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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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Byleth Eisner. [and she extends a hand to shake.] It's nice to meet you, Luxanna.

[ a very brief hesitation, and then lux shakes her hand! ]

The pleasure is all mine.

So - what reason can you think of that someone might summon you to this apparent-school?

[she shakes her head.]

...I don't know.

That would be too easy, wouldn't it?

I don't think we're even all from the same... planet.

[the word feels weird in her mouth. planet. not country. planet. it's a whole extra scale, and the concept is too much to compute at the moment.]

That theory shines brightest to me as well.

It's hard to imagine. I haven't even seen all of my own world, let alone finding out there are others.

[she nods at the statement, lips thining. she'd only ever seen the country of her birth.]

What if there's no connection?

And we were brought here at random?

... I'm not sure if I'd find that worse or better.

It would make sense to me.

[in the same way a fisherman doesn't pick which fish swim into his net, perhaps someone had just scooped up whoever was in present the scoop...?]

None of this makes any sense to me at all.

...No. It doesn't make any sense.

[...]

Maybe trying to make sense of it is the wrong approach.

But what else can we do, but try to figure out the situation we're in? There must be sense to be found.

That might reveal itself later.

For now, we should study our surroundings and prepare for...

[what? school? a pop quiz?

she hums.]

...anything.

[ yeah lux follows that 'anything' to it's logical conclusion with this place and. ]

... Prepare for class...

I'm not even sure how to prepare for that.