daycycle 105

[Aug 28 - Sept 3]

Early Morning [0800 - 0900] — All Troubleshooters Report for Duty
Felicity Smoak and Natasha Romanoff, have been selected for today’s mission. Details are below:

‘In order to help us improve our combat simulators, you will need to run through any combat situation you encounter at least three times. On the second pass through, engage the combat at a greater range than originally. On the third pass through, attempt it at a much closer range. You will provide tactical notes to our staff afterwards. If the simulators catch fire, or fail to respond to override commands... note that too. The eggheads were supposed to have fixed that.’

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

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.

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 1700 in Hangar 15, Armed Forces Sector and will be hosted by the Alpha Complex Dogeball Association. Join us for a game of Alpha Dodgeball! All clearance levels above INFRARED welcome.

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Unfortunately for Oliver, Adam is the wallflower of every day. Also unfortunately for Oliver, Adam checks rooming lists every day and when he saw a third name in his and Ronan's room, well, his stomach turned over. Rooming with just Ronan is safe. Anyone else is still a question mark to him. Needless to say, Adam Parrish is not a people person, nor is he prone to easily trusting people.

This is why during the morning orientation, he's watching the new faces. He's trying to make out who Oliver is and what he's about. Adam is good at being invisible in a room full of people. It's an art form perfected over the years out of necessity of survival. Usually, people don't notice him unless he wants them to. He's just that kind of wallflower.

Once he's figured out who Oliver Queen is, he watches him from across the room. The man seems to be watching people as well. Adam gets that. He watches any interactions, any expressions. Any time Oliver's eyes glance his way Adam looks away or down to the floor. One time, when he looks back up, Oliver isn't where he'd left him. He sees him elbowing his way through the crowd and starts after him. When Oliver stops and abruptly turns back around, Adam very nearly runs into him.

"Sorry." He says automatically, because that's what you do when you literally run into someone. Adam is polite enough to apologize. And now he's awkwardly trying to figure out what to say next, if anything. "Crowds, right? They're... crowded." Yeah, not so smooth.

Oliver frowned when he saw the man. He wasn't the only one who seemed to keep to the walls and this was the second person so far he'd found who'd been there. Nothing particular had brought him to Oliver's attention, but now he was right here, practically stumbling over Oliver's heels. Either it was a coincidence, something he didn't particularly believe in, or else he was being followed.

"Very," he replied, mouth not even so much as twitching at the man's - kid's, really - antics. He was nervous. Whether he was nervous because of the place, because Oliver was just plain intimidating, or because he'd been following Oliver remained to be seen. That just meant that he'd have to confront the kid.

"Can I help you?" There was a touch of a sharp edge at the end that would either paint him as impatient or having recognized...something. The fact that he hadn't quite probably said more about Oliver than it did the kid. Hearing Felicity's name had distracted him.

Oliver is very intimidating. And to be honest, Adam can be easily intimidated at times. He grew up in a world of being intimidated and looked down upon. He's only just recently realized that people who put out the kind of aura that Oliver does, still put their pants on one leg at a time, so to speak. They're just people. They have weaknesses just like anyone else.

That doesn't mean Adam is an expert at intimidating people. Sharp edges cut. And while he's used to Ronan's sharp edges, Ronan is the only one he lets cut him anymore. And that's only when Adam is having a day where he forgets that he can fight back.

This guy is definitely intimidating, definitely put out by Adam's presence in his obvious impatience and definitely all sharp edges. Truthfully, it intimidated Adam to the point of being a little bit frightened. This is the guy who's supposed to be rooming with him and Ronan? Adam wishes Ronan were here right now. Ronan could fight sharp edges with sharp edges. Adam is too polite and down trodden for that. He isn't good with confrontation for the most part.

"N-no." He says with a slight shake of his head. He doesn't need any help, especially from strangers. Adam takes several steps back and looks around for Ronan. "I know you're Oliver Queen." He only knows this because he'd been watching him. Adam doesn't fight with sharp edges, he fights with knowledge. He's kind of brilliant in that way even if he'd never admit it himself.

There could have been any number of reasons that the kid recognized him, but the fact that he knew his name as well as his face was something that put Oliver on edge. If he'd been someone from back home, then Oliver would have expected to recognize the kid in return and he didn't. The stuttering and nerves could be a pose or they could be actual nerves.

"All right," he forced himself to say slowly. If it was nerves, he didn't want to intimidate the kid too severely. If it was something more, he wanted to be cautious anyway. It was his first day and he wasn't about to cause waves until he understood the water he was in. He also had to remember that any enemies he made would be enemies Felicity made. There was no way he was going to be able to keep their friendship under wraps in so small a space.

"Then I suppose my next question will be how you know me." It was what most people in his situation would ask and he didn't currently have the luxury of having alternative ways of answering it for himself. "Because I don't think we've been introduced."

The only new people he'd met were Steve and the various scientists who'd been there when he woke up.

On one hand, Adam is pleased to have made Oliver as uncomfortable or off kilter as Oliver has done to Adam. On the other hand, he worries that he might have played the only upper hand he has too soon, that he might have overplayed it and that Oliver might actually take offense when all Adam was really doing was staying informed and trying to figure out his new roommate.

Great.

"It's a... rooming list." Adam says, gesturing in the general direction of the hallways that would lead to the rest of the compound. "It lists new people. I heard someone call you Oliver." Adam shrugs. "I pay attention."

He isn't sure if that will creep Oliver out or impress him. Either way, Adam is positive he's already screwed this up. Oliver scares the shit out of him and he can't believe he and Ronan have to share a room with the guy now. Horrible luck. Adam has always had horrible luck.

Understanding dawned in his eyes. He'd heard part of the conversation with Barry, at least the beginning. Or maybe he hadn't, but he had to have associated the name with the face somehow. It also implied that he was Oliver's roommate, which meant that he was one of two people.

"Then you must be either Adam or Ronan." He'd checked the list and had slipped inside his own room, but he'd also left as soon as the imposed curfew was over. He hadn't spared any time to That was going to have to be one of the first things he looked into. He needed a way around that.

But first, introducing himself to his roommate and figuring out whether the staring was simply considering the roommate who hadn't been there the day before or something else. He didn't look particularly scary, but appearances could be deceiving.

He held out his hand. "Oliver Queen. Sorry I didn't introduce myself last night. I was a bit...disoriented."

The idea that he might be Ronan Lynch almost gets a smirk out of Adam. The both of them are so very different. But Oliver has no way to know that, at least not yet. In the end he just politely shakes his head and introduces himself. "Adam Parrish. Getting here can be disorienting."

He looks down to the floor and starts to step away, as if that can be done now is done. Adam's figured out that Oliver is scary. Now Oliver knows who Adam is.

"I guess I'll see you in our social experiment later." The social experiment of complete strangers being forced to live together. This is possibly the worst first impression ever.

"You don't have anything to worry about from me," Oliver said sincerely. He wasn't lying. There wasn't anything to worry about. For now. If Oliver found out that Adam was a part of the problem, then it would be a different matter, but for now he was just another one of the people he had to protect.

He knew he could be intense sometimes - all the time - but he wasn't planning on being a danger to anyone but the people who'd put him here. So far, it seemed that Adam was simply another cog in the wheel, just like Oliver himself was. For the moment.

"It's good to meet you, Adam, and I'll see you tonight."

Daycycle 105 [ August 28 - September 03]

daycycle 105

[Aug 28 - Sept 3]

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