Alpha Complex Test Drive

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Alpha Complex Test Drive Meme

Alpha Complex will be opening soon, but until then, feel free to take a Test Drive to see if the environment would suit your character!   All potential players are welcome.

 

You have just woken on a table in one of the city's Cloning Facilities.  You are the Prime, or first clone of your kind and the scientists are particularly smug about how you turned out because they reconstructed your DNA based almost entirely on historical records.  You are their newest and greatest creation.

 

You are immediately sedated, given a red jumpsuit and ID card and ushered to a huge room that is lined wall to wall with cubicles.  You are given a number and are told to wait.  The sedative slowly wears off and by the time you get called to a cubicle you have many questions.  The citizen that processes you in is wearing Green and explains matter-of-factly that all of those memories in your mind are in fact a glitch.  You were never meant to remember a past life.  Your new life is here, as a Troubleshooter for The Computer.  The best thing you can do is ignore the glitch and serve The Computer and Alpha Complex to the best of your abilities.

 

If you continue to argue, you will be escorted to a room with no windows and a single, unbreakable vidscreen.  There you will watch The History of Alpha Complex, narrated by popular Talk Show Host, Teela O'Malley, as many times or as many hours as it takes for you to accept reality.

 

When you have been thoroughly educated, you sign a seemingly never ending stack of paperwork.  The Green clearance bureaucrat then hands you a Mercantile Enterprise (ME) card and a Personal Digital Companion (PDC) and you are sent on your way.  You have 24 hours to assimilate to the Complex before you must report for duty at 0800 hours at Internal Security Headquarters in the IE Sector.

 

Feel free to explore the Complex, but beware!  Traitors are everywhere.

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Parker | Leverage

[whosalicewhite]

Sit still? Listen? Do as she's told?

That's never going to happen. So while the skinny blond sits with glazed-over eyes, ignoring almost everything she's been told (the random nod, and non-verbal gesture indicating she's pretending to listen), she will only wait to get and explore.

Once she does, she stands outside surveying the buildings. She's already plotted six different free-climb routes. More importantly, Parker's looking for all the unusual ways in: vents, windows, construction. Who needs doors?

This place looks like it would be a steal.

Literally.

[revengesidekick]

He really doesn't know what's going on here, but he figured out pretty quickly that they weren't going to take no for an answer. Besides, as terrifying as waking up alone here is, he has to admit that some of the technology he's seen... well, it's further along than anything he knows of. So he takes their invitation to look around. Why not?

He's wandering down a city street when he sees the petite blond, staring up at the buildings above them. Maybe if his best friend wasn't Emily Thorne, he would've just thought that she was some kind of tourist. But he's seen that calculating look before. She's casing the place out.

Good.

He sidles up to her. "Looking for a way in or a way out?"

[whosalicewhite]

Parker is unnaturally still. She usually is while casing, and just about any other time she couldn't keep from moving. It's an odd juxtaposition, but so is all things Parker.

Parker makes Emily Thorne look almost normal. Almost.

"Both."

It's easier to answer the question: short, sweet, and without further invitation. She's not usually a person someone chooses to speak to, and she's not wearing something more Sophie in nature, so she doesn't usually draw attention, unless there's another criminal involved.

She steps around him, as if to move away, but really, she wants to life his ID card. She wants to know who's clever enough to notice her.

"You see anything?" Get the mark focusing elsewhere than her hands: a basic rule of thievery.

[revengesidekick]

He smirks, appreciating her honesty. At least she's not going to deny it. He glances upwards, taking in the surrounding buildings.

"Other than the dozen security cameras they've got mounted four stories high?" Though, it was interesting to note that there didn't seem to be any connecting cables to said cameras. Were they operating on an entirely wireless system? And if so, would it be hackable? This could be something he could use to his advantage. If he only had his computer.

[whosalicewhite]

Yeah, that wasn't really honest. It was more of a fact. Being honest would be to explain she's already figured out three routes up, and two of them definitely in black spots. Sure, the blackspots are less that 14 inches wide, but this is Parker. She's the human version of a cat.

"I already saw those, Nolan." Put the mark off guard, as she steps back around him, putting the card neatly in it's original place.

Have a completely innocent grin. Well, it looks a little more Cheshire Cat than most people, but Parker's hardly most people.

[revengesidekick]

He turns to his left, but she's already on his right. A slight feeling of unease settles over him at just how quickly she managed to move around him.

"I don't remember telling you my name."

[whosalicewhite]

"Didn't." She was moving quickly before, but now she's standing unnaturally still.

There's another Cheshire grin, and she asks herself, what would Sophie do? Pointing to her temple, she whispers, "Psychic."

That is totally what Sophie would do, and that Parker is able to come up with it, makes her laugh.

[revengesidekick]

Nolan's eyes narrow in obvious suspicion.

