

[Joke's on you Chloe, she's only a little younger than your best girl. But like... four inches smaller. Sneaky of her.]

Hm? [Well, she's. Holding actual packets of food so. Yeah.]

Yeah, it... [was just automatic for her? She started doing it before she ever realised she was doing it?] was something to do. And at least we'll have an idea of what there actually is to eat here.