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...

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Is it anything like this? If so, Zelda's sporting the same frown, thoroughly unimpressed.]

You would think with all the noise on the network, they would be better equipped to handle this sort of thing. I suppose Jason overestimated them.

[She would say Jason underestimated the residents, but this plan was so haphazardly put together, she has a hard time calling it an organized attack.]

[Just about, yeah. 8| Displeased spacemommy is displeased. 8|]

Or maybe he just didn't give a damn. That could work too.

[S' about as well-planned as an average krogan's idea of planning if you ask her. 8|]

Another distinct possibility.

[She concedes, nodding from her position on her retrieval unit's shoulder.]

Though I have to say, I hope he fixes this mess soon. This is the fourth time I have been dragged away from my work only to be dropped off at some random location.

[Annoyed princessmommy is also annoyed. 8|]

[You know something's gone wrong when you're hoping that Jason fixes something as soon as possible.] Congratulations, you're a member of the 'We've Been Hauled Everywhere' club. I'd give you a membership card if this big lug would just put us down.

[An exasperated shrug, before she looks to the other hapless captive.] Really, though, it's better than being dragged for a collar overdose.

[She can't help a flicker of a smile at Shepard's snark.]

I imagine you will be needing quite a few of those membership cards by the time the day is through. [And then there's a nod of agreement.] At least this insanity is so far limited to only the retrieval units. I have yet to notice anyone's abilities going out of control due to either missing or having too many check-ups.

Hah, I wouldn't be surprised if I needed a dozen at least.

[The woes of being hauled like some damsel in distress. 8| But no, less snarking, more focusing on the topic at hand. She listens carefully for a while, picking at that last detail.] Huh. Now that you mention it, has someone had an incident like that before? ...Before this whole mess, anyway.

It was a long time ago.

[That slight amusement quickly fades as she recalls the various times the collar systems have been broken. Neither incident is a particularly fond memory.]

The first time I can remember something going wrong with the collars, it was when some people were brought in for "emergency check-ups." But instead of replacing the fluid in the typical way, they were given colors different from their normal ones. The situation quickly deteriorated after that, with powers going out of control.

[She hopes that's explanation enough, because she really doesn't want to go into more specific detail. Even if it's been over a year since Minami disappeared, it still hurts to think about.]

The second time I did not experience first hand. The administrators were fighting over who was the best at running the Tower, and Ruana decided to resolve the fight with a game. Several of us, myself included, were taken away from the Tower proper to an area specifically made for the game. However, with no one to watch over the Tower, it ceased functioning. Without regular check-ups, powers once again went out of control, or so I was told.

[Either way, messing with the collars without understanding their functions seems like a bad idea.]

Collar Checkup Boycott

INDEED too bad it had to be like this

At least it provides a pair of mommy figures scowling over shit :|b

That it does :|b

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