duplicitymemes

Entry tags:

«tdm

TDM #8

« « « TEST DRIVE MEME » » »

« « « AND IT GOES ON AND ON

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.

The hellish summer heat is finally starting to subside, and the cool breeze suggests autumn is approaching.

» » » TAKE A RIDE

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.

« « « A POCKET OF PENNIES

The weather’s getting cooler, and people have begun transitioning from summer clothing to the sweaters and jackets of early fall. With jackets come pockets, and with pockets come a bizarre uptick in robberies.

Then again, perhaps the correlation is flawed. In the Down, getting robbed is a constant threat. Gangs of street toughs look for lone or inattentive people who look like they’ve got valuables on hand. Uncontracted Submissives are particularly easy to rob, since authorities have little time to bother with a lowly Submissive without a Dominant to advocate for them. One particularly nasty gang of young adult men, the Bulldogs, hangs out near the train, looking to ambush unwary Submissives fresh out of Orientation. They are prone to violent muggings and will simply beat up their target and leave them in a gutter when they’re finished robbing them.

In the Up, the streets are nominally safer, but there have been reports of a group of college-aged Submissive women taking advantage of their designation to attack travelers. They, too, stand near the train and the orientation center, looking to seduce passersby into an alley where a group of them can beat and mug their victims, usually Dominants looking to capitalize on their pretty appearances.

But you’re truthfully at risk anywhere in the city. The new arrivals are easy targets, and any brazen thief might get the idea to make some quick cash. The authorities are spread too thin to help, but perhaps LIErs can look out for one another?

Or they might just get in on the thievery. Everyone’s out for themselves, after all.

« « « NEW FLESH LIKE A GLOVE

( CW: potential dubcon, drugs, BDSM/sexual torture, prostitution, public use )

Surrounding a large building near the orientation center in the Up, banners and fliers announcing the beginning of the inaugural Duplicity High Tech Sexpo, a trade show for businesses and manufacturers of adult novelties. Since this is the expo’s first year, admission is free and many excited volunteers are handing out vouchers all over the city. These vouchers can be exchanged for goods and services within the expo, but have no monetary value outside of it. Even if you refuse them, you’ll likely find two or three of them tucked into your bag or pocket.

Inside the expo hall, there are dozens of booths pitching a variety of entertainments. Many offer interactive demonstrations, showing off their tech for the crowds of interested onlookers. Competition is fierce, and booths try to attract attention and customers through any means necessary. There are private rooms all around the expo for potential customers to try out the products. Booths will also happily accept volunteers for demos, or try to recruit them by bribing them with cash or free samples. There’s a nasty rumor going around that some are recruiting volunteers via more illicit means, like drugging and dressing them up, but surely that’s an exaggeration…

Some of the smaller booths sell more traditional toys and accessories: leashes and collars, specialty lubes and massage oils, fetish gear, strap-ons, dildos and vibrators in myriad shapes and sizes, and other basic items. Others advertise apps for the devices, the most notable of which is HUGGR (which LIErs may recognize as a poorly rebuilt sex-themed version of a certain other app.) The closer you get to the big-ticket sponsor booths, the more elaborate and fantastic the products become.

One of the most eye-catching demos is for the Climax VR Headset. You and a partner both wear a VR headset, which displays a collaborative virtual scenario. Both partners can alter the setting and surroundings however they like, and any sexual activity conducted in VR transmits real sensations to their bodies. You can come together without ever physically touching.

Symphony Hydraulics have a large, loud booth where crowds gather to watch perhaps the most outrageous demo: a variety of fucking machines. Volunteers get stripped, strapped in, and turned on, brought to screaming orgasms in front of the whole crowd. There is a fifteen minute break between demos on each machine, as some poor intern hurriedly washes and sanitizes them between uses. In the interim, they offer smaller, portable versions for sale or rent at the expo. (Some may note that a few of the Symphony Hydraulics staff members look a bit familiar.)

Does all this high-tech equipment have you overwhelmed? Wish you could go back to a simpler time? Sir Robert’f Bedroome Provifionf (sic) is helmed by historical reenactor Robert Plum, who has also created his own line of medieval torture device-themed sex toys. Need a chastity belt to keep your Submissive all to yourself? A rack with an attached spreader-bar? An iron maiden with soft vibrating silicone ticklers inside? All the stocks and whips and chains you could ever need? Sir Robert has you covered. Of course, everything on display is harmlessly altered for sexual novelty purposes, but one might also ask to see Sir Robert’s “special” merchandise in the back.

