You find yourselves

You find the last remaining closed door in the trophy room unlocked. Jeff turns the knob and pulls the door open revealing five figures, all of which are immediately familiar to you. One of them is you. Milling about on the stairs are your perfect doppelgängers dressed as you had started the game.

Your eyes were drawn to your own clone, wearing the jeans and t-shirt that had dissolved off your body earlier forcing you into the maid outfit. Things had been so hectic since your changes that you really hadn't spent a lot of time looking at yourself in mirrors. Was that really how you looked now? For a moment the two groups look at each other in confusion, Jeff, the new clone Jeff, breaks the silence.

Other Jeff : "woah, creepy."

Jeff : "Hey, that's my line. You guys are our clones?"

Other Jeff : "no way, we were here first. Anyways, where's your Sammy and James?"

Brian : "they fell down a hole into the basement"

Jeff : "don't tell them where our friends are, they're mimicks, they might like, eat people or something."

The others look offended.

Other Alexis : "why would you automatically assume we eat people? Do you eat people?"

Jeff : "obviously not"

Other Alexis : "then why would copies of you eat people? We're obviously the originals. You guys are all dressed like haunted house NPCs. "

Was that really how you sounded? Your voice was more feminine than you had self consciously thought it was.

Alexis : "I hate to be skeptical but if you were mimicks who ate people then you'd probably say the same thing. And there was a room that dissolved our clothing and made us choose costumes."

Other Jeff : "there's got to be a way to determine who are the originals and who are illusions"

Jeff : "would we even know if we're the originals? Or admit it if we did? Surely Cerve could give us false memories"

Brian : "that's pretty fucked up honestly."

Other Brian : "does it really matter? You guys are trying to do the same thing right? Find the deed or whatever? We can just work together and whoever is real will win."

You feel a little uneasy but you guess Clone Brian's plan makes sense. It's eery how much he sounds just like real Brian. You didn't really think that the game was going to require you to fight your clones physically or anything, especially not 3 VS 5, but you resolve to carefully remember who is who.

Alexis : "Cerve did say we weren't in any danger so worst case is a scare, no eating people though"

Jeff : "ok, we'll just keep going for now I guess, who goes next?"

For some reason as soon as Jeff said that you felt better about the situation. The three of you join the others in the stairwell. There is a staircase going up to the second floor and another going down to the basement.