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Daycycle 116 [ November 13 - November 26 ]

daycycle 116

[Nov 13 - Nov 26]

[OOC Plotting for this Daycycle can be found here.]
[The Charity Ball Entertainment post is here.]
[This DC has been extended through 11/26.]

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

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

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.

Matt Murdock's office will be assigned to defend the most recent Specials accused of treason. He will not be allowed to contact the traitors directly, but he will be given the task of preparing his cases. He has 48 hours to prepare.

Jack Harkness has been selected to plan the entertainment for tonight's Charity Ball, thanks to the popularity of his performances during the Alpha Talent Show a few days ago. When he asks The Computer for help, several specials are assigned to him. Izzy Lightwood will be his event planning assistant and "Stiles" Stilinski will assist in MCing the night's event. Due to their popularity, all Specials will be approached about being auctioned off for dances in order to help raise money by Jack, Izzy and Stiles. They will also be asked if they're willing to take part in specially planned choreographed dances. Dance lessons will be provided for those that require them during the afternoon hours.

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 begin at 1800 at the Alpha Museum of Fine Art and will be hosted by The ~~Humanists~~ Alpha Society for the Arts. Tickets to the event are 1000cr and can be bought up until an hour before the event begins. Attendees have been given special permission to wear Old Reckoning clothing for this event only, as long as it is the same color as their clearance level. Specials may notice that many of the Alpha Citizen's outfits have gotten key parts of Old Reckoning clothing wrong, with buttons instead of sequins, for example, or men wearing ties that are much too long and go to their knees. Alpha's Very Special Forces will be present to ensure the safety of those attending.

An entire wing of the museum has been cleared as a makeshift dance floor. In an attached room there are several tables covered in white tablecloths and set with the crystal and china that usually only graces Violet citizen tables. Along the wall is a massive buffet made with real food and including an elaborate ice sculpture. There is a bar in the corner where Alpha's finest spirits are being disbursed freely. For the first hour, the focus is on the food and mingling. The music playing is calming and instrumental. There are some that steal the dancefloor for a slow spin, but the majority of the attendees seem reluctant to move away from the buffet.

And then at approximately 1900, Jack Harkness will take the stage and begin the evening's real entertainment.

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.

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Zatanna's head is all kinds of fuzzy and admittedly buzzing with the discussion with Alcide. There's definitely a way to get their abilities back, she just hasn't figured it out yet. She'll get there.

She notices Katniss belatedly and catches the smile, quickly returning it. It's good to see her and, Zee can't help noticing, at the buffet for that matter. Considering the last time they talked, seeing her near the food makes Zatanna weirdly happy. She doesn't even really know this girl.

"Hey, you're eating again!" she chirps happily. The words are followed immediately by a little hiccup. Seriously, she needs to slow down on the fruity cocktail beverages.

She is eating again, that much is true. But the amount of food she's currently eating pales in comparison to what Katniss is normally capable of devouring. She can eat a surprisingly large amount of food despite her small stature. If it hadn't been for the HappiTime pills, she'd probably be on her second or third plate by now. As it is, she's mostly staring.

"I tried a little of it," she answers a little awkwardly. It's not quite a lie. She had a bite of a Swedish meatball a little bit earlier. Zatanna seems just as bit as bubbly as she had during lunch. There are a lot of people like that here, aren't there?

That's...admittedly less good news. The food here is really good, if you ask Zatanna, so to know that Katniss is only trying "a little" makes Zee think that the other girl is not necessarily eating at all so much as picking little bits from enough things to fool her body into thinking she's full when she isn't. One of the girls at school a few years back used to break off tiny pieces of a single Saltine cracker and make the thing last for a whole lunch period and then she'd say she was full. Zee knows what it sounds like Katniss is doing but that doesn't mean that that's the reality.

"Did you like it...?" she tries gently.

That someone might purposely starve themselves for the sake of being skinny is something Katniss could never comprehend. She understands the concept of starving as a last means of suicide. Or starving, as she's doing in this case, to prevent being drugged. But Katniss has gone through too many Hollow Days in her life to care about being fat or skinny or anything in between. She's small and slight because her nutrition growing up hadn't been terrific. Because she had been in the hospital recovering from burns and then too depressed to eat in the days leading up to arriving in Alpha.

If Katniss knew what Zatanna was thinking, she'd laugh. And then probably call the other girl insane.

"I do." Katniss' lips twitch into a slight frown as she watches Zatanna. Admitting her paranoia isn't something Katniss is comfortable in doing but she's already discussed it once with the girl, hasn't she? "I don't want to take the chance this is drugged too."

Katniss admits to having liked the food and the fact that she's still not really eating any worries Zatanna even further down the eating disorder rabbit hole, but she keeps the sentiment to herself. She doesn't know Katniss very well; they're not friends, yet. It isn't her place to say anything and she's willing to stay in her lane, for now. For now.

