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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.



» » » BUY A TICKET




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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ettersberg: (015)

[personal profile] ettersberg 2019-05-19 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
My section, as it were, has far fewer staff members.
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[personal profile] raccity 2019-05-19 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The Imperial Capital? Isn't that somewhere in China? Imperial... City? [He frowns a little, but doesn't quite understand what Rio means, assuming he just means from around the world, not different worlds.] That is strange. Why? Why us? Why bring us here? Their experiment excuse doesn't make much sense.

[He sits up a little straighter as the train dips from the clean, impressive buildings of the Up into the Down.]

First time? First time for what?
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[personal profile] addler 2019-05-19 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh-- this is interesting. Usually, it was Irene who initiated such contact between them, poked and prodded and beguiled while Sherlock prevaricated and tried his best to pretend he wasn't in any way moved by her charms. Infuriating man. His hand on her hip is like a hot brand, burning her skin through the thin silk preserving her modesty. Not that preserving it is high on her list of interests at the moment, eagerly sinking her fingers into his hair and returning the kiss with vigor, a little moan at the back of her throat.

She wants him, that is clear; but not just sexually. She wants him disarmed, wants a rare moment of honesty between them through action if not in words. Most of all, she wants him to want her in return in the same way. Perhaps that is the most frightening thing of all, but Irene isn't thinking about that now, too caught up in the heat that licks up her body and makes her sink her teeth into his lip in sensual aggression. ]
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[personal profile] addler 2019-05-19 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... shocking, yes.

[ The lightness and playfulness that are her usual fare fall away at that, replaced by something more solemn. Irene may have seen more than most women of her time and is more comfortable using her femininity to accomplish her goals, but she is still a product of the Victorian era all the same. Extreme proclivities such as these were carefully kept behind closed doors, the society quick to judge such behavior vulgar and shameful, aberrant even. ]

Is this kind of behavior considered normal, where you're from?

[ Or when. By now, Irene has started to get used to the outlandish idea that people could be from any point in time, here; even far away from the future. ]
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[personal profile] raccity 2019-05-19 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Leon's quiet as he processes what Tony is saying. There are two possibilities here as far as he can see. The first, where ever Tony is from they call cops or maybe military personnel superheroes. Or, he's actually describing superheroes.]

Events around the world? So, you help out military and police? ... No offense, but... what makes you 'super'? [At least Leon sounds more curious than disbelieving, but Tony looks pretty normal to him.]

I'm -yeah- I'm from Earth. [What a weird thing to have to clarify. Fortunately, Leon had works of fiction, a plethora of movies, TV shows and books, that dabble with the sort of thing Tony was talking about, so it wasn't completely out of left field.]

You think we're in another dimension? [Well, that sure was a theory. But it wasn't really like Leon could prove or disprove it.] Okay. [The wheels in his head are almost visibly spinning.] So, that makes getting home kind of complicated, right?
latrodectus: (сто тридцать два)

[personal profile] latrodectus 2019-05-19 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Asking them why would be like asking a fish if it's wet.

[ She nods, agreeing with him. Her voice is low but not throaty. ]

Of course, fish don't talk, regardless.

[ What she means is: you can't take a fish out of water. You can't teach them what it means to be wet. People might be different. ]
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[personal profile] wildphase 2019-05-19 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Carden isn't stupid in the slightest, nor particularly naive in most senses of the word. He'd had to grow up fast and he's done a pretty good job of doing it without losing himself. But he's still, ultimately, Southern boy who was raised in what basically amounted to a monastery, prior to that. The idea of thinking about strategy the way Temple is is something that's foreign to him.

Temple's not the only person in this place who's using that to their advantage.

