Daycycle 112 [ October 16 - October 22 ]

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daycycle 112

[Oct 16 - Oct 22]

[OOC Plotting for this Dacycle can be found here.]

Early Morning [0800 - 0900] — All Troubleshooters Report for Duty

No Special Troubleshooters have been selected for a mission this morning.

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Morning & Afternoon [0900 - 1600] — Service Firm Positions
All Troubleshooters not assigned a mission should report to their Service Firm for their daily duties, unless specifically assigned a different shift.

Free Enterprise is pushing a new, adjusted street form of No Fear (Dynomorphin). The original pharmaceutical is meant for those in Ultraviolet ranks, but this form is much dirtier, cheaper and more addictive. In order to get people hooked, they've put a healthy dose in the wagon wheel's ORANGE and RED level coffee-like supplies. The drug causes a very bullet proof feeling of euphoria. Side effects include paranoia, hallucinations, increased sociability, increased sex drive, panic attacks, excited delirium - extreme agitation and violence, and the temporary loss of feeling in nerve endings (inability to feel pain). A standard dose lasts four hours. Withdrawal symptoms include nosebleeds, sweating, nausea, dehydration and blinding migraines. For those that want more of the drug, Free Enterprise will make it easily accessible.

At 1200, a squad of Grey Ops will arrive at Medical Services to escort Caitlin Snow away for suspected treason. Anyone asking for additional information will be told it's classified and warned not to continue asking questions. Approximately fifteen minutes later another squad of Grey Ops will arrive at Internal Security to lead Vision away. Anyone asking for additional information will be given the same party line.

At 1400 today, Jack Harkness will be summoned by Mind Control to the Production offices on the twenty fifth floor. There he will be offered a position in Media Production where he will assist with the Teela O'Malley show. This position will come with a clearance level promotion of ORANGE, since the talk show star doesn't associate with anyone of lower clearance level. Jack will be responsible for ramping up the excitement levels of the live audience and the personal entertainment of the star.

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Evening [1600 - 2200] — Citizen Improvement
All Alpha citizens are encouraged to better themselves through Alpha’s wide variety of educational, entertainment and cultural opportunities offered each evening. Attending these sanctioned events are not mandatory, but is highly encouraged by The Computer. Citizens choosing not to take advantage of these opportunities, have a growing number of other options available to them in how to spend their hard earned credits and free time.

Tonight’s event will be at 1900 in Meeting Room G, Wagon Wheel Floor 24 and will be hosted by the Alpha Smiling Club. Join us tonight for refreshments and tips on faking it until you make it!

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Alpha Curfew Restrictions
All Alpha citizens should be in their quarters within the Wagon Wheel by 2200, unless they’ve been given permission from a GREEN or higher clearance level citizen. Sleeping Aid gas is dispelled each night in the Wagon Wheel at 2200 to assist citizens in getting a productive sleeping period.

Confession Booths
There are hundreds of confession booths available around Alpha Complex if a citizen would like to communicate directly with the computer. Please use these confession booths to report mission statuses, report treason or terrorist acts, unregistered mutants, confess your trespasses against Alpha Complex, request propaganda or speak with Your Friend, The Computer, at any time.

Comments

[stillplaying]

Really, it's probably not all that surprising that her question is like a punch in the gut. Even when she doesn't mean to - no, especially when she doesn't mean to - she finds herself hurting other people. So the glitches say. Of course she'd wind up hurting him when all Derek's been is nice. It's what she's good at. It's what she's good at if the odds are in her favor anyway. If they're not, it's worse; then she winds up causing their death.

Stray fragments of thought flicker through her head at his words, somehow piercing the fog in her brain created by the HappiTime and No Fear drugs. Is there something wrong with her? Is this a bad idea? More so: he wouldn't want her. No one in their right mind should want her. And not just because she manages to hurt them.

Katniss Everdeen is not a good person. Katniss Everdeen isn't very nice. Katniss Everdeen is selfish. Katniss Everdeen is a murderer.

She frowns. "I'm a mess, too."

[duelo]

Derek's brow creases with sympathy. He wishes that he knew her better. He wishes that he would have a leg to stand on if he tried to refute her claim to make her feel better, but without knowing her at all, he can't. He'll sound like he's patronizing her and he knows it; that'll only make things worse. Derek's stomach knots with the very idea of making this worse than he already has.

Tucking a stray piece of hair behind her ear, Derek shakes his head a little. "Katniss, I'm honestly starting to wonder if the whole reason any of the Specials are here is because we're all a mess," he tells her, hoping that it'll make her feel a little better, because he really has started to wonder lately.

"Listen, can we...like revisit this when I don't feel so...off?" he asks. "I'd really feel better if we didn't just leave it hanging, but I would also feel better if I felt like myself when we discussed, you know what I mean?"

[stillplaying]

She notices the look of sympathy and ignores it. What she wants is to forget again. She wants to let those feelings of euphoria come back and drown out her feelings of self-doubt and self-loathing. Then the worst feeling she had experienced had been Derek's rejection. Right now it feels like everything is so much worse.

Forget, she wills herself. Forget, forget, forget. Let the memories that slipped through go back into hiding again. She doesn't want to hear that there might be other people, other than the two of them, that are messes as well. It doesn't change her past. It doesn't change what she did.

Katniss doesn't want to talk anymore. Derek had been right in the first place; they should get back to work. Then none of these thoughts would have made their way through. So she nods in response even though she doesn't exactly know what he means. It's better than admitting that though. "Okay."

[duelo]

To say that Derek feels terrible would be a gross understatement. He does, but he feels really terrible. Mostly because he can tell that she's perceiving it as him rejecting her when really, he's just putting the brakes on something he has a feeling she's going to regret later. And while he can see why it looks like rejection to her, on his end, it isn't anything against her at all.

When all she's got in response is okay, Derek feels his stomach twist again and his heart sink, because he's hurt her maybe more than she's hurt herself. She doesn't realize it yet, but he imagines when she snaps out of it, she'll be humiliated at herself if only because Derek's not exactly a catch, if she's going to be making out with random people.

He did the right thing. Right?

"Okay," he parrots back and takes a few steps further back from her. "Okay. We'll catch up tomorrow, then."

His eyes shift to the line that has formed near their respective work stations. Giving Katniss one more fleeting, apologetic look, he beckons his next client forward with a booming, "Next!"