Perhaps the most unassuming booth at the expo belongs to Grandma Hattie’s Snacks and Sweets. Grandma Hattie, a kindly old Submissive, has partnered with a tech company to produce what appear to be completely normal vending machines, stocked full of her tasty homemade bread, snack cakes, and other baked goods. Vouchers are good for a free sample of any treat from a vending machine. They taste amazing and have no apparent odd effects-- until 10 minutes after consumption, when you suddenly gain an insatiable craving for a random kink. Your craving will dominate your thoughts for three hours, or until it is appeased.

« « « PERFECTION OF THE DIGITAL

(CW: potential dubcon, objectification)

By far the largest and shiniest booth comes from expo sponsors Sexy Metal Incorporated, who have set up a display of their incredible high-tech sexbots. These life-sized dolls are made of extremely realistic material that feels like warm human skin, and come with state-of-the-art mechanics that give them lifelike movement. Engineers show off how the bots can be plugged into a computer and programmed to act any way the buyer likes.

They come in a wide variety of customizable appearances and eerily, some of the bots on display look exactly like people you may know. Booth staff encourage customers to buy these dolls, or to rent them and give them a try onstage in front of the fascinated crowds. If that’s not kinky enough, one of the engineers has purchased a VR headset from another booth, and programmed it to interface with the bot’s controls. Care to slip inside the silicone skin of another person?

« « « 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 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: In celebration of our one year, pick whichever role you want for your character!

» A Pocket Full of Pennies: Feel free to come up with any free-roving gangs or petty criminals you like for your characters to tangle with.

» New Flesh Like A Glove: Characters can spend money on items at the expo, or may exchange vouchers for what they want. Each voucher has a value of about $5 within the expo and they may be acquired by finding them, having them handed to characters/stuffed in their pockets or bags by expo volunteers, or paid them in exchange for “volunteering” at booths.

Characters may indeed try before they buy, either out in the open or using one of the provided private rooms with a partner. The expo has a staff of unpaid student interns tasked with cleaning and sanitizing products if they are used but not purchased.

Grandma Hattie’s snacks can inspire characters to have any kink you may desire.

» Perfection of the Digital: Sexbots can resemble any player characters, including brand new arrivals/test drive characters. They can also resemble characters that yours knows from home. The engineers have no explanation for this, and the one who identifies himself as the designer will shrug and say he gets inspiration from many places.

The sexbots are hot-ticket expensive merchandise, so security is tight around the booth. Characters who attempt to steal or destroy a sexbot (for instance, one who looks like themselves) will be quickly set upon by guards, who are meant to eject them from the expo. However, many of the guards will take bribes from other booths to provide them model “volunteers,” drugged into complacency.

If characters want to acquire a sexbot permanently, they will have to buy it or exchange a hefty 50 vouchers for it.

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

» » » MAIN NAVIGATION « « «

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

OOC: Erik has a kind of empathy that senses evil in people that consequently gives him a corresponding headache. Please fill out his permissions to opt-in, otherwise I'll assume your character does not register/LIEs is interfering with his power

Pocketful of Pennies

[Erik makes a quick escape from the building as soon as orientation is over. His head is swimming - definitely not the worst it's ever been, but that many people crammed together is bound to overwhelm him with numbers alone. Head bowed, he makes a quick detour into a nearby alley and fishes the flask out of his jacket pocket, leaning back against the bricks as he tosses back the burning liquor. He just needs a few minutes to himself but of course that isn't happening.

He feels the slight spike on pain behind his eyes before he sees them, two on side of the alley and one on the other, and he squints towards the street where the pair is entering from.]

Hey fellas. Can I offer you a drink?

[It's honestly mostly all he can offer, really, even being a Dominant. He tries to pretend he can't feel the malicious intent rolling off of them and smiles wanly as they approach. The words don't really have any effect. The only acknowledgement is the sharp snick as the man farther into the alley draws a knife as the other move to pin him against the wall]

Oh nonono...please don't do this.