Carden grins and shakes hands and then there's a kind of awkward sort of pause because yep, here they are. In a room in a bath/whorehouse. That's a thing that's happening. He searches around for something that's not that to talk about and finally lights on,

"Oh yeah, I'm not used to telling people but it's not as weird here, I guess. I can phase through things," it always sounds so awkward, when he says it, but it's probably just him, "I don't... always have control over it, though, so sometimes I phase through things I don't want to. It's... usually pretty shocking." He means to watch, but he also means for him. It's been happening less the longer he's been here, but he still sometimes just falls through furniture in particular.
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[personal profile] latrodectus 2019-05-19 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She can picture him, the way he gets when people are hurting, fists clenched and anger rising in his voice. She can picture him, except— ]

Clint?

[ The Clint that she knows? The one with the arrows? ]
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[personal profile] sometimespawnskillkings 2019-05-19 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Temple spends some time absorbing the information before he reacts to it.

“So, are you saying that you might end up phasing through me while we’re... doing it?” Temple finally says, blushing on that last bit. “Well, I suppose that’s good to know.”

And he wonders if Carden’s more likely to do it when he’s doing badly in bed or when he’s doing good. And if he’ll get to find out.

“But how are you even able to do it in the first place?”

No one where Temple’s from can do anything like that.
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[personal profile] wildphase 2019-05-19 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Carden flushes up to his ears, waving his hands in a negating gesture,

"Oh god, no, I hope not. Oh god, I'd never even thought about that before..." he trails off and he might have given a demonstration about exactly what he was talking about, but Temple gives him something else to think about, and the more scholarly part of his brain grabs onto that before he can get too flustered about the other,

"I don't know, actually. Most people can't, where I'm from. I'm the only one. But there's some other people like myself. We were at this kind of... school out in the country. They brought us there from all over and were trying to help us figure out how to use the things we could do in a way that didn't hurt people. I... used to be able to actually control it, but they..." he looks away. He hasn't actually said this out loud before, not in so many words, but for some reason, it seems important, here. Maybe it's the situation, or maybe it's a sign of him healing, at least somewhat.

"One of them used me to do something really terrible to some people," no, that's not quite right, "Some kids. I didn't stick around to find out if it was the whole organization or just that one person."
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[personal profile] devilbreak 2019-05-19 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nero makes a face like he wants to say something negative again, but the thought is not able to be translated in words. Instead he just groans in frustration. Whatever, at least it has to be better than sleeping in the van.]

Yeah, I guess I'll just have to manage. If not I might actually sleep outside.

[He looks at the building and it really does stick out like a sore thumb. Despite the warning he's going to keep his hopes up for a bit longer that the inside looks a little better than the outside does.]

It's definitely not a 5 star... Hey. Where do you live?
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[personal profile] sometimespawnskillkings 2019-05-19 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Temple steps back, bile rising in his throat.

“And you did it? You didn’t fight them or anything?” he says. “You just let them use you?”

Maybe Carden’s a bad Dominant to have as an ally, after all. And maybe he can’t trust him in his bed.

“Will you do that to me, if the people here say you must?”

He really hopes Carden will say no, that he has misunderstood. But he’s sure that he hasn’t, that Carden has indeed done those things and will do them to him. That Carden is just like a Freelancer.
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[personal profile] latrodectus 2019-05-19 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hmmm. Tricky. She's met a talking raccoon. ]

Six.

[ Weirder than usual, but she doesn't feel wholly out of her depth. People don't stay dead where she's from, either. ]

You?.
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[personal profile] devilbreak 2019-05-19 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to stop you right there before you entertain any sinful thoughts.

[He laughs, but thank whatever deity was in charge of that decision that it had been V who found him.

On second thought he's ready to take it back when his mysterious companion doesn't pull back, or stop. Instead he leans in closer and Nero finds himself taking steps backward until there is a wall preventing him from moving away. The knee between his legs renders him speechless for the moment--which is definitely a feat considering Nero always seems to have something smart to say.]


