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alphalogs2016-02-21 10:00 pm
DAYCYCLE 22 [ Feb 21 - 28 ]
This morning’s briefing will begin with the introduction of a special Special. Due to an error in cloning, Matt Murdock has been introduced to Alpha without his sight. The Computer has deemed in it’s great wisdom not to start the cloning process over until necessary due to the expense scrapping an otherwise flawless model citizen. Ray Palmer has been selected as the Troubleshooter to assist Murdock in his first days as a citizen of Alpha.
Hardison will be reinstating the network for the Specials this morning at 0800.
Troubleshooter Team: L. Martin and S. Rogers
Old issue PDCs are being replaced with a new DO-44 model, which is rolling out next week. You are to take these new models and demonstrate how to use them correctly at a booth in the Commissary. Rogers is to oversee the operation and ensure that citizens are properly trained. Martin will document the name and rank of every citizen educated. Make sure that you focus on it’s more than 40 new features, which include a lie detector, heartbeat monitor, pedometer tracker and a self-destruct sequence.
All other Troubleshooters: You are to report to your Service Firm positions for the day, until called on for Troubleshooter duty.
Intel: Troubleshooters who are interested in double hazard pay for going as part of an expedition to the surface should report to their briefing officer immediately to begin psychological and physical testing.
Those Troubleshooters who volunteer for the surface expedition will be subjected to a physically and mentally gruelling day of testing. The test themselves will not help anyone determine what exactly it is that is so dangerous on the surface, but everything will be hinted from nuclear radiation poisoning to unbearable heat. Psychological testing will include inkblot tests, word association and a lie detector test. Medical tests will also be performed to ensure that applicants are in perfect health. Those who are subjected to testing will be excused from their normal duties.
The Sector Appreciation Society will be meeting in each sector this evening at 1830 to do their quarterly scrubbing of walls and floors. They will try to recruit anyone and everyone to join in their work. Sleeping gas will be dispelled at 2100.
Fail self, let's try that again
At the sound of somebody entering, however, the half-finished computer is deftly disposed of beneath his pillow and he turns around, nice and casual, to see who it is - though he expects it to be Lydia, he can't be too careful.
When he sees who it is he's surprised, and realises almost immediately that he hadn't exactly needed to hide the evidence of his wrongdoing, not when said evidence is visual.
"...uh, hi," he says, wanting to let the guy know there was somebody else in here "...are you a new roommate?"
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"Hello," he greets and nods. "Yes. Matt Murdock." He steps forward, sticking his hand out for Dick to shake. "I am in the right place, aren't I?"
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Dick rolls off the bed, crossing the room in a couple of strides and grabbing hold of the offered hand to shake it.
"Dick Grayson," he introduces himself "And..I assume so? They didn't tell us we were getting a new roommate, but there's definitely space, so you're welcome here. I can take you to one of the free beds, if you want?" he didn't want to be rude, but he wasn't sure how much help Matt would need.
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"Actually, if you'd just give me the layout of the room, I'd appreciate it. I can probably figure it out on my own. I would appreciate a heads up though if I start trying to make my bed in the closet or if I'm going to trip over something in the floor," he smiles slightly at he says it.
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"No problem," Dick can't help but chuckle slightly. He takes a moment to get his bearings and decide where to start, before giving Matt a rundown of the room. He starts his explanation from where Matt is, radiating out from there. It's an incredibly detailed retelling of where everything is, judging the distances between everything in paces so that it's easier for Matt. He does it from where he's standing, barely looking around, he's already mapped out every inch of the room pretty much since he first arrived, it was the kind of thing Batman drilled into him, to know his surroundings so thoroughly.
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"Am I at least warm?" he asks with a raised brow.
It's something Matt does as well in a different way, but without all of those senses he's a little blind (haha).
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"Pretty warm," Dick tells him "you're about a foot away from the bed." He's glad that his explanation helped Matt enough to get him that far, it can't be easy navigating this place without sight, it didn't seem like there were any efforts made to make things more accessible.
"So, Matt, what is it you did before?" he asks, they might call it a glitch or a fault, but Dick didn't buy that for a second. He didn't know exactly what was going on here, but he was still determined to find out.
