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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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Harry enjoyed the man's wardrobe. Rogue made good choices, ones he might have made himself actually. His own clothes had a bit of an old fashioned flair, especially when he had his sword and hook.
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For now though he can't help but to be amused. He'd much rather an outgoing gentleman than someone with Art's quiet thoughtfulness.
"Just about a month," he admits, chuckling softly at that intimate touch, the playfulness of the other man. "You certainly don't act like someone new to this place, but I think I would remember that look," he admits, one hand settling against the small of Harry's back. "Enjoying yourself so far?"
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Well, a meal, but he might be able to wheedle that out of his new friend! Harry settled more comfortably in the man's lap, no objection to the hand on him, and tried to decide how honest to be. He didn't actually lie all that much back home, but his truth didn't always seem to go over as well in the city. His fingers carded through Rogue's hair absently.
"It's nae so different from home in some ways. M'likin the food, nae so much the weather. Doesnae get so cold back home an me wi'out a good coat." He gestured at his sleeveless state with a wry smile, "The rest . . ." Harry just shrugged, "What's a wee favor between friends, aye?" Back home only the lucky few had found love and meaningful relationships. Harry didn't expect that and he'd never put any value on the fleeting pleasure of sex. Family mattered, but he hadn't found any of his family in the city either. For the time being, he was flying solo in a way he never had before, but it wasn't terrible. He was a survivor.
It was just a little lonely.
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"You're from a place where they force you to perform on command and drug you when you don't? I admit, I hadn't heard of one like this before but it's much better than where I last was because you're right. The food's good. Much better than cave rat over an open fire," he says with a shudder.
"I suppose that depends on the person and the friends. For a while my life has been about avoiding all sorts of connections." He gives the younger man a look for a moment. "But a jacket could be fixed, you know. Without even needing a wee favor between friends."
He has no plans to fail quota, but he also doesn't plan to hold his position over others. At least not until he found out if any deserved it or not.
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"There's nae so much sex back home, not like it is here, but our homes look similar t'the Down, an all we get is garbage from Auradon for clothes'n food. Whatever they cast off, tha's our lot. Can't say I mind fresh food for once. Things wi'out mold. A revelation t'hev portions so large as weel. Never had a full belly back on the Isle." And while they didn't roast rats, some people did keep them as pets and taught them to steal. A rat could be a really handy ally if you found a smart one. Harry gave Rogue an amused smile, kicking a foot in the aisle to shed some restless energy, his hand still playing with the man's hair.
"Heven't any connections here as yet. M'the only one from home it seems. Not sure how I feel aboot makin new ones long-term, but an ally's always good t'hev in yer corner." He lifted a brow. Nothing was ever free, even if all it cost him was time, there was still a price, "Aye? An ye wouldnae need anythin in exchange?"
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It's not as if he hasn't seen it time and again in so many different worlds. Including here as well.
"I'm in the same position. No one here seems to recognize me on the network, and not heard of names I know. That said, I don't trust there aren't some here that know me," he says, knowing that they could take on forms where he would never know if he could trust them or not. After all, he knows no one.
"I wouldn't ask for sex like they're pressuring people for. I don't find that tasteful or something I'm looking for. As you said though, allies can be helpful, can't they? I've spent a lot of years watching my own back without others and gave up everything so someone I... someone I care about wouldn't lose someone special to him. Maybe I'm looking to build alliances here without knowing all that's going on here."
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He listened to Rogue speak, his fingers leaving the man's hair to stroke along his jaw in an effort to offer comfort. Harry might enjoy being a VK, but there was more to him than the surface piracy and love of chaos. He didn't like watching someone suffer, even a stranger. His smile was teasing, "Well, ye know me now, aye? Nae quite so alone." Harry was quiet, thinking, fingers trailing along Rogue's jaw and throat as his eyes studied the man's face.
"Never considered sex tae mean much back home. Some o'us hev found a special person, made it somethin tae be protective of, but no' all o'us. Seems almost fate I sat down, aye?" Harry had lived his life for Uma, but now she had all the freedom she could want. And he wasn't home anymore. He had no idea what to do with himself, but since the city was going to force him to be with someone no matter what, he'd rather have some real choice in who. Random encounters were easier in some ways, but being able to pleasure some he liked would be nice.
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Because why else basically imprison said villains somewhere and leave them to populate the island with children punished for existing in the same place with these people?
The comfort is different, not something he's used to, and Rogue finds himself closing his eyes, savoring that touch. He hadn't thought he missed such things in all these years but now he can't help but wonder.
He smiles then, eyes fluttering open. "It's something, definitely. I kind of lived differently, especially about sex. Been on my own for a while now. Just me and work and my ship."
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"Ah, ye got it in one! Aye, th'sins o'the parents're visited on their kids. It's no' such a bad life though. I wasn't unhappy." Not really anyway. It was all he'd ever known, and his days had been filled with friends and mischief. So what if none of their parents had given a damn. They'd found their own family despite that.
Harry smiled at Rogue's expression. Being able to distract someone from his own words was always a plus. he blinked and lit up at the mention of ship though, "A ship? Wha sort o'ship? Are ye a pirate then?"
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It's one thing to punish these villains, if they were such things and not just a way to get rid of undesirables. Punishing children because of the parents though, that was something he couldn't understand. So many did things of their own actions that were worth punishing them over, after all.
