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

[ushahin]

So Kylo isn't getting a double for this event, because let's face it, would anyone be able to actually tell?

Ushahin is getting one, who is basically him minus all the warmth, and with a lot more of the contempt Ellyl tend to have for all other races. He's basically going to think he's better than everyone else and decide that destroying every positive relationship and making the bad ones even worse is a splendid idea, because the little people don't really matter anyway.

At first, he'll ignore the original, and when Ushahin becomes too much of a pain because he's trying to stop the double, the double is going to gut stab him, thinking that's going to kill him. Since Ushahin is made of tougher stuff than that, he'll rally his strength one last time, and put every bit of his power into frying the double's brain, killing him to protect his friends. Alas, the stab wound is too much, and he bleeds out, dying in a very painful manner.

If anyone would like to hurt him, be my guest, because Nick is going to heal him at some point during the event.

On another note, Ushahin's psychic, so I leave it up to you guys with doubles as to whether you want him to notice they're not quite right. If not, he'll just be unable to because the minds are too similar. If so, he's probably gonna freak out.