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collectedlogs2020-07-15 05:33 pm
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EVENT #1
EVENT #1
JULY 15TH - JULY 17TH
Time in the mall thus far has been ripe with tension - between the silence, the lack of resources, and the worrying conditions outside, it’s normal for morale to be less than high. But on the early morning of the 15th, things will truly take a turn for the wicked.JULY 17TH - JULY 21ST
Starting on July 15th, and continuing on until the following Wednesday, characters will find that there are doppelgangers of them in the mall.
The first sign of this will come on the first day they even appear: in the early morning of the 15th, just as the radioactive sun is starting to rise and characters begin to stir from slumber, they’ll find a smoking heap of… bodies of mall residents with matching clothes to boot outside the mall’s front doors, cooking in the radioactive sun. And with them? Most of what was left of the frozen rations from the food court’s freezers. No more philly steak and cheese hot pockets!
On the First Floor, much of the remaining furniture that had not been in immediate use by characters has been torn apart and thrown into the toxic waters below. Floating amongst these dismantled furniture pieces are what appear to be drowned bodies of mall residents.
Doppelgangers found on the first day of this event are more likely to resemble characters whom have survival experience, or have adapted well to the mall thus far. Inspecting any of these first bodies discovered will reveal that they are identical to mall residents down to the fingerprints. Characters may retrieve the bodies from the First Floor and even the outside (if they work quickly enough) for inspection.
Throughout the rest of the week, characters can be expected to be dealing with a myriad of trouble from these doubles:JULY 22ND» Witnessing doppelgangers sabotaging survival efforts. Most commonly, doppelgangers will be doing things throughout the week like destroying food, cutting power lines, ruining water piping - you name it. They are difficult to catch, as they flee whenever seen, and can contort into impossible shapes to evade capture. If captured, they will either continue struggling until they escape or are killed, or they will try to convince their captor that they are the original - and if threatened, will begin to beg for their life (convincingly.) See below for more information about the doppelgangers themselves.
» Hearing screams for help identical to the mall residents' voices. Doppelgangers will be extremely convincing actors, and will attempt to lure away and confuse resident characters by any means necessary.
» The doppelgangers become more similar to their “originals” as the week goes on. Doppelgangers will be able to act increasingly in likeness to their originals towards the end of the week. Each day they continue living, they become smarter, more convincing, more advanced at impersonating their originals. This means that if they are witnessed apart from their “original” in the latter parts of the week, they may be capable of carrying on simple conversations and acting as their “original” in order to create confusion and plant seeds of doubt over who is the “real” one.
Almost as abruptly as they’d come, the doppelgangers will meet their end on the following Wednesday: those who had not already been killed by characters present in the mall will be found dead on the morning of the 22nd.
Corpses will be in every inch of the mall, and killed in a bunch of different ways: some look to be freshly killed, as though they had been ambushed by surprise (throat slit from behind, pushed from a high area, etc.) Others seem as though they have been dead for days - and are beginning to rot. These corpses will not disappear, and will need to be cleaned up or disposed of by the characters, unless they’d like the mall to start smelling a whole lot worse. Get to work, shoppers!
More than anything, their sudden appearance and equally sudden demise does beg the question - can you trust the ones around you?
NOTES
Welcome to Collected’s first main event! We’re going to provide some additional notes about the doppelgangers here, so everyone will know what they’re dealing with:
» Doppelgangers are identical physically to their originals.
» Doppelgangers DO NOT have the magical or supernatural abilities of their originals. They will retain only the skills and abilities related to their physiology (like physical strength), as they are biological duplicates (or mechanical, in the case of androids).
» Doppelgangers will be wearing clothes identical to the ones characters arrived in.
» There is only ONE copy of each character in the mall. This means that if you would like to have your character among the first ones discovered by characters, they won’t find another copy of their doppelganger doing things throughout the mall for the remainder of the event.
» Doppelgangers can be killed - they are not immortal and will not heal the same way characters do in the setting. However, they are extremely difficult to capture, and will flee if they are witnessed participating in sabotage, or if they are caught impersonating their original. Of note is the fact that they are strangely able to contort into impossible shapes to evade capture - bending limbs the other way, folding in half, that kind of deal.
» You are free to NPC your own doppelganger (so long as you’re not solely tagging as your double the entire event). If you’d like to handwave other characters witnessing your doppelganger doing things throughout the week, or handwave your doppelganger successfully interacting with your CR while impersonating your character, that is fine as well!
If you have any questions please feel free to ask them HERE. Have fun, shoppers!
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[Since shortly after arriving in the mall, Prompto had taken up residence in a camping store, pitching a small tent to collect his belongings in and sleeping in a sleeping bag. A lot of the mattresses in the home stores were moth-eaten or moldy by now, and the ones that weren't had quickly been snatched up, and Prompto doesn't mind sleeping bags anymore, not really.
He'd been staying in and around the tent since the doppelgangers first showed up, but he had to venture out finally for food. And now that he's returned, one whole liberated can of beans in his hand...
He sees that his tent has been ripped apart, and his belongings strewn around.]
...Hah. Of course.
[If someone comes by, they will see Prompto despondently attempting to put his faux-campsite back together. He's trying really had not to cry. It's not working very well.]
