[What Toby's describing is just as authoritarian and shitty as Orientation forecasted. He'd taken it all with a grain of salt at the time, because, hell, who wouldn't? Surely a city built upon a BDSM foundation didn't, and couldn't work.
But it does, and it's real.
This is, without a doubt, the most fucked situation he's ever found himself in.]
So I'm out of the fire, and you're out of ... [death] where you were, and we're both in a sex dungeon. Usually, I wouldn't mind that, especially with present company. [Dark humour aside, he frowns.]
And there's no way to leave, I'm guessing? [Sex is great, and all, but he doesn't see most people staying for the compelled part of it, if there's a way to be free.] This place is a city, but, what? There's a giant guarded wall around the edges? Dimensional portals that toss you right back in?
Honestly, I'll take it over the alternative. [A gentle way of confirming he knows he's dead back home. If this is where they get to be together for eternity, he'll take it, no matter how shitty or Orwellian it may be.]
None as far as I know. Some people've tried to find out more about how we get here or what happens when we're sent away, but they've got naught for it. [He appreciates other people sticking their necks so he doesn't have to. All the better that they get the punishments for doing so. A way out to get back home and tell off Lucifer, maybe even take him out, would be nice, but there's no way in any version of Hell Toby's risking himself for that. Not while Dorian was gone and even less so now that the man's back.]
The city itself seems to simply exist somewhere. If you find any edges, you'll wander them only to find yourself back toward where you started sometime later. [It's trippy, to put it mildly.] Only place 'round here that's fully contained is the sister city of Veracity, and that's in a bloody dome under the water. [AKA a place Toby does not ever want to be.
Shit, he's going to have to explain it at some point, isn't he? There's so much with that shitty little city to go through, too, starting with its weirdness and ending with the Pit.]
[As he's listening, the stray thought of 'Perhaps nobody's tried hard enough' crosses Dorian's mind, but he dismisses it after a moment's consideration. As tantalizing as the secrets of the city's boundaries are, the very idea threatens this small slice of paradise where Toby's alive. No investigation is worth endangering either of them accidentally tripping into some secret that sends either of them home.
Thankfully, the idea of a modern Atlantis is interesting enough to grab onto, instead.]
Under the water? [He blinks.] So, under the waves of that beach out there, [he points at the window of the bathroom] there's an entire city that people here can get to?
[Goddammit. Of course he'd ask about Veracity. Toby sighs heavily. He could lie about the city and try to convince the man it's nothing special, but the fact that it exists the way it does won't stop him. So, best go for the big guns right away.]
Yes, and you don't want to go. Not because it isn't interesting in its own right, but because the last time you were there, the city had kidnapped you, made you powerless, and forced you and dozens of other LIERs through the most obscene dominant/submissive routines between literal torture. I know you don't remember that right now, but if you ask about Veracity around anyone who's been here long enough, they'll all give the same shudder before they can say anything about it.
[As quickly as his interest was piqued, Toby squashes it with that explanation. BDSM-styled torture. That'll be another fun memory to get back - whenever it is his memories are planning on returning.]
All right, point taken. Duplicity's Atlantis is better left alone. [He frowns slightly.]
I feel like you've given me the score of what to look out for, and what not to do in this place. Is that all Duplicity is? Rules and punishments? [If so, living here is going to be a pain in the ass.] We have all of this [he gestures at the surrounding bathroom] so we must have had some of the life we wanted?
Mostly, but it's not everything by any stretch. There's weird magic and technology here to mess with, city provided but also available from other LIERs. Some of it's not sexual or kinky, but the range on the sexy stuff is grand. Did you know they have actual aphrodisiacs here? Not caviar or snake oil, but drinks, drugs, or oils that can make you feel things you've only dreamed of for sex. [He grins at the other man.] You'll have a few good memories to relive soon enough, but if you're curious now...
[Toby moves about the bathroom quickly, searching through cabinets and drawers until he finds a little vial with a purple liquid inside. It's barely enough for a mouthful from the look of it, but the vampire seems none too worried about that.]
