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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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[There isn't a good response to that. Not one that Saya can think of. After everything that's happened, she's not sure she knows how to get that close to people. But part of her knows that saying that might only worry Diva more. After all, she was one of the people who'd wanted Saya to live her life.
But it's all so sudden. She'd been taking it a day at a time, but now it's like she's being asked to jump several steps all at once.]
...I know you wouldn't. That's not what I'm worried about.
[She's far from helpless herself. Because she's not human.]
I'll... try.
[It's a weak answer, but it's an honest one. She's willing to try. No promises for how it may all turn out but, it will at least be an attempt.]
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[Don't mind Diva as she gives you an enthusiastic pat to the back Saya, she's just doing her best. After all, now that the two of them aren't at each other's throats anymore...how exactly does she navigate a situation like this?]
You've always been a bit shy, haven't you? But it'll be okay. You have me!
[Which is either a blessing or a curse. Who knows?]
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There's no telling how long it might last, so... she doesn't want to take any of it for granted now.]
R-right! ...thanks, Diva. I really appreciate it. Really.
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Mm...that nasty boy stole your treat though, didn't he? There's no reason to stick around here any longer though. You've been to your apartment already, right?
[The fact Saya isn't in a paper bag anymore says as much.]
You should come back home with me to visit! If Tsurugi's home I'll introduce you but if not you can meet our babies and I'll give you a snack!
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[The conversation seemed to have taken a turn towards some normalcy. Diva staying with someone as a Submissive wasn't a terrible shock. If anything, she was glad that she hadn't been alone, even if she doesn't know exactly who this person was. But then--
Babies.
She'd just said babies, Saya's certain she heard her right.]
Y-your babies? Wait... you mean...
[Her sister had children????]
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[The look of shock on Saya's face has Diva reeling with giggles. It takes her a moment to compose herself before she's grinning again Saya's direction. Clearly everything that had happened between the two of them was water under the bridge as far as Diva was concerned.]
But yeah, I had babies with Tsurugi. It wasn't supposed to happen...but I got lucky somehow! [Who is also her Dominant...] They're really cute, you'll see.
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[At this point, it hard to keep being so shocked. It's almost a strange numbness that comes from being so thoroughly out of her element here.]
In that case I... suppose I should go say hi.
[To. Her sister's children. And, she supposes, their father. It's strange. She wonders what kind of person he is. She can't help but worry a little but-- one thing at a time.]
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[With little reserve Diva wastes no time sliding her arms away from Saya's shoulders only so that she can link arms with her sister. There's a spring in her step as she goes to lead her back toward the road that will take the two of them to her cottage. It isn't too far of a walk and during it at least they can catch up a bit with one another.]
I've kept the place tidy. You'll be proud of me.
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Really? I'm looking forward to seeing it. So you live with... Tsurugi, you said?
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[She squeezes Saya's arm closer to her as the two of them hurry along toward the cottage. It's quite quaint looking on the outside and a lot bigger than one might expect on the inside. Once arrived Diva's opening the front door excitedly only to welcome her twin in.
It's...quite fancy inside. Gothic and vampirey. Understandably so, considering this place once belonged to Alucard, Dracula's son.]
They're sleeping upstairs in my room.
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Oh, I don't want to intrude, I'd hate to wake them--
[Even as she says that though she's poking her head around corners and curiously investigating the house.]
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[There's a dismissive wave of her hand before she's ushering Saya to follow her to her room. Once inside it's clear as day that Diva's made this place her own. The bed she has is large, plush and decadent, fitting for someone with her dramatic personality. The most interesting thing though in the room is the luxurious crib in the corner. Hurrying over to it Diva stands by the side, beckoning for Saya to come and peek inside.]
Well come on. They won't bite.
[Haha...funny. That being said, to Saya's unexpected horror there aren't babies laying there but two very large cocoons with a pink blanket atop them. They should look familiar and yet, at the same time, utterly alien.]
They haven't hatched yet but...they will someday.
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[She slowly approaches and looks at them properly. Cocoons. Same as the ones she and Diva were born from. It fills her with a great concern, but also a strange hope.
Perhaps, here, they could be born into a world where they could be siblings. Where they didn't have to fight, as she and Diva did. Could they have the lives that she and Diva couldn't have?
A part of her hopes.]
Diva...
[Saya gently puts a hand on one of the cocoons.]
I hope I can see the day that happens.
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There's a sudden swell of emotion that bubbles up within Diva as she looks to Saya, her gaze pulled from the crib. A moment later she's throwing her arms around her twin, burying her face against her neck. Oh how she's longed for this, this acceptance from her own flesh and blood, from the only other person alive who was just like her.]
Oh Saya...you will!
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Yeah... I'm glad I didn't miss it.
[It's weird to have room to think like this. But she knew when she survived that she'd have a lot of things to think through.]
Did you think about names yet?
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[Nuzzling her face against her sister just a tad bit more she pulls back to smile, pointing at the cocoons in the crib.]
Their names are Kanade and Hibiki. Tsurugi's Japanese so...it makes sense to give them Japanese names but I wanted them to be kinnnd of musical too, y'know? Plus they're cute!
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[Japanese names too. But they do have a really nice ring to them-- she could tell already just how attached Diva was to them. They haven't even been born and she's still in love with the very idea of her children. It was touching. A very new way for her to look at her sister.]
Kanade... Hibiki...
[Saya will remember them, so that when the time comes, she can greet them properly. They deserved to have the family that she hadn't had until far too late in life.]
Thank you... for introducing me to them. I'm really glad I got to meet them.
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I'm glad too. [Really and truly.] I wonder if they'll look just like us?