[video] Welcome to Legion World

[relativityspeaking]

[A young woman with dark skin and closely-cropped black hair appears on the screen. She's wearing an easy smile, but her eyes are alert.]

Hello everyone. I'm Jazmin Cullen, also known as Kid Quantum, Legion Leader. I wanted to officially welcome you to Legion World, and this reality, and assure you that we are doing everything we can to get you back home where you came from. You're all welcome to stay here on Legion World, regardless if you've taken the oath and agreed to help us out while you're here. Those of you who did take the oath or have offered to help out in other ways, don't worry, we'll have you positioned shortly.

We've prepared classes to familiarize yourself with the United Planets and the technology level here so that you can function independently here. If you're joining the Legion, we have additional classes for you to take.

[Her smile widens, briefly.]

Yeah, I know, you're thrilled about having to do more homework to help us out, but hey, we don't just hand those rings out like candy.

[She reaches forward a the image shakes as she takes her omnicom in hand.]

Like I said before, I'm Legion Leader, and here are a few other important faces.

[She turns the omicomm as she speaks, showing the other members of the Legion.]

Matter-Eater Lad is my deputy leader, if you need to get in touch with me, your best bet is generally to find him. It's not that I'm dodging you, but I'm out and about a lot. He's agreed to make sure that at least one of us is available to you.

Ferro has taken on responsibility for introducing you to media, games, sports, and other forms of entertainment in this era. He also has experience in making the switch from a different era, and he's said that he'd be happy to help you with yours.

Gates has offered to help you familiarize yourselves with the culture of the United Planets in the 31st century, as well as the many and varied cultures within it. He promises that they will be informative and engaging.

Bouncing Boy will be teaching starship piloting and is the support staff coordinator. If you want to learn to drive in this era, or if you need to talk to anyone on support staff, talk to him.

If you have any interest in hand-to-hand combat, you're going to want to talk to Karate Kid. I also personally recommend his meditation training if you've found yourself with new powers that you're not quite sure how to control yet.

For those of you who've joined the Legion, Timber Wolf will be your field instructor. He'll be looking out for you in the field, and your primary trainer for working with each other.

Umbra will be instructing you in power control and battlefield tactics. Even if you're not working with the Legion, it would be a good idea to take the former class if you have powers you're unfamiliar with.

Brainiac 5 will be providing tech support, science lessons, and mentoring for those of you who are interested in engineering.

Dreamer is our source of catastrophe warnings outside of the official reporting system. If you hear her yelling, you should probably suit up.

[The camera stops on Kid Quantum again, and she presses a button, causing two images to display on the screen.]

You've already met Dr. Gym'll, our head physician, and Dr. Ry'krr, who is in charge of assisting with the handling of mental health. They'll still be filling those same roles now. Additionally, one of the other sentients who arrived recently, Dr. Arbuckle, will be assisting Dr. Gym'll.

[The images disappear. Kid Quantum smiles again.]

Even though I wish it wasn't under these circumstances, welcome to the Legion World. If you need help with anything please don't hesitate to ask us or the staff.

Comments

Video

[stillshinigami]

Gotta say I never thought I'd meet someone named 'Matter-eater Lad.'

Kinda on the nose on that one, isn't it?

Re: Video

[relativityspeaking]

He's got his reasons, and he's likely willing to expound on them at length.

[She slants a look in "Matter-Eater Lad's" direction]

Though I'd appreciate it if he did it some other time, unless everyone desperately wants to hear about How Tenzil Picked His Codename.

Video

[stillshinigami]

Pretty sure we can piece it together for now.

It's good to know who's got our back in all that, since we're stuck here.

The name's Duo, by the way.

Re: Video

[relativityspeaking]

Hi Duo. Nice to meet you, wish it were under better circumstances.

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[stillshinigami]

Hey, looks like you got as good a set up as you can with your situation. I've been there.

But I don't think I'll be joining up with you guys. Not that I won't tag along if needed but I'd be better off joining the support team.

VIDEO

[kingtyrantranger]

[Or an attempt, rather. Jason's holding his own omnicomm to his ear like a phone, speaking directly into the camera portion. At least he brushes his teeth? Either way.]

Uh. Thanks, Kid Quantum. Nice to meet you. That's quite a crew you all have put together.

[You'd think that he'd actually have less classes to take now that he was in the future. Couldn't they just plug a book into his head or something?]

I think I'm going to have a fuller schedule here than I did when I was going to school and teaching my classes at the juice bar. Still. I don't think I've said 'thank you' to you guys yet.

[Well. He has. Just not enough.]

I definitely owe you. I'll try to help out where I can.

Re: VIDEO

[relativityspeaking]

[Kid Quantum coughs, more to get Jason's attention than to cover a laugh.]

I wish I could take credit for them, but I didn't assemble these nassheads. I'm just the one they elected team leader.

["Nassheads", whatever that means (the telepathic ear plugs don't seem to have a direct translation), is said with every evidence of affection.]

The thanks are appreciated, but really, none of you owe us anything. This is what we do, and we're grateful to those of you who have offered to help us out while we look for a way to get you home.

...And you don't need to hold your omnicomm up to your ear like that. We can hear you just fine if you hold it in front of your face.

Re: VIDEO

[kingtyrantranger]

[He's just going to guess that she means something along the lines of 'dork' and roll with it. She sounds friendly enough, at least.

He pauses, then adjusts his omnicomm so that he's speaking into it like a radio of some kind rather than a phone. Baby steps. He's used to mobile phones being the size of bricks.]

