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]

...see, where I come from, a naga's like a centaur but with a snake instead of a horse.

[challengesfate]

Really?

[Centaurs are probably a mythical thing, but...I mean...Fire Emblem also has Pegasi and transforming people-dragons.]

I don't know if she has any relation to snakes. Her name has just always been Naga.

[theundertaken]

Huh. It’s weird what stuff is common or not between different.....dimensions? I should probably be freaking out more about this.

[challengesfate]

I'm actually quite appreciative of how much you've taken in stride. It's...reassuring, somehow.

[theundertaken]

I’m probably just in shock or something. There’s a lot - I mean, I guess my only option is just to totally lose my shit, and that won’t help. You’re doing pretty good keeping it together, too, the space thing’s gotta be a lot weirder for you.

[challengesfate]

...I'm...not unused to the idea of other realms. That fact is not strange. But the "space thing" is definitely one among many foreign concepts to me, you're right.

[theundertaken]

We've got a concept of other dimensions. Or...realms. But that's all just stories or weird scientific theories nobody's proven yet. Definitely nobody's ever gone to one as far as we know.