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OOC PLOTTING — 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.

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.

JULY 17TH - JULY 21ST

Throughout the rest of the week, characters can be expected to be dealing with a myriad of trouble from these doubles:
» 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.

JULY 22ND

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?

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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!

You may use this plotting post to plot out what your evil double will be up to throughout the week, where their body will be found (and what state it will be in/how it seemingly died), or what your character will be doing to stop/capture/kill them! And anything else you come up with - as always, these ideas are not exhaustive, and we want players to interpret their own ways to interact with the event.

The event log will be going up on July 15th at 6:00PM PST. For any remaining questions you have about the event - feel free to ask them HERE in the Questions comment.

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Are the doppelgangers traceable by using Moody Blues? Rewinding to try to figure out where they've been, where they came from, etc.

In addition, just for clarification: characters who have been surviving decently/adapting have their doppelgangers show up on the first day as a corpse. Do they additionally show up in the mall afterward for sabotaging or no?

Edited (had another question sorry) 2020-07-12 20:16 (UTC)

Moody Blues will find that if it traces any of the doppelgangers, they come from and flee to the venting system. The only way to access these vents is for them to contort their bodies into crazy shapes (think Santana in Battle Tendency), so a normal person will not be able to go inside. When they're inside, they're seemingly able to move without being heard. Their entrance and exit from the venting system is as far as Moody Blues will be able to trace them - once the doppelgangers enter the vents, they won't be able to be replayed any further.

As for the characters among the first discovered because of their survival skills, it's up to player discretion if they would like their character among these. If you feel your character fits the description of someone great at surviving but you do not want them found on the first day, that is up to each player. But, if you do decide to have your character discovered on the first day as a corpse, there won’t be another copy of their doppelganger participating in sabotage throughout the mall for the remainder of the event, as there is only one copy of each character in the mall - and their doppelganger would already be dead if they were found on the first day.

Thanks mods! I appreciate the answers and I'm excited for this event.

So, mods! Two questions about remains...(grim, I know)

1) If a duplicate of a mall resident is mechanical, after it has died, could Eggman hold onto it in case it could be scrapped for spare parts later on? Like, it won't rapidly deteriorate or anything making it pointless to try and hold onto it long term, I guess is what I'm asking

2) I see the biological duplicates are perfect copies down to the fingerprints externally, but if someone were to perform a (messy, very back-alley-doctor) autopsy, would the internals be exactly the same as well? Or could anything strange be found?

1.) The mechanical doppelgangers we mentioned in the post were meant to refer to doppelgangers of characters who are in game that are androids or robots - that's our bad for not making that a little clearer! We'll update the game info to reflect that doppelgangers are only mechanical in the case of those types of characters.

If Eggman is able to get his hands on one of the doppelgangers that is of this nature, then yes, he would be able to scavenge it for parts - with player permission of course! Eggman won't be able to repair or revive the mechanical duplicate in full, though - only take parts out of it for use.

2.) If an autopsy is performed on one of the doppelgangers made of flesh, Eggman will find that the inside has organs just like a regular human would have. The only difference is that these organs do not have the usual wear-and-tear that human organs of living people would have (liver damage from alcohol, buildup of stuff in the arteries, that kind of thing). Additionally, he'll find there is nothing in the stomachs of the doppelgangers, and that there's no evidence these doppelgangers have ever eaten... anything, really!

Perfect, thank you!

Am I correct in assuming that doppelgangers will also have any tattoos on their body that the original character had?

Absolutely correct! Doppelgangers will look exactly like their characters upon arrival. This includes: clothing, blemishes, scars, and tattoos.

MORE TERRIBLE QUESTIONS!!

If someone drags the bodies that were out in the elements inside to gank those sweet extra clothes, how radioactive are they? How long do those babies have to sit and decay before they're not hot anymore?

Characters will find the clothes extremely hot to the touch, and they will remain that way for at least a full day. If articles of clothing taken from the bodies outside are worn, there are couple things to note: it will give characters a terrible rash as a reaction to the radioactive qualities of the sun for a week or two, it'll smell fairly bad, and will have chunks of skin stuck to the fabric from the body cooking while wearing said clothing.

LOVELY! thank you!

Hey mods, my reading comprehension is apparently in the tank, so to clarify: doppelgangers of characters good at surviving thus far will show up first. Do they show up first as drowned corpses, or do they simply show up first and happen to die early as a result? Put another way, is there any period of time where the good-at-survival characters can be seen alive?

Doppelgangers who first show up died early deliberately, if that makes sense! They didn't just show up as dead bodies; they showed up to deliberately take furniture into the water and take food outside, which caused them to die. They did this all in the late night/early morning of July 15th, unbeknownst to the player characters. To answer your question, this means that when they are discovered on July 15th, that first batch of doubles are only ever seen dead.

