The City

Welcome. Are you ready to learn?

Fink is a place before it is a menu. It's an express cyberspace for learning and exploration, not unlike a communal learned society. Above ground it is strict: every game here has been played and vouched for, and every minute is scored by Fink's own machine. Have fun.

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The plaza in Fink: the Debate Hall with its orator in the pool, someone talking on the soapbox in the middle to a few people gathered round, three boards hanging overhead; as the film runs, more people walk in from the halls and the streets until the square is full
Fink Plaza, as of October 1st
A finker on the soapbox, one arm raised, saying "Homework should be optional. Here's why." to three people standing round it; the Debate Hall and its FINK sign behind
Someone talking on the soapbox, in Fink

The plaza

Where everyone arrives. The Debate Hall's orator stands on the city's name, three boards hang overhead with the leaderboard, the games and the news, and in the middle there is a soapbox anyone can climb.

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Inside the Debate Hall: the podium, PRO and CON banners, benches
The Debate Hall, in Fink

The Debate Hall

One podium for live one-on-one debate. The Common Foe waits behind it, a stone head with one misbelief a day, and anyone can drop a topic in the box on the way in.

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Inside the Music Hall: walls of rays and dials, sheet-music kiosks, a chrome orb
The Music Hall, in Fink

The Music Hall

A room that listens. Its kiosks wear their sheet music, and in the corner a piano and a drum kit wait for anyone who wants to play, together if they like.

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Inside the Math Yard: a colour checkerboard floor under glowing handwritten mathematics
The Math Yard, in Fink

The Math Yard

A black room with a colour checkerboard and handwriting glowing on every wall. In Degree Zero the function is the motion; in the Optimization Lab the box, the fence and the can are yours to drag.

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The CS Arcade: a glass box glowing under a cloud sky, on a mirror floor
The CS Arcade, in Fink

The CS Arcade

A mirror plane under a cloud sky, and on it a black glass box with an old desktop's aurora inside. Gates and wires, bits and hex.

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The Catesby bed in the gardens: round trees on a bed of earth, a lamp post
The Catesby bed, in the gardens

The gardens

Beds of plants beside the plaza, each with its engraved plate after Mark Catesby's. Stand beside one and press Q to learn it.

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The Underground: a warehouse of Spaces under the city
The Underground, in Fink

The Underground

A warehouse under the city. Everyone gets a Space whose front is their Page, hangs paintings you can walk into, and has a back room to hang out in. Nothing down here is verified yet; the best worlds go upstairs.

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The Bookstore outside the city wall: a brick shop front with striped awnings, three finkers outside in Fink's hoodie, varsity jacket and crest tee
The Bookstore, in Fink

The Bookstore

Out through the city gate: Fink's own clothes, faces and paint for your Space, sold at the register in lead. Try it all on in the fitting room.

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