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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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ilyushka: (i'm an ugly mess)

[personal profile] ilyushka 2018-10-15 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, [ he mutters into her hair, ] the dogs.

[ he strokes her hair thoughtfully, soothingly, thoughts racing as he tries to consider the dominants he does know, and who might be suitable for her. ]

I-- I know a few. Phillip, perhaps, or Aspen. I'll introduce them to you, at least, and in the meantime.. we'll find something to do with the dogs.
constantblaze: (There's a light I hold before me)

[personal profile] constantblaze 2018-10-15 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
London. You have any idea how you got here? Any... messing about with weird shit, pissing off magicians, that kind of thing?

"hearts are for the weak" -salter, prolly

[personal profile] excaliburnt 2018-10-15 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[The song ends, as with all things. Saber separates from Archer and continues to regard him with the same level stare.]

Have you somewhere to return, Archer? Someone to embrace?
ivegotmypride: (lonely)

the key to hearts

[personal profile] ivegotmypride 2018-10-15 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nancy's used to being touched. She'd been working on the streets of London's East End for years, and many of those touches were rough and unexpected. This one, however, coming from a particularly handsome man was soft. She lifts her chin as he touches her, examining her mark.

Though Nancy had many marks and scars across her body, this was the first done in ink.]


You like it? [She looks up at him with big green eyes, a coy smile on her lips.] I'm not sure what t'think of it.
razzledazzles: (❀ 233)

[personal profile] razzledazzles 2018-10-15 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
...I suppose I should thank you.

[Jae-Ha waits until they're out of the line of sight before speaking up. He's still incredibly tense, and it's taking every bit of self control to shove down that desire to flee, to jump, to get out. He's had it about this entire place since arriving, but it's not as if he has anywhere he could go.

He pulls away as soon as he has the space to, smoothing out his robes.]


I don't take kindly to being caged or tied down. It's nothing personal.
arteless: (002.)

i am. so sorry.

[personal profile] arteless 2018-10-15 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ now thats just rude! the escape rooms are a test in the up, after all: he's the one being tested, not the submissives. ]

now hold on just a minute. i've been stuck in this room for THREE HOURS because the honchos here haven't paid me to get down and a little dirty with a bunch of subs who would get to leave at the end of an hour anyway.

if you really think about it, i'm the one being held hostage for my romance here, aren't i? do i look that easy?


[ the answer is yes, and he's mostly doing this to see how far it can go before things start to go poorly for someone and he has an excuse to throw hands. ]
inaurare: (Glancing)

[personal profile] inaurare 2018-10-15 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
There must be another way...

[some way other than vandalism. Linneus... doesn't so much approve of vandalism.]

The window....?
polkayoureyesout: (eyebrow raise)

[personal profile] polkayoureyesout 2018-10-15 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. Do you think you'll be able to- [get back. But that's rude. He bites his tongue.]

Surely portals lead to many times as well. I'm from 2010, or at least it was that year last time I checked.

[[OOC: ALSO my bad. The last word should be: XZTE]]

It seems we're stuck after that. What words end in two letters? Full? Kill? Hall?

KFOO THE RREET FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE XZTE

nahvenger: bc apology not necessary c'mon bro (no: apology not accepted)

[personal profile] nahvenger 2018-10-15 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe half a sandwich
I'm not as hungry as i was


[ WONDER WHY ]

Thanks!
I'll see if I can find it, I think they showed it to us earlier
littlepandora: (Default)

[personal profile] littlepandora 2018-10-15 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[She looks so startled for a moment. 'Weird' and 'angry necromancers' are a real part of her life. But surely the Hound wouldn't have let someone like that do this.]

N-no. I just- there was a pair of doors...
stabbersinyerfambles: (small smile)

[personal profile] stabbersinyerfambles 2018-10-15 05:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now it's Cehd'ra's turn to be confused. A part of him, a decidedly selfish part, had expected to be recognized. To be given a warm greeting, a smile, something, and the formally polite greeting he gets instead only makes that selfish part of him louder in its demands.

