duplicitymemes | TDM #43

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TDM #43

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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 full heat of Summer is in full swing, but there is a pleasant breeze that comes off the sea, bringing with it much needed relief from the warmth of the sun.

» » » 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.

« « « UP AND AWAY

(cw: random kink, behavioral modification)

The oppressive heat of summer eases its grip on Duplicity with a cool breeze blowing in from the sea. A soothing wind rushes through the Up and the Down, bringing a blanket of cool that should help chill any hot tempers spiking around the new requirements for local businesses. While wet t-shirt contests and flashy pool parties start to wind down, people find the weather more agreeable and spend more and more time outdoors.

Orientation adjusts accordingly, with LIEs deciding to use the weather to their advantage when it seems like people just can't seem to stay indoors for long. The basics of Orientation still happen at the Center, but they decide to incorporate a little outside time and arts and crafts into the mix. Characters will find themselves paired with someone of the opposite designation for a quick but fun bonding activity: kite-building and kite flying.

Pairs are given a somewhat unhinged instruction sheet, a set of curated crafting materials, and one hour to build a Compatibility Kite. Most of the materials are basic and typical for simple kite making, but some of them may raise eyebrows: silk fabric, bold red ribbons, black lace… Meanwhile, the instructions for both building and flying the kite are vague, but oddly intimate: Hold tension while knotting., Maintain eye contact and hold your partner steady., Position your body behind your partner for better reach...

While the design of the kite is completely up to the participants, LIEs does provide one requirement. Pairs are asked to choose one from several lively colored kite tails to tie to each completed kite. Each one has a single word printed in bold, glimmering text, such as: OBEDIENCE, PRAISE, CONTROL, EDGE, ROPE, PATIENCE, PASSION, SLEEP, CONTRITION, FAITH, SPICE, and more. There's no explanation as to what these mean or how they must be chosen, just that one word should be tied to their project.

After an hour, all characters are brought outside, onto a bus, and to Chicanery Beach. Under the watchful eye of LIES staff who keep their distance from the shoreline, everyone gets to let their kites fly! Getting one up into the air is a two-person job, so work together and get it up into the sky without crashing into others. Hopefully it works, because anyone who can't seem to get it up or crash a little too soon will be given strict notice to attend Orientation all over again.

Those whose kites successfully sail into the sky will get a check on their names. But as the words on the kite tails unfurl and flutter through the wind, characters will find themselves imbued with the desire and drive to embody or put the trait on their kite into practice: with their partner, or with anyone they may next encounter. This desire lingers past sunset and can last well over a week until one isn't sure if it's an artificial influence or something they'd truly wanted all this time.

» » » FOLLOW YOUR NOSE

(cw: pheromones, scents, stalking, dub-con, exhibitionism, breeding kink, stuffing, size kink, sexual exhaustion, rough sex, gags, biting, marking)

The winds persist throughout the summer, and they bring more than just the scent of salt and sunscreen through the air. As July makes its way into August, a very subtle change descends on everyone: for an indiscernible reason, everyone's pheromones seem to surge, and everyone will look irresistibly attractive. For those with the senses and skills to pick it up, it will be as if characters exude a different aura entirely, just begging to be bred or fucked. For others who can't tell - it manifests instead as distinct, vaguely familiar and very attractive scents that carry over the wind.

Characters will have one or two scents that are most obvious and most irresistible to them. Catching just a whiff of these scents will have them follow their trails all over the Up and the Down until they find who is waiting at the source, someone they will feel the need to throw themselves at. But since people don't know what scent they themselves are giving off, they may not even know why they're being pursued even if they can tell that someone has been following them.

Unbeknownst to everyone, certain scents will have specific influences that take effect on either (or both!) person once they finally meet.

- Cinnamon: The need to fuck them in front of a mirror or a window, or anywhere that their reflection can be seen
- Vanilla: A desire to fill or be filled up by your partner - with cum or with toys or items of increasing sizes - until they can't take any more
- Candy: A surge of increased stamina, enough to drive the other into sexual exhaustion
- Musk: An instinct to have rough, animalistic sex that leaves the other bruised, bedraggled, or even bleeding
- Lavender: A desire to pamper, groom or worship one’s partner
- Citrus: A desire to keep one's partner quiet all through sex
- Rose: A desire for something slow and patient, no matter how quickly one's partner wants to get things done
- The scent of your character’s favorite food: An irresistible instinct to bite and leave marks all over the other where others can see, and/or to give oral sex until they're satisfied

Acting on the influence at least once will satisfy the need… for a time. The scents can always rile a person up all over again. Maybe a perfume or an artificial scent will mask them, at least for a while, but soon the pheromones will overpower any attempts to hide them.

