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TDM #2


« « « TEST DRIVE MEME » » »




« « « OUT OF CLUTTER FIND SIMPLICITY


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.

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 highrise. 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. Either way it's raining! Still.

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



» » » LIES TRAVEL IN COMPANY




The day after stepping through the door and participating in orientation, LIERS are assembled together in the Up for a tour of Duplicity in its entirety. Seats are in pairs and randomly assigned to Dominants and Submissives alike. Traveling from Fiddler's Square, the train journeys through various parts of the Up, showcasing society and examples of lifestyle. Along the way, frequent stops are made; a variety of passengers can be seen exiting and entering the doors. A Dominant with a kneeling Submissive takes a seat near the front of the train at one stop. A small group of Submissives board and sit closer to the LIERS at another, all seemingly content in their roles. As the tour continues through the Up, the train passes close to the Market and White Wall Bridge and zips by North Park before heading into the Down and bypassing Red Wall Bridge and South Park.

The train makes a "final" stop at Riddler's Square, where inhabitants of the Down are instructed to return to their temporary housing. Those who live in the Up are permitted to stay on the train and revisit the same locations while returning.



« « « A. WAIST. OF. LEEWAYS.




The rain continues to drizzle, but it’s finally slowing enough for the citizens of Duplicity to catch their breath. With the influx of new LIERS, people make quick work of fixing the damages from Tumenalia—a combination of preparation and wanting to welcome more participants to orientation.

Typically, travel between the Up and the Down is rather seamless with the use of the elevators, and with the end of the holiday comes a regular schedule for transportation between the two areas of Duplicity. Yet, mysterious powers are at play once again. Or so it seems. Stepping onto the elevators does not deliver its occupants to their desired location; instead, they are ushered into rooms designed to be escaped. There are a variety of themes, but the most popular seem to be Room A, Room B, and Room C. While they follow the usual guidelines for any escape room, there are a few “catches” that might not be noticeable at first. Each clue is only accessible to those of the corresponding designation. Submissives are responsible for unlocking the first and third of the three clues, and even if a Dominant figures out what it is and how to use it, they will not be any closer to escaping unless the Submissive plays a key role in interacting with these clues.

Things to note about these rooms: the third clue requires some sort of sexual engagement to be considered “clear” of it. After the allotted time of one (1) hour, if those inside haven’t managed to escape, the Submissives will be removed from the room and the Dominants will remain until they can successfully help the new Submissives escape the room. Each time, the clues will be reset and change; they will never be the same.




» » » THE KEY TO HEARTS




Meanwhile, in the Down, a local charity organization has sent out notices for a black-tie fundraiser to be held during the evening to raise awareness of homeless Submissive children. Invitations are sent via the devices, and there are even fliers posted all across the Up and the Down. If in attendance of the event, the waitstaff will be taking down the names of all uncontracted Submissives; no other explanation of what it’s for is mentioned throughout the evening. And while donations are completely voluntary, any contributions made helps to further the main endeavor of the cause. However, it seems most people are present to network and find someone that might fill a contract slot. So, eat, drink, and dance until it all winds down and everyone decides to go home. The only “catch”? Dominants draw the name of one Submissive to accompany them back to the Up, and those who are left will be paired up for the sake of no one leaving alone.



« « « MOD & OOC NOTES



Please read carefully.

Dominant and Submissive TDM assignments: All characters whose first name begins with the following ( A, C, E, G, I, K, M, O, Q, S, U, W, and Y ) are Dominants. All characters whose first name begins with the following ( B, D, F, H, J, L, N, P, R, T, V, X, and Z ) are Submissives. Players with characters that are a number use the first letter to spell that number. To use this TDM as a door pass please link this on your app and place whether it is dominant or submissive.

For the escape room prompt players can make up the clues they find. They may be extremely sexual or something simple like moving a painting off a wall.

Also, any locations throughout Duplicity are available for TDM prompts as well!

Please remember to mark any necessary content, and have fun!!




