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Revision as of 19:24, 29 December 2006
HSA: The Immersive Fiction Game
HomeSchoolers Aggregate Online is a fan creation that began in October 2006 with some short, text based “advertisements” for an online program for home schooled students. The videos shared the strict rules that participants need to follow in order to remain in the program. Many viewers questioned the relationship of these videos and the HSA website to the Lonelygirl15 production. Fans soon realized that the videos and site were an independent production that ran parallel to Bree’s story. Some viewers speculated that Bree was a former participant of the program due to HSA's strict policies. Others speculated that it was a cult, trying to lure students to enroll. As it turned out, HSA was a game that followed the idea of immersive fiction more that a traditional ARG. The HSA offered no dead-drops or computer codes to break. To participate in HSA, students need to register by the deadline and complete written tasks that often help them find the password to the class notebook, a password-protected message forum. Since HSA discourages students from interacting or socializing, the message forum is the place where students leave the answers to their “assignments.” Assignments range from replying to philosophical theories, making personal connections to philosophical ideas, responding to specific pieces of art, and even, creating and sharing one’s own art work.
Students find the assignments posted on the website. Videos either reinforce a lesson’s focus, provide insight to an area of examination or offer clues to the participants to figure out the assignment’s password. At HSA, when students solve the password and are ready to post their answer in the notebook, they are said to “Bring It” to the notebook. Students who are interested are free to post their own in-character blogs that link off the HSA website.
The head of school is a woman known as Rose Marie Crandall Crowley Kelly, who is married to Phillip Crowley (no relation to Aleister). She is a very strict, yet supportive instructor who encourages her students to do their best. She expects students to follow her rules without question, and those who have questioned her have had their IP addresses banned from the site. Assignments receive responses from Ms. Kelly and student work is exhibited on the website.
Throughout each term, a back story emerges involving Ms. Kelly’s exploits and those who seem to trying to undo for reasons that remain unclear. The website offers clues, additional character blogs and links. At the end of the term, students are treated to a graduation ceremony video, an on-line yearbook and a certificate of completion. HSA has a small group of followers who seem to enjoy the intellectual stimulation of this game.
This is the first time that HSA’s creator has ever been involved in such a pursuit. Participants have been forgiving and patient as her stories unfold and her skills improve.
HSA: On the Lonelygirl15 Forum
The Homeschoolers Aggregate appears to be a secular forum for gifted homeschoolers to receive informal assignments in and to discuss Literary Theory, Poetry, Art, and Moral and Ethical Philosophy. Whether the Aggregate is an accredited institution, and whether it supports other subjects outside the liberal arts, is unknown.
Internet fans of Bree stumbled across the HSAOnline introductory and training videos hosted on YouTube. The source of the lonelyfans' speculation that Bree is/was a student of the Homeschoolers Aggregate is unknown, but several participants of the Tribute to Lonelygirl15 Phorum flocked to register in a new session to be administered by HSAOnline's strict but supportive educator, Ms. Kelly, who continually exhorts the students to "Study up!"
Ms. Kelly and the HSAOnline administrators seem very solicitous regarding the online privacy of their student families. HSAOnline appears to be recovering from some sort of major recent hack, based on some oblique comments from Ms. Kelly.
Website: * The Homeschoolers Aggregate
We play by the rules. And yet information wants to be free.
Many of the new HSAOnline students, like many of the fans of the lonelygirl15-inspired internet game cassieiswatching, use Bukanator's forum as a secondary clubhouse to discuss the mysterious Aggregate.
Characters
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Teachers and Administrators
- TWJaniak -- a Fan Activity moderator on Bukanator's forum, notable among the lonelyfans as the creator of a series of videos giving advice to Bree and Daniel on their growing relationship. Ms Kelly invited Mr. Janiak to be a guest speaker for the new course. TW produced a video on the topic of Truth in Friendship for the current orientation class. Currently, he is viewed as a guest instructor, who offers wisdom and guidance to the orientation class of students.
Notable Students to Date:
- taiya -- a lonelyfan puzzle solver, likely to become a star pupil in Ms Kelly's course due to her prowess with the Registration Problem.
- Josh -- a potential student who was briefly shunned for spoofing Ms Kelly in guestbook comments; Ms Kelly unblocked Josh before the end of Registration. Josh was subsequently blocked again for telling Ms. Kelly that he couldn't complete his assignments because he had "a life."
- JoannaChildsface -- a lonelyfan who can be counted on for keeping students updated on Guestbook Gossip and other mysteries of HSAOnline.
- Violet -- a current student who corresponds with former student Lyn
- Mayati -- Marisa or Meritmenat Byrne, a current student who appears to reside in a different time zone from most of the HSA students. Mayati describes herself as a 17 year old girl who attends a very small school and who has religious and work chores which take up much of her time. She has hinted that she practices a minority religion which incorporates Kemetic elements, and she may have known Bree when both girls were younger.
- Truth_n_sc -- a new friend who helps Lyn by offering supportive suggestions and comments to her blog entries
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Rumored Former Students
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Rumored Former Students:
- Lyn -- a former student who seems to have been expelled from HSA. She broke Ms. Kelly's rule about contacting classmates. She and her mother, Ms. Kelly's former employee, have recently moved away from their old town, and currently reside in an unnamed town with Lyn's grandmother. Lyn stresses that she was not involved in any of the recent problems facing HSA.
