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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] hellofishies 2019-12-23 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
She's probably still going to try to replace it someday. It's the right thing to do, at least that's what she thinks.

She tilts her head curiously and blinks. "How did it become a guy? Or was it always a guy trapped as a sword?"
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[personal profile] punchpunchkisskiss 2019-12-24 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
"It was already a guy," he explains casually. "Another me that got turned into a sword. And then it joined butts with my old cursed grass sword and turned into a new guy. That's my friend Fern. He's cool."
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[personal profile] hellofishies 2019-12-26 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
"A guy grass sword?" That sounds weird but in the good fascinating kind of way. "You have interesting friends!"
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[personal profile] punchpunchkisskiss 2019-12-26 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I do!" He loves all of his friends, and they're all pretty weird in the good kind of way.

"Wish you could meet them. I bet they'd get a real kick out of this place too. PB'd love to get a look at this robot here."
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[personal profile] hellofishies 2019-12-27 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are you here alone?" She is. And she knows how it is to have weird friends and then not have them anymore.

"I have a few friends that would love looking at the robot too. Does PB build things?"
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[personal profile] punchpunchkisskiss 2020-01-06 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, I guess!" He scratches his neck awkwardly again, then shrugs. He doesn't think of himself as alone, really, with so many people around all the time. But it's true that Jake isn't here, or anyone else that he knows from home.

"PB's a genius. She made the whole Candy Kingdom, and all the candy people too!"
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[personal profile] hellofishies 2020-01-12 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Candy kingdom? How do you have a kingdom of candy? Wouldn't you eat it?" She would. If there's candy she was going to eat it. That's for sure.
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[personal profile] punchpunchkisskiss 2020-01-16 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sure! But there's way too much of it to eat all at once." He raises his other arm as though resting his head on his hands and leans to one side.

"Sometimes me and Jake have candy litter for lunch."