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Daycycle 122 [ January 15 - January 21]

daycycle 122

[Jan 15 - Jan 21]

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

Early, Early Morning [0200 - 0400]
At approximately 0200, several explosive devices planted in Technical Services by PURGE will detonate, damaging several memobanks. In a rush to prepare for the morning upload several Technicians will mistakenly put the wrong memories in the wrong banks. They will catch their mistake before the final upload, but as a result several memories will now be shared across different alpha citizens' consciousnesses. These memories will be experienced as dreams and characters will retain knowledge of them when they wake.

Memory Swap Pairs

Adam Parrish - Derek Hale
Zatanna Zatara - Oliver Queen
Steve Rogers - Ronan Lynch
Katniss Everdeen - Matt Murdock
Morgana LeFey - Tony Stark
Clint Barton - Allison Argent
Isabelle Lightwood - Lydia Martin
Buffy Summers - Barry Allen
Emma Swan - Parker
Cisco Ramon - Gracie Cannell
Natasha Romanoff - Jack Harkness
Primrose Everdeen - Alcide Herveaux

Room 1101 will be woken up at 1200 when a squadron of Internal Security Gray Ops come to arrest Bucky Barnes for treason. He will be led away at gun point and his roommates, Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish and Oliver Queen will be immediately taken into IntSec for questioning. They will be questioned about the activities of their former roommate for several hours before being sedated and returned to their room before 0500. Bucky's roommates will not remember his arrest or their questioning when they wake, though they may feel the lingering active effects of the sedative for several hours into their day.

The memory of Bucky Barnes having ever been present in Alpha will be erased with varying degrees of success from all those he came into contact with.

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

No Specials will be selected for a mission today.

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

At 0900 it will be discovered that the shooter from Steve Roger's assassination attempt has, ironically, been assassinated along with her guards in Armed Forces the night before. The letters mod will be left written in the shooter's blood along her cell wall.

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 the Commissary and will be overseen by Clint Barton. Izzy Lightwood from Medical Services has been assigned to assist him in giving a demonstration on basic first aid and wound care.

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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The Everdeen sister's lives are...different than they were; it's strange that everything has similarities to the time in 13, but it's still different because it never felt like Katniss was actually there. Here they see one another every day, like when Prim was younger...even if it's not in the relative squalor that they grew up in. Focusing on that, at least for a little bit, helps Prim feel less invasive and less inclined to feel curious and then guilty about Alcide's memories. Despite the urge, several times, to tell her sister about her dreams...to ask for help, Prim doesn't.

Instead she keeps it to herself, trying to be not only less of a burden, but more independent...she's no a baby anymore, after all, no matter how the older Everdeen might see things. Really, Prim has no certainty about that, buts sometimes she thinks that will always bee how her sister sees her: the baby sister that needed saving, that always needs saving. It's not bad, it's just....sometimes she wants to prove herself, and to make Katniss proud.

That line of thinking only distracts the thin blonde so much, though. Anything to not dwell on someone else's...relationship and death. Because it just feels so wrong, so....rude. "Have you ever been on a mission, Katniss?" Prim asks, the question actually startling herself for a moment. Her own had been pretty eventful.

Does Katniss know about that? About...magic. It is something better to focus on. For the moment.

Their lives are different in District 13 and yet, in so many ways, nothing has seemed to change. Katniss still worries about Prim almost every waking hour. All of her previous roommates have been assigned new quarters and although it's tempting to talk Prim into rooming with her, there are some chances she won't take. It's safer for her to sneak out to Derek's room at night than talk Prim into doing anything that might put her sister on the Computer's bad side. She has sharp, horrible memories of losing her sister once. That's never going to happen again.

Despite every desire to hover over Prim, Katniss has also worked her hardest not to give in to that impulse. It's not that she thinks Prim as her baby sister that always needs saving. She had seen how Prim had grown in the course of the past two years, how she had become older and wiser beyond her years. Her over-protective streak stems from a crippling fear of losing her sister again.

Katniss puts down her fork when Prim breaks the comfortable silence that had fallen between them. The question distracts her from her own thoughts. Quickly, she shakes her head and then frowns. "No. You went on one recently, didn't you?"

Blond hair bounces slightly as the younger sibling nods her head, to answer the question that's asked, before she puts her own fork down. She's not sure if she's allowed to talk about what happened, technically speaking, and yet....the idea of keeping something from her sister is sort of hard for Prim to actually do when it comes to practice. The difference between the mission and the memories is that the memories aren't her's; they aren't something that it's fair for her to talk about, not when it could effect someone elses' feelings.

