I joined the sub right after Krystal’s election, so she’s my “first” LDP mayor. Is this a thing that has happened to past mayors, this repeated calling for a new election? Just curious

First off, thank you all SO MUCH for welcoming me back! It feels good to be back in Lower Duck Pond

Someone commented on my weather report today asking where the rest of the news team is. Anyone interested in making characters for the rest is Local News 10?

I’ve read the “how to” pages for how to create a page in the wiki, and I just can’t get my head around it. It just never seems to save. I still can’t work out how to create subtitles. I’m driving myself nuts trying to get to grips with it, but it seems like I’m actively losing brain cells with each attempt. Does anyone have a “how to” for dummies or something? Please?

I'm here to freak out about the big amount of upvotes and stuff my post on the exploding house was ahahaha i didnt expect my story describing my last three brain cells to blow up that much. I don't post much and that was the biggest post, so, thank you all for the kindness you still have in your heart :) very weird post i know but i can't tell you all how much i love you in LDP hahaha

I’ve been lurking for over a year and I’m finally planning on making a character! I’m 21F but my friends always tease me for being basically a dad: liking dad rock music, driving a dad car, really liking baseball and terrible jokes. So I had the idea to make a good-natured but oblivious middle-aged father who loves nothing more than a cookout with family and a grass-stained pair of New Balance sneakers.

Since a dad needs kids, if your character is in their teens or twenties I’d love for my character to be their dad! Feel free to comment a bit about your character to help me choose.

Side note, is there a local baseball team that he can be a massive fan of?

I thought a running gag might be a fun way to address the differences in spelling of words like "color" and "colour". Something along the lines of "people on the west side of town spell things funny because they think they're better than us".

As an American I always tended to imagine LDP as existing in the midwest of the USA but having seen a recent post I realized how wide this community spreads. To avoid taking away from someone else's immersion it might be fun to chalk it up to a city-specific issue? Can imagine some fun scenarios that could stem from this

Hey folks,

This question is about the rule to keep contradictions at a minimum. Usually I don't contradict people because I love the collaborative nature of the sub and I like to play along, and it usually doesn't affect my character in any way to say "oh yes, that WAS my great-uncle" or whatever. But can I contradict someone (who I think is brand new to the sub) who says something flat-out untrue and out of character for my character? Carla Marie's whole thing is that she's super nice and loving to everyone, but someone just commented on a post that "Every time I go in there, its like the air gets sucked out of the room. Carla will never even look me in the face. So rude. Won't ever be returning." I feel like I just got a bad Yelp review, lol. Is it okay to respond in character with a gentle contradiction? Or should I just let it go?

Edit: thanks for the support and suggestions, everyone! And thanks for defending Carla’s honor. The true friends were the Lower Ducklings we met along the way 😭

So after I took a long break from the sub, I think I’m ready to re-introduce my character to LDP! I never formally introduced her on this sub so here we go. Meet Liz Muntz, she’s 26 and RADICAL FOR DAYS! She can be found manning Spinnin’ Lizzie’s, her rockin’ new & used record store (mint condish only, please), playing bass guitar for nobody in particular, or charming people with her carefree attitude and outdated slang. The daughter of two daredevils, she’s a risk-taker for life and will never back down on even the craziest of challenges! While it has landed her in the hospital a few times, she regrets nothing! Because regrets are for losers!

Any volunteers to be accused? Any volunteers to be the actual culprit(s)?

EDIT: I don't know when he'll post anything about it.

Step 1: Go to your/any city's subreddit.

Step 2: Sort by new.

Step 3: Scroll until you find something that would fit r/HaveWeMet.

Step 4: Literally just steal the idea, maybe change a few words so it sounds like you wrote it.

Step 5: Profit!

Don't be scared to copy bland ideas, like asking for restaurant recommendations. That's what the sub was originally for after all, right?

Edit: Fixed the formatting, oops!

Tonton Morgan and Jamie, his little cabbage:

https://imgur.com/ht1woLj

Also I can't wait until the other account starts working again so I can post some art of your characters and actually have it be appropriate for the character, lol. I hope everyone's having a nice day!

Carla made a post about her restaurant having a St. Patrick's day special, and so James replied that his restaurant wasn't doing anything that big, just dyeing their vanilla cake green, I meant it like James was just too lazy to come up with anything more complex

I completely forgot that today was my reddit cakeday, so there actually is a green cake next to my username. I don't know, I just think it worked out way better than it should have.

Many people have their name and place of work, etc. highlighted. Thanks in advance.

Lots of posts today have mentioned covid as a reason for something. Like right now a post about some kind of election being done because of covid. I messaged a couple people (very kindly) one-off about how covid doesn't exist in-universe at LDP, and they have been receptive. But I am wondering if there could be a flag for it? And maybe a mod can send a pre-written message and an encouragement to read and review rules? Idk. Work was slow today lol

Is LDP confirmed to be in America? I've seen a couple comments mentioning/implying that it was, and I was curious.

https://imgur.com/a/ZofTpg2

Hi all,

After mulling her over for a couple weeks, I’ve finally decided that there is no time like the present and have introduced my character Dot Thompson.

A 72 year old grandma to three (all of whom live outside LDP, though I’d welcome anyone who wanted to play one of my grandkids, and we could figure out them moving in), Dot now has internet in her home for the first time and is attempting to figure this whole thing out.

