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

Pitch Black | RotG | open to threadjack!

[boogerman]

Here's a hypothetical for you, mysterious advisers. Is breaking and entering wrong, if one does so to leave gifts instead of steal? Toys for children, let's say, and coins in exchange for their teeth.

Should Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy go to jail? Surely they can't be allowed to get away with it.

[spaghettimonster]

THIS IS A TRICKY ONE.
GIFT-GIVERS... SHREWD DENTAL BUSINESS PERSONS...
MAYBE THEY DON'T MEAN TO DO HARM.
BUT BREAKING AND ENTERING IS STILL A CRIME!!
THEY HAVE TO RESPECT PRIVACY.

MAYBE NOT JAIL.
IF THEY JUST WANT TO HELP... I'M SURE THEY CAN AGREE TO STOP DOING CRIMES.
AND DO SOME COMMUNITY SERVICE, IN APOLOGY.

[boogerman]

The number of homes they've broken into in the last six hundred years must be in the billions by now. How many hours of community service would that add up to?

Not that it matters, because they have no intention of stopping anytime soon. And that's not even the worst part.

[spaghettimonster]

[If it's an hour per crime, that's at least six hundred billion hours, which is probably as much community service as any planet could ever need. Incredible! Papyrus is almost ready to imagine how much good they can do, when this ominous statement drops.]

OH NO.
IT'S NOT??
WHAT'S THE WORST PART?!

[boogerman]

[What a sucker. It's nice to have someone hilarious to talk to.]

Hypocrisy! Double standards! Getting high and mighty and violent when I do the same thing!

[spaghettimonster]

OH MY GOD?? THAT'S WAY WORST!
BREAKING AND ENTERING DOESN'T WARRANT MORE THAN A FIRM SCOLDING.
WHO DO THEY THINK THEY ARE??

[boogerman]

The sort of people who think they own the world and that their ways are the only correct ways. People who never learned to share.

[spaghettimonster]

I MEAN. I'VE HEARD ABOUT SANTA.
THAT CHUBBY, SMILING MAN WHO VISITS AROUND GYFTMAS.
HE'S GREAT AT SHARING -SOME- THINGS.
LOVES TO SURPRISE PEOPLE, ALWAYS BRINGS GIFTS...
BUT USUALLY HE BRINGS THEM TO THE TREE IN OUR STREET???
I'VE NEVER HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE!
HORRIFYING IF TRUE!!!

[talkyourwayout]

Why is locking up Santa Claus I thing I have now heard/seen multiple people discuss? Am I missing something, here?

[leader_of_the_dawn]

Is this Santa Claus a well-known figure?

[boogerman]

Well, he's a downright disturbing fellow once you think about it. How does that song go?

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

[twoson_star]

I think those are exceptions. They're doing it to be kind.

[boogerman]

What about that is kind? Why should it be an excuse?

[goldgrifter]

They've been getting away with it for centuries now, so I think it's something we shouldn't worry so much about. I'd keep letting them get away with it, though I don't understand the personal appeal of leaving gifts over taking them.

I do know a certain someone who hates Santa Claus, but honestly I've always *adored* a man in red.

[boogerman]

Don't be ridiculous. By that logic, people should have carried on with witch burnings and human sacrifice simply because they'd gotten away with it for centuries.

Who's this someone?

[goldgrifter]

Well aren't YOU a ray of sunshine. Clearly I was talking about their breaking and entering with no harm, no foul.

And it's a certain someone named Scrooge McDuck, that's who. Absolutely detests the jolly old man, which is also why I think Santa should continue to do what he does best.

[which is 1) piss off Scrooge & 2) deliver gifts with no strings attached because that's how she likes it.]