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.

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[save_theworld]

[Have you ever felt safe?

No matter how much the world continues shattering around you; the bad, the worse. The arguments, the sleepless nights. The dust on your hands and a counter that just kept getting higher, until you belatedly realized that it was never going to help. Curb your frustrations and your fears, start again. Start again. Start again.

Start again, until you can't. Until that choice is taken from you, and you're left to deal with the consequences of thousands of bad decisions. Face down a face that's looked at your own copious times, laid you to rest in a golden hall under a blanket of bones. Kill your darlings, take the blame. Stay quiet as blood drips down to the ground (your blood. It's your blood) because you know you chose wrong. Let them tell you how selfish you are.

Make a home that you can never really have. Make friends who you don't really deserve. It's not all that great; in many ways, it's terrible.




But at least, you think, at least, there's one thing you're safe from.

And then you're not.]