hadriel_logs | Event Log: Dead Ringers

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Event Log: Dead Ringers

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.

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[Faith's double will start burning the gods' temples pretty much as soon as the idea comes to her, with Kate's double by her side to augment her powers. Your character is welcome to witness the burnings, to help her out if they hate the gods, or to get fought with a little if they try to stop her. However, if it seems to the double that your character is going to win, she'll retreat. She's god Business to take care of, namely, burning down all the gods' temples to wreck Faith's fledgeling friendship(?) with them -- and the burning down the clinic, to destroy everyone's faith in, well, Faith.

HMU on plurk @ punnyinpink if you want to handwave your character fighting or helping this jerk out or cheer her on, or if you'd like to get hurt by her somehow! Otherwise, stay tuned for the network post she's going to make tonight or tomorrow when she steals the real Faith's phone one night.]

January 16

Hope's temple is first, a symbol of how hopeless anyone's attempts to stop her are. The Faith Carr the city has come to know is a dreamer, an empty-headed optimist who could do so much if she just used the power given to her.

(The Kate at her side understands. The Kate at her side is her right hand, elevating her power to more than it could ever be on its own. If they'd just done this back home, so much death could've been avoided. Rosenberg wouldn't have stood a chance. But no -- Faith is stupid. She'd rather smile.

No more. Not here.)

Fear's temple is second, a jack-o-lantern belching smoke and promising death or ugly burns to anyone who dares try and save it. The irony there is she might be helping Fear, but he'd be a good god to have on her side if it came down to it. He will twist Faith's reputation far longer than this double ever could, because even if the other gods strike her down, the memory of this fire will outlast her.

Optimism is bullshit, and Faith Carr is a liar. That's all anyone needs to remember of this.

January 17

Burning Rage's temple feels more like she's upgrading the decor than anything, if only because of all the poetic nonsense out there about anger like fire in one's veins.

Faith Carr turned her anger into positive(!) action(!), which is cute and all, but how effective was it? Not very, judging by the death toll. If people here knew all that happened because of Faith, would they still think of her as this Loving, Giving Soul? Would they call her deeds heroic?

Maybe some people here will applaud this double's burning of the temples, but the gods themselves will turn against her, and that's enough to satisfy the copy.

Next is Delight's temple. Once it's up in flames, they go for a drink at the bar, to celebrate.

They are not destroying the bar. That would be Going Too Far.

Confusion follows, and she hopes this asshole of a god is living up to her name as she watches the flames climb their way up the structure.

January 18

Tranquility's temple follows. How will the god of chill handle this? Faith laughs as the flames rise at her command, as Kate's power makes them hotter and faster than they have any business being. Find your chill now, Tranquility.

She's left Sorrow's for last, so he can watch their path of destruction and be unsurprised by her strike, and maybe even a little crushed that even their heavy conversation a while back didn't mean she'd spare him.

Here, she goes more slowly, the fire building faster in strength than in sheer size as it consumes all the fuel in the temple.

You're not the monster, Sorrow. Faith Carr is, and all of Hadriel deserves to know it.

January 19

What's the most un-Faith and un-Kate thing a pair of doubles could do? Destroy the clinic.

So that's where they go, ready to see all of the clinic staff's hard work literally go up in flames.

Lucky for Hadriel, this is where the doubles are opposed, and where they meet their ends. The real Faith also dies, but the real Kate gets the job done, which is exactly what Faith would have wanted.

Edited (i forgot a sad sentence) 2017-01-16 20:04 (UTC)

It's Fear's temple where Sharon finds the doubles, too easy given the billowing of smoke and how it clouds the ceiling. She's not sure anything is going on, and though she feels a stab of satisfaction as his temple burns, she knows it's a useless endeavor, a lesson learned nearly a year ago now.

"They'll just fix the temples in a week, guys." She approaches them with little suspicion. It's not like the gods don't find a way to piss everyone off so it's not surprising to watch people take it out on the temples; it's just a misguided effort (though one that occasionally offers a deep sense of satisfaction).

"Doesn't matter." Faith's double looks over her shoulder at Sharon and shrugs. "This is a pain in their arses, an' a message to 'em all. That's good enough for me."

More than that, though, it's a message to Hadriel about what Faith is capable of, what she could do if she weren't such a bubbly little child.

"Shame I can't make fireworks. That'd at least be nicer to look at."

"The only message it sends is that you know how to waste your energy," She's not usually one to talk, but this doesn't seem like something Faith would ever really do,"You aren't doing or informing them of anything they don't already know."