Are you a demon? [It's the first thing he blurts out even if he's clearly not the one in the position to be asking questions.]
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[personal profile] wildphase 2019-05-19 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"No! No, it was-" okay, now he panics and phases through the bed. At least he doesn't also phase through the floor. And the bed's high enough up that he's not stuck uncomfortably half phased through it. He's just... under the bed now.

He will maintain that the noise he made when that happened was definitely not a little scream. Fight him.

Somehow, it's better under here, where he doesn't have to worry about what expression he's making. He sighs,

"I don't think I could do it to you anyway. It wasn't like I... it's a long story. I didn't know. I thought I was helping people," he confesses, to the underside of the box springs, "When I found out what was going on, I went to confront the people who were responsible but I never made it there. I think there was an explosion, but... I honestly don't really remember. I remember being angry and I woke up half phased through a girder in the rubble of the place. Nothing's ever worked right since."

There's a long pause before he adds,

"Maybe that's my punishment. Maybe this place is." He'll stop communing with the dust bunnies in a minute, but it's kind of nice down here, where he doesn't have to see Temple's expression.
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[personal profile] devilbreak 2019-05-19 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
You're in luck. I'm not a pervert, so you're safe.

[Nero's actually very relieved that he didn't have to share a bath with some asshole who refused to let him in. Or someone who might want to do more than just scrubbing. He hit the jackpot with this guy. Pretty average and decent, even if his back and shoulders were dirty before got to them.]

I had a bath before with a random guy. He was nice too. [But they ended up doing more than bathing.]

If I was going to do something weird, I'd have done it already. Don't worry. What did you do before this place?
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[personal profile] sometimespawnskillkings 2019-05-19 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
The phasing reassures Temple, oddly enough. Because he knows that Carden has no control over it and he’s sure that, even if Carden did, he wouldn’t think of using it to gain his trust. Like, that, as an idea, is off the wall enough that Temple’s sure that, even though it would work, you’d have to be half-mad to think of it. And he doesn’t think Carden’s that kind of genius.

And the Freelancers didn’t think they were helping the sim troopers when they abused and killed them so Carden’s past doesn’t parallel Project Freelancer in that sense.

“I believe you,” Temple finally says, letting out the breath he was holding. “And I don’t think you deserved to be punished. Not when you didn’t know what you were even doing.”

And it helps that Carden didn’t do it to Temple or anyone Temple cares about.

Plus, Temple does need a Dominant as an ally here.
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[personal profile] wildphase 2019-05-19 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"I could have asked more questions. I could have done... something. Anything. I don't know. There's nothing I can do about it now, though," it doesn't stop him from feeling like he deserves the way his life has gone afterwards, or that he ought to be judged for it. But it's a deeper conversation that he even feels comfortable having with himself, so he just inches out from under the bed.

It's cleaner under there than he would have expected, but he's definitely got his hair all mussed up in a way that would more adorable if they weren't having this particular conversation,

"But uh, thanks. For believing me about it. I don't know if I'm really a good person, you know? But I'm not what they made me," he smooths out the covers on the bed where he'd been sitting and climbs back up to sit on it, trying (and probably failing) to find a lighter topic, "Uh, so what about you? What did you do before you got brought here?"
sometimespawnskillkings: (shining prince)

[personal profile] sometimespawnskillkings 2019-05-19 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That is definitely not a lighter topic. Not at all.

“Well,” says Temple. “First, I was a sim trooper, used as a slave by Project Freelancer to test their equipment and give the Freelancers something to practice on. And then they killed my friend and I attempted to bring them down. And that ended up landing me in jail.”

He laughs bitterly.

“So my past was not any better than yours was, and Duplicity is not much of a change for me.”

He figures there’s no point in lying about it or evading the topic when Carden’s been so honest with him. And he thinks that Carden might even admire what he’s done, that it might land really well with him.
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[personal profile] wildphase 2019-05-19 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, so all of that was English, he just doesn't know what half of those words actually mean.