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THE KEY TO HEARTS

[personal profile] spectacularluck 2018-10-16 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, he's definitely not excited about people getting paired up — and since he's done raiding the buffet, he's been pretty much planning on just sneaking out as quietly as possible. Hopefully before he's matched with any Dominant.

Can't exactly do that when you've got someone talking to you, though. ]


Guess we missed the fine print. Seems there's a awful lot of them to watch out for when you're stuck with [ there's a vague gesture toward the submissive mark ] these.
killful: <user name="baraharra" site="twitter.com"> (048 wide star)

1/2 | it's okay!

[personal profile] killful 2018-10-16 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[He suddenly blanches. Not only does this Jeanne recognize him, but she's also willing to whack his ass with her huge ass flag. All Jeannes are scary.]

I don't want to be on the other end of that...
kuroi_taiyo: (146)

[personal profile] kuroi_taiyo 2018-10-16 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Keen on... what?

[ No, really, what? He's confused. Why was that something that was being brought up, and why was some stranger drawn into doing that? Shaking his head, Judar backed up a bit. He bluescreened there for a moment, but he's getting his rhythm back. ]

Look, I've been answering your questions. There's only so much that could be said to someone that's probably from another world. So, uh, yeah. Go do your other things.
mostsplendid: (pic#12431226)

[personal profile] mostsplendid 2018-10-16 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[All of this is nothing Haurchefant can really understand or grasp. But one thing is clear... Nidhogg is apparently still alive and that means the war is not yet finished. Dismaying as that may be there is a positive to all of this. For while the Dragoon is with him in a place quite separated from the world they know there is a champion that can surely deal with this matter most efficiently.]

I understand... but I see little reason to fear. While you may be here the Warrior of Light is still out there! Should Nidhogg return they will surely be felled again. Again and again just as they do with the primals that plague the rest of Eorzea.

Though I know that answer is not satisfying enough... so, as you are my friend I will do what I can to help you return to your task at hand. I am well aware of how important your mission is. [Would that he could join him but...] Have you any starting points on how to make this great escape? It seems our current company is from many different stars and few if any from Eorzea itself. It does feel like a far greater force is at work and how to best it... I know not.
constantblaze: (Never think about the last)

C

[personal profile] constantblaze 2018-10-16 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
John looks up at the guy he's apparently been partnered with, and shrugs. He's bleary-eyed with drink, squinting a little to try and make the room stop spinning. This is the first chance he's had since arriving to get completely pissed, and there was no way he was going to pass that up. He burps, quite deliberately, and pats the other man's arm companionably.

"Hey, I've had worse." Not that he's particularly keen on being manhandled like this, but beggars can't be choosers. It looks like he's stuck with this looming, smirking guy, so might as well make the best of it. "I'm sticking around a bit, though. Those vol-au-vents are fucking lovely. Twenty minutes?"
killful: (064 flying star)

[personal profile] killful 2018-10-16 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, at least this Jeanne is personable. Reality is always better than the fake, isn't it? That kindness is what made her a saint. Yeah...

Anyway, he's not too shocked about her knowing his name. What concerns him is this:]


But I still can't accept this. You're really gonna give all this cash for kids you don't even know? Uh, no, that ain't the problem.

[He flicks her forehead with a gloved hand.]

I'm talkin' about you, Jeanne. How're you supposed help these kids when ya won't look out for yourself?
shooktheworld: (34)

[personal profile] shooktheworld 2018-10-16 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm a wizard on every table [because he's an actual wizard ha ha ha, he takes a second to giggle at his own joke there] but poker's my game. Cards in general, really.

[personal profile] mastermagician 2018-10-16 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The Scions of the Seventh Dawn.

[ He repeated it, committing the name to memory, fingers falling a little from his face-- all but two, which brushed thoughtfully at his chin, his eyes alight as he sifted through the information Cehd'ra gave him-- spoken and unspoken.

He smiled, quietly. ]


I can't believe there are such things as adventuring guilds... though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. And,

[ He thought of Julian's night-terrors about his tour of duty, and Lucio's missing arm... And his smiled faded. Slowly, like the petals of a nighttime flower gently closing up to guard itself from the harsher light of day. His eyes were grave above this muted expression. ]

I hope your service is highly-valued. It can be hard, I think, for people who never see the... trials others go to on behalf, for their safety, to realize how much is often sacrificed. Defense of the realm is a polished phrase for what I can only imagine is often bloody work.