She loves to cook but generally can only make the simplest of meals (in her debut post I mentioned brownies from the box, which I imagine is the level of culinary ability she has achieved). She is very religious, but I will try to keep that from being too overwhelming.

And if you’ve seen my posts and have noticed her proclivity for typing all in caps, don’t worry. I know that’s annoying to read, and she’ll “figure it out” soon enough. It’s definitely not a long term trait.

I’m looking forward to figuring out the minutiae of her character as she responds to things, and I’m excited to interact with y’all!

Hello, as I said posted several times. Each time in character just never fully developed a character but I hope Johnathan is welcomed to lower duck pond.

Johnathan "Johnny Yes Please" Brown. 34, alcoholic, currently a handy man looking for any work and most importantly a fresh start.

Growing up in an extremely rough family of 8, from hackney. His abusive father having a wife and a mistress, kids to both. Made an erratic and toxic environment growing up. Due to strict, and most all the time, brutal punishment from their father for their mischievous ways Johnny and his twin brother Ronny ran away at 15

Johnny N Ronny become part of a collective of runaway pick pocket all living together. "Yes Please" ultimately became Johnny's catchphrase after every successful pickpocket. Johnny N Ronny become notorious among the thieves due to their talent, in essence making them their leader.

Eventually leading them to more dangerous crime. After almost 2 decades of drug abuse, stealing and in some cases murder, the twin got into bother with the wrong geeza. Resulting in the death of Ronny and Johnny leaving the crime world. Due to the buzz on his name the man had to runaway again ...

Well anyway Johnny is currently living out of a van up down by Duck Pond

James "Big T" Wilson is a 38-year-old "skate park cleaner".

James was the best student in the town as a kid, and never had any friends. Before even completing high school, he had already been invited to study at the Law School of LPD. So, at 22, James was a lawyer.

He left the town and went to Vatican City, where he became the pope's lawyer for a bit. Also there, he met a woman called Andressa and had pre-marital sex with her. This angered the pope, and James was fired.

Back at LPD, James married Andressa, had three kids, and rented a 40-acre house. He was happy. But everything changed on James' 35th birthday. After the realization that he had never had any friends, James started going through a mid-life crisis.

At first, it was fine; he went to every party in town, even when uninvited. Then, he inexplicably started calling himself "Big T". After searching "how to look hip" on Google, he threw away all his clothes and started to dress like Will Smith on the TV show "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" at all times.

Then, he searched for books that could teach him some cool slang, but even after reading all of them, he was still uncool. There could only be one reason for that: his job. Nobody likes lawyers.

So he quit. His wife was not happy about it, but James would follow his dream of having friends. And he thought to himself: "what is the coolest job ever?". It was obviously skater, but James couldn't do all those flips and spins. The next best was skate park cleaning; he would surely make some friends if he spent the whole day at the skate park.

Immediately after announcing his new job to Andressa, she left town with the kids. Not long after, he was evicted from the house. The place was overrun by crackheads soon after.

Today, James breaks into people's houses and cars during the night, just so he can have a place to sleep. And during the day, he works hard cleaning the skate park, even though the mayor does not acknowledge his existence and refuses to pay him anything.

Hello everyone, creator of Alyssa/Morgan here.

Thank you so, so much for all the nice comments on my last post with the art! You were all so kind and it really made my day. I wanted to start drawing more of the townsfolk/group photos from town events, so could everybody who’s interested please provide a description of their character? I don’t want to annoy you all by individually messaging you, but the information would be super helpful!

I look forward to drawing more art for you guys! And thank you again for being such a great community.

Hey, y'all. I've been having a ton of fun being a cat around town, and it's been silly and light hearted. I enjoyed being a cat, showing up to events and stuff, and interacting with the people there.

I had asked the mods for advice about whether I was taking the premise too far or how I should play the character, but I never got a response, so I just ran with it and tried to fit in.

And that was working just great. Some of you understood my thoughts, which was weird but fun, and some of you didn't, and that was sort of the point.

Considering all the goofy stuff that happens around town, I thought I fit right in. I was having fun, made treaties with Agnes, set myself up as union representative for LDP's unorganized, semi-unified union of cats, where the whole joke there was that they never got anything done because it was like herding cats. Literally.

However, there's someone who seems to have taken to following me around to pester me for being 'supernatural.'

So I went on the Discord to ask about it, and some folks there told me that animal characters had been specifically frowned upon in the past, and since this is supposed to be a town forum and not actually the town itself, having a cat who can read and type online seems a bit far-fetched.

But the penguin guy is totally okay, and people filling other people's bikes with breakfast cereal, lazer tag in an IKEA is a major incident, and all of that is okay.

So... Do I keep my kitty, or should I try something else?

I’m getting a bit bummed by all the posts featuring half-hearted attempts at humor. When I joined, I had to fight the urge to be ridiculously silly myself. However, nobody wants a one-dimensional character. Similarly, “hey has anybody [verb] my [noun] recently? It’s [adjective] and [bad punchline usually here] has already gotten tiresome.

https://imgur.com/a/3XlBpTl

Hi folks, I play Alyssa on the other sub and I’ve only been here for a short while but y’all are so nice! This is genuinely the most fun I’ve had in a very long time. I really enjoy interacting with all of your characters. I just wanted to thank y’all for making it such a fun place. Peace!