hadriel_logs | 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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( He likes to spend the mornings jogging, working out, basically keeping a routine going. Even before he started learning self-defence from several people here, it's a way to wile off some time. To keep himself in good condition if-

Well, he doesn't expect to, now. And with what going back would mean - the twins dead, Emily as she was before this, everything he's heard that lies in wait for him in the progression of that night - it's dread that lingers in his stomach more and more when he thinks about that.

Monsters? Those he can learn to fight. The future? Not so much.

He turns the corner in his run, having already passed the halfway point, starting to loop back towards the house, when - ) Hey, Hannah.

( He can slow his jog a bit, say hi to a friend, right? )

[ Oh. Well, there's one of them now. ]

Hey, Matt. [ She had considered playing up the weepy and traumatized angle, telling the others that she'd been attacked by an evil clone... but that seems too tiring right now, and she'd give the game up before long, anyway. Best to just get right into it and be done with them all as soon as possible.

It'll feel nice, she thinks, running her thumb along the handle of the knife in her hand. It'll be good to have this cathartic experience. ]

What're you doing out?

( Uh.

Hannah. Why do you have a knife? Self-defence, right? Tell him it's self-defence.

He stops his run entirely, glances from the knife to the face of a girl he can only believe to be his friend and stretches his arms above himself, works out the muscles in his legs so they don't ache too much.

Little, instinctive things. )

Went for a run. Were you, uh, making breakfast?

[ Yeah, totally. Self-defence. :) ]

How would I make breakfast all the way out here? [ She smiles, teasing. ] No, I'm just getting some air.

[ The house smells a little like a butchered body now, after all. ]

Good run?

Event Log: Dead Ringers

pain time

here comes the pain train

smiles

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