« « « NOTES ON THE WIND

(cw: personality shift, behavior modification, dom/sub behaviors)

A new trend makes its way to Duplicity's native shopkeepers and citizens alike in the Up and Down: wind chimes to hang up on their patios, windows, and balconies. The chimes are black and white in design, many of them sporting artful swirls and spirals that clink and ring in the wind.

There doesn’t seem to be anything dubious about the chimes upon first glance, but the more one hears them, the more their effects become apparent. While not everyone seems affected, those who are susceptible to the bell-like sounds will find that the larger, lower frequency chimes amplify a person’s worst trait while the smaller, higher frequency wind chimes do the opposite, amplifying an individual’s best personality trait instead.

However, unbeknownst to anyone, some of the chimes are dupes (hah) smuggled in from the neighbouring city of Insincerity, the black and white spiral motifs seeming to move and swirl even when they remain still. Their effects are a little different, as they cause Dominants to act subservient and Submissives to act haughty and demanding of their betters.

All these effects are short-lived and last no more than an hour. But considering the prevalence of the chimes throughout the city, the potential for erratic personalities is increased tenfold. More alarmingly, it seems that no one is safe from the effects of the twisted contraband chimes. People - LIERs and natives alike - who act out of designation may be approached by LIES or SIN guards with stern warnings or threats of taking them to Realignment at the SLUT Center, and they take any explanation in good faith.

» » » TLDR

So, what's happening?

UP AND AWAY

- Orientation involves kite-building and kite flying.
- Kite building must be done with a partner.
- Craft materials and instructions are provided, but some are oddly suggestive.
- Every kite must have a word tied to it. These are one-word traits such as OBEDIENCE, CONTROL, PRAISE, SPICE, etc.
- All kites should be completed within one hour.
- Kites will be tested on the beach. Failure to get it up means attending Orientation again.
- Kites that fly result in embodying the trait that is tied to the kite.

FOLLOW YOUR NOSE

- Everyone's pheromones are increased as summer starts to wind down.
- To some, the pheromones simply manifest as an increased attractiveness/people look like they are begging to be bred or fucked.
- To others, the pheromones manifest in strong scents carried by the wind.
- People feel compelled to follow the scents all over the Up and the Down.
Some scents have specific effects on either one or both characters.
- Cinnamon: The need to fuck them in front of their reflection
- Vanilla: A desire to fill or be filled up by your partner - with cum or with toys or items of increasing sizes - until they can't take any more
- Candy: A surge of increased stamina to drive the other into sexual exhaustion
- Musk: An instinct to have rough, animalistic sex
- Lavender: A desire to pamper, groom or worship one’s partner
- Citrus: A desire to keep one's partner quiet all through sex
- Rose: A desire for something slow and patient
- The scent of your character’s favorite food: An instinct to bite/leave marks where others can see, and/or to give oral sex.
- Scent effects fade after they are acted on at least once.

NOTES ON THE WIND

- A new trend spreads throughout the city: black and white wind chimes.
- The sound of the chimes may have effects on those who hear them.
- Large, low-frequency chimes amplify a character's worst trait.
- Small, high-frequency chimes amplify a character's most positive trait.
- Some chimes are contraband from Insincerity; these have swirling designs that seem to move.
- Contraband chimes have a different effect: Dominants act more subservient and Submissives become more demanding.
- LIES staff and SIN guards remain on the lookout for anyone acting out of designation and won't take any explanation on good faith.

» » » 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:

If your character prefers grand gestures, they are a Submissive. If your character prefers small surprises, they are a Dominant.

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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[QUICK NOTES: Leona is a lion beastman, which basically just means he has lion ears and a lion tail and instincts and whatnot. He is also kind of genuinely a misandrist and will be pretty standoffish with most dudes, but he's a gentleman to women and weak for cuties. he's still a shady lil shit tho. if it matters to you, he's 20 years old at his canon point.]

