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

[lmafo]

What, portentous?

[hellahighwater]

No, the chat speak. I have to know if I've found someone who talks more like she's from the New Age Twilight Zone than my best friend.

[lmafo]

Oh, uh... yeah, I guess. No one's ever thought it was weird before?

[hellahighwater]

Most people leave text stuff to texts.

[lmafo]

I mean like ninety percent of what I do is texts, it just kinda seemed natural.

[hellahighwater]

...As long as you don't start talking in emoji.

[lmafo]

Ex-dee, okay.

[ She raises her hands. ]

Nah, nah, I don't do emoticons. You're safe.

[hellahighwater]

I almost killed you right there. You almost died.

[ She says, completely deadpan, having not moved one inch. ]

[lmafo]

Eh, I've done that before.

[ Ponders for a moment, shrugs it off. ]

What did emojis do to you, anyway?

[hellahighwater]

[ ... There's something to keep in mind. ]

They're just lame, alright? Kid and/or nerd stuff.

[lmafo]

And what if I'm a nerd, what then?

[hellahighwater]

[ How does she. Reply to this, no one's ever asked-- ]

Then...you're a nerd and that's it, that's just how it goes.

[lmafo]

Aight. Good to know, uh...

[ Looks at her PIP. ]

Chloe.

[hellahighwater]

Great. Gotcha...

[ Similarly. ]

Roxy. God, this is so fucked up, like a shitastic name chart at killtergarten.

[lmafo]

Pffffhaha. Killtergarten. Yes, it is exactly that thing, Chloe. One hundred fucking percent.

[ She meant that genuinely. ]

Complete with everyone getting a special title, I guess.

[hellahighwater]

[ ...You laughed at her shitty joke.
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Yeah... Ha, yeah, have you seen some of these things? Like those...Matsuno guys, what a compliment. And- ...what the fuck is a bunch of blank spaces supposed to mean?

[ She found Roxy's title! ]

[lmafo]

It's nothing! Like... literally, "Champion of Nothing." idk why that's my title, since I don't know what exactly to do with my void thing, but here I am.

[hellahighwater]

Void...thing... Okay, what're you actually high on?

[lmafo]

Nothing! I'm totes clean, promise. It's uh. You know where in the movies the guy just says "it's complicated?" It's complicated.

[hellahighwater]

...Oh, yeah, no, I definitely know that, my life's a big stack of "it's complicated" topped with "don't go there" sauce right now. Is it sci-fi bullshit? All you gotta say is sci-fi bullshit.

[lmafo]

I do know sci-fi bullshit.

[ Hm... ]

So who's Max Caulfield, huh?

[ That's absolutely a teasing tone of voice, why cant i gagtag myself in shame ]

[hellahighwater]

[ .......Well there's the million dollar question, huh? ]

She's my best friend. I'm like...her sidekick, so that's probably...what that is.

[lmafo]

Sidekick, huh? Alright, alright, legit. I respect having a bff you could be the champion of so hard people notice it in space.

[hellahighwater]

...If there's any hella fucking stupid designation I had to get, I guess there could be worse ones.

[lmafo]

Better than the poor twin dudes.