"So... like... some kind of experimental army?" he tries out, though his tone says pretty plainly that he's not entirely sure he's got those dots in anything even remotely resembling the right order. He's pretty sure that's usually what "trooper" indicates. And then, because he's seen all kinds here, "Is the whole slavery thing... normal where you're from? It wasn't where I'm from."
sometimespawnskillkings: (brooding)

[personal profile] sometimespawnskillkings 2019-05-19 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Temple nods.

“Basically,” he says, sighing. “An army of the worst soldiers, used for experiments so the normal and supersoldiers could get better equipment and practice in realistic battle situations. And no, it is not normal where I’m from.”

He laughs bitterly.

“I doubt that Freelancer would even call it slavery, even though that’s what it is. Even though none of us were allowed to quit once we’d enlisted and discovered that the war we were fighting wasn’t the one we thought we would be fighting.”
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[personal profile] wildphase 2019-05-19 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, that sounds like slavery to me," Carden makes a face, "It sounds awful. At least I wanted to be where I was, even though it was because they were lying to me about it." And now, he finally puts two and two together on a lot of things, and his expression doesn't quite shift to pity exactly, but a kind of understanding horror, "This is about the worst orientation they could have come up with for you, isn't it?"

He laughs without humor, shakes his head,

"I wonder if they do that on purpose. Mine, they forced us into caves. Do you know how terrifying caves are when you can phase, but only some of the time. If I'd gotten lost down there, they might never have found me," he shudders. It's easy to shrug it off now, but at the time...

[personal profile] ex_this_ismydesign36 2019-05-19 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Will was very good at fading into the woodwork when he wished to do so, and after a number of orientations he was very good at the art.

Were this anyone else the ex-profiler would have spoken to the unasked questions without a second thought. However, he could already feel the deftly baited hooks in the casual words. Hannibal would only grow more proficient in these skills, capable of layering five different meanings or intentions into one sentence, but by Will's estimation this younger version was only up to two; possibly three at a time.

As such, he swam around the hook laid out in the second statement. Glancing off to the side, but with his head still up, his lips twisted into a rueful expression. ]


You may want to consider expanding your appetite for pleasure in this city. Elsewise you are going to encounter a great deal of discomfort when you find yourself subjected to the manipulations of LIEs.

[ Leaning slightly towards Hannibal, careful not to get too close, Will dropped his voice to a state whisper. ]

LIEs loves to alter our perceptions and then encourage intense need for intimacy, without much care given to whom we find ourselves sharing that intimacy.

[ Or in other words, LIERs didn't often get the chance to pick their partners.

Straightening, Will stepped back and made to head on out. ]


A pleasure to meet you, Dr. Lecter. Enjoy your evening's entertainment.
sometimespawnskillkings: (questioning)

[personal profile] sometimespawnskillkings 2019-05-19 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
“Well, at least this orientation is honest about the kind of place Duplicity is,” Temple says. “I don’t see what being forced into caves has to do with the whole vibe of this place. I mean, other than the fact that you got forced into them and they are dark and confining.”

He frowns.

“Okay, maybe that’s plenty of similarities,” Temple continues. “But none of those are sexual, and none have to do with Dominance and Submission. Soooo... what was the cave orientation supposed to teach you, exactly?”

Better to be analytical, Temple thinks, than to drown in his own angst.
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[personal profile] timeheister 2019-05-19 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[After quickly looking around his apartment to find the Ant-Man suit sitting neatly in place upon the bed Scott was a bit hesitant, skeptical as to whether it was some sort of trap with false hope but was pleasantly surprised. Better to be prepared for the worst and get some weird looks than not be able to defend himself though, right?

Caitlin's response garners a scrunch of his nose in distaste, visible shiver running down Scott's spine followed by a sarcastic gag pretending to puke. If only he had a deck of cards she would have really gotten a show but this was neither the time nor place for close up magic tricks even if they did put a smile on people's face.]


Like seriously. I mean if you're into that kind of thing sure but...that just isn't my bread and butter if you catch my drift.