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Daycycle 110 [ October 2 - October 8]

daycycle 110

[Oct 2 - Oct 8]

Early, Early Morning [0400 - 0800]
Lydia Martin will be woken up at 0400 when a squad of Internal Security Gray Ops come to arrest Samantha Groves for treason. Root will be led away at gun point and Lydia will be immediately taken into IntSec for questioning. She will be grilled for the next four hours on Root's activites and her own loyalty. She will not be released until the Early Morning briefing.

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

It is announced that there will be a mandatory ceremony for all Troubleshooters this evening in the Commissary. Not attending is treason.

There is no Mission assigned to any Specials Today.

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.

At 1200 explosives planted by the Frankenstien Destroyers will detonate in the Bot Processing division. The goal is to destroy as many bots as processing equipment as possible. These explosions will cause significant damage to the division and temporarily lock down part of R&D. Troubleshooters will be called to the scene to help clean up and assist citizens caught in the blast.

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 1800 in the Commissary and will be hosted by Internal Security. This ceremony is to recognize the hard work and dedication of the Troubleshooters who have gone above and beyond in their service to Alpha Complex. The following specials will be promoted a clearance level for their work: Jillian Holtzmann, promoted to ORANGE for her work in explosives, Lydia Martin, promoted to YELLOW for her work in hygeine, and Matt Murdock, promoted to GREEN for his work in Personal Legal Defensive Practices. A mandatory round of clapping will be held for three minutes for each promotion.

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.

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He may not have his wolf right now, but some habits die hard. His eyes narrow and he emits a low growl of distaste, the growl of a wolf hiding in the shadows about to attack. It happens before he even things to stop it. And maybe he couldn't have stopped it even if he wanted to.

"They drug us?" He says angrily, emotions at a hundred percent over that knowledge. Alcide paces back and forth a few steps, all restless energy. This is not okay.

He really hadn't meant to imply that she couldn't join him. He just isn't sure how much trouble she's willing to get into. Alcide doesn't really care what kind of trouble he gets himself into. Even though he's an Alpha, he's always been a lone wolf, no pack. He doesn't want to get someone else in trouble if they don't want to be.

He pauses in his pacing and looks at her. "If they're druggin' us that way maybe they're doin' the same where those missin' pieces of us are concerned."

The growl doesn't frighten, or really even phase, Zatanna, but it does earn him a sympathetic look. She doesn't like it, either. "They drug everyone. So 'we get a good night's rest' or something, yeah. It's bullcrap."

She watches as he paces and thinks to herself that their initial reactions to the news are actually kind of eerily similar. It makes her wonder how the other Specials feel. Other normal Alphas, too.

Zee pauses, looking thoughtful. "Like maybe the pieces aren't missing at all, just chemically suppressed, you mean?" she asks to clarify that they're both on the same page. That might be a lot easier to reverse, come to think of it...

He isn't sure why that's the straw that breaks the camel's back. Maybe it's just that he's been so close to the edge since waking up here and being tossed into work like he's owned by anyone, even a Computer. But to know, without a doubt, that he is, or will be, drugged? That infuriates him to no end. Many of the wolves in his world like getting hyped up on V and Alcide is almost the only one who is against it. Maybe that's it too.

Wolves in his world used to have a code of honor that most of them no longer have. There's a line, Alcide thinks. Forced drug use crosses that line.

He has to make himself switch gears in his mind. He has to make himself think of something besides the fact that he's going to be given drugs tonight against his will. At the same time, that knowledge doesn't make it so far a stretch that maybe they've all been given some kind of suppressant in regard to their respective losses as far as the 'otherness' of them goes.

"Yeah. Yeah, like maybe it's still in us. We just gotta figure out how to undo what they did." He says. "It's worth lookin' into, ain't it?" Right now it seems like the only plausible lead he has and Alcide is willing to sniff out that lead no matter what.

