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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

2!

[bigwhenitmatters]

ooooo?

akitsu what?

[It seems someone isn't putting the face to the name. Sorry man, he really has horrible memory when it comes to remembering guys.]

U aint that guy from earlier are you? Oi! I said I'd get you your money as soon as I made some winnings!

[He obviously seems to think you're someone else too.]

[fivepoints]

Masanosuke.

[AGAIN. he seems to be accustomed to it.]

I am your partner for... wait, are you in some kind of trouble?

[promptly forgets about his own problems completely]

[bigwhenitmatters]

trouble...?

U mean u ain't the guy from the casino?

[Well. Thank god for that.]

hehehehhe nah nah! It's cool dude! No trouble here! Not at all!

[Liar.]

But Masanosuke huh? Don't ring no bells. You sue you don't got the wrong number?

[fivepoints]

No, I am not. I am your classmate from Shiroiwa Academy. We were assigned a project together.

[DETECTS THAT LIE... he's trusting but not that ignorant. maybe he should offer to help him...? but how does he explain his intentions over a text message...?]

Um. I am contacting you because I lost the reference sheet for the works cited...

Sorry.

[bigwhenitmatters]

[ Sorry Masanosuke, this gets you a prolonged pause before--]

ah.

So it's a school thing huh?

What are you worrying about? That's what the internets for right? a quck couple a keywords on a search engine and you can bs your way through it right?

That's how I did it the first time.

[fivepoints]

[...you really don't have a second copy he can just transcribe. THEY ALREADY DID ALL OF THIS WORK, AND YOU--]

[no, that would be so inconveniencing of him, and he wouldn't dare. with a heavy sigh, he relents, nodding at his own phone.]

Yes. Of course. I'll do that then.

My apologies for bothering you so late in the evening.

[bigwhenitmatters]

[Chillax dude! We've got this! Besides, it ain't that bid of a deal. That's how he got that reference sheet together to begin with.]

Don't worry about it man!

Actually, if you still need help with rewriting it I think I may just know for a way for us to knock it all out and have it completed fast.

It'd barely take any effort too.

[fivepoints]

[hadn't fully expected a reply and was beginning to find the stress overwhelming -- what would he do? he couldn't afford lowered marks, what would his family do if he got kicked out of school? what if -- what if -- ]

[thoughts race as he feeds and pets his Very Obese Cat™, realizing his silenced phone is blinking at him some half an hour later]

[oh.]

[...that seems suspicious]

Yes? How so?

[bigwhenitmatters]

[Ahaha! Yes! A response! This may just all play out to his bennifit after all...]

Ohoho! Interested are you?

Well it all depends actually. It's a random question but-- u wouldn't happen to have completed the Ethics homework that's due tomorrow, did ya?

[fivepoints]

[.........]

[oh.]

Yes, I did it during study hall today.

[bigwhenitmatters]

Ahah! Perfect! Perfect! Man if this all works out we won't have to worry about nothing! Hell we'll probably get an A for our work cited alone!

[Man oh man! What a twist of luck! Either that or he was a genius to figure this out! It was luck. Luck and the fact that he'll acomplish anything in the name of laziness.]

U mind e-mailing me your answers? If ya give me that I'll have a perfect Works Cited page knocked out for ya in no time!

[fivepoints]

[...STARES AT HIS PHONE FOR ENTIRELY TOO LONG. he is going to lose so much time dealing with this, he can't even -- ]

I am uncomfortable with cheating. Getting caught could mean expulsion, and that I cannot abide.

[bigwhenitmatters]

[Multiple text message explosion ahoy!]

omg dude get over yourself.

1 of the other guys I'm talking to was trying to get the answers from me, but go figure in the process I found out he has fast as hell abilities at finding shit when he's asked for it.

I already said I'd offer him my work but.

Let's face it my work is probably shit. (^A^''')

We give him a couple better answers then the ones I can offer and he'll probably be willing to help us in busting out this page fast.

I won't even have to give him all your answers. Just some from your hw and some from mine, that way they're varied enough that teach won't get suspicious.

U gotta admit, having another person helping us on this will make it so that u may actually sleep tonight, and still get a good grade on this report.