Daycycle 124 [January 29 - February 4]

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daycycle 124

[Jan 29 - Feb 4]

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

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, Allison Argent will be reassigned to Armed Forces' Very Special Forces firm under Steve Rogers.

At 1300, VIOLET judge Bethany Abbott will be discovered dead in her chambers. Her death will ultimately be ruled murder by poisonous gas. Mind Control will immediately begin running coverage on her accomplishments, including the controversial decision less than a week ago to drop the treason charges against Oliver Queen and Parker and return them to Alpha. Once again, the letters "MOD" will be found at the crime scene. This time carved across Abbott's desk underneath her slumped body.

Gracie Cannell will be pulled from her blog to cover the breaking news due to her Special status.
News of the murder will spread like wildfire across Alpha, inciting fear in higher clearance citizens because VIOLET citizens were believed to be untouchable. In lower clearance citizens, the event will be enough to get ASS vocal again. Within hours there will be anti-special messages spray painted across Alpha.

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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 1800 in the Wagon Wheel, floor 25, Room H and will be held by the Extreme Ironing Club. This group is for those Alpha citizens who can't get their uniforms wrinkle-free enough. (Though anyone who may attend this incredibly boring sounding meeting, will actually find an established Free Enterprise dice game in progress instead.)

During the dinner rush, at 1900 a group of twenty ASS members in masks and armed with steel bars will form a brief demonstration in the Commissary in which they chant "Down with Specials." If there happens to be any Specials present in the Commissary at that time, they will attack them with malice.

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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

[stillplaying]

Once escorted out of the mess of the commissary, Katniss had spent the rest of her time watching Prim like a silent sentry. If anything happened again tonight - if the riot in the dining area had been some kind of hummingbird trap-esque diversion - she would act this time. She wouldn't make Prim depend on anyone else for rescue. Nor would she let anything ever happen to her sister again.

She's so caught up in watching Prim that she almost doesn't notice Clint. He tugs her away from Prim and she feels that fear and hesitation. If she leaves her sister, Prim might get hurt. It's what had happened the last time Prim had acted as medic to the injured. But she's also noticed the bow and quiver he carries and that Katniss wants back. It's a ridiculously childish thing to cling to her weapons like a tot might cling to a safety blanket but Katniss can't help it.

As soon as he presses the bow and arrows into her hands, her fists are wrapped tight enough around them that her knuckles pale. She nearly lost these and Katniss isn't certain she'd be able to sneak another set out. There's a look of gratitude mixed in with the serious expression on her face. Not that she actually says thank you aloud. Instead, she answers, "I won't tell anyone that you retrieved them for me."

The implication being if she does get arrested, Katniss won't bring anyone down with her.

[pretendtoneedme]

He's not really expecting a thank you; Katniss is just too shaken for that kind of thing right now. He knows she's thankful, though, and that's what's really important. That and her realizing how discreet she has to be with her weapons, where she hasn't been before. Clint completely understands how dependent she is on those weapons, considering how many times they've saved her life in the past - he'd be lying if he said he hadn't had similar issues on missions - but Alpha isn't the Games. In some ways it's better - but in some ways it's worse. And he doesn't want her to have to experience that "worse" first hand.

"Make sure you hide them whenever you can, got it?" It's times like these that he misses his S.H.I.E.L.D.-designed bows. Most of them could compress down into a much smaller size, he was able to leave them strung because the mechanics tightened the string when he needed to use it, and some of them could even become other weapons as well. Carbon fiber was a glorious material. He's slowly introducing new suggestions in his notes for Weapons Testing to try and get some of those modifications on bows coming out, but it'll be a relatively slow process like most design work. But maybe Tony... Thought for later. "We'll see about getting you something less conspicuous, too. How're you doing? Are you calming down?"