judgment day 1.0 //the calm before the storm

Savor these final moments of sweet tranquility. History textbooks across the nation will need severe revision come tomorrow. 

In roughly ten hours, the PAGE magazine staff will embark on the most interactive publicity campaign Woodson has ever been graced with. As we make our rounds over these next four days, I can only hope that we each take a moment to bask in the furrowed brows, inquiring stares, and hushed whispers that we will undoubtedly elicit from our audience. We will know a visit has been successful based on the intensity of the silent tension we leave our classrooms in. 

In a literal sense, this success of our grand endeavor stems from the amount of attention we arouse for the magazine’s submissions. However, our true triumph is much more profound. Past piqued interest, we will have brought an entirely new sensation to the banal existence of the high schooler: intrigue. Conditioned to life at the piercing D-sharp hum of each bell, the walls of the school mark a perpetual routine that yearns for release. 

This intricate, slightly off-kilter, and wholly intriguing campaign that we have thus far primped and pruned is finally ready for show. As we enact the power of publicity at its finest, we expose the unknown corridor to those who wish to become privy to the classified nature and underground intrigue of the heist. Embarking on our journey tomorrow, there will be no greater tragedy than succumbing to this very same fear of what lies ahead. As the heist comes to teach us, there is a wealth of beauty lying in the recesses of the unknown.