S1E1 The Program

After being picked for the pilot program, the party all departed the juvenile detention centre and got in a van headed to an unknown location.

Various personalities came to a head and clashed immediately; Overheat was distant and judgemental, Conjuress was in-your-face and judgemental, Busboy was flippant and annoying on purpose, and Dr. Buzz was just jazzed to be here, but fell afoul of everyone else being dour about how well this was going to go.

Overheat stole some of Conjuress' jewellery. As a test of competence, which she failed.

They found that their chauffeur was a robot woman, and answered some basic questions. They were to meet their sponsor who owned this mansion, they were to live here for the duration of the program… Dr. Buzz and Busboy especially took a shine to her.

Eventually, they met Dr. Knight, who stood for his introduction. He explained that he was an ex-superhero, and that under strict secrecy, they were to train to become superheroes to better themselves and further their rehabilitation.

It became really clear really fast that he was A) extremely kind and earnest about this, B) had daddy (mommy?) issues the size of the Vats, and C) was really funny as a person, making him hard to hate. But the teenagers were still up to the challenge

Despite that kindness, they really didn't have much choice in the matter. They settled into their new rooms, and variously got settled and ordered thousands of dollars' worth of stuff. Busboy, who had seen the theft take place initially, told on Overheat.

Overheat returned the jewellery and Conjuress took this about as well as you'd expect.

(Sounds of Dr. Buzz being immersed in ordering lab equipment while drama happens)

The next morning, everyone goes to breakfast. Busboy is a morning person. Everyone else is not. He is very cool about this and not annoyingly chipper on purpose at all

Mr. Knight was there, and after some banter, informed everyone that their first training exercise was today. The purpose of this was to gauge where their skill and power levels were at so that they could see how much work needed to be done.

Everyone headed to the library after breakfast to meet a man named Spellweaver, who introduced himself extremely familiarly, like he already knew everyone. He went on to note that he was an old friend of Carter (Mr. Knight), that he was a master of mind magic, and that they had met playing D&D - or rather, Carter was desperate for his help and Spellweaver had asked him to be a player in order to get that help.

They were to get projected into a mindscape for the first training exercise, which was against a pair of Dire Dinos.

Conjuress charged ahead to shoot them and got overrun; the others chattered rather than rush in to support her, though they eventually got it together and started sniping at the dinos from a distance.

Conjuress flipped out about the fact that they hadn't been warned about the pain feeling real (which to his credit Knight apologized for, after saying it was like, a practical reality), the group was chastised for their lack of teamwork in not supporting a teammate, and things quickly devolved to bickering. Following this, Conjuress left the room, furious.

Everyone else was just kind of left to go "well that went poorly", and split up as Mr. Knight went after Conjuress.

Busboy and Dr. Buzz went to talk to CL30, and Overheat expressed interest in spending time learning both magic and D&D from Spellweaver.