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TDM #4 OVERFLOW

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« « « HERE WE ARE AGAIN

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.

» » » LIES TRAVEL IN COMPANY

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.

« « « END IN THE DISCORD

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.

» » » TABLE IT FOR LATER

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.

« « « MOD & OOC NOTES

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!!

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[Once dressed he turns back to Simon. It's not unreasonable that he's very curious about how the Dominant and Submissive thing works here. While he does know the basics of it, there are still some questions. Things he can't wait until orientation to know. His fingers anxiously touch as he fidgets.]

Ralph wants to know.. Will he need to be intimate with them? What if they are human? [The thought is unsettling, and he can't imagine it. He wasn't designed for those functions. Ralph is far more concerned about having to interact with them than the risk that he may end up hurting them.]

Well, you don't have to be intimate with your Submissive, but-

[He's got some bad news, sis.]

Most people here are human and you're required to have intercourse three times a month. It doesn't have to be different people each time, thankfully, that does make it... easier.

Intimacy being optional is good news. [Ralph blurts out, the relief blatant in his tone.]

What? What?....What? [With each consecutive repetition he cocks his head in a different direction. He very badly hopes he's misprocessed what Simon's telling him.]

No. No, Ralph can't do that. Not with humans. They hurt him. [At this point he starts to raise his voice, his temper flaring, LED on red with no outlet for the anger.]

[Simon is the bad news bear for a few people today, it's just not a good day to be the messenger. He sees the LED go red and holds his hands up, trying to calm him.]

I know, humans have hurt us all, Ralph. I promise you don't have to do anything with them if you don't want you. Just be prepared to see a lot of them, but they won't hurt you like back home. Most are very kind.

[Okay some may hurt him, but not because he's an android, just because they're dicks. There's always some.]

There are non humans here as well, I'm sure if you ask they will help you. I will help you.

[So far his interactions have been positive, but there's only so far luck will keep him from crossing paths with the wrong type of human.]

Ralph wants to go home.

[It's the first time he's had the thought since being there which is saying a lot. Considering his home in Detroit wasn't much of a home, and wasn't his either.]

Ralph will be fine. He's done okay without help up to now. [He calms down, LED yellow again, but not blue.]

The offer is appreciated, though. [Simon appears to know things about this place, so if he says it, he believes it.] Ralph met someone that wasn't human but wasn't an android like us either. She was something else. Meant to replicate a human, not serve one. [Or so he thought.]

[Sadly it will probably happen at some point. As for wanting to go home, Simon does as well. Sort of. Things are still a mess back there, who knows if it will get better or not, here things are a mess too, but... but he's got a home here, he's got people he cares about... he doesn't want to leave that either.

It's complicated.]

If you need anything just let me know, alright?

[But his brows furrow as Ralph tells him of someone else. Not an android, but they're made to seem like a human? So like them, but not? He's not sure what Ralph means exactly.]

Someone made her just to exist? Just to be? That's... that would be amazing, humans always seem to have a reason to create things, to do things for them.

[He's quiet for a while, the reality of things settling on him. First comforting like a blanket, and then kind of crushing. This was his life now.]

Thank you. Ralph will contact you if he has more questions.

[The possibility was there that maybe he had misunderstood, but as she told it that is what he interpreted. Maeve never mentioned anything about how she was made or for what purpose but it was obvious that she was created to be indiscernible from humans. Ralph almost mistook her for one. ]

That may have been part of it...Ralph is just surprised that there are other kinds of androids.

Just call or text on that device they gave you. We can talk anytime you need to.

[He was surprised too, it was nice to know there were more like them. Though it seemed they were always made in some way to work for humans. Help them. But if she was meant to be her own person that was new for him.]

I’ve spoken to a few here actually, but there’s always a theme of being made for humans. I’m glad for her if she’s got her freedom.

[Ralph nods, taking out the device to look at it and make sure it's still there.]

At least here we don't have to be subservient to them. Unless we want to be. Ralph's glad we aren't alone. [He hesitates for a second, LED yellow while he thinks of whether or not to ask before he just goes for it.]

Ralph has more questions. For the three times a month, is that per Submissive? So if one has 3, then that would be 9 courses of copulation? Does it have to be...penetrative?

Right. It’s not about who we are as people, it’s just this... social system they have in place. I’m glad we’re not alone either.

[He’s happy to answer any questions. Ralph is new and more skittish and unsure than most of them, rightly so. Simon would do whatever he could to help him settle in.]

No, no you don’t have to have sex with you Submissives. It’s not about how many Subs you have, it’s just that you do it three times total. Not three times per person. Ah... I’m not entirely certain if non penetrative sex counts.

[He's sure he's asked the question before in one way or another, hoping that maybe if he asks different individuals in different ways the answer will change. It doesn't.]

Three times is still more times than Ralph would like. [He frowns. There's a lot he doesn't understand, but he's willing to learn if he has to. He'll probably go to a few of the instructional seminars.]

Ralph will worry about all of this another day. [There's a moment where he wants to ask how many times Simon has done the deed, but decides against it. Not because he's bashful or ashamed. It's simply the fact that regardless of whether or not Simon was meeting his quota would have little to no effect on him.]

[Third time might be the charm?]

... it is when you've never done it before or desired it.

[Especially Ralph. At least with Simon he'd been made for that purpose if his owners desired it. Ralph was a maintenance grounds worker android. That had never been part of his design or need.]

You have time, your quota isn't a problem until the end of next month.

[Should he let Ralph get used to his place now or... stay? Would the other android want him to stay? He had a little time before the orientation.]

Would you like me to go with you to orientation, Ralph? I'll be there anyway, we all have to go, but if you'd like me to accompany you I wouldn't mind at all.

