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TDM #20
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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 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. Enjoy your free time until orientation! Participation is mandatory by all new and old arrivals. The hellish summer heat is finally starting to subside, and the cool breeze suggests autumn is approaching. |
 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. |
.gif) (cw: altered mental states, coercion)Things have settled down in Duplicity over the last month and the city is returning to its usual groove. That means the intake and integration of new arrivals is again at the forefront of LIEs' mission statement. They want people to fit in, after all, and embrace the role they've been given. Upon arrival at Orientation, all characters—new and old alike—will be issued a bracelet to wear corresponding to their designation. Dominants will be given a silver bracelet while Submissives will receive a black bracelet. These bracelets enhance the role the character has been assigned and can only be removed by LIEs staff. All characters will feel comfortable and accepting of their designation for the duration of Orientation (until the bracelet is removed). In addition to acclimating them to their role, the bracelets have an LED screen interface on the outside that will flash the name of an individual that LIEs has decided they should be 'matched' with. The closer they get to the person, the quicker the name will flash on the bracelet, until it's replaced with a checkmark and a satisfactory ding to signal they've found their match. Characters are paired together based on a certain 'compatibility' factor determined by LIEs' internal matchmaking system. Until the pair finds something they agree on (aside from the fact they don't want to be in Orientation) they'll be stuck hovering within a few feet of one another, unable to go their separate ways. |
 (cw: aphro, dubcon, coercion, exhibitionism, public use) With the heat of the summer sun waning and a chill wind now blowing in the evenings, a rather popular exhibition has set up shop once again in Duplicity, attracting crowds of locals and more recent transplants alike. All new arrivals are given tickets to attend and those who are without contracts are strongly encouraged to check it out. Surrounding a large building near the Orientation center in the Up, banners and fliers announce the return of the Duplicity High Tech Sexpo, a trade show for businesses and manufacturers of adult novelties. With it being the expo's second year in town, admission is free for all newly arrived LIERs and many excited volunteers are handing out vouchers all over the city for discounted tickets. Even if you refuse them, you'll likely find two or three of them tucked into your bag or pocket. Inside the expo hall, there are dozens of booths pitching a variety of entertainments. Many offer interactive demonstrations, showing off their tech for the crowds of interested onlookers. Competition is fierce, and booths try to attract attention and customers through any means necessary. There are curtained dressing rooms and cubicles set up all around the expo for potential customers to try out the products in a semi-private setting. Booths will also happily accept volunteers for demos, or try to recruit them by bribing them with cash or free samples. Screens with flashing advertisements are everywhere as well, contributing to the sensory overload. Most of the ads are for the products and attractions within the event, as well as the companies behind them, but a few are strangely...unmemorable. As in, characters will not be able to recall the content of them afterward no matter how hard they try. Some of the smaller booths sell more standard toys and accessories: leashes and collars, specialty lubes and massage oils, fetish gear, strap-ons, dildos and vibrators in myriad shapes and sizes, and other basic items one might find in any sex shop. Others advertise apps for the devices, one of the most notable being HUGGR (which LIERs may recognize as a poorly rebuilt sex-themed version of a certain other app). Bored-looking LIEs interns staff a booth promoting Quickie, an app available only to citizens in good standing that, among other things, allows them to streamline the quota check-in process. The closer you get to the big-ticket sponsor booths, the more elaborate and fantastic the products become. One of the most eye-catching demos is for the Climax VR Headset. You and a partner both wear a VR headset, which displays a collaborative virtual scenario. Both partners can alter the setting and surroundings however they like, and any sexual activity conducted in VR transmits real sensations to their bodies. You can come together without ever physically touching. Symphony Hydraulics have a large, loud booth where crowds gather to watch perhaps the most outrageous demo: a variety of fucking machines. Volunteers get stripped, strapped in, and turned on, brought to screaming orgasms in front of the whole crowd. There is a fifteen-minute break between demos on each machine, as some poor intern hurriedly washes and sanitizes them between uses. In the interim, the booth representatives offer smaller, portable versions for sale or rent at the expo. Does all this high-tech equipment have you overwhelmed? Wish you could go back to a simpler time? Sir Robert'f Bedroome Provifionf (sic) is helmed by historical reenactor Robert Plum, who has also created his own line of medieval torture device-themed sex toys. Need a chastity belt to keep your Submissive all to yourself? A rack with an attached spreader-bar? An iron maiden with soft vibrating silicone ticklers inside? All the stocks and whips and chains you could ever need? Sir Robert has you covered. Of course, everything on display is harmlessly altered for sexual novelty purposes, but one might also ask to see Sir Robert's "special" merchandise in the back. Perhaps the most unassuming booth at the expo belongs to Grandma Hattie's Snacks and Sweets. Grandma Hattie, a kindly old Submissive, has partnered with a tech company to produce what appear to be completely normal vending machines, stocked full of her tasty homemade bread, snack cakes, and other baked goods. Characters are encouraged to spin a roulette wheel for a free surprise bag. If they get lucky, they'll win a delicious sample. Landing on a non-winning space will net them a suggestion of a sexual act to be performed on the person accompanying them or whoever is next in line. The sweets themselves taste amazing and have no apparent odd effects—until 10 minutes after consumption, when you suddenly gain an insatiable craving for a random kink. The craving will dominate your thoughts for three hours, or until it is appeased. |