But the other girl continues and Zatanna smiles a little. "Katniss..." she says gently, gesturing with one hand. "Look at all the green and blue and purple dresses and suits in this room. I think the drugs are just for us because being RED is so crappy. There's too much food and too many upper clearance people in here, I think it's probably safe. Plus, I've been eating it and I feel fine," she points out. She gives Katniss an empathetic look because she knows where the paranoia stems and she can't really blame the other girl for being cautious, after all.

"I think if there was one time when the food is probably clean...it's now. So maybe you should stock up, you know? While you can..."

Zatanna makes a very good point. The charity event is open to anyone and everyone tonight. The chance of the food being spiked would be rather low then, wouldn't it? The Computer likes its order. Likes it when the Complex functions like a well-oiled machine. Otherwise there wouldn't be the caste system. Otherwise there wouldn't be the sleeping gas or the gas to wake them in the morning. That kind of order is a pipe dream but still...

Rather than answering, Katniss remains silent. She's too busy scanning the crowd for one of those upper clearance people. When she finally spots a green going for a nearby plate of vegetables (albeit not her favorite but Katniss learned a long time ago not to be picky about food), she makes a mental note of the plate. If she keeps this up, she might have a decent meal for the first time in a while. Although. "What have you eaten tonight?"

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what Katniss is trying to do and Zatanna gives her another sympathetic smile. "Um...I had some stuff of the fruit tray, the vegetable tray, there were a few trays of different cheeses and crackers. Some macaroni and cheese..." she pauses to think.

If she's right, then Katniss wants to stick to eating the things that she's seeing upper clearance levels eat or things that people she knows have eaten and have received no strange effects from having done so, so Zatanna tries to remember everything she's eaten tonight so far.

"Um...let's see, oh! I had some of that chicken thing next to the cheese tray. And then some cream puffs," she finishes with a smile.

She offers Zatanna a genuine smile, the kind that she doesn't give all that easily. But the girl seems to understand what Katniss wants without the need to vocalize any of those words aloud. She appreciates that because truth be told, Katniss feels a little foolish. There's no selectivity when it comes to food. Not in the life she's lived. But having her mind played with again, especially now that Prim's here, isn't an option.

"Thank you," Katniss whispers as she moves to the cream puffs. If she's going to eat, there's no harm in having dessert first. "Do you want any?"

Zatanna returns the smile and nods. She gets it and she can't say she blames the other girl, especially if she's had a bad experience with the HappiTime pills or any of the other pharmaceuticals they seem to have so much of around here. "No problem," she whispers back warmly.

Shaking her head, she follows Katniss down the line. "Nah, I'm resting my stomach, I'll have more later. For now, if I try to stuff more in there, I'll probably get sick. I've been eating like a pig all night," she admits with a little laugh. "You want some company when you sit or should I leave you to it?" Zee's learned that Katniss likes to be alone more often than she doesn't, so she isn't interested in forcing her continued presence on the other girl, that's for sure. They don't often get to have fun around here, so who is Zatanna to take it away from Katniss the one time they're allowed to have it?

“You’re better off eating like that,” Katniss says quietly, glancing around to make sure no one is listening in. She’s become accepting of the glitches as real memories. And as she’s done that, it’s also sunk in how dangerous it can be to discuss those glitches aloud. Still, though Katniss is reluctant to make friends here, Zatanna doesn’t seem so bad. She’s almost willing to say that she likes the other girl. That means that she doesn’t want to see her suffer. “Especially if we don’t know when we’ll have real food again.”

It had been her method growing up. Even now, as she places the ‘safe’ food on her plate, Katniss takes some of the smaller pieces and stuffs them in her mouth. Eat until full. Until you can’t stuff any more morsels into your stomach. You never know where from – or more importantly, when - your next mean is coming.

“I don’t want to stop you from having fun,” she adds in after swallowing the small piece of chicken she had been chewing on. “Thank you though. For your help.”

With a shrug, Zee looks back at the buffet for a second before her eyes rest on the other girl once more. "Yes and no, I think," she says non-commitally.

Yes, it's good to fill up while she can and Zatanna knows this; that's why she did it. But no, it's probably not terribly healthy to binge eat like that, either. Sorry health, she's not sure when her next meal is going to come from, if she doesn't count the terrible soylent, so she's going to have to take what she can get while she can get it. A sentiment which Katniss shortly thereafter echoes aloud without realizing they're on exactly the same page already.

"Oh, I'm fine," she says, but Zatanna can take a hint. Katniss would rather be on her own and that's okay. It isn't going to hurt Zee's feelings any; she's been there. Sometimes, alone time is preferable, even in a crowded room.

So, with a little smile, Zatanna shakes her head. "No problem," she says, giving a dismissive little wave to let Katniss know that it's really no big deal. She assumes that Katniss would've done the same for her if the tables were turned. It's not like listing off the food items she's eaten was really a chore or anything, anyway. "Have fun tonight," she says by way of excusing herself and Zatanna gives the other girl a little wiggle of her fingers meant to be a wave before she wanders off again on her own.

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