Lambda Further education college's resident nerds

Founded less than a decade ago in accordance with new education laws that added a mandatory post high school/pre university requirement for all adults once they were of age, Lambda focuses on teaching new adults the advances humanity has made that they interact with in day to day life. It also ensures that students are well equipped with the worlds political systems and gives all the skills that are necessary to properly function in society.

For Rob, Cassie, and Mars; three complete nerds with absolutely no direction in life, Lambda was a perfect fit. Despite it's issues, high school was enjoyable and the year they took off before Lambda got them no closer to finding out their passions in life unless said passions aligned with playing too much dungeons and dragons and finding increasingly convoluted ways to get poor Rob into girls clothing. So another three years of education was looking to be ideal.

Rob, or Robert Anchorage, or Ra as he insisted on being called whenever he was DMing a campaign was the most dramatic of the three. He was raised on a steady diet of fantasy novels and it showed, in his pasty complexion and odd tone of voice. He was a complete and utter dork, in other words, with little volume control and even less social grace and understanding. He was also deeply artistic, loving everything from creating figurines for campaigns to creating custom printed tees for his friends, weathering the usual veiled taunts aimed at his hobbies and all female friend group with the impenetrable armor of being completely and utterly socially unaware.

Cassandra Ulysses Moore was to the group what the group was to normal people, a hypernerd of a caliber not often witnessed by mortal eyes. She was an avid Eve online player, and considered differential geometry "fun" and "relaxing". The sort of person that will visit you for a sleepover and leave your house with your books sorted into the Dewey decimal system. She was even pastier then Rob, a porcelain white that contrasted with her dark hair and darker attitude, the borderline between emo and goth was filled with her meticulous presence.

Mariza Ebonheart was the colorful one of the trio, literally, in that she had colour to her skin outside of white and freckles. A bronzed brown that the group attributed to her vaguely Mediterranean heritage. The specifics were lost to them since they could not find any reference to her biological family, as far as the town records knew Mars appeared out of thin air 19 years ago. She was something of a space cadet, prone to zoning out and utterly fascinated with the stars (hence her nickname), if in a less factual way than Cassie was. She loved the paranormal, constantly had her finger on the latest cryptozoological phenomena and batshit History channel take. Not that she actually believed in the supernatural (for the most part), that was an impossible endevour with Cassie "Oh yes, please do describe how exactly a twenty meter tall gorilla can sustain both itself and a breeding polulation with exactly zero evidence Mars" Moore.

They've been best friends ever since primary school, the only three nerds in their small school, awash in a sea of mundanity and sportsball fans in rural Illinois. They'd finally broke free and been accepted into Lambda Further education (dutily ignoring the fact that there wasn't actually any selection criteria for the school it was merely decided by them on a whim as somewhere least likely to be populated by former high school associates) in Boston. Renting out a small apartment close to the school thanks in part to their jobs assigned by the school.

After having a week to settle and see some of what Boston has to offer it was finally time for their further education to begin.