New Flesh Like a Glove

[The expo is exactly the kind of thing he'd normally avoid. He's perfectly fine with sex but less fine with the droves of people, but it does offer an interesting kind of distraction as he struggles to understand what it is, exactly, that these people want from him. It also helps that he makes sure to get a little bit buzzed before he walks through the doors.

He finds himself standing front row center for a demonstration at Symphony Hydraulics with an expression of glassy eyed fascination and more than just a dose of lust. The nameless woman strapped into the machine is arched back, helpless as the pistons speed up and slow down, teasing her to orgasm with merciless efficiency.

Erik is, despite himself, rapt. He speaks to whoever stands next to him without really looking]

That's almost enough to make a guy feel bad about himself.

[Alternatively, it's a much more joking-] Do you suppose this is the splash zone?

[Later, his wandering leads him to Grandma Hattie's where he happily samples a small rolled cake, completely oblivious to the idea that there might be consequences. He's surprised at how good it is, honestly.]

This is a weird place for a bake sale, but I'll take it.

[He's on the way out of the hall when it hits him, like an unfamiliar itch, stalling almost mid-stride in front of one of the booths of slightly more conventional offerings - a table array with vibrators, buttplugs, and beads. His mouth goes a little dry. Maybe all this fucking was getting into his head, but he can't stop staring]

Wildcard

[Want something else? Go for it or hit me up! As a reminder Erik will actively avoid people that triggers his ability but they can try to corner him.]

[Oh for fucks sake.

Phillip doesn't really abide by this kind of shit; he could see the argument for 'steal from the rich, give to the poor' and shit like that, but harassing people as soon as they get here? What kind of asshole do you have to be to do that?

He pushes his way into the alley, angling himself between Erik and his assailants. For once, he actually looks up to meet their eyes- the terrifying creeping sensation should get them to take him seriously, even though he looks like he emerged fully formed from an artsy hipster stereotype.]

Hey. Fuck off.

[It works on the two men near the mouth of the alley, who stare at Phillip with about the same level of confusion that Erik is wearing on his face but with the added layer of dread. They stop dead, looking uncertain, but the man behind him - the one with the knife - he doesn't care. In fact, he looks a lot more annoyed now that his friends seem to be getting a case of nerves over a teenager.

A teenager that is adding another stone in the wall that is his current headache, but it's literally a matter of a lesser evil.]

Hey, you heard him...

[He immediately takes advantage of the third man staring at the others to swing a hard punch directly into the side of the man's jaw.

He doesn't really like to fight, but he will.]

[Phillip stares the other two down until one of them breaks and rushes off, and while the other is still looking terrified and uncertain he pushes past him, just putting himself between the freaked out one and Erik. He feels like it would be more dangerous than helpful to jump into the fight, but he still lingers- he's got ways of interfering if the guy doesn't just leave.

And by interfering, he totally means he's just going to summon about 50 corgis.

The stubby legged doggos swarm the alleyway, bright eyed and delighted to exist, crowding around all the men there and demanding attention. And they will get that attention- there's a kind of magic to them, fascinating, difficult to resist. Plus even if someone does resist, they're going to trip-- corgis like to be underfoot, after all.]

Edited 2019-09-14 01:07 (UTC)

[The alley comes alive with the sound of cheerful yapping and Erik can only watch, perplexed, as the first two them are surrounded by the dogs who they are helpless to resist. The third explains a loud - what the hell - that honestly echoes exactly what Erik himself is thinking, as falls to the ground and is overrun by a small pile of fur.

It's sufficiently surreal that it takes him a moment to come up with anything at all]

These belong to you?

[He arches a brow at Phillip]

[Phillip, meanwhile, has reached dog to scoop up one of the fluffy creatures in his arms, where it happily flops while also trying to get at his face to lick it. Look, he's not going to summon all of these beauties and not even get to pet one.

He shoots Erik a grin.]

Sort of. Come on, let's bail.

[And then, corgi in arms, he just walks out of the alley.]

Erik Gelden | Jessica Jones (MCU) | Dominant

pennies

no subject

no subject

I did not anticipate corgis

nobody expects the corgi inquisition!!

Pocketful of Pennies, cw: wasps if that's okay

as long as they're for external use only lol

haha yep

no subject

no subject

pennies

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

New Flesh, post Gma Hatties

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

pocketful of pennies

no subject

no subject

no subject