But... I've never heard of Primals. And if they themselves are not a political threat... what sort of foe are they?
hungerneverfed: (sass | chatter)

[personal profile] hungerneverfed 2018-10-16 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[The mention of the paddle being 'better' has one of Jonathan's eyebrows edging toward his hairline. Because he mainly associates paddles with misbehaving boys at grammar school.]

Perhaps the sling. It sounds less painful for you.

[If Waldo is going to offer to be the one doing this, Jonathan isn't planning to dissuade him from it. At least not until and unless it's made clear that it has to be Jonathan suffering the humiliation.]
polkayoureyesout: (facepalm/sad)

[personal profile] polkayoureyesout 2018-10-16 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don-" it's too late. She's taken it.

"You have children?" Not the best conversation topic, not something to remind her of, but he's just trying to keep her awake.

"Crap, you have children?" His brain catches up with what his mouth's just said. No wonder.

"You know there are ways to leave here, portals. But if you die you won't find them."
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[personal profile] naytheist 2018-10-16 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cesare smiles at her, entirely undeterred by her quip and bite. If anything he likes it. He prefers it when women are powerful and strong. He likes it when someone can match him. Almost.]

Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois, apparent procurer of cattle.

[He smirks to show that he's far more amused by her than offended.]

Care to check for mine?

[Slowly and confidently he tilts his head up so that she can see his neck. Fair is fair after all.]
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Lies

[personal profile] paradoxpoint 2018-10-16 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
The young man he addresses is dressed in a considerably more modern and newer three-piece suit, slicked-back hair giving him an almost stern look. The unimpressed expression on his face might seem deliberately unfriendly at first, but that's just how Arthur disguises the fact that he's out of his element, uncomfortable and reeling from having been essentially kidnapped into a social experiment.

"That'd be because no one here really knows."
polkayoureyesout: (look)

[personal profile] polkayoureyesout 2018-10-16 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you do have to wonder why'd they just give Dominants all this." He waves his arm at generally everything.

"If they give it they can take it away."
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[personal profile] terraria 2018-10-16 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Keen on being protected, I said.

[ ... he seemed confused? Aspen furrows a brow - when Judar backs up, so does he. It's been a long time since he hasn't been able to get a read on someone else, but Judar just doesn't make sense to him. It's not like he hasn't been wrong before - if he'd caught Ivan before his betrayals they'd all be better off - but it's not that he's 'wrong', it's that simply can't wrap his head around it. ]

... if you need help, I'll be in the northwest corner of the party. [ That's all he'll say though, uneasy to both say or ask for more. He's not actually happy to have chased him down, but he thought maybe it'd be an easy answer - doesn't look like it. He'll sit Sinbad down and talk with him on this later. ]
fallen_cetra: (the rain has gone//and taken you from me)

Lies Travel In Company

[personal profile] fallen_cetra 2018-10-16 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[The young woman next to him looks a little surprised, then offers him a callused hand, her bracelets chiming softly as they shift on her wrist.]

Aerith. Pleased to meet you, Iwai. You look like you're new, did you just wake up?

[Her other arm is protectively wrapped around a basket filled to the brim with seeds and carefully cut flowers, vibrant and the obvious reason why this section of the train smells like a field of wildflowers. Her boots are worn and battered, and there seems to be the hint of grass stains over her knees on her dress.]
polkayoureyesout: (call murphy)

[personal profile] polkayoureyesout 2018-10-16 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[He'd wonder at the eyebrow raising but this is a pretty eyebrow-raising situation anyway.

Butters huffs. He's hardly feeling playful but it's not the worst.]


Fine, help me put it back up?

[He climbs onto the desk to try to reach the rafters.
no_scope: (take take anything)

Re: THE KEY TO HEARTS

[personal profile] no_scope 2018-10-16 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ogata exhales; he's not usually a terribly social sort but in a way it's a kind of comfort, to speak with someone in the same boat. Okay to be fair there's a lot of people in the same boat but some here seemed to be ... compliant, accepting of their "submission".

