Daycycle 107 [ September 11 - September 17 ]

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daycycle 107

[Sept 11 - Sept 17]

Early Morning [0800 - 0900] — All Troubleshooters Report for Duty

Morgana LeFey and Isabelle Lightwood, have been selected for today’s mission. Details are below:

‘Your old-issue PDCs are being replaced with the new model, yet again. Here are two protypes that we need tested. The range of tracking should be increased by 25% from the last model and the lie detector should be more sensitive to partial truths. Test them and write a thorough written report and turn it into R&D by the end of the day.’

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 Alpha Complex Art Gallery and will be hosted by the Alpha Photography Society. Tonight we'll feature a gallery of our member's best works at the museum. (The current trend in Alpha art is a binary black & white approach to art. Enjoy!)

Alternatively, word of the final Alpha Boxing Championship run by Free Enterprise is spreading fast. Alpha Special, Ronan Lynch has fought and won against two of Alpha's most formidable boxing champions to date. Tonight he goes head to head with Julio Casey who beat his last opponent so badly that he had to be replaced with a new clone. The final fight will take place in an unused battle bot arena in the R&D sector this evening at 2000. Bets are being taken by Free Enterprise and officials have been paid off to ensure that the fight won't be interrupted by IntSec.

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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

[ladenga]

Elsa mirrored her, holding her hand out out of sheer habit, and stepping back. It was strange not feeling the frost developing in the palms of her hands in this world but Elsa didn't question it too much.

"No? I've just never heard it before. Where is it from?"

[satnalahcsauoyekil]

Zee can't tell actually if she's being mocked or if this woman just happens to have the same reflexes in a defense situation as Zatanna does in an offensive position. But all the same, the woman steps back.

"America," she says. "It's English, it's just spells." She shrugs. It is what it is. But it worked. "Nrut dnuora dna og kcab," she tries under her breath, just to test the theory. Just in case the step back the other woman had taken was to protect herself and not because Zatanna's magic is actually working again.

[ladenga]

"And what does that spell do?" she asked, curious. "I've never used spells before." All of her magic came natural to her. Whatever she wanted or felt, it happened. That was what she had known her whole life.

[satnalahcsauoyekil]

The woman didn't do anything other than continue to talk to her so her question was met with a little laugh and followed by a sigh and a roll of her eyes. "Apparently nothing, here," she replied, frowning.

[ladenga]

"...because they took away the magic."

The realization was quiet and made Elsa feel colder than she'd ever felt before. She looked down at her hands, then at the woman.

"You...did you--were you born with magic, then?"

[satnalahcsauoyekil]

Slowly, Zatanna nods. They took away the magic, indeed. Her spells are completely useless and that leaves her feeling naked and vulnerable in a strange, scary place. "Because they took the magic away," she agrees after a moment.

She gets the feeling that maybe she isn't alone in that, come to think of it; not with the way the other woman looks down at her own hands before looking back up again. Zee wonders whether the source of her abilities, if she has them, is her hands rather than her words, the way it is for Zee.

"Born, not so much. It took a lot of work. I was born into a mystical family, so I have ties there, but we aren't born with magic so much as the ability to harness it? It's hard to explain," she replies, "but essentially, I've been doing magic for years and I'm not exactly whelmed at the fact that I can't do it here. That shouldn't be able to happen. It's a learned skill...how do you take away a learned skill?"