B: Chase
[It's not long before he catches one in the act, trying to rip apart a power line. Prompto immediately pulls out his gun, running towards it.]
Hey, you!
[He gives chase, running after it through the store - only for it to horrifyingly contort and compact its body so it can squeeze into a vent and escape.
He freezes in his tracks, staring after it, before turning to whoever is nearby.]
Did you see that!?
C: Wildcard!
[[OOC: I have plans for the death of Prompto's doppelganger, but if you would like to play out a brief encounter with it, or with another doppelganger, let me know! Prompto will be going around the mall, mostly hunting for his own doppelganger or trying to stop others from destroying things.]]
For Dimitri (also spoilers for FFXV)
But it was different then: the MTs had armor that hid their faces, if their faces were even still human under there. They couldn't talk, or emote, or style their hair, or do anything that really looked like Prompto.
This one... it looks like Prompto, right down to the hair, the clothes, the expression on its face when Prompto first caught it trying to destroy a sink. He's taken enough selfies to know what his face looks like when he's surprised - he recognizes this.
He was so startled that he let it get away that time. This time will be different, he tells himself. This time he'll kill it, before it causes any more problems.
And he was able to to convince himself that he could do it, right up until now, as he stares down the hallway to where he's finally backed it into a corner.
Yet somehow his hand stays still around his gun.]
Don't move...!
[But his voice lacks conviction.]
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Still, he's never had the displeasure of killing a look-alike, not even in this place. His was just one more body, found in that same rancid water where they all were first stuck at. A morbid train of thought makes him wonder, if another part of him died with it.
While it has all been mostly disruptive at best so far, though, there's no telling when these doppelgangers will start turning against them, perhaps even try to kill and replace their originals. So he's set off to deal with the problem the only way he knows, with his spear Areadbhar at the ready. Whatever comes his way, he can handle it.
... except maybe for the sight right before him: two of that friendly man who had so kindly taught him about cameras, and no way to figure out which is which. ]
Prompto...? [ He tries the name, and waits to study their reactions, anything that could give him even a small clue. ]
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...That thing over there-
["He took my gun!" the fake cries, in a voice that sounds way too much like his own, cracked with fear. It holds its hands up, pleading, "You have to help me!"]
Don't listen to him! [Prompto shakes his head.] I'm... I'm the real me!
["I'm the real me!"]
A.
So here he is, humming melodically and twirling down the main aisle of the store, passing the sad looking tent before, essentially, moonwalking backwards back to it. ]
Oh? What is this...? Has your home been destroyed in a brutal storm?
[ ... anyway... ]
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He leaves his gun in his holster, quickly swiping under his eyes with his other hand.]
Those things got to it. The clones. Or whatever they are.
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[ Wataru is coming up to his side, looking over the poor wreckage.
Hmmm... he probably hasn't really ever gone camping, so a lot of this he'd be no help with right off the bat, but... ]
Shall I perform a magic trick? On the count of three, something here will return to the way it used to be ☆
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[Clones are a real, present day technology, at least in his world, but there's no reason to argue that right now.
Wataru's offer surprises him, though, and he looks it, his whole body jerking back in shock.]
You can do magic!?
[How rare and novel!]
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That's for you to see and believe yourself.
[ He's not a real magician, but he is a very good practical magician. To Wataru, magic is real if surprises are real, so. ]
One, two... amazing...!
[ Wow, there was no "three" but it doesn't seem to matter because he's making a dramatic gesture towards the campsite. There's a sheet covering the tent now. ]
Fufu, if you'll do the honours of removing this sheet for me...?
[ If he does, some of the tent poles are back in better shape, but the real surprise is waiting for him to look away, to turn around. ]
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Sure!
[And so he will grab the sheet and pull it off the tent! But what is the surprise...?]
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Ta-da...!
[ There is a new sleeping bag rolled up snugly there, camo-coloured (he doesn't have the option to add sparkles in a camping store... tragically) with a can of peaches sitting on top of it.
If he lifts it up, there will be a fake rose underneath it. ]
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[Okay, that was pretty great. Consider Prompto cheered up now.]
You really do know magic!
[He's going over to inspect the sleeping bag now.]
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Fufufu, this is why I am here, certainly~ to us my magic to put smiles back on the faces of everyone I meet!
[ He's sure not here because he's any good at survival. All things considered, he's done fairly well in that aspect, but he's still an idol. ]
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Is that what you do for a living or something?
[He assumes he does magic shows on the regular.]
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[ In other words, he's convinced that he'll only stop being a magician when he's dead. That's just how it goes when your entire being is tied up with a stage. Or he is just too dramatic, it's probably the latter. ]
I'm an idol, as well as an actor. Being a magician is important too, but if I had to choose one of them as a "hobby", that would be it.
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[Okay, it doesn't explain it that much, but it makes sense that someone interested in performing would learn all kinds of performance arts, at least to Prompto. He doesn't know why Wataru would need a hobby to stay alive, but he'll let it slide.]
Guess people of all kinds ended up in this mall...
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[ A pretty rock that puts flour on their face... a talking hedgehog... ]
So, I wonder who you are. Should I guess?