Daycycle 108 [ September 18 - September 24 ]

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daycycle 108

[Sept 18 - Sept 24]

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

There is no Mission assigned to any Specials today.

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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.

Death Leopard is back! After nearly having nearly all of it's members hunted down and exterminated after the parade fiasco a few months ago, new leadership has arisen within the secret society and has been secretly recruiting new members hellbent on destruction for destruction's sake. A large number of Death Leopard members work within the Armed Services divison and at approximately 1400 today, a large shipment of weapons will be stolen.

At 1500 Death Leopard members stationed throughout Alpha will cause utter chaos by careening through Alpha in stolen motor cars, blaring loud music and shooting up the place. For the most part, they are not aiming for people, but their goal is to accomplish as much property damage as possible and announce their return. They do not, however, have any qualms at shooting officials clearance level YELLOW or higher. They have several grenades that they will use throughout their reign of terror, tossing them at random store fronts and service firms.

All Troubleshooters will be called on to stop them by any means necessary.

It will later be discovered that during this show of blatant disregard for Alpha Citizen Life, two more shipments of weapons were stolen.

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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 1700 in Meeting Room F, Wagon Wheel Floor 27 and will be hosted by the Volunteer Form Checkers. Help Alpha Complex by volunteering your time to check forms this evening as the scanners in the Housing, Planning & Development sector is down.

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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

[dorkify]

Gracie isn't really a runner either. She probably should run. It makes her healthy (or it's supposed to) and it would help a lot in cases like this.

"So this kind of thing happens a lot?" She sounds a little dejected when she asks that. She's not sure she can survive in a place where this sort of thing happens regularly. Her first day here, and she had to be rescued.

She tilts her head at him and gives him the most confused look. "The singer? With brown hair. She does the pop thing?" She shakes her head. "No." She's trying to see the resemblance and failing. "My name is Gracie Cannell. "

He probably is kind of awesome, at least in Gracie's estimation since he saved her and all, but he didn't save Taylor Swift.

[namegenerator]

Cisco doesn't answer that directly right away, huffing a humorless laugh and cocking his eyebrows. He's trying to decide just how honest to be with her here. "Sort of? Yeah," he agrees, "but I was mostly talking about the way things were back home, though, for me." Saying back home out loud is risky and he knows that, but it is what it is. After what they just went through together, Cisco likes to think that he can trust her not to turn him in for treason, even if she isn't a Special.

Though her response to the Taylor Swift question throws him off. Brown hair? He's only ever seen TSwift with blonde hair. Or that one video with the red hair. So if he looks confused, it's because he is. But it doesn't really matter, anyway; she says her name is Gracie, so Cisco will go with that. "Gracie, then. Sorry. It's nice to meet you. Another circumstance would've been a lot better, I'm sure."

[dorkify]

There's no way Gracie is turning anyone in for treason. She's still getting used to the whole idea of treason. It had only been a word back home, an idea thrown around with the name Edward Snowden. Even if she were an alpha, even if she realized she could gain something by turning people in for treason, she wouldn't do that. "Oh." She's quiet for a moment. "I'm sorry. Good training though?"

She shakes her head at his apology. "You could have mistaken me for worse people, like a Kardashian," she jokes. Of course, he may not get that joke. She doesn't know. "Another circumstance would have been really nice, but hey...thanks for saving my life."

[namegenerator]

With a half-smile and a full shrug, Cisco runs both hands through his hair as he finally catches his breath properly. "Yeah, I guess so, huh? Who knew fighting metahumans could come in handy for something completely different someday?"

Which, he supposes, suggests that he actually fights off metahumans and isn't just in Barry's ear guiding him through doing the grunt work there. What? She's cute. Barry won't mind. Probably.

In spite of himself, Cisco laughs out loud when she responds and he shakes his head. "What kind of monster do you think I am? I would never mistake someone for a Kardashian. Even if I was ninety-nine percent sure, I would absolutely err on the side of caution," he says with a smirk that completely betrays the responsible tone he's trying to keep in his voice as he speaks. His cheeks start to warm at the last bit, though. "It's cool. Thanks for not dying? That could've been a huge blow to my ego, first time trying to save somebody and they bite the dust…" Cisco jokes because he has to. The whole mood of this place and the situation they're in is too macabre if he doesn't.