Zee considers it really and truly for a moment. Her abilities are a learned skill set driven by a her genetic predisposition to the mystical. How, for the millionth time, could they take it away from her? She still knows how to do the spells. She's still genetically the same Zatanna Zatara as far as she knows. So suppression, now that he's mentioned it, actually does make the most sense.

"Oh, for sure," she says quickly, nodding. The sooner she can have her magic back, the better. Zatanna is practically vibrating with anxiousness to be her whole self again.

So she nods to the left and starts walking. "Come on. I don't think we'll get very far tonight, not without an actual game plan, because there's guards freaking everywhere, but I'll show you where medical is. That's a start, anyway."

It's definitely what makes the most sense to Alcide. He has a hard time believing that they could completely take the wolf parts out of him. He still has that wolf temperament, wolf thoughts and emotions that extend outside of the additives the actual wolf gives him like heightened senses and speed. Maybe it's a little self serving as well. It makes Alcide feel better to think that the wolf is still a part of him, simple suppressed.

As they start walking, Alcide is already feeling less at a loss than he had before. He has a direction to go in, not to mention someone to go in it with. Zee has proven to be informative and overall nice so far. He's glad they met.

"So where are you from? You got people from your home here?" He asks, wanting to know more about his unlikely partner in... in what? Crime? Maybe so. He eventually plans to get in where he shouldn't be once he's had time to scout the place for a few days.

Looking over at him when he asks her the question, Zatanna shakes her head and looks down again with a sad smile. She misses her team; all of them. She misses Mount Justice and the missions that didn't feel so lonely. She really misses Artemis...

"Originally, New York City. Recently, Happy Harbor. Rhode Island," she says to clarify the latter. "I don't think anybody's here. I feel like I would've known by now," she sighs. "What about you?"

Zee leads the way toward the Technology sector because she's about ninety-nine percent sure that's where Medical is housed. "Where are you from? You got people from home here?" She might as well make conversation with with guy while they walk. Maybe even though the subject is starting kind of depressing, it'll lighten up the more they talk. If nothing else, she could look at him and listen to his voice. He could say whatever he wanted and she'd still think it sounds sexy.

Alcide can understand that. He misses his people too. But it's also complicated in that his girlfriend had just run off with her ex... again, after lying to Alcide. Too bad they couldn't be apart on better terms. Deep down, in those secret places that are hard to really take a gander at, he knows, and has always known, that Sookie would run back to Bill. Maybe it's better that he's here now. If only he felt like all of himself, his wolf as well, were here.

"Just me far as I can tell." He shakes his head and smirks lightly. "Maybe that's a good thing." He's better off as a lone wolf anyway. That much is true.

"I'm from Louisiana, Shreveport area." The deep South, which is probably obvious at this point. "Used to live up in Jackson Mississippi. Been more South of that for awhile though. Own a construction company that works all in that area. What do you do back in Happy Harbor?"

She smiles a little at his comment and tucks her hair behind her ears. "You like being on your own?" she asks. Zatanna's never been that way. She's better when she works in a group. It's probably why she took having to move into Mount Justice so well, in spite of the circumstances surrounding the necessity; it's probably why she's taking this impromptu change of scenery really poorly.

"Cool," she says with a smile. "I've never been that far south." He owns a construction company, she thinks with slightly wider eyes as she looks back at him. Okay, that's totally whelming. She looks back at him a little sheepishly when asked what she does.

Do not tell him you're a student, she thinks to herself. The alternate is being honest about the other part of her life, but he'll probably think she's crazy. ...screw it. "I'm a superhero. Kind of. I'm working my way into the Justice League. I'm pretty sure I'm a shoo-in next time they bring on new members. I'm sort of on the junior squad, right now, I guess is how you'd describe us."

"Yeah. I work better that way." Although their perceptions of that might be different. Alcide doesn't really avoid people, so to speak. Instead, he avoids being in a pack. Wolves in his world are assholes for the most part. Only those who break away from the pack seem to be able to keep their shit together. Alcide likes to keep his shit together. It's harder to be a lone wolf, but Alcide likes it better than the alternative.