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"Defense attorney," he answers. Of course, that's not all he did, but he's not ready to share his vigilantism with people that he doesn't know yet. If he understood what Dick was trying to figure out, he might be more forthcoming. "What did you do?"
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Vigilante crime fighter...maybe not. He might be a little less guarded here ever since he'd stumbled across Hardison and Parker, since they'd known his secret identity already, and it had helped him make contact with a few other people who had similar...hobbies, but that didn't mean he was just going to come right out with it, not the first time he met someone.
"Uh.. high school student," he laughed slightly "What job've they got you doing here?"
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"Really?" That surprised him. He wasn't aware that this place had anyone that young. "Personal Legal Defense Practices, but so far I haven't done anything. They don't have books in braille here and I've got no idea if the law here is anything like the law I'm studying. From what little I do know, I'm guessing no."
He needs to remember to ask Ray about coming up with some sort of scanner that will read print materials to him.
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"That sucks," he commented about the braille thing, he would have thought if they were going to bring Matt here the least they could do was provide for him, how was he supposed to do whatever it was they needed him to do without the proper tools? "Yea something tells me the laws here are..." messed up? Totalitarian? Stupid? "...not what we're all used to back at our respective homes."
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Matt is reasonably sure they don't intend for him to do any job. They just want the appearance of having legal representation, but he's suspicious, new and completely confused about everything that's going on around here. He's also paranoid because he's lost all of his super senses and he feels like he's about to be blindsided at any moment.
"That's what I've gathered from the little I've been able to talk to everyone."
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"Yea," Dick nodded slightly "It's all a little... big brother is watching, you know?" he watched Matt's face carefully for a reaction, trying to judge how the older man felt about the situation. He was getting the impression that Matt was uncertain of the place, so it could well be that all he had to do was nudge a little and he could be sure they were on the same side.
"It takes a lot of getting used to," he added.
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Despite being a good lawyer, Matt isn't the best liar. It's pretty clear in the expression on his face that the whole 'big brother' thing doesn't set well with him. "So privacy is an illusion," he sighs. "Do they listen to all our conversations? Or are they simply watching?" It's not so much that he's uncertain of the place as he doesn't know enough about it, but he's learning and he doesn't like what he's learning.
"There are some things we shouldn't have to get used to."
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"I think they listen to some things, or most things, or all things, I'm not really sure. They're definitely watching... most places," he grins a little impishly "Where the cameras work." he added in a low voice. He tried to keep up to date on what cameras were broken, and he had personally sabotaged at least a couple of them when he got a chance, but he also knew they occasionally got fixed, and it still paid to be careful. He was at least glad to see Matt was as displeased with the whole thing as he was.
"I agree with you there, but it also pays to stay safe." he wasn't going to put his safety before, say, protecting innocents, but he also knew he could do more good by rebelling in more subtle ways
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"Then we should be careful what we're saying?" His tone of voice made it a question. Dick knew more than he (almost everyone did) and he'd trust his judgement. He couldn't see the grin, but the way he dropped his voice suggested that someone routinely took down the cameras. "Is there some sort of maintenance schedule for them?" he asked in an equally low voice. What he really wanted to know was how to find out when the cameras were down, but he didn't want to come right out and ask that after learning that they were being listened to possibly.
"And work from within the system so to speak." Well, as a lawyer, that was what Matt tried to do so it wasn't a totally foreign idea to him.
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"In a lot of places," Dick confirmed "But there's ways around it, if you need to talk about... things." he added, deliberately vague. There'd probably be a way for Matt to use the specials network to communicate, and though he couldn't fall back on the 'old fashioned' method of pen and paper, there would probably be some other coded way of communicating that they could utilise.
"Not exactly, repairs seem to happen out of opportunity more than schedule I think. Keeping track of what's happening when is... more of an art than a science." the information was always changing, keeping up with it took effort.
"Exactly," he agreed cheerfully.
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"Well, they wouldn't want to make it easy on us," he chuckles a bit. "I'm sure there are some very talented artists out there."
"At least that's something I'm used to," Matt responds.