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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!! |
kennedy sinclair | original | dominant
[ Kennedy is not having a good morning, to put it frankly. Not only did she wake up in a strange new world where apparently everyone is having sex all the time or something, but also she has a fucking hangover. And they're expecting her to sit on a train as it winds its way through an unfamiliar city and not throw up? Unbelievable. She sinks low in her seat, shutting her eyes and pressing her forehead to the coolness of the window, which helps a little, but it's also rattling a bit in the frame, which does not help at all. In fact it's kind of making things worse. She sighs plaintively. ]
Uuuuuuuuuuuugh.
[ Someone help her. ]
♡ 2. DUBIOUS DELIVERIES
[ When a strange man approaches you and asks you to deliver a mysterious package to someone, you should probably say no. However, Kennedy is more of a yes-and kinda gal, even if she only went to an improv group one time because she lost a bet, and if she's concerned about the exact contents of the box she's carrying around the city then she's not showing it. This is kind of fun, actually. Better this than the train, since she can go at her pace and isn't being forced to share a seat with a stranger. She decides to go the long way, ambling a little aimlessly – if whoever ordered this package is content to use a shipping service that consists of a dude at a train station stopping pedestrians and asking them to walk a delivery to its destination, then clearly time is not of the essence.
Either you can stop her on the way to her destination, if you've had your own negative experience with the boxes and you want to warn her off, or maybe you're the recipient, in which case Kennedy knocks with a heavy thud on your door. Before you've even opened it, she's singing at the top of her voice. ] Hellooooo-ooooo? Let me in! Package for you! Gift! I'm the UPS guy or whatever!
♡ 3. SURPRISES FOR SALE
[ Hot chocolate notwithstanding, Kennedy's fucking freezing. It's practically visible on her face, an expression of deep misery at the current circumstances, bolstered by a flush high on her pale cheeks and the fact that she's using her cup more as a source of heat than a beverage, her hands wrapped around it tight, nose positioned right over the steam. With the money she'd been given upon arrival, she'd bought herself one of the compass necklaces, charmed a little by the spinning needle, but when she looks down at it as she's winding her way through the throngs of people, she notices the needle's gone still. Her lips twist down in disappointment, but after a few more steps she realises that it's actually pointing at someone.
She approaches a little hesitantly, holding the compass pendant in front of her, eyes narrowed with some suspicion, and then abruptly she reaches out and knocks twice on the target's forehead. ]
You don't seem like you're made of metal.
♡ 4. NETWORK
un: jfk
if there were two guys in sex city and one of them killed the other with a dildo would that be fucked up or what
♡ 5. WILDCARD
[ go crazy aaa go stupid! i'm
surprises for sale.
the nose spins around rapidly, once, twice, thrice, before it settles on pointing back towards kennedy herself. and oliver's lips twitch into a smile that doesn't reach his eyes. )
I might be a little more metal than you.
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[ Kennedy hasn't let it show, not really, but she'd been starting to feel like a fish out of fucking water in this place and it was kind of getting to her. She prefers to be larger than life because it keeps her insecurity way out to sea, but it kind of feels like she's become unmoored and started to drift ever closer to it, which is no bueno.
But Oliver's here. So all is well, actually, and she's swimming rapidly back to shore. Bueno. ]
So this place is fun, huh.
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Have you gotten hotter? Done something new with your hair? 'cause I'm feeling it.
( the vague comments aren't abnormal for him, but. well. it's probably just the relief from finding her here. he could have figured shit out himself just fine, but having someone to lean on (metaphorically and literally) is nice. )
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And hold on a moment, you old dog-- come to think of it, aren't you dead?
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Err-uh, well, I was for a little bit. But, uh, then I got bored of being dead, so-uh... here I am.
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dubious deliveries!
and then he hears the shout, and he's scrabbling to rush for the door as quickly as possible, yanking it open hard enough that it probably leaves a dent in the wall where it swings wide without him. nick doesn't care, here's already on the doorstep with his arms flung tight around her upper arms, squeezing hard. )
Holy fucking shit. ( he laughs, and he's aware it sounds a little hysterical but frankly nick doesn't care. ) If you're not who I think you are I'm so fucking sorry.
