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Duplicity Game Mods ([personal profile] duplicitymods) wrote in [community profile] duplicitymemes2018-10-14 04:38 pm
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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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fistfulofbullets: (Scuse Me?)

[personal profile] fistfulofbullets 2018-10-15 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a damn clue, and personally, don't care.

[ Oh, they're definitely in for a handful. He's been a little shit the majority of his life, and he sure as hell ain't stopping now.

He takes another drag, exhaling slowly. Letting the cigarillo smoke curl into the night sky. If he's pissing Akande off, well, he might as well take things one step further.]


Not sorry 'bout that mess on the train.
Edited 2018-10-15 21:09 (UTC)
voreaciously: (64)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-10-15 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[She frowns slightly after listening patiently. Her voice is calm and even-tempered, but there's a thread of iron in it.]

You are not just an android. Please do not say that, as if that makes you lesser. You may have been created, but you are no less a person. Plenty of humans serve other humans, and giving them their due respect is only ethical and correct. You are clearly a sentient and reasoning being, and to be a combat model on top of that risking your life for others...yes, I concede some may say that is your purpose and would not look beyond that, but it is because it is that you command courtesy.

[If she is made to fight, perhaps to die, respect is the least they or anyone can give her, or any other android for that matter.]
arteless: (035.)

[personal profile] arteless 2018-10-15 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
not if i get to spend time with someone who knows how to hold a proper conversation
constantblaze: (Smiled at your funny little ways)

[personal profile] constantblaze 2018-10-15 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, darling, you already said you're not interested in my cold butt, remember?

[He's smirking, clearly entertained at her embarrassment, but it's not malicious, exactly. At least, he's quite gentle when he reaches out and pats her arm.]

How about we hold off discussing the mutually-beneficial requirement until I've got some clothes and a drink? How's that?
ludia: ode to the beauty of the world (Default)

once you get okita you get a free saberface

[personal profile] ludia 2018-10-15 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ hey! ancient Rome predates medieval Britain or 15th century France! so technically they look like her.

just take her word for it.

well if Irisviel will take her hand, then Nero will take the seat beside her. goodbye personal space. still filled with sunshine and smiles, at least now that there's someone both giving her attention and a pleasant thing to look at. thoughts on something other than her plight. ]


Nonsense - you appear to be a woman of wealth and taste. So I shall address you as Lady Irisviel.

Now then my lady - you would agree, looking at me, that rightly I should be among the elite of this city! And yet they've some how determined falsely that I am being sent downtown! My lady, are you able to tell me whom can correct this - surely once I plead the case -!

[personal profile] excaliburnt 2018-10-15 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sounds like this fool could use a taste of Excalibur...

But no, he's not worth the effort. This must be handled another way.]


If you are a knight, and claim to have earned such distinction through merit alone, that would mean you must have demonstrated the capability to fight. And distinguished skill would mean your capabilities are, allegedly, superior. Therefore, we must settle this through appropriate means.

[Squaring her shoulders, straightening her posture.]

Show me your strength. If you can force me to the ground, as I have done to you, then I shall release you from your duties tonight.
voreaciously: (112)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-10-15 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I-I am neither of those things, however, Your Highness?

[But she's still going to follow her around.]

Ah, I did not get your name, however.
nottevintersoldier: Icon created by me - do not take (Judging you a little)

[personal profile] nottevintersoldier 2018-10-15 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
((To the Overflow! If you're still interested <3 ))
Edited 2018-10-18 13:40 (UTC)
veneer: ({ illusion })

[personal profile] veneer 2018-10-15 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Seeming sure of himself is precisely how Gabriel's always gotten by. Even when his other talents were dormant, a touch of self-assurance always seems to open doors.

So there's that, and the fact that he really does know his alcohol well.]


Only when I think they look like they could use something better in their day.

[Being a scant inch from getting told to fuck off doesn't seem to have phased Gabriel at all. He looks like he belongs where he is: another gift. Somehow whatever he's wearing - and today it's a button down, faintly creased with wear and open at the neck, tucked into trousers rather than jeans - he could find a way to seem like he fitted in with the highest or lowest of society. He's hard to label, and it seems to be what he prefers.]

Or perhaps I mistook the very fine glare you were giving your glass for disapproval. If you don't like it, I'll buy you another measure of the dragon's piss you were drinking, how's that?
arteless: (090)

[personal profile] arteless 2018-10-15 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
ouch, that's harsh!

[ moments later, alvin looks up from his own device, sounding plenty amused despite the situation. ]

But if you want a better use for that knife you're inevitably going to pull on me, you could always try to shimmy the door open instead.
ludia: ode to the beauty of the world (Default)

[personal profile] ludia 2018-10-15 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine are the eyes of an artist and mine is the tongue of an emperor! What I see is beauty - and what I speak is truth!

[ THE MATTER IS SOLVED. ]

Umu - you are in luck! For you are in the company of Rome's Fifth Emperor. I, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus!

[ what do you mean don't advertise your True Name ]
genrouzan: (34.)

[personal profile] genrouzan 2018-10-15 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're holding the conversation over text, I'll take that as a "yeah" then.

Conversations are two way though. Talk that much at someone and you'll lose them.
voreaciously: (197)

the key to MY heart ;Dc

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-10-15 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[She.

She was going to eat that, yeah, but she doesn't want to seem like a greedy pig and she can always get more later. Better to be helpful and charitable.]


Please, help yourself, sir.

[She offers him her plate of various appetizers.]

i was thinking of precure, too many pretty shoujo shows

[personal profile] excaliburnt 2018-10-15 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Saber's expression betrays nothing. In fact, she doesn't even look away from Hikari's face. Almost like a sort of test to see if she'll flinch or shy back. Most girls her age would in this sort of scenario, but maybe Hikari was different. Maybe it is the familiar ice that attracts Saber, however brittle.

