Daycycle 122 [ January 15 - January 21]

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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.

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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.

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.

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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 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.

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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

[rouxgaroux]

It's then that Alcide puts faces together in a way he hasn't thought of before. The girl from his dream, Prim's sister, is Katniss. Katniss is also the girl who's so often in his rooms with Derek, sleeping in Derek's bed. Derek is Alcide's roommate and friend. Yeah, he's more connected to Prim and Prim to him than either of them realized. "Your sister is Katniss, right?" He asks. The name from the dream. The name of the girl Derek is seeing. "And she's here. I think we've met."

Prim's explanation of The Hunger Games just validates the intense feeling that Alcide has to protect Prim. She's so young and she deserves better. Katniss had seemed young too, although not as young as Prim, and yet younger than the Katniss he knows here in the Complex. And reliving Prim's memory from that experience in his dreams, means he vicariously lived something Katniss has gone through as well. They both deserve better.

"I don't understand why there would be something like that... why... the government would allow it?" It's an idea he'd gleaned from her memory, but it's so abstract that he's almost unsure about it and makes it a question.

His look is sad and thoughtful as she continues. No, it's not the nicest thing to have in common. She's too young. There are worse people in his world than him, just a guy who'd always been trying to do the right thing, who should have died. He smirks and looks down. "Maybe we should form a club anyway." He half jokes. Because what can they do about it? Nothing. They can make this place better and that's about it.

[littleducktails]

The nod is automatic; Prim has gotten used to people knowing her, or titling her, Katniss' sister. It doesn't other her, honestly, considering everything that her sister's done for her throughout her entire life. The steadiest force in her life, the person that she's always had, has been her sister. So she's quick to claim the other girl. "Yeah, that's her name." Prim offers a small smile. "She's been here longer than I have....she works in Physical Assessment." Prim offers, though, she's pretty sure if he thinks he's met her he's right.

It's not like Katniss is particularly forgettable, or at least Prim doesn't think she is considering how her sister is.

It's almost strange, to speak to someone about the games when they aren't from her home. Prim pauses a moment, to think of the best way to explain, considering the games have always just been a part of life for her. "The Capitol is more powerful than the other Districts and when they rebelled against them....they didn't win, so the Hunger Games was the way of punishing the other districts for what they did. There are twelve districts and one boy and one girl are chosen annually for the games." Prim reaches up to tuck some hair behind her ears, sadly. "The Capitol, at that time, was stronger and there was no way to go against them. They were the government, the ones in control."

Shes sure that she's explained it poorly and she can't help the sadness that she feels, but the smirk that Alcide manages so easily does bring one tugging at the corners of Prim's lips. "Maybe...I've never been in any sort of club." Prim admits. "I suppose it could be as good as any?" She jokes back, finding herself curious about Alcide's life, in some ways, because he seems so kind, to her. "Alcide, would it be...overstepping to ask about the man with the fangs and how you turned from a wolf to man?" Prim asks quietly, a tentativeness to her tone, not wanting to upset her potential new friend with a question that might overstep boundaries.

[rouxgaroux]

It's true, she's got such a hardened, sad and haunted look that Katniss is hard to forget. He'd seen her several times before he finally approached her at the charity ball and danced with her. He figured he should know the girl who's been frequenting his room with Derek at night. He remembers Katniss mentioning her sister then. And now he can easily put two and two together. It probably shouldn't have taken him so long.

And now, seeing Prim up close and knowing what he knows, Prim is equally unforgettable. She's not just Katniss's sister. Alcide doesn't know Katniss well enough for that and he feels like he's been in Prim's headspace in a way. He feels more of a connection with Prim than Katniss, which makes Katniss Prim's sister in his mind.

"They called you Primrose, like the flower. It's a pretty name." He offers softly. It's just a part of his memories and he's trying to make sure that this entire conversation isn't horrible. He doesn't want Prim to associate him with something horrible. She's had enough of that in her life, he thinks.

