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

[andjerry]

[All right, so if he sees another one around- wait they're identical. This is going to get confusing quickly unless he can see how different their personalities are. This is the formal one, so-]

I'm Thomas MacLaine. [and your name is a tongue-twister] You're not worried at all about Osomatsu? [and that one comes out like another tongue-twister]

[karappo]

It is a pleasure then, Thomas-san.

[MacLaine-san just sounds funny.]

Osomatsu is very resilient. If he were truly upset about our situation as it is currently, it would be hard to ignore. It may be hard to believe, but this sort of thing is not...entirely uncommon to be happening to us.

[andjerry]

This is normal? [w h a t]

[karappo]

Well...I would not call it normal...but I have been kidnapped before.

[andjerry]

[and he isn't the first person to have been kidnapped that Thomas has met]

To somewhere like this?

[karappo]

Non non...to the middle of the ocean.

[Oh.]

[andjerry]

[all right he's got to grasp at straws for escape]

...and then what happened?

[karappo]

Then?

[He hesitates, like he's not sure he wants to explain the rest.]

I was alright. The person who kidnapped me was someone I know...they did it to make a point, albeit without my consent. He wanted to see if my siblings would come to my rescue.

[andjerry]

That- no, that isn't the kind of trouble you can escape on your own.

I'm glad somebody has an ally here.