"I went on a mission with Zatara, I think she's my age." Prim adds, looking down at her food. Soylent. The two things are, basically, the same thing, right? AT least according to the Computer. "We failed, actually." The tall blonde teenager moves to put her elbows on the table in front of her, unable to help but think...and worry a bit.

Will Zee get in trouble for her own...mutant abilities? Will they get in trouble for failing? She's really not sure. The plan seems so sound; they tried really hard to make it seem as if there was nothing they could have done to make the mission work. "I'm hoping that it doesn't get Zee, or me, in trouble." Prim is really bad at keeping things to herself, or maybe, it's just that this is Katniss. "They wanted us to betray people, to help lead them into a trap." Prim speaks quietly, a frown marring her normally much more happy and open face. She's just got more on her mind than usual.

There are very few things that Katniss would ever keep from Prim. She still does her best to shadow her sister from most of the darkness in her life but anything else? Katniss has remained quiet about Derek because she's not even certain what this thing with Derek is. And it makes her uncomfortable, embarrasses her. But when she figures things out? Her sister will be the first to know. As Prim is the first to know almost every part of her life.

She nods at the mention of Zatanna. The other girl is probably Prim's age. And is just as caring as her sister is. Now that she thinks about it, she could see the two getting along well. She doesn't eat as Prim continues to talk, pushing around the soylent with her fork instead. Her sister's mission failed but staring at this goop, she hopes that Derek's doesn't. It would be nice to have real food again.

"You didn't," she states quietly, her voice barely a whisper. She's unable to see either girl willingly betraying people. Katniss does her best to choke back her panic. Will Prim and Zatanna get in trouble for failing their mission? She puts her fork down and reaches out to squeeze Prim's hand. Does her sister know how proud she is of her? Of everything she's done? In a more normal voice, "What happened with the trap?"

Despite the fact that she knows the computer is always watching, Katniss manages to drag a smile from her younger sister. Her sister doesn't have to say much to deliver the message; Prim knows her too well to misconstrue. And it's not exactly like Katniss has ever been an avid fan of the rules either. So, there is something comforting knowing that she probably did exactly what her sister would have done....even if probably far less successfully.

That doesn't mean that the Computer won't see it differently, but they did everything the could do to keep up appearances. Squeezing Katniss' hand back Prim tells the official story. "They didn't trust us." Which is the truth. From there, though, it gets more complicated. "They were sure that all the Specials work directly for the Computer and so they didn't believe we were one of them. They didn't know us, and so they weren't going to believe us no matter what we said. They...incapacitated us." The matter-of-fact way that Prim tells the story might as well be a tell for the blond teenager, it didn't go exactly like that, but it is what she and Zee have gone with.

"There was nothing that we could do." The blonde shrugs, studying her sister's face. She only manages to let that linger for a moment before she looks down and then whispers, "That's what we wrote in the reports." Prim pushes around at her food a moment before taking a bite before looking up again.

Katniss leans in closer to Prim as she begins to tell her what had happened the day before. If the Computer is somehow watching them, she wants it to appear as if they're acting like sisters and sharing normal, sisterly talk. Katniss is proud of Prim for her act of defiance but at the same time, she worries. If the Computer figures things out, what kind of revenge might It take on them?

It's clear that the story Prim is telling her isn't the entire truth. This has to be whatever they concocted for the Computer. Maybe later, she'll take Prim to the warehouse that Derek had showed her so that they have a chance to really talk. For now, this'll have to do.

"Sometimes there's only nothing," Katniss admits, completely genuine with her words. It's been her experience again and again. No matter how hard she tried, there was nothing else possible. "You and Zatanna did the best you could."

Her sister's answer isn't very hopeful, but then again they grew up in a place that wasn't all that full of hope. This place is more advanced, more regimented, like Thirteen was, but it only had minimal hope itself. There people were trying to make changes. Here, Prim isn't even sure. She just knows that she did what was right morally in this case; the only question is if she is going to wind up in trouble for that moral decision. She hopes not, but her worry...it's more about Zatanna than it is about herself. The other girl is a mutant, after all.

Still, Prim nods. "Thanks, Katniss." The smile she gives, though, doesn't reach her eyes. She's still worried. She may have managed to escape death and...have her innocence and childhood prolonged thanks to her sister, but it doesn't mean she never worried. "I just hope the Computer, or whoever, looks at the report sees that. I don't want Zee to get in trouble, especially." Prim shrugs, trying to shake off those thoughts.

