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

[takenalive]

I can only speculate, but those probably start with never arranging for the development of a genocidal virus or allowing one's own body and mind to fall into the uses of a hungry empire that makes use of both.

Which disqualifies me.

[breq]

Do you think working for an empire makes one immoral?

[takenalive]

It depends on the role, and I suppose the empire. The historical Five saw other people only as resources to burn. The Yeerk Empire sees everyone else as bodies to use, if applicable, or slaves at best if not. There were moral Fivers, I'm sure. The only moral Yeerks are ones who don't take host bodies and therefore have very little standing or power.

My own people might be construed as running an empire, and it's one in which we theoretically allow others to live and run their own worlds without interference, and protect them from threats. "Better than the Yeerks" says little and still includes people like me.

[breq]

And what if the empire says it's doing what's best for everyone? Giving people civilization? A purpose? A place?

[ She's long since become cynical about the workings of the Radch. But she wants to chase this thread down. ]

[takenalive]

They all say these things. Who is killed deserved no better. Who is subjugated deserves subjugation. Who has power deserves it and knows best.

There are at best slight regrets. Someone sets moral codes and we imagine their existence protects us, and people like me are lone predators in a safe pasture.

[breq]

You have a very keen understanding of how it all works.

[takenalive]

I am a war criminal. My authority was taken but not my rank or my allowance to serve in the fleet, nor was I tried, leaving me free to act and be captured for my lack of forethought. The greater shame on my family is that I didn’t die when I was taken.

When I was freed I had to prevent an old acquaintance from doing worse with more foreknowledge and for less reason, and was told that the difference was he was acting on orders while I had acted in revenge.

And you? You don’t seem surprised. Another shattered idealist?

[breq]

No; I was never an idealist in the first place.

[ She doesn't know how much she would like to admit to, even to people from other dimensions, as strange as it sounds. She's spent nineteen or twenty years hiding who and what she is. It's a hard habit to break. She was a piece of equipment. She was a tool. A weapon of war. There were no ideals there. Or so she told herself. ]

I did what I was told until I didn't.

[ And even that isn't strictly true. She'd followed that last order and only then had she rebelled. ]

[takenalive]

Part of an empire, then, rather than an outsider?

What then?

[breq]

Then I started planning.

[ It's a long story, honestly. ]

It would take some time to tell the whole story.