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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Steve can’t help but smile just a little bit. “I think I should take that as a compliment.” That she’d never be comfortable doing this to him. Honestly he’s not even comfortable doing this to someone who attacked him. His style is much less deadly.

The first time Lydia goes in deep enough, but she takes too long, but the second time feels just right. And the third time reaffirms to him that she’s taken in everything he’s taught her so far. That’s the benefit of a beginner move like this one. It’s simple to execute as long as you’re willing to do what it takes.

“Good,” he says, after the last one. “If you think you’re about to get attacked, and you can’t remember how far in to push, just push as far as possible — and as fast as you can. The move only fails if you don’t go in far enough.” He gives her a nod, expecting to get one back as affirmation that she understands.

“The next part is disabling your opponent. Let me show you on your wrist.”

With her permission, he’ll hold her hand up vertically, so he can treat her wrist as if it were his throat. The beginning hand motions are exactly as she practiced, and for demonstration purposes, Steve ‘pushes’ forward, sliding his fingers up against her wrist, but stops when his fingertips are about three quarters of the way in.

“Your instinct might be to just apply pressure, like this.” It’s a sort of flat pressure she’ll feel as Steve just presses down, squeezing her wrist in between his fingers. “Because it feels safer. But instead, what you need to do, is pinch.”

Instead of staying straight, his fingers curl into a claw-like formation, and the pressure Lydia feels should be significantly greater and more compressed to one area. And Steve finally explains the part that had him hesitating in the beginning.

“Do this fast enough, and you’ll crush your opponent’s trachea. There’s no amount of muscle that can protect this part of your body.” Her opponent’s size, won’t matter. “Once the windpipe breaks, you’ll need to call an ambulance immediately.”

He never stops looking at her when he speaks. Steve wants her to understand the full spectrum of what he’s teaching her here. Breaking the trachea should be the absolute last resort.

“But you also don’t have to go that far. Apply enough pressure and your opponent will start to cough like they can’t get enough air. They won’t be able to focus on anything else. Most people will immediately need to sit. That’s when you run.”

He lets go of her and holds up his own wrist.

“Try it here first. Then we’ll try it on my neck, but ten times slower.”

Lydia's chewing on her bottom lip when she holds her arm up for Steve. The initial motion is familiar; it's what she's been doing on his throat. As he explains and demonstrates, Lydia realizes that she'd been right all along about this particular lesson. It's meant to crush the windpipe. The idea of it makes her sick to her stomach, but she understands why he's showing her. There's an empowerment to knowing how to do something like that if the need arises.

So she nods and takes a slow, deep breath to calm her stomach and clear her head. At least, she thinks with relief, he's telling her that there's a way to do it so that she's not doing quite as much damage, but still giving herself a quick escape. That calms her down probably a lot more than Steve even realizes. It isn't that she's afraid, or that she doesn't think she could do it if in a life or death situation. In fact, it's that she isn't afraid and does think she could that scares her. The fact that she's concerned that she wouldn't think twice about doing it to someone who was attacking her in the way she'd been attacked months ago by the A.S.S. in that storage closet is frightening because it means that she's colder on the inside than she'd like to be.

When he holds up his own wrist, she nods and starts to demonstrate the learned skill back to him. "Thanks for showing me this...and explaining everything," she says earnestly. And she shakes her head a little. "I don't want to do it on your neck," she admits honestly. "I get the idea. I can do it on myself a little bit and be able to feel what you're talking about without worrying that I'm pushing too hard because I'll be able to read my own pain and discomfort threshholds..."

Daycycle 122 [ January 15 - January 21]

daycycle 122

[Jan 15 - Jan 21]

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