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

[pretendtoneedme]

The sheet was just for if either of them needed privacy. And admittedly also for him; he's over twice Izzy's age, and while he's completely and totally numb to Nat walking around in various states of dress, he's admittedly uncomfortable about seeing other women naked. Not that he's never not been attracted to other women even while married, but he's old enough to be Izzy's father and that's just... no. That's not a pit of snakes he wants to step in at all. It's much the same reaction he'd have to Wanda being around, or any of the girls he'd roomed with on the RED level. Sheet'd been up there, too.

"I'm honestly not sure why they asked me to do it in the first place," he answers, unlacing his boots and dropping them to the floor next to his bed. "I'm not in medical and I've never really talked like that before. Just 'cause I suggested it doesn't mean I'm the best fit to tell other people about what to do, especially since I don't know what all their stuff does." The only reason he could think of that the Computer wanted him to do it - okay, aside from being insane - is that it saw how he reacted during the bombing. Stark and Ramon would've died if he hadn't come along when he did, and he'd gotten Nat calmed down enough to help stabilize them until Steve and... and... another member of VSF had shown up to help carry them out. Panicking does no one any favors and he does know enough about trauma care to be effective in an emergency, but that still begs the question as to why not have one of the actual medical staff be the primary lecturer. He's not watching his expressions as closely as he normally does, so his confusion is present on his face if not fully in the open. "They might repeat this one. Any other topic, they're gonna have to get someone else if they want anything to make sense."

[withstyle]

Izzy's not sure why the Computer makes some of the decisions that it does some times, and it's minions....those that follow the will of their artificial dictator don't quite make sense to Izzy either. Maybe there's reasoning, maybe it's all random, it's hard telling, honestly. The shadowhunter hasn't given up trying to figure it out ultimately, but working with what she knows and has access to.....not quite there yet. "I'm sure there was some sort of reason." Izzy offers, moving to take a seat on her bed.

He's not medical, but he has field experience. When you're dealing with medicine in such an extreme format there's a big difference from the sterile environment of the hospital. "It could be as simple as you suggested it, though. You bring it up you get to follow through." Izzy shrugs, delicately, but that seems like such a plain answer. Still, the answer isn't always complicated; people tend to make it that way. "After seeing you in action talking tonight it wasn't a bad choice, at all, though. You're good at explaining things and you've got the field experience, it sounded like." Izzy comments, considering the comment he made about getting hurt and being bandaged as often as he has. It's not hard to put bits of information together. "And I'm in medical and I can honestly say that I'm not even sure about what all of their stuff is. I'm looking into the things I don't, even though most days I'm in the morgue and not treating live patients." Izzy comments, leaning back onto both of her hands.

"At least this Citizen Improvement was useful, and interesting. Some of them aren't. I think Friend Computer could use some suggestions for other topics, but if you get sucked in when you toss them out..." Izzy shrugs, half joking about what she's saying, but at the same time....that seems to, sort of, be Clint's situation.

[pretendtoneedme]

Clint's long since come to the conclusion that the Computer and the people who blindly follow it don't make a lick of sense. He's been to the library a couple of times and seen what'd been done to the books, and even though he's not a huge reader it still made him a little sick to his stomach to see familiar stories he knows so mangled. Until they can find a way to turn off the Computer for good, they only things they can control are themselves, to avoid drawing attention. Hence why Clint plays along with everything going on (...sort of) for the moment; the best time to strike is when your opponent doesn't expect it at all.

He shrugs at her assertion that there was a reason he led the class, because really, the only one that makes any sense is "you proposed it, you do it." And at least he knows something that helps in emergency situations. "Guess you could say that." He's made sure their room isn't monitored by camera - one of the benefits to knowing how to evade security systems - but he can't sure certain there's not a microphone planted somewhere he couldn't find when he did his sweeps. He can't escape or even help anyone if he's been executed for treason, after all, so Clint's still very careful. "I kinda wanna know more about all their stuff though. They put Stark back together in just a few days, and he should've died from his injuries from the bomb blast."

But something she says catches his attention, and he looks up at her with a little confusion. "With the clones, why do they need a morgue? Is it just to figure out why someone died, even though they can just... make a new them?"

[withstyle]

Izzy takes his comment as an affirmative, even if he doesn't actually say the words outright. The good thing about being watched by the Clave like she has been is Izzy can tiptoe and choose her words carefully when she needs to. She didn't specify the field experience in question; she could make the argument easily if the psychos who come to interrogate people show up. Still, she's hoping that they don't because she's not in the mood for the lack of beauty rest.

She's been interrogated a few too many times already, for reasons that she can't even remember, which means they probably weren't that important in the first place.

"You and me both, Clint." Izzy speaks, thinking back to what she told Steve. She said she'd look into it and update him when she found anything out, but that was before she got dragged in with Barry to help him on the forensics...and the dead prisoner. That doesn't mean that she's given up looking, though. She's got easy access, seeing as she's actually located in the hospital. The only problem is managing to either talk her way into a shift to treat patients or finding the time to snoop without getting herself into any sort of trouble. "There are definitely some advances that I'm not aware of with my training, though. I can tell you that. I'm hoping to look into some of that, though. At work." Again, Izzy chooses her words carefully. She didn't mention Steve. She didn't mention anything really; so, if asked it could easily be construed as an innocent comment if they're being monitored right now.

