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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[Sola-ui almost jumps when she finds someone under the same table as her. She glares at him, as if demanding for him to tell her why he is here.]

[Nils is there for the same reason as Sola-ui. He swallows a bit, wiping nervous sweat from his forehead away before pointing at his green collar.]

[She nods, and points at her own green collar.]

[He starts a bit at the woman's green collar too, but doesn't say anything in case their lives depended on them being silent.

He freezes as he hears hurried footsteps wandering the floor. His danger senses are going haywire.]

[She not only freezes, but holds her breath. Right in front for their table, there appear the feet and legs of retrieval units.]

[Nils covers his mouth as well, willing the retrieval units to go away. He's already been to the infirmary and tied down twice today. He doesn't want to go a third time.

There are two pairs of feet and legs and they don't seem to be moving away from the table.]

[After a while, one of the two pairs of feet starts walking away. There's the noise of a table being lifted up and then dropped down.]

[Sola-ui bites her lip, hoping that they won't lift up their table.]

[The tables are lifted and dropped one by one. Both the units work from one end of the room to the other.

Their hands settle upon the table that Nils and Sola-ui are hiding beneath. Nils squeezes his eyes shut.]

[Sola-ui gives him one last look, and, as the retrieval units lift up their table, she crawls out from the side of the table and starts to run.]

[Nils has the same idea, so he also manages to wriggle out from the side of the table, but instead of running in the opposite direction, he's decided to run after Sola-ui instead.]

[And of course, the retrieval units take off running after them. The two really have to hurry.]

[Except, it's Nils who is the one to trip first, and goes tumbling onto the ground. He's seized by both retrieval units who've decided to cull the losses. He throws a desperate and frightened look at Sola-ui.]

[She stops and hesitates for one second, but then shakes her head, mouths an apology, and runs.]

[Which is exactly how Nils ended up being toted towards the infirmary for the 3rd time that day. He doesn't want to think of what the tower's staff has in mind. Alternatively, he isn't sure if he can blame Sola-ui for running. At least she managed to get away instead of the retrieval units dragging both of them.]

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