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

[adamparrish]

Adam is assuming the 'he' is Ronan. And yes, Ronan is good at lots of things, including laser tag, including destruction, including beating people up, including making Adam absolutely adore him in every way while simultaneously wanting to strangle his neck. Yep. Ronan's great at many, many things.

"You don't think it's a good idea to stay off the Computer's radar? To go about things in a smarter way?" If not, then he can see why Ronan and Parker would get along. Adam, of course, is the opposite of that. He likes to lay low, play it smart, then suddenly make a move without anyone having been the wiser until all is said and done.

Plenty of licenses? Adam learned to drive when he was very young too, mostly out of necessity, lack of parental guidance. "Don't you need just one license? I mean, not here, but back home?"

[whosalicewhite]

"Destruction>" Parker's thinking she's missed many more opportunities for fun. "And beating people up? Cool."

This time, her laugh is accompanied by a snort. For some, it might mean disgust, but snorting just sometimes happens. "Doesn't matter what I do. The computer notices nothing." She's likely getting too comfortable with being invisible to the computer. This couldn't be hubris, could it? "It doesn't even notice I disappeared." Yes, hubris.

"Don't you need one for each name?" Really, isn't that obvious? It is to Parker. "I have one for Alice, one for agent Hagen, none for Parker."

[adamparrish]

Well, now that he knows that Parker is off of the Computer's radar, he's looking at her in a new light. Adam is very good at going unnoticed, but not so good that he can stay off of the Computer's radar. That brings about any number of questions. His mind is going as fast as the car right now.

Finally, he settles on just one, simple and direct. "How do you stay off the Computer's radar?"

In the end, he has to ask another question too if just because Adam is already curious by nature and she is just giving him SO MUCH to think about. "And why do you have so many names?"

[whosalicewhite]

"It's my job." Technically, it's not the job description the computer gave her, but the computer gave her a rather vague one. She considers her invisibility an example of excellent job performance. There's another grin from her. "And it still pays me." One does not want to meet an unpaid Parker.

His question has her curious. "It's like robbing Greek Antiquities Gallery of the Louvre. Don't touch what you're not prepared to take. Don't jump up and down in front of the motion sensors. Know the blindspots. Every place has blindspots. Know the system upgrades in security." That's a perfectly clear explanation, right? It should be. She's robbed the Gallery several times, but two of them still haven't been found out.

Letting out a whistle, the second question is harder. "Hardison says I need them. Made the IDs and everything."

[adamparrish]

Adam is suddenly so fascinated by Parker's employment status that he could almost forget he was in a death-defying car ride, white knuckling the 'oh shit' handles for dear life. Off the Compputer's radar but she still gets paid? He knows of a handful of blind spots, but not enough to avoid detection entirely. While Adam knows a lot about mechanics and electrical in relation to cars, he's never thought of applying that to security spots or motion sensors.

"Maybe there's a way to bypass the security cameras altogether." He says thoughtfully, imagining the internal wiring and what it might take to disconnect that wire and reroute another to his benefit.

He looks back to Parker. "Do your ID's get you into higher clearance areas?"

[whosalicewhite]

"Can't avoid them altogether. Too many everywhere." It's like when she cases a place for the first time. Cameras are unavoidable, but it's the notice that's important. "Just be boring. Stay with crowds." Having never attended much school in her entire life, she wonders what the hell they prepare people for -- clearly no useful skills. "Then learn the blindspots. If you can't be invisible, be unnoticed."

How is this not obvious to other people who are not Parker? Oh wait.

It should also be noted that somehow Parker's still managed to drive like a maniac while carrying on a conversation. Sophie would be so proud.

"No. I don't need them here." There is genuine melancholy, a genuine affect that is hard for Parker. She can't explain Hardison and all he did, or how much she misses him.

[adamparrish]

"I'm usually pretty good at being unnoticed." Which doesn't make it easy to have any kind of social life. Really, he's lucky that Ronan noticed him at all. He's boring and he doesn't really fit in with anyone. "Today's kind of an anomaly."

He does take her advice to heart though. He'll have to pay more attention to the cameras and where they are and what they're looking at. And he can use other people as shields against them. Adam's never much cared for most people so he'll have no problem using them in that way.

