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

[stillstands]

[Someone's gotta be mature and responsible and not throw random French into sentences.]

You could heat on the stove top as well, if you wanted. So I guess there's a fire hazard there, but... no more so than usual.

[karappo]

I guess you could say this is a lot more practical in that regard...the regard of not setting a fire, I mean.

[Yaknow, assuming that smoke down there doesn't turn into More.]

My name is Karamatsu, by the way.

[stillstands]

[At least with them eyeballing it, it won't get to be on fire for very long?]

Oh, right. I haven't introduced myself. It's nice to meet you, I'm Miki Naoki.

[karappo]

[VERY TRUE. They have water handy for putting out any wayward flames and everything.]

Heh, that is alright. We have been a bit distracted, here. But it is a pleasure all the same, Miki-chan.

[stillstands]

[Responsible, uh. Teen and ??adult.]

A bit, yeah. [She chuckles.] I think we can be forgiven though.

[The box is still kinda hardcore smoking. Miki pokes it a little cautiously.]

If this is how eventful our meal times will be here, it should be interesting.

[karappo]

[What did they put in there again? Applesauce? Does that even need cooking...]

The question is going to be how it will taste.

[stillstands]

[No one ever said they were good at this. At least they won't get food poisoning?]

... [Hm.] I wouldn't expect anything gourmet.

[karappo]

[E w]

So...edible, at best?

[God this is going to be a long time.]

[stillstands]

Edible and fuelling.

[Food is food, Karamatsu.]

We're not going to starve, at least

[karappo]

[He'll just have to learn that the hard way, he guesses...]

That would certainly defeat the purpose of bringing us all here, if the rules are anything to be believed.

[stillstands]

Can't have rule seven if everyone's starved, no.

[Oh, it's probably been about ten minutes now. Miki's just going to drag the not so powerfully smoking box over.]

... I guess we just open it?

[karappo]

[Karamatsu nods, sitting up a little on his knees. He has that water ready just in case.]

[stillstands]

[Look at these nerds. Okay, Miki carefully and slowly opens the box and pulls the package from the box. It's a little warm?! But, okay.]

It... looks okay?

[Hang on, she's going to get a pair of scissors and open up the packet...]

[karappo]

It does not smell too bad either...

[Hopefully if this test went well that means the rest of the time they have to do this won't be as much of an event as this was. Maybe.]

[stillstands]

[It's a tense moment as she pours the contents of the packet into a bowl with a very appetising splatter. Yum.

Well okay, time to take a spoon and try some.

...

...]

It just tastes like semi-warm applesauce.

[It isn't even fully heated through??]

[karappo]

Ehh? Let me try-

[Karamatsu quickly finds a spoon of his own so he can give it a try.]

...did we not do something right? I figure it would have made this incredibly hot given all that smoking it was doing!

[stillstands]

No, we... definitely had it in the box long enough. I wonder if something messed up when we added the water before the actual food packet.

[She's still eating it but?? It is a disappointing experience.]

[karappo]

[This is very disappointing apple sauce. But it could be a lot worse. And a lot more gross.]

Ah, perhaps...that might not have allowed it to get hot enough. Should we try something else?

[stillstands]

It might be easier just to heat it in a pan on the stove. It's novel, but if it's not going to actually cook the food properly...

[Not as fun, but hot food is more important.]

[karappo]

Mm...you are probably right. This sort of scenario must really be intended for emergency situations only.

[stillstands]

At least if we lose power, we can have uh... semi-heated food with these.

It might be better to conserve as many of them as we can, just in case.