Three rooms first (stage C2, section 4), written at C2a-01

Each room is told from its own concepts, forest and timeline (mem.py room --no-canvas --blind, forest --blind, when), with no theme above the second tier. The rooms were drawn by the rules in notes-C2.md before any was opened. Hours are hours since the canvas opened; quotes are participants' words through cite.py.

ubc: the ordinary room

r/ubc is a university room of 1,475 items, 106 of them coded. Its April Fools joke ran beside the canvas all week: the sub was dressed as its rival, SFU, and members played along with fake campus stories and identities (t02, 31 concepts, h14 to h81).

The canvas work began with a question at h3.8 ("do you guys wanna get the UBC logo on /r/place?") and a second at h17.4: "Who wants to help make the UBC logo on /r/place?" [ubc/c0013]. The answers were small and practical. One member offered help if someone mapped the logo, another made a 21-by-30 pixel map, a third brought a logo from a Discord user, and a fourth set the anchor: "I wss thinking 820,322 as top left most red square" [ubc/c0005, h25.1]. Calls followed through the second day: "LETS MAKE THE CREST" (h39.6), a call to complete the Cairn (h32.3), "We did it!" (h35.7) and "We did it Reddit!" (h44.2).

From h40 the work had neighbours. A post from r/UofT declared war (h40.6). r/Thailand asked to make peace with the logo (h45.2). At h49 to h53, members called for help as the crest was attacked and as Polandball claimed the land. The room then drew lines rather than fights. Asked to recolour a neighbour's letters, a member refused: "No, they didn't mess with us and we won't mess with them." [ubc/c0065, h55.8]. To Thailand: "We defined our minimized border as per agreement, just draw around the black line." [ubc/c0076, h59.2], and later "We have an agreement with them, we won't mess with each other." [ubc/c0084, h64.5]. One member traded care for care: "I'm helping preserve the Thai flag. Just don't touch our crest either." [ubc/c0078, h61.2].

In the last day the room kept the crest by hand and by machine. A script was offered at h58.1 and reported working; members dug up spare accounts; one wrote "I got three accounts going right now, and an overdue essay I'm prioritizing over. We. Cannot. Give. In." [ubc/c0090, h65.7]. Help went out too, to SFU, UVic and r/tokyo, "when you can spare a pixel". At the close a member was one minute short of a repair: "Fuck, I was just placing a pixel to fix the thing. Just one minute. One measly minute." [ubc/c0099, h73.2]. The room then celebrated, renamed itself OBC in jest after the letters changed, and asked for a poster of the final canvas.

ultrahardcore: the room the scheme could not have predicted

r/ultrahardcore is a Minecraft community of 918 items, 212 coded, and its week was April Fools. From h7.7 to h40 the room was flooded with parody posts, upvote bargains ("100 UPVOTES I UPLOAD DISCOVERY SEASON 1"), mock moderation and taboo material. The recurring frame was the one-day licence: "this is the only day of the year i can post seal.mp4 please upvote" [ultrahardcore/c0011, h10.3]. 193 of its 212 coded items fall before h40 (mem.py when). Nothing in that stretch touches the canvas, except one member asking at h40 what the room had done there, and being told that a few people wrote "thicc" in a corner.

The canvas work came late, in one thread, and was over in minutes. At h57.6 a member asked: "I thought that we could think up a design to leave our mark on the place. Any suggestions?" [ultrahardcore/c0202]. Within half an hour the thread had a proposal ("Yeah, make that heart a hardcore heart" [c0204, h57.9]), a template, a member protecting an existing heart and redirecting the build, a spot at 382, 755, and an order: "That ones good. Make it completely red first." [c0209, h58.1]. One more turn followed at h59, and one at h71. There was no second call, no defence and no neighbour.

At the close the room wrote: "We almost did it! (/r/place)" [c0212, h73.1]. The author credited collaborators, recounted the unexpected closure, and took three hearts as consolation. A member who had been building elsewhere wrote: "Wish I knew you guys were doing something there. I was complete focused on touhou." [c0215, h80.4]. The form here is a play room that turned to the canvas once, late, and organized a design, a place and an order in one thread, with members who were already placing for other rooms.

day9: the room that stopped early

r/day9 is a gaming streamer's room of 361 items, 37 coded. Its coded turns run from h14.5 to h78.4, and 14 of the 37 coded items fall in the four hours from h48 (mem.py when).

A member had already started the logo: "Me and my friend Capnpie started it hours ago, for the glory of Day[9]." [day9/c0002, h14.7]. At h32 the room asked for an addition, and a member promised to maintain it. Then came neighbours. The room offered Norway terms: "We are a friendly and reasonable community. I'm sure we can come to an agreement. We only require 35x35 pixels. Maybe you could go up or down, rather than left?" [day9/c0005, h33.9]. A Crusader Kings diplomat proposed a treaty at h41.6, and a three-way proposal with Texas came at h44.1. Members cut the design to its core: "Better to focus on defending the core Day [9] TV logo and forget about "Be a better gamer"." [day9/c0014, h45.2].

The agreement broke at h48: "We had an agreement that we'd shrink it horizontally then you guys went ahead and decided you wanted a new flag where we were." [day9/c0016]. Members called for a script and posted "WE ARE BEING CONSUMED ON R/PLACE". Within two hours they chose to move: "I wanted to keep fighting for the spot we've had, but it looks like this is a losing battle. I'll help move it if we can decide on where." [day9/c0023, h49.7]. Two posts said "It has been an honour...". At h50.7 the move was made official: "It's official: we are relocating the Day9 logo to below the crusader Kings logo" [day9/c0027]. A plan and a Discord followed, and at h53.1 "The new location is finished!" [day9/c0031].

The room's last coordinating turn came there, at h53.3. It did not collapse. A member became a diplomat at h55, and at the close another recounted the week: "We successfully built "Be a Better Gamer", survived getting rofflestomped by a horde of rampaging Nordic vikings, and managed to diplomacy our way into a cozy little niche..." [day9/c0036, h74.1]. Here organizing stopped early because the second work was finished and held, not because the room gave up.