Rogue chuckles at that. "You might say that. I'm sure many have called me that and a lot less kind words as well." Bounty hunter. Pirate. Where were the lines there? "It's a space faring ship, not a water one. She's beautiful though."
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His fingers stroked Rogue's throat absently as he ignored all the confusion and melancholy. Harry was very good at living in the moment. He sat up straighter on the man's lap, intrigued by the idea of a space ship.
"Ye hev a ship tha sails the skies? Oot among th'stars? Really?"
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Like in this moment, his eyes lighting up as he gave the other man a nod. "I did. I still do, I assume even if it's not here it's still out there somewhere, waiting for me. She was a thing of beauty too."
Rogue loved the life he had, even if it was painful alone for so long. That didn't change that fundamental part that had drawn him in.
"I think whether you sail the skies or seas, it's something that becomes part of you. Did you have a ship?"
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"Wha's yer ship's name? Was it jus ye oot there? All alone?"
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He seems to speak of them both as such, so he will assume so.
Though the smile fades then, shrugging slightly. Though his eyes nearly close a moment, leaning into that soft touch which might say more than his words do.
"It was just me out there for a lot of years. She's just Art's ship, but it's just me now." He pauses a moment. "There was a time I thought I might sail with another, but that's for another time."
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He would do anything for Uma.
Harry leaned in at the pause, resting his forehead against Rogue's as his fingers slid into the hair at the man's nape, "Ye don't hev tae be alone anymore. When ye feel th'need, ye can call me, aye?" Finding allies was essential, and he liked Rogue. The man might not have sailed the seas, but he was still a captain. And the man seemed to need the contact.
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He knows how hard it can be. He really does.
"I had to do a lot to keep my ship sailing after her true Captain was gone. I've learned though. I've learned a lot."
His eyes closed at that, not even sure what to make of it all. He was comfortable, and he wasn't pushing someone away. Someone offering closeness, and yet he isn't running. He's just letting it happen without hiding again.
"It's hard to not be alone when it's all you've known for a long time... and then when you have to give up something more to protect someone you care about."
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Harry enjoyed the contact. He was a man that hung all over people back home and even ten minutes without touching someone was a struggle. Giving Rogue some comfort while getting some back seemed like a good deal.
"Is tha why ye were runnin? Ye gave up yer life for someone?"
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He's already catching on pretty quick that Harry's world is definitely heavily divided and he could see them holding magic over their heads along with everything else.
The touching was easier than what this whole thing here was about. Just as it was easier than focusing on the things he's saying as well.
"It was less running and more trapped. Before..." Yep, stroking his nails along Harry's back, not hard but a different caress before tenderly dragging them upwards and along his neck to the base of his skull. "I was just alone. A ship for two with only one to run it. Giving up my life led to hiding though I guess it could be seen as running. Ever vigilant until a rescue comes."
He never lost faith in that. It would come one day. The Doctor would come one day.
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"Oh aye. Th'powers tha be decided more'n twenty years ago tha magic an villains were too dangerous tae leave free. Magic got discouraged an all the villains were rounded up an stuck on th'Isle of the Lost under a barrier tae negate all magic an keep 'em all put. They even brought th'ones who'd passed back tae life so they could be prisoners too. No clue why it happened, but everyone seemed tae get th'idea kids'd be a good addition." Harry shook his head with a sigh. Maybe one of the worst decisions their parents had ever made. Letting villains have kids was just cruel to everyone.
"Anyway, they sucked as parents, no one in Auradon seemed tae care they were leavin innocent kids tae suffer for their whole lives, an tha was life." There was a lot he hadn't said, but it certainly seemed like plenty. Harry listened as Rogue spoke, making a soft sound of surprise and pleasure as the man touched him. He melted into the touch, leaning into those hands. As much as he pushed himself on others, most of the time people didn't touch him back. They just sort of put up with his antics. Harry ran both hands through Rogue's hair, nails scraping lightly against the man's scalp.
He didn't really have words. Harry hadn't been alone since he and Uma founded their crew, and the memories from before then were mostly hazy and unhappy. He'd tried to forget on purpose, choosing to live in the present as much as possible. But now? He leaned in again and kissed Rogue instead of struggling with words or emotions, hands holding the man's head still until he pulled back.
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He could only imagine how rough things were for Harry and the other kids he was stuck there with.
"I can't even imagine what it was like," he murmurs, shaking his head slightly. And the type of thing he would never be called in on to stop someone because, as it sounded, this Auradon held the ruling class and so they would be left to suffer.
But anything more is gone with that kiss. He's not thinking about his ship for one, or the Doctor out there, or how long Art's been gone. That kiss roots him in the here and now, in this moment, and it's definitely what he needs in that moment.
"Kisses are cheating," he murmurs as the kiss breaks, but his looks is amused more than anything.
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"Home. We tae school, hung out wi' friends. It was life. Different'n wha most people might know, but I didn't hate it. Mal an her gang did, an Uma did. Most o'the VKs wanted off th'Isle. All of our parents wanted off."
He laughed against Rogue's mouth at the words, fingers stroking the man's cheek as his other hand tangled in the hair at the back of Rogue's head, "Pirate. Never did learn tae play fair."