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TDM #22
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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. Winter is here and snow flurries are common in the Up while the slush collects in the Down. |
 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. |
 As a particularly heavy snowstorm blows across the city, Duplicity finds itself blanketed in white. The morning after the storm, many citizens seem to be in a particularly mischievous mood and snowballs are a common sight flying through the air. A projectile meant for someone else may hit you square in the face if you're not careful — and then it's on. Joining these impromptu snow battles is encouraged, no matter a person's designation, and even Submissives teaming up to pelt unsuspecting Dominants with snowballs is generally taken in the spirit of good fun. Not everyone is throwing snow, of course — some are rolling much larger balls and shaping them into lewd snow figures. Those feeling chilled after playing in the snow may experience the urge to warm up with someone else, skin to skin. Whether they're a stranger or a familiar face, holding hands, kissing, or getting down and dirty with the nearest willing partner is invigorating. It might even be the only way to really feel warm again. |
 (cw: aphro, humiliation kink) Want to make some quick cash? After exiting the train in the Down, there seems to be a questionable character hanging about the station. Dressed in a trenchcoat and looking more like a flasher than the businessman he claims to be, this shady recruiter offers easy money in exchange for a simple delivery. Just take a package and drop it off at the address on the label. Really, that's it! Stop asking questions. Should characters decide to open the package themselves instead, they'll discover one of the following: glitter — so much glitter, lube (appears normal, but actually contains hot pepper and will cause more than a mild tingling sensation if used anywhere sensitive), a package of flavored condoms mysteriously labeled "every flavor" (none of them taste good), candy or perfume containing an aphrodisiac that, in addition to the usual libido-boosting effect, will also cause an intense craving for humiliation. It seems to be one of those services that allows one to send anonymous prank gifts, and they're hiding behind LIERs as couriers. There's no return address or company information on or inside the package, except for a card marked Encoded Sin Corp — which does not seem to be a real company if the name is searched. Whether characters end up delivering the package — maybe even to a fellow LIER — or get into some trouble along the way, someone is getting a nasty surprise. |
 (cw: aphro, dubcon, excessive fluids, exhibitionism, public use)A small winter market has been set up along one of the major streets in the Up with stalls selling a variety of goods ranging from knitted hats and scarves, soaps, scented lotions, candles, jewelry, artwork and assorted crafts to hand-dyed bondage rope and kinky leather accessories. Food and drink stands are plentiful as well. Strings of lights crisscross the street between the roofs of the shops, providing a cheerful glow, and there are tables set up in the street itself for people to sit and chat while having a snack — if they can stand the cold. Some of the most popular treats being sold are hot chocolate, eggnog, marshmallow snowmen, and sugar cookies decorated like snowflakes. Of course, their popularity may have something to do with the effects they produce when consumed. • The hot chocolate simply gets one all hot and bothered. • The eggnog may cause heavy production of sexual fluids, a desire to be filled or covered with someone else's cream, or all of the above. • The marshmallow snowmen will make those who eat them want to invite others to use them as they please, desiring nothing more than to be molded into the perfect fucktoy. • The sugar cookies seem to induce all sorts of different cravings — after all, no two snowflakes are alike! These effects tend to last at least an hour and may, in some cases, last up to a full day. One of the jewelry shops sells an unusual selection of compass pendants and bracelets. The compass arrows spin round and round lazily while the pieces are on display. Once worn, however, that changes. The arrow will settle on a direction, but instead of pointing north it will lead directly to another person. Perhaps you should speak to them? You may even begin to feel magnetically drawn to them yourself… In the event that two people have compasses that point them at each other, the attraction will be even stronger — nearly impossible to deny. There is another shop which sells intricately designed pocket watches and small clocks. When these timepieces are stared at for an extended length of time or picked up and handled, characters will feel a brief but strong connection to their past and experience a vivid flashback to some moment that was, in whatever way, meaningful for them. After reliving the memory, they will feel compelled to speak about it to whoever is nearby. |
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 likes it hot, they are a Dominant. If your character prefers the cold, they are a Submissive. 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!! |
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well, nearly every emotion. some of it to slips through – the relief and the joy – in the warm smile she greets him with. because good Lord, she's missed him. )
I am. ( she confirms, tempted on letting him know exactly how long she's been here when he's pushed forward. instinctively she reaches out for him. a gloved hand coming to rest behind his arm, fingers curled against the jacket sleeve and muscle underneath, holding fast in an attempt to steady him.
