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

[playthedamncard]

The Oracles. Does that include Nox Fleuret? She seemed to indicate her powers came from the gods of your world. [His tone is skeptical at best.]

[photoshooter]

Well, yeah. The Draconian's one of the Six. ...Six gods, I mean. The Hexatheon.

[Don't call her just Nox Fleuret like that, it's disrespectful, young man.]

It's Lady Lunafreya's job to talk to them when we need them and to heal people.

[playthedamncard]

[He hears that emphasis. And summarily ignores it. That's nice, kiddo, but she's apparently not royalty anymore.]

Don't you have hospitals for that? Healing people.

[photoshooter]

Yeah, but modern medicine doesn't have any way to fix the Starscourge.

[playthedamncard]

And what is that?

[photoshooter]

It's...

[How the hell does he explain the Starscourge? It just is. There's no 'what' about it.]

It's... a disease. It infects people and starts... changing them. Their bodies, their behaviors. It's like this gross black stuff, and only the Oracle has the power to actually cure it. Anything else just makes people more comfortable as it messes them up.

[playthedamncard]

If you have to rely on magic alone to heal it, is it really a disease or something else? Or has your medicine simply not advanced far enough to treat it properly?

[haha asking specific details about ffxv lore...]

[photoshooter]

I don't know, dude. I'm just a guy, I'm not a doctor or a medical researcher or anything. Lady Lunafreya probably knows a lot more about it than I do.

[playthedamncard]

...This does make it more difficult. People from other planets, alternate realities. If you aren't from the same place, why should you care if they get back or not? If their reality has no impact on your own? Everyone is going to have to be very careful here.

[photoshooter]

...Yeah.

[He could argue, maybe, but he grew up in a world perpetually at war. There's Us and there's Them. That's just how it is.]

I think some people will care. I care. [Just in case Kaiba thinks he doesn't.] I guess we'll just have to remind the others that it's gonna be a lot easier to get out of here working together than at odds.

[playthedamncard]

Cooperation does have its merits. Sometimes.

[photoshooter]

Only sometimes?

[playthedamncard]

Did I stutter?

[photoshooter]

No, no, you're entitled to your opinion.