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[ It had felt almost too good to be true, to be handed a package with a name on she actually recognised. Somewhere in the back of her mind she'd wondered for a minute if it was just a cosmic coincidence of the most unreasonable scale, but she barely has time to check it's him when he opens the door before he throws his arms around her and proves himself anyway. Kennedy stops caring about the package the second she's being hugged, and promptly lets it drop so she can squeeze him against her. ]
Holy shit. How'd you get a fucking house?
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he should be upset that kennedy is here too — and he will, later — but right now he's just overwhelmingly glad that he's not alone here anymore, selfish as that might be. )
Don't be stupid, it's not my house. ( he pulls back then, just enough to stretch his head back, tip his chin and flash the dark tattooed line running down his throat. ) Jesus, fuck. I can't believe this. Come inside.
( something that would be much more achievable if nick would actually let go of her for a minute, which as of yet he still hasn't. )
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[ There's a lot about this place that Kennedy's still trying to get to grips with, not least that a line on someone's neck means they're – inferior. Or something. All she knows for sure is that she doesn't have one but Nick does, but he seems to be doing pretty well for himself regardless. This isn't his house but he's living in it.
If she's bothered that he just told her to come in but hasn't let go of her yet, she's not saying anything about it. In fact, she just pulls him closer, pressing her nose against his shoulder and inhaling. ]
Whose house is it?
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he does eventually unwind a little, enough that they can actually walk a little, but he doesn't separate without pecking a few kisses on the side of her face. even when nick pulls back he still keeps his arms kind of wrapped up in her, just leaves a little room so that they can actually take steps, so that he can shove the door shut behind them. )
Okay like, don't laugh- ( he prefaces his answer with a watery grin. ) but it's my boyfriend's place. His second house, actually.
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un: hawkeye
2. wouldn't it depend on how the other died? getting hit over the head vs being literally fucked to death
3. again that's terrible
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are there therapists here
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Good question. I haven't needed one, but I might look now.
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I'm too cute to die just yet.
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Then a moment later the door opens slowly. Wearing running shorts and a white tee with a dubious expression, Kyle considers her for a long moment before taking a sip of the red wine he's drink. It's red wine. Totally. What else would it be?
He looks to the box and to her. ]
None of that sounds at all suspicious or like you're about to rob me at gunpoint or something.
[ And yet he opened the door. ]
Who's it for? And did he send it cash on delivery?
[ Had Nick done it before? Nope. Would Kyle put it past him? Hell no. ]
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And yet you opened the door.
[ Did she read his mind? No. They're just vibing, clearly. ]
It's for Kyle. And, like, I don't know if it's drugs, but it was given to me by a dude at the train station who I thought was gonna flash me for a hot second so if it's not I will be... incredibly surprised. Either way, I got my money. I just wanna know what's in it at this point. Me and this box have been on a journey.
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[ He steps back, gesturing her inside. It's not true, but he's kind of lost his fear of himself being hurt somewhere between being made a vampire and being killed by a weretiger. ]
Come on in. Promise, I don't bite but you're right. I can't say I'm not curious too because I never ordered anything.
[ He leaves the door open, moving to set down his glass and opening a side table drawer to find something to open the box.
Even as he does a large, massive, hairy brown dog comes racing from somewhere out of the house. ]
Chewie! Play nice.
[ He smiles though, moving to take the box from her whether she followed him in or not. I know. After two years here, there's not much you fear.
[ He steps back, gesturing her inside. It's not true, but he's kind of lost his fear of himself being hurt somewhere between being made a vampire and being killed by a weretiger. ]
She's friendly. Just a giant puppy.
4. text » un: cheng
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how
precisely how
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😓
It was very tragic.
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rip to your dad but i'm different
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Truly a disturbing response, you maniac.
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