That being said, good-at-survival characters don't have to be among the first doppelgangers found. It is up to player discretion - if you feel your character fits the description of someone great at surviving but you do not want them found on the first day so that they can be seen alive on the other days, that is up to each player. We left this up to the players in order to give everyone a chance to play out what they would like!

Hopefully this answers your question!

It does, thank you!!

A little belated, but do the doppelgangers have the capacity to think and reason like their resident counterparts? The description says they're physically identical to their doubles, but would anything about their thoughts read as different if Schuldig tried to read their minds?

Even though the doubles have the capacity to think and reason like their counterparts, Schuldig will not be able to read any of the doppelganger's minds! If he manages to catch a doppelganger and tries to use his powers on them, simply nothing will happen.

New comment for this, but! Zuko will be collecting what bodies he can find and kind of arranging them (with dignified face coverings) in one of the bigger open hallways. Just to kind of keep them in order and to keep track of them. Later I am thinking he'll break in the network to ask how to dispose of them (bar any other objections), but in the meantime is there anything this might affect?

The bodies being laid out in the hallway won't really affect anything other than the ability to walk through it! In other words, nothing crazy or especially awful will happen. The bodies will simply stay as they are and decompose at the normal rate a corpse would.

Sweet, just didn't want to anger any ghosts or whatever!

misa's double won't be discovered on the first day because she's a) terrible at surviving and b) has not adapted here in the mall AT ALL, so you can catch her doing this stuff throughout the whole week:

❖ her double will be doing easy stuff like trying to steal food and throw it outside! she's tiny and not that strong so her doppelganger won't be doing anything crazy... apprehend her before she throws away what's left of the nacho cheese

❖ she'll be great at inspecting the first bodies found! she has supernaturally immaculate eyesight and will be able to tell that the copies are identical, let's investigate together

❖ i'm definitely down to team up to capture and kill her doppelganger! or plan out an attempted capture and have it fail.

❖ despite her ~cutesy persona and image~ she will definitely help you in killing your doppelganger; she will pretend to hesitate but when push comes to shove she Will be okay with killing people even when she has to use her own hands to do it, clearly there's nothing that needs to be looked into there

❖ i'm forseeing her continuing to talk about the ~mysterious people who must be responsible for all this~ and likely escalating into they should be killed territory ala kira punishment, so let's talk about the god of the new world and how she thinks its ok to just kill people who are criminals

❖ feel free to handwave or assume your character can see her double around the mall impersonating her! if spoken to, her double will act the typical level of airheaded and bubbly she normally does, and you can assume it was convincing enough for your character to have believed it was her

❖ i definitely want to play out the cleaning up corpses aspect... or cleaning up the blood/guts/etc left behind... it will be gross and she will be an enormous baby over it, catch her struggling to drag any doppelganger while being like ewww blood on my clothes:(

Edited 2020-07-12 20:08 (UTC)

oh god

well wataru's double will come in the earlier half of the week, but not the first day! here's some things you can assume his double gets up to:

- popping his head out at you from holes like pennywise

- just fucking shredding clothing and blankets and then probably dumping it all over you like confetti

- repeating shakespeare line by line in your ear as you try to sleep

i'm up for his double doing other things too, but i'd like to plan those out! the above are what you can assume has happened freely. that said, if you want to kill wataru's double, i'd like to limit that to one person and i'm super okay with it! just, i think it will have some sort of Effect on him (and he will honestly not want to hurt his double, or any others, unless necessary) so if you're interested in a clown having a feelio, let me know. i'm also up for just different scenarios of trying to hurt his double and that doesn't have to be limited or anything.

as of now he's probably not going to be hurting other doubles, but he will 100% try to help others against them and ofc will... do his best to not let them get away with wrecking too much shit.

tfw he would love to befriend his double and learn how he twists his body so well to escape like that...........

as for the aftermath, i am super interested in dealing with the bodies!! i don't have any solid ideas on how so i might just tag around, but i'm up for it.

Edited 2020-07-13 00:05 (UTC)

ALRIGHT SO!

As for Harrow's doppelganger, she is fairly well-adjusted to surviving in shitty situations like this, so I'm going to elect to have her as one of the bodies to be found on the first day. I'm just gonna say that she can, uh, be found... uh... (flips a coin) floating in the water on the ground floor. So she will not be seen throughout the week sabotaging things (sorry about the furniture, though).

As for Harrow herself ... this is going to be an instance of me being a very predictable and very broken record:

All of those corpses we need to clean up towards the end of the event? She'll help. With the amount of thanergy the deaths will be generating, she should be able to skeletonize several (or all of them, given a few days, since she will need to rest intermittently). But she will specifically want to keep the bones afterwards. She's just never had to deal with scarcity like this before, so she's willing to do what must be done!! Though if anyone would have a problem with this, I am definitely willing to explore that as well. (: I'm sorry she's like this.