Herveaux Contracting is everywhere down there. Business is good. Although nobody thinks much of construction workers until they need them, otherwise they're just an eyesore or in the way on your drive home. Alcide has large, rough hands and quite the tan from working outside and with his hands a lot.

For a moment he thinks she's kidding, his lips curl into a smirk until he looks sideways at her and continues listening. A superhero. Justice League. Although, when she mentions the junior squad, he's quick to defend her in case that needs defending. "Everybody's gotta start somewhere."

So. Superhero. It's not so far fetched. His world is falling apart at the seams. Each side thinks themselves the heroes of the situation, only they're filled with so much hate that it overshadows any heroics that are to be done. Humans hating Vamps. Humans hating shifters. Vampiers and shifters hating each other. Everyone trying to save the world on their own. One big ball of hate.

He gives it a thoughtful pause as they walk before finally diving into the deep end of her answer. "So you save people from... what?" He's gonna feel real awkward if she saves people from shifters.

Even though she nods to acknowledge Alcide's response, Zatanna can't imagine working better without her team. She already isn't, honestly. Look at her, teaming up with a total stranger she's just met. Someone who, for that matter, is probably her dad's age or something. Way hotter than any guy in that age range has any right to be, if you ask Zee. So, so totally unfair.

Zee smiles a little when he encourages the fact that she has to start somewhere. That much is true. She hadn't originally been meant to join the team; she'd just gone on a trip to Mount Justice with her father and she'd liked them so much that she'd pushed her dad to let her join them. After all, why shouldn't the Young Justice League have a magician on it? They had a hacker, a martian, an archer, Superboy, and Kid Flash. Why not round it out? ...plus, Robin had been really cute.

"Yeah, I guess that's true. I'm getting there. I miss it," she sighs. "You know? I miss it a lot, that part of myself. This place totally sucks." He asks her what she saves people from and Zatanna shrugs. "Whatever is threatening them," she replies. "Sometimes aliens. Sometimes bad guys. ...usually that pretty much encompasses the whole of if, but...yeah, whatever was threatening the people of Earth, we'd step in."

"Yeah, it does." Alcide adds with a smirk when she says this place sucks. Maybe he should have tried to make it sound like the situation is better than it is. But Alcide has never been good at sugar coating things or pretending they aren't what they are. He's a truthful kind of guy, which is good, because that means he doesn't lie very well. But also... he doesn't lie very well when he might need to.

What he does realize is that she really misses her people, not just being where she used to be, but who she used to be there with. "But maybe us loners should stick together." He's probably a poor substitute for her people. But he's also a decent person and that has to count for something. "I'm no super hero." although he's saved a lot of people in his time. "But I'll have your back if you need it."

It's nice that she doesn't mention shifters. In Alcide's experience, there are good and bad of all kinds. He's never been one to judge a whole people together. He's helped humans. He's helped fangers. He's helped shifters. His mind set is very rare in his world though. "Yeah, I hear that. Somebody's gotta check people doin' stupid shit. I mean, when they're wrong." Leave it to Alcide to boil it down to the most simplistic of terms.

Whether she realizes how transparent she's being or not, Alcide's got it right on the nose when he realizes that she's missing the people even more than the place where she belongs. More over, she misses feeling like her whole self. Zatanna never realized how much of a part of her that the magic had become, because now she feels incomplete without it. Even when she doesn't use it, it's still a part of her and can be conjured with the right words and focus. Now, that's gone, and it feels like a little part of her died on the inside.

But Alcide's suggesting that they stick together because they're alone in this place, without anyone from home to back them up and Zee looks up at him with a little smile. Fondness and hope mix together in that smile; in her eyes. "I'd like that," she admits. It'll be nice to know that she's not completely alone, anymore. "You don't have to be a superhero to have someone's back," she adds with a knowing look. You just have to care enough to help someone else out. She doesn't say that, but it's implied in the look.

