Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

[bigdamnprincipal]

It might have been the start of the fall semester, but it was definitely still summer in Fandom. The sun was shining and the temperature was already starting to get high, even as the NPC crew set things up for the day.

Luckily, the school knew how to take care of folks on days like today. Beneath the blue and gold streamers and balloons, tables had been set up with cold drinks and food, and an entire section devoted to offering up different moddable ice cream flavors. As always, there was a stack of nametags set down next two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and one listing rooms and roommates for the new students.

With everything set up and the crew out of the way, it was time for the picnic to begin!

[Please wait for OCD! The OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Come and meet your new fake siblings! Let the brain breaking commence!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[faithandscience.livejournal.com]

William placed his nametag on his suit jacket, and then began looking around for a 'Chuck'.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[swordsandsoccer.livejournal.com]

Of all the things in the world Dolf could have expected when he wandered down the causeway... a picnic wasn't one of them.

He looked a little shellshocked as he walked onto the grass, even more so when he found a little tag with his name on it lying somewhere in a stack. This wasn't the thirteenth century, that much he could tell: but it looked nothing like Dr. Simiak's lab, either.

Had something gone wrong?

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[super-tactile.livejournal.com]

Kon, of course, made a beeline for the ice cream, grabbing the nametag only as an afterthought.

He looked to see who his Big Sibling was and grinned as he saw a name he recognized. Raven, huh? This was gonna be cool.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[vanillajello]

Kate was there early, with her little welcome basket in hand, smiling a little at all the new faces while keeping an eye out for anyone whose nametag said Robert.

She already had one Robert as a roommate. Maybe this would go well.

Except maybe if the guy happened to be way from the past and was going to be scandalized by her tank top and short skirt. But he'd just have to deal with those.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Forgive Percy if he was a little wary about this arrangement. The last time he'd been to something similar to this picnic, he'd ended up with two cheerleaders trying to kill him and blew up a band room.

He stuck a nametag to his shirt and looked around for someone named Kitty while trying not to think about how similar that sounded to Kelli.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[thinkbetterofme.livejournal.com]

The stables had been rather strange, but Baru had seemed content and Faramir made a promise to check on him later before he left. It wasn't difficult to know where he needed to go, there was plenty of noise and people gathered.

For a moment, Faramir observed the others and then followed suit. He stared down at the little thin parchments that lay spread out on the table. It had to be some kind of script, but it looked so alien to him.

"What's your name?" A woman asked across the table with a sigh, as if she'd been doing this too many times.

"Faramir," he said slowly. She picked up one of the white parchments, then split it in two. Before Faramir could protest, she slapped him on his chest.

"There you go. Your big sib is Maladicta," she said.

"Big sib?" Faramir frowned down at the thing that was now attached to his leather jerkin. It covered up one of the seven stars and a part of the crown.

"Your big sister. She'll show you the ropes," the woman said, exasperated.

"I do not have a sister. Only a brother. His name is Boromir," Faramir objected. He had the feeling the woman wasn't listening to him anymore.

He carefully removed the thing from his jerkin and it stuck to his fingers, but it was the script that was puzzling him the most.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[puppy_fair]

Sibling! New sibling! Man, Zack loved these things. He was already concocting plans to take his new sibling out for ice cream, and to take them out to the rocky bits to get a pet rock, and all sorts of big brotherly things!

He slapped a nametag on and kept an eye out for his newest little sib, looking, for all the world, like he'd just won the lottery or something.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

Having a school-assigned sibling couldn't be all bad after living at a camp with dozens of actual cousins. But the son of Hades wearing a nametag? That was crazytalk.

Still, he wouldn't disrespect the administration if nametags were what they wanted, so Nico stuck the label over the left eye of the skull decorating his t-shirt. Yeah, he was already blending in just great.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[talks-backwards.livejournal.com]

A big sibling? It sounded like fun! Zatanna needed someone to show her around, after all. And if said sibling knew about magic, all be the better.