The shadowhunter's right eyebrow lifts at Clint's question and she sits up a bit more. There are a number of questions that she's had about this place from the get go. However, 'Friend Computer' isn't exactly completely forthcoming. "Guess you could put it that way. It's just like any other hospital, though, when someone's body is damaged beyond repair in some way, shape, or form--clone or not--they want to know what went wrong....if it was natural if it was homicide. Death has to be explained one way or another whether the person is coming back as a new clone or not." Izzy probably shouldn't be mentioning homicide considering, but it's the truth and part of the job. "If someone dies here we do an autopsy, do a pathology workup when I need to, and the paperwork that goes along with it. I don't have the clearance beyond that, though. Could just be for record-keeping...could be more." She'd sure as hell like to know, though. There's obviously more going on around here, though, than someone sees on the surface.

But there are a lot of things that Izzy'd like to know.

[pretendtoneedme]

Clint doesn't even blink at the mention of 'homicide.' That more than anything should tell Izzy something about what he does, or at least give her a clue or two. Sure, lots of people are used to the idea of people killing other people - it's just an unfortunate facet of life, one that shouldn't exist but does - but when it's someone's literal job... Well, they take it in stride. Clint's not about to kill anyone here except the Computer, though, and that's going to take time.

"I guess if it's 'natural' or whatever, they want you to see if the clone was defective or something, right?" It's one of the logical conclusions - the Computer's definitely not perfect, so it only makes sense that it could fuck up the cloning process somehow and produce clones that were... as off as the Computer itself was. But where the hardware for the Computer at least made it last and so couldn't be too terribly messed up, clone hardware would be a lot worse to get wrong. "...It'd be interesting to see what effect those pills they give us have on us," he says with deliberate casualness, because this is toeing very closely to suspicious lines. "They're helping, and it's nice, but how do they help?"

He doesn't think they're nice. Izzy would notice Clint never took the HappiTime pills himself, ever. But the question of what those ...drugs? sedatives? medications do to the population of Alpha is never far from his mind. If they can already get into his head like they did last night, how much worse would swallowing those capsules make it?

[withstyle]

Izzy may be young, but she's not one of the best shadowhunters at the institute for no reason. She's a Lightwood, and even more than that she prides herself in being a damn good forensic pathologist and for being more, for being intelligent. The ease with which Clint hears homicide, and continues on with the conversation is telling. Obviously he's seen death, he's seen homicide. It's not a jump that Izzy is afraid to make mentally in regards to the man, though. Still, the young woman doesn't feel as if she is in any danger from Clint.

She welcomed him to this place, she's helped him with his demonstration, and she's never felt as if he meant her any harm. Obviously, like others here, he isn't happy with this place...with Friend Computer, but that doesn't worry her.

"Exactly, they want to know if it's something that happens as a result of the person's genetic makeup that they were predisposed to or whether or not it's related to the cloning process and/or the environment of this place." Izzy's sure that none of this is anything that she shouldn't be saying. Even in a place like this death exists, and people can be curious. Though, Clint's casual comment causes her right eyebrow to quirk upward. "Actually..." Izzy wets her lips, choosing her words carefully. "As helpful and nice as HappiTime pills are when used correctly, like you and I...and most of the citizens do, I have seen a few cases of people who abused them.... formed habits because they over-medicated instead of sticking with the dosage that we all get." Her tone is careful, suggesting that over-medication is something bad done by those individuals....even if it isn't the exact way she sees it. She has enough faith to figure that Clint will see passed her words.

The meaning there is pretty straight-forward. The pills are addictive. A person becomes reliant on them, and some wind up needing more and form a drug habit where they need more and more, others just become reliant. Izzy's positive that if people who actually take the pills abruptly quit after a period that they'd experience some symptoms of withdrawal. They are another form of control in this place, just like everything else. "Whether those people had addictive personalities, developed tolerances, or something else I don't know for sure. I haven't studied extensively, but there is an effect." Izzy doesn't work alone, after all. She doesn't do all of the work herself, she does do her fair share. "We look at the brain, obviously, and some did experience the pruning, or rewiring, the change in neurotransmitters, and tissue damage from the excessive over-use......if that tells you anything." Izzy's being careful to blame that on those people, on their overuse, but drugs like that....they have an effect on everyone both from 'normal usage' and excessive, even if the damage isn't as severe in the first option. Putting it this way, though, makes it easier to pretend that she is not badmouthing the drug that they're supposed to be taking. Even if she doesn't take her own either.

The fact of the matter is....those pills are given to people every day here in Alpha, and like any drug it has an effect. With more time, and access to studying the drugs, their makeup, and everything....Iz'd be able to say more, but right now she doesn't have that. She's given the readouts for normal levels of HappiTime pills for comparison. Maybe, though, sometime she's going to have to dig further in--just like with some of the treatment methods used outside for the morgue.