and she can't help but to squeeze once. twice. three times. to put to bed any doubt he might not be real. even when her heart already knows he is.
remembering they're both in public Peggy swallows the lump in her throat and takes a deep breath, looking up. )
You asked for help. ( she remembers. ) What was it you needed? ( while she might be a submissive, she can buy what she wants. the permission to do so given to her by her Dominant; Bucky. )
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she touches him, the pressure of it real, and steve can't seem to process any of those feelings. guilt, regret, happiness. this place, as far as he's seen it, isn't good, but if it can do things like this... he shifts his weight just a little, chasing after her hand, and regardless of the protocols and rules, he grasps her fingers and holds on. he isn't going to let her slip away again—not if he can help it. and just having her so close makes it a little easier to adjust to suddenly being in a place where having a mark means being lesser than someone else. the idea of it anyway. ]
It's not important now. [ he'd thought about buying a few things and passing them out to people who might need them. ] Do you, uh. You want to get out of here?
[ to talk. to be somewhere more private than this.
he wants to know what she knows, what she might have been through and how long she's been there. there are a thousand other questions waiting to be asked, but all he does is continue to hold onto her hand and look directly at her. steve sees nothing and no one else. he doesn't care to right now, not even the few locals who continue to shove and push their way around him. ]
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I know a place nearby we can go. ( several places, actually. but there's one place in particular where they can speak without being interrupted. privately, however, is an entirely different matter. but Peggy manages ways around discussing the important things. with her thumb pressed against his palm she tap, tap, taps – shall we? – in code; ... .... .- .-.. .-.. / .-- . ..--.. before leading the way through the crowd.
it doesn't take them long to arrive where she had in mind; the Up apartments. second floor, room 2A to be exact. knowing the other occupant is currently still at work – given their security system isn't yapping its head off at the sound of Peggy opening the door – she lets them in. save for the few dog toys scattered around the living room floor, there's nothing all that different at first glance about the apartment than the next. shucking off her coat and hat she turns back to Steve, hand held out to take his. )
It's going to be a lot to take in, so before you say anything– ( pausing as she finishes hanging up his coat, Peggy shoots him a knowing look over her shoulder. ) –or decide to try anything, you're staying here. At least for the next three nights. It's the maximum number of nights you're allowed to stay in any one place without having permission to do so. ( without a contract, she means. ) Any longer and you'll find yourself, and the property's owner, either in jail or the zoo. ( don't, or do, ask her how she knows that rule. ) And if you try to argue with me, allow me to assure you you'll only be wasting your breath. I have it on good authority my flatmate would insist you do. Seeing as he's missed you, too.
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steve doesn't know if he should be relieved about that fact or not, but he wants to be, almost mindless at following her instruction because he feels like that starstruck young man again when they'd just met. her general presence, the pressure of her fingers and even the code he picks up with each small tap—it's nostalgia and homesickness and far too surreal to really question. the times he'd seen her in his dreams, in the small things he still clings to from the past despite having mostly moved on to the present. he loves her, always has, and that, more than anything, makes it just that much easier to be here now.
he's quiet on their trip, realizing it must be her apartment when they're inside and she takes his coat. he notices the toys but doesn't comment; there are a lot of things he wants to ask about, and now that they're alone (he assumes), there will be time to get to all of them. ]
I guess you know that from experience. [ the part about jail. whatever the zoo is... well, he doesn't like it. the thought of her (or anyone) there has his body tensing before he forces himself to relax. ] Promise I won't get into any trouble. I'm still figuring things out.
[ he won't do that yet. inevitably, trouble is his middle name, and he can be just as stubborn as she is when it comes to things like that. still, steve takes a few seconds to allow things to sink in a bit deeper and wavers over that last part. steve can't help but ask, his expression a bit perplexed and hopeful and worried all at the same time. ]
Who's your flatmate?