theairlock | won't you take me to flavortown

[At the end of that one hour (that seemed so much longer than just one hour could be), hopefully everyone's gathered in the cafeteria. The doors to the other side of the space station open to reveal two figures, a man and a woman. The woman is dressed in sharp business clothes, tapping away on some kind of a device that looks similar to but sleeker than a smart phone. The man with her has a circle beard and bleached blond hair, shorter but thick with muscle, wearing a checked button-up shirt with a gold chain peeking through the collar and the sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He scratches at his non-dominant forearm (which, nonetheless, is bare).]

Welcome, Champions, to the...

Champion Excellence Program.

Yeah, the Champion Excellence Program. As you may have noticed reading the rules, there's only one way out of here: Rule 7. But just in case going home isn't enough for you, we've decided to add an extra incentive.

[The woman barely looks up from her phone, like she's doing a headcount of the Champions.] The Champion who successfully proves their Excellence by murdering a fellow Champion and escaping punishment will receive an all-expenses-paid space cruise to the Vegas Quadrant.

[The man gives his companion a deadpan look and then looks at the Champions.]

Any questions?

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[He reaches out to put a hand on her shoulder and walk her back a little, if she'll allow it.]

I mean, yeah, this is pretty fucked. But hey, it's not like anyone's really gonna do it. It's total bullshit!

[She allows it, since Max is like one of the least threatening people in the room and is also one of the few actual adults.]

You're...you are right, it's a shallow and fickle reason...I...I just...it's incredulous - insulting...

[Once they're farther away, he'll add in a lower tone:] I think it's probably not too safe to go after those guys? They must have something, or they wouldn't come hang out with a mob of us like this.

But yeah, nobody would kill someone for something like that. It's stupid. We've just gotta...I don't know, figure this out together, we're all in the same boat.

[She lowers her tone as well, but responds pretty quickly,] I wouldn't be foolish enough to attack an enemy unarmed.

[I mean, come on, what do you take her for?]

Right...right, I...yes. We should...discuss this, as a proper group, not...not with them, and not when there's so much...tension, and...

[We all gotta calm the eff down, is what she's saying.]

Holy shit do you have a knife?

[yeah that’s what he pulled from that]

Wh...no? I don't know how to fight with a knife, anyway...

[Max they took her sword she has nothing]

...oh, you weren't gonna attack them at all. Jesus.

[look that sounded more like "I wouldn't do it unarmed, duh, I got a weapon already"]

It can't be that hard, right? Just stab with it.

No, that would be very stupid...

[Also lack of sword.]

There's...techniques and proper knife usage, I...I've never trained with one, and I don't know anyone who has. [Dagger weapons class, what's that, sounds fake.] If I just charged in with a knife, I could end up hurting myself more than someone else...

Can't say I've ever been in a knife fight. If I had to pick, I'd probably just go with a blunt object, that sounds easiest.

[I mean. Blades are usually more effective, but this is not the kind of situation to bring that up in, now is it.]

I...suppose to each their own, then.

[Easiest for an idiot to stab himself with by accident too!]

Whatever. We shouldn't be attacking people anyway. Um... [He fishes for another topic.] ...so, seems like he's the talker and she's the one in charge, yeah?

U-Um...I suppose? I don't really...have much context for what he'd said, though, and she seems...

[Super duper sketch.]

I mean, he didn't even have the Vegas thing memorized. That might've been the first he knew of it. Which is weird, if they're equal partners.

Perhaps he too comes from a realm where it doesn't exist.

He didn't even know they were offering it, though. Or he just forgot. So, yeah, maybe he's actually just bad at this.

Do you think we will ever have the opportunity to speak with them? Beyond just...having them come in and tell us something that makes little to no sense.

Dunno. What would you say to them, you think?

...To start, I'd be asking a lot of questions and...hopefully be in a better state of mind to understand them.

[Just. Endless questions for incidental annoyance but mostly for learning.]

...should've followed up on Blaze's deputy mayor thing. That makes him the mayor, right? This doesn't seem like, uh, normal mayoral duties.

Are...we in his territory, then? For a mayor not to know the goings-on of his land...that would make him ill-fit to rule.

Can you be mayor of a spaceship? There's not even anyone else here...probably.

To be frank, I don't know. Perhaps being a mayor means something different in space - [She lets out a single laugh, hollow and disbelieving.] At this point, I honestly would not be surprised.

Could be. You'd think he'd call himself the mayor of here, if he was the mayor of here. Sounds better than "overseer".

Maybe he is...but, we're part of something larger than just this.

You think so?

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