seasonality | INTRO MINGLE

week zero: mingle

remaining students: forty-two.

A buzzing alarm wakes you bright and early. You blink your eyes blearily, greeted by the sun's rays peeking through the blinds of a window. It's 7 AM, and it feels like you definitely went to bed way too late last night. Oh well, up and at 'em! Time to start your day! Except...

...this place looks unfamiliar. You're in a room with other people who are also waking up. Outside of the window is a large, sprawling school campus touched by the start of warm autumn colors. In the bathroom is--wow, another door through which are two more confused people in a similar room. Suite mates! In addition, if you go exploring within your dorm, you may find special access to a certain room. Though as you wander about, make sure you take a glance at the rules that are posted at each building.

Welcome to Wiwaldi Academy!

Outside on campus, the air is crisp. In the morning, your feet will crunch over a light frost and fallen leaves. The rest of the day is mild, but sweater and jackets may be needed in the evening and during the night. The sky is bright blue and empty except for an occasional stray cirrus cloud or two. It seems like fall is on the horizon.

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In each room, students will find their own laptops with a welcome screen:

Thank you for joining us at the beautiful campus of Wiwaldi Academy! All classes officially begin on Monday. Students are encouraged to enjoy leisure time on campus this weekend. Please be mindful as new additions to the campus are in construction, and these are off-limits to students until completion.

The icon in the top right corner corresponds to your dorm: Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter. Even though you are all sorted by a particular dorm, please don't hesitate to meet and mingle with one another! You all will have plenty of opportunity to do so on Saturday during the Sundae Orientation. An ice cream bar will be on the campus lawn between the dormitory buildings from 12PM onward, and everyone is invited to come meet and mingle while playing introductory games.

Don't forget to think about your EXTRA CREDIT! It's a chance for you to get ahead on your work. You wouldn't want anyone else stealing your extra credit for themselves, so keep all extra credit assignments under lock and key.

From all of us here at Wiwaldi Academy, we wish you great success on your future endeavors!

Signed,
Principal Bear

Near their desk is a backpack filled with the following:

On their smartphone, they'll find an email with the subject Extra Credit Assignment. The contents of the email provide the details of said assignment.

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Welcome to the Intro Mingle and the start of our game, everyone! Feel free to use the Saturday orientation as prompts for your top-levels. If you have any questions, you may use the Discord #questions-for-mods channel, or DM your mods (Dana, Francy, Anna, and Jan) directly. If you don't have all of us added, just let one of us know, and we'll create the mod DM for you.

A friendly reminder is that IC Profiles are not ICly unlocked yet. Please also stay tuned for Something Else on Sunday at 12 PM / 3 PM EST.

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[He hands it over to her.]

Show me.

[she powers it on!!]

See, you just hit this button here!

And you press it again to turn it off?

[He's a fast learner.]

Yeah, exactly!

Okay.

So what now?

Let's see...

[she taps the screen a few times.]

Aha! It looks like there are a few apps. See this? It's a camera, look! [she turns the camera on, then taps it so it's selfie cam time!

and takes a selfie with lalli. their images are frozen onscreen now.]

I know what a camera is-

[And then they're taking a selfie, and he blinks a couple times. Wow that's a clear picture.]

How is it so good? Even the best cameras back home don't take pictures this good.

Technology! Phone cameras are almost as good as the big digital cameras these days.

Digital cameras? I thought they were just called 'cameras'.

There's more than one kind! Digital ones just use, like, electronics. The older ones use film, so you have to buy that and make sure it's loaded up before you start taking pictures.

I know about the ones with film, that's what we have. And then the photographer goes into the dark room and uses chemicals on it and that's how you make photographs.

[He knows like half of the steps. He's not a photographer, so he doesn't need to know the whole thing.]

Right! It's pretty neat stuff, but the technology is pretty cool, too. See, with your phone, you don't have to go into the dark room and wait for the photographs. It's right there!