As the first freshman start arriving to breakfast Monday, James Holden is already standing on a table. The seniors have almost all finished eating, but most are lingering anyways because it is Monday, not Wednesday, and while they all know what is so urgent many of them don't have all the details. Even the ones who do have the details want to know which of them are about to be made public.

When the freshmen have stopped trickling into the cafeteria, he speaks.

"Hey everybody, this is James Holden speaking with a bit of a special announcement. I was really hoping weekly updates would be enough and we wouldn't need one of these but, apparently, this year's off to a rough start.
Dàjiā hǎo, wǒ shì James Holden, yào xuānbù yīgè tèbié de xiāoxī. Wǒ zhēn de xīwàng měi zhōu gēngxīn jiù zúgòule, wǒmen bù xūyào qízhōng rènhé yīgè, dàn xiǎnrán, jīnnián de kāijú hěn jiānnán."

"A lot of freshmen have died already. As I'm sure you all know, this isn't normal. We have, in order, Song Lan - a Shanghai enclaver who died either right before or right after induction, Chantal Myers, Toronto enclaver, apparently a suicide, first night, uh... Tintin? I assume that's not his full name but it's all I've got - Singapore independent, also the first night or early morning, and Sophie Hara, UK independent, died last night. Sophie looks to have maybe been slowly drained by a maleficer, she was still alive when they found her, nobody's found the bodies of any of the others.
Hěnduō xīnshēng yǐjīng sǐle. Xiāngxìn dàjiā dōu zhīdào, zhè bù zhèngcháng. Wǒmen yǒu, àn shùnxù: Sòng lán - shànghǎi fēi dì, tā zài rùzhí qián huò rùzhí hòu lìjí sǐwáng, Chantal Myers, duōlúnduō fēi dì, xiǎnrán shì zìshā, dì yī gè wǎnshàng, È……Tintin? Wǒ xiǎng zhè bùshì tā de quán míng, dàn zhè jiùshì wǒ de quánbù - xīnjiāpō dúlì, yěshì dì yī wǎn huò qīngchén, yīngguó dúlì rénshì Sophie Hara zuó wǎn qùshì. Sophie kàn qǐlái kěnéng bèi yīgè xiōngshǒu màn man de xī gànle, dāng tāmen zhǎodào tā shí tā hái huózhe, méiyǒu rén fà xiàn rènhé qítā rén de shītǐ."

"Probably nobody who was around for last year is going to be crazy enough to start a freshman killing spree this early in the year, so it's probably someone who came in in the Freshman class, maybe they killed Song Lan and took their spot, or maybe they were sent by whoever did Chicago and is one of the people who came in from there. There was one suspect, Masozi from Malawi, but he was investigated and cleared, he pulled malia before he came here but he's been turning over a new leaf since.
Dàgài méiyǒu qùnián shàngguò de rén huì zài jīnnián niánchū fēngkuáng dào dà yī kāi shāshēng, suǒyǐ shuō bu dìng shì dà yī bān shànglái de rén, shuō bu dìng tāmen shāle sòng lán, zuò shàngle tāmen de wèizhì, huòzhě shuō tāmen shì yóu zhījiāgē de rènhé rén fà sòng de, bìngqiě shì cóng nàlǐ jìnlái de rén zhī yī. Yǒu yīgè xiányí rén, láizì mǎ lā wéi de Masozi, dàn tā bèi diàochá bìng qīngchúle, tā zài lái dào zhèlǐ zhīqián lāle malia, dàn cóng nà yǐhòu tā jiù kāishǐle xīn de yī yè."

"OK, so, freshmen, stay safe, don't go anywhere alone with someone else, especially if you don't know them yet. If anyone finds someone who might be the maleficer, find a senior right away and let them know, after four murders this one's going to have way more malia than an underclassman's mana capacity, and also apparently has a gun. We're all going to need to work together on this one if we want to stop it without more deaths. Thanks for listening everyone, Holden out.
Hǎo de, suǒyǐ, xīnshēngmen, zhùyì ānquán, bùyào hé biérén dāndú qù rènhé dìfāng, yóuqí shì dāng nǐ hái bù rènshí tāmen de shíhòu. Rúguǒ yǒurén fà xiàn kěnéng shì xiōngshǒu, qǐng lìjí zhǎodào yī wèi xuézhǎng bìng gàosù tāmen, zài sì cì móushā zhīhòu, zhège rén de mólì jiāng yuǎn yuǎn chāoguò dī niánjí xuéshēng de fǎlì nénglì, érqiě xiǎnrán hái yǒuyī bǎ qiāng. Rúguǒ wǒmen xiǎng zài méiyǒu gèng duō rén sǐwáng de qíngkuàng xià zǔzhǐ tā, wǒmen dōu xūyào zài zhège wèntí shàng gòngtóng nǔlì. Gǎnxiè dàjiā de língtīng, Holden."