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the head | the hand ([personal profile] headandhand) wrote in [community profile] dualislogs2019-10-19 06:55 pm

we’re ready to make you one of us.

WHO: Open to all Dualizens
WHAT: When Roboclones Attack
WHERE: Anywhere in the city!
WHEN: The night of Oct. 19
WARNINGS: Please use these if applicable! And if you happen to end up dead by roboclone, please fill out the death form!

It’s an ordinary night in Dualis, until it suddenly becomes a very dark and stormy night in Dualis. There hasn’t been a single day of unpleasant weather since any of you arrived, but soon after the sun begins to sink behind the city’s skyscrapers and the neon lights intensify for the night, storm clouds begin to gather overhead and unleash a cacophony of thunder, a deluge of rain, and brilliant spikes of lightning arcing across the sky.

It’s a violent storm, to be sure, but surely severe weather is no challenge in such a technologically advanced city as Dualis, right? As long as you stay indoors, you can keep safe and dry until the storm passes.

Except … less than an hour after the storm begins, the power all across the city goes completely out. All buildings are dark except for the illumination cast by lightning across brick and steel and glass. All electronics - including phones - are dead, all biometric locks are disabled, and no attempts to call, text, or reach the internet or the network succeed. Eerily, the streets are silent and empty.

Under normal circumstances, such a widespread blackout would merely be odd and inconvenient, but tonight, circumstances are anything but normal. About half an hour after the blackout begins, something approaches you, wherever you are. In the dark, you’ll be able to make out that its shape is humanoid, but maybe its motions are jerky and mechanical. As it draws closer and you get a better look, by candlelight or flashlight or flash of lightning, you recognize the face staring back at you.

That face is your own.

The face, like the rest of the body, is likely some degree of incomplete, an incongruous jigsaw of metal and flesh, but it’s definitely yours. And this machine doppelganger’s mission is soon made apparent as it launches a targeted attack on you:

It’s here to kill you.

After nearly four hours, the storm subsides and the power is restored and the city falls back into its normal rhythm. Will you survive until then?

May the odds be ever in your favor, friends.
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-11-13 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
She considers her reply just briefly, deciding joking and being a little goofy is a better plan than anything serious or pushy tonight.

"Yes, sir!" She gives a grin and half-assed, lazy salute to him as she starts back out. With all this shit going, a teeny, tiny dash of silly isn't bad. "But I want a lollipop next time, maybe a cartoon sticker, too."

South is tempted to warn him to barricade the door and only let people he knows are human in, but... She's not his mother, he's not a child, and he keeps insisting he can handle himself, so, he'll probably figure it out fine.
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[personal profile] helpdesk_hero 2019-11-14 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll be sure to stock some, just for you," David dismisses with a wave. And honestly, there's no way to guarantee someone is human unless the robots were that messed up as to be obvious. So don't bother telling him to do it. His duty is to protect people by healing them. And trying to keep the robots away.

"You look like a lime lollipop person. I'll make sure there is one."
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-11-18 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm holding you to that." Is all she says before she's off again.