duplicitymemes | TDM #16

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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Yet, solace is found in the lies we tell each other, comforted by the peace of knowing that we're not alone in our depravity, and once on this path, sin itself becomes the lesser of two evils masked in a cloud of normalcy.

This is how Duplicity has functioned since the beginning. The divide of power and social standing is overt in that Dominants influence the decisions made both publicly and privately while Submissives cater to the rules presented to them. It is the way of Duplicity to assign random designations at birth with no leeway in altering what has been given. Climate in the Up is far stricter than that of the Down; violating outlined personas for a Dominant or Submissive while in full view of others is punished by degree of infraction. In the Down, many tend to turn a blind eye to these sorts of offenses.

To counteract the discovery of the Deceit Gene – a natural "negative" response to all stimuli – the L.I.E.S. program was founded. The program had been designed to introduce new subjects to the current environment and test for the Deceit Gene through immersion in Duplicity's standing society. Sexual impulses and encounters increase the chances of detecting the gene within these individuals. Participants are typically released from L.I.E.S. after a year; however, results have remained unsatisfactory and testing still continues.

... and you’re here! Finally! Welcome to Duplicity.

After choosing a door and stepping through to the other side, the first thing that greets you are the enthusiastic faces of people in medical scrubs and pristine lab coats. Their enthusiasm translates to eagerness as they strip you of your clothes to perform a thorough examination—you will be healed, bathed, and given a paper gown to wear until your items can be processed and delivered to your residence later in the evening. You are also given a device that accesses the network as well as the time and location of orientation.

If you enter Duplicity into the Up, congratulations! You’re a Dominant, which means you are immediately picked up by a limo after processing and taken to your high rise. Here, it is two Dominants per floor with separate apartments. If you enter Duplicity into the Down, congratulations! You’re a Submissive, which means you are directed towards public transportation with the address of the motel you’ll be living in. Here, it is two Submissives per room with a shared common space for all rooms.

Enjoy your free time until orientation! Participation is mandatory by all new and old arrivals.

The weather is rather cold and icy.

» » » WALKING TOUR

The cold, icy winter weather has seen to it that there is an unfortunate interruption with the usual city tour for the newest arrivals to Duplicity. Some of the train tracks have a dangerous amount of ice coating them and sections of travel are now unavailable via train.

City officials still believe that the tours are important to integrate new LIERs to Duplicity so they have organised personal walking tours held by current LIERs. New arrivals will be paired with their own tour guide; they can take the suggested path or take their barely dressed charge on a more ad-hoc tour. It might be considerate to let them change into something warmer first!

Important landmarks and checkpoints like Fiddler’s Square, North Park, The Up and Down Courts, the People Zoo and of course S.L.U.T. need to be marked off on the tours but there have also been fun local stores which have set-ups for free samples and information booklets. What order and how people travel to them is up to them.

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(CW: exhibitionism, voyeurism, dub/non-con)

One of the stops along these new walking tours is a temporary educational art installation that has been set up to display and talk about the rich variety of kinks that are popular in Duplicity. Newcomers are invited to come inside the building, sit on the human furniture to watch and learn or volunteer to participate themselves.

Each section has local LIERs and graduated citizens there to help walk those new to the program through the displays, explaining the appeal and draw of each kink.

Live demonstrations or performance art are carried out by LIERs who have volunteered, been conscripted or are fulfilling a sentence that would normally land them in the People Zoo. They can and will ask anyone and everyone to step up and be part of the artwork themselves.

Some of the displays set up will feature:

Naked Submissives have been bound and posed with their bodies arched in visually pleasing positions. They are surrounded with candles burning around them and guests are invited to drip the hot wax across their bodies to add to the artwork that is their naked skin.
Zap your lover or the volunteers with an electrical wand and discover the way it can make the skin tingle and muscles tense in just the right place at just the right moment.
The image of cum dripping from a well used Submissive is considering something to appreciate visually so stations have been set up with glory holes and kneeling participants to have their faces and buttocks painted over the course of the day.
A variety of whips, canes and paddles have been set out next to padded benches for Submissives to bend themselves over. The marks they leave are something to be proud of.
No art display in Duplicity is complete without an ode to bondage, one room will be entirely devoted to participants being suspended from the ceiling, held in positions that will test their stamina and flexibility and leave the most gorgeous bruises.

We encourage players not to limit themselves in regards to what is on display. There are many more kinks than the ones listed, and Duplicity considers all kinds of sexual acts a form of art.