"You're about as psychic as I am Republican." His expression shifts and he reaches into his pocket to pull out his ID. It's there in his hand. Nothing is missing. "You're probably one of the internal spies they were talking about in the video."

[whosalicewhite]

Parker tilts her head and with 100% genuine curiosity asks, "You're a Republican?"

She's sure she did as Sophie would do. Didn't she?

And then the second part of what he says clicks in. She would have something to say -- actually, no she wouldn't. With a loud snort, Parker starts cackling. The cackling turns into almost hysterical, pun intended, doubled-over laughter.

In the midst of all that laughter are some words that are meant to be, "you're funny," but the laughter might be in the way of verbal clarity.

With that, he's made an impression. He'll always be the funny one.

[revengesidekick]

Nolan's expression twists into one of disgust at being asked such a question. He's pretty sure that he can't be mistaken as a Republican even on his worst day, just by the way he dresses. "No."

But then she's laughing maniacally and people are turning to stare at them. He doesn't really know what to do, except assume that the woman in front of him is clearly insane.

"Okay, okay," he says, his voice low in an effort to appease her. "You're not an internal spy. So who are you?"

[whosalicewhite]

The laughter was subsiding but only the tiniest bit when the words internal spy set her off again.

Don't ask too many questions about the sanity issue. One might be happier not knowing. Never mind her not really paying any attention to the political parties. Like she would ever take part in any system, ever.

Parker claps her hands like a little kid being given an amazing present. "Not a spy. Doesn't really matter who I am either. Point is, you're Nolan." She nearly adds the psychic part again, but she hears Sophie's voice in her head about not overplaying the part. "And not a Republican. I know two things about you now."

She knows way more than two.

Awkward pause. This is immediately followed by a second awkward silence, and without any preamble or obvious connections, she adds, "Alice."

[revengesidekick]

"Well, Alice, I don't know who you are, but I do know that you were casing this place. So you must have some kind of an idea of what's going on around here, or you know someone who does."

He sighs. "Which is it?"

[whosalicewhite]

“Casing?” True, but that’s rather an understatement. “Figured out the distances between each building. Caught the obvious cameras, and a couple ones not so obvious. Have two routes to the roof of that one,” she points to a random building, “and that one.”

Almost everything she says is true, except she’s figured out the routes to two different buildings. Never give away trade secrets.

She snorts. “Casing. Yeah, doing that.”

He’s so funny, in fact. “You always so funny?” She knows which funny she means, but her tone doesn’t seem to.

[retrieverchef]

Eliot just stares at the familiar blond for a moment. So he'll be taking at least one person out with him when he leaves. Seeing Parker, of all people, here is especially worrying. She has never had to deal with anything like this.

Finally he walks up to her. "Careful where your hands wander, Parker."

[whosalicewhite]

"Too late. Already met Nolan." In Parker speak that means already picked some guy's pocket.

She doesn't look at him. She doesn't need visual confirmation it's Eliot. Eliot is Eliot.

[retrieverchef]

Eliot has gotten fairly fluent in Parker-speak over the last few years. He can't help the slight smirk that forms at her admission. "Just be extra careful."

[whosalicewhite]

If Eliot wasn't fluent in Parker-speak by now, there would be no hope.

"Outfits are too obvious."

Parker does not think bright red is becoming.

[retrieverchef]

He chuckled quietly. "Entirely too obvious. But they're not the only risky target."

There was entirely too much that could attract her attention and other people's attention to her. It was going to be hard keeping her out of trouble.

[whosalicewhite]

"I'm a risky target." She points at the red.

"It's like hello, find me." She hates being found. It's professional pride.

sorry if this encourages her

[retrieverchef]

"It's a jump suit." That's more important than the color, after all. It's entirely to similar to a prison uniform for his taste.

"And you're a risky target in an even riskier location. I have a feeling this might be at least as hard as escaping a Steranko."

Re: sorry if this encourages her

[whosalicewhite]

"Fit doesn't matter. The colour." A jumpsuit's easy to move around in, which is Parker's only other qualification for clothes, besides nondescript colours.

There's a dismissive noise. "I beat the Steranko." She might even poke him in the chest to prove her point.

[retrieverchef]

"We beat it together. We don't have Nate, Sophie, or Hardison with us now. And the Steranko was only in the one building. We'll need a lot of planning ta beat this."

He didn't doubt they could break out with enough time. The problem was getting the time to plan without attracting the wrong attention.

[whosalicewhite]

"Someone's got to know. You hit them."

Sometimes, a lock pick is best. Other time, it's time to pull out a jackhammer.

[retrieverchef]

"Parker, they brought me here without me knowin' anythin' until I woke up." He lets out a sigh. She's got a brilliant mind. He doesn't understand why, even now, some of these things escape her. "An' we don't know where the hell we even are."

[whosalicewhite]

"Haven't you ever woken up without knowing how you got there before?" She sounds disgusted.

"Newbie."