Test Drive - October/November

[d3mods]

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:

FAQ → Rules → Reserves → Taken
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.

Comments

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[southpawer]

It's real!

[Unfortunately.]

This Sawamura Eijun doesn't not especially like the taste, however it is a sacrifice one must make for good nutrition!!

[It's all lies. He still hasn't managed to swallow a bite of it without gagging it up later.]

[jadedlynx]

There's a lot of food you can eat that's healthy and doesn't make you want to gag. Any vegetable. Fish. I've had Americanized Japanese food. It's good.

So why natto?

[southpawer]

Americanized Japanese food is not real Japanese food! You can't compare the two at all!!

And natto's traditional. Comforting, kind of. Like when your parents make you congee when you're feeling sick. It's always there even if it tastes gross and no one likes it.

[jadedlynx]

Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. Sushi's definitely differently, but not everything is.

We have chicken noodle soup for that. It sounds pretty much the same only you can actually stand the taste of the soup.

[southpawer]

I can stand the taste of congee! It doesn't really taste like much of anything since it's supposed to be gentle on your stomach.

And you can add chicken to it if you want!

sorry about the random format change there

[jadedlynx]

I've had the classic congee. It's not as bad as natto. It reminds me more of American porridge, and you eat porridge for pretty much the same reason: you need food but you can't handle food.

Natto doesn't slide down the same way.

don't mind~

[southpawer]

It doesn't slide down at all but...

...THIS SAWAMURA EIJUN WILL KEEP TRYING UNTIL MY CONSTITUTION IS STRONG ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE PAIN OF NATTO WITHOUT FLINCHING. IT'S JUST ONE MORE STEP TO BECOMING THE ACE.

[jadedlynx]

[ Ash blinks at the random increase in volume. ]

I heard you okay even before you screamed, but even if you yell, I'm still gonna think you can do whatever you're planning to do without torturing yourself with natto.

Try an avocado.

[southpawer]

IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE EMPHATIC ABOUT YOUR GOALS.

[Also that's just his normal volume.]

Avo...cado? That trendy thing that girls eat to make their skin nicer?

[jadedlynx]

Well, if you're going to be an ace, you're going to need nice skin.

[ Ash sincerely likes the taste and that wasn't where he was originally going with this, but sometimes life leads you to odd places. ]

[southpawer]

ARE YOU SAYING IT'S NOT ALREADY NICE??

[jadedlynx]

There's nice and then there's ace nice.

Besides, yelling causes wrinkles around the mouth.

[southpawer]

[gasp]

LIAR.

Yelling is good for the soul and what's good for the soul is good for the body! You should try it sometime!!

[jadedlynx]

So now you're saying I don't look nice? That's a pretty harsh thing to say to somebody you're just meeting.

But it's true. Look it up.

[southpawer]

You have a pretty face but a sneaky smile! It's definitely the face of someone who's up to something!

[Why does he always run into these types? It's like if Miyuki Kazuya was blonde and wearing contacts lenses.]

If you tease people too often you'll definitely get more wrinkles than I do!!

[jadedlynx]

What do you think my grand plan is? I'm telling you, avocado is better than natto. I'm not sponsored by the food.

[southpawer]

But being bad is the entire point! If it was easy and tasty then you wouldn't be overcoming anything by eating it!!

[jadedlynx]

If you want to be some kind of sports player, shouldn't you just be focusing on getting better instead of fighting food? Meals shouldn't be a battle.

[southpawer]

I CAN DO BOTH AT THE SAME TIME YOU KNOW.

And it's conquering! Conquering food!! This Sawamura Eijun cannot be defeated by nasty natto!!

[jadedlynx]

The exact same time? Guys don't become aces by choking on natto because they were too busy eating during practice.

[southpawer]

OF COURSE I WASN'T GOING TO DO BOTH AT THE EXACT SAME TIME.

[This is definitely a blonde Miyuki Kazuya.]

AND I WILL DEFINITELY BECOME THE ACE.

[jadedlynx]

So, that's your philosophy in life? If you don't like it, do it anyway?

[southpawer]

My philosophy is that you shouldn't run away from a challenge just because it's hard!!

And anyway maybe I will like natto once I get used to how nasty it is!! You have to acclimatize yourself to nasty things sometimes!

[jadedlynx]

Doing something because you want to's not the same thing as doing it because you have to.

So that's why natto's so popular over there? It's some kind of masochist thing?

[southpawer]

Well I wouldn't say it's popular...

Lots of people don't like it, even though it's traditional to have it.