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DramaDramaDucked ([personal profile] d3mods) wrote in [community profile] d3memes2020-09-27 09:37 pm

Test Drive - October/November


You wake up... in your bed or wherever you went to sleep because your character is exactly where you left them. A revival of the classic LJ/DW game DramaDramaDuck (DDD), D3 is an attempt to capture the spirit of the classic with some adjustments. The name, and the names of many parts of the game, pays homage to the original while allowing it to be something different as I'm not a founder of the original. I just had fun there and thought it sounded fun now.

An Open Lid game, as opposed to a JamJar; your characters remain in their canon worlds and timelines but can access a magical network to connect to other canon's universes. You, with the help of your castmates should you have them, decide how they experience shape your remaining canon, even if it means nothing changes at all.

Welcome to the D3 test drive. Prompts are sparse because this is the game where you make the story. Some optional suggestions are:

A. Hit by an infection

Like it says on the label. Your character has been hit by one of the monthly infections that take place on the network. This particular infection shouldn't alter the personality too much if you're planning to use it as a sample. For more information on infections, read the faq found here.

B. Canon update

Something happen at home you want to share? Or don't want to share, but the network is showing anyway?

C. A call to arms

Trouble is brewing, and you need help? You have worlds full of superheroes to ask for help. That doesn't always mean they can reach you...


That's the down and dirty. Not quite as fancy as you're used to seeing, huh? D3 is a simple game. Or it's not. It's up to you, the player, to make your experience. There will also be a log community so you can do face-to-face meet ups, and anyone can go off-world this time.

To perhaps capture the group game feeling that differentiates D3 from memes, consider noting whether you're open to threadjacks with a subject line like so:

Character | Canon | Open/Not Open to threadjack

We recommend you read the following to help you along:

FAQRulesReservesTaken

Reserves will open for the first time on October 1st and apps will follow October 7th. After they open, they'll remain open instead of having cycles.
jokingoff: ((One for the money))

akira kurusu (joker) | persona 5 | threadjack me babey

[personal profile] jokingoff 2020-09-28 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)

i. video (as akira)

[ good news! a video's just popped up onto your network feed!

its footage depicts a quiet and quaint-looking cafe, complete with glass siphons bubbling away behind the counter, and empty seats all around. at a glance, nothing seems all that unusual, until the camera pans over to a suspiciously-empty shelf. on any other day it'd be packed with dozens of different jars, filled with coffee beans of all kinds, ranging from blue mountain to colombian and more.

a few unlabeled containers of various sizes remain, but there's no coffee to be found here. instead: ]


Does anybody have a teapot? I've never brewed it on my own before...

[ tea. it's all tea, which is no part of cafe leblanc's menu. what to do? ]



ii. i've a feeling we're not in the shibuya anymore, (as joker)

[ this was supposed to be a simple and straightforward trip down into the underground subway, business as usual for the phantom thieves of hearts. unfortunately, joker's lost sight of his teammates, their transportation...and just about everything else, too.

it looks like a city—sounds like one, too—but it doesn't resemble anyplace he's ever seen or been in before. the skyline looks the same as any other, no shadows or threats to seen. his navigator didn't go haywire, did it? is that even possible?

as much as he'd love to ask, the glowing door he'd normally use to slip between realities isn't here, either. joker's a fish out of water, standing the middle of an open street, adjusting each of his gloves with a frown. ]


Think we've got a problem...

[ that's putting it lightly. if he can survive a palace, and what the metaverse throws him at large, he can get through this too. hopefully. probably. ]



iii. wildcard!

[ power of the wild card! text him or poke him with something else if you want to, we're easy-breezy i promise♥ ]

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[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-09-29 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
[Ann looks completely confused at his admission. How can Akira have never brewed tea before?]

I was going to ask how you've never brewed tea before but I'm more confused by how there is no coffee in Leblanc.
jokingoff: ((It is all done with computers))

[personal profile] jokingoff 2020-09-29 01:41 am (UTC)(link)

[ he can only answer one of these: ]

My parents did it. Would you believe I was never really into tea?

[ or coffee, for that matter. funny how times have changed. ]

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[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-09-29 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
With the way you enjoy your coffee? Yes of course I can believe you were never really into tea.

[The confusion ebbs and a smile forms in it's place. It's just amusing to think about Akira never made tea before in his life it's sort of weird.]

Is the shop open to customers? I can bring my teapot if you need it.
jokingoff: ((When I go from point A to point B))

[personal profile] jokingoff 2020-09-29 06:13 am (UTC)(link)

[ surprise...just because akira's cultivated a certain image as a ringleader, a gentleman thief, there's plenty of things he isn't good at. or that he knows how to do from start to finish. ]

That'd be great. I tried using the siphons here, but...

[ he gestures just out of frame. it turns out there's tea in those, not coffee, but it tastes burnt somehow, incredibly unpalatable. where he went wrong is anyone's guess. ]

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[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-09-29 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Color her completely shocked by this development. She never would have thought there was something her glorious leader wasn't good at.]

Akira... no. It turned out terrible didn't it?

[There is so much sighing here. That was a terrible idea.]

I'll be there shortly with the teapot. We can't let you keep ruining tea I feel like someone would never forgive us.
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[personal profile] jokingoff 2020-09-30 02:48 am (UTC)(link)

It's— [ his voice falters. because of the video encoder, that's it. ] —drinkable...

[ it's not drinkable. he knows enough to understand this isn't what tea is supposed to be. no one would let him serve this, nor is anyone here, which means they've got plenty of time to perfect this before the boss storms back in demanding an explanation. ]

Shh. It'll be our secret.

[ that and everyone else who's currently watching their feeds. details, details. ]

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[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-10-01 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[The eyebrow raise that gets. Uh-huh, she's not buying it Akira. That did not sound like a technology glitch so much as a: he doesn't know how to describe it hesitation.]

[She shakes her head.]


If you say so. Please hide the evidence of making bad tea before someone walks in. I think boss would be very unhappy to find out you abused the siphons so badly.
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[personal profile] jokingoff 2020-10-01 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)

Oh, no. Did I commit tea crimes?

[ he spares a glance towards one of the siphons again. when they phrase it like that, it's...more or less what's happened. ]

I'll be careful.

[ he'll pour it down the drain. no one has to know. ]

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[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-10-01 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Only in the worst way imaginable.

[She will always be here to speak the truth. And stop him from doing something completely stupid like rushing into palaces without thinking it all the way through or making bad tea more than once.]

You should. There are people in the world that would hold it against you. Lucky for you I'm not one of them.