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.

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The line between revenge and self-defense has always been fuzzy for me. Maybe I just lead an unusually complicated life.

Edited 2020-09-28 05:56 (UTC)

At a certain point, it can't be called self-defense anymore, can it? Not after years and years.

[ Breq isn't trying to delude herself into thinking she's defending herself with her plans. ]

If I live long enough for it to be years and years, I'll get back to you.

[Kerrigan's like 26 and just escaped from some creepy Red Room shit, she has no idea.]

I can be patient.

[ Look, Breq is like one thousand plus, she's been around a bit. ]

The people you're going after...what'd they do?

They killed someone important.

[ She's not likely to go into much further detail.

At least not yet. ]

[It takes her a second to realize Breq probably means emotionally important, but Kerrigan's just weirdly sheltered, not stupid, so she gets there.]

I get it. There's a few people out there I'd want to take down even if they weren't threats. Not sure if that makes me a bad person, but it feels like I've got a lot of company on that one.

I'm not sure if morality enters into it.

Although this person is certainly a threat, all on their own.

If you're talking about revenge, the morality question is built in, isn't it? So far I've been lucky--the one guy I really wanted a piece of needed to be taken out for the mission to succeed, anyway.

[She has no idea how disturbing "good thing the dude whose brain I boiled in his skull was also a valid tactical target, so I didn't have to feel bad" sounds.]

It's easier when you're following orders.

[ She did, for the longest time. And then things changed. ]

Not really. I could always say no.

[Rebel insurgencies tend to be informal like that, especially when you're a terrifying murder machine no one can stop from ragequitting if you're really bent on it.]

Everyone can. Not everyone does.

[Haha funny story about these brain implants that remove someone's free will...]

Do people do that? Convince themselves they don't have a choice but to follow orders?

Sometimes. Other times they trick themselves into thinking it was their choice all along. Or they think there was nothing they could do. That it was out of their hands all along.

And sometimes they refuse and they pay a price for it.

["And sometimes they refuse and they pay a price for it." No one we know, right?]

You left out the ones who don't seem to mind.

[ Of course not. ]

They think what they do is right. Or pretend that it is.

I wish I knew where the line between the greater good and just lying to yourself was.

It's a very thin one and hard to see.

At least you're thinking about the line existing in the first place.

So how long were you on the wrong side of that line?

Unless I'm reading you wrong. Text does that.

[She's used to cheating with telepathy, baww.]

I can't say if it was wrong.

The people I fought certainly thought so. The Radch thought they were justified.

That's war for you.

Sometimes it's clearer cut.

[Sometimes a government uses entire planets as tests sites for zerg invasions.]

I guess that's why revenge caught my eye. It's going to feel really good taking those bastards down, and I'm not used to that.

I imagine they took something from you. Or someone.

They took damn near everything, and I doubt I'm the only one.

No, there's never just the one.

Voice of experience?

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breq - 2020-09-29 05:34 (UTC) - Expand