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

[cassandran]

"Not drowning's the point." He wouldn't say it's like riding a bike, but you can't exactly unlearn it without outstanding circumstances.

He pauses. "I actually understand that kind of logic," he says, an undercurrent of unease running in his voice. The kind of logic where certain people can always be above the consequences of their actions, while being hypocritical enough to turn those same guidelines against others.

"The woman might share the script, if we manage to sit through the entire thing." It's not like it's illegal information or anything. He could pass it off as light reading, maybe. If no one looked at which pages were going to be dog-eared.

[whattingawhat]

She frowns a bit, a little facial shrug. "Tell that to Michael Phelps," she says with a grin.

His comment has her side-eyeing him a little. "Don't make me start calling you Hitler," she jokes. "I think it's dangerous logic. " Of course, she lives in the same sort of world that Stiles does. It does depend on who is doing the killing and circumstances whether it's murder.

"I like how you think. We could be fans. Big fans. Maybe we want her to autograph it. We're going to study it and make certain we're being ideal citizens."

[cassandran]

Stiles rolls his eyes good naturedly. "He's just an overachiever."

"If I had to choose a guy, I'll rather be Javert. He at least is just an idiot about following the letter of the law," he mutters back at her, wrinkling his nose. "Without jumping off the rooftops." Hitler is definitely not a name he wants connected to him in any way. "Anyway," he says with a shake of his head, "black and white's never worked out all that well for me." And yeah, just because he can agree that something is wrong on a certain level, it doesn't mean it wasn't necessary.

"It's research, we just want to fit in as best we can," Stiles says innocently. "Cultural development. I'll even sign up for the newsletter." Even if that means attending more performances in the future.

[whattingawhat]

"Can't stand those guys," she jokes.

She grins, the slightest laugh bubbling out of her. She's quiet a moment, serious, before she responds. "I tried to make it work for me a couple of times, but it didn't. Not very well, anyway." She functions better and is happier with herself when she doesn't look at the world in black and white. Though, she does still have some firm boundaries for herself: no killing anything human. There are rules in place for that.

"I think you should do the talking." She's a horrible liar and he says that so convincingly.

[cassandran]

And how many of those guys turn out to be assholes? Maybe high school isn't the best example - but he's only ever met two types: the ones who can effortlessly make you feel bad, or the ones who rub it in your face.

Leaning back into his chair, he nods slowly. "Even when they're throwing the rule book at you -" which had been something they'd tried, "right and wrong's complicated."

It helps, that it isn't exactly a lie lie. They are interested in the play, just not for the reasons the woman would think. She can make the assumptions for herself. "I can do that," he agrees, nodding.

[whattingawhat]

She'd guess a vast majority. High school is where those guys get made. Maybe, if the world is lucky, they learn, but she knows enough to know that's not always the case.

She looks at him, quiet for a moment before nodding. "I think that's sort of the point of right though. If it's easy, it's probably not right. Or maybe I just make everything too complicated."

True enough. No--she's never even been good at the half lies.She's still not sure how her mom spent two years just not seeing the slaying thing. She'd been awful at partial lies, full lies, all lies. "I'll back you up," she promises. She's not going to leave him hanging there.

[cassandran]

"Angst and self-recrimination definitely wouldn't be so popular," he jokes. If you never had to worry about making a wrong decision, because X is always wrong and Y is always right. You wouldn't even have to think too hard about what you do.

"Thanks," he says, giving her a slight smile. "Looking excited about it is going to be hard."

He pauses, realizing something: "By the way, I'm Stiles."

[whattingawhat]

"And really, what would we be without that?" she jokes in return. Sometimes Buffy thinks that kind of simplicity would be nice. She remembers vividly the night she'd asked Giles to lie to her. He'd told her that the bad guys were always obvious by their black hats. The good guys wore white and they always won. She'd known then that it wasn't true, but it had been nice to pretend for just a little while.

That makes her laugh softly because, yes, it is.

Oh. Right. He actually gets her to blush a little at that. "I'm Buffy. It's nice to meet you, Stiles oh-partner-in-crime."

[cassandran]

He pretends to think hard about the question. "Not happier, that's for sure." More self-assured, maybe? Or just following along with what's right in order to fit in and never be wrong? If that was even a functional system, it sounds too good to be true. Just look at what's happening here for prime example number one.

"Nice to meet you properly," he adds dryly.