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TDM #6


« « « TEST DRIVE MEME » » »




« « « I REPEAT MYSELF



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.

... 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 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 other thing: it’s sticky and humid. Gross.



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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.



« « « THE HOUSES OF PLEASURE




Standard orientation is over quickly. New arrivals are allowed to settle into their new living arrangements and are given access to the city. Explore. Make connections. On the third day, all devices light up with a message from LIES. Orientation 2.0 is about to start, and it does the moment participants tap the screen of their phones.

After arriving at the designated location, standing on the front step of a large house, a man dressed in nothing more than a small cloth wrapped at his waist will open the wooden door and guide arrivals inside one by one. In the main room is a large brass tub filled with warm water and fragrant oils. The bath is relaxing, no one will have the desire or willpower to abstain from this, and the style of dress is one of the following: a simple sheer gown with thin underwear beneath or a soft robe with a thick belt. The first denotes a particular status - the servant, concubine, companion, prostitute, jeweled bird, whore. There are many words for the role, but they are those chosen by the person who is being paid for the service. The second is an elevated status, and those dressed this way are given a solid gold coin to spend on the person of their choosing.

Visitors of Lupanar are placed in their roles at random. The companions are led to rooms where they are laid out comfortably in any manner of style—placed on a bed, draped in a swing, tied up and blindfolded. Afterwards, they are then visited by their patrons.



« « « INTO THE WOLF DEN




Lupanar is in full swing. The night edges forward as patrons visit one or many rooms, companions satisfy their visitors, and the procurer who runs the establishment gracefully handles any disputes or misunderstandings. Lit candles line the stairs and hallways, casting an eerie glow on anyone who chooses to slip a panel aside and watch the acts occurring in the room behind that wall.

As the night melts into early morning, companions and patrons alike will experience a physical crack and shift. For some, they’ll be brought to their knees or find themselves winded. Others will feel a tightness in their chest or the strange sensation of losing their breath. When it’s over, each person will now bear the physical characteristics of two other people: someone they care dearly for and someone that they do not. The combination of features or physical attributes will be unique; possibly the hair style and color of one but the eyes and nose of the other. What’s even more odd is that, now, desires belonging to the other people are transferred. Strong and overwhelming, satisfaction is a must.



« « « BROKEN GLASS




The second floor of Lupanar is a dedicated space to a series of private and public glass rooms. Companions, styled as requested, are placed inside to act out anything the patron desires of them. They may dance, strip, or pleasure themselves, but the key thing to remember is that glass separates the companion from everyone else. You may look, but you can’t touch.

The third and final floor of this esteemed brothel is an entirely open area with space at the center for an ongoing orgy. Patrons may lay with one another, companions can indulge in sex or sleeping, and generally either participate in public sex with someone else while watching others. So, join in or take a seat.



« « « 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, 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 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. Characters born in January, March, May, June, September, and December are Dominants. Characters born in February, April, July, August, October, and November are Submissive. Characters with an unknown birthday are Submissive.

To use this TDM as a door pass please link this on your app and place whether it is Dominant or Submissive.

» Players can use any part of the setting to create test drive prompts. Check out the locations page!

» The Houses of Pleasure: Characters will touch their phones and close their eyes. They will then be in the new setting. It won’t be apparent whether characters were transported there or if it’s something similar to a dream. If characters ask any NPCs or later ask LIES, they will be told that it’s up to them to decide. Characters can return to Duplicity after making a payment or receiving one. If you choose to have your character not participate in this part of the test drive then they will have a glitch on their phone that doesn’t allow them to access the invite to Orientation 2.0.

» Characters that play the role of companion may be dressed or situated in their room in any number of ways. They may be put into Elizabethan era clothing for a lord and lord/lady/servant/stablehand roleplay scenario. Or perhaps the companion is dressed in a clown costume. We don’t judge. Get wild.

» Into The Wolf Den: Characters become the physical embodiment of two people. Someone the character loves and someone they hate. Mix and mash features at your leisure. Have an even mix or let one dominate the other. Characters will also experience the desires of those other people and want to satisfy those urges.

Please remember to mark any necessary content, and have fun!!




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every_blossom_blooming: (sweet smile)

[personal profile] every_blossom_blooming 2019-05-11 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
The gold coin catches her eye and Nina holds back a sigh. At least the man holding it isn't unfortunate-looking, but she's met plenty of attractive men that are capable of ugly things. His smile does not put her at ease, but Nina has always been a wonderful actress. She puts a smile on, warm and effusive.

She knows she needs the coin to leave.

"That's terribly kind of you, Mister...?" She trails off and lifts her eyebrows expectantly.
theboywholived: (001)

[personal profile] theboywholived 2019-05-11 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Harry fights against the pull on his arm. He's stronger than he looks, but by the same token he can listen. Sometimes.

"Let me go," he growls, yanking himself away from the other young man's grasp. He takes a step back, letting him form a kind of barrier between himself and the couple, because he needs that physical wall to keep him from launching himself back into the fray again.

