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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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Same thing that happened to the other Strange's normal sight.
[ Is he going to go into extreme detail? Not unless pushed, honestly. ]
You fucked on out of the city in time to avoid some real shit.
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He's blind?
[ when he's close enough he reaches up, his fingers hovering askance over the shades to tilt them up, their ever-present tremor visible but not too much of an inconvenience. ]
You aren't blind too, are you?
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[ He was fine with just standing there, until the tremoring fingers actually started to push the shades up. It's then that Judar closed his eyes tightly and backed off with barely a smack to the doctor's hand. ]
Leave it. I can see fine. There's a shop that'll fix whatever you want, so long as you carry out whatever promise you made for it.
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[ that's an earnest ow, by the way. stephen might have a handle on his chronic pain, but that doesn't mean he can go around slapping people or getting slapped. he does take the gesture at face value, though, holding his hands up in a conciliatory gesture and then returning them to his pockets. ]
What happened? Can you walk and talk?
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[ The first thing he's going to do is make sure the sunglasses are back into place. Just to obscure his eyes from as many angles as possible, given the style he went with. Then he'll return his own hands to their respective pockets. ]
Back that way, yeah?
[ Okay, he was following for a bit, to pick up the directions Stephen was going. So he can pick that back up, or go whatever direction he gets pulled in. ]
They've given people access back to that area where you choose one of those doors, to go through the third to another city; Insincerity. The visits are timed, but there's a lot of places there. Like the Repair Shop..
[ Which he *did* vaguely explain, and it's not hard for someone like Stephen to point out one of the things Judar had fixed. The violence and depravity in his energy was tempered down. You could almost believe that he was meant to be some 'great good' underneath all that 'darkness'. ]
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[ stephen is headed to the lifts. he has a scarf on against the ventilated chill of the down; he adjusts it again as another metallic breeze wafts through the street. ]
Did you promise something substantial?
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[ Though he's curious as to why Stephen was heading there, or if he really thought Judar needed to be walked home. It's a weird way of getting a booty call, or finding somewhere nicer to shack up. ]
Just living a week like someone without magic, for one of the things. That's more substantial than not letting anyone see my eyes for a while with the other. The prices aren't outrageous, like during the inferno. Everyone was branded with their biggest sin, it went through clothing and everything, and you had to pay a permanent cost to get rid of it.
[ Which is why Judar's hair, virgin and uncut for his entire life, had given half of it away. ]
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Does that mean your hair won't grow back?
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I mean, even if the hair grew, that's half my life's growth that'll always be gone.
[ Okay. Honestly? He's got no clue. ]
It's not like it's been very long, so if it's been growing, I can't tell. I can't imagine it getting that long ever again, though.
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Was it a worthwhile exchange?
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To get out of the punishments and being branded for the worst part of me?
[ There's a tsk from behind his teeth as Judar seemed to focus on an area that was decidedly not the hair that Stephen was brushing over. It was still thick and lush, as one could imagine from the braids before, but left in a ponytail let it be a lot more obvious. Naturally wavy too, it seemed. ]
... Sure. It's just hair, right? I got the better end of things, compared to other prices. Like I said, your double's going around with only his other sight to work with.
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How long until you lose the shades?
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[ Which, without thinking about how often one just glances around, seemed easy enough. In Judar's case, he was using his quick reflexes more than anything else in getting through. ]
What, after being gone for however long, you miss looking in my eyes?
[ At least Judar can always muster up his sass. ]
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[ the doors open out into the up, with its overcast sky and decorated skyline. stephen falls in step again beside judar, his hands in his pockets, breathing in the cleaner air up here with self-evident calm. ]
They're nice eyes.
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[ He'd have to stay beside to know where Judar's been staying lately. It certainly wasn't the Dominant's housing, at least for a little while, before he decides to shack up somewhere else.
But of course he wasn't going to question that Strange's time back home was a different length than how much had actually passed. ]
Mm... Guess it's too bad you're not seeing them like that again. If I manage to keep that promise.
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Was that part of the wish or the price?
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Part of the 'repair.' I was born with blue eyes- The reason they were red was because of the cursed Depravity I was put under. So... I had them fix the curse and my eyes.
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[ judar, for all that he's been somewhat open with stephen about his unique circumstances, hasn't really provided stephen with the language to describe what he used to sense when he was with him. ]
How do you feel without it?
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It's what we call it. It's sort of like a corruption... So there's the normal energy, that follows the natural flow of the world, whether it's good or bad. We put it in the same line as how fate flows, which is just the progression. Depravity is going against that, and refusing to follow that flow. Sometimes it's staying still, going back, or just wanting to destroy it all for the way you want. There's more involved, and the ways how someone falls to it, or reacts under it, really is... a lot.
So what I had them fix was the curse that kept pushing and keeping it active. Seeing as I've absorbed hundreds of loose depraved souls, I'll never really be completely normal, but without the curse actively fighting any attempts at progress, I can probably get to a more balanced state.
[ Yet there's a tone in Judar's voice that seems to come with the expectation that it wouldn't make much sense to the sorcerer. ]
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as they draw nearer to judar's place he lets judar step ahead to lead. ]
How does it benefit you? Being more balanced.
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[ He'll definitely step ahead to lead to one of the brownstone apartments that he's been staying in for a little while. Will he stay? Nah, there's no way he would. Not some open studio place with barely enough room for his things. But it'd do for the interim. ]
Without the curse, I won't feel compelled to ruin moments that should probably feel nice, or good. It'll probably still be habit, but I could fight and work around that. There's less impulse to sabotage things. I've got no clue how things would be different if I balanced it out, but it's new to be willing to try anyway.
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Sounds good for your interpersonal relationships, anyway.
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Guess I'll find out over time, yeah? You coming in, or continuing along?
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[ what with having to keep those glasses on all the time, it wouldn't surprise stephen if he wasn't. but it'd be good to catch up. he doubts anything else will happen given judar's condition, but it's always been difficult to rule out with him. ]
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[ Judar... Well, it's not like he can always be expected to behave. That was bound to come up in some way, whether as a joke or actual opening. ]
Go ahead and relax on the couch for a while if you want.
[ It's the layout that you generally expect for front studio apartments in brownstones. The couches by the window, technically in the same space as the dining area, with the furniture being the obvious division, and the kitchen being opposite the dining furniture, with a counter acting as a divider for those spaces. Not even a window, but a large arc that led into the bedroom, which had a wall for privacy for the bed itself. Open to hide the smallness, basically, and with a bunch of boxes and luggage, ready to pick up and leave instead of having settled. ]
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