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« « « 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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» » » LIES TRAVEL IN COMPANY

[ So this is...not Manhattan. Tony's not sure exactly what it is, but he's got that much down. His brain may not be moving at it's usual speeds, but in his defense, it's been a long fucking day. Ordinarily he might have objected to being stripped down and scrubbed, but after Loki and the Chitauri and the whole sorta-maybe-dying for a moment thing, he could probably have used it. That's one thing going for him, anyway.

He finds himself watching things go by in sort of a haze, though he's catching up to speed as it goes on. As it nears towards the end, it might finally be occurring to him that this isn't an incredibly bizarre hallucination. He's already been to space and fought actual aliens today, weirder things have happened. ]

So give it to me straight. Is this Disneyland in hell or what?

[ Is he talking to someone near him? Himself? An AI that isn't presently there? Who knows. Maybe he's just running his mouth for the sake of it. ]

» » » THE KEY TO HEARTS

[ Okay, so this place is still beyond weird, but schmoozing? That Tony can do in his sleep. And there's a bar, so bonus. He makes a beeline for it once he gets in to the party, but he's still nursing that first drink as he makes his way around. As much as he'd like to get utterly blitzed until his life starts making sense again, it seems like a good idea to have some faculties on him. So he's sober enough to arch an eyebrow when someone asks his name, but it seems like something not worth fighting at the moment.

He makes his way easily through the crowd, dodging through with practiced movements. Maybe he'll stop for a dance here or there if someone smiles at him nicely enough, but for the most part, Tony's just listening. He doesn't have his usual upper hand here, in more ways that one. No leaning on the Stark name at the moment, especially not when he's a submissive. But he can bide his time.

And head back to the bar every so often. He might be watching himself, but that doesn't mean he's going to do it completely dry. A long-won alcohol tolerance has to be good for something. ]

» » » WILDCARD

[ Hit me with anything you like! Canon point is just post-Avengers. ]

❰ well that's a familiar voice. ❱

I don't think this is really the happiest place on Earth, Tony.

❰ tony isn't steve's favourite person. they've been in contact maybe a handful of times in the two years it's been since the battle of new york, and each time it's been the stilted kind of contact with someone you know you're not really allowed to hate... but you still really don't like. which isn't to say that tony's a bad person, he's just... an asshole. there's only so much of his particular breed of asshole that steve can take at any given time.

but he's not about to let tony wander around duplicity unawares, especially not with that line down his chin — the same line that runs down steve's. ❱

When did you arrive?

[ Oh hey, that sure is Captain America sitting over there. Is that a plus or a minus in the hallucination column? Tony genuinely can't tell. But it is a familiar face amidst whatever the hell the rest of it is, and a man he just got done fighting next to, so hallucination or not, Tony will take it. ]

Uh, I don't know, a couple hours ago? Maybe? Something like that.

[ Still not tracking completely well. Tony is tired. But he waves that off in favor of peering over at Steve. ]

I see you got the scrub-down treatment too. Decent facilities, 8/10 on a good day. Not quite schwarma, but I guess it will do.

They show you to your apartment yet?

❰ steve finds it's best to ignore most of tony's chattering to focus on the important things, things like he just got here a few hours ago and he's a submissive and this is all fucking bullshit. not that that last part's really anything tony said or even implied — steve just really hates duplicity, is all. ❱

...no?

[ Come to think of it, there was some mention of housing in there somewhere. Tony possibly should try paying a little attention, but he hasn't yet so no point in starting now.

But Steve does seem to know an awful lot about all this. Or at least he doesn't look nearly as confused as Tony feels, and isn't that a first. ]

Wait, how long have you been here?

❰ alright, he'll admit it: it's kind of gratifying to be the one who knows shit this time around. steve doesn't smirk, though, doesn't smile, just sighs and stands and beckons tony to start following him to the elevators. ❱

About a month or so. You missed the flooding, ❰ said with a wry twist to his mouth. he keeps talking as he walks, not checking to see if tony is following or following along, just trusting that he is. ❱

Submissives live two to a room, eight to a floor Downside, so get used to the idea of roommates. Housing's basic, we don't have kitchens, but if you make friends with a Dominant maybe they'll let you use their shit. Don't talk on social media, it's monitored.

A month--

[ And Tony finds himself stumbling after him, if nothing else than because that little comment needs explaining. Okay, and having someone who actually knows what the fuck is helpful. Cap has his back. If Tony knows absolutely nothing else right now, he knows that much. ]

Steve, I literally just saw you like a few hours ago. Giant battle, space aliens? Thor's emo little brother? Any of this ringing a bell?

