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

[theundertaken]

My name's Max. [He starts to offer a handshake, hesitates because her hands were just full of fire, and then goes for it anyway.] I mean, I'd definitely like to think we could talk our way out of this. I'm not much of a fighter to begin with. I just can't think of any good reason for this, you know?

[newcycle]

[oh, hey, handshakes. WITHOUT terrible photo ops. That's kind of nice.

She's got a pretty firm handshake, and no fire.]

I can't either... but that doesn't mean there isn't one, you know.

[theundertaken]

Guess not. But I had shit to do back home. I'm sure we all did - no one ever really makes room in their lives for kidnapping.

[newcycle]

You're telling me. I've always got something important to do back home.

[not always, shut up Korra]

[theundertaken]

Evil spirits to punch and stuff? [...wait, they totally got distracted from her telling him the giant evil spirit story. And now that he's thinking back on it, it sounds like maybe it wasn't that fun a story?] Shit, I hope the thing about your uncle turning into a giant monster wasn't a bad thing to bring up?

[newcycle]

No! No, he's gone.

That fight's done. This one is different, and probably less dangerous. We just have to trick the Red Lotus.

[theundertaken]

I don't know what that is, but that does sound better. More, uh, diplomacy-y.

I wasn't doing anything like that, but uh, my mom's been pretty sick lately. I just moved back to help her out - except now it's probably like ten times worse if I just vanished.

[newcycle]

Oh no-- I'm sorry.

I couldn't imagine vanishing like this if something was happening to my parents like that?

[theundertaken]

Yeeeeah. [He tries to slip his hands into his pockets, forgetting for a second that he's in a weird jumpsuit, and instead just sort of awkwardly puts his hands on his hips.] Well, I mean. Hopefully it'll be okay, I dunno.

[newcycle]

Hey.

[she places her hand lightly on his shoulder]

I'll make sure we get out of here, somehow.

[theundertaken]

...yeah? [He gives her a slightly crooked smile.] Well hey, if we've got a wizard on the case, we're good.