Introducing Chapter...

episode release date:

the first episode in the series (3D1) will be available for viewing on Tuesday 3 May 2005.

episode title:

Alley Oops

episode drawing:

art by: Cyn
collaged by: vrya

episode description:

Los Angeles, city of lost Angels. A city full of predators, and prey. You see it at night... it used to shine. The world just isn't what it used to be.

It started in an alley (of course it did, it always does). It ended--huh. Ended, now there's a relative term. From dust thou art, to dust thou shalt return. They changed the world, and it's still changing. The earth shudders as they go by. What's inside the shells they wear? That is the question.

Ladies and gentlemen, our champions. Same old, brand new. Alley after alley. Reclaiming territory, and sifting dust. So much dust.

Speculation on/from the vantage point of Alley Oops takes place in this conversation on the 3Deep LJ discussion board.

episode promo:

Now here's your crackerjack prize, cause you've all been so good about waiting.

script by: Plin & macha
vid by: diane
voiceover by: Pip

episode credits for 3D#1 (Alley Oops):

construction & site/set design: vrya
set decoration: Cyn
camera & lighting: diane

showrunner & line producer: macha

Joss of the storyboard: Barb

story editors: db, Sylvia

directed by: the members of the ford

written by (original assignments):

TEASER

1.01 (Prologue): dutchbuffy

ACT ONE

1.02 (I, 1): Kalima
1.03 (I, 2): Sylvia
1.04 (I, 3): dutchbuffy

ACT TWO

1.05 (II, 1): Dori
1.06 (II, 2): Sylvia
1.07 (II, 3): Dori

ACT THREE

1.08 (III, 1): Barb
1.09 (III, 2): Cyn
1.10 (III, 3): dutchbuffy

ACT FOUR

1.11 (IV, 1): Sylvia
1.12 (IV, 2): Kalima
1.13 (IV, 3): macha

with gratitude to Joss Whedon, whose play it is,
for twelve seasons of story.

beta editing:
Cyn
dutchbuffy
Pip
Sylvia

blending edit:
alcibiades
Barb
dutchbuffy
Kalima
macha
Pip
Plin
Sylvia

copy editing:
macha
Plin

coming soon promo: diane, Pip, Plin, vrya
previously intro: diane, Pip
ep description: Plin

Introducing Chapter...

episode release date:

the second episode in the season (3D1) will be available for viewing on Tuesday 14 June 2005 (note: we're still hoping to make it before midnight listtime).

episode title:

(Hell Is in the) Details

episode drawing:

art by: Cyn
colored by: vrya

episode description:

Ruins. Ruins. Ruins.

And whose fault was that? Talk about blind alleys. Evidence of the disaster loomed on the skyline, and lurked in every heart. Everyone kept going through the motions, but what was there to live for? Wrecked buildings, wrecked beings, wrecked lives. No picturesque ruin, this, built of follies past and present, devastated drives and powers.

What, and who, might now be buried in the rubble? What could be hidden now behind those fallen falsefronts in plain sight? And what needed to be done to make a start at salvage? For those who seek shall find, it's said, even among the dead and the only sleeping.

There are occasions, though, when it is better to let sleeping... dogs lie. Locked in a coffin, buried down deep. When what is locked away escapes the box, trouble as well as knowledge follows. Especially since, on every plane, magic and passion are always in fashion.

Speculation on/from the vantage point of 3D2 Details takes place in this conversation on the 3Deep LJ discussion board.

episode promo:

And now here's Angela Hasbin with the promo footage, live at five and coming soon to an apocalypse near you.

script by: Plin, macha
vid by: diane
voiceover by: Pip

episode credits for 3D#2 (Hell Is In the Details):

construction & site/set design: vrya
set decoration: Cyn
camera & lighting: diane

showrunner & line producer: macha

Joss of the storyboard: Barb

story editors: db, Sylvia

directed by: the members of the ford

written by (original assignments):

TEASER

1.01 (Prologue): Sylvia & Kalima

ACT ONE

1.03a (I, 1): Kalima
1.02 (I, 2): dutchbuffy
1.03b (I, 3): Kalima
1.04 (I, 4): Kalima
1.05 (I, 5): alira

ACT TWO

1.06 (II, 1): dutchbuffy
1.07 (II, 2): macha & Cyn
1.08 (II, 3): Sylvia

ACT THREE

1.09 (III, 1): dutchbuffy
1.10 (III, 2): Sylvia
1.11 (III, 3): dutchbuffy

ACT FOUR

1.12 (IV, 1): Sylvia
1.13 (IV, 2): dutchbuffy
1.14 (IV, 3): Sylvia
1.15 (IV, 4): Sylvia
1.16 (IV, 5): Sylvia

with gratitude to Joss Whedon, whose play it is,
for twelve seasons of story.

beta editing:
dutchbuffy
Kalima
macha
Sylvia

blending edit:
alcibiades
Barb
dutchbuffy
Kalima
macha
Pip
Plin
Sylvia

continuity:
Dori

copy editing:
macha
Plin

previously vid: diane
epboard script: dutchbuffy
intro voice: Pip

Introducing Chapter...

episode release date:

The third episode in the series (3D3) will be available for viewing sometime on 28 September.

episode title:

Grrl Trouble

episode drawing:

art by: Cyn

Two desktop versions of this artwork, 800 and 1024, can be downloaded.) And don't forget there are plenty of icons too.

episode description:

And out of the portal they tumble, the dead returning straight into the arms of Slayer skies and stakes, a rare and bloody welcoming. Returning to a city no longer Angel's, they move through a dim labyrinth of alleys, docks, and demon bars in a world of plain old trouble, brewing under the hulking shadow of the backstory. Which always starts with the grr-in-grrl, like any self-respecting noir.

