Now Presenting: YOUR Guide to Drama Drama Duck
I've been getting a lot of questions regarding the actual system of this game, so, here is what is known about DDD, as well as some game rules:
Setting: Drama Drama Duck is not like most games on livejournal-Characters are NOT drawn from their individual worlds of origin and brought to some strange place to live together. Instead, they're all living their lives but just happen to have posting access to the same community. In game, the community was initially created by the Nobody Namine as a way of uniting people. Since then antics have occurred.
Viruses: What are called "curses" in most games are called "viruses" at DDD by the community regulars due to the belief that the ailments originate from the community and, therefor, the computer. The exact nature of the community remains a mystery thanks to how many worlds have access to it. It is generally accepted that the viruses do not come from the community itself though nobody is certain about this. SHODAN (shakti_ishvara), a powerful super computer sometimes takes credit for the strange things that happen to people who post here but it is unknown if she is really responsible for ALL of it. Characters posting to the community can also cause "viral" outbreaks from time to time.
Timeline Discrepancy: There is no rule regulating this. Characters appear from throughout time and space. It is ALWAYS best to talk to your crew mates about how to handle time discrepancies. You will very likely talk to other characters from your own canon who were taken from before or after yours. Some casts are post-canon to avoid this issue and some enjoy playing out canon. As for the paradoxes this would cause? We really don't get into that since it would detract from the overall enjoyment of the game.
The Internet and the Fourth Wall: How the Internet behaves outside the community is vague. Generally, it is assumed that characters only see as much of the internet as they would be able to in their canons. If there is no internet in their canon, they can only see DDD but this is up to each individual player. Obviously, with access to sources to like Wikipedia, fourth wall breaking may occur. In addition, some characters may be from worlds where other characters are known as fictional. DESPITE this, you should always ask for permission before breaking the fourth wall on somebody's character.
World Hopping: "World Hopping" is just what it sounds like-Hopping between worlds. To travel from your world to someone else's you need a World Hopper. World Hoppers are ONLY ever characters with some canonical means of reasonably world hopping. Characters who do not world hop in canon CAN in DDD provided their canon provides them with some sort of way of doing so. For example, a technology or a spell. Silver travels through the internet on Porygon-Z (though firewalls prevent him from traveling through his own world this way), Nobodies can make dimensional portals, some characters are from settings that are "between worlds", some are deities with teleporting ability, etc.
Communication: DDD is massively play-by-post rather than logs. Characters talk the way people would on LJ. I've seen people post actions in their replies like *hands to* and *waves*. Remember that you are rarely physically beside the person you're talking to and when doing that you are waving at a computer monitor and probably feel very silly. Actions cannot be seen unless there is a video post. Icons are understood as visible unless a player distinctly says otherwise.
Questions?
Setting: Drama Drama Duck is not like most games on livejournal-Characters are NOT drawn from their individual worlds of origin and brought to some strange place to live together. Instead, they're all living their lives but just happen to have posting access to the same community. In game, the community was initially created by the Nobody Namine as a way of uniting people. Since then antics have occurred.
Viruses: What are called "curses" in most games are called "viruses" at DDD by the community regulars due to the belief that the ailments originate from the community and, therefor, the computer. The exact nature of the community remains a mystery thanks to how many worlds have access to it. It is generally accepted that the viruses do not come from the community itself though nobody is certain about this. SHODAN (shakti_ishvara), a powerful super computer sometimes takes credit for the strange things that happen to people who post here but it is unknown if she is really responsible for ALL of it. Characters posting to the community can also cause "viral" outbreaks from time to time.
Timeline Discrepancy: There is no rule regulating this. Characters appear from throughout time and space. It is ALWAYS best to talk to your crew mates about how to handle time discrepancies. You will very likely talk to other characters from your own canon who were taken from before or after yours. Some casts are post-canon to avoid this issue and some enjoy playing out canon. As for the paradoxes this would cause? We really don't get into that since it would detract from the overall enjoyment of the game.
The Internet and the Fourth Wall: How the Internet behaves outside the community is vague. Generally, it is assumed that characters only see as much of the internet as they would be able to in their canons. If there is no internet in their canon, they can only see DDD but this is up to each individual player. Obviously, with access to sources to like Wikipedia, fourth wall breaking may occur. In addition, some characters may be from worlds where other characters are known as fictional. DESPITE this, you should always ask for permission before breaking the fourth wall on somebody's character.
World Hopping: "World Hopping" is just what it sounds like-Hopping between worlds. To travel from your world to someone else's you need a World Hopper. World Hoppers are ONLY ever characters with some canonical means of reasonably world hopping. Characters who do not world hop in canon CAN in DDD provided their canon provides them with some sort of way of doing so. For example, a technology or a spell. Silver travels through the internet on Porygon-Z (though firewalls prevent him from traveling through his own world this way), Nobodies can make dimensional portals, some characters are from settings that are "between worlds", some are deities with teleporting ability, etc.
Communication: DDD is massively play-by-post rather than logs. Characters talk the way people would on LJ. I've seen people post actions in their replies like *hands to* and *waves*. Remember that you are rarely physically beside the person you're talking to and when doing that you are waving at a computer monitor and probably feel very silly. Actions cannot be seen unless there is a video post. Icons are understood as visible unless a player distinctly says otherwise.
Questions?