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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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How could he sum up what he had been doing here? It was hard to put into words. He shook his head. It was so good to laugh. "Why would I want to be in charge of this place? It's dreadful. As for what I've been doing...Surviving. Mostly. Learning things about myself. The usual affair."
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"I don't know. It seems like it's a mess. I figured you could take it over and fix it in ... maybe a few weeks," Gladio said. "A month if you were lazy about it." He cocked his head curiously. "Learn anything interesting?" Gladio didn't like that surviving. He understood the necessity but ... he didn't like it. Iggy and the others deserved better than scraping by.
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Ignis shook his head. "This place is beyond me. There are people here more powerful than even Ardyn. Surviving is a feat." And coming out unscathed was even harder.
"What did I learn? Hm..." Might as well go for shock value. "Ever heard of being polyamorous?"
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Gladio's expression clouded with Ardyn's name. He'd last heard that guy taunting him and Iggy. But Ignis didn't know that part yet. Gladio had an idea they didn't know the half of what that guy was capable of. People more powerful than that ... didn't sit right. He shrugged against the thought. "I didn't say it wasn't, just not what you should get knocked down to doing, Ignis." He tipped his head. "Are we in more danger than they let on?"
Gladio blinked and then laughed. "Yeah?" He'd never exactly tried it, but Gladio read a lot. And there'd been a girl when he was 20 who taught him more, just because he'd been fascinated by the things she knew. The notion had never exactly been unappealing to Gladio. "I'm not as dumb as I look, you know."
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He noticed the dark expression on Gladio's face and regretted bringing up the chancellor. "Danger? Well, yes. There is always an element of danger. But...they seem bent on keeping us alive, for the most part."
When Gladio laughed, he felt just a tad foolish. "I never meant to make it sound like you were dumb. On the contrary, I had never heard of it myself, until I came here. And it seems to describe me very well."
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"Yeah. Can't really get away from the danger parts." Not with their lives, anyway. Still, this wasn't what they'd trained for or dealt with. So it wasn't like they could anticipate anything. Daemons and Empire attacks might not be the safest or greatest things in the world - but they were at least a part of their world. Something that had rules they all got to know and understand, at least a little. This place had rules that didn't make sense and danger Gladio couldn't guess at. "Sorry you had to put up with it this long, Ignis," Gladio said, sincerely.
He was surprised by the admission. Gladio just kind of operated on the assumption that Ignis knew most things. "I knew a girl for a while, she told me about it. You know me, I never had time for relationships to begin with, too busy training. But it always kind of made sense to me. The idea of more than one person." With one person, it meant that they were relying on you and you were relying on them to be what you needed for each other. If something happened, if he died protecting his Prince ... or got dragged to some weird sex world, then one person would be left dealing with that all alone. But if it was multiple people, all caring about each other - lose one, the others still had someone there to lean on and grow past it, find someone new together.
Plus, it just seemed like it would be easy to love more than one person, if he had time to do that at all. And more than two people in bed was never exactly a turnoff.
It was surprising for Iggy, but maybe just because Ignis was telling him at all. "So you've got more than one person waiting at home for you here?"
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He thinks for a moment. "It's been difficult, but I've had support. It hadn't all been bad." He had Robin and Prompto as constants. Others have had it way worse.
"I never really considered love, to be honest. I had my duty. That was enough." Ignis admitted. "But I have fallen in love with a few people. At the moment, I live with two of them."
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He shrugged, uneasy with the idea nonetheless. "Still sorry you had to go through it." Sorry for a lot of stuff, even if some of it hadn't happened yet here.
"I thought about it. Seemed more like something other people would get," Gladio admitted. He'd thought about it plenty. He read a lot of romantic nonsense in between his history and political books. But it had been an abstract. A nice idea, but something he'd probably never get. He wasn't sure how he felt about Ignis finding it here. "Glad if you had something to make this place better," he said. Since that was true enough, even if Gladio hadn't worked out the rest yet. "What are they like?"
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Thinking on his partners, he smiled. "Currently, I have two submissives, under the laws of this place. Felih is..." He looked at Gladio for a moment, wondering how his feline submissive would feel about his friend. "Very charming and beautiful. We have a very open relationship, so if he flirts with you, it's quite alright."
His face softened when he thought about Robin. "Robin is very special to me. They look young, but I assure you it's.. complicated. We've both been here for a year, and we've been through a lot together."
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It was still just strange to hear Ignis talk like that, and maybe a little unsettling for other reasons, but Gladio went with it. "I'm not going to flirt with your guy, Igs," he said. Open or not, Gladio thought it might be strange with another of Ignis' friends.
His expression went soft and a little sad. "Still hard to imagine a year. But I'm glad you had people to lean on and make it easier." Gladio's hand came up, absently brushing the mark he wore without realizing he'd done it. "Bet they were glad to have you too," he added wryly, hand dropping to clasp back in front of him again. "They from home too?"
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Ignis noticed the subtle changes in Gladio's body language, but didn't say anything about it. "We were pretty lucky to have found each other." He shook his head at the question. "They are not. Although Felih is from a place that has some similarities."
He decided it was fine to bring up the next point. "Prompto and I, however, have gotten closer in our time here."
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"Must be strange, hearing about other worlds from everyone around you. Don't think I'll get used to that any time soon." Gladio found it hard to believe. Not that he didn't think it was true, it was just ... tough to wrap his head around.
Gladio cocked his head. "Closer like better friends, or closer like he's part of your relationships too?" he asked baldly.
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He took a deep breath and looked at the ceiling. "It's complicated. I think we're both scared of putting a label on it."
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Gladio watched Ignis tip his head back, frowning a little. Relationships hadn't really come up as a topic of conversation much between them all that often, not as anything but casual talk. They'd just had other things going on. And he wasn't really equipped to have anything useful to say about it now, not when so much of it - the place, the nature of it all - was foreign to him. But still. "Don't think it has to have a name to be important, Iggy," Gladio said quietly.
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Gladio always had wise things to say. It's one of the reasons they got along so well. "That's true. And I consider it very important. I've learned so much about him. He's so strong, Gladio."