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

[somuchlove]

system_information_962. It's how I'm here, and always am here. Did you ever stop to think what kind of path they were on? And more importantly...what was waiting for you all at the end of the road?

[* It's me!

Everybody loves a callback. And that string of code was something only someone who has seen it all knows. Who has razed the world to the ground and then played pretend to get to the Surface.

And it's so easy to do it. Because you love them and they love you back. Chara will never stop loving you all =)]

[sciencelizard]

[She opens her mouth to repeat what they said, and only gets through the 'sys' before it dies in her throat. That's not... that's a...]

That's... a c-computer file.

[But how could they be accessing a computer file in real life? Unless they were implying they broke into her computer but a single file wouldn't have had all her evidence, and certainly wouldn't have covered all the ground they did.

But they're accessing a computer file. That knew real memories.

That's not... that's not...]

... n-not possible. That's not... y-you can't...

[somuchlove]

Why yes, it is.

[They're remarkably calm, although that has to do with the fact they had no emotions rather than anything else.

It's something they stole. Tore it from the world and took it as their own as the price for going that far. "Chara" ERASED and then it was all brought back.

And so "you" had to pay.]

Now there is one thing above it. Since you're the Royal Scientist I think you can answer this question! What's two plus on?

[Three. System_information_963.]

[sciencelizard]

[She feels like she can hardly breathe. They're referencing digging around computer files for real information. Things she never told anyone. That would imply some kind of surveillance, but she's too smart not to pick up on all the inconsistencies in this.

Computer files don't store memory, or experience. They store data.

So her experiences, are data.

So everything is...]

You're... y-you're pressing into the data of the world.

[Is that where he went when he disappeared, scattered into stray lines of code disrupting the universe but then she's there too, nothing but created juncture nothing but a few lines of--]

That's impossible. That's... that's impossible.

[somuchlove]

[There we are!

It's pretty interesting how a couple of words could do these things. Sure, it was getting kind of old to keep pulling that rabbit out of their hat but it still was something to see someone run against that wall.

But they take a step back, turning to walk away. "Chara" more or less finished what they came here to do.]

All to find your "happy ending". So you should thank Frisk and myself for working so hard to make you happy. And maybe, just maybe, you should think about what you do to them.

[sciencelizard]

[She doesn't have the mental state to follow them. She feels rooted to the spot, like she can't force any part of her to move, simultaneously consumed with questions and the desperate urge not to know. It explains so much, and so little. It gives her every answer she could have wanted, and simultaneously, more information than she should ever have.

She's horribly overwhelmed, and in the end, just sinks down against the nearest wall, covering her face in her hands, and whispering a mantra, should the double hear it as they depart.]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I n-never meant to-- I'm sorry, I'm s-sorry, I'm sorry...