"I'll take the trouble. How is that fair?"
indecent_butterfly: (in my arms)

[personal profile] indecent_butterfly 2019-05-11 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
No, One left.

[Someone ran away before they could be caught and tried.]

He who held this One's loyalty was already gone.
netflixandkill: (and what you need is what you get)

the houses of pleasure

[personal profile] netflixandkill 2019-05-11 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Villanelle didn't request this woman in particular; she told them to surprise her. Just to see. Who would they pick? What do they think she likes?

It was either a lucky guess, or they know something, because this woman is absolutely her type. A series of microexpressions flit across her face—suspicion, anger, desire—before she settles it into a mask, reflecting back that smile with an equally fake one of her own.]


Me too.

Do you mind if I join you?
caniculares: (Sirius - talk about it)

[personal profile] caniculares 2019-05-11 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
He puts both hands on James' shoulders, and looks up at the woman in front of them. Sirius is not impressed with her height, but-

"What did they feed you when you were a child? That is impressive," he says, looking up. "Not-James-but-strange-James-looking-person, this is the point where you casually reassure this tree of a woman that we come in peace," he says, saying it too clearly.

They are absolutely going to get punched.
despitethenora: (Stellite)

Buy a ticket

[personal profile] despitethenora 2019-05-11 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Train rides are generally an insulting experience for Aloy, but today, this man serves up an excellent distraction. Machines have always been a fascination for her, and though she is usually missing critical information about how they work the hunter can see past the surface and appreciate the complexity of their workings.

She scoffs at the notion of another submissive being allowed to simply ask for something.]


They'd be glad to show us how the door works.
metamorphing: (073)

wildcard- orientation if that's cool?

[personal profile] metamorphing 2019-05-11 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
Dora's still not used to the whole "Orientation is mandatory for everyone" thing. It's the same old thing with a few fresh faces. It's a bore. She only really pays attention to make sure she doesn't see someone from home- while she would be glad to see a familiar face, she would hate to subject anyone else to this place.

Today, however, did have a familiar face in the mix. The young witch shifted in her seat, posture changing immediately as she caught sight of him- and she's scrambling through the rows to get over to him without causing a commotion- tripping on a chair at the beginning of his row.

"Harry?"

She hisses his name in an urgent whisper, eyes wide as she takes in the mark on his neck identical to hers.
fixating: (do you walk in the shadow of men)

buy a ticket

[personal profile] fixating 2019-05-11 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
Regulus is on the train on his own today, and he would rather not get into any trouble. He's already had enough trouble in his short life, and he's just gotten settled in, so--

--he thinks it's James Potter at first, because of course he does, but he looks a little too young to be from the same time as him.

"Potter," he says, moving close enough to grab his arm and tug him into a sitting position again, when he notices his eyes. Not Potter, then--or not that Potter. Why is he helping him, anyway? Because he doesn't want to cause a scene.

The dominant looks angry, and Regulus inclines his head to her deferentially, shoving at the back of the other wizard's head to make him do the same.

"Sorry," he says, voice low, "he's new."

If Harry looks at him, he'll know him from that photograph of him--looking so much like a young Sirius, but not. Just different enough. Regulus Black.
nocts: (1)

[personal profile] nocts 2019-05-11 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Noctis does let go of him, but their commotion rustles up the people next to them. They grumble and glare and Noctis nods an apology in their direction before crowding the guy by standing in front of him and not letting him look at the women.

"Trust me, you don't want that." He looks over his shoulder, wondering if there's any supervisors or police around in the train. That just gives him the chills.

"It's their arrangement. You can't mess with that, they'll arrest you. And trust me when I tell you, you don't want to go to 'People Zoo'."
theboywholived: (001)

[personal profile] theboywholived 2019-05-11 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Being called James but not doesn't help Harry find his footing again in the least, thanks Sirius. It reminds him too painfully of losing Sirius, of his conflicting feelings about his father, about the man that he wants to be.

All of which has no place in the moment they're living in.

"Er," he says again, blinking at the woman. And now at a few other probably natives, looking like they're ready to defend the couple rather than the scraggly wizards.

"Right. Peace. It's just that, this doesn't seem right, is all. It must be bad for the knees."
occultatum: (Nick - capio)

[personal profile] occultatum 2019-05-11 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Wardwell-

You're Sabrina's teacher, right? At her mortal school.
wolfjohnwolf: (3)

noooooooo a baby!! ;; but also holy shit ghjdfgfd | wildcard

[personal profile] wolfjohnwolf 2019-05-11 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
It's not the first time he thought he'd seen James out of the corner of his eye. Far from it, nearly every day there was someone he took a second glance at, thinking they were James or Lily or Peter... or Sirius.

