towerofanimus | Collar Checkup Boycott

Characters: open to all
Setting: infirmary; around the Tower in general
Format: party-style all week; please note the date your post is taking place in the subject line
Summary: The results of the collar boycott slowly become clear...
Warnings: standard Tower warnings
Note: You may NPC your own retrieval units.

The results don't begin to become clear until Tuesday--Monday passes more or less without incident, except for the number of orange-collared residents who miss their checks. And on Tuesday, the retrieval units are out to search for them. It doesn't seem like they were meant to recover so many, though: a clever resident will be able to avoid their retrieval unit entirely. And so, some oranges continue to have escaped their collar checkup today.

It's worse on Wednesday. Retrieval units are out and about again, but this time to try and search for the yellow-collared residents who skipped the day before. No orange-collared residents are searched out at all, and even then there seems to be enough confusion in the programming of the retrieval units any boycotting yellows can run off and hide if they're careful about it.

By the time Thursday arrives, there's a general, obvious level of confusion in the retrieval units' retrieval programming. They were obviously not programmed to be searching for so many colors at once. Some residents may find themselves being dragged in for a second collar check this week, even if they went to theirs, and the infirmary seems to be working at double time. No one even bothers to search for the two wayward greens.

By Friday the retrieval units are out in a number that seems more fitting for a small militia than anything else. Still, they seem more intent on tracking down the greens--their programming still telling them to retrieve those who were missed the day before--but they don't seem to know which greens they're looking for. Anyone with a green collar may be dragged in for a collar check, possibly multiple times today.

Saturday is chaos in the infirmary. The retrieval units seem to have entirely lost sight of who they're actually searching for, and anyone brought into the checkup room will be able to see how messy and confused it looks, with no real time to clean it and orange through violet collar fluid all lined up at once where normally only the color of the day and of the day before would be out at all. Again people may be brought in for multiple checks while those intent on evading capture can remain elusive.

But Sunday--on Sunday the entire process breaks down. There's too much volume for the retrieval units to handle, and they scatter about in a strange catch and release program, dragging anyone they catch to random places around the Tower before letting them go. They don't seem to be entirely certain of what they're supposed to be doing.

Something else happens on Sunday, as well...

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[ Ishtar kept quiet watching the days passed by. It was enough that she had to deal with the Tower and it's bullshit, now it seemed really weird and creepy that the retrieval units were going nuts.

She kept her distance from the infirmary, but watched carefully. She had grown accustomed to being perceptive, even if she was an idiot who slipped up a lot. She clutched the handle of Sidia close to her form as she waited.

If anything were coming she would try to deal with it, otherwise she was quietly watching the infirmary in hopes that it would get empty for her to grab a few things for wounds. ]

[Solas likes observing humans some times. Well, it's more like it's something familiar, something to do when nothing else is going on. As such, a human who is watching something and not approaching it?

That's interesting.

As such, she's going to very quietly walk up to the girl, tilting her head a little as she asks:] Are you waiting for something to happen?

[ Ishtar turned around when she felt someone approaching her.

She didn't quite register who it was since she clearly didn't know who it was. She gave them a look before replying. ]

I'm trying to see if there's anything lurking in there. If not, I'm grabbing some medical supplies since people might need it and uh who are you? Not to be rude or anything. I'm Ishtar by the way. Most people just call me Ish.

[ she mused giving the girl a worried though. ]

[A total stranger, yes, but not a dangerous-looking one. Solas just gives Ishtar that confused look again before smiling.] It's nice to meet you, Ish. I'm Solas.

Medical supplies... Oh dear, does someone need to be healed? I can take care of that, if it's all right with you that is.

[ Ishtar nodded her head. Yeah, a total stranger. ]

Solas, nice to meet you too...uh well it's more for if we don't have time to actually cast spells. I actually do healing too, so it's not really needed but it's reassuring to hav bandages and stuff just in case you know?

Oh, that's right.

[She taps her chin for a bit, thinking. Hmmm....Hmmmmmmm...] So, emergency provisions in case something happens to the infirmary, right? That makes sense. It's good that people are thinking about it!

Yeah. I mean if we can them to a safe place without losing too much blood would be ideal don't you think?

[ she chimed. ] That and it would help us heal better if we can wrap up wounds first and check them when we are safe. It won't put us in a tight spot and yeah I think that's the goal. Hehehe, I guess? I don't think there are a lot of healers, so we don't want to make them all tired.

Collar Checkup Boycott

Thursday; Afternoon

Would a healer be fine too? :3<

Sorry late reply and yessssss would love to healer + healer = awesome!

It's cool, it's cool, I'm late to this too. :D

lol XD

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