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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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."

Daycycle 110 [ October 2 - October 8]

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