As for the rest of the week, she will only be dealing with the mischief of the doppelgangers if it directly effects her. But she will be interested in the doppelgangers themselves. She will be examining whichever bodies are found, and she will be willing to work together and try to capture (or kill, if necessary) any that are found. If anyone wants to team up for anything like that, give me a holler!

She can have Eren's bones if she wants
And his skull too even if it's a lil bit damaged

she wasn't asking permission but thank you for not raising a fuss, eren (':

hedgehog bones

just be careful, his doppel's corpse has been sitting outside and it may be a liiiiittle radioactive

hedgehog bones..................................... she has so many questions she wants to ask and yet is still 90% certain shes just hallucinating the walking talking hedgehog

she will probably be wary of the bodies that were outside, but... hm, do they glow? that would make for lovely ambiance (:

you and everyone else, lady!! but it's a totally normal skeleton. probably.

it may or may not glow but it also may make your hair fall out and your guts slough if you stand too close so THERE'S PROS AND CONS

i was just sat here today thinking about how sonic the hedgehog skeletons cannot hurt me and yet , it has, it has hurt me

hair and guts can be regrown and repaired, radioactive bones are rare material!!!!! she has very good priorities that are all completely in the right order, thank you

this cursed knowledge is now yours :)

WELL OK THEN!!

Well Eichi is a sickly weakling and certainly hasn't adjusted, so his doppleganger won't be appearing on the first day, but he'll be around to cause trouble through the rest of the week! Some examples of things he might be doing:

turn people against each other

tricking people using his poor health

cutting power lines, ruining water pipes, destroying food

I'm up for plotting with more than that, as well, because the doppleganger will be a little shit, and I'm up to playing threads both with just Eichi, or just the doppleganger, or both! I don't have any plans for how he can die, so let me know if you want to kill him! And we can figure it out.

As for the first day and investigation and getting involved with others, Eichi is going to be very interested and concerned about it, so he'll be poking his nose wherever he can. His only knowledge is what he's picked up either from 1. being hospitalized for most of his life and 2. reading countless educational books and having facts sort of like a wikipedia page thanks to said hospitalization.

I also would love to have him have to kill (or more realistically, just injure or attempt to) dopplegangers, so if anyone has ones that can be injured or taken down by a sick boy, then he is here for it. Him viewing bodies also sounds like a fun time, though he'll be better reacting to the emotions of others there rather than showing his own!

Silver has been doing quite well, so his doppelganger will be discovered on the first day! It will be outside, burnt to a crisp except for pristine gloves and boots... He will be attempting to get those, by the way, once he stops panicking about all the dead bodies.

and Silver won't want to say it aloud, but at the end of the event, with all these bodies lying around... and they DID just lose a lot of food.......... but so gross so gross DX even though using the meat would be a good idea, he won't be able to bring himself to do it

eggman be like

NO!! BAD!! DO NOT EAT RADIOACTIVE CORPSE

i can't believe silver is ready to become a flesh-eating hedgehog.......

man

he understands the idea and the need but he'd absolutely just barf everywhere instead

logic brain be like "waste not want not"

emotion brain be like "LOGIC BRAIN YOU FUCKING SICK BASTARD"

Abbacchio has been decent at surviving the mall so far, even being helpful, what a guy! As such, his doppelganger will be discovered on the first day, having drowned in the gross water on the first floor. So if someone wants to discover the body and panic and think it's really Abbacchio before some hijinks, I'd love that.

Otherwise, Abbacchio will be attempting to figure out where the doppelgangers are coming from, which he'll be using Moody Blues for. Ironic, considering Moody Blues can look almost identical to people as well, BUT WHADDAYA GONNA DO. So if you wanna team up for investigative purposes or have your doppelganger attack him, let me know. Also, I'm fine with him having to shank them if need be, just hit me up! I'm down for him coming to someone's rescue, or needing to be rescued.

Post-event, he might suggest cremating the bodies somehow so they don't have to deal with them any longer, unless someone can find a use for them (BESIDES FOOD).

Silver also wants to find out where these things are coming from..... maybe he can fit in the vents.......

crams silver into the vents WHAT DO U SEE BUDDY

DUST :(!!!

oh :[ sorry bro

hi i've been completely absent for the first few weeks but finally i can get started so:

» Eren will be among the first to find the pile of corpses outside. He himself won't have a body, but it's rather disturbing to him nonetheless.