The End of Orientation 2006
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Orientation 2006 ended with a rousing speech by Lord Greystoke422 entitled HSAO: What is Reality.
This 18 minute and 48 second video ended the term with a presentation that they were not expecting.
Graduates who completed the necessary assignments were issued diplomas and were treated to HSAO online yearbooks.
The graduates were:
Amy#2
Joanna Childsface
Alystra
Faith
Summer
KT
Taiya
Josh
D.Kimble
Seige
Violet
Kevin
Blair
Disorientation 2006
For a short period, HSAO's director, Ms. Kelly, was institutionalized for reasons that are unclear but vaguely addressed in a video entitled Rose Kelly. There was some speculation as to whether Ms. Kelly suffered from spontaneous combustions. During this period, students were invited along on a train trip by a mysterious host/architect. This train ride turned into a surrealistic and confusing journey that led guests nowhere. Although the lounge, library and drawing room art offered much to occupy the travelers, there was little else to do but watch as guests became frustrated with the host and left one by one. Ms. Kelly jumped off of the train part way through the trip to get back to her family, her school and the consequences she faced for some fraudulent behavior.
She vowed to turn things around and applied for 501(c)(3) nonprofit status for her school. Back at the helm, she began planning a new term for her students focused on technology and art.
Term 2006
Students spent the term focused on examining technology and art, as well as learning from the examples set by lonelygirl15 in a series of lessons entitled Lesson from Bree. HSA became sponsored by a charitable foundation called TiKO. This foundation is rather mysterious as its sponsors choose to remain anonymous and work under the TiKO name. TiKO demanded that HSA hold a very public Open House so the sponsors could see the work of the school. Some paperwork in Ms. Kelly’s office alluded to some conflict between TiKO’s intentions and Ms. Kelly’s curriculum. Professor Boone also seemed to doing some secretive work for TiKO as stated in some emailsfound on his site. Ms. Kelly explained to her current class that she was concerned about continued funding for her non-profit school. As graduation neared, Ms. Kelly solicited some of her friends to contribute their words of wisdom for the graduation video. Contributing friends included ApotheosisAZ, Dr.Immant, Jonas, Nikki Bower, TWJaniak, Simian Liberation Front and Sister. Students’ final projects were displayed on the HSA website.
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Videos
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HSAOnline Introduction Video –First Video posted October 2, 2006
Description: Where gifted young homeschoolers meet.
HSAOnline Training Video: Peer Interaction –Second Video posted October 3, 2006
Description: Appropriate ways to interact with peers at HSA. Visit us at hsao.net.
We need to clarify how we help our families.
HSAOnline Training Video: Academics–Third video posted October 3, 2006
Description: Follow our rules to avoid consequences.
visit hsao.net.
HSAOnline: Urgent Announcement –Fourth video posted October 4, 2006
Description: hsao.net. Pay attention, students. We must be strong during this time. Please bear with my technical skills.
HSAOnline:Gentle Response –Fifth video posted October 6, 2006
Description: We do not want to provoke accusations or fights. We mean well. We teach our students to give back and contribute. We do not want to mislead. We follow kindly.
HSAOnline: Registration –Sixth video posted October 6, 2006
Description: How to begin this process.
HSAOnline: Orientation Video –Seventh video posted October 9, 2006
Description: An update for our precious and clever students.
HSAOnline: Warning –Eighth video posted October 12, 2006
Description: This is a special announcement for our loyal students.
HSAOnline presents TWJaniak: Truth in Friendship –Ninth Video from HSAO/ first video from a guest director posted October 13, 2006.
TWJaniak’s Description: Ms. Kelly of the Homeschoolers Aggregate Online has asked that I address her students on the importance of trust within friendships. Here is my address to her students.
HSAOnline Description: Guestspeaker: We are proud to present TWJaniak, sharing an important lesson for all of our students. We at HSA deeply appreciate the time TWJaniak took to provide our students with his valuable wisdom.
HSAOnline: Message –Tenth video posted October 15, 2006
Description: Ms.Kelly wanted to address her students before she goes away on business.
HSAOnline: Memo- Eleventh video posted October 23, 2006
Description: Some lessons are life-long lessons.
HSAOnline: Notification- Twelfth video posted October 26, 2006
Description: It is time to make decisions, students.
HSAOnline: Final Orientation Assignment- Thirteenth video posted October 26, 2006
Description: And the final assignment was... (We are designed for love.)
HSAOnline: A New Beginning- video posted November 17, 2006
Description: Ms. Kelly is back planning a new term.
HSAOnline: Term Registration- video posted November 23, 2006
Description: How to begin the registration process
Assignments
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Assignment 1--October 9, 2006
Assignment 2-- October 12, 2006
Assignment 3--October 18, 2006
Assignment 4- October 19, 2006
Assignment 5- October 25, 2006
Assignment 6- October 25, 2006 -Final Orientation Assignment
Registration Task- November 23, 2006 -First Academic Task of Term 1
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