Photo taking is encouraged throughout the exhibition, especially when your own participation is concerned. If you missed the chance to do so, in the moment, you need not worry as the gift shop at the end of the gallery will have many different prints taken over the course of the exhibition available for purchase. Take home a keepsake of your first day in Duplicity.

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(CW: exhibitionism)

Winter does make it harder in Duplicity to enjoy all the pleasures of the flesh that could be on offer in the warmer months. Most who live in the city still need to wrap up with many layers when the weather turns so chilly. But that’s not saying that the city can’t find ways to help keep its residents in the mood.

It will first be noticeable to those trying their hand at streaming or posting video footage onto the network. Regardless of a character's state of dress while recording, they will appear completely naked to those watching and no amount of covering up with more articles of material will change that.

Others might see it as they set about on their first days getting used to the city’s layout, glancing into a shop window they will notice their own state of undress in their reflection. You might even see it in a particularly shiny bit of ice but no matter where you look, all reflective surfaces will show everyone in their birthday suits, naked as the day they were born.

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(CW: exhibitionism, dubcon, drugging)

In a bid to encourage individuals to get out and keep active despite the chilly weather, the city has transformed one of the large tennis courts in the Up into a makeshift outdoor skating rink. In the recreation building attached to the courts-turned-rink the change rooms have been outfitted for people to change into more appropriate clothing. There is also at the front of the building an area to rent skates.

Many who get on the ice see no reason to keep apart, as many contracted couples can be seen holding hands or chasing each other as they skate. In the change rooms it isn’t uncommon to see a bit of hanky panky or people getting off at helping others in and out of their skates. There also seems to be a small hot chocolate stand set up inside the building where characters can buy a warm drink to sip on while taking a break from skating. The drink may leave those that consume it feeling especially warm and frisky, with perhaps a bit of extra energy they need to burn off - skating might not cut it.

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Please read carefully.

On each Test Drive Meme, there will be a section noting character roles; these will vary each TDM. On an IC level, characters will still have gone through the doors but assignments OOCly are still randomized. When applying, there is a section of the application that denotes whether the character chooses "left" or "right". When participating on the TDM, there will be a third option. Players may link either a top level or a thread (five or more comments from their character) from the TDM and title the link as "Door Pass". This means that the player is choosing to take the designation that they were randomly assigned on the TDM, rather than taking the designation of a door. If the player decides to select a door rather than use the pass, then they are trying their luck; they may get the same designation they had on the TDM or the opposite. Once the application is submitted, players can't change their choice.

To assign roles to characters for this TDM, use the following guide: If your character would rather have a dog for a pet they are Dominant. If they would rather have a cat for a pet they are Submissive. If your character is from a canon that has neither, pick the choice you believe they would prefer more.

To Note: Characters can only swap their designation for one of the following reasons: an event occurs that allows it or there are OOC reasons that make it a necessity. Any swap always requires mod approval and each character can only ever switch once. Characters that are being reapped will keep their previous designation but players can choose to use new tdms with different designations for fun!

Please remember to mark any necessary content, and have a good time!!

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[That is, indeed, not proper attire for those going on a walk. Take Donna for instance, who is bundled up head to toe, with stands of red hair poking out from under the scarf wrapped around her head and fuzzy mittens on her hands. She'd like her own attire, but she'd arrived with an empty hat box and not much else that had been helpful. The switch from Submissive to Dominant has provided her some opportunities, like being able to get dressed for the weather, so she is grateful for that, although she's starting to notice some of the drawbacks...

She'd been waiting, albeit not too long, for her apparent 'charge' to come along so she could give a tour in the cold. Who ever thought of that deserved a shift kick to the arse, as this is the type of weather is not the type to go on a bloody stroll. Case in point, as Donna's attention turns towards the speaker, and yes, that? That isn't going to work.]

Seriously? They trying to kill you lot? I mean, if they can't get their bloody train to work right, they should at least postpone the tour or, I dunno, provide proper clothing. 'cause that? That ain't proper.

[He may have fur on him, but that's by no means a winter coat, nor all covering. At least he could do without boots, but everything else? She was absolutely correct, it wasn't going to work, and the edge in that grin diminished greatly at the realization that he wouldn't actually have to make any cases in defense of getting a coat here.]

I'd agree, miss, not at all decent for a tour around town in January, miss. I'd argue less were it June or July, [Incorrigible exhibitionist that he was] but as it stands, you're absolutely correct. Absolutely improper.

I don't suppose you have a spare coat to share? I don't think there's room in yours for the two of us.

