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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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room service sounds cool
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porn's probably a good guess though
your choice:
endless spaghetti or room service
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i got two toonies to my name
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but it's on me if that's wrong
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ill come rn
unless u wanna meet me at the elevator
be my savior thru security
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meet me on your side of the elevator
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[And true to his word (mostly,) he is. More like twenty, but he had to put on some layers to cut the chilly air out from under his hoodie and flannel shirt. He didn't exactly arrive here ready for the winter the way he would've been had he had some advance notice; he misses that toasty warm puffer jacket sitting back home in his closet. But hey, he's got a beanie and a pink flush to his face, with his hands in his pockets as he ambles on over to the elevator feeling looked over by people around him all on account of the line down his throat that firmly sets him in his place.
He stares at his phone. Sends a few emoji to spam the fact he's there. 👾👾👾]
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he has to first walk to the elevator, then take it down, and then find andy--which isn't hard, andy has a particular smell to him that makes him easy to pick up, but. the walk takes a good fifteen minutes, then the elevator takes another twenty, so by the time he's actually there, it's been well over a half hour.
ky's not wearing winter gear despite the weather: just jeans and a comfortable, loose tank. he shoves the phone down into his pocket as he walks out of the elevator, tips his head back a bit then--veers off to where he's sure andy's settled in for the wait. doesn't necessarily try to sneak up on him, but he doesn't call out to him either until he's just a few steps away and raising a hand up in a mock wave. )
Wait long?
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You know how boring it is to wait and not be able to even scroll Instagram?
[No, didn't really wait that long. But he bumps his shoulder up against Kieron's.]
Let's go.
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( but he gets the need to constantly find something to pay attention to. he just got down here, but they're already--turning back around to the elevator. ky can explore the down another day. after he fills his good pal's stomach with food that doesn't taste like cardboard and comes free for him. )
Ride's a good half hour long. Are you going to make it, or should I call to get a stretcher ready for you at the other end? I'll make sure your tombstone says "Andy. Died of boredom."
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[Maybe Facebook's sort of old as shit, but - everyone has social media these days, don't they? Andy rub his hands together as they move back to the elevator, getting a bit more straight backed and nervous as he gets his phone app checked but seems to let out a held breath when ushered on through. He's the kind of kid that gets scared that he's going to beep going through the security gates in a store even though he hasn't stolen a thing.]
I'll make it, though. Maybe? I found they have an app for finding Subs and Doms and it's like. The closest thing they have to networking and making friends. Weird, right? What if I just want pictures of dogs and some good memes? Insane.
[Shut up, Andy. He huffs, and then just. Looks at Ky.]
I need to find some books to read or something. Is it less skull crushingly boring up top?
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( he doesn't get the appeal to it. posting a bunch of selfies and pics of his surroundings to social media for everyone to take a look at. he can just as easily post them on twitter where they'll eventually get buried under a thousand other things and wolf pupy retweets. no need to get into it any further though, right?
so he doesn't. and instead just settles in against the back of the elevator, hands shoving down into the pockets of his shorts. bites into his lower lip, and drags it back out from between his teeth slow. more to give his mouth something to do than--anything else. )
It looks nicer. But everything's still porn, porn, and more porn.
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[Porn's cool and all - this is a hornbag's wet dream of a city but at the same time, it's oddly... boring. If that's all there is to the city at its barest bones, he feels strange trying to acclimate to it in such a strong dose. He cranes his neck to the side and scratches his neck, raising his brows and wishing there were more buttons in the elevator he could press just to exert some energy in the process. He rocks back and forth on the heels of his sneakers, and looks back to Ky.]
... I kinda miss home. Is that weird?