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DramaDramaDucked ([personal profile] d3mods) wrote in [community profile] d3memes2020-09-27 09:37 pm

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:

FAQRulesReservesTaken

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.
jadedlynx: commissioned; please dns (in prison; book)

[personal profile] jadedlynx 2020-10-17 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That'd make it harder to hop off-world. So far, time seems to stop when I'm gone. If it kept moving, most of us couldn't afford to just disappear for a full day.
catwalknotrequired: (icon (70))

[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-10-17 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably but if at least the days synced up now and again that would be nice. You know?
jadedlynx: commissioned; please dns (lineface; prepared)

[personal profile] jadedlynx 2020-10-17 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a lot of things that'd make this thing easier. Some kind of control over it would make it less of a pain. I keep waiting for the world jumping to happen randomly.
catwalknotrequired: (icon (240))

[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-10-17 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you really think that's possible?
jadedlynx: commissioned; please dns (listening; not happy)

[personal profile] jadedlynx 2020-10-18 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. It's already turning on whenever it wants, even when it wasn't even in the same room.
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[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-10-19 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it has and we haven't heard about it. Though I guess we probably would have if it had.
jadedlynx: commissioned; please dns (hard to hear stupid)

[personal profile] jadedlynx 2020-10-19 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
People are pretty open about spilling stuff when it happens. I haven't seen anybody mention it, but I don't look at everything posted, either.

I'm just gonna be happy while it doesn't. It'd be a pain in the ass to get pulled away when I'm busy. It would be like pulling you away in the middle of a shoot.
catwalknotrequired: (heavy sigh)

sorry it took so long the week was a long one

[personal profile] catwalknotrequired 2020-11-01 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
That would be a lot if you did. Sometimes this has a lot going on. I can't imagine trying to keep track of all of it.

Yeah, that wouldn't be good. I'd probably get labeled as flaky or something and it would just snowball from there.