No. [Not only has he never desired it before, but he's also never really entertained the idea in general until now. It's a problem for another day though. He has too much to learn first. Perhaps Simon might help.]

Ralph doesn't mind the company. [At least not right now. Simon is kind.]

Would you mind showing Ralph what you know? [He asks casually. It's probably an invasive question to ask in that manner, but he's already reaching to take Simon's forearm, what's left of the synthetic skin on his hands peeling away when he makes contact, waiting for Simon has to consent.]

[Hed never desired it before either and had been hesitant to engage in it at all. Until the city forced his hand. He’d met his best friend and... well, loved wasn’t the right word, but he was special. Because he knew he’d be punished again for not cooperating he’d met TJ, a human. A human who liked him just as he was for what he was.

When Ralph asks to interface with him to learn more, he hesitates for a beat, but nods. His own skin disappears as he consents to it, letting Ralph pick his mind for what he’d like to know.]

That would be easier...

[Simon tries to keep his more personal emotions concerning TJ and one Markus from any prodding, but Ralph will definitely see Markus in his memories, fighting for their freedom, winning it, then bits of them here. There’s a lot of TJ as well, though it’s actually two humans, but they have almost the same face. TJ and Chase, his Subs. He’s slept with both, he’s even been with TJ without his synthetic skin on.

Ralph will be able to get a small taste of how it feels to have sex from his connection to Simon, but nothing near the same as experiencing it himself.]

[Ralph is silent at first, but after he feels Simon's experiences, he feels a little bashful. Which is unlike him, but he feels a little bit of what Simon felt in those moments. If he was human he might have blushed then, but instead he covers his mouth to hide his immature grin when he pulls his hand away.]

Wow.

[He's a little surprised at how his image of Simon has changed suddenly, but the definitely has a new respect for him. Also, he's learned a lot. He has an idea of what he wants to try to do now, but first there's orientation.]

Thank you. [He adds, linking an arm with Simon to drag him out of the apartment so they could head toward the place orientation is being held. So this is friendship. Ralph wants to ask, but isn't sure if he should. Not one to hold back, he goes for it anyway.]

They don't mind when Simon takes off his skin? It doesn't bother the humans at all?

[Simon isn’t embarrassed that Ralph gets to see him being intimate, but the almost childish reaction to it does get a little flush of blue dusting his cheeks. He lets Ralph usher him out of the apartment, still feeling a little weird being back in the high rise. He’d moved out to his own place with his Subs not to long ago. It was nice, really nice. They were making a real home together.]

Um. Well TJ doesn’t mind it. I’ve only been with one other like that, but he wasn’t human anyway so he wanted to see me as “my true self”.

[The last time he'd been in that state was by force at the camps. He hasn't had the need to show himself to anyone that way since. And definitely doesn't know if it's something he'd care to do here. Ralph doesn't know if the things Simon's done appeals to him either. He's doing his best to keep an open mind, though.]

Ralph thinks that's brave of you. He'd be afraid the humans might think it ugly. [He keeps close until they leave the building, and then walks alongside Simon instead.]

It seems romantic, though. In a way.

[Thankfully Simon never ended up in one of those, but he can only imagine the horror of that. It's why they fought, they never backed down, because they couldn't let their people die in those camps.]

I was actually... a little. He didn't mind it in the least. TJ likes me no matter how I look, as long as I'm me.

[It's really romantic honestly. The more people point it out the more he realizes he definitely has a problem. Liking two people is hard.]

We shouldn't be afraid to look how we want or how we are, Ralph, but it's nice when those we care for accept us.

[That sounds nice. Ralph can't imagine ever being that trusting and open with anyone. Even with someone he cares about, he might be a little bashful without his skin. It's one thing when handfuls of other androids were doing the same and out of force rather than trust.]

[That night was particularly stressful, but he still feels lucky that none of what was meant to happen hadn't happened. While they walk he considers how it might feel to be that comfortable with someone. He shivers, he'd rather not.]

Ralph isn't afraid! [He's defensive, but honest.] Ralph looks as unflattering with clothes on as he is without synthetic skin.

[Simon could never walk around out in the open without his skin, it would feel too revealing. At least not yet. Maybe some day, it was still a pretty big thing for him to even show his "true self" to people. It had been huge for him to show TJ.

With another android he wouldn't mind at all, they were the same, but with humans or others it was much more of a risk.]

Oh-- do you really think so poorly of your appearance, Ralph?

[Then some what more softer, carefully.]

Is it because of what happened to you?

[Ralph has plenty of respect and admiration for any android who could do something like that with a human without letting the fear of rejection stop them. He offers a pat to Simon's back.]

What? It's an objective fact. Ralph's face scares most children. Startles adults. It's unsightly.

[He nods, having accepted this fact quite some time ago.] Ralph was once quite handsome. [He laughs as he points out that fact as if appearances and attractiveness wasn't all subjective.]

[Simon would argue that children and adult humans are scared by his face because it's so clearly not a human one with his synthetic skin not fully covering things. With the damage done by humans so obvious and glaring. His eye has malfunctioned, part of his hair no longer shows where he's been beat too hard... so yes, his face is a mess, but that doesn't mean there's not something there to see.

That Ralph is still alive and can function with so much trauma is amazing. So once Ralph's laugh fades he offers him a sympathetic smile.]

Ralph is still handsome, just different now.

[He's a little surprised by that, but once the shock passes he's able to properly accept the compliment, laughing as he does.] Thank you.

[After a pause, he nudges Simon with his elbow by mistake.] Ralph doesn't plan to win any beauty pageants any time soon. [Another pause] Do they have beauty pageants here?

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