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TDM #29
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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 LIEs 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 LIEs 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 high-rise. 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 for all new and past arrivals. Cloudy skies and chilly weather mark the start of spring. |
 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. |
 (cw: d/s themes, public demonstrations, bondage, spanking, humiliation) It's that time again, when more experienced LIERs are roped into playing a part in Orientation and helping their fellow newbies out. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a newbie who gets called on by mistake. Bureaucracy is the worst! All that red tape. (And rope.) LIERs are broken into small groups for intimate Introduction to Dom/Sub workshops in order to help newcomers more quickly adapt to the cornerstone of the Duplicity lifestyle. Those with lines down their throats are only chosen to demonstrate Submissive roles, while those without are chosen for the Dominant roles. Participants are encouraged to practice on each other while being taught. Subjects include but aren't limited to: In addition to the workshops is a fun matchmaking game. At the door, everyone is given an exaggerated and embarrassing caricature of someone else, whether through distorted features, awkward poses, or being drawn naked, and told to find that person. Added incentive is that the pictures are given out in pairs. Find the person in the drawing, and you find the person with an equally awful drawing of you! If they won't hand it over right away, you may need to get creative with incentive. |
 (cw: forced sex work, voyeurism and exhibitionism, lingerie/costumes, drugs, aphro, humiliation, leaked nudes) Both in Fiddler's Square and Riddler's Square a set of small, mysterious, curtained boxy structures have been erected. Soon enough the purpose becomes clear as masked miscreants snatch people off the street and force them first into a makeshift dressing room in a nearby nondescript building, where they're instructed to choose a cheap and revealing costume from a rack and put it on. They're then dragged and stuffed into one of the boxes. In other cases, characters may be drugged unconscious and awaken in one of the boxes already wearing their new sexy getup. Either way, once it's occupied, the curtains part to reveal a shuttered Pop-up Peep Show. Anyone on the outside can insert a coin to raise the shutter and activate the two-way mic. Tinny music begins to play. Better put on a good show, because the box won't open and release its prisoner until a certain amount of money has been earned. Toys and lube are provided for use. Also set up around the area for the low, low price of free are photo booths that anyone is welcome to use. At first they seem like the usual kind often seen in shopping areas. It's only when one enters with a partner (or on their own!) that they'll realize, much like everything in Duplicity, these too have their own sexy spin. There are various filters one can pick from to place over their booth image, along with silly stickers they can add on screen before going to print out their photos. Harmless enough so far, right? Unfortunately anyone who uses the photo booths will discover the air inside is laced with an aphrodisiac to encourage them to take more risque poses than they normally would. On top of that, what they don't know is that the booths can wirelessly sync with characters' devices to download and install a hidden app that will store the photos and activate at a later date. Even worse is any image taken within the booth, thanks to shoddy cloud storage, may end up posted to the network feed or sent as attachments to individual contacts, even to complete strangers. Sorry about that. |
 (cw: body fluids) It seems like everywhere you go these days you're bombarded with marketing for a new miracle product. It'll revolutionize your life! Best sex you've ever had! You've never experienced anything like this before! What is it, you ask? Or maybe you didn't ask, but they're going to tell you all about it anyway. It's Back Door Delight — the drink that goes down smooth and generates lube! That's right, no more wasting time fumbling around with bottles of artificial lubrication that gets everywhere and makes a mess. Now your butt will do the work for you. A slippery ride, every time*, guaranteed (*each dose lasts 6 hours). Comes in regular or warming tingle varieties. Try it for yourself or, better yet, get in on the ground floor of this amazing life-changing innovation and become a Back Door Delight salesperson today! In addition to pushing sales, the shady distributors of this product will promise easy riches to anyone who wants to become a seller themselves and will quickly offload bulk quantities onto those who show even the slightest interest at no upfront cost. The catch, of course, is that they're on the hook financially for any leftover product they don't manage to sell and it turns out this is a gang enterprise. Pay up or get your kneecaps rearranged. Characters who don't make enough sales or find another way to come up with the money might find themselves making desperate deals with gang members to work off the debt. The worst part is, it doesn't even work as advertised! Every bottle of Back Door Delight is a total dud. Some of them cause excessive anal lubrication for a period of 24 hours, leaving the drinker inconveniently dripping wet. Some don't work at all and just make characters feel bloated and terrible for a while. The warming version? More like burning. You could douche with hot sauce for the same effect and it would be cheaper, too. Hopefully you didn't invest too much. |
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 the assignments are OOCly 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 would prefer a slap, they are a Dominant. If your character would prefer a tickle, 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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No. [ He shakes his head, refusing to participate, but that's not how it works here. When you're a submissive, you do what you're told, and that's when the orientation guide calls a guard over. There are always guards in case of any trouble.
Matthias watches the man in uniform cross the room, and that's when he realizes the only way to get out of this situation with Nina is to start a fight. A fight will send him straight to the People Zoo, and he'd rather go there than demonstrate anything with Nina right now, afraid his body might respond to her in a way he can't control.
