[LIVE!!] LW/EA New Year's Ultra Party

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Heaven is real. We built it yesterday.

Exclusively for the pure of heart

We've now designated many activities to many different regions of the Walled Garden. If you're interested in hosting or attending an activity, please comment. The organizers can help you set it up and put it on the Official Party Schedule.

The following are scheduling throughout the party, but it seems great to have more specific things scheduled for like-interested people to join.

Ballroom: dancing, toasts & roasts, countdown
Violet Study: meet new people
Moloch Maze: games, e.g., poker, Among Us
Great Library (1st floor): deep philosophical conversations
Orrery: make and discuss predictions for 2021
Map Room: reflect on where you've been and where you're going
Hell: complain about 2020
Heaven:....
etc!

The Ultra Party Radio (TM) has been constructed (bottom right of attached image). We'll be streaming tunes to the entire Garden from our own server, but the music will be optimized for the ballroom dancefloor.

What music would you like to hear? Please comment with:

1. Genres
2. Specific song requests
3. Playlists you might like us to use or borrow from

We've now got a rough map of the venue:

Thank you, organizers! Amazing virtual space and  event! I hope that something similar can be done often.

This room will be for small group discussion (the best kind!). Each cluster of chairs is magically (ahem, technologically) sound isolated. 

And there's another room specifically for 1-1 conversations (also sound isolation/privacy for each pair).

Big party, small party – which to choose? Well, you don't have to. We're now offering private rooms for meetup groups. Enjoy the party's crowds but retreat to your own suite within the luxurious Vampire Snow Lodge when you want to hang out with just your coterie.

If you're interested, DM me or comment here. Please say the name of your group and how many people you expect to attend from your group.

Whoever put together this platform did a great job simulating the in-person social interaction experience! I can tell because I hate it for all the same reasons.
(To be clear, this isn't at all meant as a complaint. A platform meant to take the place of an in-person party probably shouldn't be optimized to appeal to a person who metaphorically runs screaming from parties unless her partner is there to cling to the whole night, and kinda hates it even then.)

Collaborative calendar/schedule for the event is now live! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xUToQ-Wu6w-Uaow7q8Bo5s61beWWRJhIh9P-DNAvx4Q/edit?usp=sharing

Please add any events or activities you'd like to run. Comment here or in the doc if you have questions, e.g., about good places to host your session.

Today's update: quite possibly we will have an epic scavenger hunt of escalating difficulty. A little late, but schedule will be publicly posted in the next day or two.