duplicitymemes | TDM #41

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TDM #41

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« « « ALL ON DISPLAY

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.

Submissives are provided with a plain black pleather collar to wear and Dominants are given bracelets made of the same black pleather. The simple design is an immediate visual indicator that they have not yet signed a contract and they will be informed that more elaborate or personalized styles are a privilege reserved for those who do.

Enjoy your free time until Orientation! Participation is mandatory for all new and past arrivals.

The first hints of spring are in the air. Large piles of snow still linger, but precipitation has turned to rain and the breeze gets a little warmer every day. It's time to swap out wool coats for umbrellas and turtlenecks for tea dresses!

» » » ALL ABOARD

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.

« « « NEW CITY NEW ME

(cw: cockwarming, lap sitting, frottage, edging, public sexual acts, public displays, public transport)

Far too many people can’t seem to follow directions. Reading a map shouldn’t be that hard, so LIES has taken it upon themselves to update their usual city tour to refresh newcomers and graduates alike. This month’s orientation includes a more in-depth tour than the usual train ride, coupling it with bus routes that lead groups through various stations and stops that show off some of the city’s most notable landmarks. To your left you will see Fiddler's Square, and over on the right you will see the greenhouse, opened just last year. Enjoy this drive along the coast! The beach looks lovely and the lighthouse stands proud and watchful, but the city recommends against visiting either one. Isn't the business district much lovelier, with all the fancy hotels and lively dance clubs?

Dominants and Submissives both new and old are required to take or give the tour at least once, depending on how long they have been in the city. Those who have lived in the city for over six months will find themselves given maps to follow and brochures that describe various places in town; they are paired with newcomers who haven't been here quite as long, and are still learning what the city has to offer them.

Whether a tour guide or a member of the tour group, Dominants will be given priority seating, while Submissives are expected to either kneel at their feet, sit on their laps, or even stay standing in trains and buses that, curiously, are always packed. Everyone’s taking these tours, so it's no wonder these carriages are so crowded.

Something strange happens on these tours, though. It starts small and faint, but the longer you spend in these crowded buses and trains, the hotter you feel - and the people surrounding you look more and more attractive. But this is Duplicity, and no one will bat an eye if the Submissive on a Dominant’s lap starts humping them in front of everyone else… After all, it seems like everyone else is already also doing the same.

The strange part? No one can get off. No matter how far you take it, or how long you try to climax - you just can't. No one can. No one's getting off on this tour, not until the bus or train makes it to each pre-planned stop. Please mind the gap as you disembark, and try not to come all over the concrete the minute you step out of the vehicle!

» » » STAMP AND GO

(cw: randomized kinks, exhibitionism, transactional sex)

The tours aren't all about sex on the go. While the tour guides are given maps and brochures to study up on, the tour-takers are given little stamp cards and instructions to complete a fun stamp rally. Visiting each of the locations on your card can get you an adorable stamp, and completing the stamps will get you a fun and useful prize! Participating locations include:
▪️ The Aquarium
▪️ The Library
▪️ Cupid's Castle
▪️ PUSSY Academy
▪️ The Obelisk
▪️ Riddler's Square
...and more! Every card is different, and will take you all around the Up and the Down.

The catch - you don't get a stamp until you use your device to scan an official code found in stamp stands at each stop. Doing so brings up a pose to be done with at least one other person. Make sure to pose quickly, a camera somewhere in the area will flash in a few moments to take your photo. Some photos are fairly straightforward - a kiss to the cheek, or a slap to the ass. Others are a bit more involved - giving a blowjob, or getting pegged. Don't complain, some unlucky people might get something convoluted (can anyone truly bend that way? Time to find out!). You get unlimited tries to take the perfect picture - so if you don't manage it the first time, simply scan again and strike another pose. Unfortunately the pose won't change with any additional scans, so make sure to do your best with what you’ve been given!

Completed stamp cards can be exchanged at the Orientation Center for a loaded money pass! Particularly valuable to Submissives (uncontracted ones, or ones who want to buy things by themselves), money passes are honored all over the city, and can be used to purchase necessities without a Dominant’s signature. The pass is valid for a whole month, and has enough to cover a month’s worth of decent warm meals, a few indulgences, and maybe some appropriate clothes for the season. Buy whatever you need to impress the Dominant of your dreams and secure a contract that suits your needs.

