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

[riveres]

What benefit does that offer, besides letting people know about certain weaknesses you might have?

[sentimentalstoic]

It goes back to what you had said: it gives somebody a degree of control over you. When you can't control yourself well in regards to something, that may be for the best.

You should certainly be judicious about it.

[riveres]

...No offense, but you sound like you don't have any experience with people at all.

[sentimentalstoic]

I think it might be more that you don't have much good experience with them.

[riveres]

I don't. But I don't think it's smart to lie about their nature.

[sentimentalstoic]

Does that include the lie that they can only ever hurt you?

[riveres]

Why do you think it's a lie?

[sentimentalstoic]

There are some pains only other people can inflict; there are some pains only another person can dull.

You're young, aren't you?

[riveres]

So you're just going to discredit me because of my age?

[sentimentalstoic]

Perish the thought! I think your prospects are better for it.

[riveres]

What prospects exactly?

[Oscar's a stubborn motherfucker.]

[sentimentalstoic]

For feeling better!

[Blanca has a penchant for getting entangled with stubborn motherfuckers.

That's why he knows that answer is going to make Oscar feel anything but "better."]

[riveres]

You make it sound so simple.

[sentimentalstoic]

Simple to say, hard to do.

Do you drink?

[riveres]

On occasion, why?

[sentimentalstoic]

Have you ever drank too much?

[riveres]

Yes. It happens sometimes.

[He isn't gonna tell Blanca the exact circumstances of those times, because that isn't his business.]

[sentimentalstoic]

Sometimes it leads you to do regrettable things. Even if you have impeccable control and maintain your judgment in the face of its affects, hangovers hurt.

Still, we don't become teetotalers.

[riveres]

I mean most of the time I'm just at home... away from people when I drink so.

Are you trying to say something important?

[He's not that careless to get drunk in a public place. That's just asking for trouble.]

[sentimentalstoic]

Feelings, people, and trust, like alcohol, need to be handled responsibly. You're bound to get hurt a time or two when you're young, but the reward is worth the learning curve.

Sola dosis facit venenum.

[riveres]

A time or two?

Ok.

[Boomer.]

[sentimentalstoic]

Some might need a few more lessons than others.

[You're not wrong, Oscar; he is living out his self-described "golden years" in fabulously cushy retirement.]

[riveres]

How many exactly? How many times I have to be disappointed and hurt by people before I trust them again?

Hmmm?

[sentimentalstoic]

That's a balance you'll have to learn. Maybe you'll never trust certain specific people again. Maybe only in moderation.

[riveres]

Who has the time or the patience for any of that?

I don't, not anymore.