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duplicitymemes2022-01-10 07:43 pm
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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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Haven't been here long enough to gauge what I'll need yet. New clothes, obviously. A bike. Not a manual bike, like a Harley. That'd be nice. ( nothing too fancy, see? ) Some nice bed sheets. Not the jersey cotton bullshit.
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[He says it in a way that's pinched and amused, smile kept from his lips but just barely. Maybe it's having a little fun at Oliver's expense with this, letting a chuckle finally roll out a moment later as he quirks his brows in a 'well that was unexpected' sort of way.]
What about a computer or a tablet? Kids your age love those things.
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( not denying the kids your age thing, since william very clearly has some years on him. he doesn't sound offended by it or bothered by the comment, just. you know. providing some context. )
I can do basically anything I could do on a tablet on this, ( pulling his phone out of his pocket, to wave it around a bit. ) And I'd probably go for a PC, later.
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Good to know you're resourceful.
[Not wanting for the sake of want, making use of the technology already at hand - William's still a man of excess in a lot of ways himself, so he'll happily still buy Oliver things he doesn't need in time too, but it's just nice to be reassured he's not going to be overly played. Just played. As one agrees to be when courting a sugarbaby.]
How's the mousse?
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( with another spoonful straight into his mouth, before he's taking the spoon, scraping a bit of the mousse from the glass it's in, and offering it across the table. )
You want to try it?
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[Something about leaning in for it would make him feel like he's too quick to bend, even if it sings to his heart (or the hole it used to reside in,) a bit. He cants his head to the side, simply watching, thinking of a half dozen other times he's taken food out of Theo's offering hand. Fuck, this kid is going to make him obsessed.]
I'll just get the bill sorted, unless there's anything else you'd like?
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I think you've met the wine and dine quota for the day.
( a fancy dinner with a nice wine, followed by a fancy dessert, in a very fancy restaurant. he could name a few shittier dinners he's had. )
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[He'll happily take Oliver out to dinner as often as he wants to go, dealing with the check smoothly with a scratching of his signature on paper and a slide of plastic through the machine. He puts his card back in his wallet and surveys Oliver again, waiting to see him finish off his little chocolate dessert so he can haul him home. And hopefully to bed.]
When you're ready, we'll head back to my place.
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Is your driver still going to be waiting for you, or?
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[But there's a good chance he sat around waiting, and there's really only one way to tell. William picks himself up from the table, cracking his neck to one side and then the other before shifting away toward the exit. He puts out his arm to shepherd Oliver along with him, draping it over his shoulders in what is mildly put, a show of ownership for the rest of the world.]
We could walk it if you liked, however.
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Walking's fine.
( it's not that far, is it. and after eating all that fucking bread he could probably use a walk, then more bread. so he raises his hand up, curls fingers into william's and keeps pace with him. )
I hear some Subs here wear collars all the goddamn time. Not the 90s chokers-slash-fashion statement kind of collars, but BDSM-esque ones.
( is william the kind of clingy who likes a constant mark of ownership. )
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[But it's also true that it's not a necessary requirement for all Subs, to his knowledge at least. And he goes back and forth between whether or not he likes it based solely on the fact it's a city enforced thing. He doesn't want to skirt city rules but there's less fun in collaring someone when you're doing it under someone else's advice. That said, he doesn't want to give Oliver the idea he's going to bend to every whim and wish however:]
While some exceptions can be made, it does seem like it reinforces the bond. Do you disagree?
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( which is the line he'll draw there. oliver doesn't mind pretending to be owned by someone. what pride he has doesn't think that line's uncrossable. you know. if it's worth it. so he leans a little more into william's arms, keeps his eyes on the path ahead. )
And I'll take it off when I want to.
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[Oliver's still getting a pass for being a bratty sugarbaby on account of good looks and William's deep seated obsession, but even still there are things he wants to make sure are clear as day. He strokes his hand against Oliver's arm while they walk, looking forward and occasionally in toward the side of the street where the shops' glassy windows show off luxury goods.]
As long as you don't bring any undue attention from the city and behave at any official or important events, you'll have the freedom to act how you want. I'm not looking to cage you.
[That's a lie. But.]
But I need to excel here, if I'm to keep you bankrolled.
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but this city doesn't have a system he can work quite like that. it's follow the rules, not bend the rules to their own whims. be a suck up definitely falls somewhere in there, but one can't use that to just skirt around the edges of duplicity. so. well. )
I won't cause problems. Not loudly. And I know how to shut my mouth and act like a good boy when a situation calls for it.