The struggle to keep it quiet is visible for a moment in his expression, tail twitching erratically behind him, only snapping him out of it when the door tries to shut and almost takes his tail with it.]


You do not...

[Cehd'ra bites his cheek to stop those words: he doesn't want to sound accusing no matter how much Haurchefant's failure to remember pains him. The man would never be deliberately cruel, something else is at play here, someone else is to blame.

Hands open and close at his sides, clenching briefly in anger before letting go with a slow, practiced breath.]


Forgive me. [He offers a bow with his apology, prompting another flurry of whispers. What's a Dominant doing lowering his gaze in a car full of Submissives?] My name is Cehd'ra Rowe. I only...

[He can't walk back what he'd said and try to lie to the man but how is he meant to explain any of this? He remembers the Warriors of Darkness, Hydaelyn's mirrors, though he didn't think they could be so exact in appearance and name. Or is it simpler than that and he just doesn't remember? Cehd'ra isn't sure which idea is worse.

There's an attempted smile when he straightens back up. Either way none of it is Haurchefant's fault, he doesn't need to burden the man, not after everything he's already done for him.]


I knew someone very much like you. I must have been mistaken.
demeanors: (and even if they tried to)

[personal profile] demeanors 2018-10-15 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
( he would also prefer it if they took death out as an alternative option. the escape room isn't even the worst scenario he's been in, so it would be a little far-fetched for it to be his untimely demise. )

It's my thing. ( in the way where he couldn't care less about gender as long as it feels good. sex is just sex. anyway, they're not obligated to go all the way here. it's only one specific act. then, they pass. ) Is it yours?
terraria: art source: remnim@Twitter (● sigh)

[personal profile] terraria 2018-10-15 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aspen waits, because he knows it's coming.

When the elite turns to him and asks, right in front of Judar, about Judar as if he wasn't even there, Aspen still tastes something bitter that is decidedly not alcohol. Different place, same people, wasn't it? He's not sure if it's misplaced protectiveness or actual protectiveness when he says, ]


I'd tread carefully, if I were you. Doesn't he look like he'll bite?

[ He laughs brightly as if it were a joke, and they both do -

But the man looks slightly uneasy, buying the drink for Judar and then giving him a wink, quick to leave.

... given the attitude before, Aspen isn't sure he's proud of what he just did or annoyed. ]
runawaynatblida: (Default)

[personal profile] runawaynatblida 2018-10-15 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Luna had to listen hard to understand his accent. It was the same words in the same sequence but just slightly different tones.] Trigedasleng. The language of the 12 clans. You learn English when you become a warrior. We had some children from space land on Earth and try to take over. I stayed out of it, I lived on an oil rig.
terraria: art source: remnim@Twitter (● ?)

[personal profile] terraria 2018-10-15 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aspen just tilts his head, increasingly more confused as he starts to walk forwards. ]

What's the matter?
constantblaze: (Some of them fell into Heaven)

[personal profile] constantblaze 2018-10-15 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yeah, no, I figured that much out. Same here. Looks like that's just the entrance.

What I want to know is, why are any of us even here?
bloodpainter: (Yeah whatefur.)

[personal profile] bloodpainter 2018-10-15 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Presumably her doctor sucked. Or she had to do it herself and she's not skilled in self-treatment. Which Nepeta actually is, though she doubts she could sew up her own face very well if she had to.

The paper doesn't actually provide any real clues itself, unless "search the room" counts. It does explain all the rules, however. Well, not all of them. It makes no mention of a time limit.

"I think we lost the chance to say they're not serious when they kidnapped us here." Because really, when you start just reaching out across the multiverse and snatching people up, where is there to go from there?

"Anyway, we can at least look fur all the clues. We can worry about that last part at the end."
polkayoureyesout: (look)

Re: Arrival

[personal profile] polkayoureyesout 2018-10-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Good to know.
[He suddenly remembers to hold his robe closed.]

You say that like you've actually been to Hell. Aren't there-ah- other places?
[Forget about sounding sane, he's wearing a paper gown in an unfamiliar city and it's a little late for all that.]