« « « DRESS ME UP, ADORE ME

(cw: clothes play, optional crossdressing, optional transactional sex, public sex, mirror sex, exhibitionism)

In a bid to attract new customers, the boutique Delicate Desires has partnered with LIES to advertise their shops as a one-stop-shop for new arrivals to get their hands on necessities they’ll need to make their lives easier and more enriched. With every completed stamp card, Submissives will also receive a coupon for 40% off anything in the store. Get a frilly, lacy outfit for every occasion!

If you don’t have any cash or failed to complete your stamp card - don’t fret! Find another Submissive who is willing to spend money on you from their own pass, or find a Dominant to spoil you - with the outfit being one of their choice, of course.

There are changing rooms available for customers to try on outfits and one may find that when they look at themselves in the mirrors of the store, their self-confidence spikes. It doesn’t matter how good or bad they may objectively look, they’ll feel like the hottest person to ever grace Duplicity’s streets. If said boost in confidence comes with feeling hot and bothered, well, the clerks won’t mind if the rooms are used for a quickie, so long as you’re, well, quick about it. They're expecting a lot of customers!

A competing store next door, Allure & Adorn, has decided to use this opportunity to try and lure customers into their own shop, boasting that their clothes are just as good - if not better! - than the ones offered next door. They will also accept the money passes that Submissives may have earned during the stamp rally, but their prices are a little less favorable than the boutique's. Their outfits, instead of their mirrors, seem to make those that wear them feel prone to showing off and indulging in exhibitionist activities. No fucking in the changing rooms here though - this store has class! Go out on the streets if you wish to indulge in that sort of behaviour.

» » » MOD & OOC NOTES

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:

All new arrivals on this TDM are 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 tag on 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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all aboard

[Normally this wouldn't even be a situation; Jason has done this before. He's been in this mess before. He knows what is going on.

But Jason is also just back from getting a fucking implant put in his brain by the man who he was starting to trust, barely, slowly, again, and now everything is too bright and too fucking scary, and he can't, he can't do this, he cannot do this right now. Not alone.

So he jostles onto the train, breathing heavily, his fingers tracing the line on his throat as he tries to think. He knows where he is. He doesn't know where he is. Is this a nightmare? Is this just another thing that his brain is making up? What is real, here?

The first person to touch him - kindly or otherwise - gets a punch to the jaw, and then another to the gut, before Jason is trying to tear out of the train. Sadly, it's moving.

Even more sadly fear makes him unable to focus and he trips over his robe and crashes under a seat. He's a big man, but still he's managed to curl himself up under there.]

Get away from me!

stamp pass

[Jason manages to get himself together a bit; enough to remember that he can't buy anything here without a Dominant. He hasn't gone to any of the places he used to live in, here, worried that he won't find anyone there.

Or worse, that they will be there, but they won't be his, anymore.

It's a strange feeling, a bitter memory, so he decides to avoid that and go, instead, to the Aquarium. He doesn't remember if it was here before. He feels like he's clawing his way back through a muddied bank. It feels too much like coming out of the Lazarus Pit for comfort.

He's sitting in a corner when someone approaches him, and he doesn't look at them before he says:]

Kiss on the mouth. That's what will get me a stamp. I'm ugly as shit and I have a bad attitude so it's up to you.

[He's not ugly, but he's going with that anyway.]

down

[The Down feels strangely...oddly the same. Some things, he suspects, never change. He has housing down here but he's not heading that way, and instead he's keeping to side buildings and alleys, and, well. Maybe he's looking for someone.

Every now and again he lets out a whistle, a trilling that sounds like a robin asserting territory. There are only a small handful of people who would know what that sound means in a place like this, and one of them Jason would prefer to never see again. He doesn't know if Bruce is here too, but he's ready to bolt if he catches wind of him.

He might bolt if someone runs at him too fast, frankly, the fear still pulsing low and deadly in the pit of his stomach, and he would lead them on a good chase.

