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

light p5 spoilers

[le_mat]

[He wakes with a feeling of dull panic, just like every other time during the interrogation where he felt his mind frantically filling the holes in his memory with horrific scenarios. A feeling of reality, even as he tells himself no, no this didn't HAPPEN, you didn't fail. Not yet.

But the room doesn't fade back to the tiny dark room, or even into the jail cell bathed in blue light. So he has to rethink his options. His clothing is new, and not his thief costume. Still...]

A Palace. Huh...

[he walks out eventually, no pockets to stuff his hands into, so they perch on his hips instead as he walks around, exploring... and oddly ignoring everyone else completely. Though one might notice him lingering near by others, as if listening in]

[karappo]

[Karamatsu's peeled himself away from people long enough to scan the profiles again...it seems like he's finally taking the time to look at the rules properly. Akira will hear him muttering to himself since he happens to be standing close enough for it.]

"Communal lifestyle"...without a time limit? What exactly...

[His eyes dart more as he goes further down the list, and then he stops.]

M...m...Mu- eeeehh!?!

[le_mat]

Embarrassing secret on there?

[Hi Kara there sure is a guy just right there]

[karappo]

[Why are you right there, guy, give a guy some warning.]

N...no, it...

[Karamatsu stammers. He wants to put on his usual airs of confidence to pretend he's fine, but. He's a little too startled to at the moment.

Instead, he just gestures for Akira to come over to look at the rule he'd stopped on. The rule about Murder.]

[stillstands]

[Yes hello stalker. Meet slightly-paranoid zombie apocalypse survivor who is... honestly, probably observing things nearly as hard as you. So after a couple of moments wondering if this guy is just lingering, or trying to listen in on people's discussions... she snaps her book shut, decisively.]

Can I help you?

[le_mat]

[He doesn't even seem to look up from his PIP, which he is fiddling with like any modern teenager would with new portable tech. How does he change the wallpaper on this thing, geeze...?

His voice is at least rather friendly rather then putt off]

Maybe. What can you tell me about the Reapers I think I might be lost.

[stillstands]

[Wow.

Rude.]

Lost's one way to put it. I think we might all have been kidnapped, personally.

[Goal one: get him to look up from his armcomputer.]

come snoop on the other jrpg kid

[challengesfate]

[Lucina's not talking to anyone in particular - just herself as she clumsily tries to work her PIP. Everyone else was doing it with such ease that she was starting to feel a little silly. Shouldn't she know how such a thing works as well?

She, uh. Seems kind of...stuck on the profiles, though, doing the screen swipey thing she'd seen others do, muttering to herself-]

No, go back...how do I go back...

[If you're paying attention, Akira, you'll notice she's trying to look at her own profile, but keeps overestimating how much force to put in her touchscreen swipes.]

[le_mat]

[He grew up with smartphones, so it was second nature for him. But seeing someone not much older fumbling so hard was almost cute- so he comes over.]

May I?

[challengesfate]

Hm?

[She looks up, and it takes her a second to realize what this young man is offering to help her with.]

Oh. Um. Yes, please, if you don't mind. I...cannot seem to make this work properly.

[lovecolored]

[ it takes a sneak thief to know a sneak thief, buddy ]

I spy with my little eye...an eavesdropper.

[ looking over her shoulder at him ]

What's your deal? Tryin' to scope out suspicious persons?

[le_mat]

[He grins, pushing up his glasses with a knuckle to give them just the right sheen]

Oh, you caught me.

[lovecolored]

Ya got that look about you. 'Ooooh, I'm quiet and mysterious and smell like I just bathed in a coffee pot, I'm just a simple shopkeeper, don't mind me.'

[ despite what she's saying, she doesn't say it derisively. Instead she sounds a little...impressed? ]

Hallways

[in4apounding]

[Congrats, Akira, you've discovered a young ginger girl staring out the windows in rapt attention. Your eavesdropping nets you the following valuable intel-]

Oh... it's so pretty...

[And hopefully you weren't trying to be too stealthy, because she turns your way with a big grin.]

Isn't it pretty? I didn't think this was even possible!

[le_mat]

[he smiles and nods.]

It really is.

[there's a different quality to it then the view in Okamura's palace even if the location is similar. He's not ready to admit it's real, but it lacks that... pulp-y fakeness.]

[in4apounding]

[What, like this is some kind of computer simulation, that's ridiculous.]

...Oh! I'm sorry, I should introduce myself. My name is Penny, it's a pleasure to meet you!

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Man I fucking wish! An space palace would be fucking rad! I mean, we'd still be kidnapped and shit, but hey at least we'd be in a fucking space palace!

[Hello there guy trying to mind his own business, meet Zombie butting into your business.]

[le_mat]

[he curses at himself softly- usually it was Ryuji talking Thief business too loudly. But his surprise doesn't show otherwise]

At least then we'd have better rooms.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

That'd be seriously killer right now. I mean, this place is cramped enough, but with like 20 something people here, it's pretty crowded.

[She humphs.]

Not that good rooms would stop me from kicking whoever's behind this' ass. I mean, have you seen the rules already? Number seven is complete bullshit.

[newcycle]

[she's pressing buttons furiously on her P.I.P., and she seems frustrated, more than anything else. All these words, and not a single map? No location?]

You've got to be kidding me. Not even a radio?!

What am I going to do...?

[she then turns suddenly, and practically runs into him]

Oh-- wait- [not sure if kidnapped or involved]

[le_mat]

[he raises his hands in the universal 'Not armed' pose, tilting his head towards his PIP.

Same boat]

[newcycle]

[she registers-- not a threat, and then steps back more fully]

Sorry, I didn't see you.

[lmafo]

[ Roxy is just gonna... chill for a bit after she notices him, then sPIN TO FACE HIM. ]

What's up, buddy?

[le_mat]

[he startles slightly, so she clearly caught him. But his responce is automatic]

Would saying "the sky" be redundant if we're in space?

[lmafo]

I think if there's a sky it's down. We got a roof! That's nice, in space.