What Prim says though, it fills in some explanation of what he'd dreamed where it's needed. "A dictatorship. They like to control people by fear, historically speaking." He may not get it completely, but he wants Prim to know he gets the gist of what she's saying. "And what I saw, the reaping. Your name got called to fight in these... I don't much care for callin' 'em games." It sounds so wrong, because that's not what she's describing. It's forced execution. It's psychological torture, in a way, on a massive scale.

She asks him about the man with fangs and Alcide works not to make a disgruntled face. Fangers and shifters don't really get along as a rule. But Alcide logically knows that there's good and bad in every group. You can't classify the whole from a few. "It ain't overstepping. You saw what you saw. Vampires, they're the ones with the fangs. They're real in my world. So are shifters and fae. I'm a wolf... usually. This place has taken it from me. But I'm gonna get it back." It's a lot to explain and he isn't sure what she knows about any of these things, in a fantasy sense or real. "I can shift from what I am now to a wolf form. My mind's all there the whole time so it ain't like a monster movie or anything. It's just... what I am." And he really hopes that that doesn't scare her.

[littleducktails]

Prim smiles and nods at Alcide's recollection; he's right, that is what she was named after. "Thank you! My sister and I are both named after flowers." She had nothing to do with her own name, but it's still a really nice compliment. Alcide, just like in the memory that she had, is sweet to try and bring something other than death and their terrible memories into the conversation. For someone who seems so giant, physically, he's a pretty gentle man.

In some ways he reminds her of Peeta, though obviously not completely so, considering Peeta never towered over her the way that Alcide does, but the guy was strong physically. Everyone got the chance to see that beneath the caring, gentle demeanor he was very strong. Prim always liked Peeta, though, and she likes Alcide thus far.

Blond locks bounce with Prim's nod. "Fear and violence. They also keep the worst districts from the rebellion poor." Prim states mat wagter-of-factly. Alcide, luckily, didn't see the state of Prim's home district outside of the reaping and the lack of food and other things that she and Katniss grew up in. She can wager a guess that it would upset him. Prim understands, though, that the Hunger Games are anything but a game. "The Capitol watch it like it's...a sport, though. It's entertainment to them." Prim looks down and shakes her head, still in some ways, unable to believe that she was drawn the very first time. "That was the first time that I was even...eligible to have my name drawn. I don't have particularly good luck." Prim explains, a sad smile pulling at her mouth.

She's had this thought multiple times, and what happened....well, there's no way to change it now. So, getting upset over it will do her absolutely no good. She's alive now, and even if this place isn't perfect she's here, at least.

"Vampires..." Prim wrinkles her nose, not quite familiar with the term. "His teeth looked like something someone from the Capitol might do. To be unique and...attractive." There's a hint of a frown in her voice as she says that because Prim isn't exactly the sort of person that finds that...pretty. She's simpler, though, than individuals from the Capitol. Hearing that Alcide is a wolf, though, Prim looks up at her newfound friend. "So you're like Zee, just...different. Not the same sort of...thing." Prim finishes lamely, remembering she probably shouldn't say things like that out loud, and a bit of guilt crosses her face for actually bringing it up; the fact that he's real is obvious to Prim and, honestly, she isn't afraid of him and doesn't find him monstrous in any way. "I've never seen it before, and I'm sorry, actually, for bringing it up."

Prim looks up, wondering where the cameras are and hoping that this isn't...important enough for anyone to worry about. She's already potentially gotten herself and Zee in trouble, at least partly.

[rouxgaroux]

"That's sweet." An appropriate, he thinks. Prim makes him think of a flower, both delicate and apt at survival. "Back home, we've got some wild primrose that grows along the side of the roads before you get into the swampy areas. Ain't sure I've ever seen a Katniss flower. What's it look like?"

