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Test Drive - October/November
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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:
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.
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[He'd never get anything done if he was wearing layers of baked goods covered in icing so sadly he is not but what he is wearing works pretty well too right?]
But the metaverse is full of shadows that you have to fight your way through to reach the palace ruler. It's a dangerous place built on cognition. It's a strange place.
[If he's following this she's going to assume she isn't completely murdering the explanation. She really shouldn't be doing this but it's whatever at this point.]
Anything can happen in there. Just because cognition is the basis for everything doesn't mean we're guaranteed to win just because we think we will. And what happens in there can have a large effect on reality or a small effect, we won't know until we do it and come back out the other side.
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What kind of effect we talking about? Do you die? Lose some kind of cognitive ability? If you do lose a part of yourself, can you gain it back if somebody goes inside to help?
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Large effects tend to have big consequences. There was another one of us and they had the ability to make people psychotic and it ended in things like bus crashes and one major train accident. But when we change hearts it's smaller and only effects the person whose heart we changed. And if the shadow "dies" in the metaverse so does the person in reality. If I had to guess if we lose we die too, at least that's what happened last time.
[Not the conversation you were expecting was it mister?]
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So, if you lose, you die.
[ And it's not something Ash can really help. It's tomorrow, with abilities he doesn't possess, in a place he probably can't reach. ]
What happens if it doesn't happen tomorrow?
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[It's okay she understands and well she isn't sure standard weapons would do anything anyway. So much of what they do depends on the boosts the Awakening process gives them and the stats of their personas.]
Things largely carry on as they've been, but one of my friends takes the wrap for things he shouldn't have to. That we shouldn't have to, because they'll want him to name names and he's too noble and too loyal to give ours up.