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duplicitymemes2019-09-12 04:47 pm
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TDM #8
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It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Yet, solace is found in the lies we tell each other, comforted by the peace of knowing that we're not alone in our depravity, and once on this path, sin itself becomes the lesser of two evils masked in a cloud of normalcy. This is how Duplicity has functioned since the beginning. The divide of power and social standing is overt in that Dominants influence the decisions made both publicly and privately while Submissives cater to the rules presented to them. It is the way of Duplicity to assign random designations at birth with no leeway in altering what has been given. Climate in the Up is far stricter than that of the Down; violating outlined personas for a Dominant or Submissive while in full view of others is punished by degree of infraction. In the Down, many tend to turn a blind eye to these sorts of offenses. To counteract the discovery of the Deceit Gene – a natural "negative" response to all stimuli – the L.I.E.S. program was founded. The program had been designed to introduce new subjects to the current environment and test for the Deceit Gene through immersion in Duplicity's standing society. Sexual impulses and encounters increase the chances of detecting the gene within these individuals. Participants are typically released from L.I.E.S. after a year; however, results have remained unsatisfactory and testing still continues. ... 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. |
 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 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. |
( 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. |
 (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? |
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!! |
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[ It’s not until Han starts trying to puzzle out what that’s supposed to mean that everything starts to fall into place. The anxiousness, the want to be told what to do, his perception of her. She probably got dosed with something. ]
Did you eat some of the food here?
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I had a lemon tart from the baked goods shop. Why?
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[ Han glances over at her awkwardly. He has no idea how she’s going to react to that, but he expected surprise at the very least. Given that she didn’t know about the food being laced with things, it makes him think she might be one of the new people. ]
It’s so common that people usually grab a bite with with some they ... you know. Someone they want to get to know better.
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[Fury flashes at that, not at him, but that someone dared. She doesn't know why it even surprises her, but it does, and her free hand curls into a fist. On the other hand, it's something of a relief, because at least it's an explanation, and she's not gone insane.
She grits her teeth a little, trying to push down the need that's still coursing through her, getting worse.]
How long does it usually take to wear off? [She heals fast, after all. Surely her vampiric blood will push it out sooner rather than later?]
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[ Han had only fallen for the put an aphrodisiac in me without my consent scheme one time. It wasn’t even from it being hidden in food, either. It was something you could more or less avoid from food stands at large events, when you knew that this place wasn’t above that kind of abuse on their population. ]
Couple of hours for me, but I think I got something a bit more potent than what they slip in the food. [ Han scratches his fingers over the back of his wavy hair. ] We could get you somewhere that you could lay down and try to sleep it off.
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But she looks at him with a curious tilt of her head, the heat of it still flowing through her and that need that goes with it.]
I don't think I could sleep like this...
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[ Han takes a breath. He’s sort of running out of ideas for how he can help her besides the obvious one. It’s not that Hayley isn’t attractive, she definitely is, but he hates the way Duplicity always seems to get what it wants. ]
Listen, we could just find somewhere to get a little privacy and maybe take the edge off, if you wanted.
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But she manages to make it, nodding sharply.]
Yes. Please...
[Anything to make this lost feeling go away.]
Sorry this tag back has taken so long ...
It hasn’t been so long that he didn’t remember the feeling of what it was liked to be the medicated person, though. The flushed feeling running over your body, the throbbing ache, the mental fog that comes along with it. It’s a wonder this lady hadn’t walked away from him to find someone more willing. The longer Han wrestled with his thoughts about this place, the longer she had to be under the effects. ]
Right. [ Time to get moving. Get into somewhere just a little more private. ] Follow me.
[ Down a level in the convention center was a lot less populated. Since this place was designed to simulate people (even down to the layouts of the buildings), there was no shortage of private rooms for people to pair off in. The trick was finding a room that wasn’t already occupied.
Four of the rooms they had tried to enter were simply locked and presumably already being used. The next room was certainly being used, but the door was not locked, giving them a view of two people tied up in a faintly intimate knot, where Han had closed the door quickly. The room after that, though, finally was one that could enter and be left alone in. ]
No worries - then it was my turn. Life just slammed in hard this week!
Now, she's going to be embarrassed once she's capable of feeling it, but right now, she's not. She follows him eagerly, the clear direction and the hope that this feeling will go away both driving her. The people in the knot gets her peering around Han in a sort of dark curiosity but he shuts the door too quickly for her to really see anything.
But she feels a surge of relief when they find an empty room, moving into it quickly, before looking to him for just what he wants her to do.]
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[ If she was waiting for him to tell her what to do, she’ll only have to wait another second or two. Han is a decent guy, but he’s no saint. His eyes are on her watching somewhat expectantly. ]
The rest of your clothes if you want, but. The bottoms definitely have to go.
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She doesn't hesitate, leaning down to unzip her boots and pull them and her socks off so she can get the skinny jeans she's wearing off. It takes a little wriggling to get them down, but she kicks them off as quick as she can.
There's a moment's indecision about if she should take the rest of her clothes off, but she finally decides being naked is ultimately better, and tosses her tank top and underthings after her pants.]
Better?
[Even not under the influence, she's not shy, so standing there stark naked clearly doesn't bother her at all.]
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[ He can’t help the lopsided smile that settles on his face. Even the way that duplicity tends to set up these sexually charged situations in a way that wouldn’t happen organically anywhere else? They could still be fun once in a while.
Hayley will see that Han has made no effort to remove his clothes and still hasn’t, by the time he’s stooping down and getting on his knees for her. When he rests a hand on her thigh, she’ll feel that his palms are calloused way beyond what she’d probably expect from a guy in his twenties. He has mechanic’s hands and they were generally just kind of big, too. ]
Try to relax.
[ He’s not sure if she feels tense or not, but it strikes him as a polite thing to say. She’ll feel him move closer. His breath teasing against the skin of her legs and at this point, she probably has the idea he wants to go down on her. ]
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The situation is a bit tense-making, simply to feel so out of control. She's been too used to having to be in control, having to be responsible for everything and everyone, for saving her family, for holding her pack together, for being a mom...even without the aphrodisiacs messing with her, she's been feeling lost.
But he tells her to relax, and she feels some of the tension leave her body. Surrender, it turns out, isn't as horrifying as she felt it would be. His breath tickles her skin, and she shivers, feeling terribly vulnerable, but turned on at the same time.]
I'm relaxed...
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[ Shortly after the warmth of his breath and the feeling of him lingering close to her, she’ll feel him actually grazing against her skin. When his cheeks touch against her thighs, smoothly shaved, but Hayley will be able to tell he’s blushing by how warm his cheeks feel.
He’s aiming for better than ‘horrifying’ though, maybe it will start to feel borderline good when she feels the delicate skin of his lips between her legs. It’s clear he’s building up to more as he positions himself closer still and that the touches are generally traveling toward a more intimate place. ]