Or maybe she recognizes a potential protege when she sees one, though she'd never, ever let on.]


I would not place a single finger upon your body that you did not yourself desire.

[Saber's corrupted, but that corruption only extends so far. It's a quiet hint to Hikari that, at the very least, she won't be attacked or assaulted. She's still knightly, and still king.]
dragonfall: (2)

[personal profile] dragonfall 2018-10-15 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She actually catches his attention with that.

He pauses next to one of the cages, looking over his shoulder at her. The key is snagged out of the air, but he can address it in a moment.

First: ]
Cactuar.

[ She is the first person in this demented place that has spoken of anything even remotely familiar to him. ]

Little green creatures, full of needles, fond of throwing them?

[ Testing to see if she speaks of what he thinks she does. ]
hikarichan: (Life's too short to care)

[personal profile] hikarichan 2018-10-15 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be a good idea if I actually had my knife with me.

[She doesn't. Then again, she'd be hesitant to use it to shimmy a door open anyway. It actually has sentimental value, on some level.]

I don't have a crowbar, a playing card, or a paperclip, either. If I could just get the door open, I would.
voreaciously: (121)

[personal profile] voreaciously 2018-10-15 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[But.]

But...you are a woman?

[like enough alt dimension shit has happened so like, she can get behind this but also.]
dragonfall: (4)

[personal profile] dragonfall 2018-10-15 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes.

[ He would think obvious enough. ] What is it? How does it operate?

[ Seeing as the other man isn't surprised, he'd best have an explanation handy. ]

Is it magic? It keeps shifting images.
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[personal profile] gentrify 2018-10-15 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ if mickey had ever watched anything outside of action movies and russian soaps, that joke might've pinged something for him, but instead he just gives a mild snort. more obsessed with sex than most kids in general, which is a hell of a lot last Mickey remembered. at the question, mickey frowns, rubbing the heel of his palm against his eye and digging his phone out of his pocket to check the time. ]

You're number four, so unless someone came and went when I was passed out, three hours?

[ he could probably get another nap in, and he's maybe settling back into the couch to do just that while his new cellmate here wanders around, but it's the click of the fireplace brick that tugs his attention back. he hadn't bothered looking much for clues since the first person, but he knew well enough that they changed each time. no one found the first quite that fast, though. ]

Shit, Holmes.

[ okay, so, maybe homeboy here wants to do the Clue thing. whatever, can't be more boring than waiting, so micky hauls himself up, pacing over to the mirror in question to see what shifted. ]
exaomori: (🐍 10)

a - room c

[personal profile] exaomori 2018-10-15 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, so there were probably less dangerous ways to check behind the mirror for clues, but that kick was pretty impressive, if incredibly dumb.]

My~ That was certainly a kick. [Admittedly, it's just a glass mirror, but still.But to Jae-Ha's credit, Shura's basically just sat on the other side of the bed bed and poked at a couple toys on the nightstand, so he's at least trying to find a clue.]

[personal profile] antifashionista 2018-10-15 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)

Nonon's surprise isn't exactly unexpected. While there has long been a mutual affection between the two of them that has never properly bloomed into anything more intimate than a close friendship, the tension as existed there for almost as long as they've known each other. Satsuki doesn't propose it lightly, of course. It's not a thing she would have thought of or even considered back home. But here? Here it's the only way to keep her precious friend and ally close to her. It is strategic. That it brings them into a more intimate relationship is only a side-effect, during her quick evaluation of the situation.

Still, she can't help the faint blush in her cheeks as Nonon asks her if it's really something that she wants to do. It is... extreme, it's true. But when did Satsuki let a little something like an action being 'extreme' stop her from taking an action she thought was required for her victory? Satsuki looks more directly at Nonon, her voice quiet.

"I understand what it means, Nonon-chan. It's important for you to be close to me so that I have you at hand when I have need of your assistance. This way you will be at my side at all times, no matter when or where I need you." Her grip on Nonon's arm tightens and she looks down at the smaller girl.

"And besides that, the thought of anyone else in this place laying their hands on you without your permission--without my permission--makes my blood boil. I won't permit it, Nonon. Not when I have a way to stop it." Her voice is sharp, a piercing blade against the darkness they find themselves in.

"Is it so surprising that I would be protective of you?" Maybe 'possessive' is the better word choice, Satsuki.

ludia: ode to the beauty of the world (.12)

wildcard??

[personal profile] ludia 2018-10-15 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE HER ]
Edited 2018-10-15 21:37 (UTC)
yakyuuman: (276 homeruns)

the key to hearts (A... sort of)

[personal profile] yakyuuman 2018-10-15 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Despite being almost identical to his brothers, there's no way Jyushimatsu can mistake those eyebrows, or the painful aura that always accompanies Karamatsu everywhere.

One of his big brothers is here, and the fifth born is pervaded by warm energy easily identifiable as happiness. Why is he still standing there???

Just as Karamatsu is in the middle of asking the next poor sap for a dance, Jyushimatsu will go for the tackle, strong enough to knock his older brother off his feet. ]


NIIII-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
spectacularluck: (pic#12635938)

best way to bond is over free food

[personal profile] spectacularluck 2018-10-15 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The temptation to take the entire plate is strong, and for a good half second he's considering it. But no matter how bad things are, he's got some shreds of dignity left. He's not about to steal food from an actual kid, especially not a fellow sub. ]

—Uhm. On second thought, don't worry about that. There's plenty left over there.
ludia: ode to the beauty of the world (Default)

[personal profile] ludia 2018-10-15 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ not exactly the oohs or aahs she expected at the reveal of her full name. ]

A beautiful woman, yes.