duplicitymemes | TDM #16

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TDM #16

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« « « ALL ON DISPLAY

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.

« « « GALLERIA OF SEX

(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.

« « « ICE TO SEE YOU

(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.

« « « BLADES OF GLORY

(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.

« « « MOD & OOC NOTES

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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( walking tour )

[ somehow, in the like fifteen minutes he's been waiting, finch already has clothes--it's fucking hard to be slutty in cold weather--and he's shivering in a coat that's way too big on his skinny little frame, tattooed hands shaking as he tries to light the cigarette between his lips. ]

Fuck this f-fuckin'-- goddamn it. [ he glances up as his guide approaches, eyes alarmingly copper-orange and pupil cat-slit and reflective. ] Hey, babe, can you help me out here? [ he is also alarmingly, supernaturally beautiful, even frowning as he is. for those familiar, it maybe be obvious that it's not exactly a natural attraction. for those not familiar, well, good luck, because finch is hungry.

he offers his lighter out, lips quirking up on the other side of the cigarette. ] C'mon, I don't bite. Unless you want me to, anyway.

( galleria )

[ the moment they step inside the building, two things happen. the first is that finch stops shivering so hard, because obviously it's warmer. the second is that he stops looking like a young man and starts looking a whole lot like a hungry predator. even his walk takes on a different sort of appearance, like a big cat stalking through the displays.

his fingers stroke over displayed bodies, touch ropes hanging from the ceiling, curl around paddles. and then he's looking right at another figure, smile curling his mouth, all seductive charm. ]

Hey, darlin'. Wanna' play? C'mon-- [ he's already stripping out of his coat, letting it fall to the ground, not caring what happens to it. ] --whatever you want.

[ ah. ]

( network | un: inkedtwink )

hey so i'm looking for a dom asap
pref someone not human or at least like enhanced??? human???
got a lot of stamina, likes to fuck, doesn't care that i fuck around all the time
pros: i'm into whatever fucking weird-ass kink you're into that you think no one else is into, i'm ready to fuck any time any place whenever you want, i clean, i stay out of trouble
cons: i'm basically gonna be a stray cat, i'm not gonna be your friend or your boyfriend, i want a bedroom that's just mine that you promise to stay the fuck out of

[ ooc; he's.. he's an incubus. there's info in his journal, he's a very old OC, he's never met another, he's sometimes very rude. ]

Oh I love being bit.

[Lux grins at him as he takes the lighter and easily helps the other out. He can tell that this one is definitely not human. Better still, he has an idea that this might be an incubus. You learn to pick up the clues over the years, after all.

Once that cigarette is lit, he tosses the lighter back to him.]

I'm also a really big fan of warming up beautiful guys too.

[And he must be running warm himself because he's out here in a damn tank top that has the arm holes cut down to his hips. You can even see the tops of his joggers. He looks more ready for warm weather than what they're currently standing in.]

[ at first, he just figures he's something like vic, and he runs hot because he's like.. fire-associated, or summer-associated, or generally generically not-human. but there's something about the way he says that shit, the way he reacts that feels less like finch's monster-charm working and more like..

more like finch, maybe?

his glance flicks back up suddenly, smoke streaming out from between his teeth as he exhales. ] Yeah? [ he looks him up and down with blatant interest and question. ] You got a name, big guy, or am I just gonna' call you Daddy?

Luxuria though everyone calls me Lux. But you can call me anything you like, beautiful.

[The Incubus laughs as he moves in closer. If this is one of his kind he must be a baby. Amazing how many of those he keeps running into. Still, it makes him smile all the more as he reaches to wrap an arm around him to pull him in against him.

To share body heat and then some.]

What's yours?

[ luxuria's a peculiar name. sounds old-fashioned.

he lets him pull him in, though, curling his own arm around the older man's waist and sliding his hand up beneath the bottom of his shirt. his hand flattens against the small of his back, and he tilts his head back to peer up at him, other hand lifting his cigarette away from his lips. ]

Finch. [ no surname either, but he's not sure it's for the same reasons. lux feels.. old somehow. like really fucking old. maybe the madame old. ] You ain't like most people I get, are ya'?

No. I'm really not.

[Oh boy. Has he not only found another baby incubus but another one who doesn't know much about his own kind? Lux is really starting to hate some of these other worlds for doing that to this young ones.

But he doesn't show that on his face, simply continuing to smile as he takes the cigarette so he can have a puff of it before handing it back.]

I'm an Incubus. The first of my kind where I'm from.

[ there's a long pause, and finch's eyes go wide, startled for the first time so far. .. an incubus? a real-life, honest-to-fuck incubus like finch? the fucking first? ]

Wh-- [ the cigarette falls from his fingers, and he jerks back, shocked, stumbling several steps away and holding up a hand. ]

Wait. You-- [ all this time, his whole miserable life, and it took another world to find another like him? he shoves his hands back through his hair, shaking again, stunned. ] We're so fucking rare at home.

[And there it is. Just what he'd been expecting. Lux takes a moment to let it sink in before he gives a nod.]

We're not rare at all where I come from. You can walk down any street in my lands and run into one.

[Moving in again, Lux tilts his head.]

But I'm the real deal. A real Incubus, beautiful.

[ jesus christ. how do so many survive? given their appetites, given how much they have to take-- or maybe they feed like finch, a little at a time, always fucking starving.

lux does not look as if he's starved.

he feels like he's on the edge of some kind of breakdown. he can't believe this is happening. he's been so alone for so long, and he's never had answers about anything. not really.

his hands are shaking as he reaches for his cigarettes again, tapping one out and fumbling it, nearly dropping it as he shoves it between his lips and tries to light it. ]

Fuck. Fuck me, how the fuck should I-- [ it won't fucking light, he can't hold his hands still enough, and he nearly flings the lighter in frustration before finally shoving it out toward lux again with something like desperation on his face. ] I'm so fucking hungry. All the time. Every fucking day. And I ca-- I don't wanna' hurt nobody.

[Fuck. One of those. He's never been shown how to control his abilities so he doesn't have to fucking starve. The smile on Lux's face fades and he takes the lighter. Easily flicking it, he gets that cigarette lit then reaches to pull Finch into his arms again.]

Shit. Come on. Let's get you to my place and you can eat. Then we can talk. How's that sound?

[Because no way is he letting this little incubus starve every fucking again. He's protective now, taking this one under his wing immediately. It doesn't matter that this one isn't from his world, this one is definitely one his children and he damn will take care of what is one of his own.]

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