Up and Away

[[ooc: this one's the easiest prompt for if you don't want to thread smut with him on this!]

this isn't Leona's whole scene, really. he's not here for rubbing elbows— not here, here, he's really not anywhere for it. but it's been made clear to him that making nice is the only way he's getting out of this, so Leona's decided to pretend to be compliant and put on a pretty face for the day.

if only that pretty face didn't look so... smug, maybe the compliance and sweetness in his low, near-monotone voice would actually be believable. nevertheless, he lies;]

I'm really not handy with this kind of thing at all.

How about you show me how it's done?

[in actuality, he has plans to use his magic to get him through this; to get this damn thing built, and to get it into the air, if need be.

the only thing Leona really wants is to be out of this orientation and somewhere taking a nap.]

Follow Your Nose (overstimulation, feral kink, h/c opportunity)

[Leona should have stayed home.

it can be overwhelming for a beastman whose animal type has any good sense of smell just walking through a mall with a perfume store— so wandering around literally anywhere has been miserable since these pheromones started cropping up. between the confusion, the arousal, and the olfactory shock, it starts to give a wandering Leona a headache— until eventually he begins to feel like he can't even breathe.

he hurries away from the populated street to find refuge behind a building. even the scent of trash would be preferable to this, but he manages to find somewhere that isn't actually a disposal area. he's too overwhelmed to care if he's noticed, to even think about if someone would follow him, dropping to sit on a set of stairs. lowering his head into his hands and bracing his elbows on his knees, Leona tries to catch his breath, to take in fresh air, to ignore the aching heat throbbing in his jeans.

he's not feeling better in just a few breaths but it is long enough for him to be able to really pay attention to what he's hearing again. when someone approaches, he looks up with a warning look in his green eyes, brows furrowed severely and mouth hanging open as he pants.

there's a growl in his voice, his tail twitching like an angry snake when he spits;]

What do you want?

[ooc: we can play it to your preference whether it's breeding kink or one of the scents! Leona's gonna do best to wanting to be the giver in most of the scent scenarios, but my personal faves are cinnamon, candy, musk, lavender, and rose.]

wildcard

[open to plotting or like. most things tbh. hit me up by dm or

love_letters to talk it out.]

Edited 2025-07-11 06:14 (UTC)

[Is it extremely fortunate or unfortunate that the building Leona had happened to take refuge behind was the one that almost all of his classmates happened to work at? Even then, it was possible nobody would've noticed him...but he isn't there for long before a door opens and who happens to stride out but one Cater Diamond.

He's wearing a long hoodie, despite the summer weather, and...a pair of fake cat ears on his head. The ginger is in the middle of pulling a vape out of his pocket when his eyes catch movement and he finds himself staring straight at one Leona Kingscholar.

Cater's only frozen for half a second before he's whipping those ears off of his head and approaching.]

Uh--whoa! This sure is a surprise, isn't it?

[Oh, but, he's not looking so hot. Cater pauses, frowning, really taking in his stance and expression. The city must've done something to him, but what?]

Hey--what's going on? Are you feeling alright?

[Leona might not be able to distinguish scents very well right now, but that voice... there's no mistaking that voice.

rubbing his temple, Leona takes a better look and confirms—]

Cater?

[ugh. what a conflict. there's not a lot of people Leona would want to see him like this, and he isn't entirely sure where Cater fits on that spectrum.]

Don't— get closer,

[it's not entirely sure if that's a command or a request, but Leona's tail curls defensively.]

I'm— fine.

[is he though.]

The one and only!

[When he was actively the one and only, anyway. Shoving his vape back into his pocket and tucking away his costume ears, as well, Cater assesses Leona for just another few seconds longer. Then, yeah, he's blatantly going to disregard that order.]

Yeah...no, I'm not so sure you are. I'm guessing you got hit with a drug, or something? Geeze, this place really knows how to help a guy adjust. Here, let me take you inside--you can sleep it off in a private room.

Leona Kingscholar | Twisted Wonderland | Dominant

follow your nose

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Follow your nose, breeding kink and/or any mix of scents are fair game

hehehehehe.

I'm so sorry for him in advance, Leona. On the plus side you can wreck his shit as much as you want?

Up and Away

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follow your nose

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up and away

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up and away

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up and away

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follow your nose - mebbe candy/musk? breeding a-ok