If he knew he was reminding her in any way of someone like Peeta, he'd definitely take that as a compliment. The bottom line is that he likes Prim too. She's so sweet and if he could make this world a better place for her, he would do it.

Prim seems all too aware of the harsher sides of life and Alcide doesn't like it. There's nothing he can do about what Prim has been through. But when she dips her head, he reaches out to place a firm hand on her shoulder, shakes his own head. "So we both have sour luck. Maybe we can turn that around here." He's working on it, in any case, him and Zee. "What happened is not okay. But maybe we can make what's comin' at us okay."

He has to ask about the second vision though. "Why... I don't understand what happened in the end." It's the best way he can ask about her death without coming right out and talking about it. It's striking, really, to know that he isn't the only dead person walking here.

Maybe he'd been holding his breath in seeing how Prim would react to his admission of being a wolf. It could go either way but he knows which way he wishes it would go. So when she says he's like Zee, he releases that held breath in a smirk and a nod. "Yeah. Kind of. I can't do magic, but I can shift into a wolf. I can hear, smell and see things differently than humans. I'm stronger... usually." It's been too long since he's been able to shift or to use any of these enhanced senses.

Alcide is quick to relieve her of this guilt. "No, sweetheart, it's okay. You saw what you saw and I saw some of your life. It was almost like I lived it. You deserve an explanation. And I'd rather you ask than worry or be afraid of me." He grins again. "I've never been one to avoid any elephants in the room."

[littleducktails]

Alcide is just likable, and as he describes the wild primrose that he's seen, Prim can't help but smile at the image....in part because she's seen bits and pieces of his home, and the way that the plantlife looks. Even if she's not as versed in wildlife, and plants, as her sister. She heard her mom talk about Katniss plants before, though. "My mom used to tease Katniss that as long as she could find herself she'd never starve." Prim smiles, lightly, at the memory. "It grows near water and the leaves are like triangles--or arrowheads--and the flower part has three white petals." That's what Prim remembers of it, though after a moment she tacks on. "You eat part of the root, like a potato."

Her mom really did hit that point home, that Katniss plants were edible. And primrose, well, can be used in teas and oils, but not for sustenance....even if here and in District 13 that knowledge wasn't really necessary even if back home it was necessary information.

"I like that way of thinking." Prim smiles, even as her blonde hair shakes with a nod. "We can always try to be better and positive here." Katniss is the pessimist and Prim...ever the optimist. So, she can appreciate that from her newfound friend. Even if he still has questions about the negative parts.

"I'm a healer....back there and here." Prim offers, thinking back to everything that happened when she died. "The things that fell from the sky....in the hunger games they use those to deliver gifts...food, weapons, medicine. So, when the kids that were in the barricade saw them that's what hey thought they were." Prim frowns at the memory, looking up at Alcide. "I was blown up by them along with everyone else." She says, as gently as she can actually manage, trying not to focus on the harsh reality.

"I've never seen anything magical until I met Zee." Prim admits. The fact that he turns into a wolf doesn't make him scary, not to Prim, if only because as a person he is just...too nice to see him being truly bad. "People aren't like the two of you in Panem." She sort of wishes that people had been, then people like her sister and Finnick might not have wound up losing all that they had. It wouldn't have all been on their weaker shoulders. The new information is just...something that would have changed everything at home. It's too bad people like him and Zee weren't in Panem.

And it's a relief that he doesn't mind talking about it because Prim can't help her curiosity. "I'm not afraid of you." The blond reassures with a smile. "You're like...a gentle giant." Prim says without thinking. "Unless you need to not be." The teen adds, thinking of Peeta, who had so much strength but could be so delicate; yeah, the two remind her of one another and it's easy to like Alcide because of that. He didn't have to try and talk to her, after all. "But getting your memories and meeting you...it's easy to see that you're a good person and to trust you." Prim can't help her honesty, even if she hasn't forgotten Cisco's warning. This is just so different, though. She knows these things for a fact, not just because she's naive and trusting.