[ANON TEXT] ON COWARDS AND COLLARS

[neverbeamemory]

Open your eyes, Tower.

Collar checks are back on.

I was told once that these checks are important to ensure our survival here; this belief is clearly flawed. Or if it ever were a fragment of the truth, how can that notion even be justified now when we are all now so painfully aware of the true nature of our existence here. Shouldn't we now all be feeling the adverse effects having not had our liquid changed in over a month?

This liquid is at least part of the integrity of this many-layered prison we reside in. It strengthens the bars of our cages, twists our wills into obedience. Our souls, cores, spirits - whatever you would call them, we are powerful enough to be a threat to them! But currently, we can be only as powerful as they allow us to be. Only ever as "free" as to whatever-extent the nerve of whichever admin feels that we deserve.

Yet still here we are, all lined up neatly at the Infirmary like cattle to a bi-weekly slaughter. You hear your color announced and like the mindless drones they would have of us you follow without question.

It's a part of Tower-life.

It's disgusting to think that you all still think this is a necessary requirement, that it is somehow justified! Or perhaps you have given up already. Well, you might as well go down there and offer yourselves to her, surrender all that you have left to the Tower of Animus.

A stone in an ocean will only ripple the water, so will a few pebbles. A landslide may flood the land, but a big enough chunk of rock can obliterate everything.

Next time, ignore the announcement. Avoid the 2nd Floor. They cannot force us all. The clock is ticking.

[OOC: Signups for the MASS COLLAR BOYCOTT are here and run until the day prior til your next characters collar check.]

Comments

[ghostytrainer]

what if you're wrong?
how do you know that the glowstick soul-ooze limits our powers or whatever?
what if that's it's not limiting our souls, but rather maintaining them?

[colonial]

what if they're right?

[ghostytrainer]

then i will be wrong and look a little silly i guess.
but it's not a risk i am willing to take in case they aren't.
the potential loss isn't worth the potential gain, and the whole thing seems pointless.

in the end, what does this accomplish?

[colonial]

I don't know yet but that's why I want to help try and see
I want to do something cause I get kept out of stuff alot since I'm little
but I can do this and I want to see what happens
if it does something good maybe we can go home soon but if it does something bad then so does lots of stuff here

[ghostytrainer]

true enough.
you could teach whoever the original anon is a thing or two about wording.
the condescending tone isn't really helping their case.

but this could potentially be more than just "bad".
we can die and come back as many times as we want to here but only because our souls remain intact each time.
if something happens to them, like if they get lost or damaged, that's it.
game over.
a person only gets one soul.

[colonial]

I didn't go to the doctor yesterday and they just came and picked me up today
so I think it'll be ok and if it doesn't work we all just go a day late
I'm not a person so I have a different kind of soul so maybe it's different for me but I can't let it stay like this
I have to bring back got brought with me even if I have to do something dangerous too

maybe the person who put this up is just mad
sometimes when I'm mad I say stuff I feel bad for later

[ghostytrainer]

they definitely sound like somebody spit in their wheaties about something, yeah.
so i guess i can forgive them for sounding like a bit of a jerk.

i know risks are necessary, especially here.
danger is unavoidable. but at the same time, this just seems like too big of a risk.
there's so much that could go wrong.

[wtg, America, you have him wavering.]

[colonial]

it's ok if you don't want to cause it's scary
I think people should but they don't have to! I'm not scared so I'll do it for everybody who's too scared
I was real good before and did most of the stuff they told me and I didn't do any of the bad stuff but I still got turned into a monster last month so I think stuff is going to go wrong even if we don't do anything
so I want to do something this time
then if something bad happens to me its because I did something

[ghostytrainer]

i'm not scared!


or

ok, i guess on some level i am. but not so much for myself, if that makes sense?

things are definitely not going to be a cake walk no matter what we do, that much is pretty much a given.
that's just how the admins operate. or most of them, anyway.
zo doesn't. so the fact that he's in charge this month makes me all the more hesitant.

i understand where you're coming from. trust me, i really do.
it's hard standing by and feeling useless.
so i am not going to tell you not to do this if that's what you think is right. and i am not going to call you stupid even if i don't agree and think the idea itself isn't the smartest.
but i will say that you really should give this another thought before going through with it.
talk to your friends.

yes, we are under a time limit. and yes, a year isn't really a TON of time.
but it's more than say, a week.
so we don't have to rush into things. especially not because somebody's feeling heated and angry about something.
we need to be careful and not make emotional decisions on a whim. because if we screw up then we potentially waste even more time.

[colonial]

zo is nice so if he has to get mad at people he should only get mad at the people who did it and if he gets mad at all the people who DIDN'T then he's not really nice!
I'm not allowed to do anything here cause I'm little still even if I'm REALLY older than a lot of people who DO get to do things
so I think even if they said no I'd still do it even if I don't like making them sad or mad at me
what if we get to the end of a year and lose because we didn't start a week earlier?

[ghostytrainer]

well, yes but what if something happens to him?
what if he gets punished because it happened on his watch or something?

[Dammit America. You're reminding him of himself a couple months ago ad he really can't argue with you because of it.]

you really have to stop turning my points on their heads though because that's just locking us in a stalemate here.
and endless loop of "but what if"s.
because my only response to that is what if we screw up so bad that we trigger game over early?
we aren't guaranteed a year, after all. that's just the most time we'll get, provided ruana is actually right about that.
which maybe she's not. who knows, maybe we will end up with a little extra time when it's all said and done.
not that i'm really counting on that.
but i don't trust her as far as i can throw her, frankly.
which i am not sure how far that is because i don't want to touch her. might get some kind of crazy cootie.
but that's beside the point.

...not that i am really sure what point i am even trying to make anymore.
i am not very good at debating. :(

[colonial]

it's ok I'm not that good either but we're not getting real mad at each other so I think we're not doing that bad!
I guess it's just a risk and maybe something good will happen or something bad or something REAL good or something REAL bad or maybe nothing? and we don't know! and some people want to try it and some people don't want to try it
so it's ok if you don't want to try it and it's ok if I want to
I'm a country so I have to do stuff for my people sometimes anyway

[ghostytrainer]

haha yeah. that's good!
getting mad doesn't really solve anything. we can just agree to disagree on this particular issue.
and we will find out one way or the other, because people aren't going to change their minds on either side so... it's going to happen.
i am just going to hope that it doesn't end too badly.

actually though, about that.
i met france once in the world i was in before the tower. not the same one who is here, obviously but some alternate version of him i guess.
why are you so much younger like... how does that work? being a country-person.
or well i assume you're much younger just going on the way you type and the fact that you said you're little and people don't let you do things.

[colonial]

we're little when we first show up and then we get bigger as we get older like humans but slower! I'm still a colony right now but I guess in the future I'm not anymore but right now I guess I'm still pretty little
I'm America! or New England, or Virginia, but most people call me America

[ghostytrainer]

oh. i see.
that makes sense when you put it like that.
so basically you're like past america instead of present day.
since america was a much smaller country back then, you're smaller too.

...or i guess, that's just from my perspective.
you're obviously not your own past self, you're just past to me because the colonial days were a very long time ago from my perspective.
err...

anyway, it's nice to finally meet you, america.
my name is john egbert.