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duplicitymemes2019-01-11 06:40 pm
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TDM #4 ( revised )
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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 L.I.E.S. 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 L.I.E.S. after a year; however, results have remained unsatisfactory and testing still continues. 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 highrise. 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 by all new and old arrivals. Oh, and one more thing. It's fucking cold. Better bundle up. |
 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. |
 While the societal climate between Dominants and Submissives remains somewhat neutral throughout Duplicity, there has been the occasional whisper of defiance and call for equality. Yet, demonstrations and visible proof of this unhappiness spreads faster by word of mouth on a day exactly when you need it most. Welcome to Autonomy, a "traveling" nightclub that is never in the same place twice. People wanting to attend only learn of its lucrative location and password hours before it opens for business. Tonight, I choose the third door will get you inside and into the temporary freedom club Autonomy has to offer. In this circle, there are no assigned designations and no consequences for taking a role that isn't the one given by society. So, a Dominant may become the Submissive they've always wanted to be—or vice versa. Dominants and Submissives alike are able to mingle without repercussion and be themselves. Food, drinks, and private areas for more intimate – or if your preference is sexual – encounters are provided. Donations are accepted at any point during the night to further Autonomy's attempts of spreading the fulfillment that comes from being untitled. On the night you choose to visit, Autonomy is holding a random lottery for temporary connections. When entering, you have the choice of submitting your name into this drawing to be paired with someone else in the club regardless of designation. A short while later, a message will pop up on your device with the name and information of your partner, and whether or not you choose to meet them is purely at your discretion. Having more than one connection isn't completely unusual either. |
 Gratification of being a successful Dominant or Submissive isn't necessarily simple. Learning curves are to be made, and mistakes will happen. Led by a Dominant and Submissive couple – Miriam and Victoria, who have been paired for twenty-two years – a monthly meeting for unattached Dominants and Submissives is held in the conference room of Morning Wood motel in the Down. The meeting starts a few minutes after nine and has no designated end time. The couple introduce themselves and explain the purpose of the meeting: learn the proper method for a new kink and possibly find your perfect partner. The space is intimate and well-stocked with refreshments. To begin, Victoria, while blindfolded, balances on her hands and knees with her back perfectly level. Her partner, when ready, places various items on the level surface–a full cup, a plate. The Submissive is meant to hold the items until the Dominant believes she's reached her limit. The exercise is one of trust and understanding. The demonstration is a short one, followed by Miriam removing the blindfold and soothing her Submissive. The words are whispered low and with care, clearly a method that is specific to this couple. The process is concluded with the pair handing out workups, videos, and answering questions. Anyone wishing to practice Purposeful Submission can do so in the open room with a random volunteer, aided by the couple, or can find someone to take to one of the rented rooms. Sex may follow any scene but is not necessarily included. Experimenting with unattached Dominants and Submissives allows for new relationships to form. |
Please read carefully. On each Test Drive Meme, there will be a section noting character roles based on birthdays; these will vary each TDM. On an IC level, character will still have gone through the doors but assignments OOCly are still randomized. When applying, there is a section of the application that denotes whether the character chose "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 characters who have blue eyes or one blue eye and another color are Submissives. All characters who have brown eyes or one brown eye and another color are Dominants. Characters with any other color eyes are Dominants. To use this TDM as a door pass please link this on your app and place whether it is Dominant or Submissive. Please remember to mark any necessary content, and have fun!! |
discord.
But then again she's not usually forced to find a designation-free space in a strange city she's been abducted to and forced into a strange sexperiment.
To her credit, she's only two fingers in to her glass of whiskey when she enters the lottery. It's not as if this is anything new to her (even if the methods are different) and tonight she could use a distraction. Something, or someone, to help her forget about her circumstances. Beating her head against a brick wall over things she can't change at the moment has never really been her style.
What she doesn't expect is for her phone to ping so soon after. Blinking at her phone, she stares at the entry, and then looks around. She's too damn short to see anyone, even on her stool. Scowling a moment, she turns to the person next to her and lays a hand on their shoulder.]
Don't move...
[Eun uses the stranger to clamber up onto her stool, to stand on it steadily as she surveys the crowds. After a moment she simply resorts to calling out:]
I'm looking for Gray!
