d3memes | 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:

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Retirement's rotting your brain. 7 years is a lot more than 'slightly'. I guess I should've known you'd go downhill, tricking me all the way over here. You must be pretty bored.

Tricking?

You told 'em I was coming over while pretending to discourage me.

[ Ash finally reaches for the drink. ]

Unless she was in your room when we were talking. I'm hoping for that one.

[It's plain old apple juice, despite being the tawny color of some harder drinks.]

I thought it better to be prepared is all. When you approach a feral kitten, you shouldn't think you've tamed it just because it feels like being pampered at the time.

And you'd be just as satisfied if the kitten ended up in a weird place somewhere.

See? I was right about having nothing but crap-level adults in my life.

I can't say I expected to still qualify as "in your life" anymore. Did you want to be taken in and taken care of?

Yeah, me either, but here you are. I didn't expect to look like a 10-year-old again either, but life likes surprises.

The juice thing's not funny, either.

You hardly gave me enough advance notice to pick up Diet Pepsi.

When you say it like that, it's creepy. Like you got some portfolio of everybody you meet and you just brush up on it sometimes.

Give me some of yours.

It's not creepy to remember your drink, is it? And your body's in no condition for hard liquor.

[Why does he look like he's enjoying this sip more than the past ones?]

I didn't plan to down a bottle, but there's a lot of guys letting their kids try beer. I'm not going to die from it.

I'm not denying you because I don't think that you know your way around alcohol. I know the training provided by the Monsieur, outside of mine, has primed you to appreciate things like this as well.

Then what's the problem? You get stuck in a kid's body and tell me you don't need a drink.

You can't straddle two different worlds forever, you know: being a spoiled child and demanding the perks of your precociousness in the same breath.

Spoiled kid, huh? That's a first. What's it make the guy living in the Caribbean?

An old man living out his golden years in fabulous, unparalleled luxury!

So, the guy living in a one-bedroom place is the spoiled one? Not the guy living in fabulous, unparalleled luxury? Pretty convenient labelling for you.

That's right. Because I've made the choice. Your childhood, like this infection, can't last forever, you know.

[ The irony is thick enough to choke out a room. Ash's childhood ended long before they even met. ]

Huh? Guess I must have missed that lesson in school.

[Finishing his glass, he sets it aside.]

You're being obtuse. But it isn't my business anymore.

Am I, huh?

That part was never your business. You taught me what he paid you to teach me.

I didn't teach you so that you could be a shark in a fish tank.

[ Ash smirks, but there's nothing amused by it. ]

No, it was so that I could be a lion in a circus.

There's a reason most people like dogs better.

By the way, it wasn't a lie. The Bahamas aren't wanting for anything. You'd have had a nice enough time there.

If I'm going to pull a Blanca and skip town for the beach, I'd wait until I was my normal self.

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