Daycycle 103 [ August 14 - August 20 ]

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daycycle 103

[Aug 14 - Aug 20]

Early Morning [0800 - 0900] — All Troubleshooters Report for Duty
Samantha "Root" Groves and Cisco Ramon, have been selected for today’s mission. Details are below:

"Confirm circuit breakers are functioning properly by creating short circuits to test them."

Please debrief the computer on the status of your mission by the end of the Daycycle here.

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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, unless specifically assigned a different shift.

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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 hosted by the Amateaur Dramatics Group. You're invited to come see the one woman show that Mind Control called too "boring" to put on early morning television.

Specials Event - All Specials with knowledge of Specials HQ have been invited to a surprise party to celebrate wanted fugitive, Dick Grayson's, seventeenth birthday.

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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

[a_man_out_of_time]

The irony isn't lost on him either. "Hey now." He laughs once, because Tony being less tense made Steve more at ease. "It's funny how things shake out sometimes. Two months ago, I had no idea I'd be doing ... this."

He's palm is gesturing to the color of his jumpsuit. GREEN. It had all been one promotion after another, for things that Steve would have done anyways and would continue to do. It was unsettling, given that the Computer was crazy.

"I'm sure that I became a most eligible bachelor because I didn't have you as my competition." Steve had on a smirk of his own and a single eyebrow raised.

As for the other question. "The last thing we did together was build this place, so you and I could have a base of operations. Before we talk about what you can do, there's a few other things you should know. First, the Specials here, as we're now called, have set up an entirely separate meeting place that goes unmonitored by the Computer. It was a place setup simultaneously to this one, and most of us know about it. This place, however, I've only shared with one other person — other than you."

He points to what is now a noticeable cot and sleeping area in the corner. "Dick Grayson. He's just a kid, but he's extremely capable. He went off the grid from the Computer over a month ago, and I've showed him this place so he could lay low here."

[im_ironman]

"What, you had no idea you'd be announced as a most eligible bachelor when you're wearing a jumpsuit? Please, I think even back home that would have been a strong possibility. You didn't give the gossip magazines enough time to add you to the mix yet."

It's said as if Steve isn't talking about the jumpsuit, or what he has probably been doing to get promoted to the status he's in now. Even when he mentions tat he only got it because he didn't have him as competition, Tony lets out a scoff under his breath as he playfully rolls his eyes. "Yeah, sure." Considering everything that had happened back home, the teasing feels so normal and familiar, and something that he had felt like he had lost, that it makes his stomach tighten even if he pushes the thought aside.

The jokes were forgotten, though, when Steve explained what was going on. Specials. Meetings. Okay, he thinks, so there's ways to be unmonitored by the computer. That piece of information is good to know, but he tucks that thought aside as well once Steve mentions Dick.

"...alright, good to know. I'll keep that in mind. What about the others, anything I should know? I've met Lydia, and Morgana, but I haven't really...branched out yet, I guess."

[a_man_out_of_time]

The teasing did feel normal — which makes Steve feel relieved and guilty at the same time. Sure, all he wants are for things to go back to normal with Tony and for them to keep going right where they left off, but Steve knows he doesn’t deserve it. Just like how he doesn’t deserve the shield Howard made him.

“There’s a boy here. Barry Allen. He’s got a good heart, and he reminds me of that kid you found in Queens.” Steve wraps his arms around each other. “I think you’d like him.” He pauses a little longer than normal after that and Steve's eyes follow Tony’s. Whatever it is he’s preparing to say next, Cap isn’t comfortable with it.

“Tony, you should know that- however we ended up here, I can feel that my body is different.” It’s part of the reason why he thinks they might actually be clones. “I can’t do everything I used to.”

He knows he’s just given Tony exactly the right opening to interrupt him with a joke about of how old he is, or performance issues, but Steve just pushes forward. 

"But Barry and I might’ve accidentally stumbled onto something the other night. We’d both been assigned as security detail. Guarding people that the Computer refers to as ‘mutants.’"

Once he starts, Steve has no issues telling Tony the rest. The guy Steve was guarding was a man named Xeno Fane, and anything he came into close enough proximity, Steve had felt stronger — just as strong as he remembers feeling in his memories.

[im_ironman]

A part of Tony actually does want for things to go back to normal, he hates that feeling of distrust towards Steve, but...it's there, and he doesn't know how to ignore it. Maybe one day they'll fix it, he isn't sure, but at least right now they have a common problem to deal with. Which would make it hard to...well, avoid Steve completely, so there was that.

He gives a faint nod when Steve mentions Barry, mentally making note of the guy. He was like Peter? Huh. He'd probably like him, he guesses, even if he hadn't really interacted much with the kid after Germany. His thoughts freeze, though, when Steve mentions the fact that he can't do what he used to. Which...

What?

"You think there's a way to get you back to how you were?" That's how serious Tony is taking this; he's not making jokes about it at all. If anything, Tony's brow furrows slightly because shit, that's not good. Again, some bitter side of him reminds him that this isn't his problem, Steve can figure things out on his own, but if they're going to work together to somehow make sense of this damn place then they were going to need Steve back to normal. "It's all the Computer, messing with you?"