The fireworks would be nicer for sure, even celebratory given what Faith's burning down, but it's still a useless endeavor. A good way to get out frustration towards the gods, but ultimately useless. But as long as Faith is all right with that, then who is Sharon to try and stop her?

"Wouldn't call it a waste if we're havin' fun."

And that they are. The fire burns beautifully, and the temple looks haunting. The gods won't forget this.

"Willing to take suggestions for the next one, if you want a part o' this."

"I suggest Sorrow," There's no pause for thought; Sorrow is the god they should be paying the most attention to considering all that he knows. It also helps that she hates his guts in a way she doesn't the other deities, all because he refuses to take any of her shit,"He's the biggest ass."

To her, in any case.

"Just make sure the fires don't spread," She adds as an afterthought,"We don't exactly have a fire department around here."

"Perfect!" Make Sorrow hate Faith after he showed himself to her at his temple. "God, perfect idea."

She gives Sharon a warm smile. "Don't worry. My fire obeys me. No sense burnin' down the whole city, yeh?"

"Turn it black," She tells her. Sharon has done damage to the temples throughout her time within Hadriel, Fear and Hope's primarily, and knows they'll easily turn everything back to normal when they notice or deign to. It's not as if they reside there. The only real issue, aside from the lack of actual unfixable damage she'll cause, is the sharp and bitter tang of smoke in the air.

"Have fun." She declares as she begins to walk on past the burning temple, admiring it briefly. Fire is the most horrific thing in all the world, isn't it? Because it can just keep building until it engulfs the world itself.

"Oh, I will."

She's having fun already, and will enjoy every moment until she's wiped off the face of the city.

Kylo could see the flames from his apartment building. They're too large and controlled to just be someone lighting a fire and letting it burn. There's power here, and where power is found, the obsesses Knight is bound to follow. He's too late to find the pair at Rage's temple, so he follows the trail to Delight's.

The masked man watches as the woman burns the temple. Now here is someone powerful enough to impress even Kylo Ren's high standards. He approaches with a bit of wariness. Those flames could just as easily be turned on him. "Did they do something to personally offend you? Or is it merely a show of what you can do?"

The flames, if turned on him, would burn him so badly that he'd never recover. It's the gift and curse of a phoenix: powerful fire whose damage can't be undone.

Faith's double turns to face the man, a trickle of flames flowing from her fingertips and fading into the air when she stops.

"Both." She smiles. "They're usin' us all for a food source, and I'm showing 'em their reign has reached its end."

He's not a double -- she can sense that easily -- so she'll play with him a little. He's none of her business except as far as ruining Faith's life is concerned.

"You're not on their side, are you?"

"Impressive." He's never heard of any power in his galaxy that could conjure up fire. If only he had such an ability, he'd be close to being unstoppable. She's definitely someone on the same level about these so-called gods as he is. If burning their temples down is the first step, he's all for it.

"The only side I'm on is my own." The only people that really mattered to Kylo here were Hux, Anakin, and maybe Ahsoka on a good day. Everyone else was in the status of someone to be used as an ally or someone who would need to eventually be killed.

She basks in the praise, all but preening in front of him.

"Long as you're not on the gods' side, do what you will." The double laughs, a giggle that would almost seem cute if not for the fact that, well, she's slowly destroying the city. "You think it's a good enough show?"

He notices her reaction to being praised. She's got an ego, and much like he does, enjoys being told she's special and powerful. They aren't too dissimilar.

As she giggles, Kylo thinks to himself that she's cute. Clearly psychotic, but cute. He can work with someone like this. "I hope that wasn't the grand finale. I'm interested in seeing what else you can do."

When she's gone -- and she's sure she will be, given the memories she has of this place and the fact that she knows her mission is to do as much damage as possible in as limited a time as possible -- will he hold the real Faith in the same regard? She hopes so. This one seems like he's got a bad attitude, one she'd love to see clinging to Faith.

"Oh hardly. Got big plans, me an' Kate." She looks to Kylo again, arching her eyebrows. "You'll see."

Kylo was a terrible sort of individual. It was probably the reason why he hadn't ended up with a double: there was nothing worse than the original person he was. This double of Faith had definitely left a lasting impression upon him. He'd be sorely disappointed to meet the original after this.

"I hope so. Things have been dull around here."

"Haven't they, though?" She laughs. "Should've done this ages sooner. But then, maybe you would've missed it, though."

Edited 2017-01-25 20:34 (UTC)

"I'm glad to have witnessed it." Kylo could always appreciate a display of power no matter where it came from. It was his ever-lasting obsession.

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Event Log: Dead Ringers

Faith Carr | a brief narrative of the deeds of her double

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