He takes one look at Nina with all his pent-up rage and for a second it might appear as though he's going to attack her, but then he turns and shoves the guard who coming over to discipline him anyway. She's never really witnessed him fight before - never seen that violent side of him - but he's clearly been trained well, and it's not long before the guard has to call for back up after Matthias punches him with enough force to send him sprawling onto the floor. ]
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Mattias, no! Don't —
[ as the other attendees stop what they're doing, nina makes her own choice: she would rather bring matthias under control herself (or risk her own punishment) than see him hauled off to whatever contstitues their people zoo. she's been told, she's heard stories in their orientation opening, but she'll risk her own consequences first and, in making that decision, she brings her hands together and whispers an apology. ]
I'm sorry. [ it's likely too quiet to be heard in the melee, even as the small science works to slow matthias' heart just enough to weaken him. all she hopes to do is bring him to his knees. ] I can control him, he won't—
[ he'll never forgive her, she's certain of it, even as she lowers her hands, but her assurances are for the guards who are all heaving, one tending to the man mattias tossed across the room. ] Please. He wasn't prepared for what I'd suggested. I'll. I'll make sure it doesn't happen again.
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He drops to his knees without a word, but he doesn't need to say anything for her to know she's just given him another reason to hate her, looking up at her with a threatening expression. The guards decide Matthias will get a citation for the assault - probably a hefty fine - but one more step out of line and he'll be sent straight to the People Zoo.
Nina Zenik has saved the day, and yet Matthias looks like she's condemned him further. He should probably get up, but he stays knelt, his gaze dropping to the floor like he suddenly can't look at her.
In a low voice: ] You are not my keeper, drüsje. [ You are my enemy. ]
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she hears his words, even as she watches the guards and instructors filter back through the other people in the room, most of them going back to what they'd been doing before the chaos had begun. and yet, she doesn't look down at him immediately, not until she's sure that no one's paying attention. it's entirely possible they'll be able to escape this particular nightmare without a further... spanking.
ducking slightly, she can't stop the word sounding like a slur as it falls from her own mouth. ]
That's probably best for both of us, drüskelle. [ she drops the rest of the way, her large skirts filling the floor between them. demeanor changing again, she lowers her voice and silently begs him to understand. ] Grisha found us and they were going to kill you. The last thing I remember, I was on my way to recant my story and plead with the magistrate for your release and now-- [ she lifts her chin to indicate the room. ] How did you get free?
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I would rather have died fighting your people than slowly rot in a prison. [ It's clear from his tone that he has very little hope she can fix what she's done, and he's not sure he even wants her help. He doesn't want anything to do with her anymore. ]
Free? [ He lets out a scathing laugh at that. ] You call this freedom? I am trapped in a city that tempts me to sin everyday, that demands I meet quota or I am drugged until I have no choice, and I have to obey Dominants like you.
[ The fact that she has the upper hand is the last straw for him. ]
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it's right there, on the tip of her tongue, to snap back. the fear at seeing fedyor is still so fresh in her mind, that her fellow grisha would have simply taken down the boat with both her and matthias on it - a traitor and a fjerdan. no loss, except the civilians, but fedyor was no ivan. ]
Matthias, I didn't know we'd go straight to Hellgate. [ it's an extremely feeble excuse for what he'd endured at her hands. the expression on his face reminds her of another time, when she'd been certain that he'd let her fall into an ice crevasse rather than save her. that was cold, though, and this is fire and anger.
his talk about sin causes her stomach to roil; her devout fjerdan forced into positions like the ones she knows are happening in the room around them. he'd tried to hard to avoid her flirtations and smiles and yet, they'd come so close to happiness. whatever her intentions, there's a nagging voice that reminds her that she'd been her own distraction and this is her fault. ]
I will never make you obey me, no matter what this city demands of us. [ despite what she's just done, the choice she'd taken out of his hands, she promises herself that she won't do it again. her eyes stay on his, though she's inwardly, she focuses on those around them. the demonstrations are ending and the guards are filing people out slowly. ] Go, collect your citation. I -- [ nina rises, pauses a moment, then holds out her hand much like he did for her once. ] I will never stop working for your freedom. If not there, then here.
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A look of relief passes over his face when he sees orientation is over, glad he doesn't have to suffer any more indignity - and then she reaches down her hand towards him. His mind flashes back to when he offered her his hand after saving her from falling to her death. At that moment, it felt like the beginning of something, like this woman - this beautiful disruption - had come along and completely changed his life.
He accepts her hand as he pulls himself to his feet, but rather than let go of her as soon as he's standing as she might expect, his hold on her lingers, the fire in his eyes turning into something softer. For just a moment, the touch of their hands brings him back to that room they almost kissed in, a much simpler time of stomach growls and waffles.
He leans down, his lips by her ear, and unintentionally they brush against her skin (or perhaps intentionally). Voice low, by the time he's done speaking, his gaze has hardened again. ]
Stay away from me if you know what is good for you.
[ And with that, he straightens and marches out without even a glance back. ]