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

[lovecolored]

I don't use gun-bullets. Most of us don't. She's the weird one.

[ Marisa spawns a few star-shaped bullets in her hands, letting them drift forward. See? ]

They're magic, I guess? Though even if you're not a magician like me, you can use these, back home, so it's a really basic kinda magic.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Wha-!

[Zombina jolts back in suprise and then just STARES. Today has been a weird day.]

........... I'm starting ta get the feeling some of us might not be from the same places... or maybe even worlds. 'Cause i'm pretty damn sure that magic is not a thing where I'm from.

[lovecolored]

That's the assumption I was workin' on. Lookit some of the "hometowns" on the profiles. I don't recognize half of 'em.

[ The stars float lazily around. Eventually, when they hit something solid, they disappear.

...if she touches one she will find out that they're made of konpeito, tho. ]

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

I haven't looked those yet, lemme check.

[Scrolling, scorlling, waaaait a sec. The fuck???]

.....Thaaaat wasn't yer real name ya told me, was it? The profile lists ya differently.

[lovecolored]

Oh gee, it wasn't? [ har har har ] It'd appear I mixed up myself and my dear friend Alice...

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Mhm, tooooootally understandable mistake ta make... Kirisame-chan. So do ya really know aliens or were they made up?

[Plz be real Plz be real plz be real.]

[lovecolored]

They're real.

[ luckily! ]

Though they're less 'little green men with big bug eyes' and more 'look all but human until they open their big fat mouths and start yappin' about the impurity of Earth.'

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Woah. That sounds kinda annoying. They do that all the time oooooor...?

[lovecolored]

I could be exaggeratin'. But they really look down on the people who live on Earth, even the nicer ones, like that doctor. Thinks just 'cause she's a half a million years old and invented modern medicine it gives her a reason to be snooty.

[ i mean......it kind of does......? ]

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Holy shit half a million years!? What is she, a fucking tortoise?!

[lovecolored]

She's some kinda moon goddess. Older than the guy that founded the Lunar Capital, and that's, uh...at least a couple thousand, definitely more than that.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Holy fuck they've been around a long ass time! Is livin' that long common where your from??

[lovecolored]

Well, she's immortal. Like, really, really immortal, can't ever die even if she wants to. She made this elixir of eternal life and I guess it worked a little too well. So she's more of an exception than a rule.

[ thinking about it ]

But youkai can live a pretty long time, too. We've got a couple'a thousand year old grandmas roamin' around.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Geeeeeeez. I can't decide if that's awesome or if it'd just be boring living all that time.

[lovecolored]

[ Marisa's excitement fades, and she looks oddly thoughtful. ]

Same. I found a way to get it, but I dunno--what if I get bored after a thousand years? Go and flat out lose my mind? Doesn't seem fun, ze.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

I mean, I guess as long as ya have people ta pal around with ya might be fine, but that alien doesn't really sound like the type ta have many of those.

[Zombina shrugs.]

[lovecolored]

She's got the moon princess with her. I think they're dating, or something. I dunno, she seems content enough.

[theworldsliveliestcorpse]

Oh, well good for her then! S'nice that she's got someone ta be with.