Talk to Santa in the Quad
Greetings from Santa
This is the very beginning of your journey at the Elf University. Your just arrived to the North Pole by train and your starting position looks something like the below:
You can interact with the characters by clicking on them (repeatedly clicking will reveal their full message), and you can also interact with certain objects that will either open some command line terminal or a full website in a frame. If you click on Santa a few times he provide the below greeting:
Welcome to the North Pole and KringleCon 2! Last year, KringleCon hosted over 17,500 attendees and my castle got a little crowded. We moved the event to Elf University (Elf U for short), the North Pole’s largest venue. Please feel free to explore, watch talks, and enjoy the con!
As you can notice, you are not alone at the North Pole. One of the coolest things of the challenge is that you get to interact with like-minded people through the game interface. Whenever you feel lost, you should ask in the chat for some guidance. Just be sure not to ask for direct solutions, because that would ruin all the fun, wouldn’t it? :)
Another great feature is the personal badge on your avatar, which you can click at any point and will provide useful information on your objectives and accomplishments.
Get outta here
In this zeroth(?!) objective you need to find Santa in another room called The Quad so your main job is to find the way out of the Train Station. Navigation works either via mouse-clicks or via the arrow keys on your keyboard. To go to The Quad simply start going upwards until you find yourself in another space.
Once you found Santa, who is quite hard to miss, as he stands right in the middle of The Quad, you can click on him a few times to complete Objective 0 and receive further instructions:
This is a little embarrassing, but I need your help. Our KringleCon turtle dove mascots are missing! They probably just wandered off. Can you please help find them? To help you search for them and get acquainted with KringleCon, I’ve created some objectives for you. You can see them in your > badge. Where’s your badge? Oh! It’s that big, circle emblem on your chest - give it a tap! We made them in two flavors - one for our new guests, and one for those who’ve attended both KringleCons. After you find the Turtle Doves and complete objectives 2-5, please come back and let me know. Not sure where to start? Try hopping around campus and talking to some elves. If you help my elves with some quicker problems, they’ll probably remember clues for the objectives.