Want to give something a try? This one'll make you horny as hell, but it also heightens sensations a bit. Not the same as being bitten, from what I understand, but it outstrips any heroin or opium I've ever tried. Just a few drops and a few minutes of time, and you'll really get to enjoy the roughness of my hands from all the work I've been doing since I got here.
[Something new, along with another round of sex? The vampire doesn't have to ask him twice. Reaching out, Dorian accepts the phial and gives the contents a once-over. The purple fluid within definitely doesn't look like anything he's tried before.
At some point, his body's going to give in and demand sleep, but until it does, he's spending every waking moment left reacquainting himself with his lover.]
You know just the right things to say to a boy, [Dorian chuckles, wrapping his fingers around the phial. Leaning over, he stands a little taller to peck the vampire on the lips, and then takes one of the other man's hands to tug him along back towards the bedroom.] Do you have a favourite tipple to throw it in, or is it best done on its own?
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But it does, and it's real.
This is, without a doubt, the most fucked situation he's ever found himself in.]
So I'm out of the fire, and you're out of ... [death] where you were, and we're both in a sex dungeon. Usually, I wouldn't mind that, especially with present company. [Dark humour aside, he frowns.]
And there's no way to leave, I'm guessing? [Sex is great, and all, but he doesn't see most people staying for the compelled part of it, if there's a way to be free.] This place is a city, but, what? There's a giant guarded wall around the edges? Dimensional portals that toss you right back in?
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None as far as I know. Some people've tried to find out more about how we get here or what happens when we're sent away, but they've got naught for it. [He appreciates other people sticking their necks so he doesn't have to. All the better that they get the punishments for doing so. A way out to get back home and tell off Lucifer, maybe even take him out, would be nice, but there's no way in any version of Hell Toby's risking himself for that. Not while Dorian was gone and even less so now that the man's back.]
The city itself seems to simply exist somewhere. If you find any edges, you'll wander them only to find yourself back toward where you started sometime later. [It's trippy, to put it mildly.] Only place 'round here that's fully contained is the sister city of Veracity, and that's in a bloody dome under the water. [AKA a place Toby does not ever want to be.
Shit, he's going to have to explain it at some point, isn't he? There's so much with that shitty little city to go through, too, starting with its weirdness and ending with the Pit.]
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Thankfully, the idea of a modern Atlantis is interesting enough to grab onto, instead.]
Under the water? [He blinks.] So, under the waves of that beach out there, [he points at the window of the bathroom] there's an entire city that people here can get to?
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Yes, and you don't want to go. Not because it isn't interesting in its own right, but because the last time you were there, the city had kidnapped you, made you powerless, and forced you and dozens of other LIERs through the most obscene dominant/submissive routines between literal torture. I know you don't remember that right now, but if you ask about Veracity around anyone who's been here long enough, they'll all give the same shudder before they can say anything about it.
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All right, point taken. Duplicity's Atlantis is better left alone. [He frowns slightly.]
I feel like you've given me the score of what to look out for, and what not to do in this place. Is that all Duplicity is? Rules and punishments? [If so, living here is going to be a pain in the ass.] We have all of this [he gestures at the surrounding bathroom] so we must have had some of the life we wanted?
cw: talk of drug use
[Toby moves about the bathroom quickly, searching through cabinets and drawers until he finds a little vial with a purple liquid inside. It's barely enough for a mouthful from the look of it, but the vampire seems none too worried about that.]
Want to give something a try? This one'll make you horny as hell, but it also heightens sensations a bit. Not the same as being bitten, from what I understand, but it outstrips any heroin or opium I've ever tried. Just a few drops and a few minutes of time, and you'll really get to enjoy the roughness of my hands from all the work I've been doing since I got here.
[Doesn't that sound like fun, fiancé??]
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At some point, his body's going to give in and demand sleep, but until it does, he's spending every waking moment left reacquainting himself with his lover.]
You know just the right things to say to a boy, [Dorian chuckles, wrapping his fingers around the phial. Leaning over, he stands a little taller to peck the vampire on the lips, and then takes one of the other man's hands to tug him along back towards the bedroom.] Do you have a favourite tipple to throw it in, or is it best done on its own?