[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

[filtered, voice]

[attheclocktower]

[Okay first of all, WHY are you agreeing with this. Second of all... filtering this so fast.]

Shion? What are you talking about? It's Zo's month, not... not Dax's.

[Dax is dead]

[filtered, voice]

[savedbyasong]

[Because science. And he just spent a week in his dead world, it doesn't do his mental state good.]

Zo's... Yes he came after Ruana last time... but that meant they missed Dax out. Why?

[filtered, voice]

[attheclocktower]

[They'll have to have a little talk about this later. But first of all... She's actually legitimately scared for Shion right now.]

Shion... Dax is dead. He's been dead since February.

Did something happen?

[That isn't the kind of thing you just casually forget]

[filtered, voice]

[savedbyasong]

Dead... [Assuming that his text conversation with John is happening at the same time as this voice conversation. His voice is small and lost] John just said, Ruana ate him...

I forgot...

[Xion knows him well enough to know that he is on the verge of panicking]

[filtered, voice]

[attheclocktower]

[... yeah she's knows that tone of voice all too well]

Where are you?

[She's coming to find you. Now]

[filtered, voice]

[savedbyasong]

Library

[filtered, voice] -> [action]

[attheclocktower]

I'll be right there.

[The single-word reply tips her off to how bad this is. ... she hesitates for a moment - she's up near the dormitories after all, and that would be a half-hour wait at least - before making a corridor instead. This was an emergency.

The bloom and crash of the corridor in the library should let Shion know that Xion is nearby. It's only a couple minutes later that she spots him and runs over, though she slows down once she gets close enough. Still, she doesn't even hesitate to wrap her arms around him gently in a hug.]

[action]

[savedbyasong]

[By that time he has stepped away from the terminal, so he logs out and he returns the hug, clinging to her silently for a moment, not quite able to process everything he had just learned.]

[action]

[attheclocktower]

[He really forgot. She doesn't know how but he forgot. It would scare her too, terrify her, if it were her. All she can do for now is try to catch him up, and try to figure out why he forgot in the first place.]

He was trying to protect us. He was standing up to Ruana for us, and she... she didn't like it.

He left clues for us. Ones we're trying to figure out even now.

[action]

[savedbyasong]

[Trying to protect them, trying to help them against Ruana. He left clues, Shion blinked trying to add this information to what he already knew, trying not to panic about the fact he forgot something so huge. That they took something out of his mind that was so massive and far reaching. Not just a small fact but an entire experience. Something he had apparently witnessed.] The glamor... they were his clues?