A little smirk plays at the corners of her mouth at his comment and she nods. "That's one way of putting it," she says with amusement. "Some people just want to do really bad things to further their own power. It's always about power, I swear."

She pauses for a moment in speaking while they continue walking before she finally looks up at him with a curious look on her face. "...so what part of you is missing?" she asks. "They took my magic. What'd they take from you?"

"Never been the spandex and bright colors type." He adds as a joke. He's thinking Superman with his bright red and blue and gold. Really, he's not all that familiar with superheros outside of a general knowledge of comic book characters that one would have to be living under a rock not to at least have some knowledge of. Superman is a good guy. Saves the world. Allergic to kryptonite or something like that. See? Basic knowledge.

He nods at her explanation. "We've got people like that in my own world. Vampers shifters and humans, and yeah, it's always about power. I get it. I mean I don't like it and it causes a helluva lot of trouble, but I get it."

Even in the wolf packs there's a hierarchy, a constant fight for power and dominance. Such is the nature of wolves. Alcide's blood line is Alpha. His father was a pack master. As was his grandfather. Alcide took a different path outside of the pack, at least, as much as he could. Being a lone wolf is harder than being in a pack, but at least it keeps his conscience clear.

"I'm a wolf... they took my wolf from me." Some people call them werewolves. Most wolves in his world don't do that. Wolves just call themselves wolves because that's what they are. He glances at Zee, gauging here reaction to that. There are deep prejudices between species in his world. He wonders if she'll not want to be around him now. "What kind of magic?"

In spite of herself, Zatanna laughs a little. "We don't all wear spandex and bright colors. I think that's mostly the established guys like Superman. A lot of us wear dark spandex, so there," she teases. Spandex might not be all that flattering, but it does serve a functional purpose in Zee's line of "work." The tighter and more flexible the clothes, the easier they are to move around in without getting in the way.

With a little shrug, Zatanna looks back at him unsurprised. "I imagine everybody had people like that back in their worlds. Otherwise, there would be no balance. Good needs evil and evil needs good, even if no one wants to admit it," she says quietly.

At his answer, Zatanna looks curious. "Like werewolves, sort of?" she asks. "...actually, don't answer that, that was really rude, sorry. There's like stigma to werewolves and you would've said that if that was it and there wasn't. Anyway," she babbles, looking sheepish. "I think that's cool. A couple of my best friends aren't human. One is an alien and one is a clone of Superman. They're both cool. You seem cool."

She can tell that she's being gauged because of the way he's looking at her and she gives him a little smile. "Your secret's safe with me if mine is safe with you," she offers.

Alcide asks what kind of magic and honestly, Zee isn't really sure how to answer that. She's never thought about it much. "I don't know..I say spells and they make things happen?"

"Better than wearin' nothin', I guess." He gets the functionality of it. Back home, he's saved people in the buff a lot of the time because it's easier to shift from wolf to human and back again without the hindrance of clothes. Maybe that's almost the same thing, except there's no spandex or anything involved. He usually stashes his clothes somewhere where he can go back and get them.

He smirks a bit when she says werewolves and shakes his head. "It's alright. That's what most people who aren't wolves call us. I'm in control of myself when I'm a wolf though, not like a monster movie wolf." And he's only in control of himself because that's the kind of person Alcide is. Most wolves in his world give themselves over to their wolf parts more than Alcide does.

"Thanks for not bein' freaked out by it. Shifters only just became common knowledge where I'm from. We were outed against our will. Now... now there's people huntin' us." Basically, his home has turned into a war zone for many reasons. Shifters being outed is only a small part of that. "Your secret's safe with me too."

Alcide thinks of Sookie being able to make things move or form a ball of energy to attack people. That kind of seems kind magic, he guesses. Maybe he should let it lie there, but he's also curious, and he just told her his secret, which is... maybe simpler than magic, but still. "Like what kinds of things?"