[ He's just going to ignore all the rest of that. He's had roommates in college, it's fine. Though the last does get a slight twist to his mouth. ]

Monitored monitored or we think we're monitoring monitored?

❰ that gets steve to pause, and he turns to look back at tony, frowning, before he sighs again and keeps walking. ❱

This happens, sometimes. There are... disparities, between people from shared timelines. Bucky —

❰ ...on second thought, no, he's not talking about bucky to tony. that can't end well. but it does remind steve of something that brings him up short, something that finally makes him turn around and look at tony. ❱

Your father's here, Tony. From 1945.

❰ he'll get to the monitoring thing in a second. ❱

Wait, what?

[ He nearly crashes right into Steve, too busy staring to recognize that they've stopped. It's a good thing, though. Tony's not actually sure he can keep moving at the moment. ]

How is that...are you fucking with me?

[ It doesn't really sound like the kind of thing Steve would do, but...Howard's been dead for decades. He can't be anywhere, let alone in this bizarre excuse for a bad trip. ]

No, I'm not. He's been here as long as me, we were at orientation together.

❰ steve's been a little... distracted, granted, by bucky and jack and the melodrama on the clone club end of things, but he's still seen howard around. they live in the same building, after all, and steve's not exactly a social butterfly but he comes and goes enough to see howard in the elevators or the mess from time to time. ❱

I don't know how it's possible. Peggy Carter's here too, from a couple years after your father.

❰ and considering she was ninety-some-odd years old when last steve saw her... ❱

[ Tony stares at him for a long moment, then slowly shakes his head and almost visibly decides it's something to be dealt with later. Much later. Possibly with the aid of a whole lot of alcohol. But there are only so many things he can handle at a time, and that is very definitely pushing it.

Still, he tries to summon up a smile from somewhere. It's not his best attempt, but a for effort. ]

Well, you got your girl back at least. That's good, right?

❰ for a moment steve just... stares at tony, taking him in, trying to decide how that particular quip was meant and if he should be annoyed or genuinely touched or a little of both. peggy's not really something he wants to discuss with tony, despite how she'd figured largely in tony's life, being one of his father's closest and oldest friends. it's a commonality between them steve doesn't rightly know what to do with, doesn't want to have to hear tony crack wise or hero worship her — so after that moment he turns around and begins walking again. they're getting close to the elevators downside. ❱

As far as monitoring goes, there have been a few Submissives who got citations for posts they made to social media. Some monetary fines, community service, simple stuff. Far as I can tell no LIER from my cohort's gone to the People Zoo yet, but it's probably just a matter of time.

[ O...kay, not the reaction Tony was expecting, but he just shakes his head and takes off after him. If Tony's instincts are to find buttons and push them until he gets a reaction, he's fighting it down for the moment. For one, he's already been there done that with Steve once today, and look how that went. They might have had some assistance there, but the point stands.

But mostly Steve is his one piece of semi-sanity in all this right now, and all evidence to the contrary, he does actually know when to keep his mouth shut sometimes. At least until Steve starts explaining things again and one of Tony's eyebrows shoots straight upwards. ]

The people whatnow?

[ Seriously, what the hell is this place? ]

[It's charity. That's the main reason he shows up at first. Tony firmly wants to believe that they can do good here, even with the uncomfortable situations they are being put in. He wants to have hope, so he dresses up and attends the party, drawing a name because he tells himself he can at least offer someone a nicer bed to sleep in for a night. That is a good deed, right?

Is it selfish to invite over company because you don't want to be alone? Yes, but hopefully it won't hurt anything.

Except when Tony draws the name, he ends up confused. He pulls one of the people helping to match up the selected pairs.]

Uh, excuse me, I think there's been some mistake?

[The assistant assures him that there are no mistakes and directs him toward the owner of the name he pulled. And that's when he finds himself walking toward a very surreal situation. He can't say this is the first time, but it never seems to get less weird.]

...You're Tony Stark?

Yeah? Why...

[ Tony's answering before he's even turned around, but the question trails off as he actually gets a look at the man. And then just. Stares. There's a few things off -- the height (goddamnit), the eyes -- but otherwise it's like looking into a slightly skewed mirror. And that's just. ]

...the hell?

[ People had said time got weird here occasionally. Is this one of those things? Or something even weirder? Suddenly he has not had nearly enough to drink yet. ]

Hi.

