Copycat IV

How to unlock Copycat IV in Cheevos, copy text 50 times, professional-level extraction for the clipboard ledger. Worth 20 XP.

The story

Partner. Fifty copies. The clipboard is not a convenience anymore. It is infrastructure.

At this point Cache stops thinking of you as someone occasionally lifting a quote off a page. He starts thinking of you the way he thinks of himself: as someone who moves things for a living, even if the things are small and the living is metaphorical.

Developers copy code. Writers copy references. Researchers copy citations, half-finished thoughts, and the exact wording of a source they do not want to paraphrase incorrectly. Cache does not know which of these you are. He only knows fifty is a number that shows up in professional workflows, not casual ones.

He respects this. He built an entire junkyard out of the same repeated motion: notice, lift, carry, keep. You have been doing a smaller version of it fifty times over, and Cache has been counting every single one.

The catalog entry

FIFTY COPIES Acquired: Copied text 50 times. Condition: Well-used. The clipboard is essential. Rarity: Rare. Cache's Notes: Fifty copies. You are operating at a professional extraction level. Developer. Writer. Researcher. The clipboard is not a convenience for you. It is infrastructure. Cache approves. He uses a similar principle for everything in the Stash. You do not build a collection without moving things around constantly.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

This is the highest tier of the Copycat achievements, and it just takes volume.

  1. Keep copying text with Ctrl+C or Cmd+C, or right-click Copy, across your normal browsing.
  2. Every copy event adds to your running total for the session or history Cheevos tracks.
  3. Reach 50 total copies to unlock it.

The Clipboard API that browsers expose to detect copy actions has been part of the web platform for years, letting sites and extensions react to a copy event without ever reading the clipboard's actual contents unless explicitly granted permission. That distinction matters: Cheevos can count that you copied something without ever knowing what it was. Your workflow stays private. Only the pattern gets logged.

Where it fits in the Stash

Fifty entries in the clipboard ledger puts you in rare company. Cache keeps the count next to his own running tally of everything he has ever lifted off a page. To read about the raccoon who taught himself to count this way, read the story.