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

[le_mat]

[He carefully takes her arm and drags a finger across the screen]

It's very sensitive, so you don't need much speed to make it work. Feather touch.

[He flips it to her's]

[challengesfate]

Oh...so, you touch it lightly, then?

[She watches, observing, and then...tries it herself. She manages not to flick around through half of the profiles this time, instead staying on her own! There is hope for Lucina yet.]

Ah - it works! [She smiles, the gesture small, but bright.] You have my gratitude. What is your name?

[le_mat]

Akira Kurusu. It's a pleasure to meet you-

[Glance]

Lucina.

[challengesfate]

It's a pleasure to meet you, as well.

[Oh. Right. Her...name is on here. And quite a few other things. Lucina examines the information a bit more, holding the PIP closer to her face as she does. She's really not used to any of this...]

...Twenty years old...? But that can't be...

[She says it more to herself, but you're welcome to interject, of course.]

[le_mat]

Your's is wrong too?

[challengesfate]

[Let her just double check the rest...]

Only in age...the rest is correct. But two years...[She shakes her head.] That cannot be right. I can't be missing two years. That would mean...

[There's a prickle of dread in her stomach. It was two years before the war in Valm that the Risen began to appear. Two years between when she arrived in the past and when Emmeryn was assassinated. Two years...]

Gods...this can't be right at all...

[le_mat]

Two years?

Mine is just a few months, but...

[challengesfate]

[Yeah she's just. Going to stop looking at this freakish device and its blatant lies. We're gonna stop right now.]

It cannot be true - I refuse to believe it could be, it's...[She shakes her head.] There is something incredibly wrong here, abduction aside.

[le_mat]

... you feel it too.

There's a lot wrong here. Even if these were right, a lot of it's information strangers couldn't know. This place is like something out of a story, it's impossible. A lot of us were taken from places where there's no way a kidnapper could get away with it.

It's wrong.

[challengesfate]

[Maybe not to the extent of your weird perception abilities? But yes, Lucina has been picking up that something is incredibly wrong about this entire situation. She nods.]

And everyone...the facts about our homes don't seem to match, either. There is magic in my world, but for others it doesn't exist. Some worlds have fiends and monsters...some do not. It's - it's like we've been pulled into some Outer Realm beyond imagination.