Sorry.

Anyway, yeah. I figured that the least I could do is help out around here. It's, you know. It's the least I can do.

Re: VIDEO

[relativityspeaking]

[At least he bathes more frequently than the first guy the Legion accidentally acquired from the 90's.]

No problem, we don't expect everyone to show up here and understand how to use our tech.

Still, in this case, it's you doing us a major favor. This is far, far more than the least you can do.

Re: VIDEO

[kingtyrantranger]

[When you exercise as much as Jason, two or three showers a day becomes a must. He's under no illusions about smelling of roses and cinnamon buns.

Still, he waves his hand at the last bit.]

We'll just have to agree to disagree on that, I think. Either way, nice to meet you.

[nerdninja]

With great power comes great responsibility?

[Look, some nerd had to slide that one in somewhere.

Moving on.]

I'm Donatello. Nice to meet you, circumstances aside - but if you don't mind my asking, how many of us have wound up here so far?

[relativityspeaking]

Something like that, I suppose. 'Great power' isn't necessary though, just a urge to change the galaxy and some willpower to back it up.

[Sadly, a lot of cultural references are going to be lost on them.]

Nice to meet you too, Donatello; wish the circumstances were better. Thirteen of you have shown up, by my last count. I'll let you all know if anyone else shows up, in case it's someone you recognize.

[She wrinkles her nose.]

Just remember that, even if you recognize someone, they might not be the same sentient from home. They might be from a different universe where you have a different relationship -- if you have one at all.

[This sounds like the voice of experience here.]

[nerdninja]

I've had a couple of...experiences with time and space getting weird, so I can imagine.

[The next New York over, he'd spotted enough differences that it wasn't hard to imagine that infinite variations on people were as easily possible as infinite variations on the place itself.

To say nothing of meeting himself from a future that - couldn't be his own, now, not after how things had ended with the Shredder.]

Have the arrivals been staggered? Or has it looked more like they all happened together temporally but everyone was spread out in terms of location?

[Something that yanks over a dozen people from varying places into a different dimension in a single, weird incident: bad.

Something that yanks over a dozen people from varying places into another dimension and keeps doing it to more of them over time: worse.]

[relativityspeaking]

They happened over the course of a standard Earth day, then stopped. Two instances aren't enough to imply consistency, but the same thing happened last time, too. Irregular timing, but all within a certain window.

[iamresponding]

Heeey, it's funny you've got that saying in your world, too.

My buddy Spidey's always whipping that one out. Especially when he was giving us young whippersnappers some lessons on being a hero now and again, since he'd been at it longer than some of us.

[nerdninja]

Well, it's mostly just something that rubbed off from a lot of c...

[Wait.]

...omic...books.

[iamresponding]

Like the ones Marvel Comics puts out? Like, where they make up fictional stories about us real superheroes?

[He raises an eyebrow.]

I didn't realize you were from the same world.

Although they always write Spidey's comics like he's a bad guy so I don't think they'd have put something like that in 'em. He gets a bum rap in the press and everything, and the comics are the same. They never paint him in a good light -- and it sucks. Anyone that knows him knows he's a stand up guy.

I swear, I don't know how those people get off sometimes, writing that stuff when they don't even pay the heroes for licensing or put stories by them first or anything.

[Now he thinks Donnie's from his world and that he reads the comics that are fictionalized stories about real heroes.]

Video

[nomoresparkle]

Hi, I'm, ah... Sparkle Bright.

Do you know why my powers are all... weird here?

Re: Video

[relativityspeaking]

Hi Sparkle Bright.

[Kid Quantum says the name without so much as a twitch of a lip.]

Unfortunately, we don't know why people are gaining or losing powers. That didn't happen to the previous group of sentients who came through. We don't know the exact mechanism that's bringing you through, how it's altering you, or why it's doing either. We'll be looking into that too, but we have almost as little information as you do at the moment.

Re: Video

[nomoresparkle]

So this has happened before? How often?

Re: Video

[relativityspeaking]

Just the once, so far. That's why we knew to look for you. Last time, it was a group of Legionnaires from an alternate universe. Some scientists picked them up and egregiously mishandled the situation; after we discovered what was going on, we took over.

I hope it is okay to tag this post this late into the month!

[lightcatcher]

Is this oath of yours truly necessary to join as a Legionnaire?

[All else that he has been told about the Legion and what his tasks might be suits him well, and what she said of Brainiac picked his interest, yet the oath remains a force that he would rather not lay upon himself. The one that he already took might clash with it, and that would be in nobody's favour - least of all his own.]

Yep, totally fine!

[relativityspeaking]

[Kid Quantum raises an eyebrow.]

It is. The oath is meant to be a new Legionnaire swearing the do the basics of the job: protecting the innocent and watching their allies' backs. It's an oath we all take very seriously, and we understand if it's not something you -- or anyone else -- feels comfortable doing.

Which part or parts of it are you struggling with?

[lightcatcher]

It being an oath.

[It really is as simple as that.]

There is another, the bonds of which I cannot break, and I shall not swear one that may enter into conflict with it.

[legionnpcs]

[Kid Quantum opens her mouth to respond, but Timber Wolf claims the camera -- and the microphone attached -- before she gets a word out.]

Look, I feel you on that. The thing about the Legion oath though is that it only applies when you're a Legionnaire. If you feel like it conflicts with your other oath, you can step down from the team. No harm, no foul, so long as it ain't in the middle of a crisis.