What? No, I just got here.
iseeall: (dead)

!!!! a fellow nightow!!!! also lies travel in company

[personal profile] iseeall 2018-10-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Vash, watch it. There was a small human sitting next to him that was bearing the brunt of his hyperactive moving around. Seriously, while this isn't the wierdest situation Leo has been in, he'd never seen someone this excited about big buildings.]

Ow. Hey, watch where you're moving, will you? Have you never seen skyscrapers before??

[Well, Leo could tell the tall man wasn't human which might explain that.]
arteless: (Default)

[personal profile] arteless 2018-10-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
And you'll get to. [ checks a watch he absolutely doesn't wear. ] In about forty minutes, I bet.
highoctaneblood: (pic#12631302)

i'm not gonna play max but I GOTTA ANSWER THIS

[personal profile] highoctaneblood 2018-10-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Max stopped and turned around. This guy was talking shit, he was gonna get hit. But then he looked at the man's face and recoiled so hard he nearly fell over. ] Eddie.

[He scooted across Eddie's knees to sit in the window seat and looked over at the other man confused. ] Am I seeing things or...?
nahvenger: who said i couldn't watch 200 episodes in a week? (wh: at gives?)

[personal profile] nahvenger 2018-10-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently just the cafeteria for now
It wasn't bad
I've definitely had worse and better
You find anything?
capturingeternity: (Default)

Dorian Gray | Penny Dreadful | Submissive

[personal profile] capturingeternity 2018-10-15 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
« « « A. WAIST. OF. LEEWAYS.

[Stepping out of the elevator into Room A feels a bit like entering a mad scientist's lair. Rather than feeling fear, however, Dorian inspects his surroundings with curiosity and a lingering sense of adventure. Some of the devices look altogether medieval in nature, and there's little doubt in his mind that some were designed with that inspiration in mind.

There are also no doors he can find, other than the ones he entered by. The purpose of it isn't immediately obvious to him, though he's hardly worried by the time the elevator doors open once more and he's joined by another.]


As far as cages go, it's an improvement from the housing they've provided down below. [He jokes, perhaps not entirely facetious.]

What do you make of it?


» » » THE KEY TO HEARTS

[These are much more familiar surroundings; the sort of social gathering that had become almost a chore to him back in London. The difference being that there, his presence could open any door barred to the outside circles. Whereas here, he was a nobody in a sea of unfamiliar faces. A Submissive at that (he had to mentally scoff a bit at the term, as the labeling couldn't have been more arbitrary if those in charge had tried), and already at a disadvantage due to the silly rules enforced.

But he certainly looks the part of a well-to-do gentleman, now that he's had the opportunity to change back into his finer clothes and rings. He only wished he had a splash of one of his favored colognes to go with them, but just the garments would have to do. And despite his 'role', Dorian was nothing if not an upward climber. If he wanted out of the Down, he knew exactly how to buy his way out--not with wealth (sadly) but with charm... which he luckily had in spades.

After observing the crowd for some time, he settles on a victim. They don't have to be particularly interesting right now--though that would just be a bonus--just alone and easy to approach.]


Are you waiting for someone? [He opens, voice soft and mellow as he gives the stranger a quietly appraising look.]

» » » WILD CARD

[Choose your own adventure.]


[ooc: I'm also willing to make prompts with Dorian as a Dominant. Only characters 18+ for smut, please.]
Edited 2018-10-15 17:51 (UTC)
coffeeandfire: (sad)

[personal profile] coffeeandfire 2018-10-15 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[That earns Noct at least a small, sad smile. That normalcy was making his heart ache... And when he was asked what he wanted instead, he couldn't stop himself from answering honestly.]

Don't go somewhere I can't follow.
bloodpainter: (Surprising development!)

[personal profile] bloodpainter 2018-10-15 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay good that got it through. And she wasn't actually trying to insult her species. Not that Nepeta cares too much. Most of her species is pretty awful.]

It's called Alternia. And whatever joke you just thought of, it's almost certainly been made befur.

[Probably by Dave.]