Daycycle 2 [ November 4-6 ]

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DAYCYCLE 2

[ November 4-6 ]

Morning

Breakfast goes mostly without incident this morning, though some might find some unpleasant pieces of hardware in their soylent red this morning.  It appears a drone, blinded by an inappropriate use of upholstery, crashed and landed in a vat of the mixing stuff yesterday.  On the plus side, there might be some useful tech salvageable for those willing to break it out and piece it together.

As a special, you are still being singled out by the majority of the other Troubleshooters, though two or three offer congratulations to Parker and Bucky Barnes on their mission yesterday. It’s rare that one contestant makes it through an entire run of Trouble Survivor, let alone two.  If their behavior hadn’t been quite so eccentric, MC might have thought of offering them a permanent spot on the entertainment network.  As it is, they are back in the Troubleshooting pool with everyone with the added benefit of being minor celebrities.

Your Briefing Officer is brief, as always, in assigning missions.  Today’s fare is much less interesting.

Troubleshooter Team: Alec Hardison & Maria Hill

Mission:  Shortly before her fatal accident, Janice Remes performed a complete inventory of Warehouse 93, but they still haven’t forwarded her written reports to Production Control.  We’ve made numerous electronic requests for information, but they keep telling us the report isn’t there.  Go to the warehouse and find her report so we can bring Warehouse’s 93’s incompetence to Internal Security’s attention.

Troubleshooter Team: Natasha Romanoff & Matt Ferrall

Mission:There was a mutant attack on a guard outside of the Armed Forces Sector last night.  The mutant scum was injured in the scuffle, but managed to escape with valuable intel.  Your mission is to track down the injured mutant and retrieve the intel.  

All other Troubleshooters:  You are to report to your Service Firm positions for the day, until called on for Troubleshooter duty.

Intel

• Corpore Metal is recruiting again.  Members are most recognizable by their metal upgrades.  Metal upgrades are not traitorous, unless they are beyond current allowed specifications.  

• The vending machine on the 24th floor was distributing exploding bottles of Bouncy Bottle Beverage.  This is dangerous when opened near a flame.  Inspect all bouncy bottle beverages you see and request information on it’s origin.

Afternoon:

The afternoon is blessedly free of explosions or mishaps.  At 1600 Corridor Running takes place in the RED sleeping corridors, as races are held to see who can beat each other’s best times.  This results in some infighting among the RED Troubleshooters, but is casualty free.

Evening:

At approximately 1800 the Armed Forces Entertainers put on a show in the Commissary for citizens of all clearance levels.  A banner is hung across the front of a stage that reads “Winning the War on Treason for over 100 yearcycles!”  The show consists of dancers, singers and a celebrity visit from everyone’s favorite talk show host, Teela O’Malley.  Sleep aid gas is expelled into the sleeping quarters at 2100.

Comments

[offtherail]

"It's functional me." He can't keep the agitation out of his comments. How could she understand? She didn't have to see his fellow soldiers taken out in front of him by bullets and explosions.

She didn't have to relive his nightmares, being strapped to a cold hard table and tortured until he fell unconsciousness every night or feel the panic that shot through him without warning when somewhere in the complex and explosion, a drill or a pop that sounded just a little too close to gunfire set him off so he came to somewhere else in the Complex, either trying to hide or getting into a fight that for once he hadn't meant to start.

"Let me worry about what I do to myself." It was the most level headed response he could manage under the circumstances and he fully intended to leave her there. He was down to two doses for the day, but his third, now second, was still back in his room and now he needed to trek back to get it.

[whosalicewhite]

"It's what they want you to be."

She understood pills for health, mental or physical. She does not understand pills to create a mood, and keep it that way. Parker doesn't understand anything that could control a person. Who wants to be controlled?

"I'm not worried." She pauses, blinks, and tosses the beverage overboard. Somewhere on the ground, there's now a decent-sized pothole, laced with false happiness.

"You're one of us. If you become one of them, you're dangerous."

The second Chucky turns around, Parker will seem to disappear. It's a talent.