[dorkify]

His comment gets a puzzled expression from her. "Metahumans? That sounds like...I don't know.. X-men stuff. If you're going to tell me you worked with Professor X, shut the front door. I mean, I've already met Tony Stark today sooooo who's to say it isn't possible."

What's a best friend for?

A smile spreads over her face in spite of their circumstances. "You're a good man, Cisco." Clearly, because he wouldn't mistake her for Kardashian. Oh, also that life saving thing. She laughs a little. "I'm really glad I could save your ego. Dying is something I'm hoping to avoid for a few decades at least." Oh no, she agrees completely with him. Joking is totally called for in this moment.

[namegenerator]

Cisco shakes his head a little. "Nah, no, sorry. It's...a thing back home, it's hard to explain," he tells her with a little shake of his head and a smile. Trying to explain metahumans would probably calm him down some, but he doesn't need to be overloading this poor girl's brain in an effort to calm himself down. She's just been through a trauma, too.

Her compliment has him ducking his head a little and he finally pushes himself to his feet because he doesn't like sitting still for this long when he should really be listening at the door for a good opportunity for them to get out of this warehouse and back to actual safety, like their rooms, which he doubts will be a target for the time being.

"I do what I can, anyway. I'm glad you're okay."

[dorkify]

It might help to give her something else to focus on, but her brain probably would go on overload.

When he pushes himself to his feet, Gracie follows suit. This place feels safe right now, but she's aware that it probably isn't. In fact, it could become a target if these guys really aren't trying to hurt people and simply destroy things. This is abandoned and a perfect target to destroy if they're wanting to hurt the Complex.

"I am. Thank you. Have you been here long?"

[namegenerator]

"You're welcome," Cisco says with a small smile as he moves past her, toward the door. If it's quieter out there, then maybe now is a good time to start looking around the warehouse for something they can use as a shield before running for it again.

She asks how long he's been in the Complex and Cisco actually has to think about it for a minute because every day runs into the next. The first few days had been kind of a nightmare of too many hours at work and nowhere near enough hours of sleep, which throws him off, just as much.

"A week, I think? Like a week or something, give or take a couple of days. My first few days were kind of crazy so it's a little harder for me to keep track."

[dorkify]

As much as she knows that he's probably right, she dreads leaving the relative (seeming) safety of the warehouse.

If today is any indication of the way most days go, she can understand that he'd lose track.

"So what you're saying, is that in a few days, I can look forward to losing track too," she says with a slight smile. She moves to stand beside him at the door, her cheek and ear pressed to it. "It's time to make another run for it, isn't it?"

[namegenerator]

Giving her a sheepish sort of grin, Cisco shrugs a little. "Yeah, it's..." his voice trails off for a moment before he shrugs again and sighs. "Probably. My second or third day I got assigned like a nineteen hour mission on top of my troubleshooting, though, so I literally got like twenty minutes of sleep in forty-eight hours, so...that didn't help. Hopefully you won't have to worry about that kind of crazy," he says.

He doesn't hear anything on the other side of the door and when Gracie asks, Cisco nods. He's thinking the same thing. "Yeah, I think so. There's lots of places we can go, we just have to take it a little bit at a time and...uh, hope for the best." He pauses to give her an apologetic look. "You ready?" he asks, holding up a hand because he gets the feeling that she felt a lot more comfortable with running knowing that she wouldn't get lost in the melee.

[dorkify]

Her eyebrows shoot up a bit, her expression a visual representation of you're kidding. "Sleep deprivation, unfamiliar surroundings, constant noise. You realize this is sounding more like your movie of the week kidnapping and torture all the time." She's teasing, but also not.

She nods a little, dismissing his apologetic look with that little nod. In answer to his question, she takes his hand. "I'll follow you, Hero."

[namegenerator]

At her look, Cisco gives her one of his own. One that speaks very clearly of Yeah, I know, right? "Trust me, there's nothing about this place that doesn't sound like that to me these days. So yeah, I know."

She takes his hand and Cisco laughs a little when she calls him hero, but she's ready to go and so is he. Mostly. He thinks. He hopes. Cisco reaches for the door with his other hand and pulls is slowly open before exchanging a glance with Gracie. Here goes nothing...

((ooc: thread out their run for it or ftb?))