He whistles again, and sees someone, and for a moment the fear slices through him and he crashes through the alley and crashes past them, runs over them, and keeps running. Time for that chase.]

wildcard

[surprise me; Jason was here before and knows the drill, and I'm very easy with scenarios! if you have questions you can pm me or you can find me on plurk @ chelicerae]

Yeesh.

[ Bad attitude, sure, but what's the great harm in that? Particularly without present action, particularly when it's a manner of defense, which... He's no expert, truly, but this is indeed Jason Todd, and the need for bite against a harsh life, against hurt, had seemed plain enough to Kurt. Jason orchestrates thoughtful gifts for loved ones, likes poetry, hates comparison and wants to be picked first.

"Ugly as shit," though, is plainly incorrect. Granted, he might look a little worse for the wear. Tired, irritated... Does he recall anything? Or is he new? If the former, Logan's own astounding return is beaten. ]

Alright, then. Easy enough. And I will donate my card to you as well for your troubles.

[ He may or may not be cheating at the stamp rally by teleporting around. ]

[The voice is familiar, and the German accent, and Jason looks up. His eyes widen just a touch, and it's clear that he's been crying, although he doesn't have the look of someone who was crying tears of deep inconsolable sadness.

He doesn't stand but a hand darts out and grips Kurt's hand. There's not a second of hesitation in the gesture, no confusion over someone blue and furry with hands that aren't quite-

-he lets go a second later.]

Do you-

-is it still-

[He trips over his words. Okay. Okay.]

Kurt?

Yes.

[ That's his name, spoken after a little stumbling over recognition. The curl of his own fingers for a comforting little squeeze doesn't have time to complete before Jason's hand is drawn back. Kurt moves to sit beside him on the bench. This is wedged somewhere strange between exciting and dreadful. ]

I have remained here the whole time. It has been... Two and half years or so. Since you departed.

It is difficult, I'm sure, to return. The memories may layer and jumble, and the setting could certainly be kinder.

[Two and a half years?]

You're-

[He takes a breath and puts his elbows on his knees, and then his hands in his face for a moment as he takes that in. Kurt's been here the whole time. He doesn't know about anyone else. This place, his memories, it's all a jumble.

His first request would be for Dick, and Logan, and Tiger. Are they still here? Have they been here for two years and a half without him? Or maybe not. Or-

-he shakes his head.]

I don't know how long I was really gone for. I think a year passed at home? It's hard to remember. Shit.

[He rubs his hand on his mouth. He wants to ask but he also doesn't want to know.]

This was a bad time to come back here.

[ Logan's also experienced that, the mis-alignment in the passage of time. However that harms the rest of the process may be difficult to explain without experiencing it, and even then... Well, it is probably something without clear explanation.

So, he won't overload things by adding information. He will simply be open with answers when prompted. ]

I imagine it would be hard to find a good time.

[ Both with Duplicity being what it is and masked vigilantism being what it is. Not quite his brand of super-heroics, but... It's not so different, he's sure. Constant crisis. ]

Do you remember what I do? Would you prefer somewhere less public? Either way, we can talk.

[His breath shakes a little, but he doesn't move for a moment. He looks over at Kurt, his eyes a little bright, but he looks like he has a grip on things.]

Yeah. Somewhere quiet, though. I've been having some bad reactions to some shit that happened at home and it's still messing with me.

[The fear is, technically, gone. But the aftermath is still there, the residual terror. He thinks if he hears someone cackle right now he'll lose it. He's not even entirely sure he can manage one of Kurt's teleportations, but he has to get out of here, so.

He reaches for Kurt's hand.]

Lead the way, elf.

[ Kurt settles his other hand over Jason's, once it's settled on his nearest. It takes a couple of seconds thinking, deciding on where to go since he hadn't quite landed on that when he made his offer. They ought to stick to the up, where they won't unexpectedly be intruded upon early...

The world jerks out of existence and back in, and they're sitting on a sofa in the living area of one of the Up's provided apartments for Dominants. Logan's, where any intrusion will at least be a loved one, still very generic and sparse. Hopefully things might remain quiet for a time, however, to allow things to settle and be introduced gently.

He lifts his hand to pat Jason's back. ] All right?

Jason Todd | DC | submissive

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thank you for your patience while I got my shit together

<3

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