» More disturbing later is finding out that he's been supposedly tearing through the food supply with a ravenous hunger that never seems to go away - in stark contrast to his habit of ensuring that everyone else gets to eat before he does. With a little bit of investigating, it comes to light that Eren has a doppleganger that is very intent on devouring everything he can get his hands on. Not only that, but said doppleganger has made it his mission, when not busy eating, to break open every exit to the outside world he can find. As with all other doubles, he's a slippery bastard and won't get caught easily.

» Eren will eventually shoot his copy on sight. Most of the time he escapes; but maybe your character is there for the one time he doesn't. And it'll be really messy when Eren gets his hands on him, because Eren doesn't pull half-measures.

» After killing himself, Eren will burn the body - it's standard practice where he comes from, so if you need any help disposing of bodies as well, he'll be making himself available in that regard. Who doesn't want to watch themselves get thrown onto a funeral pyre?

» I'm open to whatever ideas you might have! Eren's got a gun and ammo to boot, so taking care of doubles won't be too much of an issue beyond the drama that will ensue when both the character and their clone insist they're the real deal. That's gonna be a lot of fun. :)

Edited (im a speedreader) 2020-07-13 12:55 (UTC)

hello, hello, I come bearing Mad Scientist Far Too Curious About Clones shenanigans

》First up, Eggman's doppleganger won't appear on the first day, because......well, look at him. His copy will spend its time trying to sabotage the electricity or sources of water because a copy of a diabolical villain's gotta be just as much of a nuisance as the original.

》Anyone is free to kill the doppleganger, because Eggman never does his dirty work himself unless he has to. I don't really know what I want to do with this prompt specifically so I'm up for plotting! Go nuts.

》As for the dopplegangers themselves, Eggman is very interested in dead bodies. The mods have confirmed he can find some odd little things about biological clones if he cuts them open, so he'll either ask for help in performing a shoddy back alley doctor style autopsy or do it himself if everyone's too squeamish. If anyone is fine with having their corpse clones cut up, please let me know! If anyone is also interested in having their character volunteer to help during the """procedure""" also let me know. I'll probably make a network post to have him talk about his findings, so if you want your character to be like "sorry did you just CUT UP MY CLONE BODY" that's also an option. Did I mention he doesn't have a medical license?

》 As for any of our mechanical residents, their clones will also be mechanical. This is the thing Eggman will be most interested in, so he will BEG and DEMAND and PLEAD you PLEASE let him have your doppleganger's mechanical remains so he can strip it for parts he may later use to build something.........he doesn't know what yet. But he misses mechanical parts. So even if your character isn't IC'ly willing to agree to hand it over (which I'm perfectly fine with!) please still expect him to hassle you.

Eggman is 100% allowed to examine Abbacchio's doppelganger corpse. CHOP IT UP DOC

did i mention abbacchio is his favourite person? cause he's his favourite person

lottie's double won't be discovered on the first day because she's a blogger who has No Life Skills(tm), so here's her schedule for the week:

JULY 15TH - JULY 17TH

JULY 17TH - JULY 21ST

just

cosmetic

destroying the gym

just stop sleeping!

come find lottie mid breakdown!!

fight an angry blogger?

JULY 22ND

re: cleaning up her corpse!!

reluctantly cleaning up all the organs and blood around the mall

when the log goes up i'll be putting up a top level when i figure out a couple openers, but if you want a specialized starter with lottie and/or her double, please feel free to let me know! ❤︎

so.......

cinnabar's body will not be found on the first day, because despite being naturally hardy in some ways due to being a Big Rock, they really aren't prepared for this in any way, shape, or form. In fact, they'll probably be one of the latter ones to show up. This might be good, because this doppelganger is probably going to be a pain in the ass!! Cinnabar is made of solid... cinnabar, which means both them and their doppelganger weigh just shy of 1000 pounds and are full of poisonous mercury. The good news is that cinnabar is a really soft mineral - you can scratch them with any regular tool, and they're pretty easy to smash or break, too. But you will need to smash them into pieces to make them stop moving. Gems can lose a few limbs and keep going due to the fact that they're actually colonial organisms...

what i'm saying is feel free to find doppelbar crawling around without legs/arms/whatever or missing half of their head or something. Their doppelganger will be violently trying to destroy things rather than steal things most of the time!! Windows, furniture, electronics, food... anything. Seems angry. Feel free to assume it runs away or ignores you if you get close bc that's basically what real Cinnabar does anyway LMFAO.

For corpse cleanup, Cinnabar might actually be useful?! Their poison is corrosive and could be used to help break down bodies or body parts more quickly. It probably won't smell or look very nice, though... Also, they will need to be convinced to do this, because they hate their poison and using it on living (or previously living) things. as for disposing of doppelbar's corpse, cinnabar is actually probably going to want to hold onto it in case they need to repair themself. they assume the healing factor doesn't work on them the same way... they are wrong, but

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