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gray catches her just as she's using a stranger as a ladder and his eyebrows hike slowly toward the ceiling as she clambers up onto a barstool. very resourceful. given that she's about the size of a thimble, he already admires that about her, the whiskey he's been sipping already warming up his readiness to approve of certain loose ends about this place he'd usually prefer not to deal with.
he strides up to her, gait relaxed, curious, and tilts his chin up at his lottery goddess. she's beautiful and fierce, no nonsense, clearly. he has a strange initial urge to touch her hair, wrap it around his fist.
if his night's not about to get better because this city is not to his taste, it's at least about to get exponentially more interesting. ]
If I answer to that name, am I signing up for a piggyback ride?
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Eun watches the man as he approaches her, knowing even before he opens his mouth that it must be him. Her eyes flick downward and up again, giving him a quick appraisal--the results of which doesn't reveal through any change in expression. Though it hasn't escaped her notice that he's tall, attractive, and well built. It's hard to say what she likes best, really. The eyes draw her in, of course, and his mouth, but then oddly enough so does his nose, the line of his jaw and even the width of his shoulders.
Her lips curl up slightly at the corners as he speaks, eyebrow lifted, but she shakes her head.]
I'm not much for piggyback rides. [At least, not unless your name is June and Eun happens to be very, very drunk indeed. That changes everything.] Besides you look a little tall for me to carry.
[She grins then, eyes flashing with amusement.]
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gray is charmed once, twice, thrice. ]
Is that so?
[ he tilts his head, contemplative, hand at his chin for a moment. ]
You do seem strong, though. Like you could handle just about anything. With that in mind—
[ gray shrugs, takes one more step forward, and in one fluid surprise movement grabs eun about the legs and waist and hauls her over his shoulder. with a secure grip behind her knees and one arm still circled tight around her waist, he calls over the music, ]
No piggyback, check. I believe they call this the fireman, yes?
[ the crowd around them parts a bit at the commotion, onlookers always interested in any form of dominant display, any peekaboo moments a cherished thing, and gray's return gaze for them is steely at best. someone who'd leaned forward with interest takes a measured step back, and gray lifts his chin, grimly satisfied. ]
I'm thinking somewhere more private is in order, if we're to be soulmates for the night.
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Finding herself over the man's shoulder actually stuns her for a full second before she tries to lift her head because what the fuck just happened there. The good side to this is that yes, she feels secure. She doesn't feel like she's going to slip down his back or over his shoulder or get abruptly dropped. And, in a way, she's feeling what muscle he has under her body which is a nice preview...and there is a part of her that she usually pushes deep down inside that appreciates the manhandling. A lot. It's enough to get her body thrumming with the first stirrings of excitement and anticipation, enough to get her blood running a bit hotter.
On the other hand he didn't ask first and she's in a vulnerable position that makes her tense, considering the atmosphere of this particular party. She waits to see if anyone dares to take advantage, but it seems that Gray is managing to keep them away all on his own. Bracing her hands on his back--and enjoying feeling the way his muscles flex and contact as he walks, as he exerts effort to hold her--she pushes herself up to watch the crowds they leave in their wake, blinking once, twice at them before trying to look over her shoulder to Gray himself. Despite the fact that she actually rather likes people who can be as confident and assertive as she is, she's never been caught off-guard by a move like this, and it leaves her feeling off-balance as long as she's carried.]
If not private then at least less crowded. [She pauses a beat, then adds:] Though I don't think fate really had a hand in our lottery results unless you know something I don't.
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she's adaptable.
and if she chooses to slap him or otherwise punish him for it when he sets her down somewhere secluded, he'll appreciate that, too. ]
There's a saying, my dear. Don't tempt fate,
[ he replies over his shoulder as they finally make it down into a corridor where no more than a few couples press each other up against walls here and there. ]
I believe it applies just as well to doubting her, too. She might be tempted to prove you wrong. Ah—
[ gray slows to a halt, finding a cracked door. there's an unoccupied kink room he discovers as he widens the breach, complete with furniture: a circular velvet couch, a dance pole, a bed, various bondage gear assorted and on display, more items than he really knows what to do with to be honest... and a room key on a hook just inside. ]
—here we are.
[ with a firm but gentle grip, he lowers his newfound nymph to the floor inside and gestures to their surroundings with a shrug of one arm. ]
Certainly less crowded. Does it please the lady?
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