Event Log: Dead Ringers

[hadrielmods]

Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for the Dead Ringers event!
Where: All around the city
When: January 16th-January 25th
Warnings: Evil doubles, so we can assume manipulation, violence, murder, and maybe some nasty words

Everything seems normal on the morning of the 16th - actually, everything seems normal about the city for the entirety of this event. Nothing is strange, nothing is obviously wrong. Well, except that the population has mysteriously doubled, and the new residents each look exactly like one of the old residents. So weird! Definitely not ominous at all.

At least until your new double gets down to business. After all, their only goal is to ruin your life, and that can take any form. Smashing your favorite coffee cup? Telling your worst enemy they're right? Kissing someone else in front of your girlfriend? Brutally murdering you and then hiding your body in a closet so they can more effectively destroy your life? The possibilities are truly endless, and the only way to protect yourself is to kill your double first. They're not really open to negotiation, after all - but they sure might pretend to be in order to trick you.

So watch your back, and try to make sure that really is your best friend and not an evil clone masquerading as them. Boy, that would be awkward. If you can stick it out until January 25th, good for you! But if you didn't manage to and your double survives until the end - well, just as a final 'fuck you', there's a chance you'll come back to life and remember every awful thing your double did. Hey, at least that'll make it easier to fix, right?

► This log covers January 16th-January 25th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
► Please tag headers of threads with content warnings where they apply
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!
► If your evil clone happens to take you out, please let us know here, and remember that you will not revive until the event is over.

Comments

[unfollowing]

Emily just barely sees the dark energy bolt in time to leap out of the way. She lands hard on her side but scrambles up to her feet quickly, adrenaline on high in an instant.

"Jesus shit! What the fuck is your problem!?"

She'd be wittier if she weren't well aware of the damage Nick can do when she transforms. Best not to provoke her but goddamn what the fuck.

[wreckoning]

Nick's twin laughs, a malicious, distorted sound, echoing inside the hollowness of her porcelain body. This is too good; she thinks this is Nick, and that's absolutely perfect. These two hate each other anyway, and making it all worse for Nick is icing on the cake.

"My problem? I thought we already had this established, Princess." The larger-than-life doll lumbers a couple steps toward Emily. "My problem is you - specifically, your continued existence."

[unfollowing]

It's not exactly hard to make Emily hate Nick more, given the content of their prior interactions. Granted, Nick did save her life during that fog bullshit, but that's pretty easy to forget when you think back to the shit from before, and who would Emily be if she didn't hold a grudge?

"Yeah, well tough shit. Kill me and I'll just come right back to be a pain in your ass all over again."

Tough words from a girl who's much smaller than the doll-form of a homicidal double. (She really needs to start carrying ready-made attack and defense glyphs on her. Then she can at least put her magic where her mouth is.)

[wreckoning]

The doll laughs again. This girl really has no idea what she's up against. She thinks she and Nick have had scuffles in the past, but she has no clue what kind of damage Nick is capable of inflicting.

She's about to find out.

"Kill you? Great idea. Don't mind if I do."

The doll raises her hands in front of her, and a cloud of dark energy appears in the space between her hands. It starts out as a small thing, maybe the size of a softball, and as she moves her hands slowly apart, the churning cloud grows, widening and intensifying. When it's as wide as the doll's shoulders, she turns her palms toward Emily and hurls the cloud in her direction with a brisk shove.

haha wolfie isn't even here rn my bad on planning for him to run off!

[unfollowing]

Seeing this doll thing attack some other creature is scary. Seeing this doll thing attack her is terrifying.

Emily screams and does the first thing that comes to mind, which is to all but throw herself flat on the ground so the cloud flies over her. It doesn't touch her, but she's half convinced it has anyway, because she's seen what these powers can do. She cranes her neck to check -- okay, no burns or anything like that.

The creepy doll-voice echoes in her head still, and now that she's on the ground, it's so much harder to get up. Where can she go? Nick could probably break through any door or wall or anything in her quest to kill her.

"Fuck you," Emily hisses as she forces herself to get up. She's on her hands and knees, then a crouch, breathing the strength back into her legs. "Racist bitch. Fucking murderer."

Maybe she can get Nick to monologue long enough for her to figure out where to run. It's the best she's got right now.