Event Post: Dead Ringers

[hadrielmods]

THE RUNDOWN

Seeing as to how Confusion and Fear are both glorified internet trolls, it's no surprise that they would team up so quickly to snag a little extra power here and there. Unfortunately, this extra power is going to be at the expense of you all, and it'll probably look pretty familiar...

On January 16th, the city will be flooded with doubles of each (opting-in) character. These doubles aren't a fighting army or anything like that- instead, they're sneaky, duplicitous, and out to ruin the lives of the original. They have all the same memories and abilities as their originals, but their purpose will be to cause hardship and ruin the lives of their originals. They'll do this in any way possible- from simple things like fighting with their best friend, to more drastic things, like hurting someone or destroying something that the original loves.

While they don't necessarily have to be violent, it only makes sense that they would try to remove their original from the picture through murder or imprisoning them somewhere. The more the doubles can give off the impression that nothing out of the ordinary is going on, the more effective they can be- and so any confrontation with their original is ideally going to be alone, where others can't see them. Due to this, it may take some time before the ordinary citizens realize that anything is going on... and by then, it might be too late.

Can you kill someone who looks identical to you? Can you trust anyone, when your best friend may actually be out to kill you and your roommate might be secretly planning to set your bed on fire?

THE DETAILS

Each player will play both their own character and their double for the event. If the double kills the original, then they will have the pleasure of playing an evil clone until the event is over! Doubles will not have network access on their own, but after they've... taken care of the originals, they can use their phones and network ID to continue sowing discord that way.

Additionally, all doubles will be able to recognize one another. Whether they use this to plot among themselves or simply to easier isolate the non-doubled targets is up to you!

Hope will be unable to resurrect the originals (if they die) until January 25th, which signals the end of the event. If the original managed to kill their clone, then they have nothing to worry about- if the original wasn't quite so lucky and the double lived on until Confusion's disbanding, then the originals may come back to live with the memories of what their double had done, though that's up to the player!

THE OVERVIEW

► January 16th: The doubles infiltrate the city, intent on taking the place of their originals or ruining their lives some other way.
► January 20th: By now, it's fairly obvious that Hope isn't resurrecting any of the dead originals!
► January 25th: Confusion finally sends the clones away, leaving Hope free to resurrect the dead remaining in the city. The event is over, and the originals may gain the memories of what their clones did in their absence.

Comments

[so_dark_a_road]

I forgot to ask -- after Maketh's double kills Maketh and Henry, does she personally stay and maintain control of Guard HQ? Or does she leave to engage in her villainy in other locations?

[mismanagement]

She leaves to do villain things for a while and then comes back, where she's promptly killed.

[so_dark_a_road]

Can the remaining Guards have control of HQ until she comes back? Or would you want them to stay away until she comes back and gets killed by Nick and Shadow?

[mismanagement]

I think it would work better to have them stay away until after she's killed, just to keep the timeline clear. But afterwards they could rally and/or deal with the bodies?

[so_dark_a_road]

Okay! They'll do some rallying out in the city, then. And deal with the bodies later, after she's killed.

[mismanagement]

Have fun!

[so_dark_a_road]

I will, thanks!

Jill Valentine

[so_dark_a_road]

Would Jill be interested in connecting with her fellow guardsman, Curufin?

Maketh's double just acknowledged to him that she killed both Guard leaders. So he's put out a call on the network to ask who in the guard is still alive and kicking? Here.

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin will happily be an audience. XD

Re: Jill Valentine

[survivethis]

Yes! Thanks! I'll tag to it today.

[fulcra]

:o !

i think leading up to the fight, she's going to have turing hanging out with her, but the fight is probably going to involve both ahsokas getting tossed around a lot, so if he's out on patrol and you wanted to drop him in to check out the commotion, that could be cool with me!

[so_dark_a_road]

He will certainly do that!

Where is that fight going to take place? Under Ahsoka's toplevel in the DOUBLES log, or in a separate post?

And do you want him to stay out of the fight or pitch in? He'd certainly be up for becoming part of the commotion. XDD But it shall be as you wish.

[fulcra]

belatedly, i wound up absolutely dropping the ball on the tail end of this event, so the fight got handwaved! if you wanted to still say curufin stopped by to watch/help, i'm down with that, but i also absolutely understand if you don't want to! we'll get some better cr some day ♥

[so_dark_a_road]

No problem! We can say Curufiin came to watch or to help, whichever you prefer. And I'd love to have these two meet again sometime. I think your character is awesome. XD