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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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[Not that Hythlodaeus is opposed to staying with Emet-Selch, of course. He'd like nothing more, in fact! But he's not sure where Emet-Selch has been designated to live, and he's now curious.
He's also suddenly inappropriately amused.]
Does that make you my Dominant? Ah... heheh... what a turn of events.
[Look, he hasn't slept with Emet-Selch or anything but he can't imagine their dynamic would change much in bed. Sure, Hythlodaeus could indulge his friend once in a while, but for the most part? Hythlodaeus gets what he wants. Not the other way around.]
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[ He's just about to explain further when Hythlodaeus opens up his damn mouth again. ]
A turn of even— What are you trying to imply? You know what? No. On second thought, I don't care.
[ He pokes the man in the chest. ]
I'm talking about securing your well-being here.
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Very well, you've made your point. My fate is in your hands, my dearest friend.
[You know, better to add that they're dear friends incase Emet-Selch decides to abandon him to the Down after all.]
Then let us head to these lodgings of yours. The wind stopped being bracing and started becoming uncomfortable a while ago.
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I care not for their rules, but we shall have to play by them for now.
[ He pauses to glance back, narrowing his eyes. ]
Which means you'll have to put in an effort as well.
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[Walking by his friend's side, they leave the dangerous snowball throwing zone quite quickly. Hythlodaeus could have done with pelting Emet-Selch with another, but, ah... his chance will come again.]
In all seriousness- does this make you my Dominant? I was told in no uncertain terms that I was to find one. How fortuitous that you meet that requirement.
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[ He sighs dramatically, as is his wont, throwing his hands up in a shrug. But he's got Hythlodaeus coming along with him, so that's the best he can ask for. ]
It does if I've got anything to say about it. We will use this fortune to our advantage while we're made to be prisoners here.
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[But there is the matter of... well, they do have to have sex three times a month with someone...]
And what of our requirements? I would rather avoid the punishment for disobeying, if it's all the same to you.
[He glances over to Emet-Selch. He wouldn't want to see his friend punished, either. But he'll wait to see what his reaction is. He does hate that he essentially has to proposition Emet-Selch, but for once he is at the mercy of the whims of others instead of the other way around. He has no real choice here- he certainly wouldn't be strong enough alone to resist if he refused to play by their rules.]
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Of course that will be handled as well.
[ It's not unheard of. Amaurotines had offspring somehow. Even if mingling one's aether is far more preferable than to any carnal act. Emet-Selch is no stranger to it. He'd produced an heir or two...
Granted his good lady wife and Hythlodaeus have very different feelings attached to them. It's fine. ]
Did you expect me to blush, Hythlodaeus? To stammer and sputter?
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[He chuckles. What would make him blush, he wonders? Should he try? Hmm. He's never really... tried to flirt with Emet-Selch before. Not in a way that couldn't be passed off as gentle teasing, anyway. Despite his complicated feelings for him, he's always respected that his friend likely just isn't interested in him- or else he surely would have said something by now. Holding back a sigh, he shakes his head.]
No, I was merely discussing the inevitable. Though admittedly, I was expecting more resistance to the idea.
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[ Which is to say, yes. Hythlodaeus is far more powerful than he realizes, because it would probably be pretty easy. It's fine. ]
Exploring physical pleasures is hardly on the level of mixing our aether.
[ He shrugs. Just pretending like this would totally not go differently with someone he actually cares about. ]
It's nothing I have not done before as a necessity.
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[He glances over at Emet-Selch curiously as they walk.]
What of affection? Love? You cannot mean to tell me you've never fallen head over heels for anyone in your rather long life. Or is that a secret...?
[He walks closer with a grin to nudge him, playful.]
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Of course any Amaurotine with eyes could have seen the answer to this question themselves. Funny with his excellent sight that Hythlodaeus can't! ]
Who said anything about love? There's no such requirement here.
[ He starts walking again, briskly as if to stop that elusive blush from spreading down from his ears. ]
As for home, necessity was all there was left for me in that broken world.
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As such, he doesn't pursue the topic. Which may seem odd to Emet-Selch since it very obviously provoked him, but Hythlodaeus would rather not dwell on matters out of his control.]
You must tell me more about your lives. Mine was so very uneventful... not that I can recall most of it.
[It was more of a waking dream than anything, the years slipping by like minutes.]
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Not that he'd admit any of this easily, either. Hence they're both kind of the fool in this instance. For now, he's extremely grateful for the reprieve granted by not pursuing the topic further. ]
I suppose I could tell you a thing or two about them. At some point.
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And once they're inside, he looks around with curiosity.]
Oh, very nice... and you had this all to yourself, before inviting me along?
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His grief is something he has always carried on his own, behind closed doors. ]
Yes, I suppose. It's not as though I had any say in the decor.
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Is everything quite all right?
[He's not quite as shocked by Emet-Selch's appearance here, after all the man was waiting for him in the lifestream. But it's still something he's grateful for, to see him standing beside him once more.]
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No. And yes. That is, when I returned to the lifestream upon my death ... you were not there.
[ It bothers him. Not nearly as much as it overwhelms his heart and soul with relief to be reunited with Hythlodaeus in the flesh now. But bothers him nonetheless. ]
I have not seen you for a very, very long time.
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Alas, my friend. I was unable to return to the lifestream upon my sacrifice. My soul was... trapped, I suppose you could say.
[He wants to reach out, to remind Emet-Selch that he's here now. But he doesn't.]
I do apologise.
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Yet you are not surprised to see me. Could you, perhaps, be from a different point in time?
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[As though he can sense Emet-Selch's feelings, he reaches out finally to place a hand on his shoulder.]
You did not have to wait long for me.
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[ He answers softly, though the hand on his shoulder does comfort him. It aches, too, not that he's going to tell Hythlodaeus that. ]
I am glad to hear that. And, I'm sorry. That you did have to wait, for such a long time.
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[Even if they're in this strange place... it's easier to bear knowing his friend is here with him.]
Not quite the well earned rest we envisioned, hmm?
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[ Still he sighs. Because yeah, he'd rather be in their paradise, free of worry, free of physical form, free of responsibility... ]
Not at all. But we've waited this long. I suppose we shall have to wait a bit more.
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[Well, he hopes so, anyway. In any case, because it seems like Emet-Selch needs it, he suddenly pulls him into a tight hug, a broad smile on his face.]
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