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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

Lets go for 3!

[bigwhenitmatters]

[Really, if he had his way, he would have been equally pleased to have not acknowledged you at all and be off on his merry way. He knew what sort of situation they were all in, and he knew what confronting another student would mean. And yet here he was, frozen still and making direct eye-contact with the other dude who had a weapon in his mouth.

Not that he was completely unprepared himself. At his side was a moderately sized Viking Sword, although he didn't seem to be handling it properly at all. Despite growing up with a pretty gung-ho family, he never really considered himself much of a fighter.

Maybe that was why, despite the eye contact, despite the stillness that came over both of them, he suddenly found himself turning his head away, singing out to himself despite the shakiness in his voice.]

Ahah! Don't see nothing! Nope! Don't see anything at all! Nothing weird going on in these parts!

[He glanced back quickly, making eye contact once more.]

That's what y'want to happen here.... Right?

[wigout]

[Katsura wanted to let his guard down--a part of him was screaming that letting his guard down this early meant that there was no way he was going to survive this week--but a bigger part of him wanted to have no part in this whole situation anyways. And definitely didn't want to have to get blood on his hands within the first ten minutes of the first day.

His eyes broke the held gaze just long enough to scan the area--making sure that there wasn't someone else that he would have to deal with as well. But his eyes were back on the other's soon enough.]

I sure haven't seen anything. Nothing weird at all. Just myself and the woods...like you wanted.

[His voice was loud enough to carry across the distance, but not loud enough to alert the whole forest of their whereabouts. He had stopped for now, but the jutte was still very much gripped in his hand.]

[bigwhenitmatters]

[He paused with hesitation at the confirmation, too nervous to put his guard down at this point. Katsura was agreeing with him, obviously, but turning his back was way too risky. He did drop his sword to his side though, not quite letting go, but easing up just a little.]

Right... Nothing here but us trees.

[But still... The way Katsura was holding his weapon.]

You haven't done it yet... Have you? I mean, using that on.... a person.

[His voice went extremely hushed upon muttering those last two words. As if saying it any louder would jynx his own fate.]