There's a gentle breeze in the room where Kyeo wakes up. And the lighting is also not what one normally finds on a spaceship (or, the kind he's used to, at least).
"Yes, but we have nearly-arbitrary amounts and configurations of time dilation available."
"We have a couple other contestants who are definitely going to need adjustment periods. So you wouldn't be alone unless you wanted to be."
"I quite agree. We'll probably put you on a third planetoid for the duration; any requests for what that's like?"
"Well, no. It's for the people who go on it and it's only just been determined that you should."
"No. Audio, though. Most of it gets thrown out without anything sentient looking at it, but conversations get flagged and passed on."
"Or if you make dramatic comments out loud to yourself. So consider not doing that there."
"Or singing in a way that can be made to seem plot relevant. But all of this is only once the season starts."
"No. The adjustment period is only for adjusting. There's not really a place it would fit into the existing structure of the show."
"I didn't want it to be a surprise what may be recorded during the season, which is pretty much everything. This is not a good organization but I don't want there to be surprises about what non-good things there are in store, when I can avoid it."