WEEK 0: MINGLE

[dormheads]

week zero: mingle

remaining students: forty-two.

Hey, wake up! Before you're late for school!

The first thing you'll receive when you wake up is a notification: Updated Dorm Wars Standings.

🦋 SPRING: 0
☀️ SUMMER: 0
🍁 FALL: 0
❄️ WINTER: 0

Fall has truly swept over the campus, and the colorful leaves will crunch underneath your feet as you walk through the school. In fact, your adventures might bring you to some new locations where construction has concluded. Take a look around!

On every building bulletin board, as well as on your phone, there's a new posting for this week's Dorm Wars tasks. Check out which answer resonates with you the most, and then get those points for your team! Speaking of your team, it seems like Office Hours are open for all Dorm Heads if you'd like to chat with them. Maybe see if there's anything you'd like to redeem a voucher for?

Once again, a now familiar ringtone plays from every student's phone. The screen will automatically open to the Student Directory. Everyone's ID Cards with their wonderfully flattering and fitting pictures are now out there for the world to see. How do you feel about yours?

A few classes in particular have been highlighted with open enrollment and can be joined for the week:

PHYS 760: Theoretical Physics
ENG 400: Does Shakespeare Is Gay?
FILM 198: Analysis of the Greats: Cats
ART 100: Coloring Inside the Lines

Finally, there also appears to be a hay ride attraction for everyone to enjoy. Yes, you can ride the tractor. No, you can't cause property damage. In fact, it seems like as you enjoy your hay ride or tractor joy ride, you may hear the occasional growl of a bear.... And just in case you need a nice cozy place to have all these deep, important conversations, a bonfire is located at the central campus lawn with blankets and wooden logs available for everyone to sit on - plus supplies for s'mores! Yay!

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Comments

[divineimpulse]

Have you been to many?

[goalsides]

A few. Back home, it's common that you go to a new school when you graduate from certain grade levels. When you finish elementary school, you go to junior high. And after that, you go to high school. This is a campus where everybody seems to be together which isn't that weird, but I've never been to one like it.

[divineimpulse]

Elementary, junior high, high school, and university combined. [ok. things are taking shape.

...]

I wonder where the other students are.

[goalsides]

I've been wondering that, too. I asked about it when the dorm heads were talking to us and they made it sound like it was a bigger school with more people, but...I haven't seen anybody else around.

Not to mention I have no idea where the cafeteria staff goes when they're not working there. It's like people just disappear when time's up.

[divineimpulse]

[she nods.]

It feels as if the school is staffed by ghosts.

[goalsides]

[...]

Have you ever been to a ghost school? Or met a ghost at all?

[divineimpulse]

No.

Have you?

[goalsides]

...it's a little different than what you might be thinking of. But no, no ghost school.

[divineimpulse]

[wait]

You've met a ghost?

[goalsides]

Kind of. More like the spirit of an old friend. [a beat.] And ghost-shaped monsters, I guess.

[divineimpulse]

[...]

I suppose supernatural myth is always somewhat based in fact.

Do you fight monsters?

[goalsides]

[technically, he supposes, they are monsters.]

Something like that. Whenever they start messing things up we have to step in to stop them.

[divineimpulse]

That's generally how we fight monsters, as well.

What weapons do you wield?

[goalsides]

[this is putting some things into context.]

Oh. Uh...we don't use weapons or anything. Our partners fight for us.

[divineimpulse]

Your partners?

[she's imagining taichi's battlebuddy or something. like he's just a lil merchant.]

[goalsides]

Yeah. They're sentient creatures that we're partnered with from a different world.

[as you do.]

[divineimpulse]

[she blinks,]

Sentient... creatures? [uh,] Tamed beasts?

[she's trying to imagine. something like the cursed one, maybe? or a crest stone gone awry, but its target can still talk?]

[goalsides]

I guess you could say that, sure. They were never evil or anything, but they're creatures that were waiting for us years ago because we're partners. They're not like normal animals or pets though.

[divineimpulse]

Do they talk?

[goalsides]

Yup. A lot of them are actually pretty bad at being quiet.

[divineimpulse]

Rather than fight with weapons, you fight with the abilities of your contracted non-human sentient creature partners.

[did she get all that]

[goalsides]

Right. You basically got it.

[yaaay byleth.]

They're called Digimon.

[divineimpulse]

What happens if your... Digimon loses the battle?

Do you not step in? [to fight]

[goalsides]

Not physically. There isn't really that much we can do to fight for them, but we can help them evolve further when things get rough.

[divineimpulse]

You can cast magic on them to power them up?