Mm. They'd likely have made it snow then too.

[Mumbled under her breath, as the weather here is as strange as this place is. Too hot. Too cold. Rarely just right. Then again, Donna's not too happy overall to be stuck here, so even if it was sunshine and lollipops all day, she'd still complain about something else.

Her gaze flickers over, and she gives a snort.]

Well. If I'd known, I could have brought you a spare... Or even a blanket. Here.

[Because it may not be his colour or style, but she's bundled up underneath in a thick sweater and could withstand it for a time. Wiggling out, she offers up the coat in question.]

I mean, it ain't much, but better than nothing, right?

Snow in July? ... They can do that? [That wonderment is nearly childlike in it's glee. Snow in July, wouldn't that be a sight? Sledding in shorts? Snowmen and lemonade? Snowball fights by the pool? He'd almost forget about the cold. ... Almost, no amount of fantasizing about midsummer snow forts is going to make him forget he's got no pants on in near sub-zero weather.

Not his color, not his style, not even acknowledged; the coat was grabbed and immediately pulled on, numb fumbling fingers managing to zip it shut.]

Better than frostbite on the unmentionables, miss. And it's very comfortable. Oh but, you've handed me your coat, and we've not even exchanged pleasantries, heaven forfend. I'm Hearne, may I have your name?

I mean, they snatch us away and bring us to some place where time apparently doesn't run proper. Seems child's play to that.

[Cold. Hot. Damn city is all over the place. Even wet, which had led to some interesting problems popping up all over. Then again, some people had eaten those problems and found all sorts of funny affects from the mushrooms. Most of the other issues she's just heard about, having not been here that long.]

Beat the purpose, if they did that. Donna. Donna Noble. Been in this lovely place for 'bout two months now.

Oh I hope they do it then, I'd love to see Christmas in July. [It'd be a shame about any crops, maybe. But hey, they'd manage, he's sure. Not his land, not his problem, right? He'd do just fine.]

I thought the purpose was indiscriminate debauchery! I'd say it seems counter-productive to make everything so cold but, [He'd gesture at... well everything. The lack of proper clothes, the weather, everything!] maybe they're trying to promote cuddling, I hope most of you aren't the type to vanish before sunrise.

Bit less Christmas and bit more just snow in the summer.

[Donna gives a snort though, as he hit the hammer on the nail with that one.]

Was a little bit ago, actually, where the hot spring froze, and they wanted people to go and visit it. Jump right in to the cold. No bloody way. Passed on that.

[But she laughs then.]

I mean. I make no guarantees, but I'd be fine poofing away, so long as I went home.

I don't think I've ever heard of a hot spring freezing over before, it must have been legendarily cold for that. I can't blame you for passing, though it still must have been quite a sight. Wish I was there for it.

[Clawed hands were jammed into his pockets, a brief shudder running down his spine. The rattle of the wings upon his back was muffled by the coat, though still at least vaguely audible]

Well, maybe that's why they sent the frigid temperatures! To teach everyone a valuable lesson about waiting until after breakfast to abandon their partner. It's just common courtesy.

Ah, but we've a tour to get to, don't we? As lovely and thick as your sweater is, I doubt you'll want to stand outside in the cold with only that for too much longer.

Bit ridiculous, because it ain't a hot spring if it's cold. Just cold water.

[There had been some hoopla, but Donna hadn't been about it. No thanks... No reason for her to freeze her jollies off.

He does earn another laugh and a flash of a smile from Donna. He's got a sense of humour, which she can amenable. She'd likely have been a lot louder and a lot bossier if the situation had been reversed. Heck, she had been with her first post.]

May well have, with their bloody quotas and contracts and the like. But, anywhere you wanna see? I mean, haven't explored it overly, but can at least show you where you're meant to be.

Ah yes the contracts and the quotas. I heard a little bit about that, but I'm afraid I didn't get to ask for any kind of elaboration on that. You wouldn't mind answering a few of my questions for me, would you?

[As for where he wanted to see, well there was one kind of place that interested him the most right now.]

I think I could do with a nice, hot drink. Where might they serve mulled wine here, anywhere? Do tell me places still serve mulled wine, that couldn't have gone out of style yet.

Not like they woulda given you much information anyway. Arses only tell what they want to.

[Even then, how much of it is true? Donna hasn't ended up in jail or reprimanded, although she knows of people who have. Not that she's thinking she likely won't end up there one day, as she's still going to speak her mind.]

But maybe one of the bars? Can get us into there, if you want to ask your questions out of the cold?

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