This time, though, the second glance sticks. Spitting damn image of James, if a little younger. He turns around, swiftly catching up with the man who'd just walked past him in the middle of a busy street. "Wait--" He calls out, and when the young man turns around, for a long drawn-out moment, he can't speak or move, expression stricken. Just because his mind has been conjuring up images of his dead (and dead-to-him) friends doesn't mean he's ready to face the reality of it.

He steps closer, gets a better look, and the little differences add up-- and the young man's eyes. Unmistakably Lily's. Upset turns to confusion then becomes understanding (and a different sort of upset, more muted, more easily buried). Dora's come from the future, of course it would follow that--

"Harry? Is that you?"

[remus arrived a couple weeks after halloween 1981 so.... yeah, sorry he's a hot young mess rn]
burstmodes: (pic#12995401)

ia - hope you're ready for some awkward

[personal profile] burstmodes 2019-05-11 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ the whole brothel thing isn't really a new, well, thing. not much anyway? but prompto's never found himself in a position where he's had to participate from either end, and a lot of the time, he doesn't know what to expect when it comes to things like this. so, it's made it completely difficult to allow them to wash him and shove him into some sheer thing that highlights every freckle on his body and the blush that hasn't gone away since the start. still, at the sound of that familiar voice he almost perks up. then slowly begins to realize gladio's talking about him, and... yeah. he's kind of mortified. just a little. ]

You know we don't have to do any of the stuff they say, right?

[ why is he whispering? why is he staring really hard at the other like he's going to get in trouble if he looks away? maybe he will, who knows. but prompto pulls at the thin material of the thing he's wearing and crosses his arms, trying to keep himself as covered as possible. ]
theboywholived: (Default)

a+++

[personal profile] theboywholived 2019-05-11 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Harry is so morbidly fascinated by what's going on on stage that he doesn't notice the mild commotion of one witch trying to get at him. And it's only really when he hears his name that he blinks back to reality.

He turns his head; his eyes go wide.

"Tonks!?" It's not quite a shout, but it's full of emotion nonetheless.

How in the blazes is she alive?
occultatum: (Nick - saltandi)

[personal profile] occultatum 2019-05-11 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
"It's nice to meet you, Nina," he says, and his smile is turning charming, his laugh sweet, and he's leaning forward to whisper it. "I would rather you give me something because you think I'm handsome," he says, "and because I make you smile."
sathan: (☀ 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝒻𝑜𝓁𝒾𝓊𝓂 𝓅𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓈𝑒)

[personal profile] sathan 2019-05-11 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
That's right.

And what else am I?


( judging at least just from their conversation, making sure he's got some brain in him. he might be throwing out a few buzz words but just to make sure )
netflixandkill: (you pretend you're bored)

[personal profile] netflixandkill 2019-05-11 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty.

[Not quite her type, but. She can work with this. It might be fun to dress her up.]

I will come and help you. Try not to hiccup.
occultatum: (Nick - peto)

[personal profile] occultatum 2019-05-11 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
You're a witch.
sathan: (★ 𝒽𝓎𝓈𝓈𝑜𝓅𝓊𝓈 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓁𝒾)

[personal profile] sathan 2019-05-11 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's right.

Now, merely for Sabrina's sake, you should know that you gave yourself away very quickly. I'm assuming this place isn't just for witches and warlocks.
metamorphing: (046)

[personal profile] metamorphing 2019-05-11 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
It's not that she's happy to see him- as horrible as that might sound. She hates that he's here- but a familiar face is a familiar face and as soon as she reaches him she's pulling him into a hug. It hardly matters that he said her name so loudly, and matters even less that people might take notice of them not paying attention.

"I'm so sorry you're here," she whispers. "Are you ok?"
occultatum: (Nick - ars arcanum)

[personal profile] occultatum 2019-05-11 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
There are plenty of us around.

Not from our world. Different kinds.
sathan: (★ 𝓅𝒶𝓅𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓇𝒽𝑜𝑒𝒶𝓈)

[personal profile] sathan 2019-05-11 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
And you followed them?
sathan: (☀ 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓊𝓂 𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑜𝒾𝒹𝑒)

[personal profile] sathan 2019-05-11 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
Different kinds?
bloodbinds: (pic#13139884)

un: daimonori

[personal profile] bloodbinds 2019-05-11 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
I mean
I could get you clothes
I don't think you want to know how I'd get them though


[ Listen, it's bullshit that they have to live like this. She shouldn't have to be in someone's debt to get clothes. ]
theboywholived: (001)

[personal profile] theboywholived 2019-05-11 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
Harry finds himself now dragged along himself, forced back down into a seat. And then, to add insult to injury, forced to bow his head. He snaps his chin up and swats away the other young man's hand with a scowl for, first, the woman and then--

The expression of anger and disapproval shifts to pure shock. He looks so much like a young Sirius, too much like a Black. And it takes a second for Harry to fumble through his memories to pinpoint where he's seen that face before, if only because there's been so many photographs, so many people in the past that have made their imprint on the present.

But, no. It couldn't be.

"What-- Who are you?"