Now she only needed to find this Diana Hansen person.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[momslilassassin]

Ben was in his Jedi robes, as usual, but with the addition of a nametag to identify who he was, arrived a little late because convincing Jono to come outside had taken some work. He scanned the unfamiliar faces, looking for someone wearing a "Cally" nametag.

But he'd help everyone else who also looked lost while keeping a careful eye on his other little sibling. He was a multitasker like that.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Alex was excited about getting a new little sibling. She grabbed her nametag, and made sure it was displayed in a spot that was easy to see. She scanned the crowd for George, wondering where he could be.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[notlikebobby.livejournal.com]

"Nametags," Jack said as he put his own on after checking to make sure that other people had theirs on. "Of course they have nametags." He had no idea whether Triela was a guy or a girl.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2010]

[eyebrowgoesup]

Spock was here, and looking about for anyone with a nametag designating them as 'Shira.' He was hypothesizing that it might be Japanese, but he knew better than to draw any conclusions without better evidence.

Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[bigdamnprincipal]

The list of roommate assignments was located in a prime spot on one of the tables. Current students who had been assigned new rooms and/or roommates had been handwavily informed of the change.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Last thing Effy was expecting at this point was new roommate assignment. It'd been a while, and she figured they'd forgotten she had a room to herself.

Apparently not.

There was no way she was using a nametag, but she was keeping an eye out for this Peter guy from a spot leaning idly against one of those picnic tables. People watching with a purpose.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

The roommate assignment didn't look too bad. Percy was used to living alone or living with his mother and, from the looks of this place, it didn't look like he'd get his own cabin.

Percy tucked his hands into his pockets, eyes scanning the crowd while he tried to find Kon again. At least he knew what Kon looked like.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[thinkbetterofme.livejournal.com]

Faramir had attached the nametag once more, now that he knew what it was. He moved it higher on his chest, making certain it wouldn't cover the crest of Gondor.

He studied the paper for a moment, recognising the signs that supposedly make up his name. Now if he only knew what this was about.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[talks-backwards.livejournal.com]

Ooooh she was with Elphaba! This was going to be interesting. Now Elphaba had to show up.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

Nico had to shake his head and raise a finger up to track his name to the room number and not get lost in the other letters on the board. "311, 311, 311, 311," he murmured to himself as he walked away, willing his memory to get on board and help him not forget where he was gonna be living.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[notlikejack.livejournal.com]

...wait, why wasn't his roommate Jack? Bobby frowned at the list, reading the names again and hoping they'd changed about. He'd always shared a room with Jack. This was weird.

Maybe he could get someone to trade. For now, he looked around for a boy who looked like a Leda.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2010]

[furnaceface]

Jonothon was... here. More or less. The combined efforts of Raven staying with him yesterday and Ben this morning had managed to get him the heck out of the dorms, at least. Which was probably for the best, as he apparently was getting a new roommate today, or something of the like.

That was pretty much par for the course for the entirety of the summer. Out with the old...

He eyed the roommate listing for a moment, and then shrugged, and made his way off to the edges to look at the crowd halfheartedly. There would be a George in there somewhere, or something, sometime.

Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2010]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Come and meet your new teaching buddies! Try to pick the biggest troublemakers out of the new kids! Start the drinking early!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2010]

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

A good scotch would have helped Kerrigan, back in the day. Now, she had liquid curiosity to go on, tilting her head up and keeping an eye on the students as they passed her by.

She looked remarkably at ease.

Meet the Reserves [Fall 2010]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Next to all of the informational tables was another table, filled with friendly faces. At least, one could assume that they were friendly, since this was the table for the reserves and their reservey business.

Re: Meet the Reserves [Fall 2010]

[puppy_fair]

Zack looked pretty darn pleased with himself as he walked over to the table this morning, a tray of... something that was lumpy and gray in his hands.

They were, presumably, cookies. Ones that he and Karla had handwavily baked for just such an occasion! You could tell that they put so much love and care into them just for the picnic, because they were more or less round. Some of them.

He was totally setting that tray on the table with a grin on his face.

Run.

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[bigdamnprincipal]

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