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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[She doesn't know when she'll get another chance like this, so she enters the infirmary, gun drawn and ready to shoot.

It might just be a jumble of film, but she's used the gun before. Surely, even if it isn't really her gun, the speed at which the fake bullets launch is sure to cause some severe damage to whatever unit decides to sneak up on her.

She's made it this long without being caught. She isn't going to give up now.]

[Well, that was unexpected. Not the presence of somebody else, but rather the fact that said someone's carting a gun of all things.

Then again, it's the tower. Who knows what's lurking around the corner? The overall emptiness certainly is a bit eerie. Given the frequent times he'd been dragged into the infirmary, he couldn't resist checking in on things himself.]

Think something's gonna leap up from behind you?

[It's said softly-- he'd just rather make it known that he's there than risk catching her off guard and getting turned into Swiss cheese.]

[Ocelot managed the traces of a smile on her lips. She didn't make the slightest movement showing off her being threatening as she regarded Riku carefully. He looked familiar, like the boy she had met a few times before, but they way they carried themselves were entirely different.

Brothers, maybe? No matter, there were other things to worry about.

She lowered her gun just slightly, enough to make it clear she wasn't about to shoot him.]

I have a friend who likes to follow me. Thankfully, he seems to be a little lost right now.

[If the retrieval unit found her, things would probably go badly rather quickly, but with all of the chaos that was currently going on, it was entirely possible her baby sitter was off looking for someone else at the moment.]

A friend, huh?

[Seems like quite a few people have had 'friends' trailing them for a while now, so Riku opts not to dig deeper. Instead, he nods and takes a few steps further into the room.]

Well, I think this whole mess has kept us all a little busy. Feels like that little boycott's got the whole tower on the fritz.

[Because, seriously, getting dragged in for multiple checkups isn't exactly standard procedure.]

[The unit was something of a strange, silent companion for Ocelot. She didn't entirely enjoy its company, but she also was more than happy to give it a sarcastic nickname, named after a man she had grown to loathe over the years.]

There doesn't seem to be too many consequences besides our friends getting confused.

[At least not yet. She glances back at Riku before she starts to explore the room, looking for anything that stands out.]

Collar Checkup Boycott

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