underlockandkey

This is the Test Drive Meme for the first full round of Lockdown! If you're interested in joining us, aren't sure, or just want to get a taste of the game itself, this is the place to experience it!

If you have any questions, your mods

limitedwings

amplitude and

hypothetical are here to answer them! The information for Round One that has been released thus far can be found over here. You can use that information to flavor your top levels as you'd like!

And as always, the test drive can be used for your application sample. So go wild.

▸Orientation.

The sound of a chirpy alarm wakes you. To turn it off, you’ll realize that it’s flashing 6:30 A.M. brightly on its digital display. It’s not yours. Luckily it’s not hard to turn off. Some of you may recognize the room you wake up in-- to some extent. It’s decorated as a school dormitory, but it’s made for only one. Whether you’ve been here before or not, if you look, it won’t be difficult to find your answers.

An acceptance letter to Fayflower University sits atop the desk, stating that you have been chosen as an Apprentice of something or other-- a member of the first class since the program’s restructure. Some of your classmates, or perhaps even you yourself, have come here having already taken the school’s entrance exam. Others may not. The recruiting process is never a simple one. You may have just caught their eye now.

There’s also a unique looking fitbit attached to your wrist now. It won’t come off, no matter what you try. You can also find a tablet next to your acceptance letter. You can’t download apps, but there are a handful already programmed on it. It might come in handy.

Whatever your particular case is, now would be an excellent time to take a look around the dormitory and meet the others who will be in your “class”. Maybe someone with some experience can enlighten you to what’s going on here-- or maybe you’d just like someone as clueless as you to yell and cry with.

▸Faculty Office Consultation.

You may have one or several bones to pick with the individuals responsible for bringing you here. Well the Faculty Office is open! You’re more than welcome to introduce yourself and get to the heart of the matter with them. What kind of answers they may give you though...

Unfortunately the man you'll get, whether you know him yet or not, is Oswald Hale.

Or if you’re feeling particularly naughty... you and your fellow Apprentices may feel like snooping around when the staff is out. Be careful though... wouldn’t want to get caught now, would you?

▸Bulletin Board.

In the dorm’s common area, there’s a giant corkboard plastered onto one of the walls. There’s a small banner at the top that reads, “BULLETIN BOARD”. Here’s the perfect place for all your flyers, artwork, or discussion that you’d like to keep off of the tablets. There are some things that technology can’t always emulate, after all.

This would also be a good place to start for those of you who are interested in creating a club of some sort! This is a university, after all, and what’s a university without student-run organizations? You’ve got downtime in between murders, so a little fun can’t hurt anyone...right?

▸Fitness Test.

There’s a track, if you look around hard enough, and positioned at the starting line is a clock. Right now, it reads: 00:00:0000. But as you approach, your fitbit provides a prompt… somehow. Were fitbits always able to do this and you just never realized it? But at any rate, the prompt is a simple text with, “BEAT THE CLOCK?”

You can grab others to race if beating the clock is not your style, or if you choose to accept the challenge, the timer will automatically set to 00:00:5500. Once you start running, it will begin to count down. If you beat the clock, it will reset and immediately start counting down again. A successful race will read, “PHYSICALLY FIT” on the fitbit.

However, on your first failure, you will get the error message, “FODDER”.

Anyway, good luck running a 3 min 40 second mile. Totally doable. (not really doable)

▸TEST TIME.

Did you think you would survive this without a murder? No of course not. There’s always murder. Maybe it’s someone you were close to... or maybe it was someone you’ve had a few quarrels with (...are some people looking at you a little differently?)-- either way it’s your job to uncover the truth.

But working together with everyone... can you say you really trust everyone anymore?

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Okay, but just by speaking to me, you've already used up a moment of my time. [ and she sounds vaguely annoyed about it. ] So make it worth it or beat it.

[ ...Rude. Well, whatever. ]

Have you been here before? If not, I might as well tell you about what's going on.

[ He crosses his arms after a pause. ]

If you actually want to know, that is.

[ ... she wants to know, but she's reluctant to admit it. he knows more than her though? mm the smart thing to do would be to accept, right? ]

... Fine. Tell me.

It's not as innocent as they're making this all sound.

[ ... ]

Last time people were brought here, the people in charge encourage us to go against each other -- as in try to see if one of us would kill someone. So, something like that could happen again.

[ Let's start there -- he's not good at mincing words but maybe that's a good thing. ]

But why? Why go through all this - [ she twists a lock of her hair nervously around one finger ] - just to kill a couple of people?

Around the time we were encouraged to follow along with it, we were told that in order to be a "Hero", we had to overcome the worst -- whether or not that'd mean being the killer or finding the person who did it.

[ It's painfully clear to him that they had no idea of the true meaning of the word...

His hands clenched into fists for a second, remembering what had happened with Sherlock and Mishima. And hell, the others too. ]

In other words, they seemed to think it'd give them the results they wanted.

[ well, that sucks, oppa. ]

So you're saying they brought us here 'cause they're cowards.

[ Literally the shittiest. He doesn't like thst they brought new people in for this eithet. ]

...That's exactly it. I think someone even called that Oswald guy on it but then he tried to spin it with something that sounded stupid.

Oswald - the guy in the faculty office? Not that I'm expecting much, but try me. How stupid was it?

That's right. He said he'd pass along complaints and then tried to make it out like we couldn't fault him much for it since there was someone above him.

[ So. Stupid and lying (in regards to the former since he didn't believe him for squat), as far as Terra was concerned. ]

At least Vivienne tried to help when she could.

Of course, the blame always falls on someone else, someone who couldn't care less. Isn't that how big name corporations? We might as well be stuck here because of Hershey's or - or Nongshim for all the information they've given us so far.

[ which is, predictably, nothing much. ]

So did you end up failing their Hero Test?

...Hershey's?

[ Such a thing does not exist in the worlds he's been to, but he just moves along, assuming it's another Big Name Corporation. Apparently it had stuck out better to him than the other corporation she had mentioned, though. ]

No, not really, otherwise I wouldn't even be able to think of going home. [ ... ] Someone did give in and end up killing someone, but because they were caught they're the ones who "failed", along with a couple of others.

Huh? Wait. You're telling me you guys caught the the killer, which was one of his conditions for becoming a "hero" [ airquotes!! for max sarcasm. ] and yet... that didn't count as succeeding?

[ what the heck?? ]

Yeah. He didn't tell us at the time, but apparently in order for that person to succeed as a "hero" they would've had to not gotten caught. Because this person did end up getting caught, they failed, and there were other people the guy decided "failed" too. For those others, we weren't really told why they failed.

[ As far as he can recall, anyway.

Failed...might as well be a euphemism for 'we decided you suck and now you die'. ]

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