you're pulling strings and pushing buttons;

[egotrigger]

Characters: H/Allelujah Haptism and open.
Setting: Dorm floors, stairs (any floor), and floor 3 (non-research library).
Format: Either.
Summary: Allelujah and Hallelujah have come back from surgery. They're monitoring the residents to make sure they're not acting up. However, misbehaving is a very broad category…
Warnings: Possible death for your characters (or mine). Possible/probable blood and gore. The Haptisms have been trained in the art of killing quickly and efficiently. They'll do okay against people with near the limit of human capacity or below, but anyone legitimately superhuman will probably end badly for them.


[Dorm Floors]

[Residents gather here. It makes sense, because this is where they rest. One foot in front of the other, he - they - walk down the hall, one leg lagging slightly behind the other. Still, they don't look bothered. This is how it has always been. Eve r yth ing i sf ine.]

[However, if someone catches them in an ill mood, they might have one of their guns out, ready to shoot someone. After all, they're all misbehaving. They're disrupting the system, and the system takes priority over all over obligations. Death will teach them to step back in line.]



[Stairs]

[Every floor. They need to check all of the floors, especially those that residents gather on. Insolence will n o t b e t o l e r a t e d . A single wrong move, a single wrong step, a single wrong word, and they will be eliminated. Variables outside of the normal range will be deleted from the system.]

[Then again, most of them are not the way they are. They cannot see their mistakes. They are there to correct them. They have always been there to correct them. This is their purpose. Errors in the system will not be tolerated.]



[Floor 3 - Library]

Previous logs have indicated a large number of residents frequent this area. They walk through the library, posture stiff. They check down the aisles, keeping watch for any unruly residents or any malfunctioning worker units.]

[Unruly, in this case, meaning if someone so much as puts a book is out of place or is using the library for something other than reading or studying, they will be eliminated. This is how it always has been. Thi si s how it w i l l a l w a y s b e .]

Comments

[egotrigger]

[They shoot in the direction it comes from again, attempting to strike the variable this time. This will not be tolerated. This cannot be tolerated.]

[destructiveprinciple]

[He jumps down on the opposite side to avoid that gunshot on instinct, and materializes into a solid form before hitting the floor, so there's a loud thunck noise heard from behind the bookshelf as he lightly impacts.

He dematerializes into spirit mode again and scrambles back up the next bookshelf.]

[egotrigger]

[They head off after Avenger, looking down the new aisle. If they weren't useful to their masters they might be annoyed. However, the masters would not take someone like that. It's better this way.]

[destructiveprinciple]

[Staying seated on top of the bookshelf, Avenger stares down at the dark circle of hair that was Allejuhah's head as he walks down the row between the bookshelves. The new aisle is empty.]

[egotrigger]

... Where are you, variable? Stay still and be eliminated.

[destructiveprinciple]

Ya' sure have a way with insults there. [Singsongly;] I refuse.

[Drops book number three directly onto his head.]

[egotrigger]

[Aaand deflected! Clumsily, but they manage it.]

Show yourself.

[destructiveprinciple]

[NOPE. ONLY SILENCE. Quiet, infuriating silence like he's taunting the drone.

:D]

[egotrigger]

[They fume slightly, and then turn, continuing patrolling the area.]

[destructiveprinciple]

[


A parting shot of a hard-cover novel tossed end-over-end to the back of his head follows two minutes later.

Then the faint sensation of being watched disparates entirely, and the drone is left alone to its patrol of the dark library.]