She's got a lot crowding her brain at the moment between that and the dream she had. It does make her wonder, though. Tilting her head to the left Prim decides a question, another one, anyway, can't hurt. "How did you sleep last night?" The question isn't that random, considering Katniss had trouble sleeping before coming here, but also....Prim can't help but think about the dreams that haunted her, that didn't feel like they belonged to her, all night.

Neither of them have known much in the way of hope during their lifetimes. That's one of the things that made the prospect of a better Panem so hard to comprehend. Any hope that she's had previously has always been dashed. Why would it be any different here? They both know better. The difference is that Prim remained someone kind while Katniss had grown cynical and code.

She frowns again when Prim mentions Zatanna. It is like her sister to care more about others than herself. Just once, Katniss wants Prim to be more selfish. She wants her sister to take care of herself and stay safe.

But it looks like Prim's done talking about her mission. The change in subject leaves a little to be desired. Maybe she should mention Derek to Prim. Or at the very least that she has someone to look after her when the nightmares become worse. Instead, she stays quiet on that and addresses the question at hand. "You probably know. I never sleep well anymore."

The answer isn't what Prim wants to hear, honestly. Part of her was hoping that the gas that is released of an evening time would be helpful toward her sister's normally night terrors. Katniss is normally lucky, though she'd probably consider it to be the exact opposite. However, everything that her sister has gone through...of course it's stayed with her because she carries it all.

Prim can't quite help the look that she sends to her bigger sister, one of caring tinged with some worry. "I just thought with the gas..." The blonde shrugs, and still can't help the worry. She wishes there were something she could suggest, but knows that it isn't likely that she'll want any sort of medication to help. She just knows.

"You'd let me know if there were something I could do, right?" Prim asks, even though she's pretty sure that Katniss doesn't want her help. She doesn't want Prim to try and take care of her, or at least that's Prim's assumption. That's the conclusion that she comes to because her sister has never really asked for help from her.

Edited 2017-02-03 06:25 (UTC)

The gas helps Katniss fall asleep but she never stays asleep all that long. The nightmares are just too intense sometimes and they wake her regardless of the chemical influence. It would be nice if it stayed working throughout the night. But Katniss isn't that lucky. Not in the ways it really counts.

She feels a twinge of guilt at the look that crosses her sister's face. Katniss probably should have lied to her. But she's a horrible liar and Prim knows her better than anyone else here. Her sister would figure it out in an instance. So she just grins sadly and shrugs.

"You know I would," Katniss says, reaching out to take her sister's hands in hers and squeezing them gently. It's not that she doesn't want Prim to take care of her. It's more that she doesn't want to burden her sister anymore than necessary. She takes a breath and smiles again, albeit this time a little bashfully. "There's a boy. He usually holds me at night."

Prim really hopes that her sister means that. Because Katniss has always been there for her, and she just wants to do what she can to give that back. Squeezing her sister's hands back, Prim manages a small smile too. What she can do, period, is try and bring Katniss up and brighten things for the two of them when she actually can because it is one thing that comes easy to her, at least.

It's nice to see her sister's smile in return and Prim's eyebrows lift with interest and curiosity at what comes tumbling out of the older girl's mouth. A boy? Prim can't help but grin even wider. Peeta isn't here. Gale isn't here. And the romances of before just...aren't applicable in this place. Prim is aware enough of that fact. Knowing that her sister may have found someone else to care about her, though, is a good thing.

"A boy?" Prim can't help herself. Even if she's not just a typical teenager there are some topics that are universally interesting to girls her age. OR girls in general. Even if Katniss doesn't normally talk with her about these sorts of things in-depth. Prim, very much, remembers the excitement that she felt about the wedding details even with things the way they'd been. Prim can't help it. "Do you like him a lot? And does it help that he holds you? Have I met him?"

Of course she means it. Prim had been there for her in District 13. That had been the first time she had really noticed how much her sister had grown. There's a part of Katniss that still sees Prim as the little sister she needs to protect. That's not the case anymore. Like it or not, Katniss's sister is a young woman now. She needs to remember to treat her like one.

Even though the conversation makes Katniss uncomfortable enough to want to squirm in her seat, her sister's reaction makes it worthwhile. There's a smile on Prim's face and a gleam of excitement in her eyes. It makes Katniss blush but seeing Prim act like a normal teenager is a rare treat.

"I don't think you have," she answers, starting with the last question in the lineup. "His name is Derek and he works with me." And probably isn't so much a boy as a man around Finnick's age. That part, Katniss leaves out. "It does help. It helps a lot."

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