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

CAFETERIA

[challengesfate]

...What is an "El em ay oh"?

[Did. Did this woman who can't be but a few years older than roxy seriously ask that, with all the pauses and phonetic sounding and everything?]

[lmafo]

[ oh come on you have blue hair how can you not know this ]

It's letters. El em mayo! You know?

[challengesfate]

[JRPG Fantasy Genetics.]

Oh! So it's supposed to spell something.

[She runs the letters through her head...]

...That doesn't spell any word I've heard before.

[lmafo]

[ She could poke fun or lie here, but. That's not the type of person she is. Also, blue is a good friend color. ]

... It stands for "laughing my ass off." Not up on your texty lingos, huh?

[challengesfate]

I...don't believe I am, no. Does that make it a code, then?

[If it's a code then that makes more sense, but what a strangely lighthearted thing to put to code.]

[lmafo]

Oh yeah, when you text you text in code all the time. L-m-a-o, w-t-f, o-m-g, I just say them out loud too because I can.

[challengesfate]

Ah! I think I understand now!

[It's such a relief to not be in the dark about something weird anymore. Lucina's shoulders loosen up a bit, and she looks considerably relieved.]

What do those other codes mean? Perhaps my friends and I could use them.

[lmafo]

W-T-F means "what the fuck," o-m-g means "oh my god." They're good for gettin all shorthandy when you wanna say stuff fast.

[challengesfate]

And are there more? Or is it alright to create your own? These sound like they would be incredibly valuable on the battlefield, if one needed to communicate something quickly.

[lmafo]

I mean... yeah, sure, abbreviating junk is easy if you all agree on what it means. Don't wanna be all "o-m-g" and have your best buddy be like "off mango grass!" in his head, y'know?

[challengesfate]

No, that would be bad.

[Still, Lucina finds herself smiling a bit. She likes these abbreviations.]

What is your name? Mine is Lucina.

[lmafo]

Roxy Lalonde, at your service! Or... I'm here, at least, and you're here so. 'scool.

[challengesfate]

[Thank goodness she understands turns of phrase or else this would devolve into something pretty awkward and cliche.]

It's good to meet you, Roxy. And...thank you, for answering my questions. I feel that I'm going to have a lot of them the longer we find ourselves here.

[lmafo]

Not up on your space stuff?

[challengesfate]

I don't think I'm up on...almost everything here.

[lmafo]

Alright, alright, no worries. You got any questions, you come to your pal Rolal, alright? Your Ro-pal, if you will.

[challengesfate]

[Well, she might keep some things to herself and ask...other people, because embarrassed, but you are quickly going onto the list of "nice and helpful people who understand stuff".]

Alright. You have my gratitude, Roxy.

[lmafo]

[ It's all good, man. ]

Aw, no worries, girl. I got plenty of experience explaining stuff.

[challengesfate]

Really? Is there much that you find needs explaining in life?

[lmafo]

In mine? Yeah, sometimes. I don't do it as much as some peeps I know, but Roxy Lalonde can hold her own in an explain-off.

[challengesfate]

I see...things must be incredibly complicated, then. My life is...relatively straightforward, at least so far.

[lmafo]

Like a million relationship statuses, all stuck together into some kinda complication matrix. Straightforward is cool too, tho!

[challengesfate]

Ah...love troubles, then?

[lmafo]

I mean yeah that was a thing but I'm pretty sure we're all over that now. Now the weird stuff is just everything else.

[challengesfate]

Ah, I see. So...it would be mysteries, then? Or numerous events happening all at once?