"How do you know all this?" He wonders what, in her life where she comes from, has made her need to learn these things. Or maybe it's something she's learned from being here however long she has. "I mean, do you work security?"

[whosalicewhite]

Social life? Who needs that? Certainly not Parker, not anymore.

"Everything here's an anomaly." It's something she doesn't understand. There's no pattern to anything, even the days -- except for the drugs putting people to sleep. It's why she abandoned her room altogether.

"Infiltration consultant." By that, she's taken it to mean she consults herself and how to infiltrate places she's not supposed to be. She has the perfect excuse all wrapped up in her job title. "Security is to be seen. Infiltrate is to be, but not not be noticed."

[adamparrish]

Clearly a social life is overrated. And yet everyone keeps telling Adam he needs one. Parker is almost literally the first person he's spoken to in a long time that isn't a boy named Ronan. That is, not unless they were put together on a mandatory mission in which he had to talk to them.

Really, in spite of the crazy driving and the hopping from topic to topic, Adam has lucked out with Parker. She has yet to judge him. She has yet to make him really question her motives. She's been up front with him in a way most people aren't. Surprisingly, he's fascinated by her in a way that people don't usually fascinate him.

"Can you teach me? Sometime?" Not now of course because the place is being turned upside-down. But sometime after this. "How to be better at not being noticed, I mean."

[whosalicewhite]

Parker's circle is tiny, so she's reverted to the simple idea of her crew: helping the little guy (but this guy didn't look little, but Sophie explained that it's a metaphor)and working on an alternative revenue scheme.

Revenue is chocolate, but this guy's asking for more help. She's silent for 21 seconds. "Okay. Sometime."

[adamparrish]

There's a moment where he's pretty sure she'll say no. Adam Parrish isn't liked by most people. He isn't accepted by most. It takes him a long time to get close to people, close enough to let them in or for them to even want to be let in. He can be prickly and stand-off-ish. It's his own insecurities that make him think that Parker is going to say no.

He's preparing himself for just that thing, mentally kicking himself for even thinking to ask, when she surprises him. She says yes. "Okay. I can give you some of my credits. I'm not using most of them." And he knows nothing in life is free.

[whosalicewhite]

"Alternative revenue stream. I always work on an alternate revenue stream." Which means take only from the mark, not the client. In this place, Parker figures everyone (except for that oh-so-perfect-he-must-work-for-the-Computer Steve Rogers) is a client. Wait, Root's more potential crew. Relationships are hard.

"Chocolate and cereal right now." She'll figure out how to make some extra credits later. "When we work on it, you bring chocolate or cereal." These are also known as Parker's basic food groups.

[adamparrish]

Chocolate and cereal should be easy enough to get. Adam is going to have to start keeping an eye out for them. He's actually surprised that she doesn't want his credits. Maybe that says something about who Parker is to him, as a person. In spite of their speed, he relaxes a bit into the passenger seat, not so much the skittish, completely distrusting guy anymore.

"I'll get you some. Thanks." It's really a small price to pay for what Parker could teach him, he thinks.

"I mean I'll really see you again, right? After this?" After today. She really means it when she says she'll help him learn to work around the Computer, he hopes.

[whosalicewhite]

"Can live off those." Although Parker on too much chocolate needs supervision.

Parker lets out another of her odd bark laughs. "Yeah. It would be weird to teach someone to be invisible if I'm invisible." She has to ponder all of the implications of that statement. It's practically philosophical of her.

[adamparrish]

Chocolate or cereal, Adam makes a mental note of that. He thinks he has enough credits to get some off of someone. Somehow. He'll make it happen.

The prospect of having a direction to go in, with Parker's help, that gives him the hope he's been looking for in this place. Without really trying to, Parker has become very important to him in so many ways and for so many reasons. "Thanks."

[whosalicewhite]

The stop is sudden, like all things to do with Parker's driving. She braces herself, but doesn't warn Adam it's coming.

The show of gratitude isn't acknowledged. Parker's not so good with manners, but that also means she doesn't need them in other people, for the most part.

With a very formal voice (which sounds like she's attempting to imitate a small child thinking they understand what a formal voice is) she announces, "We have arrived at your destination."

For good measure, he gets another of her manic grins.