Surreptitiously he reaches up to slick his short hair back. Drily he comments;
]

It being in the fine print or not wouldn't really improve my opinion.
milano: (T H I R T E E N)

[personal profile] milano 2018-10-16 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I...guess. [ he doesn't really see any reason not to show her since he'd be keeping the walkman in his hands. so, he pulls it off his waist and holds it up. the tape gets paused so he can open the front slot and pull it out to show her. ]

Music's recorded on this thing. Both sides, front and back. You put the tape in the Walkman and the tape unspools, plays the music.

[ it was probably more technical than that but peter didn't want to talk about technicalities. insert tape, press play, music. ]

That's it.
locktouching: (11)

[personal profile] locktouching 2018-10-16 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh those walls are quite tough, not to be dismantled without patience. But Corrin gets points for not being easily chased off.]

Hah, I don't know if you're pretending in order to hide a really nasty one or if you could use a few lessons. Either way, the world is your oyster. But if you do decide to tell me filthy secrets, you're welcome to whisper them into my ear.

[He tilts his head as well with a smirk, like he's inviting Corrin to actually whisper something.]
littlepandora: (Green)

[personal profile] littlepandora 2018-10-16 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That actually wins a giggle out of her, soft before she looks away. ]

I don't think there's much of a choice, unless you contract with a dominant who'd like you to have your own flat or something.

[ At least, that's how she thinks it works. Probably. If contracting with a dominant meant you always had to live with them, there'd probably be more murders.

She waits for him to lead the way or shoo her off.]
kuroi_taiyo: (48)

[personal profile] kuroi_taiyo 2018-10-16 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Like you'd care what kind of luck I have in all of this.

[ Go on and run away before they get caught in their usual quarrels. ]
constantblaze: (Some of them fell into Heaven)

[personal profile] constantblaze 2018-10-16 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say I don't play poker, but I'm getting the impression you'd spot me sharping a mile away, so what's the point? [He taps ash off his cigarette, tipping his head back to look up at the ceiling of the train. He sounds meditative, like he's playing a game with himself.]

I'm going to guess... you've got a deck or two of tarot, probably one Thoth deck, maybe Teuila? But my bet is you're more the kind of guy to use a standard Bicycle pack and make it do the work for you. 55-card, jokers wild. Divination in the hotel room, poker in the casino.

How'm I doing?
kuroi_taiyo: (138)

[personal profile] kuroi_taiyo 2018-10-16 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh... Right.

[ He's still having trouble parsing those words, in the actual context that was given. Protecting him? What?

He's, just- uh- gonna go and schmooze to get more alcohol in him. This whole thing went weird. ]
spectacularluck: (pic#12635944)

[personal profile] spectacularluck 2018-10-16 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that's a shocker. And here I thought most people just love getting sent off to creeper-ville under the guise of helping poor little orphans.

[ Actually, they might as well. There's a lot of people who don't mind the chance of having decent shelter, if only for one night. And he doesn't blame them for it, but damn does the whole set up leave a bad taste in his mouth ]

Anyone call your name yet?
mostsplendid: (pic#12431232)

[personal profile] mostsplendid 2018-10-16 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Haurchefant presses the tips of his fingers together and lets out a soft hum. It is not often that gets to meet someone that leaves a most unpleasant taste in his mouth. Some of the noble sons and daughters of Durendaire and Dzemael put a great strain on his patience and their behavior to the lower class and just different races in general are repulsive to be certain. This man, for whatever reason, holds a similar air of pompousness that Haurchefant, despite his own upbringing, finds truly distasteful.

Were this any other time and place he may be pressed to say something. But once again he finds his status lacking. He could not speak to the sons of Dzemael as if he were their equal. And it is the same for the Dominants in this arrangement.

With a gentle but firm hand he attempts to move those fingers from his throat.]


Pray tell... why would you wish to fake this particular marking? I am fairly certain you're not missing anything but living in the Down.