[Because that seems like the right thing to say to your doppelganger when you first meet him. A real winning introduction, with Tony standing there holding an awkward smile in place and giving the man a weak wave.]

Sooo... There's two of us.

[Master Wordsmith.]

[ And Tony just. Stares. Because this other guy sounds kind of bemused instead of utterly fucking baffled, so that makes one of them. ]

How exactly is that supposed to work? Is this like a mirror universe thing? Are you the evil one? Is it the thing where you're not supposed to touch the other version of you because it'll set off a matter/antimatter explosion or something?

[ Yep, babbling again. But it gives his brain time to catch up with whatever the hell this is, so by the end of it, Tony's got one arm leaned on the bar behind him as he studies his doppelganger. ]

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[For a minute the man with his name just stares back at him, dumbfounded, and Tony, seeing it in his eyes is concerned that the experience might be too much. He's used to it, been through enough strange lives enough times that this isn't the weirdest thing that has happened to him this month, but the other Stark looks like he's having trouble swallowing it. And then that passes and he finds his voice and Tony breaths a sigh of relief for him.]

I'd prefer if we didn't start off by filing ourselves into alignment-based roles right off the bat, but, um, yes. I guess you could say we're different versions of each other. But it's not precisely mirrored. You probably noticed that by now. We're just... quantum universe off shoots of each other. Like neighbors, in a sense. Or brothers? Sort of.

[And just to get the question out of the way, he puts his hand on Tony's shoulder. See? No world-ending explosion.]

It's a lot less dramatic than that. We're not time-traveling.

[Tony's not the only one that's been watching. To be fair, Sally's gaze isn't glued exclusively to the apparently thirsty stranger; she's watching the bar, and who wouldn't notice the same person coming back more than twice?

The answer to that is People Who Are Not Overly Observant Drug Dealers. But moving on.

The next time Tony circles back for a drink, the bartender is mysteriously absent, and certainly not in a trashcan hidden inside a broom closet. Okay, well, certainly not dead, anyway.]

Bartender's been gone for almost half an hour now; if I lose my buzz because he's buggered off I'll be right displeased

[She looks to Tony with dejected agitation, though she's a little more playful than forlorn.]

Can you believe this shite? I've got half a mind to take myself out back...

[The last bit is mumbled; a hook cast in quest for a curious fish.]

[ One of Tony's eyebrows shoots straight upwards as he glances over. He's certainly not going to question the need to get properly hosed in this weird-ass place, but that might be pushing it a bit for something that's ostensibly a fancy party. ]

I mean, or you could just hop over the bar and grab yourself something.

[ Encouraging bad behavior? Of course not, Tony is a superhero, don't be ridiculous. ]

I'm not sure anything outside would be any better.

[Fancy Parties end up just as gritty, at least in Sally's experience. That, and she is processing the fact that her daughter may very well starve with her here. Ah, self medication.]

I suppose... a chemist should be able to mix a half decent drink, shouldn't she?

[Sally glances behind the counter, looking a little bored.]

Outside? No. In my pocket? Yes.

[ it's not manhattan, and it's not chicago either, but the guy who can't be that far past twenty years old off to tony's side pipes up in what's definitely a heavy chicago accent. running his mouth for the sake of it also happens to be mickey's favorite pastime, and though his eyes (wide, anxious, watching) never leave the representatives giving the city tour here, his voice is a casual, dismissive thing. ]

Nah, this is Disneyland in the weird fetish corner of Pornhub. [ did you see the kneeling, tony? did you hear the dom/sub talk? mickey does tend to ramble when he gets nervous, but unfortunately his brain to mouth filter has been broken since birth, and he's essentially the embodiment of southside punk asses, so he never really got the whole tact and polite conversation lessons. ] So if you see a dude in a mouse suit eyeballing you, better run.

[ sage advice from your friendly neighborhood delinquent. ]

[ It startles a snort of a laugh out of Tony as his eyes slide over towards the guy talking. Well at least someone else here is as unimpressed as Tony feels. ]

I'm pretty sure I've seen that cartoon.

[ The internet is a weird, weird place and Tony gets bored easily. Sue him. ]

[ Moira has been calmly watching the city hurtling past, trying to memorize what she can of the city's layout. It won't be enough yet, but she has to begin her understanding of the geography of the city at some point, if she wants to learn how to get around.

But her attention is caught by a nearby man, and she can't help but glance his way with a quizzical expression. She studies him for a few brief moments, before a small, wry smile tugs at her lips. ]

If you see a large talking rodent, please, let me know right away. I am a doctor, after all.

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