 (cw: objectification) By far the largest and shiniest booth comes from expo sponsors Sexy Metal Incorporated, who have set up a display of their incredible high-tech sexbots. These life-sized dolls are made of extremely realistic material that feels like warm human skin, and come with state-of-the-art mechanics that give them lifelike movement. Engineers demonstrate how the bots can be plugged into a computer and programmed to act any way the buyer likes. They come in a wide variety of customizable appearances and, eerily, some of the bots on display look exactly like people you may know from home. Booth staff encourage customers to buy these dolls, or to rent them and give them a try onstage in front of the fascinated crowds. If that's not kinky enough, one of the engineers has purchased a VR headset from another booth, and programmed it to interface with the bot's controls. Care to slip inside the silicone skin of another person? If all of this wasn't uncanny enough, this year's sexpo brings with it the grand reveal of bots that look just like yourself. The main difference between these and the other familiar-looking bots is that the bots that look like characters in game have been programmed not only with personalities that match their Duplicity designation, but false memories of a cookie-cutter lifestyle they may have had if they had always been a native of the city. Any questions to the bot about one's early life or family will be met with vague answers, shrouded in mystery, but ask them what they studied in school, their favorite bar to visit, their hobbies and sexual proclivities? All these details have apparently been scripted. These 'replica' bots cannot be purchased, but they can be fucked under supervision, if that tickles one's fancy. |
 (cw: transactional sex, exhibitionism, voyeurism) A new addition to the expo this year is a display of neon-lit peep show booths. Anyone feeling daring enough can put on solitary shows in exchange for tokens, and uncontracted Submissives (and Submissives in general) are encouraged to participate by those running the expo. These booths have two way mirrors, cameras, and a selection of (sponsored!) toys for the performers to use. For those who wish to watch the show live, they can pay a fee to sit in an adjoining booth and observe through the mirror. Everything that happens in the rooms is filmed and sold for money later on. Naturally. The tokens earned from the peep shows can be used exclusively at the expo for the purchase of various goods or services from participating vendors. They may also be exchanged at the adjacent prize booth for a selection of rewards ranging from sex toys to food and simple comfort items. The show organizers cooked this token exchange system up to give those without much spending money another means of enjoying the expo so they don't have to go home empty-handed. Isn't that nice? |
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 choose the red pill and harsh truth, they are a Submissive. If your character would choose the blue pill and blissful ignorance, they are a Dominant. 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! Test Drive threads can be used as activity proofs for characters currently in-game. Please remember to mark any necessary content, and have fun!! |
Vampire About Town
Pristine in her silks, Lenore takes a seat beside him, smoothing down her skirts before greeting him with a smile. "Lovely of you to come in this evening. I am Lenore. Recently of Styria."
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He smiles back at Lenore, bowing as best he can while staying seated, finishing with a sort of flourish of one hand.
"Good to meet you, Lenore. I am Nandor, also known as Nandor the Relentless, ruler of Al Quolanudar, pillager of empires, scourge of the Euphrates. Recently of.. Staten Island." His grin falters slightly, but he recovers. "Do you come here often?"
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"I am most recently of Styria. And yes, I come here often. I am employed here, providing the vampire's embrace to those who desire it."
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Nandor grins and leans towards her across the table. He's been eager to learn more about this club and how it works, so the chance to talk to an employee is very interesting. He hasn't heard of Styria, but he can easily assume it's a very cool vampire place given the name.
"So people pay you to drink from them? Or do you just do.. you know, other stuff." He gestures vaguely at her chest.
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"Both." Lenore has never had any problem with transactional sex. She's more often used seduction for diplomacy or position rather than directly for money, but she doesn't see any moral difference between whoring your body to be the general's woman or whoring yourself to the soldiers. "I'm available for private companionship by the hour. What kind of refreshments may I arrange for you tonight?"
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The prospects of both private companionship and refreshments are equally interesting. Nandor betrays himself with a little excited grin, then manages to marshal his expression back to something more aloof and stately, clearing his throat and brushing at the fur trim on his cloak. Leaning forward, he lowers his voice to a more conspiratorial tone, still not used to being a vampire so openly in public.
"Tell me, do you have any virgins here? I've noticed this city seems to be.. lacking on that front."
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"As you are new to the city, I expect you will be seeking something more... affordable?"