Cherchez les filles, mes amis! There's a briarpatch of blondes, all laying their various claims. But this time round it may well be that the brunettes are the ones having more fun as the Three - and both series - find themselves now hurtling unstoppably towards that minefield called convergence.

vid intro for the episode:

Grrl Trouble, opening today, on a widescreen canvas somewhere disturbingly close to you.

script by: macha, Plin, and Pip
vid by: diane
narration by: Pip

plumbing the depths:

Speculation on the episode 3D3 Grrl Trouble takes place in this conversation on the 3Deep LJ discussion board.

episode party favor:

Meanwhile up in the meta, cherchez them filles, and the missing Chapter Three of that precious mss they purloined over the summer. From you, the rightful part-owners! Da noiv! And those grrls in question would be, err well... us. See, there was this invisibility ray, and.... No, wait, Angela the intrepid has the real scoop on How We Spent Our Summer Vacation.

written and recited by: Pip

Introducing Chapter...

episode release date:

the fourth episode in the series (3D4) will be available for viewing tuesday night at the end of the rainbow on 4 April 2006.

episode title:

Something Borrowed

episode drawing:

art by: Cyn
collage by: vrya

An uncropped larger version of this work, 800x1102, can be downloaded here.

episode description:

Too late to duck and cover. Time to move into damage control, but the damage... resists the process. Even the roots of the problems are problems. Hard to see clearly when there are so many sides to every issue. And oh, plenty of issues, some interred in unexpected places. Meanwhile, everyone's looking for cues and clues amid all the leavage... and leafage.

What's more important, the cards or who deals them? Even face value shifts between, beneath them. Mysteries of the down deep. There's no guarantee that what's untold will stay that way. But isn't that part of the rush, the tingle, the fight or flight? Conflict is easy. Resolution's hard.

episode promo (aka the intro vid):

This promo for Something Borrowed is opening today, on a widescreen canvas somewhere disturbingly close to you.

script by: Plin and macha
vid by: diane
narration by: Pip

plumbing the depths:

Speculation on the episode 3D4 Something Borrowed takes place in the 3Deep LJ discussion board. You can also discuss and read discussion on earlier chapters here in different threads. The writers themselves have been known to lurk here. And sometimes even manifest.

episode party favor:

we do have something in development. stay tuned. might post it here when it's done, might post it at the end of the ep when it airs next week. depends on how it turns out to play in the end. is it intro or is it exegesis, that is the question. right now, it's top secret. shh! but shiny. pretty sure about that....

presenting: Borrowed
written and delivered by: macha
over: Ativin's "Scissors"
the text is here

Introducing Chapter...

episode release date:

the fifth episode in the series (3D5) will be available for viewing thursday night at the end of the rainbow on Thursday 14 sept 2006.

episode title:

Roman Holiday

episode drawing:

art by: Cyn

collage by: vrya

episode description:

They say that all roads lead to the eternal city. So the Slayer gathers up her troublesome past and dumps it all in an untidy heap on the other side of the world in her latest living room. Gives it a poke or two, trying to figure out what it all means. Nobody's copping to following her lead, and everyone's second-guessing the result, but she forges onward and inward, spidey-senses in play. Setting things in motion.

All of them are laden with baggage and the weight of history - even the parts they can't remember. And not even the Slayer can live entirely in the now, or bury the then. They hide the past, or they hide from it, or they hide in it, but who exactly are they trying to protect? When the masks melt away and the music stops, we are all left to wonder what exactly remains - in the flesh, in the heart, in the memory.

episode promo (aka the intro vid):

This promo for Something Borrowed is opening today, on a widescreen canvas somewhere disturbingly close to you.

script by: Plin and macha
vid by: diane
narration by: Pip

plumbing the depths:

Speculation on the episode 3D5 Roman Holiday takes place in this conversation on the 3Deep LJ discussion board. You can also discuss and read discussion on earlier chapters here.

There is also a new menu item called So Far, to refresh your memory on what exactly happened in previous chapters.

Introducing Chapter...

episode release date:

the sixth episode (3D6) in the series will be available for viewing friday night at the end of the rainbow 11 April 2008.

episode title:

Dead Ends

episode drawing:

art by: Cyn

collage by: vrya

and don't forget to check out the new icons at the LJ portal: avidrosette's devised some really spectacular userpics for this chapter.

video:

no vids this time, sorry. we had the vague idea that nothing but the text would do. oops, did we err?{g}

episode intro:

Their postcards from the front just get more sketchy: still tied together at the root, but all too far apart. Things might look better for awhile in black and white. This, though, is not an age for heroes; what with the feet of clay, that makes things easier, until it makes them hard. But sadly, the ruins they walk are sometimes of their making. And mirrors don't always show them what they'd like to see.

It's time to deal. No future in living less than large in the remains of what they used to be. But trust doesn't come so easily these days, even though it might be all there is to reach for in the dark. Still it's time to say enough to those hesitation waltzes. Slough off a skin or two, and see what comes to light. One thing's for sure, the past will come back to haunt them all unless it's laid to rest.

also, check out The Story So Far for a short survey of earlier chapters.

the writer list on this one:

alira
Barb
Dori
dutchbuffy
Klytaimnestra
macha
Pip
Stultiloquentia
Sylvia

And the next chapter will be

to a theatre near you.

Are your spidey senses tingling yet?

But you know there can be no chapter before its time. {cue evil laugh}