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[attribution]

Welcome to The Lottery’s test drive meme! Before we get to the prompts, here are a few things to note:

Though you may only have ONE active character per round, you are free to play as many characters you wish on the TDM. Later, you will have the opportunity to bench characters if you want to try another, but only after you’ve been accepted.

Please be sure to thoroughly look through our FAQ so that you have a good understanding of the game’s mechanics. Also be sure to browse the information provided on both The Attribution Study and Shiroiwa for a better idea of the setting.

The date for the next round of Reserves is: February 29th
The number of currently available character slots is: 25

Important Note: A thread of 9 comments in the TDM (with at least 5 comments from your character) will count towards both sample requirements in the application. Consider this a special bonus for getting your feet wet in our community!

If your thread does not reach the required amount of comments, it may still be used as the In-World Sample in your application.

Flashback/Background threads in the TDM may be reposted to Shiroiwa Academy’s Community if both players were accepted into the game.

Provided below are some sample scenarios, but please feel free to plot and play whatever you’d like!

Sample Scenarios:

Sample 1:

You’ve just transferred to one of the three grade levels in Shiroiwa Academy and have yet to make any friends. Sure, people showed you around, but nothing has quite stuck yet. So as the lunch bell goes off, you pull out your bento and prepare to eat alone when another student saddles up beside you. Perhaps they’re being friendly or perhaps they simply want to mooch off of your food. Whatever the reasoning, you’re now stuck in some form of communication whether you like it or not.

Sample 2:

Everyone just loves partner projects, don’t they? Your teacher has randomly assigned you a partner, and now you both must come up with a presentation to show the class. Are you the type who does all the work? Do you push for fair exchange? Or perhaps you have no plans to do any work at all. Whichever it is, your partner is now moving their stuff to sit at the desk next to you. Better gather your might and prepare to weather the oncoming storm…

Sample 3:

It’s March 14, 20XX. You have been kidnapped and taken to the island, given your randomized duffle bag, and are now either desperately seeking shelter or methodically preparing to hunt down your weaker classmates. Whatever it is, you stumble upon another student - whether you know them well or not doesn’t matter. The rules have already been made clear to both of you - only one person gets to win. You need to either escape, kill, or attempt to make a truce with this classmate. What will you do?

Sample 4:

Your weapon broke. Perhaps it snapped as you embedded it into the skull of one of your classmates, or perhaps it was simply a stroke of bad luck. You return to the hideout you created for yourself, seeking a weapon you’d taken from a fallen student. But as you near the space, you realize something is off. There is some telltale sign that another has been here… Are they still around? Will you investigate? What if your stockpile has been pilfered by another student?

Comments

[crosscurrent]

[Even looking up doesn't reveal exactly where the person is hiding, but there's a spiteful voice that will give Jasper a much better clue of just who is antagonizing her.] Can't you guess?

[Of course, Lapis never liked Jasper. The other girl was a horrible, mean brute, and Lapis hadn't really ever been in a good position to defend herself.

Until now.]

[forcefuse]

[Oh, Jasper knows that voice. Her eyes narrow, nose wrinkling as if she's just caught a whiff of something particularly foul.]

You brat... [She squints, searching for any tiny sign of movement.] Why don't you get down here and face me like a real woman?

[Note: "Real woman" being at least 10000x more powerful than any "real man." She doesn't make the rules, sorry.]

[crosscurrent]

No! [Lapis' voice is defiant, projecting clear over the rocks down to Jasper.] You never cared how fair it was before. You knew I couldn't stop you!

[Now that she has an advantage over Jasper, even a small one, Lapis won't even consider giving it up. So what if it's not a fair fight? Lapis' whole life has been an unfair fight. For once, she wants someone else to know how it feels.]

[forcefuse]

[Jasper's picked on a lot of kids at Shiroiwa. They're all so small and pathetic, like little, stupid animals chattering on about little, stupid problems. It's so easy for her to throw one against a locker with a powerful shove of her arm. Lapis, of course, was never any exception. The look in her eyes always made Jasper's gut twist up in knots.

Now, her mouth twists up into a cruel grin, and she spreads out her hands, palms-up, at her sides.]

What, you still mad about all that? Come on... Can't handle a little roughhousing? It's not like I was actually trying to kill you.

["Not like now" is her unspoken promise.]

[crosscurrent]

You weren't roughhousing, you just like making people miserable because it makes you feel stronger. [Lapis would know, of course, being someone who, at some points, would have done anything to feel in control of her life again. She's seen that desperation from both sides.

She can't see Jasper now, too well-hidden where she's perched in the rocks, but she can just hear the awful, smug look that must be on the other girl's face. She itches to come out and fight, but no. Not yet. She needs to wait for her best opportunity.

Lapis takes a shaky breath, and then continues with her taunt.] If you want to kill me, why don't you come up here?

[forcefuse]

I am stronger!

[For a second, her smirk falters, and she bares her teeth like an animal. She's unwashed, hair tangled in knots and tattered uniform covered in dried and drying blood. Her veins are throbbing visibly on her neck and her arms. Jasper is the end result of a pit bull and a wolf, powerful and deadly.

She smiles.]

But alright. Have it your way, brat.

[She creeps toward her camp at a leisurely pace, eyes locked above her while she walks. Then, in a flash, she dives under the overhanging roots to grab for the first weapon she can get her hands on. She ends up with a halberd, half the handle snapped off from the scuffle that she had with the student who used to own it. As soon as her hands wrap around it, she takes off, heading around her outcropping to start up the steep hill where Lapis must be hiding.]