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

[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.

[jadedlynx]

What's behind the tradition? Sometimes, stuff happened because that's what happened back then, but stuff changes.

[southpawer]

[Pleased to be asked a historical question so he can show off his knowledge of samurai, Sawamura's volume only increases.]

Famous samurai Hachimantaro was said to once discover natto while at war!! His camp was attacked suddenly while boiling soybeans for the horses and they had to pack them in a hurry into straw bags! The soldiers discovered the soybeans a few days later, sealed in the straw, and warmed up by the running horses and it made natto, which they then ate!

Since then natto is often served at breakfast so as to provide vital health benefits!!

the more you know

[jadedlynx]

[ In full transparancy, Ash didn't exact a real answer. He listens, a little impressed by the kid. He's an earnest guy, huh? ]

Gold star for the history buff. If it was that far back, I doubt they did a nutrition test. Why'd the second batch happen? It wasn't for the taste.

[southpawer]

AHAHAH!! THIS SAWAMURA EIJUN IS AN EXPERT IN ALL THINGS SAMURAI AFTER ALL. PLEASE COME TO ME WITH ALL YOUR QUESTIONS AND I WILL GRACIOUSLY ANSWER.

Maybe the natto renewed their energy and gave them victory in battle!! If something works you need to keep doing it of course, no matter how small a thing!!

[Spoken like a true, superstitious athlete.]

Plus there probably was not too much else to eat and beans are pretty filling!

[jadedlynx]

There's a lot of ways to make beans outside of natto.

[ It's gross, and Ash doesn't understand it. He's eaten disgusting food because he's had to in the past, but never because he wanted to. ]

Now, you can just make a health shake. Do it right, and it's not terrible.

[ Not that Ash makes it, but he buys it sometimes when he's between his bar food kicks. ]

[southpawer]

Coach makes us eat three bowls of rice at every meal so we can replenish all the energy we put into our practicing!

You have to finish all the rice but you don't have to eat natto too!

[jadedlynx]

Three bowls? Three times a day? You guys are downing nine bowls of rice every day? Nevermind with the yelling. Keep going. You'll have to use a lot of energy to burn off nine bowls of rice.

[southpawer]

Well, at least twice a day!! If we have games then sometimes we have to eat while traveling, which means rice balls instead of bowls!!

And I'm not yelling!!

[he yells]