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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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If he hadn't broached the question of recent memories between them, she might have, but there's also the question of what he remembers to take into account. ]
Kaer Morhen.
[ It's an answer that should hold significance for him — but there's a part of her that feels somewhat reluctant to mention Ciri right away, especially since she has transgressed enough recently where the girl is concerned. There currently aren't any marks on her other than the wrist scars she'd refused to let anyone correct on ages ago, though, as if even the evidence of their fight against Voleth Meir has been dissolved away with her arrival. ]
Not the most charming place to end up, but I suppose it prepared me to deal with the cold here.
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[ which is his way of confirming that he remembers the same. though, the magnitude is probably greater for her, given her part in the whole disaster. it's comforting to know, at least, that she remembers the same things as he does, because geralt not knowing has been hard for jaskier to navigate. it makes him reach out his hands to her and gives her a knowing nod. ]
Jasper— Worked wonders in the end, it seems. I did tell you that I didn't think Chaos was done with you yet.
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[ It comes as a surprise, really, that said confirmation leaves her feeling so relieved; of course she's spared thought to exactly how many of them might have been brought here, and whether any of Geralt's witcher brethren are among them or if it's a lot confined to only some of the group, but she hardly expected to experience a level of reassurance in regard to discovering Jaskier here, of all people.
Yennefer pauses, briefly, when he stretches out a hand to her, but then one of her own eventually unwraps itself from around the mug in front of her so she can establish a warm clasping of her fingers in his. ]
So you said. This place, though, is another matter. One that even Chaos may be at a disadvantage to... overcome.
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[ he's quick to confirm as he's seen other witches as strong as her try to best this strange world, only to have it all thrown back in their faces. it's an unfortunate reality he's had to come to terms with, but even on his best days, all he's ever been is a bard with some tunes and a dismal lack of magic or anything close to it. that doesn't mean he hasn't found his way to live in the city, even with the black band around his neck that sits above the tuning fork and ring which dangle against his chest. he's made the best of things, as well as he's been able, and he hopes that with time, yennefer will find her strength here too.
giving her hand a gentle squeeze, he manages an empathetic expression. not pitying, but understanding. ]
Geralt's here. Between the two of you, I'm sure you can manage to at least blow up a few more buildings than last time. And you know you can always come to the Sandpiper, should you need a quick escape.
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It's a position she'll never allow herself to be put in again, as long as she has the ability to defy it.
The sensation of his fingers curling around hers draws her back to the present moment, and her lips curve more instinctively even if the smile doesn't fully reach her eyes — but her hand stilling in his at the mention of Geralt might be the most telling response she can give. ]
He is. [ Uttered like a confirmation, not like a question, even if she hasn't laid eyes on him yet. ] Do you know what he remembers last?
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He doesn't remember what we do. In fact, I only recently awoke from a coma which saddled me with memories I hadn't had before.
[ recalling that period of time, he frowns a little. geralt had been so dismissive of the fact that jaskier had arrived just after the events on the mountain, still reeling from being told to fuck off. while he knew at the time that at least a year had passed for geralt, it had still been fresh to him. that had certainly colored how he felt about the witcher. ]
Geralt has been here longer than either of us. But the last thing he recalls is the mountain.
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Dread persists too, though, over what might happen if or when he finally does remember it — because if Jaskier had fallen into a strange sleep which allowed him to conjure new memories he hadn't possessed before, there's every chance that Geralt could experience the same. ]
And you haven't told him what occurs after that.
[ Selfishly, her first instinct is to tell him not to utter a word of it — to try and preserve whatever exists between them even if Geralt's last recollections are of them parting in anger with one another. At least then, she thinks, it had not been rooted in betrayal too. Her hand strays back toward her own cocoa but she realizes she doesn't have the appetite for it anymore; in fact, she's beginning to feel rather warm enough without venturing another sip entirely. ]
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with geralt's memories so firmly rooted in the past, hardly aware of what'll happen when he returns home, there's no way he'll be able to fully understand what he means to jaskier and yennefer. he's hardly told geralt anything, not wanting to risk what happens in the witcher's future, but he had made a point to mention that yennefer, at one point, lost her magic. thinking about that conversation now, he hopes he hasn't ruined anything.
as she draws her hand away, his fingers clench into a fist, and he leans back in his chair. ]
Not everything. Certainly not what you almost did. I... know how much he's broken your- our hearts. I wouldn't want to risk making things worse.
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She doesn't have a full grasp on what Jaskier's motivations are for not divulging the full extent of his memories to Geralt, but she doesn't need it — still, she's tempted to give voice to a suggestion, maybe even a vow, that she won't consider the possibility of coming to regret later. ]
Then we don't.
[ She peers up to him, and if she's breathing a little harder than normal she hasn't noticed it yet, driven on ensuring that this next part leaves her with explicit clarity. ]
We tell him nothing. If he could experience this same strange sleep you did and acquire the memories anyway, then he should live them as he's intended to and not before.