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TDM #41
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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. 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! |
 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: 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! |
 (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. |
 (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. |
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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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?
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[ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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He sits at the couch and nods his head.]
I've had some things happen, back in Gotham, and it's made emotional regulation...challenging.
[That seems like the best way to put it. It's said in a way that makes it clear: he doesn't want to talk about it.]
Is this place still the same? Two and a half years later?
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So he's fine not talking about it. It will burst forth later, perhaps with more appropriate company, or it won't. The rest... ]
Mostly all the really frustrating bits, yes. Some changes have occurred, but nothing substantial to the functioning of it. We must wear collars now, and cuffs for the Dominants, but I vaguely think that might've been a rule before.
[ They'd just waffled on it for a few years. Or his misinformed. ]
You and Dick did not leave too far apart. Logan and I moved to the Up after that, and then he vanished...around a year a half ago.
He came back just last month, and now you are here.
[ Shortest summary of the most basic facts. There we go. ]
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He rubs his forehead for a moment, and takes a pause - well, at least Dick wasn't here without him for long, but-
His head comes up and he looks at Kurt, and then he stands. His heart does a funny strange squeeze. Logan came back. A part of him wants to fuck everything else, and go find him. A part of him is afraid to do just that. What the hell; his heart feels like it's going to ram itself into pieces.
He paces a few steps.]
He-
Does he remember everything?
[That's the first real question. Because he can't just walk up to a Logan who wouldn't. He can't deal with that, right now, not with the fear still pumping adrenaline in his system. He doesn't think the muscle memory would appreciate it.
He doesn't remember the last thing they said to each other. He remembers cleaning the apartment in a fit of rage over Dick, but he doesn't remember - did they ever make up?
He paces a bit, trying to release some of that agitation.]
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[ Kurt, for his part, sits back and speaks conversationally, a calm appearance in the face of Jason's obvious agitation. The twitching of his tail may betray him to some degree, the slightest flick up at Jason's various turns, the nervous energy infectious. ]
This is his apartment. I thought it the best place for you. We can wait, or I can leave you here, both with or without calling him home.
[ And, either way... ]
You want a drink or something?
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And Jason knows that there is no hiding that he was here, now. Jason sat on the couch. His scent is all over. He wonders for a moment if his scent changed.
And then he knows, it’s worse; he smells afraid. If Logan comes back here-
Fuck, it’s happening. His heart starts to beat faster, and he sits as a wave of memory of the feeling of the terror that Bruce-
-it was only supposed to curb his violence but Dick only just turned it off and-
He sits, hard, in the closest chair.]
Is he okay?
[Somehow the words come out steady.]
I’m fine.
[He is not fine but what he means is that there isn’t much to be done about it.]
Something too sweet to drink. You have a soda?
[Jason doesn’t usually drink that stuff but right now he wants to overwhelm a sensation and taste seems safe enough.]
He’s going to know I’m out of my mind.
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[ As okay as Logan ever is, at least, so far as he's been shown. It's difficult to gauge. Krakoa had been both a paradise and a horror, thinly veiled, and now it's gone altogether. And now they are here once more.
He's not sure Logan has soda, but if not-- ] I'll get you one.
[ And hopefully it will help better than his own presence and actions, which he almost second-guesses, but... Logan, whether he detects what Jay fears for not (which he will, of course), is surely a better remedy than both soda and Kurt Wagner put together. ]
There is no one better for it, yes? He loves you. Even before he vanished, I'm sure he never forgot it or allowed it to fade.
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I can wait for him. Right here.
[He almost stands up, but then he doesn't. Instead he takes a breath, and closes his eyes, and presses his face into his hands.]
How can this feel like such shit?
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[ Matter-of-factly, an attempt at both reassurance and the lighter remark. If he's gone through something at home, then this is undoubtedly jarring on its most basic level. Add the layers of memory, immediate knowledge of the extent of this place's demands, lovers both restored and ripped away...
Overwhelming. Shit. Kurt stands, pacing over to the nearest window. ]
I'll pop down to the corner store there for soda. I'll grab something easy to eat, too. You're bound to get hungry eventually.
[ And he vanishes in a pop of collapsing air, to return in five minute or less with various pop cans and microwaveables. Hopefully helpful, if a little junky. ]
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He doesn't think Logan will kick him out.]
You brought me cookies?
[Frankly, he kind of likes that.]
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Yes, and crackers. [ Of of them's bound to be suitable, right? ] And a couple of frozen things. I can't make promises as to the quality of any of them, but... It's something, just in case.
[ He'll not have to fuss with whatever is or isn't in Logan's pantry at the moment. It's all Kurt can really think to do, try to make himself useful before he politely makes himself scarce. ]
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You don't mind if I wait here for him, do you?
[He hasn't fully decided if he will. A part of him considers that he might just book it before Logan arrives, afraid of-
-afraid of who the hell knows. Fear is a new friend now, a constant companion.
But he reaches for the crackers and opens a bag of saltines, and those are easy enough for him to eat that he doesn't fuss. He'll be here. He won't be going anywhere.]
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[ Not that Jason knows the ins and outs of Kurt's current events. His contract is elsewhere, now, and the rules have tightened up on where and when Submissives are allowed to be. He doesn't live here, just stays here sometimes. Likely less now, he supposes. The cabin is gone, confiscated if it remains standing at all, all of his little mementos from the period stored neatly in a little box in his closet. ]
I'm afraid I can't stay much longer, however. I actually picked up a housing violation a bit back and have a temporary curfew.
You will be all right for the moment? Until Logan returns?
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He takes a breath, and nods.]
I'll take a shower. I have a weapon. I'll be fine.
[He has his glock and a dagger, even if he wasn't a weapon.]
You go home.