Editing The Longest Call (section)

== Owen ==
OK so I don't really write stories, so this is gonna be more of an essay type thing. But it's a story, so I put it in the stories section.

It was the afternoon of the 27th. (March 27, 2023) Teams was pretty dead, as usual. As I was doing my English like a responsible child, I heard the familiar sound of a teams notif. "Ah, It's probably either Elizabeth or Sunda replying in the counting thread." I thought to myself. Of course, I immediately opened teams and checked the courtyard, like a true procrastinator. Instead of the ''3287'' I was expecting, I saw a post from Thomas (Blake) Crosby (Student Navigator.) He shall henceforth be referred to as Blake. Anyway the post went a little something like this:

''Is anyone free 9 pm cst for absolutely no reason''

I honestly didn't know if it was a joke, or if it was serious. So, I responded,

''why are you asking''

Then Hallie responded with a very characteristic,

''yOuLl nEvEr kNoW!''

I laugh reacted to it and went back to my English. A few minutes later, I received a DM from Hallie. In short, she said that she and Blake were doing a hangout call and that I could come if I wanted to. However, she noted that the call was "MILDLY exclusive." After about three seconds of contemplation, I decided that talking to NSA students online was more important than sleeping. So, I told Hallie that I would probably be able to come. Later that evening, It was getting close to 9pm CST, and I hadn't heard anything from either Blake or Hallie. I was wondering if they had maybe forgotten about me. So, I asked where the meeting was going to be held. Hallie said that she would make a chat. She did, and named it "le call u-u." I asked if I could add Riley, and after Hallie said yes, I added her. Soon it was 9:00, and I was wondering why we had not started. I sent the message, "Are we gonna start, or are we waiting for something?" Hallie then said that the call was actually the next day. After thoroughly dying from embarrassment, I went to bed. Later the next day, there were about six people in the chat. We started the call at 9:02, and it was a lot of fun. We played Gartic and laughed a lot, and we all wanted to do it again. I don't remember how many more times we had a call, but on Thursday, Hallie had the idea to try to break the record for the longest call on teams, ever. We all agreed that this would be a good idea. But we didn't know that there had to be at least two people in the call. Tim and I were the only ones left in the call, and when he left it ended. We talked about it for a while, and I said that I could leave my computer on and open to the teams meeting for an indefinite amount of time. Hallie said she could do the same. So, it started. We didn't talk much at first, but Hallie shared her Spotify screen, and so we all listened to her music. (Except for me; I had my speakers off.) Anyway, a few people posted about the call in the courtyard, and we soon had about 25 people in the chat. At the peak of the call, there were 9 people in the call at the same time. There were a few threats to kick everyone from the team and end the call, but these were (mostly) jokes and no one kicked anyone out. I was careful to record the whole meeting with OBS. I actually didn't get the entire thing, but I got one long recording with 85% of the meeting in one recording. During the meeting, Hallie and I were on for the whole time. Nathan also left his computer on for the majority of the call, which saved us once when Hallie accidentally left. We hit the 24 hour mark and were celebrating. I was doing my school, and trying to download the meeting recordings. No one really knows what happened, but sometime while I was in bed, the meeting was stopped. No one was removed from the chat, but now video and audio calls had been disabled for everyone, even Hallie. We didn't know what happened, but my guess was that the meeting had been shut down by admins. After much lamenting, I was added to a new chat. Its name is Le Call Numero Zwei.