"I feel like wearing nothing would be just as impractical as street clothes in its own way," Zatanna laughs. The mental images that come with that thought are both welcome and unwelcome. She's not blind; Robin and Conner are hot. She'd be okay with them going on missions naked. It'd be a terrible idea, but she'd be all for it, all the same, if they felt so inclined.

Her nose wrinkles a little when Alcide lets her off the hook, because she still feels a little bad for being kind of tactless just then, but she nods to acknowledge his response. "I figure it makes for better cinema if the 'monsters' are out of control. I hate that word, by the way," she says and yeah, she did in fact use finger quotations when she'd said it because it's other people's word; not hers. She wants to make sure that he knows that.

A little shrug comes in response as they near the Technology sector. "Ah, trust me, there's a lot scarier out there than wolves where I come from. It takes a lot to freak me out," she replies casually and stops walking, gesturing up ahead. "Technology Sector," she announces. "Medical is in there, but I don't know which floor or how heavily guarded it'll be..." she adds apologetically. Zee wishes genuinely that she had more information to give him.

To his question, Zatanna shrugs a little. "Kind of...whatever I want?" she asks more than says. It's hard to explain, but with enough practice and preparation, Zatanna has yet to come face to face with a situation she can't control with her magic when needed. "Like...literally, whatever I want. I've used it to force bad guys to give up the whereabouts of their cohorts, to create safety bubbles like a shield around my teammates and I when we're under attack; created holographic copies of a couple of us to throw an enemy off when we were mid-battle...you name it and, with some practice, I could probably do it."

"I dunno. It's freeing in a way." Basically, if Alcide can have his clothes off, he will. Of course, he tries to stay decent around people. But when you've gotta shift on a dime, he really has no shame in that regard. Of course, he grew up around people who had no shame in that regard either. So of course it's all relative and he has every reason to be okay with nudity or even the talking about it.

All is forgiven, really. If there was anything to forgive, it's forgiven. He nods along because he hates that word too. He's known plenty of humans who are the very definition of monster if anyone wanted to go there. "There's good and bad in every group, way I see it. No monster about it."

Alcide takes a look around the area when she announces that they're at the Technology sector. He's also wondering how you handle the kind of unlimited magic power she talks about. Something about too much power and corruption. There's a quote somewhere in the world about that. But Zee doesn't seem the corrupted type in spite of the mass of power she's describing. That's amazing for anyone, much less someone as young as she is. "That much power? Must come with a lot of pressure."

He counts the guards he sees and calculates the odds of how far in they would get before being questioned. "I'm thinkin' about gettin' lost in there. Now's your chance to back out if you think we'll get into trouble."

Zee's eyebrows lift a little dubiously. "In the middle of the fray? I'd think it'd just leave you a lot more vulnerable," she points out. It isn't that Zatanna has any issue with nudity or a person's desire to shed society's burden in that way, but she doesn't think it'd be super practical in the middle of the kind of battles she and her team have to fight on the daily back home.

At his comment, she nods. "Yeah, I'm with you there." A lot of people used to think that Conner was a monster, from what she heard. Not in the same sense that they consider werewolves to be, because werewolves are animalistic, but Conner was a wild card and he happened to be equipped with most of the abilities of Superman to boot. Of course people were afraid of him. They didn't know what he could do or what his motivations were, but that didn't make him a monster. So she understands where Alcide is coming from, to some degree.

"Ehhhh," she says non-committally, waving a hand back and forth in a so-so gesture. "It does and it doesn't. I mean, it does, but my dad taught me everything and in that came the training of how to compartmentalize so that that pressure doesn't weigh me down so heavily that I have to lay down and give up."

She huffs a little with amusement. "Oh we're definitely going to get in trouble if we get caught, but if you think I'm turning back now when we finally got to the good stuff, you've got another thing coming, Al," she laughs. "Ready when you are."

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